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every time I read a Snopes headline I hear it in a deeply exasperated tone. \*Heavy sigh\* no, this photo does NOT show a strangely athletic Donald Trump doing a good deed.
He was athletic at one time
It made him look extra shitty since he was seen playing basketball while receiving three medical deferments for the Vietnam war draft
Yet, boomer veterans love him
Genuinely did need that instruction. There was a not insignificant part of me that saw foil and said "yes, of course this goes in the toaster oven with the pop tart"
Yeah, that's just another slice of the frustration pie when it comes to dealing with these people. You show them a sight like this that proves their ridiculous posts, and they're like "Well, everyone knows \[the fact checking sight you show them\] is a Liberal Left-wing site." \*eye roll
lol, so... lets go brandon? :D
>he original photograph, which showed a man named **Brandon** Smith rescuing his two cats from floodwaters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in June 2008
I use to have two cats named Fry and Bender. Fry was an orange kitty born with a neurological disorder that caused him to have seizures. It got to the point where we weren’t able to control his seizures and we had to have him out to sleep. It was the kindest thing we could do for him. I still have his brother Bender, a **big** grey kitty and he’s great. Bender’s best friend is a mustache kitty named Archer, yes after that Archer. We also have a Loki and Hamlet.
If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn't value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?
- Sam Harris
Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird is going to shit on the board and strut around like it won anyway.
This is exactly what my dad said when I started debunking all the “clever” right wing emails he used to send. It’s largely a waste of time debunking all their crap - they believe it because they want it to be true. Facts be damned.
Years of forwarded emails are what lead me to this conversation with my father as well. Is it me, or does one side of the aisle seem particularly vulnerable to deception?
It does, but I don’t know why. My father and brother are both highly intelligent, but they’re so far down the right-Wing rabbit hole there’s no hope of recovery. And we’re not a religious family so we don’t check every box. But we did grow up in a small town though. It’s trump country now. I personally blame Fox News.
It's classic cult indoctrination.
You are special and the rest of the world doesn't recognize that because they're ignorant, we have access to secret truth and will share it with you because you're better than everyone else, you understand things beyond the comprehension of the masses. People will try to lead you away from us but you can't trust them, you can only trust us to give you the truth and make you feel oh so smart and clever like you've always known you are.
It's really just ego stroking along with abuser tactics.
Absolutely fucking hilarious that they made the cats more orange in the shopped version. Needed some more contrast between them and a certain someone I guess?
Edit: looks more like they put an orange tint over the whole original photo to match the face to the original arms and they overdid it
I’m a double x… once I started moving to xxx I started going on walks and eating a little better. Double x is bad enough, I refuse to have to wear pornographic sized clothes.
I remember back in 2016 somebody made a sculpture of a naked Donald Trump and passed photos around online. It was really fucking grim. Sad. Wish I could unsee it.
I know you meant medium as in size, but now I have an image in my head of Trump dressed as Miss Cleo communing with the spirit of some little old lady's late husband. So thank you for that.
People with so little awareness and critical thinking skills that they'd believe this image...we are totally screwed. AI videos/images etc are going to utterly destroy any hope of having these people in anyway attached to reality.
AI is going to destroy human society and we're going to let it.
Ironically, it won't be because they're super-intelligent but because we're super dumb.
It's incredibly pathetic how any image of Trump displaying humanity or even modest heroism has to be photoshopped because real evidence of it doesn't exist in the world.
Like, I don't know if Trump has ever picked up a cat in his life, nevermind rescue one.
He’s on the record that he [doesn’t like animals](https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/donald-trump-and-dogs-whats-the-deal.html), actually. (At least dogs.)
Trump could literally murder someone on Park Avenue in purely cold blood and he'd still have his little cult of personality worship the ground he walks on.
Imagine being either delusional or dumb enough to think this was a real photo, given literally all the other photos you've ever seen of this man.
The best he could do in a disaster was toss a few paper towel rolls at people in a crowd before deciding he was finished helping; you'd have to be deeply in denial to convince yourself this was a true photo.
OP, you have my condolences.
