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[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago (11 children)

America, you are a seriously screwed up nation.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Hypothetically, what about any prostitute you happen to get pregnant?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Jail time for all? Most of the US criminalizes that kind of sex workers and their clients (and more will be added if JD Vance has his way).

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

How many couches can you fit in one jail cell?

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago

He already covered cases of rape.

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

Well he should know, he's into both.

Rules for thee, not for me.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Your ONLY allowed to kill Children AFTER they've been Born! That's why these SAME people are TOTALLY COOL with Guns in Schools and Calling in Bomb Threats to Children's Hospital's and Outlawing Youth Medicine and Defunding School Lunches!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

Floundering for a platform when the only platform they had, “fuck Biden”, was suddenly pulled out from under them. Now they don’t know what to do.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

Scrolling by quickly, the thumbnail in my Lemmy client makes it look like he's got a hitler mustache. The framing of the microphone and his hand is almost perfect and very fitting.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Imagine being so ingrained into the cult that you think Trump is too liberal.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

You really have to be full of hate to take such a position. Wtf.

Hey, you know what's cool? Traumatizing victims of trauma!

[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 months ago

Dementia Don the racist rapist with 34 felonies that can't complete a coherent sentence can't remember what his cult wants. He needs to drop out, he's just too old.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Well that's ironic cause he's guilty of at least one of those things and wants the other, at the very least.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have to commend these vile shitbags with being consistent about hating women and wanting them to be miserable incubators.

Other "moderate" regressives who find that far too cruel to impose on somebody need to get a fucking clue what team they are backing. Supporting abortion for rape and incest is inconsistent with pretending a fetus is a human. There are no crimes a father can commit where it is morally acceptable to execute a child.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

There are no crimes a father can commit where it is morally acceptable to execute a child.

Other than that, Christianity has a lot of things about forgiveness and eternal soul and such, which not only make responsibility quite personal, but also make such child not worse than any other child.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago (3 children)

This is probably why he has been so hesitant on making campaign promises this time around.

If he takes up a stand other than "dems are bad", he risks dividing his fanbase.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Sure, but I mean, that's not why he and the GOP don't have a platform. It's because he is a compulsive liar and nobody - least of all himself - can even keep track of all the contradictory positions he's taking.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Why doesn't he just do the classics which they all agree on? Promises of overt bigotry and being financially cucked by billionaires always work great on Repubs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He should be just promising to invade some ME country and not touch upon domestic issues other than "it's gonna be truly great this time folks".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He should promise to invade Mexico, build a wall farther south

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

That would be very traditional, but a bit contradictory to his promises of not bringing in more Mexicans. Unless genocide is implied, of course.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

Well his issue is that he has been saying shit to appease his cult and they took a turn for straight up fascism, and then his issue is that the coup failed and he is no longer in power and that maga cult is simply not big enough to get him elected, he has to take some more reasonable stances to attract the "normal" republicans, but then those somewhat normal views are too fucking extreme for his maga cult so he is in risk of losing them if he says stuff like this, he is kinda fucked

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