This woman IS deranged. It’s hilarious that she’s demanding a timetable for anything from anyone and assuming she is a person of any consequence.

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    “Is biden isolating due to covid? no… no… HE MUST BE DEAD, AND KAMALA AND OTHER DEMOCRATS ARE PUPPETING HIS CORPSE LIKE WEEKEND AT BERNIES!”

    jesu fucking christ. What kind of saturday morning cartoon writer is writing the plot for this shit.

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      The thing is, it makes no sense…

      If Biden died, Harris is president and it changes nothing.

      They’re just scrambling and don’t really have anything on Kamala apparently

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        My favorite part of all this is that they actually have nothing on her. All their attacks are based on surface level observations and blatant racism, not anything about policy or scandals or anything. Frankly, the worst thing that could happen is someone unearths an old picture of Kamala ordering a hot dog with mustard while wearing a tan suit.

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          Trump voters largely don’t care about policy or scandals. They do, however, care about racism and sexism.

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          Vance is trying to push the border thing (whatever weird conception of the border dominating MAGA minds right now, no idea what that is exactly, this week anyway) on her screaming that it’s her fault for the last 4 yrs.

          . There’s some of that from Trump social media as well.

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          So far, that’s all I’ve seen them try.

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          Can’t really one up her bit on how she spent years as a prosecutor trying abusers of women, cheaters, and fraudsters and thus she knows Trumps type. No credible defense on that one.

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        They don’t want Harris to run for 2 terms, and they want to try and cause a shitshow in the Senate over a VP confirmation. They have lost all agency right now and are desperate for anything. QQ more GOP. Keep it up with the racism and misogyny. Fucking snowflakes.

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        All they had on Kamala during her election for the California senator were things that Republicans are actually supporting.

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        What do you mean nothing? She’s a … gasp … woman! And she’s not even white! Literally the downfall of Western society!

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      I hope they “weekend at Bernie’s” him after he gets better from COVID: spend a couple days at senator Sanders’ house, hold a press conference about passing the torch to the next generation, really make it a thing. But insist on calling it his “weekend at Bernie’s” at every opportunity

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      The kind of person with the great judgment to look at Lauren Boebert and say “I am excited for the opportunity to work with your campaign, you seem like a good candidate”

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      It’s because that is exactly what they would do if they were in that position and that situation happens. It’s so fucking obvious at this point that they love accusing Democrats of shit they do. Constant projection.

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    If he was dead, wouldn’t the result be the same?Kamala would take over the ticket. What would be the point of hiding it?

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      The result would be Mike Johnson is the probable next in line to the president with Harris acting as president. This would give MAGA and those Trump have asked to ‘stand back and stand by’ months to ‘find a way’ to get Johnson in as president for the election and certification period.

      The more obvious and plausible reason is they just want something, ANYTHING, that gets them a news bite.

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        With this SCOTUS I would not put it past them to say “actually the constitution meant to say we need 60 Republicans to impeach a president and they can be anyone not just senators. We pulled this from the myass papers”

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      Wait. Her big idea right now is Weekend at Bernie’s, the White House edition?

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      If he were dead, she would assume the remainder of his term and only be eligible for one of her own. The only way this argument makes sense is if they are scared they are going to lose and don’t want an incumbent in the next election.

      I was wrong. See all the replies.

      They aren’t kidding that the quickest way to get a right answer on the internet is to post a wrong one.

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        That’s not true actually. She would have to be president for 2 or more years in that scenario. So she could have been pres for 1.9 years already and still eligible for 2 more terms.

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        Not true- she can serve 2 full terms, plus up to half of a term if she were to assume the remainder.

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          Really? I didn’t know that. That’s great. Other than he’s not dead so it doesn’t matter, but still I didn’t mean to misinform.

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        Not even that. The 22nd Amendment states that a person can only be elected to the office twice, unless they’ve served two or more years of somebody’s else’s term, in which case they can only be elected once. Five months away from the next inauguration, it would change nothing if Harris had to take over the Presidency for some reason.

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        This isn’t true, though.

        No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.

        Since she’s inside the window of two years, it would not count as a first term.

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        I don’t believe that would affect her two terms. The 22 amendment talks how many times a person can be elected to be a president.

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    I don’t get it. I do not friggin’ understand how these nutjob ppl get elected. Wait. I can do the calculations… but good lord. It’s bleak when you see this stuff.

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      If history is any example, it can get much, much worse than this. This is our early shot at holding the line against the nutjobbery fully taking over.