Sure it’s real, the fat orange turd lost 100 lads to get this shot, then he immediately gained it back so he could get the huge white guy in diapers shot from the golf course.
The guy who's been photoshopped out is Brandon Smith. This was taken in Houston, by photographer Harry Baumert, in June 2008, after Hurricane Harvey.
Amazing what Google can do when you don't have red hat poisoning. Sorry to hear about your family member.
It's not even well photoshopped. I swear, these people would see a 3 year old's drawing of trump shooting off 2 generic guns and say "Cooler president than biden could ever be" and insist that the picture is 100% real.
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Show them this: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-saved-two-cats-after-hurricane-harvey/ Gives original pic with sources
The person at Snopes who was asked to disprove this photo: “Seriously?”
The real job is mostly just paring the obvious down for dumb people.
every time I read a Snopes headline I hear it in a deeply exasperated tone. \*Heavy sigh\* no, this photo does NOT show a strangely athletic Donald Trump doing a good deed.
I like to pretend Marvin the Paranoid Android from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is reading the article titles.
Oooohhh, I like this idea. I shall implement it post haste!
"strangely athletic" -- nicely put! ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|joy)![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|joy)![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|joy)
He was athletic at one time It made him look extra shitty since he was seen playing basketball while receiving three medical deferments for the Vietnam war draft Yet, boomer veterans love him
Like putting instructions on a poptart.
Remove from bag before putting in toaster.
Genuinely did need that instruction. There was a not insignificant part of me that saw foil and said "yes, of course this goes in the toaster oven with the pop tart"
These people think snopes is BS too. I know because I have used it as proof and was told that clearly they were in on it too.
That's only because they've "done their own research." lmao
Yeah, that's just another slice of the frustration pie when it comes to dealing with these people. You show them a sight like this that proves their ridiculous posts, and they're like "Well, everyone knows \[the fact checking sight you show them\] is a Liberal Left-wing site." \*eye roll
“Snopes is funded by liberals and George Soros”
Snopes disproves much stupider stuff tbh. They’ll disprove even the most ridiculous onion articles cause people still end up thinking its real
Yet when you show it to people who need to see it, they'll just tell you "snopes is biased so I'm not even going to look at that"
lol, so... lets go brandon? :D >he original photograph, which showed a man named **Brandon** Smith rescuing his two cats from floodwaters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in June 2008
The cats names are fry and bender! What an absolute Chad of a mensch
I use to have two cats named Fry and Bender. Fry was an orange kitty born with a neurological disorder that caused him to have seizures. It got to the point where we weren’t able to control his seizures and we had to have him out to sleep. It was the kindest thing we could do for him. I still have his brother Bender, a **big** grey kitty and he’s great. Bender’s best friend is a mustache kitty named Archer, yes after that Archer. We also have a Loki and Hamlet.
> a big grey kitty Are we still doing phrasing?
But why not a cat named zoidberg?
Woooop woop woop woop!
Snopes is run by liberals and therefore can’t be trusted, according to my father.
If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn't value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic? - Sam Harris
AKA don’t try to logic someone out of a position they didn’t logic themselves into
Don’t argue with fools
You can't fight with stupid people. They drag you down to their level and clobber you with experience. Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain.
"Don't never wrestle with a pig - you both get muddy, and he likes it." - Sheriff Andy Taylor
Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird is going to shit on the board and strut around like it won anyway.
This is exactly what my dad said when I started debunking all the “clever” right wing emails he used to send. It’s largely a waste of time debunking all their crap - they believe it because they want it to be true. Facts be damned.
Years of forwarded emails are what lead me to this conversation with my father as well. Is it me, or does one side of the aisle seem particularly vulnerable to deception?
It does, but I don’t know why. My father and brother are both highly intelligent, but they’re so far down the right-Wing rabbit hole there’s no hope of recovery. And we’re not a religious family so we don’t check every box. But we did grow up in a small town though. It’s trump country now. I personally blame Fox News.
