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    It’s quite literally Biden & Garland’s fault that Trump is not currently in prison.

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    Maybe the people on social security should stop voting for rapists/terrorists/felons/morons…?

    Drumpf said he didn’t care about you. He SAID IT. Yet you still voted for him because you’re a stupid PoS. 🤷‍♀️

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      Yeah but men wearing skirts makes them feel uncomfortable so killing minorities is sadly more important than a functioning society.

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        Interesting, so how did they feel when Elon did the “Roman salute”? Romans basically walked around in skirts as well…

        Ah well, I think reason left the US long ago.

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      I’ve been told since it’s not ok the books as a law it’s just words and we should feel and think he doesn’t care about anyone.

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      Technically the SCOTUS gave immunity for official acts only.

      Official acts being clearly outlined as up to the sole discretion of…

      wait for it…

      The SCOTUS.

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        They said it was to be determined by a lower court. It was sent back to a lower court and Trump was convicted. But the judge ruled that no penalty should be applied because of the SCOTUS ruling on presidential immmunity and it was up to the DOJ to prosecute. The DOJ is under direct presidential control and by then Trump was in power.

        SCOTUS could have prosecuted Trump directly, but as always, they deliberately slow walked it so the case would disappear. Which is exactly what they are going to do with all the current cases.

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      His handlers told him to sit and wait until it was Donnie’s turn to make them money so that’s what he did.

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    I wish he could be treated like every other long winded short sighted senior, and be medicated and sat in the reclining bed. He has nothing helpful to add.

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      I wish he could be treated like every other long winded short sighted felon, and be in a prison.

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      Hey at least the one and only time he went low and broke decorum was so he could pardon his own son. And the other 1200 people a week later when he realized how bad the optics were.

      And just to get ahead of those people. I’m not necessarily mad he pardoned his son. I’m mad there only time he broke decorum was for his own personal interests and not the American people’s.

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      I don’t hold Orwell in high regard, but this take seemed too inhumane and idiotic even for him. And it is, he actually never said this.

      It’s takes like this that lead people to conclude that Americans deserved 9/11 for what their government did in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, etc etc up to Iraq in the gulf war. Or that Israelis deserved October 7th for what their government did during the nakba, sabra and shatila, etc etc. Americans did not deserve 9/11, Israelis did not deserve October 7th. They are not complicit in the crimes of their rulers. Especially when you operate in a two party system where both parties are completely and utterly beholden to billionaires.

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        Especially when you operate in a two party system where both parties are completely and utterly beholden to billionaires.

        Whose fault is that? I’d say that is on the shoulders of the American people.

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    Centrists: “WHERE IS BIDEN!? WHY ISN’T HE DOING ANYTHING!?”

    Biden: *actively working with DNC on fundraising, speaks at an event which makes headlines

    Centrists: “GO AWAY YOU OLD BASTARD!!!``11~!”

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    No shit, Joe! Your insistence on holding into power when it was clear that’s not what the people wanted enabled this. Your legacy will forever be tarnished by your inability to accept reality before it was too late.

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      Nonetheless, the problem lies in the system. If 1/3 is for, 1/3 is against, and 1/3 don’t vote, there’s something wrong. And there is, and a specific party has been doing voter supression for a decade and more. Why has this been allowed?

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      It didn’t even have to be official. He’s old enough he would have died of old age before seeing jail time.

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      Yeah dude, and I’m sure “he was going to win and build concentration camps within 3 months, I swear!” would totally have been a sufficient explanation for everyone.

      People on this site are so fucking dumb, I swear.

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        He doesn’t need to explain. Whatever he did wouldn’t have been illegal if it was an official act. Also Trump is demonstrably a fucking traitor so he could have used that as justification.

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              We were pretty sure right up until one didn’t.

              Trump is dead set on making sure that only one thing can a stop him. No one should be surprised when it happens.

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          And the American citizens (especially the ones who hate Biden with a passion, and already stormed the Capitol once) would totally be fine with Democrats assassinating political opponents on live television.

          For Christ sake, who upvotes this shit???

          Please tell me it’s just like one dude with 10 alt accounts…

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            Doesn’t matter what they’re fine with. Biden had a blank check to deal with them however he saw fit if they tried something. They were at least actually traitors unlike the people Trump is persecuting.

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              It does matter when you’re on the left, because others on the left will hold you accountable.

              You live in a fucking dream world. The fact that you honestly believe that Joe Biden could (and should) have assassinated the cult leader Donald Trump on live television, and life in the US would just continue on like normal, means you’re the stupidest fucking person I’ve ever encountered.

