• WhatSay@slrpnk.net
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    14 days ago

    I wish he could be treated like every other long winded short sighted senior, and be medicated and sat in the reclining bed. He has nothing helpful to add.

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      14 days ago

      I wish he could be treated like every other long winded short sighted felon, and be in a prison.

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    14 days ago

    It’s quite literally Biden & Garland’s fault that Trump is not currently in prison.

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      I don’t hold Orwell in high regard, but this take seemed too inhumane and idiotic even for him. And it is, he actually never said this.

      It’s takes like this that lead people to conclude that Americans deserved 9/11 for what their government did in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, etc etc up to Iraq in the gulf war. Or that Israelis deserved October 7th for what their government did during the nakba, sabra and shatila, etc etc. Americans did not deserve 9/11, Israelis did not deserve October 7th. They are not complicit in the crimes of their rulers. Especially when you operate in a two party system where both parties are completely and utterly beholden to billionaires.

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        Especially when you operate in a two party system where both parties are completely and utterly beholden to billionaires.

        Whose fault is that? I’d say that is on the shoulders of the American people.

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    15 days ago

    Maybe the people on social security should stop voting for rapists/terrorists/felons/morons…?

    Drumpf said he didn’t care about you. He SAID IT. Yet you still voted for him because you’re a stupid PoS. 🤷‍♀️

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      Yeah but men wearing skirts makes them feel uncomfortable so killing minorities is sadly more important than a functioning society.

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        Interesting, so how did they feel when Elon did the “Roman salute”? Romans basically walked around in skirts as well…

        Ah well, I think reason left the US long ago.

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      I’ve been told since it’s not ok the books as a law it’s just words and we should feel and think he doesn’t care about anyone.

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    15 days ago

    Centrists: “WHERE IS BIDEN!? WHY ISN’T HE DOING ANYTHING!?”

    Biden: *actively working with DNC on fundraising, speaks at an event which makes headlines

    Centrists: “GO AWAY YOU OLD BASTARD!!!``11~!”

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      Technically the SCOTUS gave immunity for official acts only.

      Official acts being clearly outlined as up to the sole discretion of…

      wait for it…

      The SCOTUS.

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        They said it was to be determined by a lower court. It was sent back to a lower court and Trump was convicted. But the judge ruled that no penalty should be applied because of the SCOTUS ruling on presidential immmunity and it was up to the DOJ to prosecute. The DOJ is under direct presidential control and by then Trump was in power.

        SCOTUS could have prosecuted Trump directly, but as always, they deliberately slow walked it so the case would disappear. Which is exactly what they are going to do with all the current cases.

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      His handlers told him to sit and wait until it was Donnie’s turn to make them money so that’s what he did.

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    No shit, Joe! Your insistence on holding into power when it was clear that’s not what the people wanted enabled this. Your legacy will forever be tarnished by your inability to accept reality before it was too late.

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      Nonetheless, the problem lies in the system. If 1/3 is for, 1/3 is against, and 1/3 don’t vote, there’s something wrong. And there is, and a specific party has been doing voter supression for a decade and more. Why has this been allowed?

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      Hey at least the one and only time he went low and broke decorum was so he could pardon his own son. And the other 1200 people a week later when he realized how bad the optics were.

      And just to get ahead of those people. I’m not necessarily mad he pardoned his son. I’m mad there only time he broke decorum was for his own personal interests and not the American people’s.

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        Oh, no doubt. But why I would care about his opinion is a mystery. Like, I’m not asking Hilary for her take on the orange. I can formulate my own ideas without these loser also-rans.

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          The more people who have an audience and in a higher power, the better the chances of taking things back under control. You don’t have to listen to AOC, but we need her to help rally troops.

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            AOC actually has the publics interest (at least seems like it) at heart and has a future in politics. Biden just wanted to preserve the status quo and him and those in his age group who refused to retire are the direct cause of current events

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      It didn’t even have to be official. He’s old enough he would have died of old age before seeing jail time.

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      Yeah dude, and I’m sure “he was going to win and build concentration camps within 3 months, I swear!” would totally have been a sufficient explanation for everyone.

      People on this site are so fucking dumb, I swear.

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        He doesn’t need to explain. Whatever he did wouldn’t have been illegal if it was an official act. Also Trump is demonstrably a fucking traitor so he could have used that as justification.

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              We were pretty sure right up until one didn’t.

              Trump is dead set on making sure that only one thing can a stop him. No one should be surprised when it happens.

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          And the American citizens (especially the ones who hate Biden with a passion, and already stormed the Capitol once) would totally be fine with Democrats assassinating political opponents on live television.

          For Christ sake, who upvotes this shit???

          Please tell me it’s just like one dude with 10 alt accounts…

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            Doesn’t matter what they’re fine with. Biden had a blank check to deal with them however he saw fit if they tried something. They were at least actually traitors unlike the people Trump is persecuting.

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              It does matter when you’re on the left, because others on the left will hold you accountable.

              You live in a fucking dream world. The fact that you honestly believe that Joe Biden could (and should) have assassinated the cult leader Donald Trump on live television, and life in the US would just continue on like normal, means you’re the stupidest fucking person I’ve ever encountered.

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                You live in a fucking dream world. The fact that you honestly believe that Joe Biden could (and should) have assassinated the cult leader Donald Trump on live television, and life in the US would just continue on like normal, means you’re the stupidest fucking person I’ve ever encountered.

