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    Donald Trump is a petulant, infantile manchild, a failure at business, and he flip-flops on so many issues it isn’t funny. He sucks up to dictators but bullies democratic leaders like a school yard punk.

    He is a highly insecure and extremely unpleasant individual and from what I understand even has bad hygiene and stinks. His treatment of his own sons makes me think he views the world 100% like a Game of Thrones scenario where people are actively trying to kill him.

    Take Barron Trump. When he was born trump described him as vicious and violent, and seemed to treat being smart as an afterthought (he said it would be the keystone traits, but him talking about it more made me think he was insecure about the answer). At various times he even had Barron wear 30 pounds of ballistic armor underneath his clothes (giving him a hunchback or deformed appearance at times) in order to ‘show the world that he is protected’.

    Trump’s other two sons are disgusting dipshits who look like 80s B-movie villain rejects. But they don’t have the charisma to draw the type of crowd that their cheeto-faced dad can. I highly doubt anyone wants to kill them, let alone someone barely out of college like Barron.

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    He is a weak mans idea of a strong man. He is a dumb mans idea of a smart man. He is a gullible mans idea of a trustworthy man.

    A con man through and through. Only the mentally weak and brainwashed people believe in him. Too bad that there are so many of them.

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      That is his strength though. Many famous republicans got cancelled and this guy tripled down on the rhetoric and got elected president twice! His ability to be a racist criminal shitbag with no concequence is a real arugable strength.

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        It’s like a super power really. What if you could just say any nasty shit and people would applaud you for it.

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      They see Crying Liberals and assume victory. Not unlike under Bush or Reagan or Nixon.

      This is purely the politics of resentment.

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      He is the weak man’s idea of a strong man.
      The poor man’s idea of a rich man.
      The dumb man’s idea of a smart man.

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    If you were 6 years old and your whole world perspective revolved around school recess… the biggest bully who steals the most lunch money would seem strong.

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      Bullshit. I grew up on a diet of depression and alienation. At no point was I ever tempted to worship a bully.

      I watched my classmates with their toxic social hierarchy game, where people only rose in stature by stepping on others, and decided early on that I didn’t want to play. It’s better to be alone than be part of… that.

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      while alt-right influencers definitely prey on the systemic alienation of our society i think lack of education and propaganda also play a huge role

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    Yes, you can. So can 49% of voters.

    Whoever wrote this meme looked at brain-dead Joe Biden and somehow found the wherewithal to justify voting for him again even after his dementia was very publicly displayed.

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      And Biden still beat Trump when they ran against each other, so I guess that means Biden is the winner and therefore better.

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        Yeah, let’s not pretend that his hand wasn’t forced by a very embarrassing and public display of his dementia.

        …and they still let him get on a public microphone afterward.

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          Holy shit, have you ever heard your Hair Furor actually speak?? The man is a certifiable whackjob, his list of “blunders” and crazy/stupid shit he has said is soooo much longer than literally anyone else, but you ignore that. Good little fascist bootlicker.

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            Fuck fascists

            Biden proved himself over a LONG career

            ain’t shy, also, sayin’…

            Debate performance was a fucking embarrassment

            WHAT THE FUCK DEMS DID YOU FUCKING KNOW BEFORE

            bullshit bro this fucking sucks

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      I was no fan of Biden. I’d take a dead Joe Biden over a live republican traitor (and they’re all traitors) 100% of the time.

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          Technically he’s a convicted felon (34 times over), but only an ajudicated rapist because he was found liable for rape in a civil lawsuit and not convicted of it in a criminal case. Having him as POTUS is still disgusting.

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              Then say “Ajudicated Rapist” or just “Rapist” because both of those are accurate. He was sadly never convicted of rape.

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                It was only not “rape” because in NYC it’s very specific. And since she couldn’t confirm if it was his finger or penis (lol) it’s not " rape", its sexual assault.

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          The rape is bad, but IMO it’s less relevant to his job as president than the attempted coup, the Georgia election interference case, his mishandling of classified documents, etc.

          I wouldn’t be surprised if other presidents had been rapists, but I’d suspect few or none had betrayed their country as thoroughly as Trump.

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        You and the other 49% say that, but that’s the point I’m making.

        You were able to look past literal dementia. You can clearly understand how people are able to adjust their perception so they see Donald Trump in a certain light, in this case as a strong man, despite the fact that he’s a fat, cognitively-impaired fascist who can’t walk the length of a football field without the assistance of a golf cart.

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          The only point you’re actually delivering here is that you have been thoroughly propagandized.

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          No one voted for Joe Biden twice, he wasn’t on the ballot in 2024. While he was looking like he would be everyone was screaming for him to fucking leave to let someone better and more capable take over, and when Kamala, who was not chosen through a primary, began courting the right and supporting genocide her momentum and the energy of the base fell flat on its face, too. The Democrats love losing and we know this because so many people tell them what they want to see and they specifically don’t do it knowing that they can usually pull the “we aren’t the GOP” card. And this time it didn’t even work for them.

