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  • The funniest part is when they pivot to Biden not being important because staff does everything…

    Every argument for Biden being the candidate, comes down to Biden having zero power or importance as president. But also trump can do anything he wants if Biden loses.

    Like, why the fuck are we plowing ahead with 34% approval rating incumbent if he literally brings nothing to the table? And if Biden as president is powerless, the only way Trump could be so dangerous is Biden chooses not to act.

    The more people talk about Biden, the less sense he makes as a candidate to voters.

    And getting more votes (in the right states) is what matters most short term. Biden isn’t up to it.





  • A New York Times poll conducted after the debate, which was published on Wednesday, suggested Trump was now holding his biggest lead yet at six points.

    And a separate poll published by the BBC’s US partner CBS News suggested Trump has a three-point lead over Mr Biden in the crucial battleground states

    Him refusing to listen to voters is reason enough to replace him.

    But Joe can’t win without Dem voters. Every indication is he’s willing to hand trump the presidency out of spite if the party doesn’t force him out.

    He’s not fit to be president, even if we beat Trump. We’re stuck with this shit where Biden does whatever the fuck he wants, and rarely agrees with the people who put him in office.


  • If there was one at this point it would hurt the chances of the democrats winning.

    Whitmere has a smaller difference than Biden does…

    She hasn’t been running a campaign or been backed by the DNC?

    Why would she suddenly do worse with those things?

    But this is all just my opinion and not fact.

    It is your opinion, the issue is to get to it you’re ignoring facts …

    I’m not looking to get into a political debate

    So…

    You just want to proclaim your opinions and not have anyone explain why you’re wrong?

    You could just stop commenting on politics, that would help with avoiding political debates


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    Eh…

    The Tea story was England had been ignoring smuggling, then after a lot of warnings, enforced it by seizing smuggled tea and shipping it to England to be taxed.

    This meant the only tea on the market was legal tea and a very very small reserve of smuggled.

    So the smugglers dumped all the legal tea into the harbour, driving up both prices, making tea prohibitively expensive for most Americans, but maintained profits.

    It’s presented as an act of rebellion, when it was spoiled rich people di king over the commonors for money.







  • Really good article, it sucks people down it’s what they don’t want to hear.

    And I’m not just saying that because their #1 Reason is something I’ve been calling out since the pool came out:

    The basis for this claim was a post-debate Data for Progress (DFP) poll that found Biden and Harris taking 45 percent of the vote against Trump, while various other Democrats — from Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg — won no higher than 44 percent.

    DFP is a total shit show, like last election we found out the founder was betting on close elections, then using DFP to conduct polls who’s results would be used to influence results so he’d win the bet.

    He was also soliciting employees to participate in straw donor schemes.

    Even before all that, they didn’t get popular for accurate polls. They got popular by doing very fast polls that provide the narrative their donors asked for.

    The stuff DFP didn’t publicize about the poll they used to say Biden was the only shit:

    Even the Biden campaign’s own handpicked public poll suggests that he is not the Democrats’ strongest candidate. Yes, the president received 45 percent support against Trump in DFP’s survey, while other hypothetical nominees secured slightly less. And yet, in some of those theoretical head-to-heads, Trump’s share of the vote also fell; whereas the Republican led Biden 48 to 45, he led Whitmer 46 to 44. In other words, the best poll the president could find showed him losing by a larger margin than the governor of Michigan — who has yet to introduce herself to the national electorate.

    And that same poll also showed that 1) 67 percent of Americans think Biden is too old to serve as president, 2) a majority of voters are more concerned about Biden’s age than Trump’s “criminal charges and threats to democracy,” and 3) Biden has a worse net approval rating than every single other Democrat included in the survey.

    Biden and the DNC don’t want polls to know what voters think, they want polls that tell voters what to think.


  • It’s a thing.

    Things can literally be “too cute” and it shorts our brains out causing feelings of aggression towards the too cute thing.

    Like, how people talk about eating a babys toes, some people are repeating a saying, some are honestly experiencing the urge to do it because their brains are overloaded with cute.

    Like in Fight Club where Jared Leto was too pretty so Edward Norton bashed his face in.

    It’s not some maladaptive behavior or anything though, it’s just whatever thing you’re looking at is literally too cute for your brain to comprehend.


  • They say your brain imagines these scenarios so that you can try to avoid them

    Not quite.

    Like, there’s a scary amount we don’t know about the brain and how it works.

    But I think it’s a little different than you said. It’s the brain trying to figure out how it would deal if that happened.

    Like, you avoid stabbing yourself by not stabbing yourself.

    But your brain is evaluating if stabbing yourself so you can practice surviving a stab wound would be a good idea.

    Which, sounds crazy, untill you realize most of what humans do for fun involves tricking our brains or bodies I to think we’re in danger. Hell, even the drive to “play” is just tricking us into exercising so we’re stronger if we do have to fight.

    Even tickling is just teaching kids what parts to guard in a fight.


  • Bruh even if you pay attention in history class, red state American education is pretty shit.

    People were set up to fail, the Internet gets a lot of hype for connecting the globe, but it does more connecting some teenager in Iowa or Appalachia with the the rest of America.

    That’s what conservatives are so pissed about, up until very recently they were isolated and if someone was born there, they had no idea what the rest of the country was like. You only knew the 10 people who lived within 50 miles and all went to the same church