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[–] [email protected] 249 points 1 year ago (62 children)

What scares me shitless is the idea that Trump is what the US is and what the US has earned. Who's ready for that conversation?

[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 year ago (57 children)

100% this. Im German and I feel so strange that americans are choosing this guy for president. Not to be offensive, but damn.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The crazy part is they think Biden makes the US look bad. When you present evidence to the contrary they say, "who cares what other countries think. "

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (7 children)

My aunt thinks Jill Biden is controlling the country from the shadows and wants to run in place of Joe in 2024. We are fucked

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'd much rather vote for Jill than Joe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Different strokes for different folks but I do dig her

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I remember people saying most similar things of Hillary Clinton during Bill's administration.

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

I think it's time to have your aunt committed

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

What does she think about Nancy running things for Ronnie once the Alzheimers got too bad?

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

That’s what I told my mother when she told me, but I doubt it’s gotten back to the source

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

We are fucked

more so because our only choice is between racist ultra-authoritarian con man and an opportunistic career politician that had always sided with racists and homophobes until it was politically popular.

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

In fairness to your aunt, I have voted for Joe 3 times (2008, 2020, 2020), and even I think Joe is pretty close to weekend at Bernie's. He really needs to step aside for Newsom.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wanna know if we're going to weekend at Bernie's someone, why not Bernie? Why has he not been on the ballot yet?

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

Well that’s just a stupid conspiracy theory. Well I guess they all are but this one seems particularly daft.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That was my first reaction, I didn’t even know how to respond to it because it’s patently absurd on its face. Really hoping it’s not some sort of viral right wing bullshit code that hasn’t cycled out into the mainstream yet

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