I don't really care about the stupid "classified documents stuff", I just think that it is funny that POTUS will not be charged because he is too cognitively impaired.

"He did not remember when he was vice president" is also funny. My son died and I was the Democratic VP was Biden's main pitch to the Dem primary electorate lmao.

https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1755686479345471962

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GF1zJJtWQAApS5z?format=png&name=900x900

  • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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    5 months ago

    I really can't come up with a better analogy for the decline of amerikkka than this election, only way it could get better is if there are debates

    • AmarkuntheGatherer@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      The corpse of Biden has decomposed even more and ol' Don doesn't have what he had 8 years ago. Any debate will turn into a race of whose amphetamines runs out faster.

        • AOCapitulator [they/them]
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          5 months ago

          if it happens, it will be underwhelming and presented as far more than it was and a victory for both candidates, screencap me

      • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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        5 months ago

        I think Trump is still sassy and sharp enough that he would smash Biden into a wall, mock his “stuttering” and dementia and generally just make him look pathetic

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      5 months ago

      Octogenarian who has reached the stage of life where memory loss is truly a credible criminal defense vs septuagenarian who is one of the dumbest people on planet earth

      One of them will be in charge of arguably the most militarized country to ever exist

      • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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        5 months ago

        The best part is their leadership is virtually indistinguishable and their policies are identical so it doesn’t really matter who wins, yet everyone puts on an act that this is the most important election of our lifetimes

        The death machine is on autopilot and sitting in the driver seat is a formality and symbol more than anything real. The political vultures will still squabble over the seat because their careers depend on taking bribes for warming it

    • Hotspur@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      Like we’ve been totally normalized to it—the frog in water thing. But by any objective standard, the US is a sick, sick country if this is the only outcome possible for an election. We must look so bizarre to other countries.

  • Coolkidbozzy [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    Time for kamala to invoke section 4 of the 25th amendment. It's her turn

      • Dessa [she/her]
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        5 months ago

        4 years ago I hated her the most and now she's the best option. Make it make sense

        • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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          5 months ago

          If my metric were simply how much I trust the candidate to operate a computer because they're all 3 appendages of the one eldritch capitalist monster, it'd be a conversation if she knows more than Trump. He knows how to post, but she's maybe used some sort of commercial information management system as a cop. She'd know bcc vs cc while he needed someone to show him picture focused briefings about important events. I think she prob would be the best of her, Biden, and Trump

          • Dessa [she/her]
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            5 months ago

            She's not likely to devise a way to ban hormones for trans people. That's literally the only difference I can expect out of her. That and she's not apparently senile.

  • girl_liker [she/her]
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    5 months ago

    Voting for Biden's second term solely because it's the funniest possible outcome

    • mamotromico@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      Since I got less skin the game (don’t live in the US), the funniest outcome for me would be trump being convicted, elected, and then pardoning himself.

      I feel like the liberal population would implode

      • silent_water [she/her]
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        5 months ago

        I'm holding out hope that he gets convicted in some state (Georgia, probably) and then can't pardon himself so he has to serve out his term from a jail cell. that would be the absolute funniest outcome and so on brand for the US.

        • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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          5 months ago

          He will build his own gaudy prison for him and his cabinet ala Pablo Escobar

        • ComradeLove [he/him, comrade/them]
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          5 months ago

          Then on the eve of the State of the Union address he loses his zoom privileges by posting a death threat on TruthSocial.

        • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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          5 months ago

          The union splits when soldiers fight Trump out of prison and the libs kneel in congress before shuffling out slowly.

          • silent_water [she/her]
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            5 months ago

            I mean, the military invading Georgia to break him out of jail would be pretty lit, all on it's own

        • mamotromico@lemmy.ml
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          5 months ago

          I thought that would stop him of being electable. If I misunderstood then you are right, it would be the funniest outcome

          • silent_water [she/her]
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            5 months ago

            there's a technicality that you can't hold federal office if you've done an insurrection, which is what the libs are furiously gesturing at. but they fundamentally misunderstand power. the supreme court can and will throw at that statute if it ever comes up in a case and it benefits them. but no state convictions or even lesser federal ones stop someone from taking power, once elected.

            USian federalism is weird. we elect a king every 4 years but his lords can throw him in jail and keep him there, while the priests deify his reign.

      • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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        5 months ago

        This is the funniest outcome!!! I want to see the libs collectively explode and follow that up by doing nothing except "epic owns" like "dae le cheeto da white house"

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    On the one hand he probably has dementia, on the other hand I can relate to everything before 2020 being a big timeless blob. Beau died in the before time, when exactly? Who can say

  • AmarkuntheGatherer@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    Can someone explain how they justify a cognitively impaired person willfully discloses and withholds anything? Mayve they phrase the former such that the conclusion doesn't seem like a contradiction, but I can't be bothered to check that.

