• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    Good president, did everything he could for us and we hated him for it. Lack of education has ruined the USA.

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      Damn, everything he could for you like checks notes funding a genocide while the number of homeless rises at double digits percent each year. If that’s the best a president can do, you need a change of system NOW

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    Damn. Looks like you guys are headed for a system that treats rich people and poor people differently. Where you can get away with countless felony charges just for being of a particular status in society. Where they’ll push for the death penalty for someone that shoots a CEO but sleep when schools get shot up. I feel bad for you guys that all of this is only going to start happening to you on January 20, 2025.

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      I mean we’ve always really been that place but at least the 1% had the decency to pretend they were for fair and equal treatment and justice for all.

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        Ok, so I was going with the online buzz around Luigi described in this article. According to the article, the claim is debunked but it then goes on to describe how school shooters have received terrorism charges and ended up with life in prison, but gives no examples of school shooters being given the death penalty. So I’m half wrong, as far as I’m concerned. They did almost immediately start talking about the death penalty for Luigi. And they haven’t gone that far with school shooters.

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          Several school shooters have been tried with the death penalty, no different than Mangione in that regard. In case you were unaware, Luigi hasn’t even been tried until his court date in February, after which a Jury will give their verdict and then a much later date Sentencing will be decided.

          It would be unusual for capital punishment to be carried out in Mangione’s case even if he gets that sentence, even among those who are given the death penalty usually end up waiting years or even decades and by then a politician might come out and commute it forcing them to live out their lives in prison, such as the Biden administration commuting 37 such sentences but choosing not to commute several such as the Boston Marathon Bomber.

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    Thank God Joe promised to address this issue before taking office:

    “Nothing will fundamentally change.”

    Ah. Die of gonorrhea and burn in hell, then.

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    President Biden warns of ‘oligarchy’ as he bids farewell to five decades in politics service to the oligarch-beholden establishment

    Fixed it for them.

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      If we allowed Biden and the DNC to write the tax plans it would have made billionaires eat shit. Instead the country reelected the guys who made the last awful tax plan just as it expires next year.

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        He did try many times to get rid of student loans, only for Trump’s judicial picks to say it’s illegal to forgive loans of poor people

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    "Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy

    Taking shape? Like it’s new? Like it’s only now just emerging? Jesus Christ, Biden…

    Fucking neoliberal trash.

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    12 hours ago

    “Oh hey guys there’s an oligarchy, sorry I didn’t do anything about it or say something earlier, peace out yall”

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      And spent the past 4 weeks doing fuck all to stop it. Whatever, I guess this is just the ultimate post-Reagan Dems “they go low, we go high” moment.

      “Trump is a Nazi and he will end the world if you dont vote Democrat.” > “Alright, I’m gonna hand the reigns over to the nazi who’s going to end the world. It’s the principled thing to do.”

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        If he refused to hand over the White House that would make him a dictator himself. Like it or not Americans voted for Trump. Even the ones that didn’t vote for whatever dumb reason.

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          Like it or not Americans voted for Trump.

          Yep fucktard fuck around stage complete! Now comes at least 4 years of finding out.

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          Sure, and Weimar Germany voted for Hitler. Tell me, what exactly is the point of democracy if someone can legally be elected to end democracy? What exactly is the point, if you can just vote someone in who will end democracy? I would argue that one non-democratic act is literally and absolutely superior in every way to literally ending democracy.

          But what the fuck do i know I’m just a trans woman sitting here absolutely horrified that several of my trans friends who live in the southern states could be arrested in a week or two for existing. That trans youth across the country are going to be forced to detransition. A whole generation of dead kids because a dictator takes over the country and to appease his rabid voter base puts their rights on the chopping block.

          It was all a fucking lie. WW2 wasn’t the last time. The holocaust wasn’t the last time. No one learned a single fucking lesson. All the liberals who say “If I was in Germany I’d never have supported the nazis” are absolutely categorically full of shit. It never mattered. They could start rounding people up in the street and peoples primary response would be either annoyance at the blood on their shoes or passive distant pity. And I’m so fucking done with it honestly. Democracy is an empty word. It means nothing. If you live in America you have never once lived in a democratic society, not even if you’re a boomer. It’s just now the dictators are no longer even pretending that the system has any other purpose than mass violence and exploitation. They don’t have to pretend. They’ve convinced half the world those things are good.

