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[–] 63 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Is Joe Biden in the room with us right now?

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The next time Trump tells anyone to stop talking about Epstein, someone needs to tell him that he needs to shut the fuck up about Biden first. For fuck's sake.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Nobody will do that. Everyone involved in his administration is either a cult member or an opportunistic scumbag. He will be conveniently replaced by somebody more insidious and competent once the machinery of USA democracy and benevolent government have been dismantled and a successor chosen.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago

    "Don't you think he looks tired?"

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  • [–] 131 points 1 year ago (26 children)

    We need age limits for all held positions, and term limits for congress.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We should tie a mandatory government retirement age to Medicare or social security eligibility so there's some pressure to keep it below 80.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    I think it would be great if we set the age limit to be tied to a percentage of the average expected lifespan of the country's citizens in some way. Setting a hard age limit wouldn't be adaptive enough.

    It would incentivize them to pass legislation and regulations which help increase everyone's life expectancy. It would also somewhat help in the case of a future where some medical advances allow only those with enough money to have insanely increased lifespans.

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  • [+] -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (18 children)
  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    I mean, it prevents people pursuing political positions as a permanent job. Which is how corruption happens.

    It's much easier to pay off a permanant term SC judge with a "gift" of a Bus than it is to approach a newly appointed one with the same idea.

    Term limits unquestionably help in eliminating corruption as it guarantees corruption is not only harder to accomplish the first time, but is flushed away with the end of each term.

    Corruption happens when people have their footing in politics long enough to tear at the seams. They can't do that if they never find their footing.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    That's not true. People who are politicians for life have incentives to not be corrupt since it can end their career. A term limited politician has an incentive to trade favors for an executive position after their last term.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    A: that's not really ever been demonstrated to be true for any level of crime. Least of all corruption. The type of people willing to take bribes think they'll get away with it or don't consider the consequences.
    2: they have that incentive now. Without term limits. That's a problem we currently face. Term limits won't change that.

    We need to also bar representatives from taking those jobs when they leave office. Which means we also need to give them a pension.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    People who are politicians for life have incentives to not be corrupt since it can end their career.

    No offense, this is an incredibly naive take that is easily disproven by the current US president and the decades of documented corruption he's practiced in the open that did done nothing to falter his career. He has 34 felonies. He was going to trial for the largest breach of US intelligence in the history of our country.

    He was then elected president anyway.

    Social media has made the concept of political accountability into an impossibility. Any "career-ending" behavior can just be lied about on social media, turned into a firehouse of disinfo, then bots & supporters eat it up.

    Without term limits, people just need to be popular enough to get elected once - then they can use their position for personal gain for as long as they can lie about it in some way. (Forever with AI now).

    I could gesture in any direction in the world and end up pointing to a country this is happening to right now.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    And there are politicians that for nailed for it. Heard of George Santos?

    Only one guy can become president and shrug off the charges

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Future pardoned Republican conman George Santos? I have heard of him. Looking forward to him getting pardoned in the next 3 years now that his sentencing has been completed in April 2025.

    I'll bet money he's jail free by 2026, and then somehow involved in this current admin.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    Term limits ensures that you always have a new incompetence congress finding their footing before being replaced by new newbies forever out of step.

    Also it can simultaneously be true that term limits increase corruption and we at present are fully incapable of reigning in corruption of any kind because we are bad immoral people on average. Your position is like arguing that cigs don't kill you because your presently already dying of liver cancer right now.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Your position is like arguing that cigs don't kill you because your presently already dying of liver cancer right now.

    Nope. My position is quite literally that we should limit the amount of cigarettes we smoke so we don't develop cancer.

    Maybe a pack a week?

    Or a single 12 year term for each Supreme Court justice?

    As proof I've simply pointed to how we have completely failed to limit terms in the Supreme Court and now very much have fascist cancer because of it. (Supreme Court going full MAGA and ignoring due process).

    You are making this much harder to understand than it needs to be.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Again you confuse cause and effect term limits could have easily meant justices losing their seats during Bush and Trump bringing about the same effect or worse. If we had gotten luckier or smarter with strategic resignation we could be talking about lifetime appointments keeping the judiciary independent from the president and protecting democracy.

    If the people coming in are corrupt getting new corrupt people every term limit isn't going to make them less corrupt. It is the fact that lawmakers are so beholden to money to get and stay in office that leads to corruption in the first place. In your alternative America a lawmaker would be expecting to need somewhere to land after they hit the limit and would be more beholden to industry not less.

    Wherein we successfully elect people who aren't beholden to money we needn't kick them out right after they learn the ropes if the people keep showing their confidence in them by voting them in.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Again you confuse cause and effect...

    My friend. I am not confusing anything. However, you are very much confusing reality with fantasy and arguing as if that fantasy is real.

    ... term limits could have easily meant justices losing their seats during Bush and Trump bringing about the same effect or worse.

    This is a hypothetical. You are arguing as if it is real. It is not. I could just as easily assume the opposite would be true. That term limits would have completely prevented this current situation of a 6-3 court. Because it unquestionably would have if the terms were short enough. So even if we were talking about theoreticals here, your outcome is much less likely and shouldn't be assumed as true.

