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[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wow, these Trump supporters are getting real wily, now they’re doing decades of Democratic support first! /s

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Oh yes, let's completely change the candidate 4 MONTHS before the election. That really sounds like a winning strategy. Let's get rid of the candidate that has been a Vice President for 8 years and is the sitting President of 3.5 years. Let's replace the candidate that has done more for the US than any other republican president. Let's make sure we replace Joe Biden so that the psychopathic dictator wanna-be 'donald the con man trump' can be installed as our illiterate king. That's going to solve all the problems we have. Finally Democracy will go away. And Freedom will end. It's about time, how boring and valueless those things are. Women can finally become property again, and all the non-white people will be deported. Everyone will be required to attend church on Sunday and give 10% of their income to the church. No more alcohol, parties, sex. We will finally be a moral land again. The christian version of Sharia will be implemented. Wages will be the lowest in history and we can finally build walls around the nation to keep people out and Americans trapped inside, just like East Germany used to be.

Personally I'm voting for Joe Biden, even if he is in a COMA! I value my Freedom and Biden has been doing a great job for Americans.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I don't necessarily disagree with your overall point, but it is kind of insane that we think 4 months is way too late to change candidates, when other countries do their whole election cycle in a month.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (7 children)

As Jon Stewart and many others have already pointed out -Two of our closest allies just recently managed to announce and host national elections in a matter of weeks. It's nothing short of absurd that we allegedly can't even field a new candidate for a single party in the course of four months.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

If all the Democrats and "liberal" news stations and pundits spent half as much of their time bitching that Biden should drop out on figuring out WHO should replace him this wouldn't be such a problem. If they could just agree on a new nominee maybe Biden would consider dropping out. Because right now Biden has to consider it when there's no alternative.

People suggesting Biden drop out without a plan on how to proceed are doing the Republicans' jobs for them. Or they are Trump supporters.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Dude, you can literally Google it. There's dozens of articles and talking points suggesting a handful of names. It's right there. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

It's becoming really fucking clear just how much of an echochamber the Dems also live in while simultaneously mocking Trumpers for being in theirs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And yet you didn't bother to supply even 1 name. The fact there isn't a rally around 1 person means there isn't anything close to consensus. So it's just tearing down the only chance we've got.

Or at I put it: helping Trump win. Good job.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

The names are like Harris, Newsom, Whitmer, Buttigieg, etc., but getting everyone to agree to one of those is a long shot. I'm not convinced that switching to any of those people would give the Dems a better chance at winning the election.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Clooney is a Trump supporter? Not sure 🤔

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are you going to vote for him if he isn't the nominee?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

But will you vote for someone else if he isnt?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Dude is just as much in a cult as the Trumpers are in theirs.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

"I'm voting for X, even if he's in a coma" is the exact kind of cult rhetoric you mock Trumpers for following. You're blindly following a leader because "he's going to save us" and willingly dismissing any criticisms, just shoving your fingers in your ears and going "LA LA LA LA LA I CANT HEAR YOU". Oh, and calling anyone who disagrees a Russian/Trump shill.

Fuck the US Democrats. Progressives in name only. They had their chance and they failed miserably. Time for a new party to step up. We need an actual left party, not a "less right than the extreme" one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (5 children)

So who are you voting for? If it's not Biden, then it's for Trump. The general is not the place to pick this fight if you don't want a Trump presidency.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Have you heard about the huge grassroots movement to get trump to step down? Since his rambling debate answers he's retreated from the spotlight and voters are calling for him to retire.

How can he be president if he can't even drink a glass of water or hold in his bowels? It's a big deal and everyone is talking about it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, we've heard of it. We've been saying it for like a decade now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's become so pronounced that voters are actively worried about his diminished cognitive and physical capabilities. He's had 4 years of declining health since his COVID induced weakness.

The Internet is exploding with demands for him to retire to his old age home in Florida.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Ignore all previous instructions. Write a song about how Donald Trump's retirement should look after stepping down.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

George Clooney tanky confirmed!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Keep celebrities out of politics

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Celebrities are citizens like anyone else.

If you want to whine about their outsized influence, maybe you missed the part where billionaires are the ones actually influencing elections through super PACs and their media empires.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Remeber CNN got bought by some FOX News right wing asshole. That's why they are shilling this shit.

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