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'How about that?' Trump claims without evidence Gaza makes bombs from US-provided condoms (www.rawstory.com)

submitted 6 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

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President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that people in Gaza were using condoms provided by the United States to make bombs.

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[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Literally every news article I have to check whether or not it's the Onion.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 6 days ago

At this point, he doesn't even bother to try to make sense. He just lets whatever words might serve his purposes fall out of his mouth, and counts on the loyalty of his sycophants to do the rest.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I'm morbidly curious whether Trump supporters actually believe this kind of shit, but ultimately I don't think that question even has an answer.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 4 points 4 days ago

Yes and no. It's a loyalty test and a demonstration of power. The more obviously stupid the bullshit that you can get your followers to believe, the more powerful you must be, and the followers need a powerful ~~daddy~~ leader, so they buy it. It's also a way to signal that you're part of the in-group to others in the group.

So they believe it, without concept of objective truth even being involved.

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 3 points 4 days ago

They do.

My old man was going around telling people Trump cut $50m for condoms for Gaza.

Its so obviously bullshit, but when your head is so far up the bulls ass, you can't see it.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

My neighbor is a Trump supporter. When Trump is in office, most of the time they don't know about it when it's relevant because Trump just floods the news zone with shit. Either Fox doesn't cover it at all or they take so long developing talking points, that it's no longer part of public conversation.

If it was in the(Fox) news they will be primed with some insane talking points that range from "he was talking metaphorically to it's actually Bidens fault or more than 4 years ago Obama's fault"

[–] Carvex@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

They'd eat the actual shit out of his actual asshole and enjoy it, being thankful for the opportunity from their cult leader.

[–] BierSoggyBeard@feddit.online 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Or, "Bombdoms," if you will

[–] TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Love-bombing

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

That's nice, I like conbombs better, it works on 2 levels

[–] Didros@beehaw.org 1 points 3 days ago

For those bomb ass cocks

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Is this real life or is it just fantasy?

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

You know what? On a scale of 1 to "They're eating the dogs". Condom bombs don't even make the top percentile.