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[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 93 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“I know what we need to beat Donald Trump this time - The only person who ever lost to him”

[–] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And the person whose campaign helped elect him

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

"That was me, people." -Clinton, but quoting Obama

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I want this to happen just so clinton can fucking eat shit in front of the entire world again.

I had a theory she was making all these tone deaf antagonistic statements to kill the campaign and make sure she didn't go down in history as thenonly person who.managed to lose to trump.

Jumping on the sinking ship to cement your legacy as the only person to lose to him TWICE would be incredible.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't simply because I don't want to see who she'd blame

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[–] regul@hexbear.net 64 points 1 year ago

Trading in someone with 20% favorability for someone with 25% favorability is truly the shot in the arm the Biden campaign needs.

[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Get Hilldawg on that ticket, stat. Also I just found out stat is short for statim in that context, which is just Latin for "immediately."

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

what the fuck that's like a casual thing to say, how did a nerdlord get it into the common lexicon

[–] regul@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it filtered through the medical professions.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

dorktors

Death to America

[–] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably more specifically, daytime hospital dramas on television.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Nurse I need forty CCCPs of communism, stat

[–] Chump@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait til you hear about a person’s M O

[–] huf@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Chump@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

True crime as a genre is enough to explain this one

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

There's plenty of gratuitous Latin to go around, e.g: ie, etc.

There's Latin gratuito plenitati to go around, exempli gratia: id est, et cetera.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

*around arotundus nerd

nah but when you're i.e.-ing, et ceterin' you know you're being technical or formal. latin via french (plenty, round, gratuity) is a different category because it conforms to english grammar, it doesn't signal literacy & culture you gotta do modern french for that

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

I use NB on my jira tickets to be a dick

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

I think its from medical terminology. I'm going to guess it was popularized by the 90's show ER. I'm pulling this cimpletely out of my ass, but that's my guess

[–] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Hilary signing on to be Pres once Biden's brain fully melts only for him to somehow stay alive another 4 years would be very funny

[–] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

Only topped by if she immediately loses her next election attempt after he's out

[–] RaisedFistJoker@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

hillary would definitly 100% kill biden 5 months into office

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

she signs on as VP and begins covering for Joe at various, tightly-scripted campaign appearances. the entire media apparatus comes together to insist all of us vote for her turn and during a live event, like an SNL appearance playing herself next to Kate McKinnon as her twin, when she is pumped full of B12 and medical grade amphetimines and pantomiming playing a duet on a piano, the curated crowd is glowing and chanting it's love for her, some critical neuron cluster for inhibition depolarizes and she starts singing the N-word in dementia-powered ecstasy.

the control booth is too surprised and awestruck to dump out of it before the delay runs out, and a full 4 seconds of it hits the airwaves.

the newscycle tries to convince everyone that it was a russian deepfake hack and that it didn't actually happen. but it did. and within 12 hours everyone with access to a screen has seen it.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The entire studio audience along with cast and crew of SNL are blacksited

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

what's the bad news

i could see them all completely falling in line with instruction, except some third string writer who caught it on his phone and blew the conspiracy wide open as a guest on The Adam Friedland Show.

and then everyone on TAFS gets into a helicopter accident in Medford, NJ.

Where I come from
everybody dies in a helicopter crash.
Me and all my friends live a simple life
cookin' to death in helicopter gas.

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

"The only coherent statement he's put out in 6 months is 'fuck you Hillary you'll take this seat from my cold dead ass'"

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Her becoming his vp, and then dying of old age before him while he's still in office would be pretty funny too

She's 76 herself

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago

That would be peak USA to replace a black woman VP with a white woman and keep the white male Pres.

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

maybe-later-kiddo "Look, the president is a barely animated husk. We need a proper Lich Queen to maintain the seals binding him to this plane!"

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year ago

Tell me you're out of touch without saying it

[–] 2812481591@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

is it ethical for an 81 year old male to run for office with a 76 year old female? imo, the age gap is kinda ick.

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[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago
[–] MaxOS@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

"kamala, there's always a space for you in my cabinet!"
a-little-trolling

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Dems really do like losing.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

Easier to get away with doing nothing that way

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not kidding - put Pokimane on the ticket and you'd probably have a higher % chance to win when a bunch of freeze-gamer s come out like it's Avengers Endgame

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

A celebrity pick honestly wouldn't be a terrible move for them.

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[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago
[–] mar_k@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

zany xanax addict cop who laughs inappropriately and doesn't believe in a single thing or cold and condescending racist warhawk who laughs about 30% less?

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

I mean I gotta go with Kermala Space Program here

[–] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

HILLARY CLINTON IS A GOD DAMN DEMON

Death to America

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

[CW: Stormfront]https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5tt4sx/bills_fashion_steven_seagal_in_the_80s_hillarys/

[–] LeZero@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Kamala is about to fall out of a coconut tree

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just put her back in the cursed puzzle box she emerged from.

Trick her into saying her name backwards or some shit

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[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago
[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Oh wow she's moved up from sacrificial first term vp candidate to sacrificial second term vp candidate.

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