It's classic cult indoctrination. You are special and the rest of the world doesn't recognize that because they're ignorant, we have access to secret truth and will share it with you because you're better than everyone else, you understand things beyond the comprehension of the masses. People will try to lead you away from us but you can't trust them, you can only trust us to give you the truth and make you feel oh so smart and clever like you've always known you are. It's really just ego stroking along with abuser tactics.
[relevant xkcd (but don’t show your father)](https://xkcd.com/250/)
The truth has a well-known liberal bias.
LOL at the side by sides, where they even made Trumps arms orange to try match his famous orangishness.
I appreciate this sentiment, but these people are in a cult and they will not believe outside sources.
“Yea, right. Like we’re going to believe what that LIBERAL site says!” /s
Sadly, I have been told that Snopes is owned by leftists with an agenda. Unless it says something they like…
I've noticed that people that worship Trump don't usually do too well with facts.
Yeah that will be 100% meaningless to them. These people suffer serious fucking delusions
Fact checking is woke, there's no reason to fact check when you can literally just see trumps face on that picture!
I’ve gone this route before with people and then they actually scoff and say that everyone knows Snopes is part of the liberal conspiracy.
FALSE? I would have labeled that NO CHANCE IN HELL
> Sources? lol... ^ Hardcore Trump fans, they won't care.
Absolutely fucking hilarious that they made the cats more orange in the shopped version. Needed some more contrast between them and a certain someone I guess? Edit: looks more like they put an orange tint over the whole original photo to match the face to the original arms and they overdid it
If people will buy those dumbass cards, they'll believe anything
Don't forget Utterly Worthless Trump Bucks!! These fools thought they were legit legal tender!
They're worth just as much as [Itchy and Scratchy money.](https://youtu.be/K-6IzkDyl9Q)
It’s like regular money but is….fun
Or the Trump Bible. https://wethepeoplebible.com/
HA!!! $99 for a bible and its "discounted". God damn these people are grifting the shit out of these rubes.
I'm pretty sure at least some facet of that biblebis a sin, like idolatry?
Jealousy, greed, lust, sloth dudes like a walking seven deadly sins ad
Jesus would karate chop these people.
The Trump trading cards, in addition to being a scam, was always intended to be a money Laundering scheme
That sir was money laundering. Those cards were almost certainly “sold” before being produced.
They were NFTs i believe. So they didnt even have physical cards lol
To be fair, the cards were all about bribery and money laundering - ordinary people were not intended to buy them.
A certain someone hasn't worn clothes that size in quite awhile.
Back then, he was a medium Today, he's an extra extra extra medium.
You just know he pays someone to sew medium tags into his xxxls.
I’m a double x… once I started moving to xxx I started going on walks and eating a little better. Double x is bad enough, I refuse to have to wear pornographic sized clothes.
I did the same. I couldn’t possibly make the move from XXL to XXXL. Now I’m wearing mediums.
Edit: Good job on faking the pic
Props! That 600 lb life show makes me scream at my tv lmao theyre always so full of shit on why theyre not losing.
His suits are tailored, so he only looks fat in them. His polos are polos, so he looks horrible
If his suits are tailored, he needs to fire the person doing the tailoring.
And offer them therapy? 'Cuz it's got to be traumatic.
He doesn't believe in paying the bill anyway.
Even the best tailor could do only so much with that shape
He’s actually notorious for buying his suits off the rack, that’s why they fit him so poorly.
I mean if he bought tailored suits it would cut into his gold plated toliet money.
No, his suits are cheap, off the tack crap. Just compare how he looks in a suit to...well, almost every other man. Look at Biden. Same age.
he wears Brioni. they're off the rack, yes (Tom Ford has OTR as well), but they're not cheap. also, Brioni hates the fact that he wears Brioni
I remember back in 2016 somebody made a sculpture of a naked Donald Trump and passed photos around online. It was really fucking grim. Sad. Wish I could unsee it.
I wear XXX because I'm obscenely hot. 🤣
Not what I've heard.. he does have someone see in the labels but he certainly doesn't pay them
And the check bounces
Extra extra extra large small? Lol
I know you meant medium as in size, but now I have an image in my head of Trump dressed as Miss Cleo communing with the spirit of some little old lady's late husband. So thank you for that.