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                You live in a fucking dream world. The fact that you honestly believe that Joe Biden could (and should) have assassinated the cult leader Donald Trump on live television, and life in the US would just continue on like normal, means you’re the stupidest fucking person I’ve ever encountered.

                I never said things would continue on like normal. It would have just escalated the situation into what is currently happening now except with Biden in power instead so we’re not all getting fucked. Better that the abusive tyrant be on your side than the other way around. He can run wild until they get their shit together enough to stop him and put safeguards in place to prevent it from happening again in the future (from either side) but the damage is done to the MAGAs instead of the innocent people Trump is targeting and everyone gets a good life lesson about why this “it’s legal as long as it’s an offical act” thing isn’t a great idea.

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    On one hand, he’s not wrong.

    On the other hand, he can fuck off. He had internal polling showing him losing in a landslide and he still hung on for far too long afterwards, sabotaging efforts to build a winning campaign by the eventual nominee. Biden is the man who lost the fucking republic through his vanity and hubris.

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      Biden is the guy that was given the biggest stick in history, and then just meekly handed over to one of the worst bullies in history.

      Fuck. Joe. Biden.

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        Yeah, when the SC hands you unlimited power while a fascist dictator is waiting for his second chance at office… You use that fucking power.

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    I don’t think anyone wants to hear from Biden at this point. He by all accounts did his level best to put his ego ahead of the good of the people of the country which did nothing but help further Trump’s talking points.

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      I want him out there speaking at events, raising money for the campaign trail. They’re off to a great start, honestly, it’s only April 2025 and they’re consistently making nationwide news.

      I voted for Harris, I would have voted for Biden again, and I think anybody who doesn’t see the logic in that is incredibly foolish and just in general a disappointment.

      Trump would be out of our lives now and forever if enough people understood what was at stake.

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    Fuck you, Biden. You got us here. YOU did breathtaking damage to the republic, because you and the rest of the non-fascist politicians were so unforgivably out of touch that you lost the fucking republic. Please die and save us your bloviating idiocy.

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        Two things can be true at the same time.

        Yes: the people who were so fucking sick of the status quo that they refused to vote do carry a large share of the blame here.

        But the DNC is ABSOLUTELY guilty of perpetuating that caustic status quo in the face of clear public desire for change, because they were mostly too interested in the money machine they were a part of.

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        And the Democrats being a shitty party, who keep running shitty candidates is why millions of DNC voters didn’t turn in a ballot

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              LOL, tell me you don’t understand how math & a two party FPtP electoral system works without telling me you don’t understand how math and a two party FPtP electoral system works.

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                I understand how it works perfectly. Parties that fight against war, genocide, and the rich don’t get elected because the two parties keep them off the ballot.

                It’s always amazing to me that people blame the voters for the state of things, instead of blaming the people with the money, the power, and the platform, who explicitly went against what the voters said they wanted.

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                  I do blame the people that decided to not vote, regardless of whatever silly reason they tell themselves to rationalize it. Choosing to do nothing is a choice & that choice elected a fascist.

                  Voting is a chess move not a love letter.

                  But you certainly don’t understand that.

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          The biggest complaints I hear about the DNC as a whole is they don’t do enough, and yeah no shit because Republicans have outnumbered them in the senate since 2013 and we only barely picked majority with caucusing independents.

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            People are upset with democrats because they are out played at every step of the game.

            Take Biden’s approach to student loans. Given unilateral power to abolish and modify student loan debt, they announced it months in advance, giving time for court cases to stall the order. Court cases that were taken to a court they know was stacked against them by the rules broken by previous republicans. So it amounted to nothing. Reinstating debt is tangible harder to do, and given unilateral powers to do so, Biden chose to ignore those and set himself up for failure.

            To see where this failure to recognize the political moment we are in leads, he failed to pick someone to imprison Trump for treason after Jan 6.

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              If you want the democrats to do better, then vote for more of them. Simple as.

              Even if you don’t feel represented on a specific issue, the DNC are the party to reverse citizens united, tax the rich, and promote fair and open elections.

              Pick DNC now so you can choose somebody better later.

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                Why would I want to encourage the Democrats shitty behaviour? Voting for more of them tells them “yes, I want you to keep backing down on everything you promsed”, which I don’t want.

                Even if you don’t feel represented on a specific issue, the DNC are the party to reverse citizens united, tax the rich, and promote fair and open elections.

                No, those are the things they talk about doing, but as soon as they have the power, suddenly they are too busy focusing on perpetuating wars, bailing out their rich friends, and fighting against fair elections to get any of those things done

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                  They literally already took money out of politics from 2003 to 2010. That’s what Citizens United means, it’s the court case that put money back in politics. Every DNC politician talks about overturning it but they need a SCOTUS majority or 60 Senators to do it. DNC would be taxing the rich right now as the GOP tax plan expires next year, but stupid assholes let a GOP majority in to write the new one just like they did in 2017. If you really don’t think the DNC expands ballot access and promotes fair districting, then clearly you haven’t been watching anything going on around you.

