USCE 2023: Please let them shove a camera up your butt

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I AM GRANDO: Aug 20, 2006

Independence posted:

It looks like Santorum is back in the Senate after all these years.

It�s too bad we already have the new thread title.

# ? Dec 18, 2023 03:51

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# ? May 23, 2024 12:57

Acebuckeye13: Nov 2, 2010; Ultra Carp

Professor Beetus posted:

Amazingly poor reading comprehension if you think anyone did that

see you say that but I did no-poo poo see a goon defending cranking it in the work bathroom just a few months ago.

# ? Dec 18, 2023 03:59

Push El Burrito: May 9, 2006; Soiled Meat

Acebuckeye13 posted:

see you say that but I did no-poo poo see a goon defending cranking it in the work bathroom just a few months ago.

Cranking it in the work bathroom is attacking capitalism at its core.

# ? Dec 18, 2023 04:07

Jesus III: May 23, 2007

Single bathroom? Don't make any mess at all? Don't take too long? Meh,. I mean people poo poo in there. As long as I don't know I don't care.

# ? Dec 18, 2023 04:16

Blue Footed Booby: Oct 4, 2006; got those happy feet

Push El Burrito posted:

Cranking it in the work bathroom is attacking capitalism at its core.

When I make a nickel, my boss makes a dime. That's why I honk off to anime on company time.

# ? Dec 18, 2023 04:19

Push El Burrito: May 9, 2006; Soiled Meat

https://twitter.com/Travis_in_Flint/status/1736571140762403170?s=19 is this bad?

# ? Dec 18, 2023 04:25

Fart Amplifier: Apr 12, 2003

Trump really working on his Hitler impression here.

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1736113307319210375

# ? Dec 18, 2023 04:27

MixMasterMalaria: Jul 26, 2007

Or even his Sterling Hayden impression. https://youtu.be/gNJ4Q9jqL8A?si=Y5RaCf8P7NiRhsyc

# ? Dec 18, 2023 04:32

Wheeljack: Jul 12, 2021

Push El Burrito posted:

https://twitter.com/Travis_in_Flint/status/1736571140762403170?s=19 is this bad?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/17/politics/biden-delaware-car-crash-motorcade/index.html

"The US Secret Service confirmed that a vehicle in the motorcade was hit by another car as Biden got into his car. There was 'no protective interest associated with this event,' Secret Service spokesperson Steve Kopek told CNN in a statement, meaning that the crash was not intentional. It had been raining heavily in Wilmington."

A minor car accident in proximity to the President, nothing more.

# ? Dec 18, 2023 04:58

Orthanc6: Nov 4, 2009

Push El Burrito posted:

https://twitter.com/Travis_in_Flint/status/1736571140762403170?s=19 is this bad?

I mean if he was trying to attack Biden thankfully he went about it in a very dumb and unlikely to succeed method. A country packed to the gills with guns, and he tries to ram to Biden with a car, when Biden is constantly surrounded by a phalanx of cars when he travels.

So it seems dumb both ways. Either an extremely dumb way to try to attack Biden, or an extremely dumb way to get to work faster.

We'll find out what this was once the guy's socials are dug up.

edit: Beaten, it nothing, drive slower folks.

# ? Dec 18, 2023 05:00

Discendo Vox: Mar 21, 2013; We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.

Push El Burrito posted:

https://twitter.com/Travis_in_Flint/status/1736571140762403170?s=19 is this bad?

Look, please, please, please, look at the account before you breathlessly redistribute it into the thread. Also, sincerely, review how you encountered this in the first place, and whatever that channel of information was, cut it off and burn the stump.

# ? Dec 18, 2023 05:13

Oracle: Oct 9, 2004

Orthanc6 posted:

edit: Beaten, it nothing, drive slower folks.

