• protist@mander.xyz
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    2 months ago

    Joe Biden doing some heavy lifting in this narrative as a VP and one term president. If anything, Joe Biden and Bill Clinton actually prove this point that anyone can become president, both come from very modest means.

    The Bushes, however, are a dysfunctional political dynasty stretching back to senator and investment banker Prescott Bush, George HW’s father, and Samuel Prescott Bush, a steel executive and industrialist, who was HW’s grandfather.

    Also, you left out that this is the 3rd election in a row with Trump on the ballot.

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      2 months ago

      “I will have you know I’m a self made man, just like my father and his father before him”

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      It is also just one man. No parents, siblings, children, spouses like the Bushs or Clintons. No one is getting all uppity about politicians like Glitch McConnell having decades in the senate.

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      Also who says “anyone can become president”? Liars and the gullible, I guess

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      The whole thing is heavy lifting. Clinton and Bush havent been a thing for 20 years. Running and losing doesn’t count.