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I’m definitely not voting for Hunter Biden now

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That’s all maga wanted!

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Rrrrraaaahahhhhhhaaaa

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Fuck it. I’m writing him in, even though he’s been taken off the ballot in every state. MABA - Make America Biden Again.

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Why ask questions about something completely irrelevsnt?

Trump’s kids were in the news because they had postitions in his administration and were potentionally going to get into politics. Hunter has zero relevance for Biden’s administration and has no interest in politics. Whether peolle would vote for Hunter is just a lame attempt to both sides completely different things.

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People who think this way are either behaving irrationally or don’t understand electoral strategy. I will always vote for the better of the two candidates in the current system. If it was Trump vs Hitler, well damn, I guess I’m voting for Trump. It’s not an endorsement of anyone, it’s simply a matter of how to minimize the harm of the current system.

By the way, Trump supports genocide more than Biden, so if that’s your key issue, you should vote for Biden.

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While I see your point, it hinges on voting for Hunter Biden in lieu of Trump. I can’t say I would – I know little of Hunter Biden’s policy stances --, but I find it very far fetched to believe Hunter would get the nomination over another democratic politician, so it seems like the argument is pointless.

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but I find it very far fetched to believe Hunter would get the nomination over another democratic politician

And Doc Brown was surprised Ronald Reagan ran. I was surprised Hillary came back in 2016 after 08, I was surprised trump was a candidate in 16, 20, and 24. I was surprised Biden was the nomine in 2020 when he’d been trying to win a presidential primary since 1988 and never made it to the general.

The party has been openly saying for like a decade they can not only rig the primary, they can just ignore results and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them

I’m just wondering what your think will change where all of a sudden candidates stop getting worse.

And why your line for Hunter is “smoked crack, lied about it, admitted it”.

While Biden is literally funding and assisting with a genocide, while lying about it and breaking US and international law. And is committing the same human rights abuses at our border, that we all complained about when Trump did.

Like, c’mon man. It’s just crack…

You think crack is worse than genocide and human rights abuses that are in violation of US and international law?

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would you really not vote for him if he was the Dem nominee?

Absolutely. I prefer my lawmakers to not be convicted criminals.

Though, if your hypothetical had both candidates being convicted criminals, then I’d have to look closer at the alternatives, as well as examine how damaging the 2 criminals are likely to be going forward, shoukd they gain power.

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convicted

Is that the important part?

Because, again, Biden is openly breaking US and international law and despite a shit ton of evidence, he just keeps denying it

We ratified it way back in 1988, the first year Biden tried to be president actually, so you’d think he’d remember it.

International law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention

US law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/2304

So do you deny that he’s providing aid to a nation committing a genocide?

Or are you ok with it until he’s convicted and then it’s an issue?

Because man, I don’t know how you haven’t noticed, but it’s pretty fucking hard to convict a president.

And if my choice was Hunter or Joe, I’d prefer the recovered crack user to the guy actively assisting in a genocide but won’t admit it’s a genocide.

Lesser of two evils, right?

How many dead innocent children has each Biden caused? I don’t think Hunter has been responsible for any deaths…

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How much cocaine did GWB do? He was already elected president after admitting it.

So why not?

Hunter Biden is clearly well hung and fucks. That’s 2/3 of the requirements to be president right there.

(The last is be rich so Hunter Biden 2028?)

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I legitimately want to know why this is so disqualifying to people.

We’d have to go pretty far back for this to be inexcusable for a member if either party.

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Writing one sentence per paragraph.

Does not make you profound.

Or convince anyone of anything.

All it does is make it impossible to read.

And take up a lot of space.

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That’s not a haiku.

Having one sentence per line.

Does not profound make.

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If you could eat food from the pantry of a really rich person, but that person was a proponent of the holocaust, would you?

I mean since we’re talking about things not remotely related to the topic, why not ask you something as well.

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“let me imagine a fictional universe to get mad at”

usually people just make up a fake type of guy to be mad at

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I don’t think your examples work. Hillary Clinton was also previously a Senator and Secretary of State, so she had experience in national politics. Joe Biden was Vice President and a Senator so he also had decades of experience.

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So you expect Republicans to stop supporting terrible candidates but expect Democrats to support terrible candidates?

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What?

Currently republicans are supporting terrible candidates, have been for decades…

but expect Democrats to support terrible candidates?

We’re currently running someone breaking US and international laws by providing munitions that are being used ina genocide…

Someone that even went around Congress to avoid a delay of just a couple days.

In my eyes, Hunter is the lesser of two evils when comparing him and his dad.

So I was hoping to understand why people say they’d never vote for a (recovered btw) crack addict.

Like, finally you all really think what Hunter did years ago is worse than what Joe is doing today?

Im not getting answers, just insults.

Which is disappointing, but not surprising anymore.

The right wings of both parties seem to have went off the deep end a long time ago. Which would be fine, except they were both driving the bus when they did it

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