People have lost their goddamn minds on the road since the pandemic. I see people run red lights every drat day. And I don�t mean �orange� I mean �it�s been red for a good four seconds and traffic has started to move.� Just today someone a few cars in front of me decided someone wasn�t going fast enough (in stop and go traffic) and swerved into the left turn lane to pass him to make the light (that was already red). Just blew right through it. It�s gotten so you take your life into your hands if you just drive on autopilot �green means go.� You better look twice before you pull into that intersection right of way or no.

# ? Dec 18, 2023 05:16

I AM GRANDO: Aug 20, 2006

Discendo Vox posted:

Look, please, please, please, look at the account before you breathlessly redistribute it into the thread. Also, sincerely, review how you encountered this in the first place, and whatever that channel of information was, cut it off and burn the stump.

He sure breaks a lot of stories for someone who doesn�t know what a comma is. Of course, working exclusively from the cab of your truck is bound to cause some problems.

# ? Dec 18, 2023 05:20

Papercut: Aug 24, 2005

Oracle posted:

People have lost their goddamn minds on the road since the pandemic. I see people run red lights every drat day. And I don’t mean ‘orange’ I mean ‘it’s been red for a good four seconds and traffic has started to move.’ Just today someone a few cars in front of me decided someone wasn’t going fast enough (in stop and go traffic) and swerved into the left turn lane to pass him to make the light (that was already red). Just blew right through it. It’s gotten so you take your life into your hands if you just drive on autopilot ‘green means go.’ You better look twice before you pull into that intersection right of way or no.

Yep, seen the same thing in my city, and then last week one of my coworker's son, daughter in law, and two grand kids all spent time in the hospital after their Uber was t-boned by someone running a red in their city. It's hosed up.

# ? Dec 18, 2023 05:55

Push El Burrito: May 9, 2006; Soiled Meat

Discendo Vox posted:

Look, please, please, please, look at the account before you breathlessly redistribute it into the thread. Also, sincerely, review how you encountered this in the first place, and whatever that channel of information was, cut it off and burn the stump.

Eh, looking further he's a piece of poo poo but when I was looking through things it was the first one I saw that had actual video of the event. Seems like it was a nothing thing but the news alert that popped on my phone wasn't characterizing it as such at the time.

# ? Dec 18, 2023 05:56

Discendo Vox: Mar 21, 2013; We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.

Push El Burrito posted:

Eh, looking further he's a piece of poo poo but when I was looking through things it was the first one I saw that had actual video of the event. Seems like it was a nothing thing but the news alert that popped on my phone wasn't characterizing it as such at the time.

You coulda just posted whatever the media alert was.

# ? Dec 18, 2023 06:04

GlyphGryph: Jun 23, 2013; Down came the glitches and burned us in ditches and we slept after eating our dead.

I AM GRANDO posted:

It is kind of interesting how quickly the republican base and electoral bench has shifted from uptight churchy hypocrites in suits who could be ruined by having heterosexual affairs exposed to total screaming freaks who are all quasi-out swingers doing tantra with Zangeif at the crossfit and finding a third by showing hog to high school girls at the bowling alley. Gaetz shows his homegrown while they�re in session.

I remember this being a conservative thing as far back as the 90s, though. All that's changed is that it seems to be a lot more obvious a lot more often nowadays and a lot easier to get lurid details, but, like... Republicans being super into weird sex stuff in a weirdly open way has been a thing for a long time, it's just that now you see a lot more public knowledge of it instead of just people in the related scenes chuckling about it behind their backs.

GlyphGryph fucked around with this message at 06:20 on Dec 18, 2023

# ? Dec 18, 2023 06:16

Old Kentucky Shark: May 25, 2012; If you think you're gonna get sympathy from the shark, well then, you won't.

Oracle posted:

People have lost their goddamn minds on the road since the pandemic. I see people run red lights every drat day. And I don�t mean �orange� I mean �it�s been red for a good four seconds and traffic has started to move.� Just today someone a few cars in front of me decided someone wasn�t going fast enough (in stop and go traffic) and swerved into the left turn lane to pass him to make the light (that was already red). Just blew right through it. It�s gotten so you take your life into your hands if you just drive on autopilot �green means go.� You better look twice before you pull into that intersection right of way or no.

