• BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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    Yeah, uh-huh. Let me know when he has a stroke. Anything short of that and the right won’t even acknowledge that it happened. Even then they’ll say it was a liberal conspiracy to poison him.

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      He’s had a series of mini-strokes though. We know it because he tweeted that he didn’t have them.

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      They would still vote for him and say it’s a conspiracy as he’s not really dead. He’s just chilling with Elvis in a CIA bunker or something.

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          Hey - hey member that time when the Qanuts all went down to Dealy Plaza to watch JFK Jr. appear back in the land of the living so he could run as VP for trump? Member?

          Oh man. Such incredible dipshits. Look! Look!

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            I think the Feds should probably use facial recognition on footage of crowds like that and keep tabs. Just sayin’. If they are going to spy on Quakers and vegans, the least they could do with overreach is spy on groups that are likely tied into terrorist cells.

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              And yet they don’t . . . Just the Quakers and vegans. now why would that be? Hmmmmmmm

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    Per Trump, “great legal experts,” including Sean Hannity and Mark Levin, believed there was no case.

    Today I was absolutely shocked to learn that Sean Hannity and Mark Levin are great legal experts.

    And [the hush money jury] is in about a 95 percent Democrat area,

    Pro tip: if you don’t want to be tried by a jury from a mostly-Democratic area, don’t commit crimes in New York City.

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      This dude lived most of his life on Manhattan. He has multiple properties there. Those people know him best and are the best judges of guilt in his trial.

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        NYC has all the judges. Good judges. Great judges. The best judges in the world, I tell ya. Not like those judges from a shit hole county. And I have great attorneys. The best. They could be better, but the best attorneys that do as I tell em.

        Make attorneys great again!

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      Pro pro-trip. If you have something to hide don’t run as president. If he just remained a private citizen this wouldn’t be happening to him right now

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        There was a theory that he was intentionally TRYING to lose the election, that the whole thing was a publicity stunt for his (canceled due to him becoming President) then not-quite-upcoming “Trump TV” venture (Which was basically Fox News starring Trump)

        He looks genuinely surprised and upset that he won in the pics showing his reaction, and so did Ivanka.

        I can totally buy that his plan was to win the primary, lose the general, and sell not him as a president, but the fantasy of the White Utopia he’d create if he was President… and the conspiracy theories that Hilary won by cheating…

        But then he fucked up when the plan went horribly right and he became the President for realsies.

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      Today I was absolutely shocked to learn that Sean Hannity and Mark Levin are great legal experts.

      Anyone can be a great legal expert if you’re stupid enough.

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      I remember reading that there was a large percentage of Americans that considered the pandemic a “sign from god”. Now I’m no statistician, but I feel like there’s a large overlap between the people who thought that and the people who absolutely would not think it’s a sign negatively related to Trump, and would somehow justify the second one as a warning about those damn deep state liberals.

      Would be pretty hilarious though, if not for the innocent people who would suffer.

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        There is a certain segment of society that thinks every natural event is a “sign from (their) god”.

        I do wonder how many of the same people that kept mindlessly repeating phrases like “gain of function! gain of function!” like good little parrots were ALSO saying the pandemic was a “sign from god”, though… 😂

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          Wonder about the natural world is nice, but I’ve definitely seen people take it too far. One comment on here talked about how they saw miracles every day. Like they were hungry and found $20 in their jacket pocket. Or they were cold and the sun came out.

          That’s not a miracle. It’s just coincidence. You can’t say that everything is meaningful or nothing is.

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            I probably wouldn’t judge them for that outright… it’s a cruel world and if feeling happy about minor convenient coincidences helps them get through it, then good for them.

            Though if they’re really overbearing about it in that toxic positivity sort of way, I’m sure they’d be super insufferable to be around.

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          well the problem is they always see it as a sign they’re right. Even when its like a tree falling on them. Never is the “sign from god” a message to the viewer a sign to stop being an asshole

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        If it was the other way around Trump would most definitely use it to rally his troops. “see what God visited on the Earth when the democrats were in power?” Or something like that

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      H5N1 is almost certainly going to become a pandemic no matter who wins.

      And the majority GOP House (plus a likely Senate takeover) will do the same exact thing they did in 2019 when COVID hit: Blame foreigners, persecute physicians, peddle phony cures, and deny its even happening all at once.

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      Yes, a very scary crisis under this asshat is what truly scares me (and that’s assuming he doesn’t just go for broke on being a dictator day one). I mean, Covid was bad enough, but had a very, very low fatality rate.

      Something like H5N1 would be a total fustercluck of conspiracy theories, narcissism, bad advice, nonsense and carnage under this utterly incompetent dumbass and his grifting accomplices/hangers-on…Americans would pay the price by the millions under such bad “leadership”.

      Thankfully, at least, adults are aiming to do something about it; I hope they don’t slow down in any way, and instead work on this very diligently in the even that donnie does get into office so that we are prepared for just such an event. Of course, the faux/maga/q brainiacs have spread so much antivaxxer nonsense that their actions would likely have a negative effect even when we do have a vaccine and even if donnie is not in office.

      https://www.npr.org/2024/05/02/1248634097/federal-health-officials-aim-to-develop-a-vaccine-to-protect-people-from-bird-fl

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    Slurring his words at a Waukesha, Wisconsin rally, Trump referred to Biden’s “fake infrastrucker, ershure para,”

    Lol what the fuck?🤣

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        One way you know Trump was a lazy piece of shit during his first term is that it didn’t suck the absolute life out of him like it did for Obama, Bush, or Clinton.

