• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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        I politically matured during the Bush II years. I don’t ever remember being relaxed about politics.

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          I was relaxed about politics through the '90s because we had a Democrat president, a budget that was not just balanced but had an actual fucking surplus (there were actual debates about what to spend the surplus on), and a vice president that looked like a sure shot to continue control of the white house and who actually understood technology and was concerned about the environment. And then I woke up the morning after the 2000 election and realized what a complete shit show our country had become.

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      I’m afraid this won’t happen anytime soon. The media will flock to him over and over again like flies on a pile of shit. The only way for this to stop…well, let’s say we missed our chance by two inches.

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        He seemed mostly out of the news cycle the past four years, no? Apart from the occasional update from one of his trials.

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          Yes, it was so nice those few years that the media didn’t pretend that what he said mattered.

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      Ultimately the problem with Biden wasn’t his age (although that was a contributing factor); it was that he wasn’t going to win.

      Also, Harris is not as blonde as Hillary, and Hillary barely lost, so I like her chances.

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      Biden was too old three days ago and is three days older now.

      I’m delighted that we have a better candidate now.

    • North Korea started lobbing missiles again, Putin built up his invasion force for Ukraine, his dismissal of Palestinian concerns and emboldening of Israel led to Hamas attacking Israel again, Afghanistan was overrun by the Taliban because he decided to pull US troops out.

      The world wasn’t very peaceful under Trump. Rather it geared up for war.

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      If you’re only going to consider starting wars, you’ll have to add a few more presidents to that list, namely: Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, Obama and Biden.

      Kind of a crappy flex.

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      you mean the wars started by Trump allies once he had helped them? why are Putin and Netanyahu so close to Trump?