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        Except that firefighters dont usually let the fire grow and spread while sitting on their hands and then hand it off at the end of the day with a shrug.

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          But cops will absolutely make everything worse for others. We can cherrypick jobs as examples.

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        11 hours ago

        Especially if your shift ends and you should have been retired nearly 20 years ago.

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    “Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights, the freedoms and the fair shot for everyone to get ahead,” Biden said.

    You could have spoken up about this and done something about it over the last 4 years buddy.

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      What is it that you propose he had done in the last 4 years?

      The 2016 Maga tax plan doesn’t expire until 2026, so that’s out the window.

      Executive orders can’t really do much about economy or individuals.

      Congress was deadlocked senate 50:50 and house majority was lost in 2022.

      The FTC and other federal offices were already investigating monopolies and giving out massive record breaking billions in fines.

      He cancelled billions if not trillion or more in debts for students, veterans, medical debts, etc.

      The treasure and the fed controlling rates reversed the inflation that peaked in his first year as president despite it not serving the interests of hedge funds.

      Seems like Biden was a good president who followed the rules and did everything that he could.

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      Before that, too. He’s very much contributed to it himself, what with the bankruptcy bill, that awful crime bill that was so beneficial to the oligarchs who profit from carceral slavery, his tireless advocacy for MBNA, and much, much more.

      His political NASCAR jacket would be so full that you wouldn’t be able to read the individual names, but it would have an enormous Israeli flag on it.

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        I mean he should’ve put his money where his mouth was in Trump’s prosecution. The fact that Trump is walking free right now is unequivocally the fault of Biden and Garland.

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        He said democracy was at stake more times than I can count

        he was met with laughter, old man jokes, humiliation, claims of hyperbole and fear mongering, and takes like this from media

        These are not related. He was met with that treatment after saying 1 thing (democracy is in danger) while being a pathetic choice for saving it yet continuing on anyway. The actual response to him claiming danger was “cool, whatcha gonna do about it?”

        “Democracy is in danger! That’s why I, Me. We Beat Medicare, should stay in the race until the last minute!”

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          “Democracy is in danger, so I’m going to run a campaign which specifically and exclusively caters to the Nazis that put us in danger rather than spend an ounce of time appealing to the base”

          “Democracy is in danger, so when my internal polls show I’m going to get creamed this election, I’m going to stay in and tell the world I’m sundowning”

          “Democracy is in danger, so I’m going to spend the next year sending billions to a fascist nation committing genocide despite 70% of Americans opposition and 90% of my base hating that move”

          Fuck Biden and the DNC for putting us in this position. When a fascist rose, y’all spent your time jacking each other off about the importance of legacy. Your legacy is ashes and a public that despises you.

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    Yeah, thanks for not doing anything about it and instead just coast for the last 2 fucking months. Super helpful.

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    Man worth 10 million dollars warns of rule by the rich.

    I guess he would know.

    (With all due acknowledgement that 10 million is chump change for the likes of Elan and Musky)

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        Hence “with all due acknowledgement” because I understand that 10 mil is nothing, comparatively.

        But I also understand that, to the Amazon warehouse worker with a net worth of a few thousand, or the disabled person who isn’t allowed to have a net worth greater than 2 thousand, 10 mil is a a fuck ton of money. You know, comparatively.

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          Y’all mfs are in the thousands? I can’t save more than 500 bucks without the universe creating that exact amount in a surprise expense as soon as I’ve saved it.

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        Remember when he helped make sure student loan debt couldn’t be erased during bankruptcy?

        Good times Joe. /s

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    It’d be much better for him to just stay quiet and fade away into obscurity. Every word out of his mouth since that absurd debate has hurt him, his party, and the country at large. His legacy will not be what he hopes.

    Biden may not be super-wealthy, but his presidency is a reflection of our country’s political stagnation. And while he’s no oligarch, he’s certainly the poster boy for elite entitlement to power.

    Just a reminder, only a few days ago, Biden still said he would have beaten Trump. This man is not living in reality anymore.