                  The DNC haven’t had 60 senators since 1979. Try it first, then tell me it doesn’t work.

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                Why didn’t Trump get put in prison after Jan 6? Democrats had the power to do it, why didn’t they?

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            If that’s the biggest complaint you hear, then I feel like you should broaden your reading list.

            How about:

            1. Backing a genocide
            2. Backing a rapist who bombed children as a presidental candidate
            3. Telling people the economy is actually really good, when it clearly isn’t
            4. Supporting campaigns like Trump’s
            5. Pretending to care about things like health care, student debt, foreign wars, the housing crisis, then getting into office (with a majority), and doing jack-shit about them. Sometimes even exacerbating them

            Those are all just to start

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              The single state solution that the current admin supports is Genocide. Before that we had a confused old man withholding purchased weapons, building a pier to distribute aid, and swearing over the phone about the consequences of attacking Rafah. Anybody who advocates against the DNC because of Israel-Palestine conflict is beyond disingenuous, you should move that to the bottom of your list to at least have some semblance of credibility.

              The DNC were surprised by the Trump candidacy and you say otherwise twice on your list.

              Biden was good for the economy with workers rights, wages, and public investment all increasing dramatically.

              Everything else you mentioned they try constantly but can’t do much without 60 in the senate.

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                The single state solution that the current admin supports is Genocide.

                Yeah, I never said otherwise. I’m not sure what you mean by this, can you explain?

                Before that we had a confused old man withholding purchased weapons, building a pier to distribute aid, and swearing over the phone about the consequences of attacking Rafah.

                You mean the child-killing, rapist and genocidist? Yeah, I saw him make a token effort with the bridge, that didn’t really help. I saw him make a few red-lines that were crossed, and his response was to send a buch more weapons to help out with the genocide.

                Anybody who advocates against the DNC because of Israel-Palestine conflict is beyond disingenuous, you should move that to the bottom of your list to at least have some semblance of credibility.

                I don’t see how this follows. I can be against the DNC supporting a genocide, while also being against Trump for supporting a genocide. In fact, it’s pretty easy to just universally be against genocide, no matter who is backing it.

                The DNC were surprised by the Trump candidacy and you say otherwise twice on your list.

                I never said they weren’t supprised by it, I said they supported it, which they did. Clinton pushed for Trump because she thought it would be an easy win.

                Biden was good for the economy with workers rights, wages, and public investment all increasing dramatically.

                No he wasn’t. He was good with making his rich friends richer, but housing, wages, education, medical-care, got worse. His economy was only good if you focus on the rich and ignored the working class and poor. He also shot-down the rail-workers strike when an actual pro-union president would have supported it.

                Everything else you mentioned they try constantly but can’t do much without 60 in the senate.

                The Dems always say that they can’t do anything, even with a majority, because the Republicans will block them. But once the Republicans have a majority, the Dems sure can’t seem to block them back. So which is it? Does having a majority allow you to do what you want? or can you still be blocked? It’s almost like politicians are liars, who are willing to sucker people in for votes, then toss them aside whenever it’s convenient

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                  Yeah, I never said otherwise. I’m not sure what you mean by this, can you explain?

                  The Biden Admin was not a single state advocate.

                  The Dems always say that they can’t do anything, even with a majority, because the Republicans will block them. But once the Republicans have a majority, the Dems sure can’t seem to block them back. So which is it?

                  The only noteworthy bill in recent memory was the budget bill which can be filibustered but doing so is purely symbolic as budget bills qualify for passing via house reconciliation. On top of that, I already mentioned even when caucusing independents and VP 50:50 tiebreaker let DNC pick majority leader they have been outnumbered in the senate for over a decade and counting. Are you referring to some other bill? Or are you just disingenuous full of shit?

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        Oh, no doubt. But why I would care about his opinion is a mystery. Like, I’m not asking Hilary for her take on the orange. I can formulate my own ideas without these loser also-rans.

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          The more people who have an audience and in a higher power, the better the chances of taking things back under control. You don’t have to listen to AOC, but we need her to help rally troops.

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            AOC actually has the publics interest (at least seems like it) at heart and has a future in politics. Biden just wanted to preserve the status quo and him and those in his age group who refused to retire are the direct cause of current events

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      Wasn’t he he some kind of politician?
      Like a councilor maybe sometime during the Vietnam War?