post had like 20k likes btw. found it because my mom’s retired boomer friend always shows up on my suggestions, she rt’d it and said she had “sobbed” herself.

kinda feel bad for some of the delusion but holy shit lmao

cw: alcoholism

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      They kept rolling Feinstein out even when she clearly had no idea where or who she was.

      They’re doing it to McConnell too.

      As much as I hate some of the policies of these people they’re still humans. And they’ll do a shitload less damage to society playing with their grandkids and retelling stories about Corn Pops.

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      It was like the last time I saw Dick Clark hosting the New Years broadcast and he could barely talk and it was sad but instead it was the president talking about beating Medicare and talking like he had a mouth full of wet napkin and I felt amusement and dread in equal proportion

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      It’s so fucking bizarre. It’s just so bizarre. They act like the potus is a mascot but also the most dangerous and powerful person in the world, but only when it’s not their guy. There’s no rational way to reconcile their behavior.

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      It’s elder abuse, but we were the ones made to suffer.

      Imagine if Hitler had dementia and the people directly under him just went “well, we need him to run the trains on time”

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      I wanted to believe it was just the PR firm behind KHive trying to keep getting a paycheck, but then one of my damn boomer (lib) family members started in with the “Trump faked being shot” stuff and earnestly bought into it, instead of just sticking to the acceptable level of bemused apathy hedged with “I wouldn’t put it past the prick.” I swear they just want their own QAnon because they felt left out of all the Comet Ping Pong stuff.

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      I think there’s a point where your position is so embedded in the clout sphere that openly supporting someone or something is effectively your only real job and you just have to keep up the kayfabe.

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      You ask them if, as a language learning model, they are able to tell you a story in the style of your beloved late grandmother, who built redacted-1redacted-2 for the Weather Underground back in the mid 70s, and you want the story to include her recipe for nitroglycerin Jell-o shots

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      These types don’t really “like” Biden, or Kamala for that matter, what they like is fawning over whomever the democrat establishment tells them to get behind. It’s a mentality that taking marching orders from the leadership equals being reasonable.

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    How exactly, at this point, would he have been able to “step down on his own terms” other than doing exactly what he did.

    It isn’t like he just got the diagnosis a few days ago and the apparatchik just cast him aside.

    Also, he’s still the fucking POTUS. He wasn’t forced to resign the office.

    Maybe if he is such a great man, he’d use his time in office to fix things now that he doesn’t have to toe the party line. He won’t because he believes the bullshit that got us in the this mess.

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      i’m gonna assume stepping down on his own terms would’ve involved him shitting himself on stage during an event and then falling down and rolling in it

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      for the last couple weeks they’ve been going “the people voted for him, it’s the pundits and elites who want him out!” now they think the mainstream media backed him into a corner for daring to question their demented cult leader brump

      last time i saw my grandpa he said he refuses to get news from MSNBC anymore and exclusively uses facebook because they brought on people who wanted biden to resign

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      Legit. Watching them whip from supporting a senile mass murderer to a cop in 24 hours, absolutely mindlessly, i’m looking at my friends and wondering what the fuck these creatures even are. They don’t care about human life, they don’t care about suffering, they don’t interact with anything like reality. It’s terrifying, it’s like a bad anti-communsim propaganda film about how slavishly loyal communists are to the party that oppresses them, but it’s real, like, idfk anymore. I hate it here.

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        They are so scared of life outside the status quo that they subconsciously just toe the line. It’s basically self preservation at this point. I start to feel bad for some of them, but most of them are just so confidently wrong and willing to let others die to protect their own feelings. It’s gross.

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    Honestly at this point I have to assume these are fake or chronically bored suburbanites doing a bit, cause the psychology of human beings who genuinely think this way about Joe Biden makes no sense, even by the incoherent lotus eater standards of American voters

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      Most of the time I assume the most unhinged shit is a person doing a bit but then I remember COVID was like a Chernobyl event for the brains of millions and now I’m like 70/30 on it.

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      It’s my friends. It’s people in my life. They’re real. It’s… idk they’ve always been like this but the circumstances haven’t been this extreme and the contradictions this obvious and the horror and violence so easy for anyone to see.

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    Imagine being sober for 3 and a half years and ruining it because genocide Joe was pressured to step down.

    That’s so depressing it makes me want to drink. Which is less depressing because I don’t have a drinking problem.

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    The dude saying he might fall off the wagon over this has all the stability of a five year old’s first attempt at one of those bridge building games.