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109 points

Biden is well past his prime, had a shitty performance last night, hate his record on Israel, but I’m still voting for him because he’s not Trump and I’d prefer that our representative democracy continued. Moving to a braindead, functionally illiterate dictatorship just seems like an all-around worse move in every respect. Not sure about his chances, but whatever, there’s not really any other alternative at this point.

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-143 points

Not American, and hate Trump and Biden equally. I say vote Trump. He’s the slim shady of US politics - he’s only giving you things you say with your friends inside of your living room, the only difference is he’s got the balls to say it in front of you all and don’t have to sugar coat it at all.

So instead of avoiding your discomfort of acknowledging what the US is, just vote trump and let it be clear to everyone

Or not. It doesn’t matter what you do, Trump is winning anyway. You guys are going to have cheetos man for president whether you, or we, like it or not.

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59 points

Yea the things my family who likes him says in the living room is mostly ignorant compilations of how they think the government works and dumb white trash racist garbage so no thanks.

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-38 points

My point was entirely that the US taken as a whole is white trash racist garbage, but ok.

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19 points

he’s only giving you things you say with your friends inside of your living room, the only difference is he’s got the balls to say it in front of you all and don’t have to sugar coat it at all.

Things like what, exactly? We must be hanging out in different living rooms.

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9 points

If Trump was in my living room, I’d spit in his face. He’s so far removed from how I live my life, it’s hard for me to even acknowledge people like him exist.

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19 points

Nice try tankie Biden is still less embarassing than trump was

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-27 points

I work in Finance in London, lol, tankie is nice. You will keep saying what you said even after Biden shits his pants live on CNN. Do you fam, I dgaf.

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5 points

I’ve never seen someone so blatantly tell on themselves as you have in this comment.

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3 points

Yah fun things to talk about like “hey, isn’t it interesting how you have less medical rights now.” Jfc

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-143 points

Can you tell me what makes you believe that Trump is or will be a dictator? Don’t use Jan 6th.

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49 points

I can waste my time going through that exercise, but it’s pretty clear to any thinking person that that’s what the plan is on the Republican side, just look at the words, rhetoric and actions they’ve been taking for the past 10+ years. Otherwise, you’re maliciously asking me to go through the mental effort of writing up an attack on Trump that you’ve already decided to ignore and/or counter with some feeble bad faith argument. You’re a waste of my time and everybody else’s.

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-73 points

Ah okay… so you’re full of chit as per usual. Let me guess, Maddow is your favorite all-time commentator?

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41 points

Don’t use the time he instigated a coupe attempt as a reason?

Can you tell me why putting my hand on an electric burner that is red hot is a bad idea? Don’t use anyone’s past experiences being burned by hot objects.

Sure you could technically go into a complex explanation using physics as to why it’s a bad idea, but why?

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-30 points

My defense is the U.S. Constitution. I don’t see it as even a possibility that anyone would attempt to become a dictator in the U.S.

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36 points

If inciting an attack on the capital and destabilizing the worlds oldest democracy doesn’t immediately discount Trump from your voting decisions then you’re braindead lol. Imagine trying to argue past that, despite 9 years of existing with Trump as a political figure.

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14 points

destabilizing the worlds oldest democracy

What did he do to San Marino???

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-52 points

Have you been paying attention to the details of Jan 6th? So far it looks like it was a setup, completely out of Trump’s control.

Before you respond, have you been paying attention to the details of Jan 6th?

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28 points
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So - ignoring the time he sent a mob to try and overthrow the US government, how about we use the fact that he literally said he’d be a dictator?

Or maybe the fact that his legal defense against trying to overthrow the government was that the President is immune from all crimes. His lawyers even literally said he could have his political opponents murdered, and so long as the surviving politicians don’t impeach and convict him he can’t be held liable for it.

They’re arguing a legal framework under which he can murder the opposition, and then kill anyone that tries to remove him from office.

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26 points

Bake me a bread, but don’t use any flour or water!

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25 points

Lol

“Do not use an incredibly concrete example”

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17 points
  1. He has said he plans on being a dictator for day one.
  2. He regularly talks like a dictator jailing and killing his political opponents.
  3. Even if he were to win a second term, he is to egotistical to let it go a second time.
  4. Hes putins little bitch who looks up to him, so of course he would want to be as great as the greatestness of putin.
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I just wanted to add that I’m pretty sure Trump is jealous that Putin has something that he doesn’t… owning an entire country.

He wants to be like Putin and Kim Jong Un and is playing some warped version of “keeping up with the Joneses” to the detriment of our entire country. It’s a disgusting display of self absorption I never thought possible.

That’s literally it. He’s going to try to become a dictator so he can boost his fucking ego and not be ‘outdone’ by someone else.

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He has said he plans on being a dictator for day one.

Source?

He regularly talks like a dictator jailing and killing his political opponents.

This is literally Biden and Co… This includes Obama and Hilary. Obviously you have a source for this too, right? Surely you have literal videos of his speeches/rallies where he speaks like a dictator announcing he’s going to jail and or kill his political opponents.

Personally, when Trump wins, I think he should definitely pull a Bukele and have all politicians on all sides investigated for corruption, including the DOJ, the FBI, and the CIA.

Hes putins little bitch who looks up to him, so of course he would want to be as great as the greatestness of putin.

Russia-gate is and was all BS… If you’re referring to that. Trump’s commentary of Putin was really no different than Kim Jong Un of North Korea. Also, the cold war is over. Hating Russia today just because politicians do, is mindless drone territory.

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16 points

His own words at 55 seconds. Typically the people who say “I’ll only take power temporarily” never give it back.

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0 points

Like the camel’s nose, once you let a little bit of dictatorship into your country, you soon find out there is no room left for democracy.

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9 points

He told Hannity he would be dictator for one day. No dictator goes one day. One is too many to begin with.

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5 points

Heitterslly said he would be.

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4 points

Lol at supposedly asking an open question, while simultaneously stipulating that the open rebellion cannot be mentioned. That’s not how open questions work.

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3 points

Can you tell me why Hitler was a bad person? Don’t use the holocaust.

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Persecution of male homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, pacifists, the mentally ill / disabled, and political opponents. Stealing thousands of mostly Slavic children from their parents and having them adopted by ethnic Germans.

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3 points

He said he would in exactly those words.

Don’t use Jan 6th

explain why you think he’s authoritarian, but don’t talk about that time he instigated a failed fascist coup

I’ll admit, if you move the goalposts like that it gets a lot harder to score.

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