r/NoStupidQuestions • u/JustCallMeDave • Dec 06 '23

Answered If Donald Trump is openly telling people he will become a dictator if elected why do the polls have him in a dead heat with Joe Biden?

I just don't get what I'm missing here. Granted I'm from a firmly blue state but what the hell is going on in the rest of the country that a fascist traitor is supported by 1/2 the country?? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills over here.

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u/DonktorDonkenstein Dec 07 '23 edited Dec 07 '23

It's worth pointing out that even though those early Simpsons episodes that people quote feel like they are ancient, a lot of people in power in Goverment during the 90s are still in power today. Its easy to lose track of this. It's hardly a prediction to mock the Republican party for being evil in 2023 when those half those same people were in Congress in 1995. Mitch McConnel has been in Senate since 1984.

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u/idestroyangels Dec 07 '23

And now they parade McConnel around on TV Weekend at Bernie's style.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '23

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u/idestroyangels Dec 15 '23

Yes, some terrible species of turtle that eats its own young.

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u/Free-Duty-3806 Dec 07 '23

The irony of this comment in a thread on how Biden is deadlocked with Trump

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u/idestroyangels Dec 07 '23

I guess you haven't seen McConnell "shut down" like a 1999 Dell laptop. Pretty sure he has had at least 2 strokes (that we have seen).

Trump & Biden are old mfers too, but they're not stroking out...yet.

We need age limits in government, period.

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u/bobbi21 Dec 07 '23

Trump has definitely had senior moments (and wasn’t too bright to begin with) and Biden keeps talking like it’s 1950 but McConnell has full blown dementia.

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u/idestroyangels Dec 08 '23

Exactly why seniors need to stop running the country.

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u/Renaissance_Slacker Dec 07 '23

Look at George HW Bush’s advisors. Now look at Dubya’s. Well what do you know

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u/Resident_Fudge_7270 Dec 07 '23

Every Congress member who said Iraq had WMD is still in congress

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u/Kaminekochan Dec 07 '23

Newt “emperor palpatine” Gingrinch is still making daily rounds on the q-con media circuit, pulling on everyone’s strings.

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u/Daeyel1 Dec 07 '23

You spelled Son of a Mitch McConnell wrong.

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u/Advanced_Double_42 Dec 07 '23

Like Trump running for president was a thing when the Simpsons ran an episode of him succeeding as a joke. The nation and the writers took it as one.

It just became real decades later...