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[–] Gradually_Adjusting 11 points 15 hours ago (6 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 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 14 points 11 hours 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 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (24 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?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] MothmanDelorian 2 points 7 hours 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.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 5 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (15 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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[–] big_slap 1 points 7 hours ago (5 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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