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Donald Trump gave a rambling two-hour speech at a right-wing conference where he branded the U.S. a "third-world hellhole" under President Biden's leadership. He falsely claimed the 2020 election was rigged and investigations against him are an attempt to rig the 2024 election. He threatened to revoke funding from universities and pledged to revive the Muslim ban, mass deportations, and ending birthright citizenship. Several speakers at the conference made inflammatory claims about transgender people, calling transition healthcare "Mengele-like experimentation" and referring to trans people as "freaks" and "perverts.

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[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

Broken clocks...

It's been a hell hole for decades now.

[-] Bautznersenf@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

You've never lived anywhere else have you?

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I've actually never lived in the US, but I have lived just across the northern border most of my life, and in multiple other countries over the years if that's what you're asking.

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