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https://x.com/IPCC_CH/status/1797608800649621828
Imagine not having >75yr old male dinosaurs as president
she's not 75 but she's old too, I wanna elect a president younger than me, give me a candidate who uses slang I don't understand and it isn't because the meaning of the words have been forgotten like scallywag or "dog faced pony soldier"
if we ever get a young president it would just be some private school psychopath anyway
Can't wait for a Gen Alpha president to make "Skibidi Toilet" references.
They should unironically change the US anthem to the skibidi toilet song
Back when we were kids we used to call each other Poggers but then a boomer named Gootecks tweeted some antivax stuff and for some reason we can't call each other Poggers anymore. Society has become weak.
[finger on monkey's paw curls]
TV announcer: "and it looks like Rittenhouse has the electoral votes..."
I'd vote for an actual dinosaur though. As long as it's one of the cool ones, like an ankylosaurus.
you should have voted in the primaries we either didn't have or rigged to get who we wanted in sweetie
Wow sweetie, this will never be as progressive as Joe Biden who's the most progressive force in HERstory.
This is incredibly exciting. I wonder how she is gonna tackle Mexico’s climate challenges
Gundam?🤞
It couldn’t hurt.
🇲🇽
I guess climate science is her wheelhouse and not public health...
is this going to be her version of the elf stuff
In my experience, a lot of Morena's positions are based in contrarianism for the sake of being contrarian, which when fighting against a racist oligarchy who hates anything that's not white, catholic, and wealthy is good, but sometimes leads to... Stuff like this
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)
Lmao, I spent the last 6 years thinking that AMLO was the name of the party (in Brazil, when news articles talk about a politician they follow their name with the party denomination like Lula (PT)) not that AMLO was The president.
