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    Other than after 9/11 when we were lied to about the war, Republicans haven’t won the popular vote in my lifetime.

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        The tone-deafness of this reply is pretty ridiculous considering how badly he fucked up. He disbanded the team who was supposed to respond to this disaster, denied it was a big deal, told people not to vaccinate when he got the shot, and politicized a public health issue unnecessarily.

        It is estimated hundred of thousands of less deaths would have happened if Trump had just done his job and not spent his time grandstanding and demonizing public health officials. To put that in perspective, that is more US deaths than every single conflict since WWII combined.

        So yeah, when you are purposely killing hundreds of thousands of Americans while hand waving it away like it is no big deal you get to own that. The reason unemployment was so bad was because of Trump not COVID.

        To top it off, the Biden administration turned it all around and showed us how much of a dysfunctional shit show the previous administration was. To this day places that drank the Trump Kool aid still have higher deaths rates.

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      He is 100% guaranteed to lose the popular vote by millions. Unfortunately, that doesn’t determine whether he wins the election.

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        World population in 1945 - 2.3 billion

        World population in 2024 - 8.2 billion

        I’m talking numbers, not percentages (although Trump might still have Hitler beat there as well, thanks to the internet).

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          I was born decades after Hitler died and I hate him.

          Wait, just saw the lifetime thing

          Anyways you’d be surprised by the amount of people uncaring of American politics in India and china, or even supporting trump.

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            I’m specifically talking about while the person is still alive because once they’re dead, what you think of them is moot.

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          Jimmy Carter beats pretty much all past presidents in age-related categories. He’s the oldest former president (and still going!) and has been out of office (alive) for over 43 years and counting, much longer than any previous one.

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    I just don’t get this. Does the fact that Biden pulled off 4 months before election mean he was never a candidate? 🤔 With that logic, if Trump quits now he is again forgiven as the oldest one? So, whole this news would be bullshit?

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      Nope, Trump is his parties verified candidate which happens at the convention. Dems have not had their convention yet so Biden was not officially the candidate. Semantics, yes but technically true.

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        Plus I can’t recall if I’ve ever seen one of these parties entertain competition against an incumbent (or former president). In such cases, the party nomination is kinda/sorta a formality. This is why we have heard of zero alternative candidates from either the RNC or DNC.

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          Former presidents don’t normally run because they learn their lesson the first time they lose.

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    Just Trump again giving unwelcome kisses to his stage partner, but when women accuse him of the same thing conservatives don’t believe it. He’s showing you who he is.

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      Impeachment is not the same as being removed from office. It is the first step to the process however. Impeachment is the bringing of charges against an official in office. Once charges are brought, a trial must be held on the Senate with the Chief Supreme Court Justice presiding. If the trial ends in a conviction, the result is removal from office. However, the Chief Justice for nearly the past 20 years is a staunchly conservative man appointed by the 2nd bush administration in 2005.

      Impeachment was never really a threat to Trump while in office. Just a way for Congress to tell the president that they know the bad shit he’s doing and they don’t like it. As long as the supreme court remains absolutely stacked with conservative appointees, there will never be a removal of office of a favored Republican president.

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    Political and depressing comment ahead, skip if you are just here for the laughs

    Tap for spoiler

    And if you let him he will be the person who have killed more Americans with his civil war.

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    pretty sure other people have been convicted of crimes before. he is fantastically old though. maybe he got sent to juvie back in his childhood hometown of Bedrock and was the first convicted criminal!

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    The leftists should just stop pretending, write a Bible, and start worshipping whoever tells them they are special

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      On a scale of 1-10, with 1 being Inconsequential and 10 being Paramount, how important is hierarchy to the healthy functioning of a group?