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[–] jerome@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago (7 children)

This can't be true,

Trump is a convicted rapist and known criminal that emboldened domestic terrorism.

Biden is actually doing a great job.

These two things are not equal.

[–] jerome@kbin.social 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m you from the future, people are really really really stupid.

[–] Adeptfuckup@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They’re incredibly stupid in the present moment too. Stupidity is the great filter

[–] CileTheSane@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Always has been.
👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

....but, but, but Biden told those railroad workers to go back to work so the economy didn't collapse, so you know, he's just as bad as Trump!1!!

/s

I guarantee you that topic is going to come up more than a few times over the next few months from people who never intended to vote for Biden either way and instead are cherry picking bullshit topics to help sway others.

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And we have to be ready to counter with the fact that Biden continued to put pressure and ultimately got the rail workers their sick days.

[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't have to convince me. The problem is that the damage was done. FOX News will use this issue to attack Biden as being supposedly anti labor.

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

...while actively being anti-labor. Don't forget that part. Conservatives don't have a platform, they have the need to be angry at anything.

Legit didn't know about this. It was one thing I was genuinely disappointed of

[–] Cubes@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Trump is a convicted rapist

This is factually inaccurate. I'll agree he is likely a rapist, but he was never convicted of rape. He was found liable for sexual abuse in a civil trial, but he was explicitly found not liable for rape in the E. Jean Carroll case.

This is in no way a defense is Trump, but those words have a specific legal meaning, and I think there are a million other ways to call Trump that are actually accurate.

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

What's this mean? "Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rape/

[–] Cubes@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The judge is just saying that what he was found liable for could be construed as rape as the word is commonly used even if it's not legally. Regardless of that, this article also makes the distinction that he is not convicted of anything due to it being a civil trial and not a criminal one. Saying he is a convicted rapist is still not correct.

[–] jerome@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

gotcha, today I learned. thanks.

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

Bruh, this is America.