                I never said things would continue on like normal. It would have just escalated the situation into what is currently happening now except with Biden in power instead so we’re not all getting fucked. Better that the abusive tyrant be on your side than the other way around. He can run wild until they get their shit together enough to stop him and put safeguards in place to prevent it from happening again in the future (from either side) but the damage is done to the MAGAs instead of the innocent people Trump is targeting and everyone gets a good life lesson about why this “it’s legal as long as it’s an offical act” thing isn’t a great idea.

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    I don’t think anyone wants to hear from Biden at this point. He by all accounts did his level best to put his ego ahead of the good of the people of the country which did nothing but help further Trump’s talking points.

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      I want him out there speaking at events, raising money for the campaign trail. They’re off to a great start, honestly, it’s only April 2025 and they’re consistently making nationwide news.

      I voted for Harris, I would have voted for Biden again, and I think anybody who doesn’t see the logic in that is incredibly foolish and just in general a disappointment.

      Trump would be out of our lives now and forever if enough people understood what was at stake.

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    On one hand, he’s not wrong.

    On the other hand, he can fuck off. He had internal polling showing him losing in a landslide and he still hung on for far too long afterwards, sabotaging efforts to build a winning campaign by the eventual nominee. Biden is the man who lost the fucking republic through his vanity and hubris.

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      Biden is the guy that was given the biggest stick in history, and then just meekly handed over to one of the worst bullies in history.

      Fuck. Joe. Biden.

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        Yeah, when the SC hands you unlimited power while a fascist dictator is waiting for his second chance at office… You use that fucking power.

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    I love how all Americans in the comments are mad at Biden for not stopping Trump when they all elected him to office to begin with lol.

    I guess it all starts making sense when you look closer at it. The education level in that country really is circling the drain.

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      all Americans… they all

      Trump won with less than 30% of the population’s vote. And even now, he only has an ~30% approval rating. It certainly isn’t “all” Americans. It isn’t even “most” Americans. But sure, speaking about an entire country as a single monolith makes the circlejerk easy.

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        I’ll agree it’s not all. However I’ll say that the people who voted for him and the people who didn’t vote at all are the majority, therefore most.

        You can’t just blame the orange ferret and his fans. You must also blame the people who could’ve voted against him but chose not to.

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        He won with less than 30% of the populations vote because most Americans decided facism wasn’t that bad so they stayed home. People who didn’t vote for Harris or encouraged others not to vote for Harris looked at what Trump was selling and decided they’d like to buy.

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        Oh look it’s another “I didn’t vote for Trump so it’s not MY fault” retort. Well admittedly that is a hard argument to argue with so I’ll just say this.

        And the fact he was about 37 felonies under his belt? And led to insurrection. And it is his SECOND term. And he has made threats against his own people and the world.

        But most of the country didn’t vote him in? Your logic makes as much as sense as your government. You had ample time to deal with your dirty laundry. But instead of quietly coming in twice a week, you waited 6 months and brought 8 garbage sacks of clothes and then got mad there wasn’t enough machines and then beat up and elderly lady for her detergent while blasting “Rock you like a hurricane” with a beer hat.

        You take responsibility and fix your shit. Till then. Yeah, the US IS a giant monolith of hatred, anger and aggression.

        You don’t get trust homeboy, you have to earn it. And if you lose it, well, look at him…

        PS: literally the dumbest use of quotes I’ve ever seen lmao

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          And the fact he was about 37 felonies under his belt? And led to insurrection. And it is his SECOND term. And he has made threats against his own people and the world.

          You’re preaching to the choir. You don’t need to try and convince me he’s an asshole. At best, that entire paragraph is just whataboutism.

          But most of the country didn’t vote him in?

          Correct.

          You had ample time to deal with your dirty laundry.

          And it’s clear that the people who were supposed to be in charge of doing that only put up a token effort to do so, to keep the public placated long enough for the next election cycle. There are a lot of Americans who were (and still are) deeply angry at the way the entire investigation was handled. And even more who are frustrated at the fact that the system’s checks and balances only work when congress is willing to actually use them.

          You take responsibility and fix your shit. Till then. Yeah, the US IS a giant monolith of hatred, anger and aggression.

          In case you weren’t aware, the vast majority of America is only one or two missed paychecks away from homelessness, and enacting real change would require a massive effort (and create a lot of new homeless people) because it’s not Europe where you can just roll up to the capitol building on a weekend trip. Imagine if you were in Naples, and had to travel all the way to Madrid to protest your own government. Now imagine you have zero funds for a plane or train ticket, and need to drive the entire way. It’s a ~20 hour drive, which you’d inevitably need to take over the course of several days.

          That’s essentially a full work week for the round trip, and it’s less than many Americans would need to travel to get to DC. And you think they’d get paid time off work approved for that? No, they’d get fired for missing an entire week of work. And that’s assuming they’re even able to return to work afterwards; Hopefully they avoided getting maimed, crippled, and/or arrested by police during the protest.

          If anything, the US is a giant monolith of poverty and struggling individuals, with a thin veneer of manufactured exceptionalism keeping it from completely unraveling. The only Americans able to exert international pressure are the billionaires who have been robbing the proletariat blind for decades, and the lawmakers who are in the billionaires’ pockets.

          PS: literally the dumbest use of quotes I’ve ever seen lmao

          If you have to resort to insulting someone’s grammar on the internet, you’ve already lost the argument.