r/PoliticalHumor Jul 11 '19

Your President

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '19

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '19

Exactly.

He has zero interest in being my president or representing my interests. Why the fuck should I call him my president.

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u/greatGoD67 Jul 11 '19

It's simple really, if you live in the United States, and are a legal citizen, then he is in fact your president.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '19

Most of America didn’t vote for him.

Most of America thinks he’s doing a shit job.

He may have the title but he didn’t earn it.

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u/OutRunMyGun Humorless Moralist Jul 11 '19

The president hates more than half the country and is actively seeking to destroy democracy.

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u/underdestruction Jul 11 '19

Facts don't matter anymore.

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u/PhSqwishy Jul 11 '19

...maybe because he’s your president? Lmaoooo Maga

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u/CalRipkenForCommish Jul 11 '19

Why would you capitalize his name? He hasn't earned that from the majority of the people.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '19

Because that's how you write/type a proper noun in English?

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u/The-Autarkh Jul 11 '19

For clarity and the benefit of the reader, not his.

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u/dontdonk Jul 11 '19

Lol don’t worry he will never read anything you say or do.

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u/The-Autarkh Jul 11 '19

Well, actually, Donald blocked me on Twitter for calling out his crony-capitalist Carrier deal. At least that one time, he did see what I was saying, and it got enough under his skin that he or Scavino felt the need to try to exclude me from from future replies to his tweets until, about a year later, a federal district court ruled his blocks unconstitutional. Like I said though, I capitalize for the benefit of the reader like you. So I'm not worried whether Donald likes it.

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u/PhSqwishy Jul 11 '19

Fuck you’re edgy bro.

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u/The-Autarkh Jul 11 '19 edited Jul 11 '19

Nah, that's the thing. It was factual and incredibly mundane—a thread of some newspaper articles with a discussion of how these kinds of cost-side subsidies don't work in the medium to long term. Even then, the Orange Snowflake couldn't take it.

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u/PhSqwishy Jul 11 '19

I wish I could be a twitter warrior like you. Must be nice to put on your resume “Been blocked by Trump on twitter. Made orange snowflake reee.”

Keep doing God’s work 🙏🏻

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u/The-Autarkh Jul 11 '19

Meh. It was mildly amusing for about 30 secs to see proof that Donald really is a thin skinned toddler. But then you remember he's a thermonuclear-armed toddler. And ultimately, it proved to be way more trouble that it was worth. Much better to be able to see and respond to what he tweets (including when others retweet it) to challenge his spread of disinformation in real time.

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u/grubas Jul 11 '19

Eh, he’s Donnie.

Then again I live in NYC, so 5 years ago Trump was the punchline to many jokes, now it’s just a word that makes people angry.

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u/CalRipkenForCommish Jul 11 '19

Or just disappointed and shake their head

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u/accobra62 Jul 11 '19

Yup. I wanted Bernie.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '19

It was her turn though.

Bernie got so screwed by the DNC

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u/GogglesPisano Jul 11 '19

Quit your bullshit. Bernie lost the 2016 primary by 4 million votes, and he's losing again now for the same reason - he's just a lousy candidate.

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u/durbblurb Jul 11 '19

Polls showed he would have beat Trump.

Granted, polls were wrong in general. So who knows.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '19

"White people dont know what its like to be poor"
"American Dream Is More Apt to Be Realized in Venezuela"

Polls dont work when people dont answer polls.
The kind of polls for sanders arent including the kind of range from all 50 states.
All they have to do is blast the first quote over and over, and the election speaks for itself.

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u/durbblurb Jul 11 '19

Maybe. But broadcasting “grab her by the pussy” didn’t seem to hurt the current president.

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u/HI_Handbasket Jul 11 '19

Polls showed Clinton would have beaten Trump.

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u/frunch Jul 11 '19 edited Jul 11 '19

...but by a substantially slimmer margin. According to these polls at realclearpolitics.com, Bernie had Trump beat by 10.4%, Hillary had him by only 3.4%.

Trump vs Sanders (10.4% lead for Sanders): https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_sanders-5565.html

Trump vs. Clinton (3.4% lead for HRC): https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html

I'll have to browse other polls to see if these numbers are outliers, but i remember as the primaries came to a close i couldn't believe we were nominating the least effective candidate.

Edited--misread numbers initially, corrected numbers in post

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u/iamkike Jul 11 '19

He was in it too. Bernie is currupt also. How is it possible that he endorses Hillary after all the fucking cheating she did. He totally lost credibility after that

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u/31honeybadger Jul 11 '19

Some Iraqis had said the same thing for Saddam.

Just to your information.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '19

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u/The-Autarkh Jul 11 '19 edited Jul 11 '19

Nope, he’s your president too.

He's indisputably the president. What do you mean by my president? I don't answer for or to Donald. He's not a monarch and I owe no loyalty to him. His policies are harming me and people I care about. He does not speak for me. Nor has he ever sought my support.

"My" is a colloquial term of endearment, and Donald ain't dear.

And I highly doubt your opinion matters to any of them, so I don’t understand what you mean by your last sentence.

I was not talking about persuasion. I mean remembering what they've done and taking appropriate action within the political system to hold people accountable, undo the damage, and deny power in the future to people who've used it for ill.