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dead [he/him]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 months ago

Joe Biden ends re-election campaign

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Joe Biden ends re-election campaign

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Joe Biden drops out of election, upending race for White House
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President says decision is in interests of country, but endorsement of vice-president to take over is not a done deal.
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  • dead [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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    It’s Joever

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      Never been more Joever.

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        this is without a doubt the most joever it has ever been and, god willing, ever will be

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          Yes, it can’t be more Joever until he croaks. Which is hopefully caught on camera.

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            They’ll say he died of a broken heart

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            This is so jover for joe it will never be jover ever again after this.

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          The final Joevering still awaits us.

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      opens isitjoever.com scale

      Wait…

      taps the scale, the arrow bounces around and stops around 100%

      It cannot be…

      shakes the scale and places it onto the table, the arrow moves to 100%

      Is it… joever?

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      He is Bidone.

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      Biden 2028 /s

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        If we had to bet money I’d say Biden 2025

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    matt-jokerfied FUCKING LIBERALS GAHH

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      “If only he could have made that decision sooner.” You fucking assholes have been saying that his obvious brain damage is a fucking stutter for five fucking years! Shut the fuck up!

      • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        2020: umm pointing out Biden’s mental decline is ableist sweetie.

        2024: wow Biden is fucked up, how come he didn’t come forward sooner???

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          rat-salute-2

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Liberals are always retroactively correct

    • Robert_Kennedy_Jr [xe/xem, xey/xem]@hexbear.net
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      Not left, not right, forward.

      • Bakzik [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        We must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!

        • HexReplyBot [none/use name]@hexbear.netB
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          I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

          • yewtu.be
          • inv.nadeko.net
          • yt.artemislena.eu
          • piped.video
    • PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      “It is never time to learn any lessons from our failures of long term planning.”

    • Kieselguhr [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      We need a president who’s boring in a good way, like Obama. His worst scandal was wearing a tan suit hehe smuglord

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        memoryholing the Snowden leaks

      • Sulvor [he/him, undecided]@hexbear.netBanned
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        The tan suit thing was pretty ridiculous tbf

        https://youtu.be/WrTf6CaTTc0?si=lJBlXgUqPkt8LU9S

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          I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

          • yewtu.be
          • inv.nadeko.net
          • yt.artemislena.eu
          • piped.video
    • AvocadoVapelung [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      That was then. This is now.

      • peeonyou [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        people need to understand Biden exists in the context of all in which he lives and what came before him, you think he just fell out of a coconut tree?

    • peeonyou [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      every… fucking… time

  • Crowtee_Robot [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    This is how Bernie Sanders can still win.

    • Bakzik [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      No, it’s her turn hillary-assassin

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        Sorry Kamala. We already have a president chosen guaido

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          Who has the Rolodex? I need Juan Guiado’s number.

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        WRONG, it’s HER turn

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      Kamala/Sanders

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    Last time I went out for a run, Trump got shot. This time I come back and Joe Biden has been retired.
    The mistress of fate fears my calves

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    It’s her turn hillary

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      Finally a real educated respectable politician unlike drumpf who is a very rude guy.

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      She never sleeps, the Hilldawg. She says that she will never die. She whips and nay-nays in shadow and in light and she is a great favorite. She never sleeps. She is dancing, dancing. She says that she will never die.

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      Sadly she has shit political instincts and thus hasn’t been building the base support to make her nomination possible this time around. She would’ve snagged it from Kamala though (and then lost to Trump again)

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    it’s her turn

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      Marxism-Coconutism

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        You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.

        Kamala demonstrating Marxist historical materialism.

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        On Hexbear we uphold Kamalaite thought

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          khrushchev-fist We’re all Khive now!

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      Fucking nice lea-w

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      frothingfash Where’s Obama?

    • theother2020 [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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      Take this bit on the road please

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        What does that mean?

        • theother2020 [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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          It would be funny posted/commented “unironically” on reddit and twitter, but first no self-harm

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        I think republicans think this, my dad’s boss told him that kamala was a scary radical communist back in 2019

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    deleted by creator

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      Probably. I think most of the other potential DNC ghouls are scared of eating shit and getting the mantle of Hillary 2.0 when they’re fine waiting for 2028.

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          kamala is a big time word bungler though

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            It’s so funny that she is just as much a marble mouth as Biden is

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              to be fair, we have no idea how she sounds sober

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                and we never will

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                  I don’t know, imagine the hell of seeing him not shielded/prepped by his staff and knowing that you lost to that. She wasn’t like this in the 2016 primaries

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                Candidate and VP Kamala probably has different drug cocktail mixologists

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                Hard to just cold turkey stop benzos like that. She’s gonna be shakey if she has to make an unscheduled live appearance and didn’t have time to redose.

