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angrychair

(11,152 posts)
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 11:16 PM Sep 14

Numbers are meaningless now.

Millions saved from drugs. Reduced prices on drugs by 1,500%. Down is up. In is out. Black is white. Anything goes.

Reporter: The president of Venezuela called the strike on the boat illegal?

Mango Mussolini: what's illegal is the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs.


If Biden had said that the fucking news media would talk non-stop about it for fucking weeks.
The reporter didn't even follow up that answer with "what the fuck did you just say" or anything.

Why didn’t anyone immediately follow up with “what’s the population of the United States?”

Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2025-09-15T00:30:29.392Z
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Numbers are meaningless now. (Original Post) angrychair Sep 14 OP
🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤥😵‍💫 Rowdyag Sep 14 #1
Nucking futs Deuxcents Sep 14 #2
Jeebus. underpants Sep 14 #3
I did a double take - did I just hear what I thought I heard? yellow dahlia Sep 14 #4
That's the thing with drugs. These are very powerful drugs. They'll kill you . . . Journeyman Sep 14 #5
That must account for why I am still here, since I do not like tootsie rolll pops. niyad Monday #22
He could have said 300 trillion dgauss Sep 14 #6
And 95% of people would have recognized the error/lie. 50% of us yell, the other 50% just don't care Silent Type Sep 14 #11
And that's the "let's not make a big deal about it" media calculation. dgauss Sep 14 #12
They show us the info, and we decide how we feel. Unfortunately, trump is appealing to enough Silent Type Sep 14 #13
Yes, the media is a problem. dgauss Monday #14
Incomplete? I guess if you think Democrats are more ignorant than GOPers. I don't. Silent Type Monday #17
Apparently, pedofelon putinlover approval numbers are in the toilet. Justice matters. Monday #25
Damn. Solly Mack Sep 14 #7
Recommended. H2O Man Sep 14 #8
I know I don't go out like I used to... Chemical Bill Sep 14 #9
What happened to all the bodies? Ocelot II Sep 14 #10
The Rapture? nt Shipwack Monday #23
ohmygrd I thought I heard that wrong right before I changed the channel! Maru Kitteh Monday #15
and the most GLARING part is Skittles Monday #16
Many are completely missing what he said and what Repukes heard FHRRK Monday #18
"They're eating the cats. They're eating the dogs." rubbersole Monday #21
Has anyone ever seen National Lampoon's Animal House? Morbius Monday #19
Ok, but NJCher Monday #24
2 billion farms lost in Iowa, according to him, per an OP here recently. niyad Monday #20
Trump is the most dangerous drug addict in the US right now. Irish_Dem Monday #26
No. tRump numbers are meaningless. Folks, please stop taking cues from tRump and painting everything w a broad brush Bernardo de La Paz Monday #27

yellow dahlia

(3,072 posts)
4. I did a double take - did I just hear what I thought I heard?
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 11:30 PM
Sep 14

MSNBC was on in the other room...as I walked by...so I really did stop in my tracks.

Journeyman

(15,385 posts)
5. That's the thing with drugs. These are very powerful drugs. They'll kill you . . .
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 11:31 PM
Sep 14

then resuscitate you so they can kill you again. I mean, some of these new drugs coming up out of Venezuela are like tootsie roll pops: there's drugs on the outside which kill you almost immediately, then there's the tasty narcan which revives you long enough so you can get to the creamy center full of fentanyl, which kills you immediately again. Fortunately, the stick's made of narcan as well, so you're popped back up, ready and raring to go on the next bag of drugs.

Why, a neighbor of mine has died 17 brazilian times this week alone. It's quite a sight. Plays havoc for the morticians, but that's they're problem, amiright?

dgauss

(1,454 posts)
6. He could have said 300 trillion
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 11:32 PM
Sep 14

and most of that press pool would have just nodded and gone on to their next question.

Silent Type

(11,189 posts)
11. And 95% of people would have recognized the error/lie. 50% of us yell, the other 50% just don't care
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 11:43 PM
Sep 14

because they are happy with trump.

Silent Type

(11,189 posts)
13. They show us the info, and we decide how we feel. Unfortunately, trump is appealing to enough
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 11:51 PM
Sep 14

voters to get elected twice, and remain firm in office at this point.

The media ain’t our problem.

dgauss

(1,454 posts)
14. Yes, the media is a problem.
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 12:07 AM
Monday

Not "The problem" but absolutely our problem and part of the reason Trump is in office.

"They show us the Info?" That seems a little incomplete.

Justice matters.

(8,894 posts)
25. Apparently, pedofelon putinlover approval numbers are in the toilet.
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 03:39 AM
Monday

The worst approval numbers since decades (if not of all times at this point).

The media know he's a vengeful mob boss who's an expert at extortion methods so they don't want to get sued.

Chemical Bill

(2,920 posts)
9. I know I don't go out like I used to...
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 11:34 PM
Sep 14

but I would have noticed if 9 out of every 10 people had died. For one thing, I would see more job vacancies. It would probably be easier to get a table for Saturday dinner at my favorite restaurant. And I could park right out front.

Maru Kitteh

(30,657 posts)
15. ohmygrd I thought I heard that wrong right before I changed the channel!
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 12:07 AM
Monday





You can unfortunately imagine his “reasoning” here. He’s about as brilliant as a dog hiding behind a curtain. “A million just isn’t as much as it used to be you know - you gotta go bigger now. Gotta make it bigger.”


Yeah. Numbers mean NOTHING now.


FHRRK

(1,206 posts)
18. Many are completely missing what he said and what Repukes heard
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 12:52 AM
Monday

Boat strike was illegal, the shitstain says 300 million people died from drugs.

So repukes heard, some dark skinned people are complaning about strike, trump said , ignore the strike they killed millions.

The repukes then think, how the hell could dems be supporting people that killed over 300 million.

Anthing racial, just move on, they are too ignorant to even try and engage.

rubbersole

(10,555 posts)
21. "They're eating the cats. They're eating the dogs."
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 01:45 AM
Monday

After they've killed 300 million people. They were famished.

Morbius

(671 posts)
19. Has anyone ever seen National Lampoon's Animal House?
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 01:19 AM
Monday

There's a scene:

Bluto: What? Over? Did you say over? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

Otter: (quietly) Germans?
Boon: (quietly) Forget it, he's rolling.

I think that's how his supporters view Donald Trump. They know he's talking nonsense. Forget it, he's rolling.

NJCher

(41,464 posts)
24. Ok, but
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 02:23 AM
Monday

I remember back in the day that I would tell speech classes that certain speeches were so important that they were read. Chiefly among them was a presidential speech. Back at that time, Clinton began diverting from the written speech with a few comments here and there. This was considered troublesome.

Another type of speech that is read is when there are legal implications. Example: product tampering. A company CEO would be very careful to read the speech. Litigation of course.

Now we have digressed to the point where pulling numbers out of the air is “rolling.“

Irish_Dem

(75,031 posts)
26. Trump is the most dangerous drug addict in the US right now.
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 06:28 AM
Monday

He has been doing uppers for decades.
That is why he has to wear diapers.
Ruined his lower GI tract.

Now he is on the biggest crime spree in US history.

Bernardo de La Paz

(58,550 posts)
27. No. tRump numbers are meaningless. Folks, please stop taking cues from tRump and painting everything w a broad brush
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 08:16 AM
Monday

Just because tRump uses makeup daily doesn't mean everybody of all types uses makeup daily.

Just because tRump makes up numbers does not mean everybody makes up numbers.

Please stop the binary thinking and binary statements. They are nihilistic and not helpful.

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