• Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
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    Sleepy is the product of much GOP work. Donny needs his own.

    Drowsy Don?

    Tired Trump?

    Comatose comb-over?

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      “We’re doing to inject you with what we’re calling a ‘genius enhancement serum’; it will fortify your already throbbing genius cells and keep you sharp as a tack, ensuring your every response is virtually perfect for your defence in this trial.”

      😴

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      I read your comment and wondered what Provigil was. Modafinil. I guess I should not be surprised they were all on uppers and downers.

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      If there’s one thing I’m not gonna shit on Trump for, it’s letting his White House hand out pills like candy. Although it’s pretty shitty to do while still enforcing archaic drug laws

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        Sustained drug abuse has negative long term effects.

        You can support legalization in support of individual choice, and also condemn the personal use while in positions of (extreme) power.

        I don’t give a shit if my mechanic has an amphetamine habit as long as he can physically do the job required of him. I care very much if my president and his advisors are cracked out while holding the reins to this country.

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            Multiple Whitehouse staffers claimed that amphetamines like Adderall were handed out like candy, no questions asked, no prescriptions necessary, and the pharmacist is being sued for lack of record keeping IIRC.

            Nice try, though.

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        The pills shit has been standard practice at the white house. It only got out of hand under trump.

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      You’re not really required by law to ‘pay attention’ unless you’re being asked a direct question. Though, I’m sure judges look poorly on such things.

      I remember Harvey Weinstein doing the same thing before he got sent to Rikers. :)

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      Probably wouldn’t fly. This happens more than you’d think. Court room procedures aren’t as riveting as tv would lead us to believe.

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      Not if you are not required to participate in that part and not causing a disturbance in the court.

      This is a jury trial, and jurors are watching. Even during selection. If you don’t care enough to stay awake, it’s not a good impression.

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    Maybe a stupid question but how come in a nation of 330 million people, many of them should be qualified, the people are limited to two bad choices?

    Has it always been this bad in US presidential elections?

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      Joe Biden has led the most progressive Administration in the nation’s history, investing in social justice, environmental programs, curtailing abuses by corporations and predatory institutions, stood with workers (both on the picket line and in the halls of government), developed initiatives and instituted policies to combat racial injustice, staved off a nuclear power’s assault on a weaker neighbor, overseen the largest growth in real wages in over a half century, passed keystone legislation which committed the largest investment ever into green policies and programs while also committing the largest investment ever into revitalizing the nation’s infrastructure, put more federal judges on the bench in his first term than the last two presidents combined, weathered the highest levels of inflation in generations so well that US fared markedly better than peer nations, guided the economy through that inflationary period without the need for a Volcker Shock, expanded trans rights in every corner of the federal government, oversaw the largest reduction in childhood poverty in the nation’s history, reduced pharmaceutical prices for Medicare users by over 20% on average and brought the cost of insulin down to less than $30, and that’s just off the top of my head.

      It’s trendy for the terminally online to knock Biden, but he’s gotten more done in three years than any President in recent history has in eight. I’m not ceding this ground to low-information voters like the commenters here seem to perpetually be. I’m excited to vote for the President who has achieved more leftist goals in three years than any other American elected official has over their entire career.

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        Bro, you need to work for the election campaign. This is far more motivating than professional ads I see elsewhere.

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          Watching from over here in New Zealand and if your reply to the thoughtful comment above you is - “he didn’t raise minimum wage enough” - 1. You don’t understand jack shit about economics, and 2. You forgot to adress all of the other points raised. But oh, your threatening to go vote against your own interests to spite this anonymous dude online.

          You are everything that is wrong with this world and I’m glad that I live far enough away that it won’t affect me. Fuck you and do what you want.

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      s it always been this bad in US presidential elections?

      Nope. I’ve been following politics since Nixon and Biden is the best president we’ve had in the last 50 years.

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      To be blunt, do you genuinely believe that the population of the US is capable of agreeing on better candidates?

      If so, again to be blunt, how many people would it take to sway this decision, and why can’t this number of people strategically ensure that their candidate is chosen?

      Admittedly, I’m old enough to remember when Digg tried to make Ron Paul a thing, and when that went hilariously wrong, they shifted to Obama and made out that he was their candidate all along. I’m not saying that it’s easy, but mainly trying to say that I imagine that it’s actually quite difficult to get 300m people to agree on anything that isn’t an incredible compromise.

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      Because the people don’t choose their options, just from the options chosen for them. The rich are one team, and our options are just to give us the illusion of choice and to pit us against each other as if it were left v. right and not haves v. have-nots. Notice the options are always deeply rooted in the “haves” camp…

      From the outside looking in (not American, but Canada has similar problems) it looks transparently theatrical. But then I look around in Canada with that same “outsider” perspective and, yeah, it’s just as bad here. Our Premier of Ontario is a slightly less embarrassing version of Trump. Claims to be “for the people” but gives little-to-no fucks whatsoever based on his actions.

      Anyway… Ready whenever others are to burn this all down…

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      You’re missing the point: everyone is shitting on him for the hypocrisy of it.

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      Are you kidding me? Everyone was shitting on Biden “sleepy Joe” remember? Including Trump himself, oh hypocrisy!