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Sneaky Joe

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u/anavriN-oN 3d ago

So you’re saying that even though he’s retired, he still has more power than Trump… Nice.

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u/hydroxy 3d ago

This is unironically exactly what a lot of republicans believe.

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u/Doublestack2411 3d ago edited 3d ago

You don't know how many times I've heard MAGA claim Dems are still in charge of everything. They unknowingly give Dems so much credit because they still can't find out how they cheated the 2020 election, but they still claim they did.

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u/NotYourReddit18 3d ago

they still can't find out how they cheated the 2020 election, but they still claim they did.

Biden: "Hunters Laptop knows those machines."

Wait no, that was Trump openly talking about Elon Musk knowing the digital election machines very well.

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u/TehTabi 3d ago

The Democrats are simultaneously idiots and 10th level intellects

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u/JTMc48 3d ago

We should start telling MAGA faithful the democrats have access to another dimension, which is why they can’t see how we do everything. Their heads might explode out of envy, or incomprehension.

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u/dpzdpz 2d ago

I would explain it to you but I don't have the time right now.

[ETA: Crayons don't eat themselves you know]

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u/Mysterious-Actuary65 2d ago

Dont mind me. Just passing through and casually pointing out that this is exactly what hitler said about groups he didn't like. Its happening again, folks.

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u/TehTabi 2d ago

It’s been happening for over thirty years.

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u/FullMetal_55 2d ago

The dem leaders are smart the followers are idiots... TR ey believe that because they're idiots and they believe their leaders are stable geniuses

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u/Siggy1963 2d ago

Facts don't matter to the maga cult

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u/worstpartyever 3d ago

He’s simultaneously too feeble to make decisions AND pulling the strings of power.

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u/pudgehooks2013 3d ago

Literally the first thing about fascism...

The enemy is both strong and weak.

Its the first thing guys.

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u/hydroxy 3d ago

...but but but Hunter's laptop

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u/boobsmacked 3d ago

Biden: Retired

Trump: another word also beginning with 'Ret' and also ending in 'ed'

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u/Boy_Howdy 3d ago

Redacted?

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u/noxondor_gorgonax 3d ago

Redacted fits too... Redacted 1 gazillion times in the Epstein files

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u/snowflake37wao 3d ago

Retracted

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u/valsimots 2d ago

Holy shit already, just say it... retarded!

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u/AlpacaCavalry 3d ago

Dumpy pants is indeed well...... regarded

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u/onesmellygoat 3d ago

Oh he’s highly….. regarded.

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u/Paksarra 3d ago

Retconned? Please be retconned.

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u/snowflake37wao 3d ago

Retrograded. Obvs. .. probs. ynk.

Seriously thisll get worse before it gets be…, uh. worser.

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u/reeferjoe 2d ago

Is there a "b" in that word? Edited: to say, "some people don't know there's a b, in dumb."

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u/Hoon0967 3d ago

Is Biden really strong though or is President Trump really weak? A third option would be that both are true.  The final option would be that this is total bs. 

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u/DarthBrooksFan 3d ago

Is Biden really strong though or is President Trump really weak? A third option would be that both are true.  The final option would be that this is total bs. 

I think the final option is actually "Trump is stupid as fuck"

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u/snowflake37wao 3d ago edited 3d ago

You wouldnt think it, but at least 21% of American adults are ever stupider than that trupid quotient. stupid intelligence. SI if you will.

Edit: there is a typo. Im owning up to that with this edit. I do try to intend my puns unlike other COWARDS. That one was unintended however. It stays not because it should have been intended, but for posterity. youre welcome or im sorry or fuck you. end edit. editing is fun.

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u/MeatloafTheDog 2d ago

Dumber. Not stupider. Technically not a word

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u/snowflake37wao 2d ago

neither is trupid and neither was enshittification, but they just fit

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u/Hoon0967 2d ago

I was trignorant of trupid, but I have now gained a new word in my limited vocabulary.  So, please continue to invent new words for they trembiggin the human mind.   

