• assaultpotato@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Real tweet, fake text… no way any NATO leader would say “Europe is going to pay BIG” it’s just too Trump. Same with the incessant comma splices.

    But big congrats to Trump for ruining the information space so completely that I genuinely cannot tell what’s real anymore.

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      3 hours ago

      This is Mark Rutte.
      He would totally say “Europe is going to pay in a BIG way” to flatter Trump.
      Incessant comma splices is I guess typically Dutch and indicative to the way Rutte talks. I sometimes do it too.
      He’s a liberal, making him almost as right-wing as Ursula von der Leyen, not a social democrat
      or a democratic socialist or left of that.

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      14 hours ago

      Hasn’t Rutte always been known for being able to handle Trump well? I’m pretty sure the only way to do that is kiss his ass in a way he understands, so this doesn’t seem too surprising.

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      1 day ago

      I’m sure EVERY European politician randomly CAPITALISES words like some LUNATIC

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        I would love and hate to see proof that Mark Rutte really texted this to Trump.

        The “Truth” post is 100% real, inarguably, but I haven’t seen anyone reporting the picture is of a real message from Rutte to Trump.

        E: never mind that is… apparently Rutte’s office has confirmed the message is really from Rutte???

        ???

        I need to go lie down.

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          I can tell you as a Dutchman, reading this I could hear Mark Rutte’s voice and it aligns with his anglophile suck-up character.
          I couldn’t see him writing it any other way.