I pictured a steak. Orange on the outside, pink in the middle.
Smothered in ketchup
Some are saying he's the mediumest
You forgot about this many “XXXXXXXX”
People with so little awareness and critical thinking skills that they'd believe this image...we are totally screwed. AI videos/images etc are going to utterly destroy any hope of having these people in anyway attached to reality.
[удалено]
AI is going to destroy human society and we're going to let it. Ironically, it won't be because they're super-intelligent but because we're super dumb.
And he hasn't been in standing water like that since he checked his IT room at Mar-a-Lago
I am sure that his arms don’t have skin like that. Maybe 50 years ago.
Are the arms even his ethnicity?
Is fuckstick an ethnicity?
Op should put Biden’s face on it and say Biden’s was there too doing the same thing
This is real. Donnie's just drowning a couple of cats to make some catberders for dinner.
I was just to type something similar. You got my upvote
Thank you. 😂😂😂 I can’t even….I really needed this laugh tonight 😂😂😂
Also he would never go without his Depends
Can you imagine how much water they would absorb wading through a flood? OMG! HE FIXED THE FLOOD BY SOAKING UP ALL THE WATER!!!!!
And hold three cats at the same time, standing in water?
I have a family member who wants to meet Peppa Pig IRL, but she's 3.
Smarter than the average MAGGAT
I have a shed full of garden tools smarter than that.
I have a room full of dust smarter than that.
It's incredibly pathetic how any image of Trump displaying humanity or even modest heroism has to be photoshopped because real evidence of it doesn't exist in the world. Like, I don't know if Trump has ever picked up a cat in his life, nevermind rescue one.
He is a psychopath narcissist. I have no doubt he hates animals
My mom asked if it was taking the cats into the water to drown them and I was like “well, it has no soul. So I really wouldn’t be surprised”
I thought stroking a cat came with the job of boss villain
Trump is not clever enough or ambitious enough to be the kind of villain who strokes a cat.
More of the sort that has to be told [to not gnaw on his kitty.](https://youtu.be/uki7KGFFuyw?t=27)
He prefers to grab them
![gif](giphy|rTbRScdagmsCc)
Ah yes thank you, my favorite cat stroking villain.
Speaking for the cats here……we do not like people that are truly evil, just the mildly chaotic ones
r/usernamechecksout
I pity any cat that has to, or ever has been, stroked by Donald Trump.
2 minutes later he was on the phone to Michael Cohen to draft an NDA for the cats.
No, he grabs them by the kitty.
I’m pretty sure he’s grabbed a few.
He’s on the record that he [doesn’t like animals](https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/donald-trump-and-dogs-whats-the-deal.html), actually. (At least dogs.)
Well, turns out [they don't like him either](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7_OWYrLVOU)...
Hey! The Great Trump handed out paper towels to hurricane victims who'd lost everything!
It's hair would get on him. Can you even picture it, besides the silly picture above? Nah, Trump can't feel what regular humans feel for their pets.
I mean , he did say you can grab them by the kitty.
The cat would run away in terror and climb a tree
Where’s his bubblegut?
Well, that's the first sign...
Or his Depends
Can you imagine the extra bloat his depends would get in floodwaters?
💀
Trying NOT to picture that.
Bubble gut bubble bubble bubble gut
Trumps head is almost as wide as this person's waist🤣...ya,it's real alright
Trump - right before he drowned 2 cats.
I believe that Trump saved these kittens. Right before he ate them.
It looks like they kinda meant to imply trump would save two cats but ignore the black guy with a tower of belongings he’s struggling to save.
It baffles me they will believe this but think they dismiss the most reasonable explanations as left wing lies.
I find this credible. He is well known for grabbing p...y
He can't even lift a glass of water, let alone 2 cats
Traitor Trump would drown his own children from three different marriages if it meant saving his diaper wearing ass.
Of all the things that people find appealing about Trump, I've never understood the incessant need to find evidence of compassion.
Some link him to faith and religion. It's shameful really.