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u/notacrook 2d ago

It begs the question why HIGH IQ TRUMP wasn't able to do the same thing after his first term.

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u/stillLurkingOfficial 2d ago

So they're saying Trump is too weak and dumb to fix any of it, as well as all of his administration and the Republican majority in congress.

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u/Buddhas_Warrior 3d ago edited 3d ago

It's NEVER Trump's fault he's only successful because of him. His failures are someone else's fault. Such weakness

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u/ndab71 3d ago

No, they're never Trump's failures - they're always the failure of someone else. In Trump's mind, he never fails.

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u/Own_Log9691 3d ago

Yeah he’s never failed in the history of failing according to him-probably…

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u/shandangalang 2d ago

Good Tsar, bad boyars.

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u/ironman820 20h ago

Yep, that's how authoritarians, fascists and narcicists function. He fits the bill for all 3, he's just too dumb to make them mesh coherently. Thank fuck that's the case!

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u/wimpymist 3d ago

I always loved how Biden was an incoherent vegetable while also controlling the world causing all our problems.

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u/lifelink 3d ago

That is just straight from the fascism textbook though.

You have to make the enemy seem fragile, incompetent and weak while simultaneously making them strong, overpowering and smart enough to cause all the problems you try to pin on them.

Your base needs to think of them as both too strong and too weak.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism Number 8 is what I am talking about specifically

The fourteen properties are as follows:

1 "The cult of tradition", characterized by cultural syncretism, even at the risk of internal contradiction. When all truth has already been revealed by tradition, no new learning can occur, only further interpretation and refinement.

2 "The rejection of modernism", which views the rationalistic development of Western culture since the Enlightenment as a descent into depravity. Eco distinguishes this from a rejection of superficial technological advancement, as many fascist regimes cite their industrial potency as proof of the vitality of their system.

3 "The cult of action for action's sake", which dictates that action is of value in itself and should be taken without intellectual reflection. This, says Eco, is connected with anti-intellectualism and irrationalism, and often manifests in attacks on modern culture and science.

4 "Disagreement is treason" – fascism devalues intellectual discourse and critical reasoning as barriers to action, as well as out of fear that such analysis will expose the contradictions embodied in a syncretistic faith.

5 "Fear of difference", which fascism seeks to exploit and exacerbate, often in the form of racism or an appeal against foreigners and immigrants.

6 "Appeal to a frustrated middle class", fearing economic pressure from the demands and aspirations of lower social groups.

7 "Obsession with a plot" and the inflation of and focus on an enemy threat. This often combines an appeal to xenophobia with a fear of disloyalty and sabotage from marginalized groups living within the society. Eco also cites Pat Robertson's book The New World Order as a prominent example of a plot obsession.

8 Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak", On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will.

9 "Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy" because "life is permanent warfare" – there must always be an enemy to fight. Both Nazi Germany under Hitler and fascist Italy under Mussolini, worked first to organize and clean up their respective countries and then build the war machines that they later intended to and did use – despite Germany being under restrictions of the Versailles treaty not to build a military force. This principle leads to a fundamental contradiction within fascism: the incompatibility of ultimate triumph with perpetual war.

10 "Contempt for the weak", which is uncomfortably married to a chauvinistic popular elitism, in which every member of society is superior to outsiders by virtue of belonging to the in-group. Eco sees in these attitudes the root of a deep tension in the fundamentally hierarchical structure of fascist polities, as they encourage leaders to despise their underlings, up to the ultimate leader, who holds the whole country in contempt for having allowed him to overtake it by force.

11 "Everybody is educated to become a hero", which leads to the embrace of a cult of death. As Eco observes, "the Ur-Fascist hero is impatient to die. In his impatience, he more frequently sends other people to death".

12 "Machismo", which sublimates the difficult work of permanent war and heroism into the sexual sphere. Fascists thus hold "both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality".

13 "Selective populism" – the people, conceived monolithically, have a common will, distinct from and superior to the viewpoint of any individual. As no mass of people can ever be truly unanimous, the leader holds himself out as the interpreter of the popular will (though truly he alone dictates it). Fascists use this concept to delegitimize democratic institutions they accuse of "no longer represent[ing] the voice of the people".