I had someone blow past me passing on the left in a parking lot this morning because I wasn't going over speed bumps fast enough.

It feels like about 5-10% of the population decided during Covid that all the laws of God and Man no longer apply to them and driving behavior is just the most outwardly visible marker.

# ? Dec 18, 2023 06:57

Mid-Life Crisis: Jun 13, 2023; by Fluffdaddy

Oracle posted:

People have lost their goddamn minds on the road since the pandemic. I see people run red lights every drat day. And I don�t mean �orange� I mean �it�s been red for a good four seconds and traffic has started to move.� Just today someone a few cars in front of me decided someone wasn�t going fast enough (in stop and go traffic) and swerved into the left turn lane to pass him to make the light (that was already red). Just blew right through it. It�s gotten so you take your life into your hands if you just drive on autopilot �green means go.� You better look twice before you pull into that intersection right of way or no.

That�s just how people drive in the Middle East. The left turn lane is a passing lane for the straightaway and the straight lane is a passing lane for the left turn lane. I never really understood the value of defensive driving until I drove there. You sure it�s the pandemic?

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# ? Dec 18, 2023 12:39

Cheesus: Oct 17, 2002; Let us retract the foreskin of ignorance and apply the wirebrush of enlightenment.; Yam Slacker

I AM GRANDO posted:

This is honestly one of the more unexpected aspects of the trump revolution on the right�they�re now openly ok with all kinds of weird sex stuff so long as it centers heterosexual men (only mff swingers). People like Margorie Green and Lauren Boebert used to be kept out partially because their sex was distasteful to the culture, and Gaetz would have been destroyed by the kind of behavior his peers have seen from him, although paying teens for sex was always fine so long as it was deniable and kept quiet.

Given 50 years of rumors of Trump's sex life (70s swinger, marriages, extra marital affairs, and connections to the likes of Epstein), I'd argue that the Republican party normalizing all of this is a completely logical result of the "Trump Revolution".

I'm predicting several overplaying of this hand in the six months to three years.

# ? Dec 18, 2023 13:58

ummel: Jun 17, 2002; <3 Lowtax; Fun Shoe

This is the end result of decades of making their own media ecosystem. They get to jerk people off to Beetlejuice in public and the people who vote for them will just assume it's the crooked media making up stories whole cloth.

# ? Dec 18, 2023 14:25

FizFashizzle: Mar 30, 2005

Back in 2000 thomas was starting to mention to GOP lawmakers that if he didn�t find a way to bring in more money he was going to resign.

https://x.com/eisingerj/status/1736730240661991779?s=46&t=JBd6ZXmGQ3LmWL-ineTnAA

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At the resort, Thomas gave a speech at an off-the-record conservative conference. He found himself seated next to a Republican member of Congress on the flight home. The two men talked, and the lawmaker left the conversation worried that Thomas might resign.

Congress should give Supreme Court justices a pay raise, Thomas told him. If lawmakers didn�t act, �one or more justices will leave soon� � maybe in the next year.

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Thomas� comments in 2000 were to Florida Rep. Cliff Stearns, a vocal conservative who�d been in Congress for 11 years and occasionally socialized with the justice. They set off a flurry of activity across the judiciary and Capitol Hill. �His importance as a conservative was paramount,� Stearns said in a recent interview. �We wanted to make sure he felt comfortable in his job and he was being paid properly.�

# ? Dec 18, 2023 14:36

Bar Ran Dun: Jan 22, 2006

Mid-Life Crisis posted:

That�s just how people drive in the Middle East. The left turn lane is a passing lane for the straightaway and the straight lane is a passing lane for the left turn lane. I never really understood the value of defensive driving until I drove there. You sure it�s the pandemic?

This is just how racists post in the United States.

Seriously straight to those middle easterners?

Why don�t you support your implied assertion that Middle easterners are the reason accident rates have risen in the US? (Or just cede the point that this is racist drivel.)

