I think you meant to say "exactly what they did with Biden".
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As much as the GOP is a fascist authoritarianism loving piece of shit, this is true and this needs to be called out.
They exactly did this
Epstein's Law: every accusation from a Conservative [of being guilty of a thing] is a confession [of being guilty of the thing]
They do it cause it works. When you've got a couple billion in media capital that you can fling around, it is very easy to just say "You're the pedo! You're the crook! You're the dictator! You're doing genocide!" on the loudest volume.
And it doesn't help when your opposition takes it at face value and announces "We're looking into whether we're all degenerate freaks. We're taking these allegations very seriously" in between sucking up to the same batch of billionaire sociopaths bankrolling the fascist movement.
Oh look…another gotcha. Oh look…zero effect
if the GOP cared about consistency, or had any shame to begin with.... we wouldn't even be having these problems.
It's only the Dems who seem to care about doing things by the book, taking the high road, being proper...... and we can all see where that's getting us.
Democrats are the Eddard Stark to Republicans Cersei Lannister
This is an amazing comparison because Eddard Stark was still the asshole who beheaded a kid for running away from the nights' watch.
Eddard Stark was still the asshole who beheaded a kid for running away from the nights’ watch.
Propaganda in action.
Dude was a deserter, formerly a rapist. Read the books, not fake news.
Dude was a deserter, formerly a rapist.
Not to question the system of press ganging convicts into military service or the maybe somewhat dubious accuracy of medieval courts, but you're still saying a kid deserves to be decapitated for these two things.
In a fictional fantasy realm with dragons and magic, sure. It's not like Ned was happy about it.
I think the wide appeal of GoT was how little actual sorcery was included, especially in the early books. The stories were fairly gritty and characters were relatable.
Probably the best part of the first book was Ned Stark discovering Punnett squares while investigating all of King Rob's bastards.
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Wow, really hypocritical of me to be so blasie about executions in the first episode. I guess I've learned a lot.
As an outsider, democrats seems to be, not very democratic. Sure vote democrat next election because the rest is so much worse (the system itself is badly designed IMO, you'll shoot yourself in the foot voting anything else than the two big parties) but don't judge them on the baseline of what the republicans are.
To paraphrase Goebbels. "Accuse your opponents of what you are doing."
I don't even think they realize they're doing it half of the time. It's wild.
They don't. To paraphrase Innuendo studios. 'They do what what they believe works without understanding why it works'.
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Yeah but it was also.true lmao
Politics is not a football team
Even your first president knew it would turn out this way and opposed a two party system because of it
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Unfortunately, it is.
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Republicans: "Joe Biden is literally dead and has been replaced by a clone"
Billionaire-Owned Mass Media: "Is Joe Biden a zombie clone? We spend six weeks asking the question over and over again in man-on-the-street interviews"
Democrats: "I can't wait till a Republican is President so they get the same treatment"
Billionaire-Owned Mass Media: "Trump says he's the healthiest any man has ever been. We spend six weeks asking the question over and over again in man-on-the-street interviews"
Democrats: "This is unfair"
Also Democrats: "Please, Billionaires. We love you so much. Donate us more of your money"
Accuse is really sugar coating it for Dems. Both parties have covered up severe health problems of the presidents, that's what tends to happens when you have 70+ yr old Presidents.
At the same time it makes you realize how a well-chosen cabinet can run the show. Which makes you wonder, why have a president at all, some countries use a council now instead. Less "rockstar" and consolidated power. Make politicians bureaucratic again.
Make politicians bureaucratic again.
Sorry if rubbing this in, but as an outsider looking at US politics, the opposite was quite literally what people asked for since "pOliTiCs iS bOrInG" and they only started to engage in politics simply because Trump came to power to laugh at him. Now, it turned that he is a full blown fascist, and people are starting to have buyer's remorse, and wish they didn't wish to turn politics into circus and demand it to become boring again.
People don't put that much thought into who they elect unfortunately.
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Every accusation is a confession when it comes to conservatives.
When haven't it been projection with conservatives?
P R O J E C T I O N!
It's the GQP's playbook.
Look everyone, nothing happened. Trump's hand was never bruised and he was just really busy for a few days. Putin definitely didn't break his hand in Alaska. That's ridiculous and no one is saying it.
Which it turns out they were, though I think it was more denial than any active deception.
Yeah, but it's virtuous when THEY do it.
It would be funny and take all the criticism thrown at Biden re: his advanced age and behaviors and bring them up with Trump.
If you want to see some heads spin, raise some of those. Stuff that "just made sense" with Biden i.e. "Do we really want someone tuning out?" "He got a name wrong in a speech." "He looks old." Now, apply that to Trump and all of a sudden it "doesn't make any sense".
I feel like there is a certain amount of hypocrisy required to advocate Trump. Similar to the Party in 1984, part of the success is being able to hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time and consider that logical and reasoned.
As an outsider it was quite weird seing a really, really old person in bad health calling out another really really old person because of age. Gaslighting I guess.
He's too busy crying his eyes because he didn't get invited to that parade with Winnie the Pooh and friends. And it was much more magnificent than the "we got the military parade at home" he got for his last birthday
I mean they were right. Thats why he got shuffled off in favor of killemalla after all. Them being hypocrites is nothing new.
That was at the end of his term as well, what's trump going to do, battle through it with 3.5 years still on the clock?
Every accusation is an admission of guilt
The tweet is true.
But this is the US. Partisan ideologues of all colors have no principles beyond that which are convenient in the moment.
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