14 "Newspeak" – fascism employs and promotes an impoverished vocabulary in order to limit critical reasoning.

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u/SQLDave 2d ago

It reminds me of anti-vaxxers: Big Pharma is big/powerful enough to thumb their noses at all world governments while inserting "toxins" into their products (because... reasons) but they also include those toxins in the inserts because those same governments make 'em.

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u/chaos_nebula 3d ago

And he managed to do it all during the first 2 years of his term, since he lost the house in the midterms.

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u/ChefAsstastic 3d ago

Perfect analogy

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u/The_Bucket_Of_Truth 3d ago

The enemy is both strong and weak

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u/SimonPho3nix 3d ago

Well, it's because Obama was pulling the strings anyway, so there! Got em!

Ffs...

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u/Thirdtwin 22h ago

If Sarcasm Detector were real, it'd explode with this post and comments.

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u/SpiderWil 3d ago

Joe has cancer. I bet after his death and I pray it's due to old age, the republicans will still say Joe caused all the havoc after his death.

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u/HighestPriestessCuba 3d ago edited 1d ago

I just hope trump goes first. I have no doubt that he would do everything in his power to disrespect President Biden’s funeral.

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u/CliftonForce 3d ago

I am hoping Joe shows up to Donald's funeral, on a bicycle. He can eat ice cream during the eulogy.

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u/mirrorspirit 3d ago

The Joe-tergeist

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u/SlowYaRoll007 3d ago

It's always the guy before that they blame. Although in our current case, it's going to take a lot longer than 4 years to clean up this BS.

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u/hydroxy 3d ago

Electorate has memory of a goldfish, same the world over

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u/JpJonesyII 3d ago

If the democrats do win again, people will bitch and moan that they’re not doing enough and then vote repubs right back in. It’s the same cycle

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u/Texasscot56 3d ago

This is what concerns me the most.

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u/KoliManja 3d ago

And he accomplished all that between Nov 6th and Jan 20. He would've been a fool to have done that if Kamala won.

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u/FoogYllis 3d ago

The crazy thing is these same maga morons said trump was in control and not Biden when Biden was president. Basically maga cannot accept responsibility for their own decisions and actions.

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u/Alacritous13 3d ago

And yes responsible for the war (not war) with Iran! Can you believe it?

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u/WolfPack80 2d ago

Biden is apparently the dumbest yet most efficient president ever. I keep hearing how Trump needs more than 2 years to “fix” all that Biden did, but at the same time they make it sound like Biden was in office for 10+ years with all the “bad” he created

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u/Useful-Ad-2409 2d ago

Especially when he said he was going to fix all of Biden's mistakes on the first day. It's been one long day.

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u/WolfPack80 2d ago

They’ll release that “idea” for a new healthcare “plan” sometime in the future, eventually, later on down the road

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u/hydroxy 3d ago

The man is Lucifer himself, builds the country up for 4 years just for the thrill of tearing it all down again. Don’t let that smile fool you

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u/WerkingAvatar 1d ago

Luckily our supreme leader has stopped the Iran war at least a dozen times now.

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u/ElegantCoach4066 3d ago

Tony Stark been real quiet since this dropped

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u/TomodachiSkull 3d ago

Whatever happened to "It's the fault of the president in office. The one who came before has nothing to do with what's currently happening." Or does that only apply to Trump when he's out of office?

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u/muffledvoice 3d ago

Right now Dark Brandon is moving all the chess pieces between Iran, Russia, US, and Israel. It's amazing.

MAGA will have to pick a narrative. Either Trump is the greatest president who can do no wrong, or he's the inept boob we know that he is who doesn't understand basic economics, military conflict, foreign relations, or domestic policy. And Joe Biden is either the inept "Sleepy Joe" that Trump likes to endlessly invoke, or he's a mastermind who somehow engineered Trump's downfall while out of office, well into his 80s, and battling cancer.

Pick one, MAGA.

