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I fucking hate this timeline. It is either Biden, or Trump. Those are our options. That's it. Either a babling idiot or... an orange babling idiot. Has there ever been such bad options before? I am so sick of it. It feels like there is someone behind the scenes pulling the strings just to see how fucking ridiculous this can all get before we rise up. Maybe someone is testing the waters for something in the future. Just to see how much they can toy with us. Maybe it's all just the elite rich shoving whatever politician they can in that gives them the most control. I mean, we all know that is happenning, but maybe it is just becoming more and more brazen as they realize how much we all just..... complain and do nothing substantial to stop it.
Genocide or Genocide+.
It feels like there is someone behind the scenes pulling the strings just to see how fucking ridiculous this can all get before we rise up.
It's much scarier than that: This is actually what the American people want, and those of us who think it's wrong are a tiny minority.
I think it's concerning that his memory is seemingly so bad that he forgot he said he'd be a one term president during the 2020 primary.
Keeping the same candidate isn't going to be much of a reset, even if I'd still vote for that candidate like my life and the lives of marginalized loved ones depend on it.
I too wish we had a different candidate, but I've never seen any quote from Biden that he would only serve one term. This seems to be an assumption that everyone has taken as fact? I've seen him say he's a bridge or transition president, but never "I will only serve 1 term". Can anybody point me to this? All I can find is that his aides suggested it and he came out and specifically said it wasn't true.
One bold move that Biden has considered, we’re told, is an executive order that would dramatically stanch the record flow of migrants into the Southwest. This could even happen in the two weeks before the address, allowing Biden to say he took action while Republicans just talk.
Clearly the way to quiet concerns that he's old and out of touch is to become more conservative. Republicans being hypocrites doesn't make him younger, nor is it going to improve his numbers with the groups he's been losing who all have issues other than border crossings that motivate them. "People don't like me, what if I did something completely irrelevant to their concerns? That'd solve it right?"
Can't wait to see what his "fund the police" moment is gonna be this time. Wonder which previously valued constituency is going under the bus in order to fail to gain the approval of Republicans.