Luckily being President is mostly a 9-5 /s

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This makes sense.

I think it’s funny that with Nixon they used to ignore his orders at night and wait until he sobered up in the morning.

This isn’t anything like that.

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Hold up, let’s not indulge the fantasy that Nixon was ever sober in the White House. Just periods of time where he was less slightly less than completely shitfaced

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That’s sober for Nixon.

Right in the pocket.

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It is but we need to notate that sober for Nixon is drunker than my alcoholic ass has ever thought about being

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The most powerful person in the world needs to be in bed by 8:00PM.

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Because he’s sundowning…

He’s no longer fit to be president, they’ve been hiding it for a year, he’s lucky he hasn’t gotten the 25th.

Pre-emptive edit:

Yes, trump is worse. But republicans won’t do shit. We can be better than them. Have higher standards.

It’ll even help keep republicans out of office.

Edit:

For people who don’t know what that is, he’s admitted to most of the symptoms, and the things he blames the symptoms on, are literally well known triggers that exacerbate the symptoms.

https://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/manage-sundowning

https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/alzheimers-changes-behavior-and-communication/tips-coping-sundowning

If you’re lucky enough you’ll develop symptoms before you die, we’re all on a clock our brains don’t work forever.

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Do you even know what sundowning means?

It happens late afternoon or early evening so it’s not like he’s not scheduling things after three like you would expect with that.

It must get tired constantly saying the same things about the same person.

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Yeah, I kept hearing the term as well, and understood the general gist, but realized I didn’t actually know what it means. When I looked it up it refers to some pretty serious Alzheimer’s or dementia symptoms.

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Trump supporters are going to have a fucking field day with this.

Please you fucking prideful asshat. If you get Trump reelected we’ll never fucking forgive you. If you can’t win this then step the fuck down.

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Honestly I feel it is so, so optimistic to believe any hardcore Democratic supporter will ever blame Biden if he loses.

Order of blame assigned:

  1. The FUCKING LEFTISTS for being critical of him, which means none of them voted for him and also they’re responsible for anyone else that didn’t vote!!
  2. Gen Z and/or Millennials, for some reason
  3. People who live in areas where their vote counts for less (ie, anyone in a city or a populous state)
  4. Oh I guess the Republicans shouldn’t have run Trump and then voted for him
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As someone who voted for Bernie and then Hillary and was maligned as a Bernie Bro I can say that eventually they give up and admit their candidate was actually flawed… but it takes a while.

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As someone who voted for Bernie and then Hillary and was maligned as a Bernie Bro I can say that eventually they give up

Some of them never do.

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Hey mods, seeing actual articles constantly downvoted because people don’t like the news is getting really fucking old. Is it possible to start handing out some time outs or maybe just make a meta post?

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How do you think this website works exactly?

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My understanding is that if users are banned from a community they can’t interact with posts/comments in that community. Am I incorrect?

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How would they know who is voting what?

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I for one feel it’s crazy they don’t ban everyone who feels differently about things then you do.

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My bro! You truly understand!

Nah, I like having a discussion. I’m just concerned that every article pointing out Biden’s flaws is losing out on visibility and discussion with those folks that aren’t crazy like us and don’t sort by New.

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Don’t worry, you have return2ozma, givesomefucks and all the other tankie-types constantly reminding everyone.

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I can’t speak to what the ADMINs can see, because I’m not an admin, but as a mod, we can’t see the source of up and down votes any more than anyone else.

We have the queue of reported posts and comments, and removal and ban tools, and that’s pretty much it.

But what you’re complaining about is largely the hivemind at work.

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Fair enough. Thanks for doing what you can.

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Thry may have just been down voting my sarcastic commentary on it, given that Lemmy essentially allows the text field to be the top comment

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