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u/GreyGanado 3d ago

Why should they pick one if not picking it works much better? That's how all fascists work. The enemy is the strongest and weakest enemy possible at the same time.

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u/Informal_Wanker8349 Good Trouble 3d ago

I guess Sleepy Joe started a war and pissed off the nicest neighbour enough so they now sell raw materials to the Chinese. Oh that Joe is sooo sneaky

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u/therobotisjames 3d ago

Joe Biden rode his bicycle into my grandma last night.

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u/bazzoozzab 3d ago

Is he still in there?

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u/Own_Log9691 3d ago

Bahahaha omg I am frkn deceased 😵☠️ lmao 🤣🤣🤣

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u/bengeo1191 3d ago

If Biden managed to do all that, doesn't that make Trump the dumbest president?

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u/strained_brain 3d ago

Shhhh. Play along. Trump is brilliant while Biden is a genius level sneaky low-IQ dumbass who falls asleep all the time, can't form complete sentences, and clearly likes 'em young. That's the game we're currently playing.

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u/hydroxy 1d ago

Yes, but everything is Biden’s fault because he’s managing to continuously outsmart Trump somehow, but he does it while being a sleepy imbecile of course

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u/strained_brain 1d ago

Of course!

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u/Marquar234 3d ago

I'm pretty sure Trump is the pigeon shitting on the chessboard.

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u/superpenistendo 2d ago

Of conservatives I ask the following; to what end? Why do we want to support social welfare, LGBQTIA rights, and DEI? To get votes? Then what? Democrats get votes, get power… then what?

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u/SQLDave 2d ago

Full-on <mumble>ism... duh.

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u/bones510 2d ago

This isnt a gotcha when the obvious easy answer is money/personal gain.

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u/superpenistendo 2d ago

What money? Where? Is there money in supporting these ideas?

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u/bones510 2d ago

Theres money in getting power. Im a dem voter but your question was how would conservatives respond to the question “get power…. then what”. As if politicians havent been playing this game since before trump

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u/superpenistendo 2d ago

I hear you and I agree - I know there’s money in power but it’s only as much as the special interests related to your platform. I mean there’s money in free market capitalism and privatization of public services. As long as that’s your platform you just have to wait for businesses to come to you. I’m sorry because I know I’m squirming away from my original question and rephrasing but if the end goal is power and money isn’t it plainly and obviously clear by now that conservatives stand to gain much more money and power by comparison given their position(s)? Or is just a non-starter since democrats do it in their own way, too?

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u/bones510 2d ago

I get what you mean and i dont disagree with your overall perspective. Just used to hearing the canned responses from maga and im a long time still-bitter bernie supporter

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u/radarthreat 2d ago

They have Project 2025 to impose their conservative vision on culture and society. Democrats have…strongly worded letters?

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u/strained_brain 3d ago

Yeah, remember the sneaky way Biden caused Trump to cancel Obama's carefully orchestrated Iranian nuclear deal before he was elected, which then caused Trump to go to war with Iran when Iran started up the nuclear bomb program again, which then brought the gas prices to ridiculous prices? That's some sneaky Biden shit right there.

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u/jd807 3d ago

“That’s ’whole’ with a ‘W’. Not many people know that, .. believe me “ - some 🤡

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u/Kenji1912 3d ago

But Trump plays 5-D, that’s one more D then usual. Surely he saw this coming?

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u/SQLDave 2d ago

It's 8-D. More D than any president, or any world leader really, has ever played. The best D player.

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u/FullMetal_55 2d ago

not according to Stormy Daniels.. she said he was playing with very little D...

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u/SQLDave 2d ago

I was hoping someone would jump in with a spin using the other definition of "D". Thank you!

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u/TRR462 2d ago

He’s not that smart, he’s only playing D-D-D-Dumb….

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u/fk122 3d ago

doublethink

The enemy is both feeble and powerful.

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u/Kinser9 3d ago

He's a tricksy hobbit.

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u/willflameboy 3d ago

And don't forget, this was only to do with those four years, and not the four years prior, that Trump was President for.

