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rideANDxORdie posted:He bought the New Jersey Generals in the USFL in 1984. The team was notable for "signing" a still-in-college Herschel Walker through a weird contract (before Trump's purchase of the team). And Donald Trump insisting they draft Doug Flutie to an insanely overvalued contract that he insisted other teams partially pay for when Flutie was a bust. There was an excellent 30 for 30 episode on this exact subject: Small Potatoes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWxMCLHXkVc
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Feb 5, 2024 04:41
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Almost Smart posted:That NBC poll from this morning suggests otherwise. I’m trying to steel myself for what feels like the inevitable return of Trump, but I’ve been having a really hard time as of late. Nothing good seems to stick to Biden and nothing bad seems to stick to Trump. Don't doompost, instead post good news or go volunteer or something
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Feb 5, 2024 04:46
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Every time you feel doomed, go do 30 minutes of exercise. If nothing happens, then you just got in some good exercise. If Trump does come back, you can be the swole and fit leader that the proletariat will need to help protect them against jackboot Trumptroopers.
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Feb 5, 2024 04:47
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bird with big dick posted:Prove it Not for free.
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Feb 5, 2024 04:48
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kazil posted:Eh, I don't think it's Biden playing 5D chess, I think Dems are just falling into the age old trap of letting Republicans set the narrative. Republicans crying that there's a border crisis so Joe goes out of his way to fix the made up crisis. yeah i'm honestly confused why people think this is some biden manuever when the consequence of it succeeding means bad poo poo for people at the border. biden wants this for himself because he sees this as a win for him.
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Feb 5, 2024 04:52
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Junk posted:a poop-a poop-a donald trump I just said this out loud and my dog slapped me
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Feb 5, 2024 04:56
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https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1754333708193091928?s=20 Lol these are not serious people
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Feb 5, 2024 04:57
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Pretty smart to have gone on record as saying “Trump doesn’t want a border bill in an election year” before doing this.
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Feb 5, 2024 05:00
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Let's see what Mike Johnson puts forward as a alternative because that is what Biden is going to do. He is simply going to say "Okay Mike Johnson what is that you want?"
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Feb 5, 2024 05:00
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Vire posted:https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1754333708193091928?s=20 Actually the border would be closed this week on this bill and would remain closed for undetermined amount of time so that’s utter bullshit
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Feb 5, 2024 05:01
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Silly Burrito posted:Where's your CD then? Hold on, gotta snail mail my nudes on CD-Rom.
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Feb 5, 2024 05:01
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Almost Smart posted:That NBC poll from this morning suggests otherwise. I’m trying to steel myself for what feels like the inevitable return of Trump, but I’ve been having a really hard time as of late. Nothing good seems to stick to Biden and nothing bad seems to stick to Trump. you have my personal guarantee that donald trump will not win the election
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Feb 5, 2024 05:02
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Hollismason posted:Let's see what Mike Johnson puts forward as a alternative because that is what Biden is going to do. He is simply going to say "Okay Mike Johnson what is that you want?" "Close the border until we know what the HELL IS GOING ON!"
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Feb 5, 2024 05:10
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Meanwhile Taylor does this We’re watching the Grammys and started laughing our asses off when Taylor abruptly dropped this because it will lead to stupid opinions from the most fragile and easily triggered people on earth
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Feb 5, 2024 05:11
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Dems have been overperforming polls since 2022, and now Biden’s way overperforming primary polls, and yet we’re supposed to feel like his reelection is doomed? I’m not saying Trump can’t win, but it is pretty obvious at this point that something has gone off the rails in regards to polling. Whether it’s Republican pollsters trying to ratfuck their desired outcome into reality, mainstream news sources just trying to create a horse race, or something deeply flawed about polling methodology in the age of cell phone dominance and landline extinction, polls aren’t predicting electoral outcomes as accurately as we had grown accustomed to. There are other indicators for how a party/presidential candidate will do in an upcoming election, and it includes things like midterm/off-year/special election performance, campaign money raised, and key economic indicators, and those are all breaking decisively towards Biden. Don’t worry yourself sick over polls showing Trump with a lead over Biden in Michigan and Pennsylvania when reality has shown the opposite lately. Remember, “Dewey Defeats Truman,” happened because of telephone polls in a day and age when mostly only wealthy people had telephones and many more people did not. We might be living through a similar technology gap in regards to who answers every call (old people) and who ignores - if not outright blocks - calls from unknown numbers (everyone under 45).
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Feb 5, 2024 05:12
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when the gently caress is MAGA congresspeople going to dump Johnson and do another speaker vote, there's no way the backroom social pressure or darkmoney people have actually gotten them to understand this is a red line right now.
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Feb 5, 2024 05:13
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Hollismason posted:Let's see what Mike Johnson puts forward as a alternative because that is what Biden is going to do. He is simply going to say "Okay Mike Johnson what is that you want?" The alternative will always be "whatever Biden is not doing".
