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The Tweet reads:


“President Biden doesn't believe his bad poll numbers, and neither do many of his closest advisers”

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[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 72 points 6 months ago (1 children)

President Johnson, hearing chants of "hey, hey, LBJ— how many kids did you kill today?" and taking it as an expression of support and healthy interest in how the war is progressing

[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 54 points 6 months ago (2 children)

We at least have that picture of Johnson being genuinely depressed at how he was viewed.

This is, well, braindead.

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If we're thinking of the same photo, I think it's LBJ listening to a tape his son sent back from Vietnam (IIRC his son was a pilot). At least that's the story.

[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago

Oh, I heard that too. I guess we are thinking the same one.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 months ago
[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 66 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Blue MAGA doesn't believe the lying media or their fake poll numbers.

[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 44 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In ebil Soviet Russia, an ailing gerontocracy refuses to believe that the people do not like it despite hard evidence, leading them to continue ignoring the systematic issues destroying the country from within.

[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago

Couldn't be us.

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 43 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not even one advisor is playing devil's advocate here?

[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 38 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They're all the Devil's advocates!

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 42 points 6 months ago (3 children)

the US executive is genuinely monarchist at this point, the emperor is running around with no clothes and none of his sycophantic courtiers dare break the illusion

it honestly makes more sense that the DNC and RNC believe in divine rights to rule with regards to primaries and religious thinking in the general

[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago

Fucking groupthink.

Soooo 1984, amirite, everyone?

[–] BynarsAreOk@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago

It is not just Biden, not just the emperor but the entire court, its literally the entire Dem establishment, from Pelosi to Blinken and Hillary they all believe it. There is no secret opposition to Biden just hiding in the corner. At most you can point to the voters themselves but then its a matter of blue MAGA vs the uncommitted voters campaign for example.

[–] memory_adept@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

it's a duopoly

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 36 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hey! That's exactly what Hillary said too.

[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

First as farce, then again as farce

[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

Wish you could skip them whenever they do happen.

[–] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago

Ad infinum!

[–] deforestgump@hexbear.net 36 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fuck around and find out, I suppose.

[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

Seems likely.

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 36 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago

His brain is certainly baked.

[–] duderium@hexbear.net 34 points 6 months ago

The numbers, folks. They’re fake. Completely fake numbers. The failing Marxist news media, the tiktok, they’re all fake, folks. They’re fake.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 32 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Libs love Orwell and still make excuses for this

[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago

I just heard a 1984 podcast ad on, well, a podcast.

Totally 1984!

[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 28 points 6 months ago

That's, err, fucking crazy, ngl

[–] save_vs_death@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

anyway, when he loses it will be the fault of the damn extreme left (all 1000 of them) that biden lost and not his stupid, incompetent, entitled campaign that failed to mobilise the largest voting block in america: the non-voters

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[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago (4 children)

"rofl"

Now that's an acronym I've not heard in a long time....

A long time...

[–] spacecadet@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Bring back the roflmao double combo!

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[–] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

A/S/L? Nvm... Afk.

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[–] khizuo@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago

In communist China…

[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Will we be entering a period where Democrats and Republicans just trade one-year terms for the rest of this miserable country’s existence?

[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I was literally thinking about this the other day.

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[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wooo democracy! Trust the Science, Yeah!

[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago

We're liberals! We're not like those pesky evangelicals!

[–] Esqplorer@lemmy.zip 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So I agree with you that this is stupid and Brandon is a dumbass, but polls have been terrible indicators since like 2012. The FTC breaking cell phone numbers by refusing to stop robo calls while the polling companies still rely on randoms answering unknown numbers is a fundamentally dumb way to collect a sample.

[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

Fair point, and a serious comment in this, well, unforgiving thread lol

Honestly, I should consider that, at least.

[–] RedundantClam@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Bold strategy, let's see how it works out for him.

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[–] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

Love me, I'm a liberal.

[–] nothx@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They know that at the end of the election cycle they are going to get an influx of centrists voting for the lesser evil.

Its a move I’m not sure will work for them.

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