“The guy is not a democrat with a small d,” the president told CNN’s Erin Burnett.

President Joe Biden said in an interview Wednesday he is all but certain Donald Trump, his predecessor and presumptive 2024 rival, will reject the results of the November election and called Trump “dangerous” for the nation.

“The guy is not a democrat with a small d,” Biden told CNN’s Erin Burnett during a visit to Wisconsin this week.

“How many court cases do they have, Supreme Court cases? They’ve all said this is a totally legitimate election. … He may not accept the outcome of the election? I promise you he won’t. Which is dangerous.”

The president went on to say other world leaders had expressed to him their fear of a second Trump presidency and pointed to Trump’s pledge to prosecute his political opponents if he enters the Oval Office once more.

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    4 months ago

    “The guy is not a democrat with a small d,”

    But I am!

    (Sorry, there was a dick joke to be made, and I could not help myself)

    I get what he is saying, but the phrasing could have been better. This seems like something that could be flipped into a campaign slogan that hides the dark undertones of what it actually means.

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    4 months ago

    lol, lmao.

    Biden is counting out the youth and left vote and tacking right to try and take trump’s constituency.

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      I think you’re underestimating how much people dislike Biden right now. There are people who don’t care or understand how bad Trump will be a second time around and won’t vote for Biden. I fear democrats are getting complacent again just like they did when it was Hillary vs Trump, and the results will be similar. I hope I’m wrong. (Not that I’m a supporter of Biden or the current Democrats, but this is the shit system we have and when the only alternative is Trump… yeah)

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          Ironically, from the progressive prospective, it looks like moderates are willing to allow facscists to win instead of moving further left.

          We really need the wings to come to an understanding fast, but that would take some good faith from the moderates IMO.

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          I think there’s a problem with 18-25 year old men wanting trump rn.

          Trump appeals to incels. young men are having less sex than ever. Idk.

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          Fascism or fascism lite. I’ll vote for fascism lite, but I have a hard time building up moral outrage for people who just check out. Biden’s tone-deaf backing of the protest crackdown rhetoric really pushed me over the edge. Biden is not trying to win, he’s just hoping Trump continues to implode, and I really hope he’s right.

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      I think you are underestimating the level of mental gymnastics these clowns are capable of

      edit - rephrasing

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    “The guy is not a democrat with a small d,” Biden told CNN’s Erin Burnett during a visit to Wisconsin this week.

    Did Trump get Biden to say this on Cameo?

    facepalm

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    I don’t even accept the poll numbers lol… we’re living in a reality where people are trying to simulate our reality.

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    At least he isn’t in the White House anymore so he won’t have to be removed forcibly. Who would carry out that eviction anyway?

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    In other news top scientists discover dirt consists of soil, which is the aftermath of forest decomposition, such as leaves, bark dead stuff, and even trees, yes whole dead ass tress!! more at 9 with with this ground shattering revelation

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        What Trump understands intuitively and most of the country still does not, is that fascism usually is not a fixed state but a project of gradually, constantly deteriorating rights.

        Trump will never be satisfied. When things reach a new low, it will only enable Trump to aim even lower. That’s why he won’t accept even the results when he wins. To his mind, he always deserves more power and less accountability, and he will keep shifting reality towards those ends. That’s why we never had a moment of peace during the first Trump presidency. Our standards kept falling, and somehow we still couldn’t keep up.

        In another Trump presidency, it will be exactly like the first, in that everything will constantly be getting worse. Because he is a narcissistic sociopath, and it will never be enough. He’s the perfect vessel to dismantle democracy. That’s the power of Trump, what makes the threat so unique and terrible.

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    One super fucked-up thing about it is the President has to say it before they’ll publish it.

    Like, yeah - you know it, I know it - hell, they know it. But they won’t write about what a traitorous fuck he is at all.

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    Even if he wins he won’t accept any states he lost that he thought he should’ve won. I could absolutely see a situation where Trump sues one of the Secretaries of State and tries to pull all the same shit he did in Georgia (which he has yet to be punished for, assuming he ever will be)

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      (which he has yet to be punished for, assuming he ever will be)

      Federal courts are all punting these cases until after November. Even if he’s convicted in New York, there’s a good chance he just… refuses to go back to New York to be sentenced. Or perhaps they just don’t get to sentencing until after the election, at which point it’ll be a moot point.

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      Trump will never face any consequences. He is the poster boy for fascism in America that the rich and powerful have been waiting for. Once he destroys democracy, they will swoop in to ensure it never returns.