          Again, no one voted for Joe Biden in 2024.

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          I fucking hate trump and think he should be jailed. But I see your point. Biden wasn’t dynamic, didnt inspire people and he was seen as feeble. Trump is engaging, and people have been inspired by him.

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          Are you a medical doctor in charge of Joe Bidens health. Please provide proof of this dementia, and your qualifications as a medical professional. Maybe your experience in the field working with dementia patients?

          Medical degree from Fox News?

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      This is not a zero-sum game.

      They’re both ruling-class pawns.

      Thinking that anybody who dislikes Trump is somehow up Biden’s ass is just fucking stupid.

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        They’re both ruling-class pawns.

        Agreed.

        Thinking that anybody who dislikes Trump is somehow up Biden’s ass is just fucking stupid.

        The 49% to 49% election results say otherwise.

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          It certainly proved spending decades lobbying for lower corporate taxes turning public education into utter ruin made our society, and I use that term very loosely as we really aren’t, largely incapable of critical thinking and highly susceptible to confidence schemes.

          Reminder: Americans believed slavery was just, genocide was just, segregation was just, and eugenics was just. Unless people are taught to critically think, reason, and empathize with their fellow humans, we are little more than feral beasts.

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            When both presumptive presidential candidates are clearly unfit and cognitively-impaired, and they get get full party support anyway, I’d say you’re right.

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          Voting for the dems =/= up bidens ass when there are only two options to vote for.

          Hell, dude, over 1/3 of the US voting population didn’t even vote.

          Approx. 64% of people of voting age voted, and 49.9% of that number voted for Trump, so realistically,

          If people of voting age make up 78.6% of the total population, And 64% of that amount even voted And 49.9% of that amount voted for Trump,

          Then of the total US population, only approx. 25% of the American population actually voted for Trump.

          (78.6% x 64% x 49.9% = 25.1%)

          And that doesn’t account for all the people who just voted for him because they were disillusioned with the dems.

          So no, 49.9% of Americans do not think he’s strong.

          Some fraction of 25% of Americans might

          [Voting age population as of 2024-11-05: 267,400,939 Total estimated US population in 2024: 340,110,988

          % voting age population: 78.6%]

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        The democrats are going to be a good party again. Trumps going to deport all of our dissenting ranks and we’re gonna be really attractive to the middle again. Inshallah.

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          If they can’t get their shit together, they’re done.

          By done I mean they’ll never win again, essentially helping destroy democracy.

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            If 80% of the party won’t accommodate e 20% of the party they are done? Or if 80% of the party can’t disown it’s own radical base and move center we done? I’m suggesting that the leftists are a worthless flank that can’t be depended on for support. A flank that discorages voters from our causes.

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              If they don’t listen to their people, and keep propping up corpses like Biden, or Hilary because “it was her turn”. and trying weird shit that clearly doesn’t work, yes, it’s done. Even myself as a Democrat, am tired of the BS. no teeth all bark. Kicked Bernie out because he couldn’t be bought. AOC and Bernie are the only ones actively fighting for the avg citizen rights.

              I mean c’mon, couldn’t beat Trump? A fucking rapist? Who told you he’s be a shit stain leader.

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                I love AOC too, and i hope america will give her a chance. I would like to see the DNC spending millions of dollars on AOC branding, i’d like demographic tests so we know if AOC is running well for 2028. Im down to support who ever can get americans to support them.

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                Absolutely, ‘it’s her turn’ ignored most of the american public and a decent chunk of democrats. It ignored Sanders being the populist the democrats needed. Im all about talking failed Dem strategy if its productive to a new strategy.

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            Which was clearly a bad call to cater to that populist demand. Trump clearly has dementia too, but we’re still talking about Joe Biden with progressives. The left. Care more about Joe Biden than Mango Musilini

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              The only person still talking about it in this thread is the guy that seems to believe that Biden was on the 2024 ballot and that hardly represents “the left”.

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                Oh my friend i got like 30 of them in my comments from other posts. They are legion and if you ask them or a republican, they are the real left. They represent us more than i’d care to admit. We have a branding issue.

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                  I guess the reason I don’t see them is that they’re all hounding you, then. Also I would never ask a Republican’s opinion on where someone falls on the political spectrum, they think center-right democrats are communists or somehow going to slippery slope the world there in under a decade while actively fighting most left-wing ideology.

                  The left doesn’t have a branding problem so much as people are stupid as hell and equally stubborn so trying to explain that the center is not, in fact, the extreme left just because the only other option is full-blown far-right fascism is a Sisyphean task. And here in Canada we actually do have three choices which is both better because we have choice and so much worse because even then we’re still considering the Conservative party valid despite all its major failures.

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          Trump is deporting pro Palestine supporters for exercising their first amendment rights, and here you are screeching about bidens dementia. It is so hard to tell a MAGA from a progressive which one are you? Deporter or Deportee?