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u/lopix 3d ago

Biden shits in Trump's pants every day, that's how sneaky he is.

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u/SkyWizarding 2d ago

Wild how it's easier for some people to believe that there was an elaborate plan by Biden instead of believing the current guy is just an idiot

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u/512115 3d ago

Who knew an autopen could be an arch nemesis??

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u/Revolutionary_Pen_65 3d ago

I want to know why he's always shitting in Donald Trump's pants? He can't even say "I can go ramp, I can go stair" in front of his cheering geniuses without Biden sneaking a dump into his diaper. No wonder trump can't succeed who can win with such dastardly deeds befuddling their every super genius chess move?

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u/SiteTall 2d ago

Also, he has a knack of shitting the current "president's" pants

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u/Go_Gators_4Ever 3d ago

LOL! That's hilarious!

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u/showtimebabies 3d ago

Next up... Christmas. We're coming for you Santa and baby Jesus. You've had it too good for too long

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u/hydroxy 3d ago

Christmas involves giving out presents from shared central pool. Sounds like socialism to me. /s

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u/Darrenau 3d ago

And someone who is a genius and all branches of government cannot change it

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u/Crashman2004 3d ago

And he did it all while sleeping.

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u/uncleputts 3d ago

Democrats need to remember we lost to Trump twice. Vote.

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u/fothergillfuckup 3d ago

My cat has a higher IQ than trump.

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u/Atlusfox 2d ago edited 2d ago

I noticed how MAGA use the term "4D chess" to fill in the blanks when the lack the understanding of what's happening. Can't properly shift the blame and don't understand what's happening, claim 4D chess.

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u/Natural_Indication95 2d ago

First he is a puppet now they make him to be a genius, which is it!

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u/quidam5 1d ago

Having flashbacks of when they said he was Sleepy Joe, just a puppet that his aide's used to do their own agenda with the auto pen, while simultaneously also being the mastermind of the "Biden crime family."

American stupidity knows no bounds

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u/Demalab 12h ago

Every projection is a confession

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u/mikeychamp 1d ago

Be careful, not everyone gets sarcasm. This is like free propaganda for not a negligable portion of Trump supporters.

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u/AggravatingPaint5838 3d ago

And he did it all while asleep and senile. Sneaky indeed.

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u/SoundZeska 3d ago

Ok even if this was true, trump literally ran on raising tarrifs ik they have a cult like following but thats just fucking ridiculous

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u/allfriggedup 3d ago

Clinton only took the W's off the keyboards.

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u/rotciwicky 3d ago

Don’t forget how Biden shat in Trumps pants, got Trump to rape women and children, made trump into a racist, corrupted Trump, and used a mystical curse to turn trump from a strapping young man into a sleepy dementia ridden 80 year old.

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u/Curithir2 3d ago

Living rent free in someone's head . . .

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u/Krexpdx 2d ago

honestly i think the wind patterns are specifically targeted now. like if it's a rally day and his hair looks flat... that's not weather that's dark Brandon using a leaf blower from a distance. they really believe he's out there micromanaging the atmosphere just to mess with their guy's comb-over. what the eva lovin fuck is this logic??

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u/Fun3mployed 2d ago

Oh it was according to plan alright everything was supposed to jump the rails and fuck up on a democrats term after 8 years of Trump. But his ass got interrupted. Now all of these long laid horseshit outcomes designed to land in 8 years from his first presidency sit squarely on his dumb ass. Tax cuts, oil prices, the whole shebang. 

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u/morsindutus 1d ago

So you're saying the enemy is both strong and weak?

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u/hydroxy 1d ago

It was the constant sleep that allowed Biden to gain this ability of being in a superposition of both strong and weak simultaneously

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u/nikschn 1d ago

economy bad under trump 1: obama's fault!

economy bad under biden: biden's fault!

economy bad under trump 2: biden's fault!

somehow he'll manage to spread the narrative that it's biden's or obama's fault that he diddled kids.

