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And these are the same people who are questioning Biden's faculties?
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2024
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Biden's faculties are questionable. Trump's are, as well. I worry that Biden will not be up to the task, but I also think he's our best chance of beating Trump.
We need to beat Trump not because he is forgetful or senile, but because he is a treasonous bigot who would (for the second time) seize as much power and money for himself as he possibly can while selling state secrets to foreign intelligence agencies. He's also a rapist, a liar, a thief, a charletain, a narcissist, and a petulant, violent piece of shit. He cannot be President again. He must go to prison.
Besides the occasional gaffe and speech impediment please tell me what Biden facilities are questionable.
Bindens been a pretty damn good president as far as I can tell. He inherited incredible amounts of disfunction and an economy that was predicted to enter a huge recession and yet he turned the ship around. His speech gaffs are explained by his childhood stutter that he has worked very hard to resolve.
He's 20 years past "retirement" age in a high stress, high responsibility position: it's good to be questioning if he's up to the job. That said Trump's mental and psychical failings are much more concerning and that's totally ignoring the whole racist, fascist thing.
Yeah, but if Biden has to resign, he has Kamala as backup. If Trump becomes president and resigns due to mental issues, God knows what awful human we'll be stuck with.
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i've seen on evidence of biden having questionable faculties. has he tripped? yeah. have you ever done that? yeah. he also has a life long speech impediment. that has zip to do with how sharp his mind is. i go by actions and he's gotten more done for more people than possibly any president in my lifetime. he responds to current events quickly and on point (tho i don't agree with him on everything, but so what?) alll ive heard to support otherwise is just that, people saying it. and i first saw it in right wing propaganda.
The overarching point needs to shift to which ADMINISTRATION will work toward helping America, instead of destroying democracy.
The President is merely a figurehead.
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You know it’s the same fucktards.
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So is the conspiracy that she's being coerced? Because she's a billionaire in the land of legal political bribery, so she has the means to tell our politicians what to do far more than the other way around. She's allowed to have and to express a political opinion, just like any other random person.
You ever notice everything and everyone Republicans don't like is a conspiracy against them?
"OW! Stubbed my toe! God damned wall corner is a leftist plot to injure me so I can't vote for the fuhrer!"
Sorry, the soft serve machine is being cleaned right now.
"Did Brandon get to you?! Who sent you to deprive me of soft serve?! Fucking Pelosi?!"
Because she's a billionaire in the land of legal political bribery, so she has the means to tell our politicians what to do far more than the other way around.
Yes, but don't you see? She's a woman, and therefore needs to be told what to do and think by the super smart and totally handsome male politicians. /s
The funniest bit about this Taylor Swift thing if you think about it is that Modern Republicans love the negative attention they get for all of their hateful causes, they literally try to make people outside their in-group hate them for their own amusement. They welcome the rest of America's disgust of them as a badge of honor. It's in their rhetoric, threatening "Give me an excuse to shoot somebody" door signs, and "fuck your feelings" bumper stickers.
They're blowing a microchip over Taylor because hatred is their brand, positive popularity is something they've always shunned and devalued, and now their ENEMIES have most of the popular figures they drove away, leaving them with... well... kid rock.
They want to be hated, and they want to win, at the same time. So it's literally offensive and not fair to them, and anything not fair to them is a "conspiracy," that social popularity is relevant in an election. 😂
“Blowing a microchip” is a beautiful way to put it.
Devil's avocado here, but it must be nice to go through life with nothing ever being your own fault. There's always a convenient plot against you, and you'd be a billionaire running a casino on the moon if it weren't for {insert scapegoat here}.
{insert scapegoat here}
Ooh I know this one! Children in poverty getting subsidized school lunches instead of going hungry like they deserve to for being poor!
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Eighteen percent believe there is “a covert government effort” for the pop icon to help President Biden win re-election, according to a Monmouth University survey.
