r/MadeMeSmile Feb 21 '25

Good Vibes : )

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u/Objective-Bee-5932 Feb 21 '25

He looks and seems about 20years younger here than he did 4 months ago

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u/VastPie2905 Feb 21 '25

Maybe not being president and stressed as hell can be better for you.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '25

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '25

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u/ca7ac Feb 25 '25

Ya bombing villages would likely have some sleepless nights

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u/ryahuasca Feb 21 '25

Not baiting or arguing, just curious - what do you consider the greatest accomplishments of his presidency and of his entire political career?

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '25

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u/AcanthisittaOne8872 Feb 22 '25

We had more deaths during Covid under him then the previous administration

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u/PlotRecall Feb 22 '25

lol that’s the natural progression of a pandemic you idiot

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u/monkies_w_pens_1776 Feb 21 '25

Covid response? They buried elderly men for profit? Climate efforts? Efforts don’t pay the bills. No one cares what Canadians say about our presidents. Yall and Mexico are like less that 5 percent of our gdp and leach 10 miles off of our border and mirror our democracy with a twinge of communism.. you are literally spinning your wheels trying to find his accomplishments. Not shitting his pants before lunch seems to help while he becomes a puppet with organized crimes hand up his ass guarded by the judicial system

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u/Jrbinmlxxiv Feb 21 '25

Dude made his account literally 2 days ago, ignore it

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u/Zelenodolsk Feb 21 '25

I’ll take the bait

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u/liuther9 Feb 22 '25

I mean it is his bread probably.

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u/iloveokashi Feb 21 '25

He put a cap on insulin?

That would have benefited a lot of people.

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u/Roy-Southman Feb 23 '25

This was a heaven sent to a lot of people with diabetes. Insulin and medicine for diabetes got really cheap. Too many Americans suffer from diabetes and Biden improved their lives. This is a tangible and real good thing that he did.

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u/Zelenodolsk Feb 21 '25

What the in the tinfoil hell are you talking about

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u/-Hylann- Feb 22 '25

If I didn't think you were bat shit crazy, I woulda thought you were talking about trump in that last part lol

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u/Catsandcamping Feb 22 '25

Right! Trump has been photographed wearing a diaper in his tennis whites!

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u/bobsim1 Feb 22 '25

Completely ignoring climate is surely the better idea./s A lot of people in california dont worry about bills right now.

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u/ChemEBrew Feb 21 '25

Inflation Reduction Act. Over 300k jobs for sustainable energy. And the CHIPs Act. Two of my top.

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u/AcanthisittaOne8872 Feb 22 '25

Which he was the cause of to begin with

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u/gman6041 Feb 21 '25

Yeah right.the inflation reduction act that spent trillions,cost the average American family over 7500$ per year in added costs, and didn't do a damn thing to reduce inflation.just another corrupt giveaway to friends of the last administration.

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u/samv_1230 Feb 21 '25

Lol source for those numbers? It's estimated to cost a trillion at most over the course of a decade.

https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/the-inflation-reduction-acts-benefits-and-costs

Seems the benefits would outweigh the cost, but that's just my opinion.

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u/ChemEBrew Feb 21 '25

Source: Trust me bro.

I'm just impressed his response didn't have random words capitalized with sporadic punctuation.

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u/Guran22 Feb 21 '25

The trillions number is the estimated cost over the next several decades, not how much has been spent as you imply. Doesn’t seem like a genuine criticism.

https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/08/16/fact-sheet-two-years-in-the-inflation-reduction-act-is-lowering-costs-for-millions-of-americans-tackling-the-climate-crisis-and-creating-jobs/

I’ve found literally nothing about it raising costs for the average American; in fact, I found the complete opposite. Plenty of other great things in there too.

Facts aren’t vibing with your feelings bud.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '25

The fact u believe the government is insane

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u/Guran22 Feb 22 '25

Want to elaborate? You can fact check every claim that was made. Have any actual info to provide or just talking out of your ass? I don’t blindly believe anything, I check data and sources. My link sources all its claims with data to back it up. You come with…nothing.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '25

Look up Lindy Li, a former democratic fundraiser and personal has worked with the bidens. Listen to what she has to say and whys she’s ditched the Democratic Party

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u/Guran22 Feb 22 '25 edited Feb 22 '25

What does that have to do with what we’re talking about? You implied what I linked was false. My link sourced their data. You have yet to bring any actual data to support your stance. You bringing up some random persons talking points is irrelevant to the discussion at hand.

Edit: also looked this Lindy Li person up. They seem like a horrible person who changes their values based on what benefits them the most.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_Li

In March 2023, Li on a panel on MSNBC said, “Let’s also not ignore the fact that CPAC has become a gathering of sexual predators. Let’s be honest” and “Tonight, we have Trump, a serial rapist...So, this is the party that claims to be the party of Christian family values, and I have nothing to say or do but laugh at that!”[33]

In 2024, after the US presidential election, Li transitioned from being a supporter, to being a critic of the Democratic Party.

