…which is why he had to buy a president instead of buy the presidency.

Which does point towards some non-hetero sexcapade, because pretty much everything else he’s famous for already having done.

I still think he’s pathetically easy to manipulate for dictators.

Yeah, they use “politics” when they mean “thing I didn’t want to think about” and “meme” for “picture with words that I liked”.

I read their bio just now and had a chuckle at the wild self deception.

I used to think that, but there’s nothing Trump could have done that the loony right wing public wouldn’t gleefully dismiss as not important. (Well, apart from a lewd orgy with trans Muslim Mexican immigrants, but I don’t think any of those exist, and Trump would just call it faked anyway.)

Now I think that Putin just rings him up to tell him what a great president he is and all the world admires how strong a leader he is, not like those weak Democrats who (insert policy Putin wants dropped), no, Trump is a strong and courageous leader and everyone can tell how strong and virile he is because he supports policies like (insert policy that Putin wants implemented).

I mean maybe there’s a video of Trump shouting “Yes, shove that big beautiful black dildo in me harder!”, but I don’t think it’s necessary at all. See how easy it was for the North Korean president to get Trump to completely change direction. He just sweet talked him for a bit. Trump is an absolute sucker for someone he perceives as strong telling him he’s great. American foreign policy is at the whim of any world leader who can make Trump feel proud of himself for a week.

President Musk flexing his muscles even before puppet inauguration.

One thing I wondered is what would happen if Putin and Musk disagree at some point about what Trump is supposed to do? But the answer is actually easy: whoever strokes Trump’s ego better at the time gets their policy through. Trump lives in the moment.

Advice : Tap in Sidebar, click Block community. This is literally a whole community devoted to the kind of things you want to not call memes:

Microblog Memes !microblogmemes@lemmy.world

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, Twitter X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
Be nice.
No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.

Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts

meme
/mēm/

noun

1. A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.

2. Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.

3. A self-propagating unit of cultural evolution having a resemblance to the gene (the unit of genetics).

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition • More at Wordnik

meme
/mēm/

noun

1. A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.

2. Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.

3. A self-propagating unit of cultural evolution having a resemblance to the gene (the unit of genetics).

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition • More at Wordnik

Enjoying meat and two veg on a daily basis is traditional.

Gays, is it healthy to eat fellas?

What did you think milf stands for?

I’ve travelled on hundreds and hundreds of trains in the UK. On busy services, unless you’re getting on at the start, if you don’t have a specific seat reserved, you will be standing. This is normal. I don’t have a source for that claim, I just have many years of experience.

There’s a plausibility gap on capping ticket sales for trains. Why on earth would they stop selling “anytime” tickets? They’re really expensive and a train with plenty of people standing costs the company no more but earns them a great deal.

What’s unusual here is that this looks like it came with an “advance” ticket, which is cheaper, limited in number, only available in advance, and is required to come with a reserved seat, but they’ve clearly oversold even them.

This is the UK. The train will be heaving, and those without a specific seat number reserved will likely have to stand unless they’re getting on at the first station and are early on to the train.

Not common in the UK where this seat reservation ticket is from.

Everyone is permitted to sit, except if the seat is reserved for someone else who has a normal seat reservation ticket which specifies the coach and seat number.

No, only individual seats are reserved. There’s no “reservations only” carriage, but there are carriages that are more or less reserved. Off the top of my head, I think coach B is often very close to, but never actually fully reserved, whereas D has only a minority of awards reserved.

They absolutely oversell on a regular basis on UK train.

I suspect it’s an “Advance” reduced fare ticket, which is only ever valid with a seat reservation, but either the seat was over specified (ticking all three of facing forwards, table seat, near the entrance, for example), or the train company continued to issue “Advance” tickets even after all the reservable seats are gone, which you could count as a dick move, or you could interpret as allowing more people to buy tickets at the reduced fare.

It could be that that was one of the least overcrowded trains scheduled on a day that’s expected to be very overcrowded indeed, and they’re trying to spread the no standing room pain across as many trains as possible. It’s certainly cheaper than putting on additional services.

I am very familiar with this ticketing system, and if you don’t have a specific seat reserved, you’ll be very lucky to find a seat unless you’re getting on at the beginning of the train’s journey.