• RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    1 month ago

    It would be funny if he really just means he won’t be able to run more than 2 terms so you don’t have to vote for him anymore

    • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 month ago

      That's how it has always sounded to me. The libs are so convinced he'll declare himself dictator of America that they haven't even stopped to think if he even wants that. It seems like being president was kind of a shit show for him, and he probably doesn't really want to do again unless he has to, so I doubt he'd declare himself president for life. He probably wants to bugger off and spend all of his time golfing or something.

  • RION [she/her]
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    1 month ago

    It's just a pallette swap of "we're gonna win so much you'll be tired of winning" and statements of that ilk. "We're going do so good you don't need to worry anymore".

    I think there is a serious boy who cried wolf concern for the Dems. If they keep twisting his more innocuous comments (like the "bloodbath" one that was clearly about the auto industry) everyone outside BlooMAGA is gonna stop listening when he says actual dangerous stuff

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      1 month ago

      boy who cried wolf concern

      That really concerns me. GOP judges and justices (particularly on the supreme court) are paving the way for horrors but libs are always carping about their go-to boogieman - Orange Man Bad. And every fucking election is now the most important election of our lifetime.

    • mar_k [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      yeah that's literally what he said right after

      After that you don’t have to worry about voting any more. I don’t care, because we’re going to fix it, the country will be fixed and we won’t even need your vote any more because, frankly, we will have such love.

      • Water Bowl Slime@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 month ago

        People who support capitalism are liberals. Republicans and Democrats are both libs and it says a lot about American politics that people consider them different at all.

          • casskaydee [she/her]
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            1 month ago

            You are aware he literally had already been president and governed like a slightly less conservative version of Biden, yes?

              • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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                1 month ago

                sold presidential pardons at $2m apiece, ordered the theft of medical supplies from hospitals during a pandemic

                I don't see how this is conservative>

                On the other hand.

                Biden border policy more stricter than Trump, according to Cato

                During the Trump administration, DHS made 1.4 million arrests—what it calls “encounters”—in fiscal years 2019 and 2020 (24 months). Of those people arrested, only 47 percent were removed as of December 31, 2021, which includes people arrested by Trump and removed by Biden, and 52 percent were released into the United States.

                Under Biden, DHS made over 5 million arrests in its first 26.3 months, and it removed nearly 2.6 million—51 percent—while releasing only 49 percent. In other words, the Trump DHS removed a minority of those arrested while the Biden DHS removed a majority. Biden managed to increase the removal share while also increasing the total removals by a factor of 3.5.

                And when it comes to natural gas policy,

                The United States is set to produce a global record of 13.3 million barrels per day of crude and condensate during the fourth quarter of this year, according to a report published Tuesday by S&P Global Commodity Insights.

                Last month, weekly US oil production hit 13.2 million barrels per day, according to the US Energy Information Administration. That’s just above the Donald Trump-era record of 13.1 million set in early 2020 just before the Covid-19 crisis sent output and prices crashing.

                • Infamousblt [any]
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                  1 month ago

                  You delivered facts as asked. So now let's play a game! Will they move the goalposts, say these facts don't count, or disappear never to respond again! Place your bets now!

                • CocteauChameleons [none/use name]
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                  1 month ago

                  The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch,[5] chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Koch Industries.🤔

          • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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            1 month ago

            Not all liberals are the same, man

            Some support the monarchy (eg. UK), some had them beheaded (eg. France)

            In this case, Trump represents the "small" business, or petit bourgeois folks, but more importantly, the more 'dirty'-large capitalists like the oil-funded Koch brothers, who are more clearly connected to capitalist exploitation, both in the Global North and South

            In a sense, they are propretarians and thus more closer to the dream/nightmare of classical liberalism come true

            On the other, Biden/Kamala Harris represents labor aristocrats and professional manager classes (specialized stewards of capital), but more importantly, the more formal and neat looking large capitalists like Bill Gates or Mark Cuban, who finance and lend money behind closed doors capitalist exploitation, both in the Global North and South

            In a sense, they are neoliberals with a barely-veiled socdem face

    • DesertComrade [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      They know what he meant. But they know the only way kamala wins is if Trump is portrayed as much more horrible than her.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      1 month ago

      Maybe they should do something while they still have a democrat in office? No? Ah well. Nevertheless.

  • micnd90 [he/him,any]
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    1 month ago

    I never voted for anyone in national election anyway, didn't vote in '12, '16, and 2020. I've been disenfranchised since forever.

  • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    Maybe he's trying to make a weird joke saying "I'm old, you'll never have to vote for me again". yells-at-cloud

  • lil_tank [any, he/him]
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    1 month ago

    Surely the deep state technocrats will let him abolish the only thing that maintains an illusion of democracy in a country that based all of its rhetoric on democracy

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
    hexagon
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    1 month ago

    Bonus link - NYT "Live Election Updates" page - https://archive.ph/Y8JN9

    I got tired of waiting for the Archive.Today link to finish.