In January 2025, Li said, she “has been a conservative all my life.” Li later announced she was raising money for Trump and Republicans, despite having previously criticized Trump in harsh terms.[44]

Sounds like a wonderful person with consistent morals.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '25

Listen to what she has to say on the Shawn Ryan interview.

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u/Catorges Feb 21 '25

It's also not always the big things, but the small things you do. The everyday work to care for and serve the people and make their life a little bit better.

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u/Novel_Sheepherder277 Feb 22 '25

He passed several historic federal investment bills. Infrastructute, expanding healthcare, the biggest federal investment into education in American history. People don't recognise his achievements because inflation drowned them out, and it takes 2 decades for K-12 education to pay noticeable dividends. He was sincerely focussed on securing a better future for the next generation, not his re-election, to his detriment. Stuff like that, getting rid of student loans etc, increases the likelihood of young people owning their own homes, being able to afford to have kids. It reduces the wealth gap - effectively trickle up economics.

Sadly Trump has already undone most of it.

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u/Jedopan Feb 22 '25

Canceling student debts

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u/spqr_mmxxiii Feb 22 '25

1) 16.6M jobs added, GDP growth of 12.6%. Only admin in history to have created jobs every single month. 2) Wealth adjust for inflation rose 37% for median American families. 3) Investing in America Agenda which comprises the Infrastructure Law, CHIPS act and Inflation reduction act has attracted over 1 trillion in investment to US and will create over 1.6M construction and manufacturing jobs. My top three but the list goes on…

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u/rachelm791 Feb 23 '25

What did the Romans ever do for us?

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u/DragBitter4904 Feb 21 '25

Doing nothing can be better than doing something

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u/Oscillatingballsweat Feb 21 '25

Yeah I have to say I'm not sure where this person is coming from. What we have now is abhorrent, but it doesn't suddenly make the previous guy a hero. He was historically a senator who cared more about reelection than any morally stanced policies, and he became a champion of women's rights only so he could get Democrat votes for Obama while running as VP. While he was in office he was the definition of mediocrity - which again, I'd pay my savings account right now to go back to, but it doesn't mean he was an amazing politician...

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u/cheffartsonurfood Feb 22 '25

Isn't everything EVERY politician does in order to get more votes? Kinda the point.

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u/Oscillatingballsweat Feb 22 '25

The difference is that his stance on abortion and women's rights while he was in congress for more than 30 years was to get him votes at the expense of his voters. I don't so easily pardon the man for that, no matter who ends up president after him. Fuck Trump. But fuck Biden for his backward policies until it mattered for his promotion to the oval office.

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u/Ultidon Feb 21 '25

THIS is an honest POV that doesn’t deserve the downvotes they have gotten

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u/Ellieb19 Feb 21 '25

If I disagree, especially because of the facts I researched and know, why wouldn't I downvote?

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u/Tasty_Ad7483 Feb 21 '25

Its too bad that he couldn’t do the one thing that would have really helped us now: announcing after the 2022 midterm that he was not going to be running for re-election.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '25

We watching the same guy?!?

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u/Repulsive_Parsley47 Feb 24 '25

He made and give everything he could for his country and to avoid what Trump is trying to do know. He made his duty.

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u/nofilter47 Feb 25 '25

Gave his life and is now worth $41m on government salaries. Last 4 years made $400k a year, his highest years and took all of that to $41m. Not only is he a dedicated public servant but that man is a genius in investing and real estate.

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u/GetGoodLookCostanza Feb 28 '25

he made himself and his family rich...like every other politician...Stop worshipping false idols and scumbags that do not care about Americans

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u/AcanthisittaOne8872 Feb 22 '25

Under Biden’s watch, the U.S. economy has been a train wreck, especially when it comes to inflation and reckless spending. Since he took office, prices have shot up nearly 20%, squeezing the life out of American wallets. Inflation hit a staggering 9.1% in June 2022, the highest in four decades, before settling at 2.9% by December 2024. But don’t be fooled; the damage was done. Real wages have actually dropped by 3.4% since he took office, meaning folks are earning less now than before. The national debt? It’s ballooned to over $36 trillion, surpassing 100% of our GDP for the first time since World War II. In fiscal year 2024 alone, we shelled out $882 billion just on interest payments for that debt, more than double the average over the past decade. And let’s not forget the federal deficit, which has soared to nearly $2 trillion this year, with projections hitting a mind-blowing $4 trillion within the next decade. This isn’t just bad management; it’s economic malpractice that’s mortgaging our future.

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u/xdr567 Feb 23 '25

Genocide enabler; but that does make a few smile, so fits.

