Trump escalated tensions with both China and Russia, while giving total support to Israel. He bombed Syria, tore up the Iran deal, and attempted coups in Bolivia and Venezuela, while expanding sanctions on Cuba. Biden has merely continued his policies. There is broad bipartisan consensus on military spending and escalation of conflicts, and Trump has no real interest in going against that.

Trump talks out of both sides of his mouth to allow everyone to project whatever they want onto him, whether they're isolationist or the most bloodthirsty of nationalists, and liberals paint everyone who disagrees with their interventionist positions with the same brush, which helps him do it. I wrote a post dissecting his language here. If you actually look at his record and his actions, he's happy enough to go along with what the military-industrial complex wants. Here is a video that goes into more details about specifics.

Dick Cheney is obviously a horrible monster who deserves the worst, and it reflects very poorly on Harris to accept his endorsement, but just because she sucks doesn't mean Trump doesn't.

Him stepping down was not really on the table

I must be misreading this or something. How can you say him stepping down "wasn't on the table" when he, you know, stepped down?

A crackpot who is connected to the CIA and a known source of misinformation and fake news.

No one argue that this includes the ones who actually voted

Is that a typo? Surely you mean that no one would argue that it doesn't include the ones who actually voted.

If he didn’t need to appease the hawks, he’d probably be dove-ish because that’s better for business, and a booming economy gets his name in the news and dollars in his pocket.

War is great for business. You just have to make sure that you're in on the cut and that the costs are borne by other people. You get to use other people's money through taxes to take other people's money through plunder, and in the process you get to give lucrative contracts to military contractors and get kickbacks for it. And Trump doesn't really benefit from a booming economy, especially since he can't get a third term.

I'll agree that he's not as ideologically driven as some of the more dangerous hawks like John Bolton. But in office he was/would be surrounded with those types and can be influenced in their direction. Apathy can just as easily mean telling them, "sure, go ahead, do whatever."

But in any case I would agree that I rate Chase Oliver well above Trump and Biden, so I'd say this is a minor disagreement.

He did say what was in the title quote.

Who was it who said "He's truly lost his mind," the quote that appears at the start of the title, which some might describe as, "the title quote?" Was it, perhaps, an Internet user identified in the article only as "SnarkyPanda," who some might describe as, "a random internet person?"

If I was being really generous

That's not "being really generous," it's the obvious interpretation and the only coherent one. How do you interpret it, exactly? That he thinks fighting Hitler was bad because he thinks Hitler was good? How on earth does that make any sense whatsoever with the overall point he was making?

It's clickbait soundbite outrage porn for people who either can't read or have no interest in reading. It's no different from what you'd find in a celebrity tabloid, just for a different audience.

Communism can mean a classless, stateless society, or it can mean a country where communists are in charge. Marxist-Leninists do not believe that a stateless communist society can be established overnight, especially in countries without industrial development.

Contrary to popular belief, there's actually nothing wrong with calling out bad arguments and illegitimate or irrelevant criticism of anything or anyone, regardless of what you think about the thing or person. I'll apologize for whoever I please, in other words.

That's not not how you spell ad-hominem or what it is.

If the poll is not meaningless to you, then what number would it have to be for it to make you to vote third party?

I’m trying to have a normal reasoned conversation

I'm not.

but that is really hard with all the hate you’re spewing.

Oh, I'm sorry, am I being too hateful towards mass murder? Stop hiding behind this veneer of politeness and face who you actually are.

No-one is out to get you, least of all me.

I know you're not out to get me. You're out to get Aghans and Iraqis and Palestinians and all the rest. That's why I hate you.

if buy you a beer to relax a little if I could.

If you think alcohol would cause me to yell at bloodthirsty imperialists less, I have some bad news for you.

I'm not "cherry-picking" shit. With those words, you told me that you're a bloodthirsty imperialist and the only thing you love more than the taste of boot is seeing the dead bodies of brown children. I've simply been responding to that in a proportionate manner.

Answer the question: do you prefer being rules by Russia and or China or the US?

I'd prefer you choke on that boot.

I don't give a rat's ass about protecting US geopolitical interests. You may have their boot so far down your throat that you can't tell where your interests end and theirs begin, but I don't. None of that shit has anything to do with me. It's entirely about their own profits.

Russia and China are not going to invade the US. That's completely delusional. I don't have to choose.

My only loyalty is to my class. The ruling class is my enemy, so naturally, the ruling class's geopolitical enemies and I share a common interest. That doesn't mean I want them ruling over me, it just means that I hate you more than them. And that's natural, seeing as your side is the most aggressive, militaristic, imperialist, and bloodthirsty of any of them.

Bootlicking psychopath.

Lol, he used to be a member of that Congress for decades and was just as bad as the rest of them. I've always found it hilarious the way everyone just decided to pretend that he did a 180 on all the awful stuff he'd caused the moment he was nominated.

If Congress is capable of constraining the president to the point where he can't do anything, then I don't see why Trump would be such an existential threat. You can't have it both ways of pretending that the most powerful man is actually powerless to do anything while also saying that someone else getting the exact same position would be the end of the world.

There's all sorts of things Biden could do if he wanted. He just doesn't want to. And the fact that he never wanted to was always very obvious from his record. He has always been terrible, people just pretended he wasn't to ease their cognitive dissonance with voting for him.

Will my refusal to vote for Biden end all of humanity? You know what, maybe it will, who knows. Unfortunately, it doesn't matter, because I am just a machine that doesn't vote for people who do genocide. No amount of rhetoric or fear-mongering will change that, any more than you can persuade a vending machine to give you an item with words. The only thing that I will accept is actual policy concessions.