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    You know. I supported Trump before he ever ran for president. I could look passed the grab them by the pussy thing; the racism thing; the white supremacy thing; the rape thing; the epstein thing; the incoherent speech thing; the nepotism; the criminal activity; him sucking off putin; the dictator thing; etc. etc.

    But to hear him confuse Biden for Obama, I’m out.

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        They do and he empowered them to get loud and fight for their “beliefs”. We’re all like “Great, another folksy dope remark, from the folksy dope”, but they see their own view on things confirmed by the great, successful & rich version of themselves.

        At least that’s what I’ve come to believe, after all these years of jaw dropping things said and done. The reaction to most things Trump does and says, should be a “No” in unison from every human being that can add 1 and 1.

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      Of course he’s not, He’s a stable genius: “I took it, and I aced it,” “I think it was 35… 30 questions. And let me tell you, you know, they always show you the first one: a giraffe, a tiger or a whale. ‘Which one is the whale?'” “The first questions are very easy, the last questions are much more difficult. Like a memory question,” “It’s like, you’ll go, ‘Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.’ So they’d say, ‘Could you repeat that.’ So I said, ‘Yeah. So it’s person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.’" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-brags-aced-cognitive-test-new-hampshire-1234948621/amp/

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        Why wouldn’t we?

        They don’t even need to. Retirement age exists because we acknowledge that passed some point people are to old to function properly on the job. So what the fuck are they doing in politics?

        When offered 2 bad choices i’ll stick with the lesser evil though, which is the one not literally quoting Hitler and campaign promising a dictatorship.

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          Retirement age exists because we acknowledge that passed some point people are to old to function properly on the job.

          That is…not correct. Retirement age exists because at one time it was expected that people would generally achieve a certain level of wealth and live out the rest of their days doing what they wanted with that wealth and time. Plenty of people >65 are fully capable of certain types of work.

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            Retirement age exists because at one time it was expected that people would generally achieve a certain level of wealth and live out the rest of their days doing what they wanted with that wealth and time.

            A retirement age exists because it was fought for by the labor movement, and it was set during the creation of Social Security in the US during the New Deal. It was also set at the average age of death IIRC, and because a large part of the homeless problem during the Great Depression was seniors who had not saved enough money to support themselves without a job’s income and were largely unable to obtain new work.

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            Because genocide plus fascism is worse than genocide alone. Is this even a real question or are you just trolling?

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            The alternative is the same genocide, plus even more of it in more places, most likely. Including right here on American soil.

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              If a dog pisses on the floor and you give them a treat they are gonna think it’s ok to piss on the floor.

              Biden could come out and say I could kill 30k Palestinians and my supporters will say the other guy is more dangerous…

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                These aren’t dogs, they’re people with political power. You’d have to be a moron to think a slap on the wrist is worth the actual collapse of democracy.

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            Rebuilding the US into a dictatorship seems like something, that should be avoided. But then I am not a US citizen.

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                Yeah so why not just hop in bed with actual dictatorship?

                Just look at Russia; it’s going so well for them! No genocides at all and it solved all of their problems with capitalism!

                And they have shopping carts!!! Let’s be Russia!

                /s

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            Do you honestly believe that trump wouldn’t also support that genocide? Netanyahu is a longtime friend and supporter of trump’s.

            Sadly we are stuck with a “lesser of two evils” situation - and Biden, while supporting evil, is still less evil (by far) than trump.

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              What Trump might do is irrelevant, instead of focusing on what ifs, people should be focusing on right now.

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                What an enormously stupid thing to say! What a candidate might do while in office is literally how you decide your vote…

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            Lesser evil is still evil, it really is a testament to how bad things have gotten.

            Neither option cares or would actually change much about the atrocities.

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        Yes.

        When you vote for someone you are also voting for the advisors and their other support staff. I much prefer Bidens support staff.

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    Because everyone knows Obama is secretly controlling the Deep State from his hidden bunker compound in his original birthplace of Kenya. /s

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      That’s seriously what maggots think. All of them. I watch a lot of their media and so many of the elected politicians still even say “who’s actually doing that, not Biden, is it Obama?”. Like they could come up with detailed conspiracy theories that would take someone just a few searches to realize its bullshit. But they don’t even need to do that anymore. The population is so retarded that all they need to do is reference that last guy they hated. Biden is a senile and incompetent, right? MUST BE OBAMA. Who they still think is either African or Middle Eastern and never showed iz gurd dam berf ferticate.

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      I never understood the Kenya thing. Even if he was born there, his mother being an American citizen at the time of his birth makes him a natural born American citizen and eligible for the presidency. Hell, McCain was born outside the US and was running against him in the same election.

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    Is this the election for US presidency or for who runs the next bingo evening at the local nursing home? Can’t make this shit up

    […]

    At 77 and 81 respectively, Trump and Biden are the oldest people to run for the presidency in US history. “Putin has so little respect for Obama that he’s starting to throw around the nuclear word. You heard that. Nuclear. He’s starting to talk nuclear weapons today,” said Trump, on Saturday night in Richmond.

    The crowd reportedly went silent as the Trump referenced Obama, who left office more than seven years ago. It’s the third time Trump has made the blunder in the past six months.

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    Trump’s mistake came the day after Biden, twice confused Ukraine and Gaza as he announced that the US would airdrop humanitarian supplies to Palestinians in Gaza who are dying of starvation due to the Israeli bombardment and blockades.

    “In the coming days, we’re going to join with our friends in Jordan and others who are providing airdrops of additional food and supplies into Ukraine,” Biden said on Friday. The US will “seek to open up other avenues into Ukraine, including possibly a marine corridor”, he added.

    A White House official later clarified that Biden meant Gaza – not Ukraine.

    […]

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      Confusing two ongoing humanitarian crisis, when both are constantly in the news and both are impacting the popular perception of the administration is absolutely understandable. Confusing the current president for the guy who hasn’t been in office for years, who has barely been in the current news or media lately… It’s an obvious bad faith argument.

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        Look, Trump shouldn’t be running for President, he should rot in jail. But that doesn’t change that Biden can’t get out 2 straight sentences without fucking something up. I absolutely don’t get why they wouldn’t let anyone younger run instead. You should be sharp if you’re one of the most powerful people on this planet, your daily decisions can affect billions.

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      What I wonder is if there will ever be a Gen X president.

      So far it’s been:

      Name Generation
      Nixon “Greatest”
      Ford “Greatest”
      Carter “Greatest”
      Reagan “Greatest”
      HW Bush “Greatest”
      Clinton Boomer
      Dubya Boomer
      Obama Boomer
      Trump Boomer
      Biden Silent

      If it hadn’t been for Biden, the Silent Generation (1925 - 1945) would have been skipped too. The clustering of birth years is interesting too. Both Nixon and Ford were born in 1913. Both Carter and HW Bush were born in 1924. Clinton, Bush Jr. and Trump were all born in 1946.

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    He is not senile. It was a joke. It’s just that Alzheimer made him forget he already used it.

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            Wouldn’t checkering itself, even in the abstract, need to reference two discernible colours or shades, and so, wavelengths of light, and so, some extension along a z axis, and position in time? Is it possible even for an abstract checkered pattern to be defined in any less than 3 dimensions + time?

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    USA continuously confuses Trump and Biden for good candidates though, which seems like a worse mistake.

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    Fits his message though. “All those leftists are destroying the country and are all the same anyway!”

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    He says stupid shit to piss people off… he’s not losing his mental faculties at all…