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He's gonna be president again. There is no need to pay attention to any of this. Trump had got this locked.
Either or both of them could still die very publicly. Don't give up hope!
While they aren't immortal, there is something deeply unnatural about these zombies still walking the earth. Yes, the best medicine that money can buy is quite powerful, but cancer, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and various other degenerative diseases are so incredibly common at their age and are mostly irreversible.
My wonderful grandmother lies, bed ridden, barely conscious in a care home, waiting for the end. And these freaks stumble around, withering before our eyes, yet always getting up again to inject a little more desperation and destruction into the world. It's so bleak and I don't know if I can stand another round of this charade.
It's really sick. People like Fienstein and Pelosi, rich beyond imagination, keeping their claws dug in to the seat of power until they literally die, and using their last moments to make the world worse. Just sick. I cannot imagine what is happening in their heads. The Democrats, specifically, being unable and unwilling to train up successors just mystifies me. All i can figure is that their politics begin and end at I got mine fuck you, and they don't consider bringing up successors to keep the system stable and pursue long term goals.
There is no “Democratic Party”. It’s not a party. It’s a privately held corporation. The members that compose it are all self-interested careerists in a cut-throat rat race. There is no common project, no shared goals, no unifying principles. Just a loose coalition of opportunists
Strong agree
Yeah he will be a strong contender and possibly even win, but I would never say he is that far ahead(or at all) of Biden. I think people here learned nothing from the red wave flopping last time and I am already betting early on people here will be surprised Americans are all mostly genocidal freaks looking for any excuse to support war specialy when you almost turn it into some holy war over "American values" against the savage hordes of Russians and Muslims.
The primary issue is still the economy but there is time for Biden to make and or promise concessions before the election still. With all that said Trump offers basicaly nothing over Biden other than maybe swapping Russian/Muslism for Chinese but Biden can press the China button too so idk.
Less people are gonna come out for Biden than last time and most trimomguys are still trump guys. It's all vibes, no one really cares about issues.
This is how i feel about it. I don't think its a lock either way and as of now i think it will be close. I think less people will turn out for Biden than in 2020, but a lot of libs are still going to turn out to vote against Trump firstvand foremost regadless of anything else. And you're right that to a lot of libs the genocide is a plus and Biden is the most progressive president since FDR
I think it's less about the genocide and more about how much hate has grown towards Biden and the Democrats since 2020. New York almost went red in the recent gubernational election, something that it hasn't come close to being for a while. The overall attitude in Upstate New York is similar to how it was around 2016. Most of the complaints are about economy being bad compared to how it was with Trump, money going to Israel and Ukraine, wokeism and what they perceive to be the pushing of trans issues.
You're right about Trump not exactly blowing Biden away. Plenty of libs are primed to vote against Trump and the project 2024 propaganda has worked up some people in marginalized groups enough to go and vote against him. But Biden is still going to see a lower voter turnout.
Biden has blown up his Arab demographic and is losing ground on other non-White demos.
Support war that directly involves the American military. I don’t think Americans care about proxy wars. They all want their Michael Bay movie type wars - their brave American troops bravely vanquishing the cowardly enemy who hates our freedom. Americans absolutely love rallying around the troops and pretending we’re all in this together blah blah blah. Neither Ukraine nor Gaza fit that bill, though. Most Americans don’t want to give Ukraine any money and Biden’s support for Israel is what’s driving his recent nosedive in popularity.
I have doubts. Brandon could very easily turn on the money printer. Market is as an inflation compensation package or something.
Brandon could've easily secured his victory at any moment in the past 4 years. The orange man is the easiest election opponent in history. But he hasn't, because he sucks ass, and he won't, because he sucks ass.
All Biden has to do to not lose is stop actively pushing off the people that elected him last time. He barely won last time and has actively been shitting on anybody who cares about labor rights and unions, the environment, or enthusiastically supporting a genocide.
There's legit a lot of people who want to hold their nose and vote for Biden and tell themselves maybe it'll get better but Biden keeps coming out to explicitly tell them no, it won't get better, fuck you, vote for me.
It's that last part coming from the mouths of smug PMC Dems that is already worn out. I get right wingers when they say they want to see libs cry because a small part of me feels the same way. Either way election night is gonna be fun
Nah, last minute works when it comes to the money machine. Remember, Americans don't have object permanence.
He might promise to do that (but even that is doubtful). I think Brandon will continue to do absolutely nothing.
lol he would never do anything to help anyone it’s against his dna
If all I do is read the results of each primary and read the thread here, it will be an approximate 1000% decrease in time wasted from 2016 and 2020.
The only thing that can stop Trump is lawfare and legal issues, which will be seen by Republicans as a destruction of democracy and yet again stealing an election.