# ? Dec 18, 2023 15:57

Kalit: Nov 6, 2006; The great thing about the thousands of slaughtered Palestinian children is that they can't pull away when you fondle them or sniff their hair.

That's a Biden success story.

Mid-Life Crisis posted:

That�s just how people drive in the Middle East. The left turn lane is a passing lane for the straightaway and the straight lane is a passing lane for the left turn lane. I never really understood the value of defensive driving until I drove there. You sure it�s the pandemic?

Is there a racist/sexist/trolling quota before someone's lovely re-reg gets threadbanned?

# ? Dec 18, 2023 16:06

Iamgoofball: Jul 1, 2015

Mid-Life Crisis posted:

That�s just how people drive in the Middle East. The left turn lane is a passing lane for the straightaway and the straight lane is a passing lane for the left turn lane. I never really understood the value of defensive driving until I drove there. You sure it�s the pandemic?

eat poo poo you loving racist, mods should've banned your rear end when you posted the stupid accelerationism derail, go cry about how i'm not :decorum:

ing on your main

Iamgoofball fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Dec 18, 2023

# ? Dec 18, 2023 16:22

Mid-Life Crisis: Jun 13, 2023; by Fluffdaddy

Bar Ran Dun posted:

This is just how racists post in the United States.

Seriously straight to those middle easterners?

Why don�t you support your implied assertion that Middle easterners are the reason accident rates have risen in the US? (Or just cede the point that this is racist drivel.)

You made the last jump of logic there, I didn�t. I�m saying that form of driving is the norm elsewhere in the world, why are you blaming Covid?

# ? Dec 18, 2023 16:24

Iamgoofball: Jul 1, 2015

Mid-Life Crisis posted:

You made the last jump of logic there, I didn�t. I�m saying that form of driving is the norm elsewhere in the world, why are you blaming Covid?

gently caress off

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# ? Dec 18, 2023 16:25

Mid-Life Crisis: Jun 13, 2023; by Fluffdaddy

Cheesus posted:

Given 50 years of rumors of Trump's sex life (70s swinger, marriages, extra marital affairs, and connections to the likes of Epstein), I'd argue that the Republican party normalizing all of this is a completely logical result of the "Trump Revolution".

I'm predicting several overplaying of this hand in the six months to three years.

You sure they didn�t just get jealous after Clinton got off Scott free?

# ? Dec 18, 2023 16:30

World Famous W: May 25, 2007; BAAAAAAAAAAAA

Independence posted:

It looks like Santorum is back in the Senate after all these years.

this is the superior thread title

# ? Dec 18, 2023 16:39

Inglonias: Mar 7, 2013; I WILL PUT THIS FLAG ON FREAKING EVERYTHING BECAUSE IT IS SYMBOLIC AS HELL SOMEHOW

Biden said to be increasingly frustrated by dismal poll numbers

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The night before President Biden departed Washington to celebrate Thanksgiving on Nantucket, Mass., he gathered his closest aides for a meeting in the White House residence.

After pardoning a pair of turkeys, an annual White House tradition, Biden delivered some stern words for the small group assembled: His poll numbers were unacceptably low and he wanted to know what his team and his campaign were doing about it. He complained that his economic message had done little to move the ball, even as the economy was growing and unemployment was falling, according to people familiar with his comments, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a private conversation.

For months, the president and first lady Jill Biden have told aides and friends they are frustrated by the president�s low approval rating and the polls that show him trailing former president Donald Trump, the front-runner for the Republican nomination � and in recent weeks, they have grown upset that they are not making more progress.

�We do not discuss the President�s private conversations one way or the other,� Andrew Bates, a White House spokesman, said in a statement. �The President and first lady meet regularly with their senior team for updates and to review plans.�

Since that November meeting, which has not been previously reported, most polls continue to show Biden trailing Trump nationally and, more importantly, in key battleground states. The accumulation of troubling polls for Biden has made it harder for Democrats to dismiss them, leading to a fresh set of conversations among Biden officials and allies about whether the president and his team need a shift in strategy. And now Democrats in competitive races are growing increasingly worried about Biden damaging their own electoral prospects.

Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), who is running for the state�s open Senate seat, has expressed concern to allies that she may not be able to win her race if Biden is at the top of the ticket, according to people familiar with the conversations. A spokesman for Slotkin�s campaign said she �looks forward to running with President Biden.�

�As Congresswoman Slotkin has often said, Michiganders care about results, and no one can argue with the results we see in Michigan: dirt is moving and plants are being built and expanded because of Democrats� legislative accomplishments under President Biden, including the CHIPS Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law,� Austin Cook, the spokesman, said in a statement.

Adding to the challenging political landscape, Biden�s agenda hangs in the balance on Capitol Hill as his pleas to provide more aid to Ukraine and Israel are mired in partisan battles after the visit from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky failed to secure a breakthrough. House Republicans also formalized their impeachment inquiry into the president last week, despite not yet presenting evidence that Biden benefited from his son�s overseas business dealings.

Biden officials have grown accustomed to Democratic anxiety about their every move and the state of their campaign. They routinely point to comments made by lawmakers, donors and pundits who declared Biden�s 2020 primary campaign over when he was routed in Iowa and New Hampshire before he went on to win the nomination and the presidency.

But now Biden�s approval rating has tied his record low, standing at 38 percent with 58 percent disapproving, according to a Washington Post average of 17 polls in November and December. Voters, including a majority of Democrats, are particularly concerned about Biden�s age and consistently rank it as a bigger problem for the president, 81, than Trump, 77.

In the states, recent polls from CNN found Biden trailed Trump in Michigan by 10 points and in Georgia by 5 points. In early November, New York Times-Siena College polls found Biden trailing Trump in five of the six most competitive battleground states: Trump led Biden by 10 percentage points in Nevada, six in Georgia, five in Arizona and Michigan and four in Pennsylvania. Biden led Trump by two in Wisconsin, albeit well within the 4.8-point margin of error. In 2020, Biden defeated Trump in all six of those states, though by very narrow margins.

�I feel the same way I did in 2015 and 2016,� Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) said. �There�s work to do.�

She added: �Next year is going to be a very competitive race. The country is angry.�

On Sunday night, the president and the first lady stopped by the campaign�s headquarters in Wilmington, Del., to have dinner with campaign staff. The two spent roughly an hour there, chatting with staff � the president also joined some FaceTime calls with family members � and eating Italian food.

The president, in brief remarks, told his staff that the election was bigger than him and about the future of the country�s democracy, according to a person familiar with his comments.

When leaving the offices, Biden told reporters who asked why he was losing to Trump in the polls that people were reading �the wrong polls.�

Publicly, Biden campaign officials and Democratic allies have downplayed the polls, telling supporters to largely ignore them. They argue the election is still almost a year away and polls are not predictive of the results, but rather a snapshot of the current moment. They say most voters are not paying attention to the election yet, and the polls will change once the race becomes a clear choice between Biden and Trump.

Only recently, though, have Biden officials started to scale up the campaign, which they launched in April, after months of warnings from top Democrats in battleground states that they were too slow to build out their operation. Since Thanksgiving, the campaign has announced leadership teams in Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin and South Carolina and more staffers are slated to be announced before the end of the year, campaign officials said.

�The Republican primary could end quickly, and the general election could begin in weeks, not months,� said Simon Rosenberg, a Democratic strategist. �Given Trump�s noisiness and his ability to bully his way through the daily information wars, I think it�s really important that the Biden campaign move into general election mode as soon as possible. We�re not where we want to be. Some of our coalition is wandering and we need to go get them back.�

Biden campaign officials point to their close collaboration with the Democratic National Committee, arguing they had a head start in building a national campaign apparatus. Since Biden was elected, the DNC has continued to invest in battleground states, including a recently launched pilot test of its 2024 organizing strategy in Wisconsin and Arizona.

