• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    The right wing says things for effect, not for truth. That’s all.

    They’ll say Biden eating ice cream is an embarrassment but Trump eating ice cream is showing he’s a man of the people. They have no consistency other than seeking power. They are, if you value honesty and consistency, bad people.

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    The Democrats nominated John Kerry that year. President Kerry went on to lmao j/k he lost to George W. fucking Bush after we saw the horrible wars he started.

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    yeah but he was a democrat, and only democrats are held to any standard whatsoever, you know?

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    Because Dems decided that they would set an example.

    Protip: don’t take the high ground when being shitty and immoral is seen as virtue.

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    Remember when Howard Dean later colluded with Clinton, Wasserman-Schultz, Donna Brazil, and the DNC to say how awful Bernie was?

    I distinctly remember an interview on NPR where he basically said Bernie was garbage. It made me sick to think that I went knocking on doors for the Dean Campaign.

    Fuck 2016. It was the year I changed my alignment to the DSA.

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    He was running on healthcare reform and a public option as a failsafe minimum. That’s why his yell ‘made him unfit’ in the political media cycle.

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    I read that his campaign was already failing and the yell wasnt really the reason he withdrew.

    Also, Mitt Romney’s “I have binders full of women” is really funny.

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        Jen statement was out of context.

        Iirc, he made a joke, it bombed and he said “please clap” and people laughed

        Or something like that