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[–] ATDA@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The crazy part is they think Biden makes the US look bad. When you present evidence to the contrary they say, "who cares what other countries think. "

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (7 children)

My aunt thinks Jill Biden is controlling the country from the shadows and wants to run in place of Joe in 2024. We are fucked

[–] SCB@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] erogenouswarzone@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'd much rather vote for Jill than Joe.

[–] SCB@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Different strokes for different folks but I do dig her

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I remember people saying most similar things of Hillary Clinton during Bill's administration.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

We are fucked

more so because our only choice is between racist ultra-authoritarian con man and an opportunistic career politician that had always sided with racists and homophobes until it was politically popular.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does she think about Nancy running things for Ronnie once the Alzheimers got too bad?

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That’s what I told my mother when she told me, but I doubt it’s gotten back to the source

[–] archiotterpup@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I think it's time to have your aunt committed

[–] KnumbKnuts@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In fairness to your aunt, I have voted for Joe 3 times (2008, 2020, 2020), and even I think Joe is pretty close to weekend at Bernie's. He really needs to step aside for Newsom.

[–] erogenouswarzone@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I wanna know if we're going to weekend at Bernie's someone, why not Bernie? Why has he not been on the ballot yet?

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well that’s just a stupid conspiracy theory. Well I guess they all are but this one seems particularly daft.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That was my first reaction, I didn’t even know how to respond to it because it’s patently absurd on its face. Really hoping it’s not some sort of viral right wing bullshit code that hasn’t cycled out into the mainstream yet