�We are methodically and strategically building the infrastructure we�ll need to activate the broad and diverse coalition of voters that sent Joe Biden and Kamala D. Harris to the White House, and are confident that the full campaign apparatus that builds off three years of significant investments at the DNC will be a powerful force to defeat whatever MAGA Republican we face next year,� TJ Ducklo, a spokesman for the Biden campaign, said in a statement.

One bright spot in recent weeks for Biden has been his fundraising operation. People familiar with the effort say they are optimistic they will hit their target of $67 million for the final quarter of 2023, typically a difficult time to raise money because of Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Over a 36-hour period this month, the Biden campaign raised over $15 million in Southern California alone, the people said. The massive haul came after Democratic candidates, including Biden, had stayed away from fundraising in Los Angeles because of the nearly four month actors strike, which ended in early November. While in California, both the president and first lady attended star-studded fundraisers, with Lenny Kravitz performing at one with the president and Chrissy Teigen and Kerry Washington hosting an event for the first lady, with a guest list that included actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

And last week, top Biden donors gathered at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Washington, formerly the Trump International Hotel, for a national finance committee meeting where many rejoiced in taking over a space that a few years ago was the favored watering hole of Trump officials and allies during the former president�s term.

�The last several weeks have been remarkably successfully,� Jeffrey Katzenberg, the movie mogul who is a longtime Democratic fundraiser and national co-chair of Biden�s campaign.

Now Democrats in the battleground states say they want to see that money in action.

Former congressman Conor Lamb (D-Pa.), who attended the president�s fundraiser in Philadelphia last week, said Biden�s campaign needs to activate the party�s network of grass-roots supporters.

�In the minds of many Democrats, we campaigned on a set of ideas in 2020, and we went into office and executed on them,� he said. �We feel like we have a good story to tell, but that doesn�t seem to be registering yet.�

He said many Biden supporters are in �a state of paralysis� over how to get involved in the campaign and improve the president�s standing.

�I think a lot of activists feel that everyone they know is happy with the president,� Lamb said. �They�re not understanding who is in the majority of the country that is dissatisfied and what to do to change their minds.

He added: �A lot of us are looking to the campaign for leadership on how we�re going to overcome that together and what role they need us to play.�

Emily Guskin and Scott Clement contributed to this report.

I'm sort of in agreement here - people have siloed so much politically that it's starting to become difficult to reach out to others who disagree.

# ? Dec 18, 2023 17:26

Bar Ran Dun: Jan 22, 2006

Mid-Life Crisis posted:

You made the last jump of logic there, I didn�t. I�m saying that form of driving is the norm elsewhere in the world, why are you blaming Covid?

You implied it. You are following racism with cowardice.

Another poster observes that drivers in the US have gotten worse since the pandemic and you follow by calling middle eastern drivers bad.

You either intended your remark to follow as response or it was a non sequitur response and you are breaking D&D rules.

# ? Dec 18, 2023 17:28

Dapper_Swindler: Feb 14, 2012; Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Inglonias posted:

Biden said to be increasingly frustrated by dismal poll numbers

I'm sort of in agreement here - people have siloed so much politically that it's starting to become difficult to reach out to others who disagree.

at the very least, they seem to realize they can't just glad hand it. I do think poll numbers will probably change some what going into the actual election. to me its interesting because the last 3 or so elections have mostly gone pretty well for the dems. I dont think polling is totally wrong or inacurrate but there is something up. Like their are clear issues with the admin right now that various sections of population have issues with it and some of those can be fixed sorta and some can be messaged better. some are lose lose politically. I think part of the issue is biden does too much actual good stuff behind closed doors and i think america is brokenly used to the trump style in your face poo poo. i dont think they LIKE that but, they are "used" to it.

Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Dec 18, 2023

# ? Dec 18, 2023 17:34

Hieronymous Alloy: Jan 30, 2009; Why! Why!! Why must you refuse to accept that Dr. Hieronymous Alloy's Genetically Enhanced Cream Corn Is Superior to the Leading Brand on the Market!?!; Morbid Hound

Dapper_Swindler posted:

at the very least, they seem to realize they can't just glad hand it. .

Yeah at least he seems to be realizing it. Biden just doesn't seem to know how to steal the camera. Hope he learns soon.

# ? Dec 18, 2023 17:41

KittyEmpress: Dec 30, 2012; Jam Buddies

Biden sucks, and the democratic party sucks, and basically every young left leaning person I know feels the same on both these things.

No one even wanted Biden to begin with. He only won because the idea of more Trump is scarier. If Biden ever thought people were excited to have him as president he's a colossal loving moron. His only reason for winning is that his opponent was the most repellant man ever to hold a public office.

# ? Dec 18, 2023 17:44

Dapper_Swindler: Feb 14, 2012; Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Yeah at least he seems to be realizing it. Biden just doesn't seem to know how to steal the camera. Hope he learns soon.

he had some very solid moments last year and in 2022. I think he will change tact and I am curious if stuff will start to 180 a bit when trump wins the primary/gets on tv more mixed with impeachment attempts.

# ? Dec 18, 2023 17:47

sexy tiger boobs: Aug 23, 2002; Up shit creek with a turd for a paddle.

KittyEmpress posted:

Biden sucks, and the democratic party sucks, and basically every young left leaning person I know feels the same on both these things.

No one even wanted Biden to begin with. He only won because the idea of more Trump is scarier. If Biden ever thought people were excited to have him as president he's a colossal loving moron. His only reason for winning is that his opponent was the most repellant man ever to hold a public office.

Biden the man sucks, sure. But he's the best president we've had in a while. It's a bummer that people don't see that and they can definitely work on their messaging.

# ? Dec 18, 2023 17:49

Kalit: Nov 6, 2006; The great thing about the thousands of slaughtered Palestinian children is that they can't pull away when you fondle them or sniff their hair.

That's a Biden success story.

KittyEmpress posted:

Biden sucks, and the democratic party sucks, and basically every young left leaning person I know feels the same on both these things.

No one even wanted Biden to begin with. He only won because the idea of more Trump is scarier. If Biden ever thought people were excited to have him as president he's a colossal loving moron. His only reason for winning is that his opponent was the most repellant man ever to hold a public office.

Eh, I don't know if this part I bolded is the case. Biden was easily the most popular for nearly the entire 2020 Democratic primary. Now, I guess you could make the argument that no one wanted anyone in the Democratic primary and Biden was just the most popular among candidates that no one wanted. But I would disagree, as it seemed like the primaries had a very good turnout when compared to previous elections.

As far as him only winning because Trump is scarier, I guess it's hard to present evidence one way or the other. However, I suspect that's probably not true considering according to polls, non-Trump candidates are still mostly down vs Biden in the (very early) polls: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/. Of course, it's a 4 year difference since 2020, so :shrug:

# ? Dec 18, 2023 18:03

Mooseontheloose: May 13, 2003

From a pure politics perspective if I were Biden I would:

1. Be way more in front about the Green investments and what's its doing right now and the popular reforms you passed.
2. If the I/P war is continuing into the new year and attacks against Muslims and Jews in the US continue to tick up, make a Presidential address about what's going on.

Like lead from the back is great and is working on a macro level but its ok to take credit for good things.

# ? Dec 18, 2023 18:11

Mid-Life Crisis: Jun 13, 2023; by Fluffdaddy

Ditch Kamala and find someone pro labor. Is daycare support really that difficult to find compromise on?

# ? Dec 18, 2023 18:14

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# ? May 23, 2024 12:57

Crows Turn Off: Jan 7, 2008

Mid-Life Crisis posted:

Ditch Kamala and find someone pro labor. Is daycare support really that difficult to find compromise on?

Pretty sure black women have been key for the Democrats success lately. Not sure how well this would go.

# ? Dec 18, 2023 18:16

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