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    1 year ago

    I don’t care if people like Biden. They just need to vote for him over the alternative.

    Besides, a lot of the country has already decided they’re going to hate him regardless.

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      I don’t like Biden. I disapprove of his job performance. And I will desperately support his candidacy for president. He must win.

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        You are why America is about to go into conflict with Russia, China, Iran, South Africa, and most of the rest of the world, and WE will be the baddies.

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          Well, I agree that Trump won’t go into conflict with his buddy Putin.

          I’m also pretty sure that America is not going to declare war on most of the world if Biden is in office.

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          Please I hope to god you are a bot or a troll farm account. For the sake of my own sanity I refuse to believe anyone is actually stupid enough to believe this.

          Like yeah Russia invading an independent country and US ally unprovoked, and China making imperialist claims to the South China Sea, building islands for military bases there and building up their military to invade Taiwan, are not to blame at all for the potential upcoming war. Nonono its all Joe Bidens fault for providing weapons to Ukraine and continuing the US’ decades long unconditional support for Israel. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

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      Oh I hated him since the 1990s when he wrote the crime bill. Hated him in 2020, and hated Hillary in 2016. I still voted for both of them. Voted for Gore in 2000, despite not liking him. I actually liked Obama in 2008, not so much in 2012

      I would absolutely shoot Trump, and his entire family tree in the head, if I thought for a second that I could get away with it. That scam artist wouldn’t have gotten my vote in 2004 when he thought about running as a Democrat, he sure as fuck isn’t getting my vote now that he’s gone mask off Republican.

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      I don’t care if people like Biden. They just need to vote for him

      That’s simply not how elections work. If people hate you, and they hate the other guy, they just stay home.

      That’s how Gore lost in 2000 (plus a touch of GOP vote rigging and Brooks Brothers Rioting). He just parroted all the conservative lines about balanced budgets and business growth. Half the country simply slept through November rather than vote for him or Bush. Even a big chunk of disaffected Republicans joining the Green/Libertarian vote couldn’t save Gore from his own mealy mouthed centrism.

      Biden is Clinton/Gore Centrism on fucking steroids. He’s going to tank his own base of support while Trump wipes MAGA shitheads up into an even bigger lather than the last time he was on the ballot.

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        I completely disagree with this. People stayed home and didn’t vote for Hillary in 2016 because they wanted to send a message. They didn’t think Trump would be elected.

        What we got was 4 years of a narcissist running the country who cares more about himself and his friends than what was good for the people.

        I didn’t like Hillary, but I voted for her. I don’t like Biden but I’ll vote for him because the alternative is another 4 years of people losing rights that I believe they should have.

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          People stayed home and didn’t vote for Hillary in 2016 because they wanted to send a message.

          I don’t know about “send a message” nearly so much as “felt disillusioned and betrayed”. She gave them nothing to show up for. Hell, Hillary’s primary demographic was supposed to be upwardly mobile white women, and the majority of them ended up voting for Trump.

          What we got was 4 years of a narcissist running the country

          After Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and then Obama, this was par for the course.

          If you lived through the 2002 GOP landslide, Trump wasn’t anything new. The xenophobia and the white nationalism, the naked demagoguery and far-right religious fervor, the shameless pandering to a handful of insider business leaders, the bailouts and bankruptcies… It was just a repeat of the Bush Administration.

          To see Democrats in leadership sucking up to the prior dipshit fascist really drove home to us old-heads what GenZ had to learn the hard way - liberals weren’t going to lift a finger to this guy if they could help it.

          I didn’t like Hillary, but I voted for her. I don’t like Biden but I’ll vote for him

          This has been the story of American politics since at least Kennedy. The long line of “I didn’t like him but I voted for him” candidates have only produced more of the same shitty guys. And the country has rotted out from the inside, as liberals continued to contend “the only thing we can do is VOTE!” while conservatives took to the streets and reshaped the country with their own bare hands.

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            If you believe the previous presidents you listed were as narcissistic as Trump, I do t know what to say.

            Also, Republicans have reshaped this country in a worst way. Democrats are weaker, but that is only because they don’t stoop to the same level as Republicans do when it comes to politics. Dems actually try to work together, Republicans say do what I want or else. Do you remember at all the previous government shutdowns? All due to Republicans not willing to compromise. Then they do a big show saying it’s all Democrats fault.

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              If you believe the previous presidents you listed were as narcissistic as Trump, I do t know what to say.

              Show me so much as a candidate in the last forty years who isn’t dripping with narcissism.

              Also, Republicans have reshaped this country in a worst way.

              Whether it was the Bankruptcy Bill of 2005 or the Graham-Leach-Biley of 1998 or SESTA/FOSTA in 2018 or the repeated extensions and reauthorizations of the 2001 Patriot Act, the Reagan and Bush tax cuts, or the endless wars in the Middle East, you can consistently find a large cadre of Democrats (often with Joe Biden himself at their head) paving the way for these ultra-conservative legislative changes.

              All due to Republicans not willing to compromise.

              In 2016, Mitch McConnell dragged out the nomination of Judge Antonin Scalia’s replacement for a full ten months.

              In 2020, Democrats couldn’t stall the nomination of ACB as the replacement for RBG for three months.

              I only wish the problem was Republicans being unwilling to compromise. Far too often, they simply play the face to policies Democrats appear more than willing to support.

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      The dipshit who has orchestrated WWIII in 3 years is more of a liability than orange reality TV man who thinks he is Hitler.

      One is actually doing the thing.

      The other thinks he can, but cant.

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        This is a weird kind of WWIII where almost none of the world is at war. Very unlike the previous two world wars which had the whole ‘world’ thing going for them.

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        Im a 24 year old male with no preexisting conditions besides autism. If ww3 kicked off I would probably know pretty fucken quick since itd require the draft assuming it doesnt go nuclear. They would probably have me drive trucks around.

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        “Orchestrating” a war that hasn’t happened yet is not doing the thing. Trump is orchestrating all sorts of shit by that standard.

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        Weird WWIII, considering currently, there’s only two large armed conflicts in motion, and no country outside of Israel, Palestine, Ukraine, or Russia has actually placed boots on the ground in a conflict zone.

        Compare this to WWII, where we had: Japan, Russia, Finland, Senegal, India, Bangladesh, Burma, the Phillippines, Germany, the UK, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, the US, Australia, New Zealand, Nepal, and probably a dozen other powers and colonial holdings I’m forgetting, all in active combat.

        So.