211 points

My god, the man is insane. And people are talking about how unfit Biden is because he mixes up world leaders and dates?

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They’re both unfit, and it’s a disgrace that you’re basically stuck choosing between these 2. There’s a reasonable chance one of them keels over and dies before the election as well.

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It’s pretty clear that one is far more unfit though.

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I mean, sure, but there’s like 300 million other people they could’ve picked instead.

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Why do you keep justifying the choices we have, do more.

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5 points

one of them keels over and dies before the election as well.

well, that’s what I’m voting for!

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13 points

He is very vaguely suggesting the Dems will purge all connections to the past. It’s a calculated talking point. He isn’t insane or stupid; he is evil.

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14 points

It sounds insane and stupid, so I’m not sure that matters.

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1 point

You couldn’t be more off base. The worst thing to do is to keep dismissing Trump as “stupid.” What possible reason could you have for underestimating him and the rest of the conservative party, especially in their capacity for evil?

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5 points

It sounds scary, because it’s ridiculous, and yet people believe it anyway. They will believe anything he tells them, and that is very very scary.

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120 points

Interesting to learn so much about how Fascism works, because of Trump. Making crazy statements, as a type of blind loyalty test is instinctual for fascist leaders. Alienates his followers from normal people, forces them to believe in even crazier things.

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85 points

I would prefer to learn this in a theoretical, not practical, way, thank you very much.

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31 points

Yep, it’s like toxicology, learning by doing is not advised.

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7 points

And this time around it’s even easy to isolate yourself in an information bubble that completely reinforces your beliefs. Social media is a godsend for fascists.

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27 points

Which, tbh, are already confusing for someone who hasn’t been in the game for decades on end.

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23 points

I guess I am unfit for office because I forget everyone’s name about 3 minutes after they tell me. If I haven’t met you several times I am just never remembering your name.

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3 points

Literally reason #1 why I haven’t run for (local) political office, despite seriously considering it.

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14 points

My wife took me to a going away party for one of her co-workers where I literally only knew her (obviously) and the neurosurgeon she works for. She introduced me to like 30 people over the course of the evening then would ask days/weeks later “do you remember so and so?” I forgot their names they moment we moved on, lol.

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4 points

dijon mustard anyone?

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14 points

If he loses again, what is to stop him trying again in 2028?

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I mean, the republican party loves losers, so that would just solidify another run imo. As long as they also take all of their money, and tell them everything is ok.

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31 points

A heart attack, god willing

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4 points

Inshallah

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6 points

Atherosclerosis?

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Meanwhile Trump has never even heard of these people or what happened on those dates…

Instead we get classics like this from the certified genius …

“Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV. See how smart I am, not many people can remember 5 things…”

and

“that dementia test was quite challenging but I passed it, not many other people would be smart enough to pass it”

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2 points

Biden really needed Trump to set a new water mark after the last couple days, and he came through.

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This is the best summary I could come up with:


Former President Donald Trump bizarrely claimed that if he loses Pennsylvania, “they” will change the state’s name.

Trump made the claim in a speech to thousands of members of the National Rifle Association (NRA) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on Friday night.

Trump says if he doesn’t win the election, Pennsylvania will cease to exist because ‘they’ will change the name pic.twitter.com/eGyY5GiEMF

In recent years, there have been moves across the United States to address the country’s racist past by renaming places named after controversial historical figures, particularly those with ties to slavery and the Confederacy.

“I promise you this, with me at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, no one will lay a finger on your firearms — just as took place for four years when I was your president,” he said.

President Joe Biden was born in Pennsylvania and won the state against Trump in the 2020 election.


The original article contains 343 words, the summary contains 145 words. Saved 58%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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What did William Penn do to Trump?

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He was radically left wing. He even had left wing opinions on pronouns! (He opposed the use of the formal second person pronoun)

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“I promise you this, with me at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, no one will lay a finger on your firearms — just as took place for four years when I was your president,” he said.

You know what’s ridiculous about this? His followers will agree without noticing that Biden and Obama and Clinton didn’t take their precious guns away.

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Know what else is ridiculous about it? The Trump administration banned bump stocks in December 2018. Not Congress, the ATF did it. Under Trump.

Biggest federal gun control move since Clinton’s assault rifle ban which was done through legislation.

Not the bump stocks though, Trump took those from the ammosexuals and you don’t hear shit about it anymore.

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6 points

But muh guns! Day cummins for muh guns!

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8 points

Right? They have been “coming for your guns” my entire 46 years. That’s one long-term plan they’ve got there!

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3 points

And trump banned bump stocks

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Penn was a slave owner but among plutocrats in the 1600s he’s about as good as it gets. He treated native Americans well (and to whatever extent you want to credit it, he treated his slaves better than most) and liked democracy and religious freedom.

So if you want to credit the morsel of an idea here, he is probably trying to say that even though Penn was an OK guy relative to the times, he could get “cancelled” because he was a slave owner and then “they” would force the state to change its name because Penn was canceled.

But obviously, half muttering nonsense that can be interpreted favorably by anyone with whatever beliefs if they so choose is Trump’s super power so I’m all for reading this uncharitably and just saying he’s being weird and crazy.

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Wait, I live in Pennsylvania. What are we changing it to? “Getfuckedfascists”?

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6 points

Pepe Sylvia.

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My people would agree. Philadelphia freedom!

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10 points

The Democratic Peoples Republic of Trumpistan

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8 points

If he wins it’ll probably officially be renamed “Pennsyltucky”

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10 points

I vote Funkytown

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Transsexual Transylvania

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10 points

Transsexualvania

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7 points

The message you replied to was a reference to The Rocky Horror Picture Show

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Old York.

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