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[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 252 points 6 months ago

I was hoping it would be some kind of Mech he would get in and fight.

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 45 points 6 months ago

We can tell Trump that's what he means, and see if he starts referring to it that way in his speeches

[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 33 points 5 months ago

They say Biden is building a mech, that's what he's doing folks. Your tax money, his mech. I'll tell you I know a lot about mechs we could build a beautiful mech but no. It needs to be gas. Biden wants nuclear I want gas, we'll get gas back in America that's your jobs in honduras

[-] emmanuel_car@kbin.social 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I’ll give this a 4/10, mostly it’s too coherent, not rambly enough, and I doubt Trump would know Honduras is a country, let alone where to find it.

[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Everything after "I want gas" is just mobile keyboard auto fill words 🇺🇲

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[-] elliot_crane@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

Can we go further than that? I think we should try to convince him to build his own gaudy brass-plated mech, then laugh at him when he shuffles up a slow ramp to get inside the thing and it malfunctions in the process. Then he’ll try to convince Elon to buy it in order to afford his next appeal.

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[-] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 36 points 5 months ago

The Knights of Dark Brandon

[-] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago
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[-] EvilBit@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago
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[-] Landmammals@lemmy.world 113 points 6 months ago

We call that a robust democracy.

[-] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 178 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Can’t Biden just kill him? He has Presidential immunity. The Supreme Court doesn’t give a fig and Biden can do whatever he wants since they take 4+ years to eventually kick the can and further delay their decisions. By that time, Biden may well be 106 years old.

Also, Trump has stated the Vice President has the power to certify the election results or not. So now Kamala can just usher Biden into a second term, “if she has the courage”.

Like Mike Pompeo said, “There will be a very smooth transition to a second Biden Presidency…”

[-] Icalasari@fedia.io 84 points 6 months ago

My fuck, if only the Democrats had the balls to use the Republican's own tactics against them

"Oh so since a president is, according to you, immune to all laws even after no longer being president, then Biden can just order a hit on Trump and all of you? Because as long as Trump isn't arrested and left unable to run, that seems to be what you are saying. You have til the end of May :)"

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That plus stopping the genocide would get my vote.

Why bother giving the ultimatum if you wouldn't benefit by them responding though?

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[-] Tolstoshev@lemmy.world 40 points 6 months ago

Instead of threatening to kill Trump, should the SCOTUS rule in favor of immunity, Biden should threaten to kill SCOTUS. Then they’ll sit up and pay attention.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

He'd be able to jail governors until they agree to amend the constitution to make the president subject to laws henceforth.

What a fucking joke.

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 15 points 6 months ago

Like Mike Pompeo said, “There will be a very smooth transition to a second Biden Presidency…”

I forgot about this horseshit

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[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 months ago

Honestly, if the Tribunal of Six decides that Trump has total, unequivocal, blanket immunity at any point before Jan 6, 2025, Biden should just sic Seal Team Six on him. It would be 100% legal.

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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 80 points 6 months ago

Sadly people will point to this and see it as proof that "Biden's rigging it for himself!" and people will sadly believe it

[-] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 73 points 5 months ago

They will do that regardless.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago

People said we couldn't vote for Sanders because Floridians wouldn't vote for a socialist. Biden lost Florida by a wide margin, because Trump painted him as a socialist.

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[-] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 55 points 5 months ago
[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 5 months ago

it's definitely just producing 600 science per minute.

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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 37 points 6 months ago

We could have just ran a popular candidate that helped people for four years instead of spending that time what to do about the unpopular candidate not being able to decisively beat the worst president in the history of America.

A random empty suit off the street would easily beat trump.

Probably would be handling genocides better too

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 19 points 6 months ago

You are right, but we're kind of past the point where saying so is useful. But if Biden resigns and hands the reigns to Kamala, no way in hell should anyone accept another sham primary because she is an encombant. I'm so sick of these supposedly pro-democracy Democrats and their entire bullshit primary system.

[-] danl@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Just fyi, it’s “incumbent”

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

bUtTrUmPiSwOrSe!

Legitimately just do one thing for people that makes a visible, palpable change in their lives for the better and you'll never lose an election again.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 30 points 6 months ago

Biden has given a massive boost to unions in multiple ways, restarted enforcement of anti-trust laws, eased enforcement of Marijuana laws / moved towards decriminalization, and has forgiven $138 billion in student debt.

I'm no fan of Biden and we should definitely demand better, but it's ridiculous to claim he hasn't done just one thing to make people's lives better. This list is just off the top of my head, except the figure for student debt. I didn't even include climate issues since there has been some bad to subtract from the good, but he's been far better than any Republican would be.

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[-] HoustonHenry@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

Or you could just deny reality like some do

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[-] Kalysta@lemm.ee 24 points 5 months ago

Except - Trump owns the courts thanks to Bitch McConnell and his justice stealing, and the Republicans don’t give a shit about the rule of law anyway.

What are a bunch of lawyers going to do in the face of a crowd of well armed republicans determined to fight to put Trump in the presidency? Jan 6 was a shitshow and they were lucky it was disorganized.

[-] 3volver@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

Regardless what happens trump is going to claim the election was rigged anyway.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 21 points 6 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Numerous Democratic lawmakers, operatives, Biden campaign advisers, and administration officials tell Rolling Stone that if the president does ultimately beat Trump this November, the election will be exceedingly close.

Top officials in both the Trump and Biden camps are expecting an uncomfortably tight election outcome in November, sources in both campaigns have told Rolling Stone on numerous occasions over the past year.

Sources in and around the president’s legal and political operations say the Biden campaign’s current wargaming is informed by questions aides asked themselves in the wake of the 2020 election: What if there’s a rematch in four years with Donald Trump?

Still, Team Biden has been planning for years sketching out what Trump could do as the leader of the GOP, and has partnered with the Democratic National Committee and a vast network of liberal attorneys and legal groups to conduct similar doomsday-style wargaming.

Bidenworld’s closely-held list of nightmare scenarios — in which Democratic legal teams would have to battle it out tooth and nail with Republican counterparts before, during, or after Election Day 2024 — has grown “comically long,” says one source with direct knowledge of the matter.

Biden campaign officials and other Democrats familiar with the topic tell Rolling Stone that a key concern, for which step-by-step gameplanning has already begun, is how to robustly respond if Trump and other leading Republicans try to engineer another Jan. 6-style power grab.


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[-] Lemming421@lemmy.world 34 points 6 months ago

Oh, I was hoping they were going to literally trap him inside a giant obelisk. Shame.

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