• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    I remember hearing how Truman had a “the buck stops here” sign on his desk. One is very hard pressed to find that kind of accountability and ownership anywhere in today’s world, especially among executive leadership, be it corporate or political.

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    3 hours ago

    Yeah, but he was old and didn’t rape anyone or commit any felonies, and that just isn’t acceptable in America.

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    17 hours ago

    FTFY: Remember when the president didn’t get into schoolgirls spats?

    I mean, Epstein…

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      Man I thought you were going a different direction with that, but I’m pretty sure it’s all of them.

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        Non American here, but the both sides schtick really really doesn’t apply to Obama or Biden here. Definitely not internationally at least. And likely not domestically either.

        Isn’t it tiring to always be trying to apply that bullshit mental gymnastics to the democrats? We have a phrase for this in Spanish, “pena ajena”. It means I feel embarrassed for you. That’s the exact vibe for this.

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          They try to apply it to Biden because he acts a little weird around kids. The worst was when he appeared to be sniffing a young girl. It was weird for sure but I’ve known a lot of elderly to do it. Apparently after a certain age it’s common for young kids to smell really good to the elderly.

          Obama really doesn’t have any kind of scandals. After Clinton and Bush it was quite refreshing to not hear much of anything about our president.

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            Apparently after a certain age it’s common for young kids to smell really good to the elderly.

            You can certainly argue that the over-familiarity and inappropriateness are Biden’s particular innocent character quirks. But I don’t think these are common among the elderly.

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            Ive never seen Bernie Sanders do that and I’ve certainly never personally seen any elderly people do that irl. Also Obama was a war criminal and despite having a Congressional majority did almost nothing with it.

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          The hell do you mean? Obama was a war criminal and Biden funded genocide. This concept may be foreign to you since you probrally live in a country witha proper left wing party but thats not America. In America the two parties are almost identical except one looks pretty. They’re both ran by Capitalists who take turns extorting and profiting off the backs of the working class and the exploitation of the global south. So maybe don’t make sweeping comments like that about a country you clearly dont understand.

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            I live in America just not in the USA any more. Every POTUS has been a war criminal. And maybe try to understand the context of the post before commenting. You don’t know anything about me so maybe don’t pretend to know things you clearly don’t have any clue about

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      I mean with all the sniffing of little girls, breast pinching, and his own daughter admitting at least the weird part in her diary about showers with her dad contributing to her hypersexualization at a young age… and seeing how Biden appeared to be taking orders from Netanyahu, this part is debatable.

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        and his own daughter admitting at least the weird part in her diary about showers with her dad contributing to her hypersexualization at a young age

        Lol. Ashley Biden penned a letter to the judge in the case involving the people who stole her diary and gave it to right-wing media stating right-wing media was taking the contents of her diary out of context and that she loves and supports her father.

        Do your homework before posting.

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          I mean yeah the right wing did claim a lot was in there that wasn’t, so that is partly true but even fact checkers don’t deny the part that I mentioned to act like she didn’t and to write it is disingenuous. That is like if Ivanka said she loves & supports her Father, but the left wing media took Trump’s comments about her out of context.

          The same disingenuous Democrats also loved to claim that Biden was against the genocide in Gaza, and that he was young & dynamic behind the scenes.

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          The commenter is stupid and didn’t do their homework.

          Ashley Biden’s diary was stolen by 2 people that ended up being prosecuted and sentenced. Those twats ended up giving it to someone else and right-wing media got ahold of it. In it she described taking showers with her dad as a kid and felt like that could have contributed to her hypersexualization as she got older. Basically what you would talk about with a psychiatrist, but in your diary, because that’s kind of what a diary is, right? I took showers with my parents when I was little. So I guess that means they raped me or something. As well as everyone else that took showers with their parents as a kid. We all apparently got raped. Lol.

          So anyway, Ashley ends up penning a letter to the judge in that case stating that the right-wing media is taking her diary entries out of context and that she fully supports and loves her dad.

          This can all be verified. Don’t simply take my word for it.

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          Something someone who uses “woke” as slur made up that other people like to pretend is true so they can have an excuse for whataboutism.

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    21 hours ago

    I honestly can’t remember… Isn’t every proxy war just this but with guns and the blood of brown people?

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    Public spats you mean…100% chance every us president has done this, you just never saw the.

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    Real presidents had Lee Atwater and Roger Stone and Steve Bannon to do that shit for them. Can’t believe Trump and Elon are being dragged down into the hoi paloi. Disgraceful.

    We need to get back to a more respectable era of politics, like we had under Strom Thurmond and Barry Goldwater.

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    I hate narcissists. The government should have mandatory evaluations to find out who has NPD, and put anyone who fails the evaluation to death. Then we wouldn’t have these Trump problems.