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                It’s hard to bargle nawdle zouss with all these Xannies in my mouth
                speech-r
                mystery-emote jokermala

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                Kamala 2024: Have You Ever Had a Dream You Um You Had Your You You You Could You’ll Do You Could You You Want You Want Them To Do So Much You Could Do Anything

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            She sounds like she abuses Alprazolam.

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      She’s the best chance they have to win imho. Because picking anyone else looks like extreme ratfuckery and loses a lot of the base. (And people here overrate how supposedly unlikeable she is lol).

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        kamala-coconut-tree

        Kamala explains the eternal science of dialectics

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        The guesses that she’ll perform poorly are based on the 2016 primary where she wasn’t unlikeable as much as she was bland and forgettable. She’s just a blank slate now people can project what they want onto her.

        I still don’t think she has a good shot and that Whitmer or Newsom would have it. I’ll be surprised by her alleged likability when I see it.

        Edit: tbf I do know some suburban wine mom/aunt libs who love her. So clearly there’s a demographic there. Problem is that it’s very similar to Hillary’s. I don’t know if that’ll be enough to push her over the edge.

        Having the first female/non-white president is probably going to be the card they play. Will probably play up her being half-black more than half-Indian and make comparisons to Obama.

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        Yeah this. Its the easiest transition. And i know its hard for me to imagine how people who don’t really follow this stuff feel about her, or how people who are going to vote feel about her. I do think people will like her less the more they see of her, but i don’t know that it will matter.

        I don’t think it really matters what people feel about her. The dems strategy is negative partisanship and abortion. The candidate doesnt matter as long as they can keep the conversation on Trump and abortion. Harris is really bad at this, on top of being an outright ghoul, but she can at least say the word abortion. And abortion is already boosting the base and going to drive people to vote.

        I’m not saying she’ll win, but i think more or less anyone but Biden could be competitive in this race. It could go either way, but i think people here are a little kneejerk that the dems will lose to Trump.

        Disclaimer- i don’t care about this election or who wins. I’ve just followed this stuff for way to long to not have an oponion on what might happen.

        Death to Amerikkka of course amerikkka

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          no way in hell it’s gonna happen

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            Lol okay. What i said could happen is that she could win or lose, just that it’s not impossible for her to win

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        Another big factor is all of that money that’s been donated to the Biden campaign that only she has clear legal access to

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        I saw someone mention Mark Kelly, the astronaut turned AZ senator that flipped AZ blue. I think people could get behind that with the right campaign. I dunno if the DNC is that competent though

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      Biden just endorsed Kamala according to news coming across the wire.

      Still remember to remind Democrats that you can’t vote for her or anyone else because the primary and thus the people in our totally healthy, totally democracy CHOSE Joe Biden and that he was undemocratically forced out by unelected media, donors, and insider. As such you’re either withholding your vote in protest of slap to the face of Democratic voters who CHOSE Joe fair and square or writing in Joe.

      After all people don’t vote for a ticket for its vice president who is a place-holder at most, often a compromise with the visions of the candidate. They vote for the candidate, so it’s not at all fair to say votes for Joe were votes for Kamala or transferable to her. Just repeat this at liberals and watch them malfunction and lose it as they cope with their impending loss.

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        because the primary and thus the people in our totally healthy, totally democracy CHOSE Joe Biden

        I know you’re doing this as a bit but this line pissed me the fuck off from Biden or bust losers. What the fuck primary are they talking about? Only like half of the states had primaries, and in half of those Joe Biden ran unopposed. Here in Florida there literally was no primary. And then these lanyard dick motherfuckers go on TV and say “suck it up this is what we all decided in the primary” and I’m like bitch who’s we?

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          Democracy

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          I left my ballot blank, to send a message

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        Write in Biden or Clinton, it’s only fair

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          By showing that he’ll put the nation first he’s finally done what it took to earn my vote

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          it’s her turn after all

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      Biden endorsed Kamala on twitter but it’s not his decision. The candidate will likely be chosen by the DNC in August.

      https://xcancel.com/JoeBiden/status/1815087772216303933

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        3 months to hustle. The DNC got this in the bag lol

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      She probably has the best odds anyways

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        i saw a poll (🙄) where she was losing but the governor of PA would beat trump

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          Kamala has the current vibe though, and as dumb as it sounds people have won on that before.

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        Doubtful, until like a week ago she was the only Dem that polled worse than Biden against Trump. Literally any Dem governor would win, and most of the house reps and senators probably would too.

