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Democrats are freaking out over some recent polls showing Joe Biden losing to the former guy in five of six key swing states, and being down four points to him in total overall vote count. I have one word for you: Relax. This is the American press pushing for a close race so that they can improve their ratings around election season. Note how much you have been hearing about these polls of late? That is not by accident. They have an agenda. I don't know one old black person who has ever been called by a pollster. Still, having said that, there are some issues with Uncle Joe and how his presidency is going. First and foremost, they have a messaging problem. Biden's administration has been doing some really good things, and they have put the country back on the right track after the train wreck we experienced during the four years that the racist game show host was in charge.
There are other issues to be sure. The age thing is real. Although I will note for the record that the former guy is just a few years younger, and his cognitive skills, based on some of his recent speeches, are even worse. But perception is reality, and the perception is that Biden is too old. Personally, I would prefer if some of these old politicians would get off the stage and give the younger folks a shot to run things. But for now, for better or for worse, it looks like we are stuck with Biden.
Biden and his people also have an enthusiasm problem when it comes to black folks. He better hope we don't stay home this coming election, or he will be toast. Regardless of who his opponent will be. Having said that, don't believe the polls that say that the racist game show host has twenty two percent of the black vote. That will never happen. Never! Black folks know the true nature of folks like the former president. And no matter how hard his people try to make us believe that he is some kind of black savior, he will never have our trust or our support. There is just too much history there.
So buckle up people. We are a year away from America picking a new president. Expect all kinds of craziness from here on out. The man leading the republican field may be in jail, and the democratic candidate might decide that the grind is too much and decide to ride off into the sunset and cool his heels on a Delaware beach for the rest of his life.
This should be fun.
To all you Veterans out there, than thank you for your service!
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"There are other issues to be sure. The age thing is real. Although I will note for the record that the former guy is just a few years younger, and his cognitive skills, based on some of his recent speeches, are even worse."
My reaction to the Biden age thing is the same as Jimmy Kimmel's:
"Everyone says Biden’s old — he’s old. Which, yeah, he is old, but I want to remind you: Biden’s 80, Trump is 77. They’re basically — this isn’t a choice between some old codger and a young up-and-comer. This is a choice between Mr. Burns and Mr. Magoo.”
Trump is also fat, lives on Big Macs, and is showing much greater signs of cognitive decline than Biden. You're a fool if you think he'll outlive Biden.
Speaking of Kimmel, this is also him:
"Young voters are said to be disenchanted with Biden’s positions on climate change and Palestinian rights, and so they’re leaning towards a guy who believes in neither of those things at all.”
Polls are real, and they are a snapshot of how an election might go were it held they day of the poll.
Biden has been an excellent president, not that the election will be decided by that.
But the actual campaign is just getting started, and for all of the disillusionment the media has been yelling about, nobody has said anything about Fergus adding to his support. Which he will need to do in order to win.
I'm not saying the election won't be close; all presidential elections are close now, but I'm also not freaking out over the media saying stuff that I already knew because I was already paying attention.
It's terrifying that Fergus has any chance at all of winning, but that's the America we currently live in.
My hope is that the actual campaign will do more to expose Fergus' actual plan: the consolidation of power in the presidency and the suppression of democracy to retain that power in the face of lack of public support.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
I am highly, highly skeptical of the NY Times poll, because it simply does not compute that non-white voters are switching their allegiances to back a racist.
Do I think the Times deliberately engineered this because they think a tight presidential race will boost their bottom line? No. Most likely, if the poll is inaccurate, the pollster's methodology is simply bad. They didn't do a good job of sampling voters and, for example, ended up with Republicans over-represented in the group of people they questioned. Pollsters also use "fudge factors" -- they multiply the responses of each demographic by a different number to try to make up for the fact they have under-sampled some and over-sampled others. If they get those fudge factors wrong, the results will also be inaccurate.
That said, media outlets hdo ave biases. I am not talking Fox News-style biases, which entail flat-out lying in whatever way will help right-wing politicians win. I'm talking about the biases of mainstream media outlets.
MSM outlets display "bothsidesism" bias, where they overdo their efforts toward fairness and balance, and (infuriatingly) portray both sides of an argument as equal, even when the evidence overwhelmingly backs only one side of an argument. So you end up with: "Medical experts say the COVID virus is real and could kill millions of vulnerable and elderly people if radical efforts are not made to contain it and slow its spread. Jim Bob down at the auto parts store says no. You decide!"
MSM outlets display sensationalist or "man bites dog" bias, where if something is unusual, its noteworthy. But if its a routine part of life, if its an ongoing thing that everyone expects and knows about, it's less worthy of covering. This covers some of the biggest issues in society, by the way.
MSM outlets display "bad news" bias. They are well aware that upsetting or fear-inducing news attracts eyeballs more than news that suggests things are getting better. Atrocities are more exciting than problems getting fixed. As the old slogan goes, "if it bleeds, it leads." Inflation skyrocketing? FRONT PAGE NEWS! Inflation rate has fallen back to normal? Meh, so boring, page 13. Murders skyrocketing? FRONT PAGE NEWS! Murder rate has fallen back to normal? Meh, so boring, page 13.