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Feb 5, 2024 05:15
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Rod Hoofhearted posted:Dems have been overperforming polls since 2022, and now Biden’s way overperforming primary polls, and yet we’re supposed to feel like his reelection is doomed? This tweet really sums it up: 
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Feb 5, 2024 05:17
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Rod Hoofhearted posted:
Quick correction: the “they only polled people with telephones” was the Literary Digest poll of 1936, where they predicted Alf Landon would easily win over Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his re-election bid, an election he ended up winning with nearly 60% of the vote. “Dewey Defeats Truman” was because a) the polls taken early in the year showed a Dewey landslide b) after that, the Democratic Party broke into three parts, with Storm Thurmond running a segregationist campaign and Henry Wallace running a far-left campaign, and c) because of these things few newspapers even bothered to run polls, so the narrative of “Dewey is just going to crush Truman” continued without any opposition through the election. The few polls that were taken late in the year showed Truman having caught up or passing Dewey, for reasons I could spend an another whole post on if people cared. Anyways, your main point is right, I’m just being pedantic about the example!
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Feb 5, 2024 05:23
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But really, a big problem with polling is that during the time when polling companies were needing to invest in modernizing and researching new ways of properly sampling to get accurate reads on public opinion, everyone just decided that poll aggregators like 538 were the future. But poll aggregators only work if the polls themselves are sufficiently good, which they no longer are after a whole decade of everyone ignoring them to see what Nate Silver's model has to say.
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Feb 5, 2024 05:23
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Vire posted:https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1754333708193091928?s=20 You can give the Republicans everything they want, and they'll scream at you and go back to scratching their track marks for just one more hit of Narrative.
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Feb 5, 2024 05:27
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oh god taylor swift won album of the year it'll never end now.
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Feb 5, 2024 05:36
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Waffle House posted:You can give the Republicans everything they want, and they'll scream at you and go back to scratching their track marks for just one more hit of Narrative. And unfortunately the Democrats are dumb enough to come back with another "give them everything they want (ver.
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Feb 5, 2024 05:36
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I'd ignore the polls. They're garbage now. They've been garbage for almost a decade. I don't know why, maybe it's landlines, maybe it's the news stoking fear. Part of me thinks chuds are loving with them. Like signing up as liberals/independents, or answering as such when you get called. It wouldn't surprise me, they do poo poo like this all the time (review bombing, brigading local newspapers) - it's right in their wheelhouse, and helps them claim fraud when Joe overperforms by 10 points in their state, and the SOS wants to start tossing counties out of the results. But I don't have anything to back that up, it's just some poo poo they'd do.
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Feb 5, 2024 05:37
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nine-gear crow posted:And unfortunately the Democrats are dumb enough to come back with another "give them everything they want (ver. they seem to think that the people that vote for the gop will look at it and go "well we could have had it but you voted it no so im voting dem" but these people are in a different plane of reality
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Feb 5, 2024 05:37
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Strong Sauce posted:oh god taylor swift won album of the year it'll never end now. the psyop is GOOOOOOOOOO
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Feb 5, 2024 05:41
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Strong Sauce posted:oh god taylor swift won album of the year it'll never end now. Thanks Obama
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Feb 5, 2024 05:47
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Strong Sauce posted:oh god taylor swift won album of the year it'll never end now. Picture it! The entire Republican electorate running into the minefield that is the Culture War With Taylor Swift and just getting threshed to death while Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh and the guy with the tiny face whatever his name is weep in despair.
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Feb 5, 2024 05:49
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I can remember which book but PJ O’Rourke went to the Texas-Mexican border in the late 80s and rode around with Border Patrol agents catching people One of the agents said something like “We could all stand here across the entire border with our arms linked and they’d still get in”
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Feb 5, 2024 05:53
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As a person who never wants to hear about pop stars, Republicans going full out and only talking about pop stars, just makes life easier because they can be ignored. "Oh, this right wing poo poo head has an opinion about a war or a bill. drat it." *Presses the Play Button *Oh, this right wring poo poo head has an opinion about pop culture." *Scrolls down and plays the v-tuber video.
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Feb 5, 2024 05:55
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Infinitum posted:Thanks Obama It should be: Infinitum posted:Thanks Clinton In 1996 he signed the telecommunications act that basically let Clear Channel buy up all the radio stations, and consolidated pop culture in to the tiny thing it is now. This person won a BILLION AWARDS! (Beat) The gently caress? Nobody in my friend group has heard a single song of theirs.
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Feb 5, 2024 06:00
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:As a person who never wants to hear about pop stars, Republicans going full out and only talking about pop stars, just makes life easier because they can be ignored. if I see a right wing vtuber I'm blaming you
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Feb 5, 2024 06:02
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"They're not after me, they're after you. I'm just in the way." -Taylor Swift
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Feb 5, 2024 06:04
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quick question: will it be biden vs trump in 2024?
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Feb 5, 2024 06:19
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hannah posted:quick question: will it be biden vs trump in 2024? lol yes. It was always going to be.
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Feb 5, 2024 06:21
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hannah posted:quick question: will it be biden vs trump in 2024? It will be Biden vs Trump long after our tombstones have crumbled to dust
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Feb 5, 2024 06:24
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:It should be: Thanks Obama
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Feb 5, 2024 06:25
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nine-gear crow posted:lol yes. It was always going to be. that is pretty disgusting, i am semi-glad to be relatively uninformed politically, less anxiety that way
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Feb 5, 2024 06:30
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hannah posted:that is pretty disgusting, i am semi-glad to be relatively uninformed politically, less anxiety that way You are in the wrong thread comrade.
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Feb 5, 2024 06:35
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skeleton warrior posted:Anyways, your main point is right, I’m just being pedantic about the example! Feel free to be as pedantic as you like, at as great a length as you like, on any (semi-) related topic you like. If any thread needs effort posts, it's this one.
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