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u/AcanthisittaOne8872 Feb 22 '25

Joe Biden’s presidency has been marked by failure, mismanagement, and outright hypocrisy, just as his political career before it was filled with blunders and dishonesty. From the start, he’s been a man of contradictions—someone who claims moral high ground while repeatedly getting caught in lies, failures, and corruption.

His first presidential campaign in 1987 ended in disgrace when it was exposed that he plagiarized a speech from British politician Neil Kinnock. That alone would be bad enough, but it didn’t stop there—he also exaggerated his academic record, claiming he finished in the top half of his law school class when he was actually near the bottom. These lies forced him to drop out of the race (Time). Fast forward to the 1991 Clarence Thomas Supreme Court hearings, and his incompetence was on full display again. He oversaw the hearings and handled Anita Hill’s accusations so poorly that he managed to anger both sides. He refused to let other witnesses testify in support of Hill, leaving her to be humiliated, but then later tried to paint himself as a champion for women’s rights when it became politically convenient (NPR).

Racial insensitivity has been a constant theme with Biden. In 2006, he stereotyped Indian Americans by saying, “You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent” (CBS News). Then, in 2020, he told Black voters, “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t Black.” That wasn’t just patronizing—it was straight-up racist, acting like Black voters owed him their support (NBC News). Yet, he gets a free pass because of his party affiliation.

Then there’s his presidency, which has been a disaster from the start. The Afghanistan withdrawal in 2021 was an absolute failure. He ignored intelligence reports warning that the Taliban would take over the country within weeks, then acted surprised when everything collapsed. The world watched as desperate Afghans clung to U.S. planes, people were trampled to death, and 13 U.S. service members were killed in a bombing at Kabul airport. His administration tried to spin it as a success, but it was one of the most humiliating foreign policy disasters in modern American history (Associated Press).

The economy? Completely mismanaged. Inflation skyrocketed under his watch, hitting levels not seen in decades. His administration blamed it on everything but their own reckless spending, but the reality is that trillions of dollars in government stimulus overheated the economy, making everything from groceries to gas unaffordable for everyday Americans (Wall Street Journal). His border policies have made things even worse. Illegal immigration surged to record highs after he rolled back Trump-era policies, and the situation has spiraled out of control ever since. Border towns have been overwhelmed, crime has increased, and the administration just shrugs it off, pretending it’s not a crisis (Fox News).

His signature student debt relief program? Blocked by the courts in 2025 because his administration had no legal authority to unilaterally cancel billions in loans. It was a cheap political stunt from the start, designed to buy votes rather than actually solve the root problems of student debt (Reuters). Meanwhile, his Environmental Protection Agency mismanaged $20 billion in climate funds, funneling them through Citibank with little oversight, raising concerns about corruption and conflicts of interest (Bloomberg).

And then there’s the growing concern that he’s just not mentally fit for the job. His speeches are filled with gaffes, he regularly loses his train of thought, and public figures—including those who once supported him—are openly questioning his cognitive ability. Even George Clooney, a longtime Democrat, admitted Biden isn’t as sharp as he used to be (New York Post). If Hollywood elites are worried about his mental state, you know it’s bad.

Even his commutation of Leonard Peltier’s sentence in 2025 was controversial. Peltier, convicted of murdering two FBI agents, was released under Biden’s orders. Supporters claim he was a political prisoner, but FBI officials still view him as a cold-blooded killer. It was another example of Biden pandering to the left without caring about the consequences (Politico).

Whether it’s foreign policy, the economy, immigration, or just basic leadership, Biden has repeatedly shown he is unfit for the presidency. His entire career has been filled with failure, and his time in office has only proven that he was never qualified to lead in the first place.

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u/SerdanKK Feb 22 '25

What's a little genocide between friends, eh?

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u/djvidinenemkx Feb 21 '25

Everything he accomplished in his career is completely overshadowed by allowing and supporting Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people. Had a favorable view of him beforehand.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '25

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u/ActuatorOwn4458 Feb 21 '25

Same with Hitler, you can criticize his policies while acknowledging his lengthy career and service.

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u/Glass_Birds Feb 21 '25

This was a dumb comment. You wasted your own time, and breath, while typing it.

Make better choices.

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u/i-have-a-kuato Feb 21 '25

“Smoking cigarettes is bad for your health” - adolph

“we need a solution of some kind” - adolph

What a hero huh?

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u/djvidinenemkx Feb 21 '25 edited Feb 21 '25

It’s a huge lapse in moral judgment and paved the way for Trump. Unfortunately I do think it tarnishes his full career.

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u/ChemEBrew Feb 21 '25

You're going to hurt their feelings with the truth. Don't even try to educate them that it takes 60 votes in the Senate to pass major legislation that isn't budget reconciliation and that didn't even happen under Obama which is why the ACA was so watered down.