Why would they need a covert operation? It's already well known she's favors the Democrats and hates Trump. Why the need for a conspiracy layer to it? I'm sure the Biden team would be thrilled if she endorsed him, but that's not "a covert government effort". It's so stupid.
Anything to make it sound nefarious, because to Republican voters, everyone is as dishonest, tribal, and ammoral as they are.
This is all Fox "News" and other conservative outlets do all day every day, take the news and add sinister innuendo to it. If Biden were doing a state visit to the UK, Fox would almost certainly say "Biden flees overseas to avoid American's scrutiny of his administration's failures" or the like. If he had that state visit planned but canceled it due to some urgent matter, the headline would be "Biden cancels state visit. Health concerns? What's he hiding?"
Republicans basically spin any positive or neutral information about their many enemies, everyone outside their in-group, as an attack on them. Republicans have no empathy, so of course the sun moon and stars all revolve around them in their view.
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This just in: one in five americans are stupid.
It’s much higher than that. This is the side effect of giving idiots access to social media as a platform to spread their stupidity.
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Written another way: "At least 1 in 5 Americans are exposed to unreasonable amounts of dangerous and persuasive propaganda."
I prefer:
“At least 1 in 5 Americans have a critical thinking deficiency.”
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I'm Canadian, and every time I hear a stat like this I think of the following quote:
"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt." -Pierre Trudeau to Richard Nixon
Im reading this as: Nearly 1 in 5 people will reliably vote for Trump
Good: Trump only has 1/5 of people fooled and there is hope
Bad: 1/5 peoples live would be improved by lobotomy
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Fun times... Learning 1 in 5 of your fellow citizens has shit for brains.
it was 1 in 3 the last time i looked at a fox news poll
There's some people who are highly suggestible. Like to the point it's arguably a disability.
There was an interview with Trump supporters that captured one that other day that's worth a look to understand what's going on:
https://youtu.be/Ud3btbISggA?t=06m08s
You can watch as the person interviewing him about falling for scams over and over jokingly tells him to walk off in a given direction - and then the dude just starts to, until he realizes his car is in the other direction.
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It's time to chlorinate the gene pool.
Trump kinda tried that already… just with bleach and light.
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Well, of course it's real. The 49ers are from one of the most liberal areas in the US. So, yeah they were fine with taking a loss if it means Biden's pawn can help his agenda. /s
In 2020 39% of people believed the "deep state" was working against Trump.
So I guess this is good news sort of?
It’s not a conspiracy, she won the super bowl fair and square—we all saw it
What is the conspiracy exactly? The link has a pay wall for me.
Keeping those details vague is intentional. The purveyors of such conspiracy theories know that the worst thing they can ever do is make a clear falsifiable statement.
They thought she was going to endorse Biden at the end of the Super Bowl and that the White House had rigged the game for the Chiefs to win in order to maximize the spectacle and coverage.
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Public Policy Polling’s recent poll on conspiracy theories mostly showed up on my Facebook feed as “Four percent of Americans believe lizardmen are running the Earth”.
(of note, an additional 7% of Americans are “not sure” whether lizardmen are running the Earth or not.)
I think the results here can be explained by Lizardman's constant and an additional few respondents who interpreted the question to mean "Do you support Trump?" and then gave the answer that corresponded to supporting Trump.
This fits in with my theory that a minimum of 20% of the population is a waste of space.
20% of the country is deliberately misled and probably suffering from things like lead poisoning.
1% of the country is the reason for that.
So, 20% of this nation is absolute proof that the Republicans’ plan to destroy the public education system is working.
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My local organic food and supplement store sells Cordycep supplements. Articles like this make me want to start taking fungus supplements in the hopes that I might become patient zero.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Instructions unclear. I've now climbed to the top of a large grass species and am waiting to be picked off by a predatory bird.
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Even 1/3 of the ususal 30% dumbass population doesn't believe this
1 in 5 people suck
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