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Collins followed up with another tweet calling for the local county prosecutor to “immediately file charges against Joseph R. Biden for inciting an assassination.”

Someone didn't get the memo from SCOTUS.

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

If fucking only.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I think we should spam his inbox with accusations of false flag operations by the Trump campaign in order to generate sympathy for him in the coming election because he's afraid of Biden's polling numbers.

The Trump ketchup packet conspiracy must be shared with everyone!!!!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If it was Biden, he'd send the Navy Seals. Navy Seals wouldn’t have missed.

Also, SCOTUS says that's 100% legal.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And so fucking what. What are they gonna do. Are they gonna outlaw the exact thing that SCOTUS decided because it suddenly occurred to them that a sword cuts both ways? No. They just going to make a lot of fucking noise to rile up their own base. We all know where this is going and it's nowhere good. And the worst part - the worst part? America was able to bail Europe out of the debacle when it happened last time. There's nobody to bail us out of this cluster fuck.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Ummmm you might care to remember that the USSR also "bailed out" Europe.

You know....in the sense that you were dragged into a war you had no intention of joining, by a foe that had already gone 11 rounds with the UK and Russia.

The UK spent an entire empire "bailing out" europe. Twice. But we don't hark on about it.

But you're right about one thing - no one is coming to bail you out. You've made it abundantly clear you will only act unilaterally. Europe will stay in its lane, quietly hope that Trump has a stroke, but ready to stand on its own for a 3rd time.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

To biden: Just do it. They were always going to accuse you. They'll charge you when you lose. Just actually do it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

There it is folks.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Even if he did it'd be an official act and you can't do shit, bitch

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Wouldn't that eventually come back to SCOTUS, though, and have "official" determined by: Republican ✅ Democrat ❌

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Moisturise me!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Even if he did doesn't he have Presidential immunity now? 💀

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago (1 children)

homeboy is telling you what trump would do, fucking listen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Colonel Eran Morad knows best, he ~~spend~~ didn't spend 10 years in the Mossad. Yalla, let's go!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

202-225-4101

Mailbox is currently full, but I'd say give this guy's office a call tomorrow.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Well that took longer then expected. Guess they weren't tuned in to Trump's speech.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

Biden should come out and say it...."Yeah, I shoot his bitchasz, what now?"

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

And if he had he ordered it done then he likely wouldn't be able to remember ordering it so jokes on them!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

And the Supreme Court already said the sitting president can do whatever they want.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

It's starting already. Here comes the civil war Rs have been pushing for years now.

[–] [email protected] 118 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Biden would not have sent a 20 year old Republican to do it, lol...

These people lack the most fundamental critical thinking skills...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

These people lack the most fundamental critical thinking skills...

This has been proven time and time again.

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

I wish David Attenborough narrated this.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There's a reason conspiracy theories run rampant on the right. These people are so gullible, and a big part of it has to do with the fact that they are far less educated on average. As a result they tend to just follow news they want to believe in as opposed to challenging their own biases.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

It's a defining feature of conservatism

Does Lower Cognitive Ability Predict Greater Prejudice?

[T]here exists a solid empirical paper trail demonstrating that lower cognitive abilities (e.g., abstract-reasoning skills and verbal, nonverbal, and general intelligence) predict greater prejudice. We discuss how the effects of lower cognitive ability on prejudice are explained (i.e., mediated) by greater endorsement of right-wing socially conservative attitude. […]

Right-wing ideologies offer well-structured and ordered views about society that preserve traditional societal conventions and norms (e.g., Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski, & Sulloway, 2003). Such ideological belief systems are particularly attractive to individuals who are strongly motivated to avoid uncertainty and ambiguity in preference for simplicity and predictability (Jost et al., 2003; Roets & Van Hiel, 2011). Theoretically, individuals with lower mental abilities should be attracted by right-wing social-cultural ideologies because they minimize complexity and increase perceived control (Heaven, Ciarrochi, & Leeson, 2011; Stankov, 2009). Conversely, individuals with greater cognitive skills are better positioned to understand changing and dynamic societal contexts, which should facilitate open-minded, relatively left-leaning attitudes (Deary et al., 2008a; Heaven et al., 2011; McCourt, Bouchard, Lykken, Tellegen, & Keyes, 1999). Lower cognitive abilities therefore draw people to strategies and ideologies that emphasize what is presently known and considered acceptable to make sense and impose order over their environment. Resistance to social change and the preservation of the status quo regarding societal traditions—key principles underpinning right-wing social-cultural ideologies—should be particularly appealing to those wishing to avoid uncertainty and threat.

Indeed, the empirical literature reveals negative relations between cognitive abilities and right-wing social-cultural attitudes, including right-wing authoritarian (e.g., Keiller, 2010; McCourt et al., 1999), socially conservative (e.g., Stankov, 2009; Van Hiel et al., 2010), and religious attitudes (e.g., Zuckerman, Silberman, & Hall, 2013).

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

lack the most fundamental critical thinking skills

that's how cults work

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