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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

holds the door open for Trump

Controlled Opposition

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Like not saying covid was “just a cold” how trump did?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I was going more Afghanistan...

Edit: Oh, you don't have a snappy retort for that one?

Guess you agree?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

You mean he followed through on the negotiation already done by trump? Missed that part right?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

The surprise to everyone back-door, rapid-deadline, no time to secure weapons and bases, sacrificing human (re)sources, with a terrorist group while setting 5000 of their members free to rape and kill women and children, and now threatens to court Marshall the generals who followed the orders, withdrawal....

Just to make Biden look bad.

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

Just get the fuck out of office already, Biden. One old fuck goes out, another old fuck comes in. Never ends.

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

Well we at least agree on one part of that statement.

[–] [email protected] 156 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Also stupid: ignoring calls that you're too old, dropping out way too late for a primary and handing off to your VP who was not particularly popular last primary.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

She'd had done fine if she did three things:

  1. Continued the initial push of laying her foot into the collective asses of the MAGA collective. That first month or so was great and Dems needed that energy.

  2. Gone against Biden and condemned the situation in Gaza AND remind everyone that Ukraine is still going.

  3. Not listened to the idiot Dem "strategists" who seem so fucking convinced that courting modern Conservatives is a good idea.

Had she done these three things and even the shit communications of the Dems could not have stopped the word of mouth and internet celebrity status she would have had.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Also putting a heritage foundation sympathizer as your AG.

Not accounting postal board members who would remove the scum that is DeJoy.

Letting Israel genocide Palestine without cutting off the weapon supply. While also dragging us into shit with Iran.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

You know, almost feels intentional. Would not surprise me, for sure. I can totally imagine that jackass thinking better for him to hand the reigns to Trump than to some dirty socialist like Bernie.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Almost certainly. The Dems in power aren't worried about a second Trump administration. If anything, they're excited for it. What terrifies them is the idea of a third party, progressive candidate getting office.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

"I wasn't a lying duplicitous bastard like Trump. That's where I went wrong."

just... what?

To be fair, it says a lot about the intelligence of the average American when a lot of them think these checks were from Trump's personal bank account, just due to the signature.

Literally all you had to do was offer universal healthcare, as evidenced by *sweeping gesture at everything.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago

That was my exact response - he's right in a very limited sense, and notably a sense that hinges on the sad fact that too many Americans are dumbasses who thought that Trump's signature over a check drawn on the US Treasury meant something, and therefore the absence of Biden's also did.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago

He was.

A better point is refusing to listen to voters and keep repeating that the economy is great showed how wildly out of touch the modern DNC is.

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