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On the surface, in govt and business, #Japan is an extremely polite country. To the point that people from other countries have difficulty parsing disapproval and rejection since the verbiage is subtle

With that in mind, listen to #ShinjiOguma of the House of Reps talking about #Trump and his galaxy brain #tariff bs

😂😂😂

"a delinquent kid extorting someone"

Shinji even name drops #RoyCohn 😲

longer video (original #Japanese with subtitles) for the full acid take down:

youtu.be/EIao2kkB7Gg

@benroyce

Excellent! We need more of this. A coalition of the reasonable, to counter Trump's bullying and extortion.

Does anyone know which documentaries he's referring to?

@GutterPoetry

it's not a documentary but delves into true events

and i haven't seen it

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Appr

but it details #trump's relationship with #royCohn, which is a true relationship

and you can see how the established tactics of roy cohn, from the #mccarthy era of #us #history, shapes #trump's tactics today

en.wikipedia.orgThe Apprentice (2024 film) - Wikipedia

@benroyce

Thanks! I'm going to watch it if I can find it.

@GutterPoetry

it's on my to-watch list

i haven't seen it yet because everything presented i already knew about #trump: us from the #newYorkCity area of a certain age always knew trump was a piece of shit. and we've watched horrified as the tv "reality" series "#theApprentice" conned millions of gullible americans into thinking trump was a business genius

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Appr

most of the sane world hates trump now

us from #nyc, we hated trump already in the 1980s as a #racist con man

en.wikipedia.orgThe Apprentice (American TV series) - Wikipedia

@benroyce@mastodon.social @GutterPoetry@mastodon.me.uk I recall reading an insider article taking about The Apprentice, talking among other things about how many times they had to retcon "reasons" and "cause" for why Trump fired the best candidate on the show, when everyone on the show knew the REAL reason was because that candidate was the best and Trump couldn't break out even for his own show from seeing anyone with actual talent as a threat.

GutterPoetry

@zakalwe @benroyce

Ouch! What kind of world do we live in, that he somehow gained some kind of success and even became president... Twice! These people are really bottom of the barrel and by rights should remain there.

@GutterPoetry @zakalwe

#trump is but a reflection of #american society

it doesn't matter what trump is. there's always been people like trump

the true tragedy is that his shit personality *appeals* to so many americans

true grit, true maturity, is not rewarded in hyper#capitalism

bullying and lying is

trump is a merely the embodiment of the #usa's decline into #authoritarian #plutocracy

"yeah but the #us has always been like that"

there's always worse

this is definitely worse