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        • He probably wouldn’t have were it not for his opponent both being extraordinarily terrible as well as literally working to position him to be in the race in the first place

          It kills me that literally not a single person in this country other than me seems to remember the pied piper email shit, or cares about it. I just don’t get it. If Trump is literally satan, and someone did sociopathic gaming of an election that backfired and let literal satan win, why the fuck does nobody blame that person??? Ffucking string her up as THE person whose singular decisions “destroyed american democracy” or whatever liberals say trump did

          I’m gonna be real, y’all, sometimes I am just filled with the feeling that most people have less memory and ability to contextualize than even 2-year-ago LLMs. Trying to explain what is, to me, an extremely simple causal relationship linking Hillary Clinton, her campaign decision to have media contacts elevate Republican extremists, and Donald Trump… who was explicitly named in the memo… winning the election… trying to explain that to most people is like the Man-ray giving Patrick back his wallet meme

            • It might have but I think the american electorate is basically silly putty that will be shaped however each individuals chosen media will propagandize them to be and I think giving Trump shitloads of air time def had an effect

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              It wasn’t just the primaries, though. In order to boost him in the primaries, Hillary made him so fucking popular overall in the media and popular awareness that it couldn’t have not helped him in the general election.

              Anyway, if Ben Carson had won, we might at least have grain pyramids right now. LOL.

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            And who could forget the birther shit started in the dem primary by the Clinton campaign? Weird how it made its way into the Republican party via a long-time friend of the Clintons. 🤔

            Yeah liberals have really bad memories. They’ve already forgotten about all the shit Bush did. Or how Obama continued all of Bush’s policies instead of throwing him in Abu Ghraib. Or how Republicans piss and shit themselves over Monica Lewinsky as if they weren’t all cheating on their spouses anyway. Or that Lewinsky was what? Like 22 at the time? They quickly forgot about #metoo and BLM once their people were being criticized.

            It’s intentional, or else they’d have to admit they have no principles and deliberately do evil shit on purpose.

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            Hey, the common refrain for many people was, for awhile, ‘The difference between a liberal and a socialist is that a socialist has a memory longer than four years.’ Back when most American leftists thought liberals just had good intentions but were just misguided by the elites.

            This is by no means a new phenomena or new observation within by the left of liberal politics.

    • he’s also heir to the swanson TV dinner empire, so the guy was already born completely caked-up.

      i think he just enjoys his platform and the position it gives him in the spectacle. why be a politician when you can already pressure politicans & have an adoring audience?