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      Everyone cares, it’s just that, unlike with Tru p, with other president everyone would hope for a speedy recovery

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        I do not hope speedy recovery to any war criminal and genocide enabler and yes that include Trump

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    It wasn’t though, outside of like Fox News and Newsmax. Blue MAGA and aligned media were claiming Biden was healthy as ever when it was evident his brain turned to pudding after about 4pm every day.

    Both of their declines are masked by the media covering them reading rehearsed answers or off a teleprompter in their day-to-day coverage, instead of the rare moments they go off-script and can barely express a coherent thought before meandering to another topic.

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      it was evident

      I mean, it was on Fox News* how can it not be true, right?
      *As per the court decisions, Fox News and it’s subsidiaries is an entertainment corporation that is legally not allowed to be thought as a news

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        If you didn’t see his “stutter” such mumbling for 5 minutes and then blurting out “we beat medicaid!” or weird rambling stories or a million other instances until the WH came out and said it, maybe that should be a sign you should examine how your media is curated.

        No, I’m not suggesting you watch Fox News.

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    He’s too busy crying his eyes because he didn’t get invited to that parade with Winnie the Pooh and friends. And it was much more magnificent than the “we got the military parade at home” he got for his last birthday

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    Which it turns out they were, though I think it was more denial than any active deception.

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      That was at the end of his term as well, what’s trump going to do, battle through it with 3.5 years still on the clock?

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    Epstein’s Law: every accusation from a Conservative [of being guilty of a thing] is a confession [of being guilty of the thing]

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      They do it cause it works. When you’ve got a couple billion in media capital that you can fling around, it is very easy to just say “You’re the pedo! You’re the crook! You’re the dictator! You’re doing genocide!” on the loudest volume.

      And it doesn’t help when your opposition takes it at face value and announces “We’re looking into whether we’re all degenerate freaks. We’re taking these allegations very seriously” in between sucking up to the same batch of billionaire sociopaths bankrolling the fascist movement.

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      if the GOP cared about consistency, or had any shame to begin with… we wouldn’t even be having these problems.

      It’s only the Dems who seem to care about doing things by the book, taking the high road, being proper… and we can all see where that’s getting us.

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        As an outsider, democrats seems to be, not very democratic. Sure vote democrat next election because the rest is so much worse (the system itself is badly designed IMO, you’ll shoot yourself in the foot voting anything else than the two big parties) but don’t judge them on the baseline of what the republicans are.

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          This is an amazing comparison because Eddard Stark was still the asshole who beheaded a kid for running away from the nights’ watch.

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            Eddard Stark was still the asshole who beheaded a kid for running away from the nights’ watch.

            Propaganda in action.

            Dude was a deserter, formerly a rapist. Read the books, not fake news.

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              Dude was a deserter, formerly a rapist.

              Not to question the system of press ganging convicts into military service or the maybe somewhat dubious accuracy of medieval courts, but you’re still saying a kid deserves to be decapitated for these two things.

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                  I think the wide appeal of GoT was how little actual sorcery was included, especially in the early books. The stories were fairly gritty and characters were relatable.

                  Probably the best part of the first book was Ned Stark discovering Punnett squares while investigating all of King Rob’s bastards.

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              I read all the books. It’s been a while.

              In that case he’s not at all like a democrat if his major flaw was thinking everyone else was as honorable as him.

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    Yeah, but it’s virtuous when THEY do it.

    It would be funny and take all the criticism thrown at Biden re: his advanced age and behaviors and bring them up with Trump.

    If you want to see some heads spin, raise some of those. Stuff that “just made sense” with Biden i.e. “Do we really want someone tuning out?” “He got a name wrong in a speech.” “He looks old.” Now, apply that to Trump and all of a sudden it “doesn’t make any sense”.

    I feel like there is a certain amount of hypocrisy required to advocate Trump. Similar to the Party in 1984, part of the success is being able to hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time and consider that logical and reasoned.

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      As an outsider it was quite weird seing a really, really old person in bad health calling out another really really old person because of age. Gaslighting I guess.