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[–] 168 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Fixed this for you

Not voting for Montgomery Burns.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Burns is so much more competent and successful than trump.

    Maybe sideshow Bob would work as trump but even he is probably too good to be equated to trump

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    [–] 110 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Yea, this is a good comparison. A washed up, talentless, lying, cheating, stealing, has-been hack of a clown, or a pretty cool old guy that’s been around the world, has cool stories to tell, loads of wisdom but falls asleep every now and then… like the clown does at court.

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  • [–] 79 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Krusty doesn't deserve this.

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    [–] 73 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    It amazes me that one of the largest countries in the world, with the most diverse demographics, can only chose between two candidates. This is not democracy. It's a shit show that has been going on for far too long.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (25 children)

    Just mention an alternative and you'll will quickly understand why.

    The parties have done the most amazing job in pretending the world will end at every election if they are not chosen.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It is kind of amazing how even those disenfranchised voters will rally to support the hegemony of the “two party” corporatist rule. I suggested recently we could consider rallying behind a single issue 3rd party candidate who would end the legalized bribes and replace FPTP with a more democratic alternative, and was immediately downvoted and told it’s not possible due to FPTP.

    facepalm

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Tradition and inertia.

    The USA is proud to have the oldest and longest-standing written constitution. The fact it hasn't been rewriteen in a long time help explain why there's still an electoral college, slavery for prisoners (13th amendements), and weak regulation of campaign finance.

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    [–] 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    what's weird about this is that Trump has been in The Simpsons plenty of times.

    Here's Jeb kicking him in the nuts:

    one for the meme:

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm from Europe (Hungary) and I watched the first 20 minutes of the debate (with the intent of finishing the whole thing in one go) before turning it off while basically being on the brink of crying. The US presidents basically have as much say in my life as my own government (if not more) and even though I can't vote for them, if I had to I'd be lost. Because it's not that one is old and the other is crazy it's a freaking Venn diagram of crazy RFK jr., demented Biden and then of course crazy and demented Trump. Seeing the debate and how these people basically can't put two sentences after each other without breaking up is terrifying. And one of them will be voted into the most important office on the planet.

    I mean it's shit over here. We can choose between a guy who already stole half of our country, someone whose messy divorce somehow made him the most important member of the opposition and this other guy who stole the other half of the country before the current dude did. (And that's just the tip of the iceberg). But maaan are we a lot better off than the world's greatest country where two unsupervised parties get to point at the people you can vote into this ridiculously powerful position. And then they pick these guys.

    We're all going to die and I can't even vote for whoever gets us killed, which is ultimately for the better. This way I can die with a clear conscience.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    ... which is ultimately for the better. This way I can die with a clear conscience.

    i envy you and i wish i could say the same thing because i have to vote for biden or else we'll regress backwards in addition to dying.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I kinda feel like this is unfair to Krusty...

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    [–] 23 points 2 years ago*

    Age up the clown some too with some wrinkles, that clown is 78, almost as old as the other guy.

    Also poor Krusty, being compared to Trump.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    This really is the year of the douche and the turd sandwich

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Turd sandwich vs giant douche

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Except Trump is also an old fool. It's not better to say with clear speaking that he wasn't responsible for all the things he screwed up, that he didn't BADLY botch covid response, that he didn't hand out money, that he didn't support the vaccine he also took credit for making, that Jan 6 didn't happen, that Charlottesville didn't happen, that he didn't call the neo nazis who killed a person 'fine people' that he didn't stoke violence very intentionally. That he didn't tell Proud Boys ''stand down and stand by'' that he isn't calling for a dictatorship if he ever gets elected.

    Yes. Biden has a speech impediment, and clearly struggles with that particularly now that he's getting quite old. But what he said wasn't insane claims that reality is in fact not reality.

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Trump world be Mr burns, Snake or Sideshow bob

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    I know it's just a meme, but Krusty would be a silly and ineffective president at worst. You'd have to combine the worst traits of many of the shows most horrible characters to create someone similar to trump, and even then I'm not sure any character in that show attempted a coup and sent a mob to attack the Capitol.

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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    They are both Gramps, Trump is just gramps wearing Kristy makeup.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Simpsons did it again!

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Well, what are we supposed to do? Choose a presidential candidate who was born after the Battle of the Bulge?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    This is way too accurate.

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