        He puts all his energy into campaigning and none of it into governing. Maybe this run up to November really will be what does him in.

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          He was STILL doing rallies even after winning the erection, I don’t think that’s ever fappened before

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    Follow the link in the article to his rant about Master Lock. WTF? How is this person allowed three feet away from his caretaker?

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    Has someone tried starting a conspiracy that Donald Trump is fucking dead and this is a clone meant to trick people into voting for a Luciferian Sleeper Agent?

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      Maybe not.

      The Biden-Harris ticket is set in stone, and Harris is the sitting VP. If God exercises His Ultimate Veto on Biden, then Harris gets thrust immediately into the job, while also taking over the ticket and trying to pick a VP that can pass ratification in both houses of Congress. And the optics of picking one VP for a few months and a different one in the campaign are poor, so Harris will be saddled not only with a new job and a boring personality, but with a compromise VP that was picked to siphon off three or four Republican votes in the House.

      While if Trump eats one too many hamberders before the convention, Republicans have more options, because he doesn’t have an announced VP yet, and even if he did, that choice isn’t as permanent as the current VP. Since Trump has installed his people in the RNC, though, we shouldn’t expect much of a change. We’ll probably get Don Jr. to run in his place – they wouldn’t even need to change the banners.

      As ridiculous as Junior is, he will have an army of MAGAs who now revere his dad as a saint, while Kamala Harris is kinda meh. I don’t wanna see the result of that.

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        Hmm, okay the best election outcome is actually trump dying during the election, biden winning against the new candidate due to Trump’s death demotivating Republican turnout, the dems also winning back the house and keeping the senate, and then biden having a heart attack on Groundhog day (just for flair)

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      Because that would lead to what?

      Why is the liberal candidate dying so attractive?

      Do you think his party would substitute him with a candidate that suddenly disagrees with almost a century of American treaties and support for Israel? Do you think when Bernie makes a statement about accountability he has to actually do anything about that?

      Like I’m all for netanyahu getting a smack and a jail sentence but wishing death to Joe Biden feels like cutting off your nose to spite a liberal face.

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        Because the guy is too old to really think about the consequences of his actions. He doesn’t have to live with them, the younger population does.

        Both he and Trump should be in a retirement home, yet here they are trying to lead a country.

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        Why is the liberal candidate dying so attractive?

        Biden’s spent his whole life carrying water for the most rotten and corrupt people on the planet. Just a shame he hadn’t died much sooner.

        If the McKinsey Consultants infesting his administration all want to go down with him in the same nose-diving Boeing Max Jet, the world would immediately become a better place.

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      Trump is currently 77, at that age life expectancy is about 9-10 years. You could adjust it downward a bit for obesity and perhaps other evidence of poor health, but not by much.

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        You’re forgetting that he’s rich (compared to most americans, but as much as what he claims) and former POTUS giving him access to some of the best healthcare in the nation if not the world.

        Just remember that when he contracted covid back in 2020 and was hospitalized, it wasn’t just a vaccine or horse medicine they used to cure him, bit god damn stem cells derived treatment.

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          That doesn’t change that we simply don’t have ways of curing or treating lots of things. If he’s developing Alzheimer’s for example no amount of money can do much of anything.

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            Ronnie was a doddering old man for decades and they hid it really well.

            It’s why they pick actors.

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    Yeah, but like that’s going to stop him taking waaay too close to 50% of the vote to be comfortable.

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    Still better love story than Sleepy Joe.

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    Trump is due back in court Thursday morning for a hearing on further violations of his gag order, after Merchan warned that he may have to turn to jail time.

    Noooooo, this is exactly what Trump wants. To become a martyr for a few days in jail so he can fundraise from it.

    We’re going to end up putting this fucker back in office aren’t we?

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      Hes not a martyr if he continues to break the law and has to pay consequences. Put him in jail. If people protest that’s within their rights. We can’t let him get away with this.

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      Upholding the rule of law is more important than denying trump some hamburder money.

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    In all honesty, the left trying to maintain the illusion that the economy is doing well because of job numbers makes me further question the authenticity of government statistics. The job market is absolutely horrid right now, and any assertions otherwise really set off my BS detector.

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      The metrics used to measure the economy are not the same metrics with which average residents measure their quality of life. We live in a world where a strong economy does not equate to quality of life for the people.

      This has been further exacerbated by the increase in wealth in equity. The way we measure the economy is a proxy for the rich getting richer. Everyone else gets fucked in a good economy and fucked harder in a bad economy.

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        Mortgage rates and inflation were at lower points, but most likely due to historic job losses and lack of consumer confidence. In January 2021, when, per Trump, “everything was so good,” unemployment was double its current figure and 95,000 Americans lost their lives to COVID-19.

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      your anecdotal evidence vs. statistics, not even a fair fight. And even if you’re right, at this point I’d rather suffer in a Mad Max scenario than under another Trump presidency. Kind of like Trump’s “I could shoot someon 5th Ave. and people would still elect me”, just vice versa. My anecdotal evidence is that people will accept any hardship if it means no Trump win. Good thing is they don’t even have to.

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        I absolutely do not want to see another Trump presidency. I just don’t like being bald faced lied to about the reality of our current economy.

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          The only way to think of that as a lie is if you subscribe to Rep / Trump talking points…