    Also, Biden didn't really have a pitch in 2020. No liberal democratic election is legitimate but the 2020 election was beyond farcical. They propped up a corpse of a man, won the primary by what can only be described as complete collusion with media appararuses, then the general by the sitting moron make literally the worst decision at every turn during a pandemic.

    • Lovely_sombrero [he/him]
      hexagon
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      5 months ago

      He did have a pitch, but his pitch was like "oh my son is dead, that is why we shouldn't have universal healthcare". Yes, basically he just needed to exist in order to be the Dem machine guy, but still. He did have a pitch.

      • AOCapitulator [they/them]
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        5 months ago

        his pitch was like "oh my son is dead, that is why we shouldn't have universal healthcare"

        He literally cannot remember this pitch anymore

        I cannot get over the absurdity of this

    • RedundantClam [they/them]
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      5 months ago

      It's funny/not funny that this is all a ripple effect of the dems being so petrified of flattened-bernie that they had to prop up this shambling corpse. Really they could have let Bernie run with it and worst case for them is he gets in and they stifle his agenda and get to go "See? Actually trying to do stuff doesn't work, that's why you need to set your sights lower and be ok with nothing changing."

      • AmarkuntheGatherer@lemmygrad.ml
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        5 months ago

        Right? The man voted to bomb Yugoslavia, invade Afghanistan, and speaks out against at least half of the empire's enemies at any given point. Who the fuck honestly believes this man craven shite would've got the saudis out of Yemen?

  • CommunistBear [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    Bit idea: call out the "biden or bust" freaks for rampant elder abuse and that Joe should be able to "retire with dignity"

  • YoungSheldonAdelson [they/them]
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    5 months ago

    The Democrats not being found culpable for war crimes they're committing: "It's this crazy loophole in the system that the wrong political party discovered." whywhywhywhywhy

  • MaxOS [he/him, any]
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    5 months ago

    It's so funny that this was supposed to be a victory lap for Biden not being charged, and then these juicy details come out.

    • BigBoyKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]
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      5 months ago

      If he makes it to the election, I’m gonna write in Hillary for president

      If they replace him I’m gonna write in Joe for president

      Either way, I’m gonna vote so hard

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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      5 months ago

      I get this impression that in the time of Nixon and Kennedy, when the TV was just starting out, having that single moment where Joe goes to shake someone's hand who isn't there would have been damning to his whole campaign and he would have resigned and Kalamala would be president today. The CIA would have assassinated him ala Kennedy with contrived fall guys and all before they let him do a second conversation with the press where he slurs words.

      Am I off base in thinking the shamelessness of politicians to blunder in front of everyone is a recent invention? When there was 1 news channel and everyone rehearsed what they were going to say before doing unspeakable evil to sow the seeds of what we reap today, it seemed like they were stricter in decorum.

      • Self_Sealing_Stem_Bolt [he/him, they/them]
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        5 months ago

        Howard Dean's presidential campaign ended because he was too enthusiastic and did that yell/cheer thing. They hounded him for it til he dropped out but now bidens eye explodes during the primaries and its all cool.

  • glans [it/its]
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    5 months ago

    if there's one thing you have to say about donald trump, it's that he is fit to stand trial

  • TimeTravel_0
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    5 months ago

    man if these material conditions are not yet sufficient, we aint never getting no glorious people's revolution

    • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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      5 months ago

      the magic part is the unremitting system of extreme violence keeping the labor price of the global south as low as possible. material conditions are "good enough" pretty much for that reason alone. the other reason is the number and quality of guns and cameras pointed inwards.

      • TimeTravel_0
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        5 months ago

        I cant shake the feeling that revolution might come too late and wont be able to prevent a catastrophic collapse of human civilization caused by climate change.

    • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      something's coming but it's not gonna be coming out of the USA, at least not from the parts with electricity

    • barrbaric [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      We've still got 99 flavors of bread and all the circuses you could want. It's definitely going to have to get worse.

    • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      5 months ago

      Too much propaganda has rotted the mind of the average Westerner, especially those from ex-Soviet and ex-Warsaw pact countries.

  • mayo_cider [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    Listen here Jack, I grew up in the community pool until Rusty Razor Jackson drove my white family to section 8 housing in Detroit

    I tried to make smoking weed a capital punishment, but they still don't let me fly the drone or even press the nuclear button

    But I'm still better than Clinton... Osama... What's that name? Oh right, Kid Rock

    Vote for me, John Biden

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    5 months ago

    Some @ sign moron is going to come in here and split hairs over how the document doesn't literally cite dementia therefore we're a bunch of lying Trump loving MAGA extremists.

  • MichaelFassbendersHog [it/its]
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    5 months ago

    Their new campaign slogan:

    “Joe Biden presumably knows roughly which country he is in right now. And that matters. Trump!”