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I know that this far out polls don't really matter, but all the 538 polls in the last month except for one indicate Trump beating Biden, sometimes handily.

Student loan repayments haven't even started again yet.

Libs are going to be obsessing over Trump's legal troubles and expect that to save them, meanwhile completely ignoring all the other shit going on and how obviously unpopular their blue maga guy Biden is.

Don't forget to vote

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[–] judgeholden@hexbear.net 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

to be fair it's a year out and the democrats have incredible messaging with the "the economy is actually great you imbeciles" strategy

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't understand how these people can be so obtuse. Ignore the tent cities springing up everywhere, if you look at this chart, this specific economic indicator is actually up!

[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

"This specific economic indicator which is only positively affecting the 10% richest people in the country is up! You should feel happy for them, and vote for us to keep this going!"

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

“I don’t know why you’re complaining,” I say to my fellow scavenger as I pull a shabby jacket off a frozen corpse in the alley behind an abandoned Applebee’s, “the economy is doing great!”

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remember the good news the White House sent out during the 4th of July about how the expected generic celebration slop would cost 29 cents less in total? biden-troll

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Remember when Biden signed a bill that Cut Child Poverty In Half

And then Doubled Child Poverty a year latter when the dems failed to renew it?

[–] beef_curds@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's ok, they can always rerun Joe again in 2028.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Excuse me it's her turn.

And by her I mean Nancy Pelosi. Let's see if we can break the record for history's oldest president

[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought hell was supposed to exist after I died

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

It already exists

We built it

We live there

[–] __ghost__@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago
[–] huf@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

i dunno, i wouldnt trust someone so inexperienced. they need to learn how DC works and then maybe.

what i'm saying is that feinstein would clearly be the better choice

[–] shukufuku@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can they put him in cryogenic stasis right now?

[–] MaxOS@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

2028: "it's time. Open Biden!" open-biden

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

People are hungry for a viable third-party candidate. It's HIS turn! jeb

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Student loan repayments haven't even started again yet.

How can MSNBC(-like) talking heads even spin that? I guess they'll claim young people aren't a big voting block and - let's be real so here's some tough love - they need to vote for the best interests of their country.

Maybe Biden should put out a video where he says "Hello, fellow young people - I wanna talk to you about Bidenomics!..."

[–] MaxOS@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's funny because the youngster millennials with student loans are almost in their 40s now.

[–] KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago

"I have no hope of owning a house or having children because the economy is unlivable even though I make about what my dad does because he pays 1/3 what I do in rent towards his mortgage. And even if I had a kid, I'd be tempted to have them doing rifle drills in the woods so they have a better shot at surviving the water wars."

And then they're like, "millennials are too selfish to reproduce!" No, you just raised us to be realistic and responsible with money and we see 1-2 "once in a lifetime" financial crashes every 10 years.

[–] Sted@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

It makes sense. Biden only won because of Covid, and the Dems have decided that that's over.

[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

C'mon democrats, it's time to talk The Rock into running as a democrat. Let's quit the bullshit and start running almost exclusively pro-wrestlers as candidates.

[–] HamManBad@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dems would never run him since he actually genuinely likes China.

[–] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

The Manchurian Candidate: You can't see him

[–] Green_Bay_Guy@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Abraxiel@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Compromise: we can have a kook'd up gerontocrat, but it's Jesse Ventura.

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[–] JuneFall@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"This is the most important election in your lifetime!", again. Which isn't wrong, but not in the way liberals think it is.

Biden had years to smooch up on the working class and did instead what his track record and position in society urged him to. I.e. block railway strikes. Continue student debt payments. Not extend the supreme court to secure a Green New Deal (at least).

This means that the DNC and party are responsible (of course like the GOP) for putting rights, bodies and thus material/social conditions/relations of marginalized at risk. Again.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Project 2025 do be kinda scary though.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There is like ~~5%~~ 10 % (lower bound) chance one of them croaks in a year

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That means there's a 1% chance they both croak. I'd forgotten what hope feels like.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

acshually with my guesstimate of ghoul lifespan (100 years) for both to croak it would be 0.05*0.05, so like 1 in 400. sadness-abysmal

*But then i forgot to add cia angle into the mix

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

So you're saying there's a chance

[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This country is so absurd, neofascists are going to obsess over this "comeback" for years

[–] GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

I will never have any idea why conservatives feel the right to even have a bad day in the past 40 years.

They've been having a golden age since Raegan first put his ghoulish talons in the Oval Office and Democrats have been too scared to ever go to the left of him ever since on the rare occasions they have any power at all.

[–] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Make the podcast great again

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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On a shitty incumbent year, a vote for the opponent is a "fuck the incumbent" above all else.

Can you blame even chuds for having a "fuck the incumbent" sentiment at this point?

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't blame liberals for having a "fuck the incumbent" sentiment at this point.

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

It's the liberals who insist, "Nooo! You should love the incumbent!" that i don't understand

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

One thing I learned from 2020 is that polls are completely reliable and firmly rooted in reality very-smart

[–] GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Project 2025

One of the most powerful countries on earth is inevitably a fascist hellscape, and its corpos are ready to press the fascism button

The people are generally okay with it, or super enthusiastic about it

Be stuck in said shithole country.

God is either a comedian, or punishing me for some twisted crime I did in a past life.

[–] newmou@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did they extend out the repayment start date? I thought they started back in August. We haven’t paid them of course lol

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[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nikki Haley I think beats Biden by the widest margin of any Republican candidate. I'd say DeSantis is getting more attention but she could be a dark horse.

[–] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

That’s because she is the most like Biden. She could win back the suburb centrists who were alienated by Trump’s lack of decorum

[–] xXthrowawayXx@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

It’s gonna be so fucking awesome

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they actually arrest him ahead of the election, that'd be a different thing, but we all damn well know they won't

[–] Milksteaks@midwest.social 22 points 1 year ago

A few people had some predictions of orange man getting arrested and getting a 5% poll bump leading him to win. I wouldn't put it outside the realm of possibility

[–] TawnyFroggy@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha can't wait to live in a fascist hellscape.

[–] duderium@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

We’re already in one baby.

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