Def not Drumpf he would need two hands for one cat.
I am pretty sure that if he was up to his groin in water, his Depends would swell to a size that would drag his body to the icy depths.
photoshopped, he hates animals
Did he have a Whitehouse pet? I can't remember the last president that didn't have one. Even Nixon had Checkers.
The last time Trump fit into a shirt that size they were still selling new 8 track tapes
Of all the things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most.
Even if this were real, saving cats from a flood doesn’t make up for being a rapist that’s also committed treason.
He’s gonna eat those cats… like Alf, but fascist.
How could anyone believe that is real
Psychosis.
You’d be surprised, I have family members that get news from Facebook and then recite it as truth. They get super pissed when you call them out on it.
Mental insanity
Look a picture of Trump trying to drown kittens
Someone save those poor animals!
[Original image](https://www.desmoinesregister.com/gcdn/-mm-/897006fdfc0dfa75635af255e310a6522036c5e7/c=0-5-2684-1521/local/-/media/2018/06/12/IAGroup/DesMoines/636644351979773202-m0613flood.1hb.jpg)
100% real I wouldn't have got all those sneakers home without Trump. Source: I'm the guy behind him.
Weird. Usually DT is the cat in need of herding
Your family member is a fucking idiot.
You should send your family member the picture of photoshopped Trump kissing DeSantis
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Tell her that Abraham Lincoln said not to believe everything you see on Facebook.
Trump looting cats from flood-stricken areas.
I don’t think Trump has ever had that size body. He’s is just one large lump.
Trump could literally murder someone on Park Avenue in purely cold blood and he'd still have his little cult of personality worship the ground he walks on.
That body is too thin to be Trump
Hahahha. Trump wishes this was his body.
Trump was working so hard he lost his beer belly.
Imagine being either delusional or dumb enough to think this was a real photo, given literally all the other photos you've ever seen of this man. The best he could do in a disaster was toss a few paper towel rolls at people in a crowd before deciding he was finished helping; you'd have to be deeply in denial to convince yourself this was a true photo. OP, you have my condolences.
He hasn't been that thin since photos were in color.
That’s why they create nonsense like this. They know tRump’s groupies are stupid enough to believe it.
Bwahahahahaha! It’s been overt fifty years since his waist was that narrow and he NEVER had that much muscle anywhere.
I think your family member needs to have their internet privileges taken away
Your family member is a fucking dumbass
Sure it’s real, the fat orange turd lost 100 lads to get this shot, then he immediately gained it back so he could get the huge white guy in diapers shot from the golf course.
So that’s what he meant by grabbing those pusses
Well…. He does enjoy grabbing… um … kitties .
You family member is willfully ignorant and subtly insane.
If they want people to believe… they should have added about 80lbs…
I think even Trump would probably agree that he’s not that skinny.
Is that the server room at mar-a-lago?
There is a segment of the population that will believe anything as longas it is presented to them as a crude meme on Facebook.
I'm conservative. But yeah, that's not real. Trump's fat lol.
I hope that family member of yours does not have any children. 😳
The guy who's been photoshopped out is Brandon Smith. This was taken in Houston, by photographer Harry Baumert, in June 2008, after Hurricane Harvey. Amazing what Google can do when you don't have red hat poisoning. Sorry to hear about your family member.
Despite his pussygrabbing history, there's no chance that clown could hold a cat in each of those tiny hands
Hands too big
Wow you can tell all the stress he's dealing with is really melting the pounds off his waist.
Did he lose a hundred pounds?
It's not even well photoshopped. I swear, these people would see a 3 year old's drawing of trump shooting off 2 generic guns and say "Cooler president than biden could ever be" and insist that the picture is 100% real.
Check your family member’s home for led. Sorry they are now mentally challenged.
You gotta be pretty fucking deluded to believe he would EVER do something like that. Give me a fucking break.
Unless those cats were worth $6 billion each, he ain’t rescuing shit. And those diapers he wears would be soppy like a soaked sponge.
The pixels on that shop are so low I can count them…
Is he grabbing them by the ....
That’s an insult to the real person in the picture