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I hope Trump is convicted, because Democrats are happy with a racist lost Roomba with dementia in the White House thanks to him.

We need to do better than this.

Edit: So I’m told it isn’t dementia and he always was that stupid and racist. Still don’t like him or Trump.

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Nice job buying the Republican talking point that Biden has dementia. Too bad there’s absolutely no evidence of it. He’s old. He does and says old person things. That doesn’t mean he has dementia.

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Dude, I’m leftist as fuck. Hardcore. Biden is a disgrace and needs to be out. A broken clock is right twice a day, so even if home slice is GOP, he’s not wrong.

We all can do better than this.

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Again, just another iteration in the “blue no matter who” loop. Again, it’s sad people allowed themselves to fall for the brainwashing/battered voter syndrome.

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Biden is a disgrace and needs to be out.

Trump proved that even crimes at the level of impeachment won’t result in a successful removal.
2/3 of the senate is a pretty high bar to clear.

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28 points

I’m leftist as fuck and I’ll still vote for him because any other choice would be worse.

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That’s great. He still doesn’t have dementia.

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Ah yes, the old, tired argument that if I don’t like Biden, I must be a Trump supporter falling for propaganda. The guy is not coherent enough to be President, in my opinion. These 80 year olds need to get out of politics.

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He is as coherent as he has been in the last 20 years. So yes, you are falling for propaganda. There is zero evidence that he has dementia.

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The “Biden dementia” thing comes from two places.

First is, Biden has a stutter. Everyone has known about it for his entire political career, and he’s mostly overcome it, but every now and then he’ll trip over a word. Right wing nutjobs will then scream that Biden can’t form a coherent sentence, even though he can indeed do that.

The second source of the “Biden dementia” nonsense is projection/deflection. In the middle of Trump’s presidency, there were some medical experts who started raising questions about Trump possibly having something along the lines of Frontotemporal dementia. Now, these were people without access to Trump’s medical records or any records beyond videos of Trump, so there’s a large grain of salt to be taken.

The basic argument was the Trump has a distinct stance, legs ramrod straight, but his torso leaning slightly forward. This is very common among people who suffer that type of dementia. His word choice has also tended to delve into the nonsensical more and more over the years, even if he’s still able to string together a grammatically correct sounding sentence. Which is another sign of that particular strain of dementia.

The main argument against FTD is the seeming lack of apathy. FTD is a disease that robs you of your emotions.

The sub category of Semantic dementia might fit Trump better, but honestly, I think he’s just a lazy conman who was never very smart in the first place.

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The main argument against FTD is the seeming lack of apathy. FTD is a disease that robs you of your emotions.

Did you mean empathy instead of apathy?

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Right wing nutjobs will then scream that Biden can’t form a coherent sentence

This part is also projection to help them justify their own support of a self-proclaimed “stable genius” who is quoted as saying

Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.

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This “dementia” bit needs to die. Call him old or stupid but pathologizing to something as severe as dementia hits me the same way as if you called him “retarded.”

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regarded?

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9 points

Is it tough playing a generic misinformed enlightened centrist? I get visions of Pagliacci only in your case it’s a bag of turds in clown makeup.

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I wanted Sanders to win. Not Biden and not Trump. Is it really that difficult to comprehend?

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You do know Sanders isn’t running, right? He’s also two years older than Biden, so why aren’t you concerned he has dementia?

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I hope Trump is convicted, because he seems guilty.

Damn that hits a bit different doesn’t it?

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I never said Trump wasn’t guilty. I don’t like him either. I want to see that guy fail.

I’m just angry that the best we could do against an obvious threat to our country is someone who isn’t mentally fit for anything, and people tell me if I don’t like him, I must be a Nazi falling for propaganda.

The lesser of two evils is still evil. We need to do better than this.

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If Trump is out of the picture the Democrats can finally have a healthy primary. Good riddance.

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9 points

Wow there’s another Republican who isn’t a cowardly pussy and capable of telling the truth.

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You know your campaign is rough when you’re quoted as “Republican” instead of by name.

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Funny enough either they changed the title or they decided his name was only worth it for the url link were actually says his name as part of the url path title.

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Shortly after Hutchinson’s remarks, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was also loudly booed as soon as he took the stage and throughout his remarks as he also seemingly addressed the Republican divide.

“The problem is, you want to shout down any voice that says anything different than what you want to hear. You can continue to do it, and believe me—believe me, it doesn’t bother me one bit,” Christie said, who is also running for president.

The Republican fired back at the boos by saying, “You can yell and boo about it as much as you like, but it doesn’t change the truth. And the truth is coming.”

Christie added: “And all of you need to understand: America needs better than what we’ve had. And it never makes America a better place, whether it’s on a college campus in an Ivy League or whether it’s in an auditorium in Orlando, for us to be booing and shouting down opinions we don’t agree with.”

I’m sure there’s plenty of people ready to point out the many ways in which Chris Christie is a piece of shit. But I really do appreciate the way he’s willing to actually confront others in his party and call them out on their bullshit. Even among Trumps critics and would be rivals, so many others are retiring, acquiescing, or just desperately tip toeing around the truth to avoid upsetting the flavor aid connoisseurs. But Christie is out their scolding the crowd like obnoxious little shits that they are.

And no, it won’t change the minds of the people who are booing him, they already went off the deep end. But it may help shatter the illusion for those who are moving in that direction, who have been living an echo chamber, and who need someone to be the first to point out that the emperor has no clothes.

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flavor aid connoisseurs

Nice one.

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You gotta appreciate a Lemming who uses the actual product (flavor aid, not the misquoted Kool Aid).

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My guess is he’s playing the long game. With how these idiots mindlessly follow trump and must reshape their whole beliefs every time he contradicts the last one, Christie is just banking on them mindlessly shuffling to the next hypocritical stop on their train ride of bullshit. Christie probably thinks trump will fall far enough when the results of some of the trials start trickling in. He wants to position himself as the new savior they can worship. He expects them to ignore the previous few years of hate and vitriol they fomented and fall in line with the next guy.

I think they are stupid enough to do it.

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I don’t think Christie expects to be an idol to these people, he just wants some political power.

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I think Christie was someone who Trump wanted to be VP, until Trump’s plane had ‘maintenance’ issues and Trump was forced to stick around for a meeting with Pence which was Manafort’s pick for VP.

Then Christie was put to overseeing the transfer team, which Trump shut down and yelled at Christie because they raised so much money for the transition that Trump wanted for himself. Christie of course tried to explain the money was needed for a proper transfer but we all know how that went. There’s an article about that bit for those that may not have seen it.

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Hutchinson continued to state that such an outcome will make it harder for Republicans down the ticket to win their races if Trump, who is the current GOP frontrunner, wins the 2024 nomination.

Yes, Boo this man! And Boo anybody that wants to change this fact!

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Fucking seriously. Let them implode.

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