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          I struggle to believe that Newsome would win. You could just say “Governor of California” and lose 2/3rds of the country (and they really wouldn’t be wrong, or rather right for the wrong reasons)

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      as long as she’s the nominee she’s paying for my next decade of bong rips

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      looks like joe’s team just tweeted an endorsement for her

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      Do they have any other choice? There are a grand total of zero potential candidates with any sort of charisma.

      Maybe AOC could have worked but she’s not old enough yet.

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        AOC was on the keep Biden in train lmao

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          Wasn’t everybody doing the “Biden is still good” dance in public and only shat on him behind closed doors?

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          Maybe she knows he’s dead and wanted them to weekend at Bernie’s him

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        Tbh I think Whitmer could win. This is going to be another “vote against Trump” election, and she was literally targeted by MAGA nuts who wanted to drown her in Lake Michigan. Plus she single-handedly delivers one of the swing states that Dems need.

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      That’s what they have been polling for so it will be very funny if it isn’t

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      Yes. Joe took out himself and whoever replaces him, and possibly the Democratic party itself. NO WAY Trump can lose now, and if they put up Kopmala it will be an epic sweep. I will eat these words with a mustard sandwich if somehow the Dems win, but I’m feeling pretty safe, tbh.

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    My take away from this is that it wasn’t the genocide, it wasn’t even his shitty debate performance, it was fucking covid that pushed this asshole over the edge. A small amount of justice for all the people who are suffering and dying from this terrible disease that Biden for years has simply been ignoring.

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    They showed him the CIA heart attack gun they used on Bernie.

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      They had to show him a couple times

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        they went for the headshot too probably, judging by the look of things

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      They uncovered the secret of the Biden crime family and offered him a deal, drop out or we’ll show the world you and Hunter have been running z-library.

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        running z-library

        Would’ve actually gotten him a few votes

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      I ain’t scared of that, Jack! They shot me with that back in 1980… 1980… listen. The 1980s were dangerous for everyone, not just bla- I shouldn’t say that. Anyway. It’ll take more than that to stop me, Fat!

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        I was there in the ambassador kitchen when they got RFK man! You can’t scare me with that little fella Sir… Sir… Sir Mix-a-Lot. Look, I know what this is all about and that’s why… anyway. Sorry man, I talk too much, I should go now.

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      Tbf with Biden that’s just hiding behind a curtain in the Oval Office and then jumping out and shouting, “Boo!”

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      This is how Biden got “Covid.”

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    May 1000 coconut trees bloom 🥥 🌴

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      But only if they are in neighborhoods for pell-grant recipient small business owners who just graduated college 3 years ago with fewer than 10 digits on their fingers

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        Ah, the coveted woodshop teacher-turned-Etsy store demographic

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    elmofire oh man the convention is going to be an absolute shit show. There’s no way for the democrats come out of this looking like anything other than usurpers of the democratic process.

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      They won’t look like usperpers if they just give it to Kamala lol?

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        They will; that’s my point, they look like usurpers regardless of who they pick.

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          How do they look like usurpers if Biden voluntarily steps down and then they give the nomination to his Vice President?

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            Because you don’t vote for the VP choice in the primary, you vote for the president and they pick their VP later. Installing Kamala this way looks like, the party leaders wanted Kamala and used this as the way to get around the pesky “will of the voters” part that kept her out of the running in the first place in 2020.

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              I see what you’re saying but I disagree - we already had this play out in the sham of a primary. The party leaders wanted Biden, and they avoided the will of the voters by not running a primary at all in some states, or by running Biden unopposed.

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              I think most people who voted for Biden in the primary understood they were voting for Kamala as VP. I dont think this is how people are going to see the situation if Kamala is chosen. She certainly at least mitigates those feelings.

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      How much do you want to bed the lanyards are the ones to present the pick and their entire justification is, “we polled Democrats on these 4 candidates and our choice got the best (43%) approval!”? They will then call that democracy.

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        Ah yes, the infallible democratic process of the will of those that pick up a call from a number they don’t recognize on a landline

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    Lie about working towards progressive causes.

    Get elected.

    Do nothing progressive. Instead, obsessively back a genocidal regime.

    Have liberals back you for re-election under the assumption that you ever gave a shit.

    Drop out and fade into as much obscurity as you possibly can after all the horror you’ve caused.

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      Crush unions, overturn Roe v. Wade, fund Nazis, expand fracking, fund cops, start wars, do genocide.
      Retire as most progressive president since FDR somehow. Hand over a losing election to a black woman on your way out.

      brandon

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      Gets praised for stepping down.

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    Oh yea, its coconut tree-pilled and context-maxxing time contextphobic

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      heh, you kids were all out partying and ripping fat clouds meanwhile I was practicing the context of all that came before

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    Keep the kamala harris megathread handy comrades, we’re gonna need it.

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