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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 11 hours ago

Trump is worse than himself. If there was a competition for "evilest man in earth" he'd be disqualified for lying about cheating at cheating only to land in 5th place.

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Worse than Biden? The old dipshit that maintained the status quo vs the narcissist that will burn down America to enrich himself and his family and disrupt every norm. Headlines are awesome.

[–] clot27@lemmy.zip 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Next elections would still be

One side - 306 (49.7% vote)

Other side - 232 (48.6% vote)

and you can do nothing to change this. I can bet on this

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Next elections would still be

What next elections?

Haven't you heard? The Orange Utan and his fat tramp friend Bannon have already announced that they'll deploy ~~the SS~~ ICE at polling stations. As if nobody saw that one coming even before Trump inexplicably won the vote in 2024...

[–] clot27@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago

someone needs to do IT like...

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Boomers have overstayed their welcome. The spoiled generation took the greatest wealth ever seen, became spoiled by it, sqandered it, and left X, Millennials, Zoomers, and Alpha holding the bag (climate change, broken empire, insurmountable debt, political instability, unstable social safety net, etc.). They will not be missed.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 5 points 11 hours ago

Oh that's nice: for once a young person is pissing on the boomers without lumping us gen-Xers with them.

Cuz more and more now, I'm being told that I'm a scumbag, the scourge of society and that we all had it easy-peasy in the 80s. Because of course we did: obviously we're the cause of everything that's wrong in the world today, and our evil boomer parents even more so!

Oh well, inter-generational hate will always exist. You will know it too when you get older my young friend...

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Not wrong. My boomer parent, who is still alive, is the subject of multiple daydreams a day involving a plot of land with a stone on it, no-one observing, and a stream of hot yellow liquid flowing on to it.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 66 points 1 day ago (4 children)

worse than Biden

The guy is a fucking pedophile yet "worse than Biden" is needed to convince people

Talking about having priorities

[–] Zink@programming.dev 4 points 14 hours ago

Decades of indoctrination and conditioning is a hell of a drug.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Yeah, but the Epstein files, released under his admin, are like, all faked by the demonrats or whatever so

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago

"Biden is old."

"Hey, let's go with a guy that's equally old, but also a lifelong asshole, felon, rapist, and pedophile with 2 impeachments and a failed presidency already under his belt."

"Sounds great to me."

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

I’m betting it’s not just pedophilia.

I’m waiting for the documents that show he’s sent hits on victims and threatened their family.

And still no section 25.

Still no impeachment.

And still the MAGA mind churns.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The only actual thing I'm mad at Biden for is not putting this monster in prison when able.

Merrick Garland sure is fucking quiet now.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

FUCK JOE BIDEN!!!

This motherfucker had ALL OF THESE EPSTEIN FILES and did NOTHING with them. NOTHING!!!!!

He did absolutely nothing to punish the wealthy/powerful behind January 6th, he did nothing with the pedophile ring and just peaced out and gave the keys to fucking Nazis.

He will forever be remembered as a complete failure. His legacy is Trump and letting our democracy get destroyed without any pushback.

[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago

He's kinda like Hindenburg in that regard. Though Hitler was a lot more efficient than Trump is now.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not even talking about that. That crap was under seal by a (I think GOP appointed) judge. IIRC, there was fuck all Biden could legally do there.

I'm talking about the open & shut espionage & sedition cases that the Biden DoJ had on Trump and completely squandered.

[–] 7101334@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

He's also guilty of enabling, and in some cases directly sending American armed forces to participate in, an internationally-recognized genocide.

Biden's name should literally never be able to be spoken without that fact being brought up.

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 59 points 1 day ago (7 children)

51% says Trump is doing a worse job than Biden? WTF is wrong with the other 49%!?

Biden wasn't great, but surely anything that's not bringing the US to the brink of dictatorship and civil war is better than anything that is?

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 day ago

WTF is wrong with the other 49%!?

Poor media-literacy and social media.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Biden is still the best president we've had since Obama

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well... you're not wrong, but also its a super low bar lol

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I've got plenty of criticism of Obama too, but he's easily the best US president of the 21st century, and it's not even close. And although nowhere near as good, Biden is still easily #2, because at least he didn't start two trillion dollar wars for nothing. And although he's pretty bad, Bush is still easily #3, because for all his many, many faults, at least he didn't usher in a full-blown fascist dictatorship driven by narcissism and stupidity.

