Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

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Ah, neutral applicable semi-utopias. So very lovable… but they don’t stand for much.
(I mean, to be fair, Equestria does stand for a lot of general interpersonal goods, but most people think they’re on the side of those.)
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I remember when Idiocracy was supposed to be a satire and not a documentary. Can we go back to that?
Also, TYT gas leak continues to get worse.
Is he dumb? sounds like he really is. Cause if i remember the right literally throws people away who dont agree with them on a daily fucking basis. The Right never has the solutions because they are too busy fighting amongst themselves. The left has the ideas but they never get passed because the right doesnt want them to get passed, so they can then steal all the credit. Trump has done irreversible damage to our politics with his first campaign claiming the left always lies, the media always lies.
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I mean, that’s obviously what Rudy Giuliani and various J6 insurrectionists are trying.
Legit arguing in court the judge should wait on their sentences until after Trump is inaugurated so he can then just dismiss the charges.
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Trump can not interfere with state trials or verdicts, and can’t pardon people for those crimes.
The Alex Jones case was heard in Texas state court, and the falsifying business records crimes that Trump was found guilt of were state of New York crimes.
So he can’t pardon himself, and he can’t pardon Jones.
The President’s clemency power is conferred by Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the United States, which provides: “The President . . . shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.” Thus, the President’s authority to grant clemency is limited to federal offenses and offenses prosecuted by the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia in the name of the United States in the D.C. Superior Court. An offense that violates a state law is not an offense against the United States. A person who wishes to seek a pardon or a commutation of sentence for a state offense should contact the authorities of the state in which the conviction occurred. Such state authorities are typically the Governor or a state board of pardons and/or paroles, if the state government has created such a board.
And, given that his sentencing has been deferred until his term as President ends, when he is no longer president, Trump can still go to jail and that looming sentencing will be there with him in the bedroom at night when he tries to fall asleep.
So - for every person thinking that by being elected Trump has successfully avoided all of his legal problems, HA HA HA HA no.
Schadenfreude is a dish best served cold.
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People are breaking down on TikTok because they just realized Obamacare is the Affordable Care Act.
The heartbreaking part? So many have pre-existing conditions.
One man admitted he voted for Trump without knowing it was Obamacare that allowed his mother with stage 4 cancer to get treatment.
This is what happens when misinformation wins out over facts.
This is why critical thinking is important if you want to combat misinformation.
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Officially speaking the president can’t touch state crimes.
Also officially speaking, the president can appoint AGs and staff the DOJ with cronies. People who can very much…“influence” a state judge’s decision. And that’s if they don’t just “Official Act” the court case altogether.
I think Legal Eagle did a video on this, but it turns out that it’s actually not that difficult to get around the “Pardons don’t effect state crimes” clause.
Of course, this is Trump we’re talking about. While he would have no problem whatsoever intervening in random court cases, he’s just as likely to throw the rubes under the bus now that they’re no longer useful.
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BGP was talking about Trump helping Alex Jones trying to sue The Onion for buying InfoWars, not Trump’s many legal wies/trials
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I trust in Trump’s incredibly short patience and his inability to read or understand laws.
And if his appointments are approved, he’ll be staffing those critical positions with people who are equally clowns.
Just like Elon Musk, they’ll LOOK like they’re doing what Trump wants, and Trump will declare victory and get angry when people continue to try to accomplish the thing he already declared done, and then nothing will happen until he’s out of office again.
He’s a mob boss landlord. The appearance of people doing what he wants is more important than people doing what he wants.
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It’s absolutely hilarious how the one country that bucked the anti-incumbency trend was fucking Turkey(at least in the Presidential election)
Turkish voters really saw inflation ascend beyond mars and a massive earthquake caused by government mismanagement and said “GLORY TO ERDOGAN”
@Midnox
Do you have any proof that Trump’s court cases are phony or are you just claiming that without any evidence?
The one where the representative of the alleged victim stated that business ran without any issues where Trump paid in full?
@Midnox
“good economy”
Yeah Trump isn’t going to have a good economy. Biden had the near end of Trump’s era’s end of the economy.
So be prepared for tariffs out the gazoo.
Why the economy was good under Trump until covid while Biden’s got worse and remains worse until today?
“why was the economy good” Cause it was obamas economy? Trump went out with a bang his final year, telling oil companies to slow down the drilling. The inflation was due to the supply lines and supply and demand finally getting back on track. We finally have an inflation rate similar to 2019.
2019: 2.3
2024: 2.4
we are literally back to where we started pre-covid era. We wont ever be at the rate we were in that state which is the lowest its ever been since 2015.
Lets not forget 2016 saw the RISE in inflation from 0.7 to 2.1 because of the 6 trillion dollars trump added to the national debt
No, we aren’t. Gas was under 2$ per gallon where I live before Biden. It’s still at 3$ currently.
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If we’re talking anecdotes, gas averaged like $2.80 in the first half of the Trump presidency where I am. Then Covid hit and it cratered to $1.60, a low that Obama hit in the last years of his presidency. And I’m sorry but I really don’t think a pandemic and economic shutdown evens out that low a price.
Gas prices under Biden? I haven’t seen any prices in my area over $2.99 in months. I’ve seen it as low as $2.49 at times.
Yep even Biden has been better on gas prices. Shame that is set to end.
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I decided to look up American’s opinions on transgender rights and protections and low and behold it’s basically this
Transgender women using the same bathrooms as cis women is more unpopular than transgender women using women’s DV and SA shelters
There’s a percentage of Americans that don’t want to allow conversion therapy for transgender youths but also don’t want to ban it(confused about this one)
Around 9% percent of Americans also think that schools should not be allowed to accommodate trans student’s pronouns but that schools also shouldn’t be required to use their AGAB pronouns(maybe they misread the first question and thought that schools were required to accommodate instead of being allowed, but considering the rest of the inconsistencies here…)
Honestly I think the easy explanation here, supported by the incredibly consistent 20% of “not sure”, is that most people don’t actually give a shit about trans issues and just give an answer that sounds right without actually thinking about the deeper implications. I guess it’s the same reason why bathroom bills are actually very unpopular IRL despite receiving a plurality of support in polls, when you apply it in real life, voters don’t actually care about that
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Maybe they’re just confused, and don’t understand why members of the GOP are so interested in children’s genitals.
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