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its almost like nobody wanted a genocidal chosen by party bureaucrats.

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As if the only lives that matter are Palestinians.

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6 points

Thank you for revealing that you’re a troll so I can block you.

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41 points

Oh can you shut up about that strawman now at least.

Or be as vehement against Trump now, right? Right?

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you guys “fixed” it. why are you still so sensitive about it.

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6 points

Yeah, and you’re the hero that’s fixing things by endlessly whining on the internet about things you don’t understand.

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2 points

Go 🌻🌻🌻

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1 point

Yawn. Get better material.

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174 points

Kamala should really be doing much better going against a despicable convicted rapist and a couch fucker.

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The rapist is pretty much confirmed but I doubt that someone ever fucked a couch. Not even I fucked a couch, so I am sceptical.

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Yeah, the couch-fucking is a bogus story. You don’t need to make up embarrassing shit about JD Vance. There’s plenty of it that’s true. And there will be more coming out as the campaign progresses.

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-19 points

She’s moderate. Always was. That will lose some people, but I still this will be a slam dunk for her.

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7 points

She was on the left end of the Senate. If she is a moderate, so is the whole democratic Senate.

She could prove me wrong, but there is a lot of evidence that she is more progressive than Biden, who was already much more progressive than we thought when we all held our noses and voted against trump in 2020.

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Dems are right leaning moderates, yes

Take all the time you need with this

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2 points

…her most-effective tactic will be to attack aggressively and mercilessly in a way the democratic establishment so far has avoided; popular sentiment loves a bully and incompetent fascists make ripe targets…

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5 points

Sounds like a 1970s small venue wrestling tag team

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4 points

Yeah, but the side kick keeps hitting the opponent with couch cushions instead of steel chairs and that’s not very effective.

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2 points

that’s not very effective

Speak for yourself 💎💎🤤

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68 points

Biden should have done better. Anyone who is not a rapist felon should be doing better.

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63 points

It’s insane how much of politics comes down to vibes. Yeah Biden was too old, but I still can’t fathom how many were ready to let Trump win just because voting for a tired grandpa “didn’t feel good”.

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Well it always comes down to the margins.

Most voters just always vote the same way because it’s how their parents voted. Sad, but true. Then you have a band of voters that actually will vote based on the party platforms and the track record of who’s running. But all of these voters are easy to predict, set the platform accordingly and you know how many votes to expect. And that’s not a bad thing if an issue is important to voters and the politicians know this and can get those votes by promising to do something about it and have a fairly good track record on fulfilling their promises, everything goes smoothly.

But then you’re left with a small percentage of people who will vote based on who they’d like to have a beer with, which one is more handsome, which one reminds them of one of their relatives or whatever.

It comes down to the margins, and the margins are random as fuck.

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17 points

America is increasingly an aesthetic country IMO.

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She will be.

I’m increasingly confident about a blue wave this election. First multiracial female president in a time when bodily autonomy is under attack.

And that’s all without taking into account who and what she is running against.

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86 points

Don’t get overconfident. Remember to vote!

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12 points

Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.

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32 points

Can’t have a blue wave without a blue vote.

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23 points

Since her campaign is only a week old, it will take some time for polling to catch up, but hopefully not much longer 🤞

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2 points

I’m just curious but where did the couch fucker thing come from because I saw memes of it on lemmy but don’t know where it came from

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3 points

Apparently Trump’s vp pick has a book where he discussed sex with furniture.

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2 points

Don’t forget about the whole “probably a pedophile who wanted to fuck his daughter since she was a child”

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10 points

Listening generates enthusiasm.

Also, I love how when Trump’s lead over Biden was broadening, the narrative here was “Biden isn’t losing! The polls are wrong!” Now that Harris’ numbers are rising, it’s “Harris can’t win! The polls are wrong!”

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I’m not American, so, to me, Kamala is the clear choice over a convicted felon. Americans I know are telling me she’s “done nothing” and is “a waste of space”. Why are people saying this?

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14 points

Because you’re talking to either tankies or conservatives, both of which have a vested interest in sowing division within the populace

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24 points

Why are people saying this?

Probably to cover for racism and/or sexism.

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5 points

The impression I keep getting is that these people do not feel like she’d be a good president, but I don’t know why anyone thinks that. One person did tell me Trump “literally gave me money” when he was in power, so I don’t know what to think lol

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5 points

If you want to have a fun* time, press the matter on why they feel that way.

  • “Fun” here meaning potentially rife with conflict.
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Trump didn’t. He just signed a bill introduced by others.

Democratic politicians pushed for and voted for giving all citizens a payout when the pandemic forced everybody to isolate, which happened when Trump was president.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARES_Act

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Well, uh, she cackles or something. Translation: she laughs. OMG, just like Hillary did!

This seems to be the extent of their argument. Meanwhile, because Kamala laughs and doesn’t have a penis, that kind of argument stands, but the tone police will rush in to tell everyone in a Very Serious Way that talking about JD’s couch fuckin’ is not something anyone Very Serious should ever do, LOL. Um, why? If Kamala’s supposed “cackle” is a supposed issue, why isn’t JD’s alleged couch fuckin’?

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5 points

this was hillary clinton’s criticism of Bernie Sanders, also. I think republicans don’t realize they’re operating out of the Hillary Clinton Campaign this time. Republicans might as well say “Its His Turn”

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3 points

Projection.

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3 points

Friend, I’m sorry to tell this, but the American you know might be the bad ones.

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74 points

The ear 👂 tampon made him look weak and reminded everyone that he lies about everything.

Magically, zero damage to a “shot” ear 2 weeks later. Sure, Trump 😆🤣🤡

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He was shot with an AR-15 (assuming it was the bullet and not shrapnel).

Those make an entry wound smaller than a hole punch (5.56mm vs. 7.9mm). I mean, a 5.56 is 3/1000ths of an inch smaller than a .22. (Close enough for you guns nerds.) Point being, for those that don’t know, the bullet is tiny, it’s the speed that counts.

So no, I wouldn’t expect to see much after a couple of weeks of healing and careful cleaning. But that pic where the only red spot is so high and close? Either the bullet was extraordinarily close, or he got hit with shrapnel.

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You have no clue what you’re talking about. An AR round will put a clean hole through steel, buddy.

You’ll never ever see it put a clean hole thru flesh.

Stop lying.

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Wanna walk that back if I provide video evidence?

https://youtu.be/zfATfPIpDc4#t=4m19s

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5 points

That explains why Trump had his doctor release an open letter saying he had a 2cm hole blown in his ear

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14 points

Everything above your earlobe is made of cartilage, and that takes a significantly longer time period to heal compared to flesh. Just ask anyone who’s had their lobe pierced vs a tragus or helix which one healed faster.

Also, assuming anything you said about the ballistics of a .556 round are true, it’s irrelevant because the AP has photos of his ear and there’s no puncture wounds, hole-punch sized or other. If he was hit by the bullet and not just shrapnel, it was a grazing shot and (for my money, seeing as how he’s an old obese man) it’s likely he’s on warfarin or some other blood-thinner/anti-coagulant which made his wound bleed more than it otherwise would have.

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Are there pics of him with the bandage off?

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