There's no easier century to rank presidents.

[–] 7101334@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

at least he didn’t usher in a full-blown fascist dictatorship

in America

Ask Iraqis if they felt equally free.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

That's why hes #3. Out of 4. He's still bad. They're all bad.

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[–] dancroissant@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

He's still polling pretty well for a notorious child rapist and trafficker, and potentially worse.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Polls lie. Make sure you vote.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We should be voting with guillotines. We should be giving “hanging chads” new meaning.

The media is fully captured by the rightist ruling class, capturing the soap box and ballot box. They have packed the courts with traitorous loyalists, depriving us of the jury box. Only one box is left.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 164 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (24 children)

Under no other president did I fear for the lives of so many Americans.

At work, we used to talk about dumb shit. Who brought M&Ms or cupcakes. How some random movie ended.

Now, some of my coworkers are terrified. We had a incident where some masked goons rushed up on a random woman and when we all came out, they ran away.

Our manager openly said, "None of them are allowed in the building." And during the worse of it, my manager brought a shotgun.

Average office workers are arming themselves.

This is what this orange motherfucker did.

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[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 183 points 2 days ago (19 children)

Biden wasn't in the Epstein files.

[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 144 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Biden wasn't a traitor. He also didn't bankrupt a casino

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

He did willfully neglect putting one in prison, while telling his citizens what a threat he'd be if not imprisoned, and elected again, though. Not super generous of him.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 73 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Biden had all kinds of programs that looked out for US citizens and built up our healthcare and education.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 101 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Nah but Biden also didn't make sure to choose an AG to actually put the motherfuckers in the Epstein files behind bars, either. It's not like the Epstein information magically appeared when Trump became President, he literally ran in 2024 on the fact that Democrats hadn't released the files. This information was available when Biden was President. Epstein was (very likely) murdered while Trump was President the first time.

So, fuck Biden anyway, he was focusing on all this "decorum" shit when it comes to a fucking network of pedophiles and rampant corruption and oops didn't want to make it "lOoK PoLiTiCaL" to go after criminality. Now the same people they didn't want to look political prosecuting don't give one single fuck about looking political in prosecuting their perceived enemies.

Fuck, Biden was literally handed a free pass when the Supreme Court ruled that when a President does it, it's not a illegal. He could have done any number of things to prevent this with the backing of a Supreme Court decision that was tailored to support Trump but technically applied to any President.

Democrats may not be in the files, but they sat on their fucking asses writing strongly worded letters and throwing up their hands going "but it's too hard to make sure they go down! Gears of justice turn slowly, so slowly that Trump can be voted back into office even with all this hanging over him!"

It's a crock of shit, Democrats are culpable for not taking this fight to the mat and instead being wishy washy limp dicks who handed over the reigns of the government to corruption twice in a row.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

It's not even his appointment of Garland, though, who is equally guilty. Trump could have been Biden's Al Copone, who Hoover made his personal mission to take down. It's ultimately the leader's job to protect their citizens, and he was apparently too lazy.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 137 points 2 days ago (15 children)

67% WANT LOCAL OFFICIALS TO COOPERATE WITH FEDERAL AUTHORITIES TO DEPORT CRIMINAL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

2/3rds of this country are absolutely just fucking assholes.

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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

He is worse than Buchanan or Johnson. He’s on par with Jefferson Davis, Mussolini, Kim Jong Un, and Vladimir Putin.

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 16 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Could have swore that was going to say "worse than Hitler".

Imagine USA gets a system where people vote for what they want, not merely against who they don't want.

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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 13 points 1 day ago

He should sue all the Americans for damages.

[–] duelistsage@sh.itjust.works 54 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Trump is the worst president ever.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago (3 children)

LOL, what kind of metric is that? Biden may be kinda milquetoast in pursuing criminals like Donvict, but things were actually really quite good under his presidency.

A better metric is to say that Donvict is the worst president in history - he's such a dirtbag and a greedy little shit that he may very well destroy this country. He's that bad.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 11 points 1 day ago

Fuck me, the overton window really is far right

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Trump is up there as worst president of all time. Only president who was worse was Andrew Jackson. If this ICE stuff gets any worse he my become the king of worst presidents.

[–] btsax@reddthat.com 14 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Andrew Johnson was by far the worst of all time for sabotaging Reconstruction. Basically every problem we have now including Trump/fascism is a direct result of Johnson's actions.

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