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    1 month ago

    To be fair, he drained the swamp. We probably should’ve asked him if he’d fill it with raw sewage afterwords, but that’s a different topic

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    Man, I love The Good Liars. They are great at improv and quite adept at disarming Trump supporters and getting them to say stupid things.

    With that said, the hallmark of the Trump presidency to me was that the good things he did were generally for the wrong reasons, like when he redeployed the US military from Syria and snatched money that was budgeted for various military projects to build his stupid wall.

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    You… you stop it right there! With your “facts” and your “logic” and your “knowledge”, don’t you know that a brain 🧠, like a bowl 🥣, is most useful when empty!?

    stience defeated

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    It’s only ever been about vibes*, and that’s totally good enough for these folks who have made Trump their identity. Trump could come right out and say that he has no plans at all, but that voting for him would make the libs and minorities and LBTQ+ folks upset… and his polling wouldn’t change. It’s only about the vibes*.

    * “Vibes” is used here to mean thinly-veiled racism, sexism and bigotry

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    don’t worry, i can’t name a single trump accomplishment either. unless you count making the obscenely wealthy even more obscenely wealthy, which was really the only thing he set out to do

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      Overturn RvW. He campaigned on this promise and he got it.

      I’m not saying it as a gotcha but there are very much things he promised and he delivered on, many of which were done via very illegal and unconstitutional executive orders.

      Other “accomplishments”:

      (Quick side note: I’m only counting policy based accomplishments. Things like hating on gays or hurting immigrants, while technically promises, I’m going to categorize as “legalized oppression”.)

      • deregulation of the Internet (Fuck Ajit Pai)
      • “building” the “wall” and having Mexico “pay” for it, done primarily via tariffs that ended up hurting Americans more but his base didn’t care (this one is a stretch but I’m counting it)
      • simplified parts of the tax code that gave everyone a tax cut (ignoring the part that for lower and middle class this cut was often a few dollars while for the Uber rich it was thousands)

      There are more but I need to get back to my date. 😅

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          Trump and his supporters are definitely weird sociopaths.

          I’m dumbfounded as to how this election is so close. There is something fundamentally wrong with the democrat party that they are losing to him.

          I wish dems would listen to their base instead of their donors. I hope Kamala wins but it’s not looking good.