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RE: 2024 US Presidential Election
November 11, 2023 at 1:34 pm
(November 11, 2023 at 1:25 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Yah, here's what'd going to happen, provided both candidates are in sufficient health to campaign. All the people who will vote for Biden no matter what will vote for Biden. All the people who will vote for Trump no matter what will vote for Trump. The latter group is bigger than the former group. Then most of the people who wish they could vote for someone else will vote for Biden, and Biden will win.
We absolutely can't be complacent or fail to get out the vote, but for my money, that's how it will play out.
Hobbes is quite persuasive.
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RE: 2024 US Presidential Election
November 11, 2023 at 2:07 pm
(November 11, 2023 at 1:25 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Yah, here's what'd going to happen, provided both candidates are in sufficient health to campaign. All the people who will vote for Biden no matter what will vote for Biden. All the people who will vote for Trump no matter what will vote for Trump. The latter group is bigger than the former group. Then most of the people who wish they could vote for someone else will vote for Biden, and Biden will win.
We absolutely can't be complacent or fail to get out the vote, but for my money, that's how it will play out.
Yeah, it really is about turnout. While Biden's centrism and age may not inspire Democrats to vote, the numerous Republican moves at the state level about abortion, racial gerrymandering, and so on, will more than counterbalance that, I think.
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RE: 2024 US Presidential Election
November 11, 2023 at 3:14 pm
(November 11, 2023 at 1:34 pm)Angrboda Wrote: (November 11, 2023 at 1:25 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Yah, here's what'd going to happen, provided both candidates are in sufficient health to campaign. All the people who will vote for Biden no matter what will vote for Biden. All the people who will vote for Trump no matter what will vote for Trump. The latter group is bigger than the former group. Then most of the people who wish they could vote for someone else will vote for Biden, and Biden will win.
We absolutely can't be complacent or fail to get out the vote, but for my money, that's how it will play out.
Hobbes is quite persuasive.
Hobbes or Hobson?
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RE: 2024 US Presidential Election
November 11, 2023 at 4:43 pm
Biden won by 8 million votes in 2020. No one who didn't vote for Trump then is going to vote for him now.
Whatever is screwy with polling processes, remains so now.
Whether Trump keels over from an MI or dementia, it's going to happen sooner than later.
Watch his rally at Hialeah last week. He's obviously worsening, whatever it is.
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RE: 2024 US Presidential Election
November 12, 2023 at 8:29 am
No way. Trump thinks that Obama is the President
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RE: 2024 US Presidential Election
November 12, 2023 at 3:56 pm
(November 12, 2023 at 8:29 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: No way. Trump thinks that Obama is the President
Far worse that thinking Obama is president, he thinks being feared is better than being respected.
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RE: 2024 US Presidential Election
November 12, 2023 at 8:06 pm
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i think even he is perceptive enough to know he can never be respected.
at the same time, playing up the fear side plays well with an electorate who inwardly know they don’t deserve to be respected.
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RE: 2024 US Presidential Election
November 13, 2023 at 6:51 am
Vivek Ramaswamy has unveiled his new plan to cut government spending, a plan which proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that he is an economic mastermind deserving of a Nobel prize: if a federal employee's Social Security number ends in an odd digit, they'll be fired immediately.
Fucking genius.
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RE: 2024 US Presidential Election
November 13, 2023 at 7:16 am
Absolutely NOTHING happens immediately with the US government.
Perhaps this douche nozzle is brand new to those whole thing.
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RE: 2024 US Presidential Election
November 13, 2023 at 11:10 am
(November 13, 2023 at 7:16 am)no one Wrote: Absolutely NOTHING happens immediately with the US government.
Perhaps this douche nozzle is brand new to those whole thing.
The immediacy of the plan isn’t really the issue. Even if the president had the power to summarily fire federal employees without cause (he doesn’t), candidate Ramaslamadingdong doesn’t seem to grasp that even announcing his intention to do so is going to cost him - minimally - several million votes.
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