    If we had gotten luckier or smarter with strategic resignation...

    Again. Another hypothetical to explain a clear shortcoming with a lack of term limits. We weren't lucky. At all.

    Your comment is more an insight into how you are personally coping with what a lack of term limits have done to this country rather than a debate over their necessity.

    I mean honestly, I think you are basically dillusional if you can't agree that the current Supreme Court has corruption there for life - and the only fix to prevent that happening is term limits.

    we could be talking about lifetime appointments keeping the judiciary independent from the president and protecting democracy.

    Literally this has now been proven to not work with lifetime appointments. Cause and effect has lead us to lifetime appointed judges working towards the interest of themselves rather than the people. We live in an absolutley unquestionable reality where lifetime appointments to the judiciary have directly caused that judiciary to no longer be Independant from the President. They literally ruled for Trump to be King while Biden was still in office ffs.

    If you want to talk about cause and effect, how about we start in reality - do you think term limits would fix the current SC?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    No because 6 out of 9 can pretend term limits are illegal if passed by law and a constitutional amendment that harms either sides power is practically impossiblle.

    If implemented prior I think they would as likely have ended in a court as bad or worse

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    If implemented prior I think... ended in a court as bad or worse

    I don't think that.

    This whole collection of people supporting recent legislature to enact SC term limits doesn't think that either: https://fixthecourt.com/fix/term-limits/

    If you want to think the contrary, go for it. I clearly think otherwise.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't think a 300k RV is that's much of a cost for a billionaire as to be a deterrent to buy every possible candidate 10 of them.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Literally - THIS is the problem we have in the country. We either need to expand our representatives so that we have hundreds of SC judges that can't all be bribed. Or we need judges to fuck off after 12 years before billionaires discover what they love more than Democracy.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A lot of hate for this, but it's true.

    Incumbents aren't to blame for voters picking the familiar, that's a symptom of another problem.

    We're seeing what an inexperienced government looks like now. They don't know the limitations they're supposed to have, and they don't care.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Term limits have been implemented in many places and have not achieved better governance anywhere. They're another "obvious" solution that isn't worth shit in practice, like multi-party versus two-party electoral systems.

    And age limits are just anti-democratic. I know a few old farts who are better qualitified to hold office than their younger rivals. Voters should choose, not some arbitrary rule.

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    The pond scum talking in the video—yeah, same thing we’ve seen for YEARS.

    Same excrement, different day.

    Wake me up when orange poo does worse than this same thing he always does please. @miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com, may we request you edit title to be less sensational?

    He’s poopbrain and poopmouth did I mention that, anyway thanks

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    I get actual reporting can be boring and dull. That doesn't mean we have to start our own newmax or breitbart. It will be only a matter of time until we get some crazy ass left wing nut as a result.

    Defeating lies/exaggerations can only be done with knowledge and truth. Please do better with the news sources. This feels more like AI left-wing grifters.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    It's trump being stupid, nothing to do with his age

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I have watched the video and while he does ramble about blaming Biden for everything as always, he doesn’t seem to have “declined” during the interview honestly speaking. The headline is quite misleading/sensational in my opinion

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    tfw anyone needs to be convinced he's demented

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    distraction from the epstein files, all these news are just complicit.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Welcome. Here's the agenda for this meet:

    • review minutes from last meet
    • discuss when we'll have our next meet
    • decide what to eat for our next meet (remember: must be one vegan meet per year)

    Well me(e)t!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Ohh man, ik respecteerde Mark al, maar nu nóg meer. Die heerlijke nuchtere "uhh, wat praat deze gast?" blikken.. xD

    Edit: Pardon my French, I'll rephrase for our Dutch-stunted fellow lemmings:

    Ohh man, I already respected Mark, but even more so now. That lovely sober "Uhh, what the hell is this guy saying" look around... xD

    Addendum: A true communication specialist. We sent the best of the generation: Teflon Mark!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Het Carolien incident van Rutte bewijst alleen maar dat Rutte ook net zo veel poep praat totdat hij het echt niet meer weet. Ik denk als Mark ook 70+ is dat er een grote kans is dat hij net zo onsamenhangend wordt als Trump.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Trump ranting incoherently isn't news, that's a Tuesday. Or Saturday. Or Monday. Or, you know, just any day.

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  • Unfortunately the mortal coil isn't declining enough

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  • What in the holy hell is this reality show clip even supposed to be in the first place? Why are these people sitting in a fucking Support Group circle? What is supposedly being accomplished in this setup?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I don't see how anything he said shows he is declining?
    Actually among all the bullshit he is letting out, this seems very coherent by comparison.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Seriously. “Esprit de corps”? Where the hell did he get that from? He blamed everything on Biden and it didn’t make any sense, but that’s not anything new, that’s what won him the election.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The actual, literal quote speaks for itself

    And I have to tell you, Europe has a lot of spirit for this war. A lot of people, you know, when I first got involved, I really didn't think they did, but they do. And I saw that a month ago when you were there, most of you many of you were there. The level of esprit de corps spirit that they have is amazing.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    A nothingburger of an "article" partially locked behind a paywall.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Schizo gaming irl

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