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u/anythingspossible45 3d ago

lol, i’m a republican. I’m not even in that special(apologies in advance). I don’t understand how people are still claiming it’s Biden‘s policies and what not.

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u/bobjob806 3d ago

Because their Orange Turd King told them so, it's all they need to hear🤦‍♂️

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u/brendan87na 3d ago

lol, i’m a republican.

at this point, why?

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u/GrumpyGiant 22h ago

Because the alternative is admitting (to others, but also to themselves) that the candidate they invested their very identities into is not the great man they thought he was.  Which raises all sorts of very uncomfortable questions like:  “Did I actually support a felonious child raping narcissistic imbecile?” and “Does this mean all of my problems are not being caused by people who don’t look like me and I’m actually a racist asshole for thinking that?” and “How stupid did I have to be to fall for this piece of shit’s laughably stupid lies?”.

Many people find these questions so distressing to contemplate that they prefer to cling to any excuse they can come up with to allow them avoid accepting that they were wrong.

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u/ViolettaQueso 'MURICA 3d ago

Moohoohahaha

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u/Dragon-i 3d ago

Just goes to show how much smarter Joe was compared to Trumps dumb ass. Should’ve just kept Biden as President!

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u/CommonConundrum51 3d ago

The only thing of which any Republican can be certain is that none of the disasters during their total control of the federal government can be theirs or Trump's fault. Stands to reason, right?

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u/Speedvagon 3d ago

Yeah, Biden was so efficient in tricking the highest IQ president who passed 4 cognitive tests with bears and sharks, and setting such a big slow bomb, that the most popular smartes president can’t stop that bomb to sink the country and won’t be able in next 2 years as well. And the effects of fixing all that mess will start be noticeable only after pesky dumocrats, sorry, dum(B)ocrats, DumB with a B, did you know that? I did, but many don’t know, the most beautiful B after m, and U and D, so, after they will rig the elections again and win, to claim all the results of the best smartest president of the country stopped falling.

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u/Proper-Exercise-2364 2d ago

And also shitting in trumps pants!

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u/DanCPAz 2d ago

He controls the world while forgetting his own name. lol

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u/totallyayeti 2d ago

Everyone should start @ him with something like "we know that current cost of living and fuel is Biden's fault as you say, it's been years you've been fighting it but it seems to be getting worse, does that mean Biden is smarter than you?"

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u/observingjackal 2d ago

The only incompetent ones were the Americans who voted for our current turd in chief. That's that Christianity powered thinking for you. Always gotta have someone to blame other than the douche nugget sitting in front of you. Give God all praise and the devil all the blame and ignore the sources, causes and solutions to your problem. Pretty much all of them are right here on Earth.

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u/Tart-Pomgranate5743 2d ago

This is next-level buck-passing…

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u/exceptional_biped 2d ago

Why can’t the US stop electing people who are 10 years past retirement age. On both sides of politics.

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u/toycoa 1d ago

I'm about to post this on my local scanner page because they'll eat this up

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u/A2carpenterguy 1d ago

Dark Sun Tzu approves

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u/FastEddie77 13h ago

Just because Biden was impaired didn’t mean the DNC wasn’t pushing through an agenda.
Many others in the administration were very capable of carrying out their mission, whether we agreed with it or not.

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u/Prudent-Fruit-7114 2h ago

When it suits them, they argue that Biden was losing his mental capacity. When it suits them, they argue that he masterminded various nefarious plots to harm America. The hypocrisy is stunning.

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u/VandalofFrost 1d ago

What's kind of funny is long term economic plans and tax plans do sometimes not kick in for years or even decades. That is not what is happening here at all though lol

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u/hydroxy 1d ago

Political literacy in a lot of the world is in the sub-basement. If the electorate was even half educated we’d live in a hugely different world.

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u/VandalofFrost 1d ago

Yeah sometimes I question full on voting rights just for this reason alone. Nothing to do with any discrimination except stupidity but testing for that typically does have a lot of discrimination involved eventually.

