• Phoenicianpirate
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    2 hours ago

    The guy is so fucking delusional it isn’t funny. He was always a dumbass even back in the 80s.

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      6 hours ago

      Every accusation is a 40-minute impromptu concert to cover a dementia-addled man’s sudden confusion by what all these people are doing in his house

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        5 hours ago

        Lol … at this point they should just put him in a room full of about a hundred of his supporters and tell their leader that he is emperor of the United States. Then just feed them all AI generated CNN news broadcasts of his nation doing everything he wants. Let them all live like this until they die … none of them would probably notice the difference.

        In the meantime, the rest of could go about our lives trying to save humanity on this planet.

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          3 hours ago

          If you used them as batteries, this would be the beginnings of The Matrix. I wanna be Tank so I can die off-screen between storylines.

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            34 minutes ago

            Yeah, I was also here for the Matrix with extra steps comment.

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    9 hours ago

    He’s talking about how long young people will last on the supreme court. Still gross, but this article is click-baity and dumb with its premise.

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      2 hours ago

      The title is basically a blatant lie, easily shown to be deceptive simply by reading the article.

      Yet look at this comments section and how many people have bought the deception hook, line, and sinker.

      We shit on Republuicans for being idiots who support Trump, which is true, but it’s almost like we are trying to out-stupid them.

      • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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        Yeah, it’s a bad look essentially saying you should only put young justices on the SCOTUS in order to control it for longer. However, that is not a dumb thing to say. It’s logical if your goal is control, which his obviously is. It’s why the lifetime appointments are so bad. It encourages putting young, less qualified justices on the court instead of older, potentially more qualified ones.

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        1 hour ago

        No, it doesn’t apply, at least not for the same logic. He didn’t say that because the older people are less capable. He said it because a younger person will give you control for longer most likely. They’re lifetime appointments, so the logical choice for maintaining control is to appoint healthy young people, not the most qualified people.

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        7 hours ago

        Yeah I’m not arguing that. But the point is different… He’s talking about longevity, not acumen.

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    8 hours ago

    That was a loaded headline, since he was referring only to Supreme Court judges who get to stay in for as many decades as they’d like.

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      2 hours ago

      “loaded”? Lol. It’s a blatant lie.

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    8 hours ago

    What an absolutely fucking ridiculous comparison…

    I hate defending Trump, but this is the difference between LIFETIME appointments vs maybe 4 years, 8 tops for president… He’s absolutely correct, you’re an idiot if you choose an old person to be a judge for SCOTUS since you open up the possibility of them being replaced sooner…

    In a world that isn’t completely corrupted by partisan hacks we shouldn’t care who ends up on the court, but because of billionaires we don’t get to have that world…

    BE BETTER MEDIA ASSHATS.

    :/

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      8 hours ago

      I hate defending Trump, but

      Then don’t. You aren’t obligated to defend him.

      I disagree with his sentiment. Higher turn over on the Supreme Court is part of the proposed Supreme Court reform.

      Defending him because “nuance” is stupid, he doesn’t have any, why project it on him? What has he done to earn it? This is how narcissists maneuver – people’s eagerness to see their good side; it doesn’t exist for the narcissists.

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        Then don’t. You aren’t obligated to defend him.

        Really they are just defending honest assessments of facts. Unfortunately, because the title of the article is so disgustingly disingenuous and blatantly misleading, it led a lot of people to believe his statement is blatantly hypocritical. . .so by pointing out reality you are actually “defending Trump.”

        You are all but admitting that reality doesn’t matter. Sounds exactly like Trump supporters. Please don’t be like them.

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        6 hours ago

        Just because he’s an asshole doesn’t make what he said wrong. I’m more angry at “the media” for trying to make something out of nothing for clicks. Their comparison is stupid.

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        6 hours ago

        This is like that “sanewashing” thing. “What he means is this…” no. No need to do him any favors.

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          But it’s not even that. He said what he meant and then the chucklefucks looking for clicks went on with the “BuT HeS oLd ToO! HuR dUr, HoW dUmB!” when it’s not the same comparison at all.

          I guess I’m just sick of all large media outlets lately.

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            I’m just happy to see users calling out these bullshit articles taking shit outta context. I don’t have a ton of time to read the news. So I prefer my brief overviews of titles to be factual and contextual to what the authors implying. Which it’s the independent so already knew it was probs bs.

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              I’m just happy to see users calling out these bullshit articles taking shit outta context.

              But what bothers me is that even when the blatant deception is pointed out, you still have a large percentage of people here actually defending such bullshit.

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        7 hours ago

        Then what you want is term limits.

        I don’t like Trump, but I get his point. It’s the same argument he makes about taxing the rich. Guess who has the power to fix that, too?

        People in power rarely make laws to limit themselves.

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          “His point” makes it sound like he’s thought about it. I guarantee you he has not. This is a talking point he was reminded of five minutes before the planted question was asked and he almost blew that.

          Seriously, he’s demented. His only thoughts revolve around him and his money - that’s it.