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  • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    What a useless interviewer. "I asked Biden what he would do in a second term to protect abortion access at the federal level"

    WHY DON'T YOU ASK HIM WHAT HE COULD DO NOW, AS AN ACTUALLY EXISTING PRESIDENT?!

    just-one-small-problem

      • Adkml [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        He's forgiven loans for another 25 people so I'm really not sure what more you commies want from him.

        Another 4000 years and we'll have the student debt crisis reasonably and pragmatically managed.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          8 months ago

          The Student debt crisis which HE PERSONALLY CREATED THROUGH HIS OWN ACTIONS BY CHAMPIONING AND PASSING THE BILL THAT MADE IT ILLEGAL TO DISCHARGE YOUR STUDENT DEBT.

          I cannot cannot cannot cannot cannot understand why anyone believed he would fix this thing, HE DID IT. IT'S HIS LEGACY. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

        • NewLeaf
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          8 months ago

          I know that was just the pudding dripping out his ear, but that sure was a wacky thing to say and if the DNC had a shred of consistency, that would have put them in a weird spot.

          If it was a real promise, it should have been done in the first term, in order to not look weak if for whatever reason, he doesn't make it to a second.

          This is true of any issue he campaigned on last time, like legal weed

        • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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          8 months ago

          fuck i forgot about that lmao. i love that everyone was immediately like "okay cap, we know that's not gonna happen, what else ya got?"

  • john_browns_beard [he/him, comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    Excellent political instinct as the "harm reduction" candidate to announce your opposition to the concept of bodily autonomy. Eager to see how the Dems will attempt to claim that he misspoke or something.

    "I don't agree with the right to choose, but it's the politically expedient position, Jack!"

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        8 months ago

        I haven't heard them bring that up in a while. Now it's just "yes, he is objectively evil, but trump is double evil!"

        • Pastaguini [he/him]
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          8 months ago

          The weird thing is I don’t think I ever actually heard him stutter. He speaks incoherently and says inappropriate things but he doesn’t repeat the first sounds of his words. It never really made sense as an excuse.

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            8 months ago

            I've seen a couple of clips of him legit stuttering, but they're from like 30 years ago. "He has a stutter" sure, but he seems to have figured it out decades ago.

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        Maybe he stutters whenever he sees the ghost of a dead french politician? Kinda like Shaggy in Scooby-Doo.

        It would explain the whole Mitterand thing.

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      8 months ago

      beginning to sense that voting for him isn't about harm reduction so much as culpability reduction. the exact same shit will happen either way, it'll just be someone else's fault.

    • NewLeaf
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      8 months ago

      He NEVER has misspoken in his LIFE!

      frothingfash

  • culpritus [any]
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    8 months ago

    he's anti-choice on bodily autonomy and Democratic Presidential primaries

    brandon

      • Adkml [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        In the primary but then when the general comes around we all have to fall in line behind no more primaries.

  • PKMKII [none/use name]
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    8 months ago

    Complete inability to read the room. It’s not 1992, the kind of voters he’s trying not to alienate with this shit have been dead for a decade and change.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      8 months ago

      It’s not 1992...

      Maybe (very?) soon Biden says "President Clinton is workin' to solve this problem. And I as senator am doing my part. Hold on. That doesn't sound right. Not at all. I feel funny. Does anybody else smell burning rubber?"

  • Adkml [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    The absolute masterclass in politics of Joe Biden coming out right now and clarifying that he's begrudgingly pro choice from a polical expediency stand point but against it personally.

    • NewLeaf
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      8 months ago

      "you have to have a public and private position"

      -Hillary "most qualified person ever but still lost to a game show host that she amplified" Clinton

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Let me shit away what little support I have leftdem

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      8 months ago

      The emperor not only has no clothes, he is shitting himself while waggling his robinette around on k street.

      • Adkml [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        The emperor is loudly declaring that he has no clothes and anybody who says he does is a dog faced pony soldier, followed by 48 hours of MSNBC saying anybody who says Biden has no clothes is a Russian shill.

    • NewLeaf
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      8 months ago

      biden-harbinger I could shoot every policy you libs care about in broad daylight and not lose any of your votes

      (Because you believe in nothing)

      • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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        8 months ago

        https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-roe-v-wade-overturned-b2072143.html

        Here's the historical NYT article about it: https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/11/us/abortion-curbs-endorsed-10-7-by-senate-panel.html

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Democrats did this "abortion is a right but I morally object to it" song and dance for decades. Biden's mummified brain can't read the room and understand that excuse isn't important anymore.

    "It's just my personal belief, it won't effect my decision making" okay cool how about you just shut your fucking mouth about it then? You're talking to a reporter not pleading your case in the court of almighty judgement.

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      "I guess I'll do the right thing but I want to make it really clear I'm doing it for political reasons and wanna make sure everybody knows I'm still on the wrong side of history and this isn't a firmly held belief."

  • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    Why don’t these people ever die

    Also you’d have to be a fucking dumbass to believe this dems controlled senate house and pres when roe was repealed

    football-lucy

  • taiphlosion@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    These people always have the shittiest takes and don't even explain why lmao. You don't think people should have autonomy over their bodies...why?

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Are you telling me that an octogenarian conservative catholic who was best buddies with Strom Thurmond has absolutely dogshit opinions about women's bodily autonomy?

    Color me surprised.