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u/hydroxy 1d ago

Democracy as it stands is total lunacy imo. A system where you need good political literacy I think will eventually take over and the Wild West of votes essentially being popularity contests / mud slinging matches will be something relegated to history

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u/VandalofFrost 1d ago

I mean there is a reason it is famously called something like "the worst political system ever ... except for all the others of course". A better balance between the masses and educated will definitely need to be reached eventually. It is getting worse rapidly as AI and bot farms have taken over the internet too

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u/Du30_Panot 3h ago

nice try Comrade

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u/hydroxy 2h ago

I'm Irish, just calling out the insane hypocrisy that the US government is peddling

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u/everything_is_bad 3d ago

Biden failed to do anything about the racist fascist take over of the USA. Whatever other modest accomplishment he had in his mediocre presidency it is completely overshadowed by this monumental failure of strength, vision, duty, and ethics. America collapsed on his watch as he handed the keys to Trump over four years of dereliction. This leaves Biden in the bottom quartile of presidents with those who failed in the run up to the civil war and the Great Depression. He’s still a better president than Trump but only because Trump is hands down the worst of any person to hold office in the United States. Fuck Trump but fuck Biden and double fuck Trump now

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u/Sonochu 3d ago

There is so much hindsight bias in this comment. While in hindsight we can say Biden made the wrong move, I can see why 2021 Biden didn't go as hard on the MAGA movement as he did.

  1. After Trump lost, everyone thought he would fade away into irrelevancy. He was old, incompetent, and a terrible speaker. He beat Hillary, but Hillary was a deeply unpopular candidate. Republicans also hate losers, and he was a poor loser.

The Republicans seemed to be looking around Desantis. And while Desantis had some horrible policies, he was more mainstream conservative than he was MAGA. 

  1. Going too hard on MAGA would all but hand the 2024 elections to the Republicans. Biden would be seen as too partisan, going after Republicans simply for being Republicans, creating trumped up charges, yada, yada. In fact that was still what Trump did and it worked.

Instead Biden wanted to let the FBI and independent investigations do the work without his direct involvement. This way it was clear the rule of law won the day, not some meddling from Biden. 

  1. The US had worse issues going on than a failed president: Covid, the inflationary spike after that, rising housing prices, the War in Afghanistan, etc, all took priority over what Trump was doing.

Really my only criticism of Biden was naming Garland as his Attorney General as even then that was a bit controversial. And with a Democrat Attorney General, some of the charges and investigations might have stuck. But even that's a big maybe. 

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u/strained_brain 3d ago

Are you said that Garland wasn't a Democrat?

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u/everything_is_bad 3d ago

Naw there were plenty of people tearing their goddamn hair out begging for a real response. Biden’s response was “I don’t want to make my presidency about Trump”.

He owns his failure and the apologists argument that no one could have foreseen or done the right thing is bullshit.

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u/Sonochu 3d ago

It was a possibility, but a second Trump term was very much a pie in the sky dream. He was deeply unpopular after Covid and Jan 6th, and him being a whiny loser only made thing worse. Every Republican seemed to be pooling around Desantis.

Two things ended up dooming Biden though.

  1. No one could foresee just how horribly managed Desantis' campaign was, giving Trump the opportunity to recapture Republicans Desantis was failing to winover

  2. The inflationary spike after Covid caused real harm to select American groups. Said harm was EXTREMELY overblown based on the data, but that didn't stop the media from running with it.

Ironically Trump is facing a similar issse rn. In, I'd go so far as to say the inflation is what gave Trump the victory. Without it, Biden/Kama would've won in 2024

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u/everything_is_bad 3d ago

So you’re like arguing that being wrong was some how right even though it’s been proven now that it was wrong and that the people who were telling you you were wrong at the time are still wrong even though they’ve been proven right

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u/Sonochu 3d ago

My argument is that the people arguing that were in the extreme minority and were only proven right for reasons no one actually predicted.

They're like people that constantly predict an economic crash. Sure, eventually they will be right. But it doesn't mean their reasoning or information were accurate.

