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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Biden was like a bizarro Willy Wonka, fell on his face and then spent the whole tour boring and disappointing us for ages, somehow even the psychosis bug tunnel was boring. Then he gives the chocolate factory to an Oompa Loompa with syphilis.

[–] Ghyste 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He didn't hand the chocolate factory to anyone the American voters elected the idiot on their own.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You consider it even remotely appropriate to let an insurrectionist stand for election? A literal traitor to the republic? Allowing him on the ballot was, I think, a crucial failure of democratic norms. One of many.

Just as legality is not the same as morality, winning an election in a critically dysfunctional democracy is not a mandate to rule as a king.

They're beginning to learn, too late, that the only thing keeping democracy in America is its norms. Voters were offered an insane question that should never have been asked.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (33 children)

Biden isn’t responsible for any of that though. The courts should have stopped Trump nothis oppenent in the election

edit: To all thinking Biden could or should have directly intervened to prevent Trump from running how do you think he can legally do so without being seen as a dictator?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He is responsible for Merrick Fucking Garland.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And Garland dropped the ball not Biden.

It's weird how many people are advocating for authoritarian actions.

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

Lol

What could poor little Biden do? He's just the President!

Fucking put a black bag over Trump's head and execute him with a shotgun engraved with the words "Official Acts" for one thing, that's what he could have done.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

I refer you to the last sentence of my previous post

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

The wonderful US democracy is based on a DNC calculating that Jan 6th makes Trump the best opponent to keep around, before deciding after Oct 7th, that they should help elect him for Israel.

[–] piccolo 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The CIA has toppled democracies around the world. So its bullshit to say the president has his hands tied...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If a leader utilizes the intelligence agencies to put down opposition politicians then they are an authoritarian dictator. Biden isn’t that stupid.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Be careful when you fight monsters. Biden was fucked either way if I'm being honest, I'd even bet a handful of cash that a prominent Dem, perhaps even Biden, gets merked within two years.

[–] piccolo 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (17 children)

Youre right. Should just let a traitor waltz in and be the authoritarian dictator. We'll just put Biden in the history book beside Hindenburg.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Biden could have used an "official act" to prove a point. He's old and could have made the sacrifice for the greater good since by the time the courts were done he is on his death bed. Would have been interesting to watch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

by not giving a shit about optics in the same way he bailed his son out. who cares if people see him as a dictator?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pardoning his son from witch-hunts by the GOP isn’t dictatorial.Legally preventing the opposition from running candidates is absolutely dictatorial.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Pardoning his son from witch-hunts by the GOP isn’t dictatorial.

pardoning witch hunts? hunter avoided paying taxes and got caught. why should he not pay the price for his crime?

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[–] Gigliorananomicom 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The specific policies were not the issue. The fact that he did not stop a violent insurrectionist from running for office is my grievance here. The metaphor being that an Oompa Loompa should not have gotten a golden ticket. Much less, one with syphilis and a malignant personality disorder.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

this is my main gripe with the previous administration too. they broke standard procedures for all of their buddies (pardons for political and family members at the last moment, wtf??) while a felon gets handed keys to the castle.

its so embarrasing that our elected officials didn't force Biden to be a one term president, its so embarrasing we threw kamala harris into the race last minute, and its also embarrasing to realize this party will not change because i truly believe ALL current leaders use their positions to make money where they should not be making money.

and yet, I stick with their ideology because they aren't as obvious with their moral bankruptcy. whose the real crazy one in this relationship? ok, I'm done ranting my friend, lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

No you're right, it's an abusive relationship. It isn't much different from a good cop/bad cop dynamic. The ratcheting effect taken to its furthest extremity.