• flossdaily@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No orange jumpsuit. No prisoner number. No height lines in the background.

    Very unsatisfying mugshot.

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      1 year ago

      Ok. That proves it to me. It’s not the camera. His eyes are red from being either shitfaced or seriously hung over.

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      She’s relying on her supporters to say she’s a political prisoner rather than the voter fraudster that her party regularly lambasts.

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      I think it’s just the energy she feasted on from twelve newborns this morning. That’s why the Christo-fascists don’t want abortion, have you seen how difficult it is to get babies for vampiric practices at the minute?

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, every politician really doubled down on flag pins after 9/11. It never really went away. Almost all of them do it or are afraid of being called unamerican if they don’t do it.

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    “we stand on a great threshold! It’s okay to be scared; many of you won’t be coming back. Thanks to Batman, the time has come to punish all God’s children! 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th-born! Why be biased? Male and female! Hell, the sexes are equal with their erogenous zones blown sky high! Forward march! The liberation of Gotham has begun!” - Rudy Giuliani

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      1 year ago

      Dude could’ve made bank with speaking tours, punditry, etc. I have no idea why he made the stupid career decisions that he made.

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    I wonder how this one respected politician could end up as a pathetic figure spreading lies about a “stolen presidency” next to a porn shop in order to support a notorious liar and former reality TV host?

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      The “respect” was nothing more than him being an opportunist in regards to a national tragedy. He was always this person - it just took a while for people to see it.

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        I thought he was a good mayor, making New York better/safer than it was before. But I don’t know too many details about his time as mayor

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          There’s a Last Week Tonight on it. He basically wasn’t actually popular and 9/11 saved his image. Rudy was also was in the tough on crime crowd and allowed Stop and Frisk, which of course turned very racist. The episode has a number of other issues he had before 9/11 also.

          Edit: as for making it better, I don’t have a ton of details, but crime was already trending down before his tenure, while his tenure as mentioned got pretty bad for people of color. So it might depend on who you ask.

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    It is our own fault for continuing to support this corrupt party!

    Seems to not matter how badly these Republicans fuck up, the American people are ready to give them power again come the next election cycle. It is like we have collective amnesia or something and we can’t remember how bad Republicans are at managing. They freely admit they despise the big bad government, so why the fuck do we think they would do a good job at running it?!

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      I’m pretty sure most Americans here don’t support this party, so the term “we” is loose at best.

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      The whole election system in America is flawed, this “the winner takes it all” system combined with the electoral college, which can turn out to ignore the majority vote is laid out to foster a “them against us” mentality. And before you let the other side win (“bohooo, they are all communists…”), you’d rather give criminal your vote. Coalitions and compromises like in other countries with a “majority system” are not very likely in this constellation.