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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

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 73 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 56 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I'm depressed that I'm all about this option. Fuck our collective lives😒

[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago

agony-immense HELLWORLD, MOTHERFUCKER agony-immense

WE THOUGHT THE LATE BUSH ERA AND 1979-1982 WERE GRIM BUT WHEW MAMA

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 79 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 61 points 9 months ago (10 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (2 children)

At most three months down the line some ex cops will sneak him out in a storage box like el chapo

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 9 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

[–] [email protected] 67 points 9 months ago (4 children)

It's more than Joever. We have reached Joeblivion.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago

can't believe we don't have a "Joekerfied" emoji. We need this guy in joker makeup stat brandon

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This was a bit idea we bandied about in 2020.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago

The bit being old just adds a layer.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 9 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

[–] [email protected] 56 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago (4 children)

There's no fucking way he'll stay in the race now right? anakin-padme-2

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago

They just doubled his adderall prescription

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 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

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 58 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Electricity = no revolution?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago

it's going to be the people outside the walls

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

Uphold Marxist-Kacynskist thought

[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)

standing lessons coming in handy

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

How many presidents does that make it that have had it now? michael-laugh

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago

This is how democracy dies, to the maniacal laughing of the jackals on hexbear. sicko-wistful

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago

Their new campaign slogan:

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

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If they have a debate I just want trump to keep asking Biden to draw a clock and say nothing else until he attempts to draw a clock

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

From now on instead of debates it's just a clock drawing competition and the voters decide who drew the best clock.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"Biden released classified documents."

Libs: "gasp"

"But it's because he has dementia."

Libs: "oh thank god"

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Despite abundant differences between the cases, Trump immediately seized on the special counsel report to portray himself as a victim of a “two-tiered system of justice.”

Let’s see what the differences are

Yet even as Hur found evidence that Biden willfully held onto and shared with a ghostwriter highly classified information, the special counsel devoted much of his report to explaining why he did not believe the evidence met the standard for criminal charges, including a high probability that the Justice Department would not be able to prove Biden’s intent beyond a reasonable doubt, citing among other things an advanced age that they said made him forgetful and the possibility of “innocent explanations” for the records that they could not refute.

“I did not share classified information,” Biden insisted. “I did not share it with my ghostwriter.” He added he wasn’t aware how the boxes containing classified documents ended up in his garage.

The investigation into Biden is separate from special counsel Jack Smith’s inquiry into the handling of classified documents by Trump after Trump left the White House. Smith’s team has charged Trump with illegally retaining top secret records at his Mar-a-Lago home and then obstructing government efforts to get them back. Trump has said he did nothing wrong.

Hur, in his report, said there were “several material distinctions” between the Trump and Biden cases, noting that Trump refused to return classified documents to the government and allegedly obstructed the investigation, while Biden willfully handed them over.

So they already know he shared highly classified info with a ghostwriter lol. But it’s very different because he handed the material over.

Yet, prosecutors say, he kept notebooks containing classified information in unlocked drawers at home.

Biden kept classified documents in a garage and unlocked drawers. Trump kept them in his bathroom. Truly the most intelligent and capable candidates to lead this country

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Honestly, I think taking the senile crowd of senate out via cuck pit, machine gun fire, or du canon classique now seems quite merciful, considering their cognitive impairment and age...

brump barbara-pit xi-gun

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago

Special counsel: Biden cannot be expected to draw a clock

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

This is really pretty bad because Hur is quite clearly not some Trump chud.

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