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Joe Bitin’

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This is one of those comments I read, think it’s clever, click back and start to move on. Then I audibly chuckle and have to come back and upvote it. Well done :)

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8 points

Take my upvote and get out

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228 points

They’re eating the babies.

They’re eating the toddlers.

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25 points

They’re eating the votes… Of the people that live there…

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That does it, I’m not voting for him.

Edit: he jokingly nommed on a turkey costume and an ice cream cone.

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Honestly, if Trump did this it would completely change my view of him. Jokingly gnawing on a baby turkey leg is a very human thing to do, and I just could never see Trump doing it.

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Fascinating article. Baiting the right to read it, then dropping truth on them?

Jenna Ellis, a suspended lawyer who used to work for Donald Trump and who pleaded guilty to “aiding and abetting false statements” in an attempt to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in Georgia, posted an article of Biden biting a baby on X, writing: “How is this real?”

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Funny of you to think that they’ll read it.

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25 points

If it converts a single R voter, it’ll have a bigger positive impact on the election than either of us will.

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The fact that this extremely unserious story is being taken extremely seriously by all parties involved is hilarious to me. Not just the faux outrage by the conservative media, but the shots being fired back by the lib media in response.

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Ok, first, LMAO that this is real.

Second, the entire political media apparatus in the US has completely lost grasp with reality. Conservative media has predictably reacted to this with faux outrage, but the fucking liberal response to the conservative response is hilariously combative:

Conservative commentator Benny Johnson, whom the Department of Justice recently alleged was unwittingly paid by Russian state media to produce Kremlin sympathetic content, reposted an image of Biden biting the baby in the turkey costume.

“Apparently Joe Biden is biting babies at The White House this evening,” he wrote. His post had been viewed 740,000 times by Thursday morning.

Lol, like - sure - all objectively true. But throwing out ‘he’s a paid russian agent’ accusations against a tweet that’s pointing to something Biden actually did is batshit crazy lol. Is the implication that russia is paying Johnson to fabricate a story about Biden biting babies?

The US political media has become a parody of itself and all I can do is laugh at it.

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The article is drawing comparisons between what conservatives choose to be outraged by vs the things they actively engage in.

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31 points

Wouldn’t you like to know who’s a Russian rat up front?

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Sure, but it’s redundant. You can easily infer that simply from the ‘conservative commentator’ bit.

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5 points

You and I can. Lots of people can’t.

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if it’s relevant to what they’re saying, yea lol

How does Benny Johnson being paid by russia change or effect what he’s saying about Biden pretending to bite babies?

Like, if the article had said:

Lemmy user LowtierComputer, whom is alleged to like pineapple on their pizza, commented on an article about Biden biting the baby in the turkey costume.

“Wouldn’t you like to know who’s a Russian rat up front?” they wrote. Their post had been upvoted 4 times by midday Friday.

How does your preferred pizza topping relate to the topic of your comment (biden biting babies)? It might be true, and it might be important information to people who distrust pineapple-pizza-lovers, but it absolutely no bearing on the thing you wrote.

Lmao it’s just funny that an article about something so ridiculous has deleterious details about random conservative commentators in it, as if those details have any impact on whether the ridiculous thing happened or not. It almost makes you wonder if the story is actually about Biden at all, or if it’s about how shitty those commentators are and Biden was just the excuse to write about them.

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Is relevant in that they’re posting about a generally negative-seen activity by Biden and they’re very biased against him.

Yes this biting activity is true and doesn’t matter, but the impetus behind it is relevant to readers.

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It would be parody except this year several popular influencers we’re discovered to be russian-funded tools.

https://apnews.com/article/russian-interference-presidential-election-influencers-trump-999435273dd39edf7468c6aa34fad5dd

So it’s not that far-fetched.

Now I’m not saying Johnson is fabricating a story, but he very clearly could be swayed to skew the narrative with a few extra bucks in his pocket.

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13 points

I agree this is all crazy, but Russia is probably also actually paying people to fabricate a story about Biden biting babies.

It’s not paranoia if they’re really after you!

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5 points

You got it backwards - just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not after you.

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What they said is true about conservative commenters but it makes me feel uncomfortable because i don’t know what to do about it so i wish they’d stop reminding me

Many people agree with you, unfortunately for us all.

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It doesn’t make me feel uncomfortable, it’s just hilarious that they felt the need to include it lol

“Did Biden bite a baby? Maybe, but the guy who said something about it is a felon!”

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7 points

I think it’s more like

“Guy who’s paid by foreign dictator to say things to weaken America is making a big deal about this thing”

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