American voters are out of their mind if they elect this guy.
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That's exactly what Republicans are
It's a mistake to think they'd elect him in spite of this. Instead, they want to elect him because of it.
Lots of Americans love this guy and the crazier the things he says, the more they love him.
What scares me more than the fact that this guy exists are how many people chose to and continue to support him
Declined to rule out? Well, yeah - he's been explicitly promising it's precisely what he'll do.
Quoth the Privs: "bUt BiDeN sAmE!"
“He says, ‘You’re not going to be a dictator, are you?’ I said, no, no, no, other than day one. We’re closing the border and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I’m not a dictator.”
When has any would-be dictator ever stuck by this?
But also, what in the world is he referring to by "drill" in this context? As in military drills? Is this essentially Trump-speak for lockdown and eliminate political opposition?
I think he means drilling for oil and reversing the government's support for clean energy technologies.
Oh, right, duh. The rest of the article had me thinking along a different track than general policies, and increasing oil production is easily the last thing I'd think anyone should be considering given the state of things, but leave it to backwards people.
Which is funny, because the Biden admin is already opening sites back up and waving new drilling proposals through.
Why in the world would Fox News report on Biden doing what they want him to, especially when Trump is planning to attack him for his green energy accomplishments?
I'm implicitly suggesting that Biden shouldn't be tacking to the center to win imaginary centrist voters. I'm betting drilling fits hist admin's and donors' agenda anyway, though.
Biden is a capitalist to his core. He was bought and paid for by the RIAA and MPAA for the majority of his career in the Senate. That's never going to change. But as President he's been willing to move to the left, and that's more than I hoped for when he was elected. We can keep pressure on him to do better, but we can't expect a leopard to change its spots.
Out here in orange county, it'll get pretty messy, pretty quickly if the "opposition" isn't allowed to peacefully leave. Maybe some lefty engineers and other nerds will come together and make his victory a pyrrhic one, at best.
You do realize there are 8 Orange counties in the entire United States right? Nobody knows which one you mean.
Orange county, CA has a very different 'opposition' than Orange County, FL
Whoops, thought about typing the CA, forgot to actually do it haha
Did anyone think for one minute, that it would be otherwise?
However bad you think it might be, it’ll be worse, much worse.
Me, because I expected him to lie
He's the Boy Who Cried Wolf. Even when he's telling the truth, it's hard to believe he's telling the truth.
The republican traitor filth must be dealt with.
At the polls. Trumps power is derived from the the people who empower him. Seeing him lose over and over is the only way they will learn no one cares for their zealotry.
The autocracy is a feature not a bug for his voters
who would be stupid enough to bother asking him
Upsurprisingly, Sean Hannity.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump declined to rule out abusing power if he wins the presidency again after Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity asked him Tuesday to respond to growing Democratic criticism of his rhetoric.
The GOP presidential front-runner has talked about targeting his rivals — referring to them as “vermin” — and seeking retribution if he returns to the Oval Office for what he argues are politically motivated prosecutions against him.
“Under no circumstances, you are promising America tonight, you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody?” Hannity asked.
Earlier in the interview, Hannity had asked Trump if he “in any way” had “any plans whatsoever, if reelected president, to abuse power, to break the law to use the government to go after people.”
The interview before a live audience was taped in Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday and aired later in the night.
Trump had tried to turn the tables on Biden during a Saturday speech in Iowa, arguing that the man whose election victory Trump tried to overturn is “the destroyer of American democracy.”
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