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[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] qaz@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago
[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tow the line? Tow it where Eric?

[–] TriPolarBearz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Tow it to the restaurant where they say bone apple tea

Typo makes it better.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every so often Eric Trump ends up on the timeline and reminds the world he even exists.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

And that he's possibly an even bigger tool than his father.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The inside of little Eric's mind must almost literally be The Onion.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

Nah, most of it is focused on getting daddy to love him too. Unfortunately for him, daddy only wants to fuck his sister.

[–] Maiq@lemy.lol 4 points 1 year ago

Onions have layers, donkeys have layers, h~i~^g^~h~ ^i^'~m~ ~e~r~i~^k^~?~

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Biden was like a bizarro Willy Wonka, fell on his face and then spent the whole tour boring and disappointing us for ages, somehow even the psychosis bug tunnel was boring. Then he gives the chocolate factory to an Oompa Loompa with syphilis.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He didn't hand the chocolate factory to anyone the American voters elected the idiot on their own.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You consider it even remotely appropriate to let an insurrectionist stand for election? A literal traitor to the republic? Allowing him on the ballot was, I think, a crucial failure of democratic norms. One of many.

Just as legality is not the same as morality, winning an election in a critically dysfunctional democracy is not a mandate to rule as a king.

They're beginning to learn, too late, that the only thing keeping democracy in America is its norms. Voters were offered an insane question that should never have been asked.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (33 children)

Biden isn’t responsible for any of that though. The courts should have stopped Trump nothis oppenent in the election

edit: To all thinking Biden could or should have directly intervened to prevent Trump from running how do you think he can legally do so without being seen as a dictator?

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The CIA has toppled democracies around the world. So its bullshit to say the president has his hands tied...

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If a leader utilizes the intelligence agencies to put down opposition politicians then they are an authoritarian dictator. Biden isn’t that stupid.

Be careful when you fight monsters. Biden was fucked either way if I'm being honest, I'd even bet a handful of cash that a prominent Dem, perhaps even Biden, gets merked within two years.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

Youre right. Should just let a traitor waltz in and be the authoritarian dictator. We'll just put Biden in the history book beside Hindenburg.

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[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

He is responsible for Merrick Fucking Garland.

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[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

Biden could have used an "official act" to prove a point. He's old and could have made the sacrifice for the greater good since by the time the courts were done he is on his death bed. Would have been interesting to watch.

[–] big_slap@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

by not giving a shit about optics in the same way he bailed his son out. who cares if people see him as a dictator?

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[–] Gigliorananomicom@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The specific policies were not the issue. The fact that he did not stop a violent insurrectionist from running for office is my grievance here. The metaphor being that an Oompa Loompa should not have gotten a golden ticket. Much less, one with syphilis and a malignant personality disorder.

[–] big_slap@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this is my main gripe with the previous administration too. they broke standard procedures for all of their buddies (pardons for political and family members at the last moment, wtf??) while a felon gets handed keys to the castle.

its so embarrasing that our elected officials didn't force Biden to be a one term president, its so embarrasing we threw kamala harris into the race last minute, and its also embarrasing to realize this party will not change because i truly believe ALL current leaders use their positions to make money where they should not be making money.

and yet, I stick with their ideology because they aren't as obvious with their moral bankruptcy. whose the real crazy one in this relationship? ok, I'm done ranting my friend, lol

No you're right, it's an abusive relationship. It isn't much different from a good cop/bad cop dynamic. The ratcheting effect taken to its furthest extremity.

Reminds me of those: "My dad is a dev/admin, he can ban you" 🤣

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

They’re giddy with power.

[–] houstoneulers@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Proof that the point of tariffs is to actually hurt the not rich. They know it's likely going to only affect a certain group. They're just saying it's something else while they give their rich friends tax breaks and sweetheart government money. It also serves the purpose of making the less rich more desperate for work.

Ppl need to stop purchasing non-necessities and to do the due diligence of ensuring whom you buy from is actually someone worth buying from.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

America's Golden Age is actually a Golden Shower from Moscow.

*breaks us laws cutely

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