• andrewrgross@lemmy.today
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    11 hours ago

    The former president and his wife Jill were attending a ceremony at Trinity College in Dublin, where their son Hunter was awarded the Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Public Discourse.

    The award by Trinity’s College Historical Society was in recognition of Hunter Biden’s recent advocacy on American politics and media, as well as his work raising awareness of addiction and recovery.

    Haha what?

    (They definitely made a big donation to the college.)

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    14 hours ago

    This man took a mandate and fucked the people back to not even stattus-quo. Bernie was robbed, twice.

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      14 hours ago

      Nah, Trump and every single Republican voter fucked the people back far behind status quo. Biden failed to fully recover that because he had rightwingers across the globe doing everything in their power to stop him, because they are all nazis down to their very inner core.

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        13 hours ago

        He nominated Meriick Garland and didn’t have him aggressively prosecute conspiracy and Jan 6 offenders. An ineffectual beauracrat, just not as loud as Hillary, just as useless. Normal is bacwards these days.

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              You’re talking about a decentralized civil war where the confederates are going to lynch every minority in their 20-100mile radius.

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                The world’s richest man was literally trying to whip up a civil war a year ago on his private platform and not even the most sympathetic audience got off their couch. It is not happening bro. There was nothing gained by appointing Garland

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    14 hours ago

    Honestly? Deserved.

    • someone who voted for him and defends him on many other aspects
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            I didnt live in America at the time… why does one need to have experienced a Pres to judge their quality? Do YOU remember Nixon? Jackson?

            Merrick Garland was a disaster, even the most generous interpretation of that decision makes that undebateable (less generous and more realistic is that Garland was always meant to stall the Trump investigation), and every “accomplishment” you can credit to Biden was made moot by that appointment. You do not get Trump 2 without Garland, and you do not get Garland without Biden

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      14 hours ago

      Reagan, W. Bush, and Trump, and Biden is your pick for “2nd-worst”. Even if your definition of “modern” is laughably conservative and excludes Reagan, it can’t reasonably exclude W. Bush less than 20 years ago.

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        Biden was a mastermind of destroying the middle east, he advocated for the balkanization of Iraq. He is the one who said if israel didn’t exist he would support creating one

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      I guess it depends on what you consider modern history, but W was definitely worse than Biden. Biden was not good, but under W we got the patriot act, Abu Ghraib, disastrous increase in racism and xenophobia, no child left behind. The guy was incapable of even accidentally doing the right thing.

      If you don’t count W then there’s only 3 presidents in modern history, so taking 2nd isn’t that bad.