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      The reason why people like this keep getting elected is because people will go into the voting booth and vote strictly on party lines. They don’t consider the platform of any given candidate they just go down the line and check all the boxes that say Republican/Democrat.

      That’s how these idiots keep getting elected.

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        You forgot the part where they’re actual representations of the people who elect them. People want people like MTG in government, because that’s what they believe too

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      There are a lot of people out there who see all this and say to themselves, “well, she’s not a filthy Dem.”

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        Yeah, I see a lot of that locally where I’m at. That line of thinking. I don’t think the average voter actually checks voting records of the candidates and sees if they align with what is good for them, their neighbour, community, etc. They just assume that ‘their’ party are the good guys. It’s like… okaaaay, but can you articulate why? And not talking points either. Are you struggling with health care costs? Who’s actually voted for stuff that would help you.

        Sorry, longer response than I anticipated. I agree with you completely, so thank you for posting.

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        That’s exactly right. Per relatives and such who vote that way.

        So far: Jan 6 was just bad players, not an insurrection. Trump did nothing wrong. Trump had the documents ready to go, waiting for a pickup, but they were dramatic about picking them up. And he’s not great but he’s good about showing the dem double standard. On what, exactly, I’m not sure.

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        I’ve been trying for months to get the sources out of these relatives and finally scored on that last week. Glen Beck and Ben Shapiro. I didn’t even know Beck was still out there doing his batshit crazy schtick.

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        Every discussion turns into a game of “you need better sources” constantly being thrown in both directions. Trump broke facts back in 2016.

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          Glen Beck

          I only know him as a weepy concern troll. No idea how the party of “suck it up, snowflake” can stand him.

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      She is a representation of the best and brightest people in her district, and I think she dose a good job representing the armed clown population.

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      Republicans are right. Dead people vote, that is how. But the dead people are voting for the Republican Party and still breathing.

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    They don’t belive this stuff. It’s just a way to stay in the spotlight. It’s like shockjock morning radio bullshit. You say outrageous shit and people lap it up. Most of the people don’t believe it either, not really. It just gives them something to yell about and get worked up over. It keeps their hackles up so they don’t have to critically think about anything. Sure there are some people that actually believe all this shit, there were actually people waiting for JFK to come back, but thats a very small number of people. Most are just riding the outrage train so they can be nasty to women, be racist, and stay afraid of gay people. None of it has to make sense, there’s no logic behind it. It’s just another way to stay mad. It seems like an exhausting way to live.

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      What’s mad to me is the losers who keep believing this shit. Like they’re consistently wrong!

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        I’m starting to think our own outrage and disbelief at their wacko conspiracy shit is the point… Like leftists are the audience they’re playing to.

        Like the clearly unhinged, deeply troubled person at a house party that keeps working *Theseus up to crazier and crazier stunts. Their fuel is attention of any kind, and without an audience they just go back to being sad.

        I dunno; a thought. I’m sure it’s not so pat

        * rofl I meant “themself” but leaving this autocorrect in

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        It’s a cult and works on similar mechanics.

        There’s a radicalization pipeline, where you slowly start with relatively small untruths, and over time it gets worse and worse. The farther you go, the harder it gets to admit to yourself that it’s all a lie. So they keep lying to themselves.

        But these guys are just the paladins of incompetence, they are the multipliers. The vast mass of voters don’t believe everything, but they are consistently bombarded with shit. And some of it sticks, some narrative works on them, and they believe that.

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      They’re accusing Democrats of that because it’s exactly what they’d do in that situation. They’re dumb corrupt assholes who constantly accuse Democrats of shit they would do.

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    I mean, even if I thought that, I’m smart enough to know that if I said it out loud, Biden could appear the next day and make me look like a complete idiot

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    Ah yes repubs going on about Biden this, Biden that after he dropped out and therefore has zero relevance to upcoming election is totally a winning strategy.

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    It’s hilarious how they continue to campaign against Biden despite the fact that he dropped out.

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      It’s pretty lame to fall back on crude innuendo on response to a politician’s bullshit.

      Also, you shouldn’t make claims like that without evidence.

    • OK, I get the downvotes because it comes across a a sexist comment; however, in your defense:

      • she’s an idiot
      • she’s a horrible person
      • she’s rude and without morals
      • she is a hypocrite about the very thing you mention: spouts moral religiosity, and then behaves differently

      It’s really the last point that justifies your comment, IMO. Similar jokes are made about Trump, but they get a pass because it’s OK to slut-shame a man.