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u/djvidinenemkx Feb 21 '25

Dang the amount of cope here is unreal. Voted for Kamala but that didn’t help her. Democrats have failed to put forward a compelling platform that beats Trump and addresses the needs of the American working class but instead of learning keep blaming the left. They’re still playing identity politics while the republicans are waging a class war. Just like now, deomocrats are rolling over to Trump again.

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u/HarvestAllTheSouls Feb 21 '25

Thanks for that, this sentiment contributed to losing the election. Luckily, there's a guy in charge now who's going to be much milder.

Yes, this is sarcasm.

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u/djvidinenemkx Feb 21 '25

Nah man ya liberals got us here by not offering a platform that addressed the needs of the American working class. Wild to blame the anti-fascists for the fascism haha.

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u/i-have-a-kuato Feb 21 '25

Democrats wanted a fair taxation structure to increase money needed for among other purposes infrastructure, rural internet services, reestablish that a minimum wage means a living wage, furthering green energy initiatives which would open new employment opportunities. They wanted to ensure democracies across the globe did were not destroyed by invading forces and that constitution is not a pick and choose document.

Where the hell were you getting your information from

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u/djvidinenemkx Feb 21 '25

From the results of the election. Those are all great things and maybe that platform would have worked back in 2016 but they weren’t enough in 2024. The reason Donald was able to so easily fool the working class is that the democrats didn’t put forward a TRANSFORMATIVE platform. Working class voters wanted real change because they’re hurting and Kamala didn’t give them that.

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u/i-have-a-kuato Feb 21 '25

Did you read what I posted?

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u/djvidinenemkx Feb 21 '25

Ya got a real limited imagination as to how we can organize ourselves as a society if you find that platform “transformative”.

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u/i-have-a-kuato Feb 21 '25

Oh this will be fun…reveal your imagination to us please

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u/Ellieb19 Feb 21 '25

Liberals are the people who are the working class, and/or worked among the working class and support the working class. Liberals ard progressives. So sick of your divisiveness and fingerpointing. Take responsibikity for your vote or lack thereof, and stop pretending you aren't a magat.

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u/djvidinenemkx Feb 21 '25

Y’all coping by blaming the left for the democrats poor choices and eventual loss. Just as blinded by the team sports politics as MAGA. If democrats actually worked with the left and put together a platform that actually addressed the concerns of the working class (like Bernie has been shouting about for years) you might win an election now and then. The democrats lost any moral high ground due to Palestine.

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u/i-have-a-kuato Feb 21 '25

Single issue voter?

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u/djvidinenemkx Feb 21 '25

Voted for Kamala even after her “I’m speaking” stunt that cost her metro Detroit.

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u/KarasuKaras Feb 21 '25

What you going to do when Trump to turn Gaza into Trump Plaza?

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u/djvidinenemkx Feb 21 '25

My god y’all lost because your candidate and platform sucked. The blind eye to genocide only sealed the deal.

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u/KarasuKaras Feb 21 '25

If you care about genocide at all then you are barking up the wrong tree.

Trump is supporting Russia and Israel’s genocide and you are crying about the past.

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u/djvidinenemkx Feb 21 '25

Not sure how to help ya bud. You all paved the way for fascism by allowing the Democratic Party to be as corrupt as the Republicans. Of course Trump is awful and worse than Kamala. The democrats would rather have Trump than ceed any power to the left.

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u/KarasuKaras Feb 21 '25

Oh both sides bad…

So you were just virtue signaling and helping Trump spread disinformation.

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u/Asleep_Flatworm_5884 Feb 21 '25

Hope you are enjoying living under king Trump, we are here because of people like you

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u/djvidinenemkx Feb 21 '25

Ha I voted for Kamala. Did the moral failure of not opposing genocide cost them the election? Possibly.

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u/cheffartsonurfood Feb 22 '25

Didn't he secure a ceasefire? What happened with that?

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u/splatterkingnqueen Feb 21 '25

Biden cared more about America than trump?

Are you blind and illiterate or just ignorant?

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u/Big_Charity_6153 Feb 21 '25

Oh the irony 😂 do you know what projection is?

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u/OkMirror2691 Feb 21 '25

Bruh Trump is a textbook narcissist he would probably sell his children if he thought he could get away with it let alone this country.

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u/MrMoon5hine Feb 21 '25

are you? trump doesnt care about you.

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u/Aphreyst Feb 21 '25

Biden cared more about America than trump?

1000%.

Are you blind and illiterate or just ignorant?

No, u.

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u/i-have-a-kuato Feb 21 '25

Belligerent stupidity or simply trolling?

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u/Bluesmanstill Feb 21 '25

Yeah common sense and an education is a curse. Just ignorant?? You mean maga???!