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Anyone remember Al Franken?
Al Frankens political career got fully William Wallaced in public view for nothing while Donny Two Scoops raised millions after becoming a convicted felon.
I hate this country most of the time these days.
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Remember when just making a weird scream during a rally was enough to end your entire presidential candidacy?
Yup. And Franken stepped down for merely being accused of something.
Was he accused of anything other than a silly prank photo where he was pretending to grope a woman?
If I remember correctly, he was also accused of kissing her on her lips without her consent.
I call that, integrity.
Sometimes I think about how different this country would be if he was never forced out. I wonder if he would have run for president in 2016.
Does anybody remember the 1980’s being the “Al Franken decade”?
LMAO. That’s not going to happen. I would love it but there’s a better chance of snow in August.
It would be hilarious if he does get elected from prison. All of his meetings with foreign leaders would need to be by Zoom or equivalent, and that’s if he’s able to get special privileges to do so. If not, he’d have to do it all in a 15 minute phone call once a week like the rest of the prisoners. And he might have to eat Nutraloaf lol.
At least the cost of running Air Force One would go down to zero.
Downvoted not because I disagree, because this might be the most pointless set of words ever written.
I guess with 6 months left him dropping out would be better, yeah. Other Candidates won’t be able to fill the game in time.
Donald Trump has never once in his life put anyone else’s needs ahead of his own greed.
He cut his own nephew off from medical care.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/trump-cut-medical-benefits-his-nephews-infant-child/
according to 538 he’s polling ahead of Biden: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/ why would he drop when he’s ahead.
Those are polls from before the verdict. We’ll know if the conviction changed minds in a few days.
Why would the verdict change the polling numbers? Do you think Trump supporters care about this?
Surely item 8623 in the list of reasons no sane person would vote for him will convince them!
The reality is people voting gop don’t care about women, they certainly don’t care about porn stars - they see this as a political stunt involving a fallen women who of course would lie to hurt their hero. The actual crime of fraud is meaningless to them, they’ve convinced themselves it’s more evidence the dems are corrupt and evil so it’ll only harden their resolve.
Vote and convince people the importance of voting, it really is very important. If they win gop will use this as a mandate to ensure ‘dem political corruption can never happen again’ which involves reversing decisions, packing courts, introducing crazy rules and protections for their own corruption, and likely attacking all the ‘many arms of dem corruption’ from artifa to NPR.
Yes. So should Biden.
He’s now barred from owning a gun, but people want to give him the nuclear football? 🤔
No, they are depending on him just passing it along to Putin.
Barred from owning a gun ? Because he was convicted ?
You can’t own a gun if you’re a convicted felon.
You can’t legally. Let’s face it, there are still ways if they want to. No thanks to lax laws and enforcement of those laws.
He should have dropped out 8 years ago. He didn’t then and he won’t now.
I’d say it’s probably more than 8, but you’re still not wrong.
And money should grow off trees! And monkeys should fly!
Precisely why he won’t
Yes, the sky is blue and water is wet
But water isn’t wet.
Donald trump should drop dead
Or glitch like mitch
I prefer that he gets locked in syndrome for a few years. A taste of hell before he goes to the real one.
Personally, I’m hoping we can strip the family of enough wealth that they’re all left destitute. Anything less will just encourage copy-cats.
Nah, let them keep an income of $80k/yr each. Make a reality show out of old money trying to live modestly as middle class. I’d subscribe to HBO Max for that.
Also make sure there’s an accountant with some charisma to explain their bank account balance in every episode. Need to make sure they aren’t getting other sources of income. Ideally, make the accountant a black woman. Not like a skinny pretty one like you’d find hosting the news…no, one with some meat and attitude. She’ll be the host too.
Copy cats? Trump is the copy cat. The original was born in 1889 in Austria.
Nothing but his own internal monologue and no interaction with the rest of the world? That’s basically a campaign rally for him. He’d love it.
No he wouldn’t. There would be no one to give him external validation, which extreme narcissists crave.
Ranting and raving in his own mind, with no one to tell him he’s a good boy or the yugest, bigliest smartest man to ram the ramparts, would be the worst kind of hell he could suffer.
Like what happened to that dude from Metallica’s “One”
I’d happily settle for a massive stroke with aphasia and a droopy face.
How would we know?
Saying this on Reddit would literally get you a ban. Wild. I love Lemmy.
I’ve seen comments removed for saying this here on lemmy. I think it depends on the context and the mod.
I’ve seen less getting removed/banned it’s entirely dependent on the mod
Sometimes you have to get creative. I once suggested the idea of doing an impression of Lyudmila Pavlichenko and nobody said anything.
Ha! That’s amazing
There are some lemmy communities/instances that are very pearl clutching / boot licking. There’ll be a story about like a billionaire eating live puppies or a cop murdering someone and getting away with it, and anything along the lines of “maybe someone should forcibly stop them” is removed.
Reddit should drop dead.
Reddit: I’m doing my fuckin best!
Really does seem that way, huh? They’re speed running killing their website.
Shortly before I left completely, I had gotten a permaban for saying “I concur” on a post of a woman in a shirt that said “punching Nazis is not a crime.” Neither the post itself nor its poster were removed or banned. I appealed like 20 times before it was reversed but it made the decision to leave altogether so much easier seeing first hand ADMINS, not just moderators, defending Nazis.
Reddit admins love Nazis. Spez is a far-right psycho prepper.
This guy ain’t gonna let go of anything and will happily drag the entire world into the fire just so he has something to sit on while he burns. You, personally, are his absolute last consideration
