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Istoreya
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Postby Istoreya » Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:56 am

Atheris wrote:Trump's last policy changes as President, all of which are anti-LGBT+.


Thankfully, someone else is in charge now
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Chan Island
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Postby Chan Island » Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:57 am

Nice to see a president giving an actual coherent speech that isn't all about it. Holy moly is it refreshing.
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Postby Cannot think of a name » Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:57 am

Did he just make a glancing blow at our winter of discontent?
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Postby Rusozak » Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:57 am

Istoreya wrote:
Atheris wrote:Trump's last policy changes as President, all of which are anti-LGBT+.


Thankfully, someone else is in charge now


Can't Biden just reverse it immediately?
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Postby Neutraligon » Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:57 am

Rusozak wrote:
Istoreya wrote:Thankfully, someone else is in charge now


Can't Biden just reverse it immediately?

Yep.
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Postby La Paz de Los Ricos » Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:57 am

"Dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer" damn straight.
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Postby Eahland » Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:57 am

Freiheit Reich wrote:
Istoreya wrote:Who gives a fuck? Trump doesn't deserve our respect, let alone our kindness.


We need to be civil. Also, why dislike his family even if you dislike Mr. Trump?

Because they're all monsters too, and have spent the last four years abetting his crimes.

Well, I guess we can still give Barron the benefit of the doubt.
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Postby Neutraligon » Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:58 am

Eahland wrote:
Freiheit Reich wrote:
We need to be civil. Also, why dislike his family even if you dislike Mr. Trump?

Because they're all monsters too, and have spent the last four years abetting his crimes.

Well, I guess we can still give Barron the benefit of the doubt.

I feel bad for Barron, he has been dealing with shit.
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Postby Esalia » Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:58 am

A presidential speech that doesn't aim to divide people, to rile people up, or to inflate their own ego. Nice.
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Chan Island
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Postby Chan Island » Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:59 am

Atheris wrote:Trump's last policy changes as President, all of which are anti-LGBT+.



I wonder why he didn't pardon Assange, Snowden and Manning as his last acts? They'd be good and really enrage the people in the federal government, including Biden.

Oh well. Last vindictive gasp of a truly pathetic presidency. Good riddance.
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Postby Neutraligon » Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:59 am

Esalia wrote:A presidential speech that doesn't aim to divide people, to rile people up, or to inflate their own ego. Nice.

There was a bit of a dig at the beginning.
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Postby Cannot think of a name » Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:59 am

Lincoln in the afterlife:"Fuck man, there have been 45 other presidents. One of these days you guys could invoke someone else. Bringing me up hasn't stopped you from trying to eat each other. Try something else."
"...I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season." -MLK Jr.
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Postby A-Series-Of-Tubes » Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:59 am

Who wrote "reward work" into his speech? That's not a Joe-friendly phrase.

I thought he was dull at first, but he's warmed up :)
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Postby Ifreann » Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:59 am

Cannot think of a name wrote:Did he just make a glancing blow at our winter of discontent?

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Postby Picairn » Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:00 am

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Eahland
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Postby Eahland » Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:00 am

And that's the stroke of twelve D.C. time.

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Postby -Astoria- » Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:00 am

Cannot think of a name wrote:Lincoln in the afterlife:"Fuck man, there have been 45 other presidents. One of these days you guys could invoke someone else. Bringing me up hasn't stopped you from trying to eat each other. Try something else."

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The Free Joy State
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Postby The Free Joy State » Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:00 am

Neutraligon wrote:
Rusozak wrote:
Can't Biden just reverse it immediately?

Yep.

I heard he's planning to make a large number of reversals on Trump's most divisive policies in his first days in office.

Which sounds like a fitting conclusion to Trump's presidency.
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Postby Rusozak » Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:00 am

Chan Island wrote:
Atheris wrote:Trump's last policy changes as President, all of which are anti-LGBT+.



I wonder why he didn't pardon Assange, Snowden and Manning as his last acts? They'd be good and really enrage the people in the federal government, including Biden.

Oh well. Last vindictive gasp of a truly pathetic presidency. Good riddance.


Including Senate Republicans. Trump seemed genuinely afraid of angering the GOP enough to vote against him in the impeachment trial.
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Postby Cannot think of a name » Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:00 am

Neutraligon wrote:
Esalia wrote:A presidential speech that doesn't aim to divide people, to rile people up, or to inflate their own ego. Nice.

There was a bit of a dig at the beginning.

I missed it.
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Postby Kowani » Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:00 am

Cannot think of a name wrote:Lincoln in the afterlife:"Fuck man, there have been 45 other presidents. One of these days you guys could invoke someone else. Bringing me up hasn't stopped you from trying to eat each other. Try something else."

i'm sure he gets celestial royalties
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Postby A-Series-Of-Tubes » Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:00 am

Don't cry, Joe. That would be going too far.
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Freiheit Reich
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Postby Freiheit Reich » Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:01 am

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I hope you have good reasons for defending and trying to protect the anti-Chinese racism that stemmed from calling it the China virus.


I included the reasons. You don't think China posts negative news about the USA in an effort to make themselves look good? How is it racist? China is a country just like Lyme is a city in Connecticut. If the virus was from the USA and Europeans called it the USA Virus, would that also be racist?

I also said I favor focusing on Wuhan because China is huge. I doubt this will be the last virus that comes from the huge nation and heavily populated nation of China.
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Postby Neutraligon » Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:01 am

Cannot think of a name wrote:
Neutraligon wrote:There was a bit of a dig at the beginning.

I missed it.

Basically stuff about the survival of our democracy and the like.
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Postby -Astoria- » Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:01 am

Now, it's finally over.
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