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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

But but Biden today personally raped and then shot 200 Palestine children! I saw it with my own eyes!! /s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

He even threw his shades on after and tossed bibi another $69,420,000,000 saying "that's for the ones I missed!"

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How are those numbers so low. Jesus Christ

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Your standard bell curve. Stupid people can't see things coming so they always try to act like no one can see something bad coming. Truth is that trump is everything he accuses biden of but worse.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Man, you’re right. And here I was thinking “wow, 15% is more than I expected.” What a sad realization that is.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If he or the GOP had any integrity whatsoever, he would. They don't though, which is really ironic since ya know, law and order, patriots, merica, ect. The republican party is a joke.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, if they were smart they would offer up a better candidate (if they had one) and that would be real trouble for Biden. If the candidate were opposed to the Israeli genocide and moderate or slightly left, he might win over some Biden voters that ate unhappy. Sadly, there is no such sane Republican. They are all just as nutty as Trump or worse.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

They could have potentially run DeSantis, he just lacked the party's backing. While he's basically a younger, less orangey Trump for the most part, the fact that he's a lot younger would have probably won a lot of people over. It wouldn't change the GOP from being the MAGA party or change their current values or the general situation with the election though.

We should be grateful that Trump is rather incompetent. He's torn up the GOP as he can't allow anyone to overtake him in the hierarchy he's created. His own ego ensures that any competent ideas that could push his agenda forward are thrown out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

While that is true and a small positive, tue fact remains that he has set tue standard so low and allowed crazy to become part of the Republican party. New candidates will continue to follow in his path because their base is now a fervent hysterical mass of racism and white nationalism. There is no Republican party anymore and it will not recover. It has become the party of Trump and will remain Republican in name only because it is more a brand than a political organization. They have no values or platform anymore

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

If he had any integrity he wouldn't be in this situation to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Trump's conviction isn't going to be the big turning point of this election. What happens after his conviction will. If he continues to spew vitriol about the judge, prosecution, and jury, eventually one of his followers will commit an act of retribution. That puts Trump in a difficult spot, because his core likes this kind of stuff. He will want to show his support, but if he does, it will again show he encourages domestic terrorism. If he does anything other than condemn the attack, his support among moderates will fall away, just like it did after Jan. 6th. If he does condemn the attack, his core may protest, like they did when he changed his opinion on the COVID vaccines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why do you think it will be "the big turning point of this election" when he's already encouraged the Jan 6 insurrection? He literally could murder someone in NYC like he said and nothing would change in polling. It's a ridiculous situation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I think we’ve seen from recent Republican races the polls are way off, especially support for his brand.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Whatever he does his follows will either: say the attack was commited by ANTIFA and is a false flag or say Trump never condemned the attack or never showed his support

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that would be weird to see Trump forced into awkward rambling doublespeak that doesn’t make sense if you listen to the words.

XD

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago

I listen to the words and then arrange them into an order that doesn't contradict my preconceived notion that Donald is the good one.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I look forward to seeing pics from his incarceration with no makeup and no hair stylist. It'll be epic.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

You may get your wish sooner than later. He's still under the gag order, and he's violating it again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Like the prison guards won't bring in make-up artists themselves for their boi

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This election will be won at the margins. Shit like this matters. Our task is to stoke their discontentment.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So like every other election: A couple thousand people in some county in PA or MI you've never heard of will decide the presidency, regardless of what most people want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yes. “Democracy”. My only dispute with your statement is that it’s a few tens of thousands of votes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Tens of thousands?! That's a landslide!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Independents will be so important

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So will the extreme left.

They seem to have this idea that holding their vote for Biden hostage over Israel is morally just in spite of a mountain of evidence that tells us violence within this country against minorities, women, and lgbtq folks (which is already openly on the rise) will sky rocket if Trump wins....oh and all the authoritarian fascist stuff that is straight out of a dictator playbook when seizing power with no intent to ever relinquish it.....but nevermind that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I agree leftists will be important but there are just more is the independents. A lot of those leftists are young (ie: people who rarely vote anyway)

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