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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Say whatever you want about the advisability of Biden dropping out, it is going to make the best fucking content.

[–] SkyezOpen 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Real leftist unity right here. Either way it's gonna be 10 times more interesting than biden vs trump.

[–] Cerbero 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can someone please lift the interesting curse. Can we have boring back?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, we've been instructed to live in interesting times, and goddammit that's what we're doing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Whoever read this fortune forgot to add the mandatory "in bed" at the end.

Now, we're all fucked.

[–] TipRing 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Now we're all fucked... in bed!

That is my preferred location.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Idk man, sometimes switching things up is nice, gets boring when you just do it in the same place all the time.

[–] dejected_warp_core 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fortune? No, we're up against some real monkey's paw shit at this point. Someone blurted out all five wishes at once without thinking, and here we are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Everyone, quick, grab a lamp, a bottle, a vase, anything, and start rubbing.

We're gonna need tbose genie's.

[–] Cosmos7349 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

You heard what I said.

[–] GladiusB 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

And now Trump being shot at is no longer being reported lol

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

It was a big deal, but his injury was minimal and there is no flashy politcal reason for the attack. The murder of the crowd is just background noise in our gun soaked politics.

The kid had deep depression and was looking for a big target of either party to "suicide by cop." The lack of a manifesto or an outward politcal lean, regardless of his conservative roots, makes it just a weak story.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I love that the U.S. is so fucked that the attempted assassination of a former U.S. President is old news after a week.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

We're all still hoping for a copycat.

[–] GladiusB 2 points 3 months ago

I'm just commenting that the news cycle ate it up. I said that it would as if happened and sure enough, this did it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

It was never about him being shot though, it was about mental health, right? 😏