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

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

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

I thought hell was supposed to exist after I died

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

It already exists

We built it

We live there

[–] __ghost__@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago
[–] huf@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

Can they put him in cryogenic stasis right now?

[–] MaxOS@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago

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

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago

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

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

The Manchurian Candidate: You can't see him

[–] Green_Bay_Guy@midwest.social 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] HamManBad@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago
[–] Abraxiel@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

Project 2025 do be kinda scary though.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago

So you're saying there's a chance

[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

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

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Make the podcast great again

[–] ChapoKrautHaus@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

Honestly the 2020 chapos were wild.

I still listen to "God could dad drive a car" (428 or something) with the Biden car antics and it's so great to hear Felix NAIL the imperial decline we've all experienced ever since.

[–] GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years 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 2 years 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

[–] xXthrowawayXx@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

It’s gonna be so fucking awesome

[–] TawnyFroggy@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] duderium@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

We’re already in one baby.

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