• PoastRotato@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The gay former transportation secretary

    What on earth does his sexuality have to do with this topic? Why bother mentioning it?

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    3 months ago

    Did Trump have issues with his bone spurs when he was raping 12 year old girls, or did the bone spurs only cause an issue when we was shitting his pants to afraid to fight for his country because he’s a cowardly pile of shit?

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      Lying his way out of Vietnam so he wouldn’t have to rape and kill people was probably the most virtuous thing the man has ever done.

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        Don’t think he got off easy, though. Managing his sex life in the 80s and avoiding STDs was his personal Vietnam, after all…

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      Why do you say was? Do you think he had a sudden change of heart the instant Epstein died? From that day to now he’s been a straight arrow?

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    How 'bout you just do something good for people. All this “he’s a scumbag” noise is going to get nothing done, and isn’t going to win the midterms. Everybody who doesn’t already know he’s a scumbag is not going to learn it now.

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      3 months ago

      What specifically would you like Pete Buttigege, former Transportation secretary and former mayor of South Bend Indiana to do?

      As far as I know Pete isn’t even employed right now.

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        I didn’t realize that HN is career had ended.

        Seriously though, if he is up to chrping about Epstein, why not chirp about programs that help people, about restoring democratic institutions so that they help people again. As a former mayor and Transport minister, can he not talk about infra that helps people and describe escape making moralism the basis of his platform.

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          Actually he’s really good at talking about those things. But you haven’t heard it. Which I think proves his point because here you are, talking about this.

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    I like Pete and all, but maybe the politicians should stop hoping they should do something and, y’know, just DO something?