• BigBoyShuanzee@aussie.zone
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    2 days ago

    Australian here who was 100% convinced that Trump ran as a joke to get Hillary elected in 2016.

    Now here knowing that Trump is an insane old man who should be in a retirement home and not running a country.

    But I don’t care for the fact that most of American politicians are supporting the terrorist state of Israel. Trump is an insane old man but Israel is horrific. Phone bombs, burning children alive, pumping US citizens tax dollars (that was given to them) into lazy American politicians.

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      You were kinda correct. Trump becoming the big Republican nominee was part of the Pied Piper strategy of the establishment Democrat party. The Hillary Clinton campaign intentionally uplifted radical conservative candidates in an effort to make winning elections easier. The logic was if the Conservative party looks crazy, the Democratic party can run on simply pointing out that craziness without needing to actually have specific policies or positions. The establishment Democrats loved the idea of doing less work, so they eagerly adopted the strategy and focused on crushing their own left flank candidate Bernie Sanders.

      The Clinton campaign and the DNC had done a bunch of oppositional research on Donald Trump in preparation, but chose to sit on it, not wanting to tank Trump’s chances of becoming the nominee. They focused instead on Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio.

      This is why the US has a bunch of feckless Democrats who never seem to run for anything, only against Republicans. They keep running this same, “vote for me or you’ll get the crazy man” strategy, even though they keep losing with it.

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        Yeah I read a lot about what happened to Bernie Sanders, absolutely wild and really depressing what the DNC did to him.

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      Every day I waited for them to announce it was a big joke when he decided to run for president. Now our country is the joke.

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        Seriously up until I got the message that Trump had become president and Hillary had lost I was 100% convinced he was running as a joke and doing everything he could to help Hillary.

        The next time he became president I am 150% convinced that Elon musk rigged the election.

        I never liked Hillary Clinton but Kamala Harris is brilliant.

        I’m not an American, neither is Elon and I have hated Elon Musk since back when he was a beloved left wing hero… I hated Elon Musk from the moment I saw him and I’ll hate him until the day I die.

        I hate lots of others, Disney, Amazon, Adobe, Microsoft CEOs.

        Just don’t get me started on how much I think I should be the emperor of earth.

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          Kamala is the same as Hillary. Both are Imperialist scum. They aren’t as bad as Republican fascists but they aren’t exactly better.

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            Fair enough, I don’t want to start anything here. I’m Australian I only know about all of Hillary Clintons crimes.

            Kamala seems like a highly intelligent woman who just wanted the best for your country, as far as I can tell she would have made your lives better.

            But Elon hacked the election and Trump won… Now instead of democratic fake socialism you have people in the streets shooting brown people…

            I’m 100% a centrist… But I mean that I think morons crying about the little mermaid being black are just as useless as people crying about over-sexualized big breasted women in video games.

            Both sides are equally wrong and pointless, just don’t buy the product and move on with your lives.

            Being a centrist I’m 100% against Nazis (and here’s why I got banned on Reddit)… Nazis only exist to be target practice… What I’m saying is you Americans should be following in our grandparents/great grandparents footsteps and executing Nazis where they stand.

            Israel Army are also Nazis and deserves the same treatment(There’s your centrism (͡•_ ͡• ) )