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    There’s no pushing. We were already in extremely weird territory when the news media can present the candidates so dishonestly that Biden is at all unpopular.

    He forgave hundreds of billions of dollars in students loans, reduced income inequality for the first time in god knows how long, increased working class wages even when adjusted for historically massive inflation, raised corporate tax by a MASSIVE amount in order to fund all of the above, and also spent a trillion dollars on trying to address climate change, like the first time ever that a US presidency actually tried to do something about it in a big way, which is way too little way too late but that’s not his fault.

    His opponent is a literal pants shitting moron who goes on weird tirades about toilets and windmills; even the truest of true believers often walk out of his speeches before they are finished, because they are unhinged and random and, at the end of the day, uninteresting. His campaign priorities are cartoonishly evil. Beyond cartoonish. They sound like a joke. He wants to kill foreigners, throw his political opponents in prison, and make friends with our nation’s worst enemies siding with them against American soldiers and American people. He wants to ban contraception and porn, and dismantle the Department of Education and the FDA. And the FBI. And NOAA.

    And yet, somehow, the news manages to present such a distorted landscape that “Biden is very old and shit the bed at the debate” is like the most relevant thing everyone is trying to talk about, even now, a month later, when it is objectively undeniable that the great mass of the Democratic electorate doesn’t give a shit about it and cares more about all that earlier stuff. As well they should. They are, surprisingly enough, not as stupid as you and the news keep consistently, relentlessly, dishonestly, pretending that they are.

    I won’t say that distorted media creation won’t succeed, and get Trump elected, against whoever his opponent turns out to be. But yes, it will be extremely weird (as well as absolutely infuriating for those of us who live in America and have to experience what might happen under a second Trump presidency) how we got here and what destination we’ve arrived at.

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      You forgot the part where he literally raped children and argued after the fact about who deserved to claim one of their virginities.

      Allegedly.

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        Dude it is IMPOSSIBLE to list bad things Trump did without missing some huge ones

        Hey did you know his estranged ex-wife died by falling down the stairs, and she’s buried on his property?

        I’m not saying that automatically definitively means anything. But tell me one other human being on the planet who that combination of circumstances ever happened to.

        Or, alternately, one other human being who was once involved with Trump for which he gives any kind of a shit any which way about where they should be buried.

        I’ll wait.

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          and she’s buried on his property?

          Wasn’t there some speculation about tax codes and cemeteries?

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            Nah, he had her buried under his golf course so he could cheat on her one last time.

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            Crimeception

            As with so many Trump things, the overlapping crimes, for whatever weird reason, actually make it more difficult to prosecute any single one.

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          Dude it is IMPOSSIBLE to list bad things Trump did without missing some huge ones.

          This right here is no fucking joke. I tried to list shit he’s done off the top of my head, and after around twenty items, i still forgot January fucking 6th. That’s like, the crown jewel, and it totally slipped my mind.

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      For all your talk and posts why do you not push Chase Oliver, both sides claim third party is death, but literally every normal person I know is Fuck Biden and Fuck Trump, and no polls say either have actually support. Support is literally all tea party and blue no matter who, and these whack jobs wonder why Regular folks are angry, but its all manufactured? Inflation isnt real and the economy is the best ever, like everybody hates trump and Biden fucked that up, i have workers (poc) tell me a racist president is bad but i didnt have to budget milk for my kids, Trump was way better than Biden. But somehow people tell me this crazy? Like maybe you got alot of investments but regular folk dont care the nasdaq rose today especially when they have to tell their kids I cant

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        Because the reason all third parties fail is that the first-past-the-post counting of votes makes it mathematically impossible. A third party will necessarily steal more votes from one side than the other, making said other side win

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          And do you know anyone who wants to vote Trump Or Biden? Arguably he would only take the stay at home vote, cause idk any Biden or Trump supporters and I am screaming Chase Oliver far and wide