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[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 253 points 7 months ago (7 children)

I was hoping it would be some kind of Mech he would get in and fight.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 46 points 7 months ago (2 children)

We can tell Trump that's what he means, and see if he starts referring to it that way in his speeches

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 34 points 7 months ago (2 children)

They say Biden is building a mech, that's what he's doing folks. Your tax money, his mech. I'll tell you I know a lot about mechs we could build a beautiful mech but no. It needs to be gas. Biden wants nuclear I want gas, we'll get gas back in America that's your jobs in honduras

[–] emmanuel_car@kbin.social 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I’ll give this a 4/10, mostly it’s too coherent, not rambly enough, and I doubt Trump would know Honduras is a country, let alone where to find it.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Everything after "I want gas" is just mobile keyboard auto fill words 🇺🇲

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[–] elliot_crane@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Can we go further than that? I think we should try to convince him to build his own gaudy brass-plated mech, then laugh at him when he shuffles up a slow ramp to get inside the thing and it malfunctions in the process. Then he’ll try to convince Elon to buy it in order to afford his next appeal.

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[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 37 points 7 months ago

The Knights of Dark Brandon

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago
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[–] Landmammals@lemmy.world 109 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We call that a robust democracy.

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 176 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Can’t Biden just kill him? He has Presidential immunity. The Supreme Court doesn’t give a fig and Biden can do whatever he wants since they take 4+ years to eventually kick the can and further delay their decisions. By that time, Biden may well be 106 years old.

Also, Trump has stated the Vice President has the power to certify the election results or not. So now Kamala can just usher Biden into a second term, “if she has the courage”.

Like Mike Pompeo said, “There will be a very smooth transition to a second Biden Presidency…”

[–] Icalasari@fedia.io 82 points 7 months ago (16 children)

My fuck, if only the Democrats had the balls to use the Republican's own tactics against them

"Oh so since a president is, according to you, immune to all laws even after no longer being president, then Biden can just order a hit on Trump and all of you? Because as long as Trump isn't arrested and left unable to run, that seems to be what you are saying. You have til the end of May :)"

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[–] Tolstoshev@lemmy.world 38 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Instead of threatening to kill Trump, should the SCOTUS rule in favor of immunity, Biden should threaten to kill SCOTUS. Then they’ll sit up and pay attention.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

He'd be able to jail governors until they agree to amend the constitution to make the president subject to laws henceforth.

What a fucking joke.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 23 points 7 months ago

Throw trump in Guantánamo. If anyone in Congress says anything against it or tries to impeach, send them as well. When the SC even decides to hear a case against Biden, throw them in Guantánamo as well. And then, hopefully bring back some sane laws. SC has already decided they don't really care what The Constitution says.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Like Mike Pompeo said, “There will be a very smooth transition to a second Biden Presidency…”

I forgot about this horseshit

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 13 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Honestly, if the Tribunal of Six decides that Trump has total, unequivocal, blanket immunity at any point before Jan 6, 2025, Biden should just sic Seal Team Six on him. It would be 100% legal.

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 80 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sadly people will point to this and see it as proof that "Biden's rigging it for himself!" and people will sadly believe it

[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 74 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They will do that regardless.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 36 points 7 months ago (3 children)

People said we couldn't vote for Sanders because Floridians wouldn't vote for a socialist. Biden lost Florida by a wide margin, because Trump painted him as a socialist.

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[–] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 56 points 7 months ago (12 children)
[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 7 months ago

it's definitely just producing 600 science per minute.

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[–] Kalysta@lemm.ee 24 points 7 months ago

Except - Trump owns the courts thanks to Bitch McConnell and his justice stealing, and the Republicans don’t give a shit about the rule of law anyway.

What are a bunch of lawyers going to do in the face of a crowd of well armed republicans determined to fight to put Trump in the presidency? Jan 6 was a shitshow and they were lucky it was disorganized.

[–] 3volver@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

Regardless what happens trump is going to claim the election was rigged anyway.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Numerous Democratic lawmakers, operatives, Biden campaign advisers, and administration officials tell Rolling Stone that if the president does ultimately beat Trump this November, the election will be exceedingly close.

Top officials in both the Trump and Biden camps are expecting an uncomfortably tight election outcome in November, sources in both campaigns have told Rolling Stone on numerous occasions over the past year.

Sources in and around the president’s legal and political operations say the Biden campaign’s current wargaming is informed by questions aides asked themselves in the wake of the 2020 election: What if there’s a rematch in four years with Donald Trump?

Still, Team Biden has been planning for years sketching out what Trump could do as the leader of the GOP, and has partnered with the Democratic National Committee and a vast network of liberal attorneys and legal groups to conduct similar doomsday-style wargaming.

Bidenworld’s closely-held list of nightmare scenarios — in which Democratic legal teams would have to battle it out tooth and nail with Republican counterparts before, during, or after Election Day 2024 — has grown “comically long,” says one source with direct knowledge of the matter.

Biden campaign officials and other Democrats familiar with the topic tell Rolling Stone that a key concern, for which step-by-step gameplanning has already begun, is how to robustly respond if Trump and other leading Republicans try to engineer another Jan. 6-style power grab.


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[–] Lemming421@lemmy.world 33 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Oh, I was hoping they were going to literally trap him inside a giant obelisk. Shame.

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