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u/everything_is_bad 3d ago

K bro except the prediction played out in real time. Perhaps your assumption that the contrary position was extreme was poorly founded

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u/Sonochu 3d ago

Wow, I can't believe they were able to predict Desantis' campaign being one of the worst run presidential campaigns in history as well as the record breaking inflation we faced after a decade and a half of near nonexistent inflation!

They're either wizards or didn't predict any of that.

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u/everything_is_bad 3d ago

Or the factors you’re paying attention to weren’t determinative

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u/Tripple_T 3d ago

So Lincoln is one of the worst presidents ever, according to you.

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u/everything_is_bad 3d ago

Obviously I was referring to James Buchanan

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u/Tripple_T 3d ago edited 3d ago

So Lincoln gets a pass for his failure in the run up to the civil war? He knew it was coming through most of his campaign and still had a month to stop it when he took office. This is of course ignoring the fact that the Civil War was a net positive for the country.

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u/everything_is_bad 3d ago

Yeah so obviously you can’t be taken seriously. Southern states had already started declaring before Lincoln was inaugurated. And the states attacked a month after his inauguration.

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u/hydroxy 3d ago

The electorate that voted in a dictator is to blame, Biden has made big mistakes absolutely, but the current situation lies fairly and squarely with the foolish electorate who actually used their votes so irresponsibly

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u/everything_is_bad 2d ago

The voters didn’t swear an oath, Biden did

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u/bullwinkle8088 3d ago

Biden failed to do anything about the racist fascist take over of the USA.

No, we did. The American people have a job, and that was it. We collectively have been failing at it since the 1970's. You blaming Biden is a symptom of our failure.

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u/everything_is_bad 2d ago

Yes America definitely failed but Biden literally swore an oath to protect the country from enemies foreign and domestic and instead cowered before his duty

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u/bullwinkle8088 2d ago

So rather than fix the issue you continue to blame a man for … checks notes … not violating the law.

You are the problem here.

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u/everything_is_bad 2d ago

Bro the issue is that enlarge America thinks that the level and type of inaction Biden is guilty of is fine.

Still we do nothing and hold ourselves blameless even when we are directly aiding the downfall of America like in the case of Tesla drivers.

We absolve Biden because we are trying to defend our own cowardice and apathy.

Wake up and fight. We are not victims of circumstance but of our own collective weakness.

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u/strained_brain 3d ago

Hindsight is 20/20. Had Biden aggressively gone after Trump/MAGA instead of leaving it in the hands of Congress/DOJ, people would have called him an anti-Democracy tyrant. Honestly, he couldn't win.

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u/everything_is_bad 2d ago

Well it’s a good thing he didn’t do his job because he was afraid of appearances because now…. Oh wait that’s right

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u/Own_Log9691 3d ago

Lmao 🤣 I particularly loved the ending!

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u/lightninhopkins 3d ago

Yeah that fucker should have never ran for a second term. He gets some blame.

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u/Future_Section5976 3d ago

Joe got that pot of greed looking grin

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u/nikbert 3d ago

Is Joe the face palm, or this post?

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u/CareZealousideal5423 3d ago

The post

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u/nikbert 3d ago

Thanks, was legit not sure if it was in earnest or pointing out someone else's post

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u/lumbardisaster23 3d ago

I would love to know who posts stupid crap like this. It has to be a 350 pound INCEL who lives in his parent’s basement.

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u/Accomplished_Soft479 2d ago

Resorting to insults because you can't argue against it

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u/hydroxy 3d ago

It’s Biden I’m angry at, that guy done ruined the whole dang economy and only went and blamed it on the greatest president in the history of the world.

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u/TUFKAT 3d ago

It's weird how those that claim this completely forget about BDS (Biden Deflection Syndrome).

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u/zipzoomramblafloon 3d ago

I love how you can handwave legitimate complaints and issues away as "TDS"

Real problems? TDS!!!

Real problems caused by Trump starting a war? TDS!!!!!

Taking issue with Trump blatantly enriching himself at every turn? TDS!!! And The other guys and ESPECIALLY PELOSI AND PROBABLY SHILLARY did it too!

If you were a real person I can't imagine what you'd be like

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