All of these sorts of biases do seem to be hurting Biden right now.
Endless discussion of Biden's age and health, but somehow none of Trump's age and health. Is it too mean and unfair to point out that Trump is old when you are also reporting on the fact he is a criminal, even though it's true? Do you have to sling equal mud at "both sides" because that's the rule?
Virtually no mention of the rapid improvement of inflation rates and crime, nor the fact that these things went up in the first place because of the pandemic, and had zero to do with Joe Biden.
Then there's the border. Coverage of this is abysmal. No meaningful explanations of the difference between economic migrants and refugees, how our immigration system works, or the economic effects of immigration (pro and con). The news is basically just one big primal scream that brown people are storming into the country to ruin everything and Biden is to blame.
Great comments above. Of course Biden has work to do to get his base motivated. That could be reflected in the polls as well.
“Great comments above. Of course Biden has work to do to get his base motivated. That could be reflected in the polls as well.”
It’s unclear to me what it will take to motivate his base. Or for that matter, non-base voters. We keep getting stories about Biden’s low approval ratings, but no polling or evidence-based analysis whatsoever of what is driving them. Without knowing why, it’s hard to know what could be done to change them.
Is it that voters don’t know about the genuinely significant legislation Biden and the Democrats have passed, on things like infrastructure and climate change?
Is it that voters want different, more left-wing legislation passed? The essential response to that would be that the Democrats simply need to win more congressional seats. The 50 senators + Kamala majority the Dems had in 2021-2 gave an illusory sense of control. Any really left-wing priorities could not get passed without controlling more seats, and that’s not really Biden’s fault.
Or is it just that voters are blaming Biden for post-pandemic inflation and crime increases that he didn’t cause, and that are now basically over? In which case, I need to go bang my head against a wall for a while in frustration.
Thanks feelz, I feel fortified already.
Late posting this today but I was up really late:
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlKazFeT8hI
Every time I listen to this it reminds me of how good of a guitar player Paul Simon is.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Biden and his masters only need blacks for their vote: for the time being. They really don't want you around.
Woke dipshits:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dl8NjP2zVso
Fergus can't remember who the president is, but he's sure he wants to round up everyone he doesn't like and put them in concentration camps.
Someone needs to remind him to take his meds.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Jill Stein announced a independent run for president, joining fellow narcissists RFK Junior and Cornel West.
Eff them all, and the horses they rode in on.
Jamie Raskin on the subject of the speaker of the house wanting his invisible friend to legislate:
Inside with Jen Psaki
@InsideWithPsaki
8h
"When we take our oath of office, we put our hand on the Bible and we swear to uphold the Constitution. We don't put our hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible."
@RepRaskin on Speaker Mike Johnson
-Doug in Sugar Pine
"Biden and his masters only need blacks for their vote: for the time being. They really don't want you around."
Because Biden needs us for his third run? This has to be one of the dumbest comments here in a while and there are some dumb ass comments. I wonder how many Blah people trump has around him? Is his running mate going to be a POC? LOL!
Little Timmy dropped out of the race. Awwww, and here I thought the Republicans were going to elect a brotha. First Larry Elder drops out and now Tim Dog. Seems like the GOP has a problem with darker people.
IMHO, U of Iowa's women's bb team should be rated Number 1 after b eing rated number 3 and having both 1 and 2 lose their first games of the season. Iowa travelled to NC and took on Virginia Tech, rated number 8 and a final 4 team like iowa last spring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYrfcCDZ8CE
Scotus adopts code of conduct for Justice behavior. Not clear if there is any enforcement mechanism when magats break their code.
Scotus ethics code is entirely voluntary, and as such, entirely useless.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
It's called a code because it hides its meaning.
Recent update on Mississippi river dock brawl. Black co-captain charged with misdemeanor assault.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/11/09/montgomery-dock-brawl-black-co-captain-accused-assault/71517096007/
So, fellas, ethics code without enforcement is much ado about not much.
Scotus ethics code is worse than useless, it's insulting. It blames the publicity over the scandals on us not understanding how ethical they are.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
The House passed a stopgap spending bill, so that probably means the government won’t shut down until early next year.
Hey, Republicans are pretty goddamn dumb, but they’re at least smart enough not to cause a shutdown right now, and thereby ruin their own Christmases by forcing themselves to spend December in Washington embroiled in budget negotiations.
When it comes to statesmanship, that’s about as good as it we’re going to get out of them.
And the Democrats had to save their asses again to get it done. They can't govern even on those rare occasions when they say they want to.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
New Jersey’s governor’s wife has announced she’s running for Bob Menendez’s Senate seat. If Bob doesn’t resign, he’s probably gonna be pushed out by his own party.
Another good man down, R.I.P. Zandar:
https://driftglass.blogspot.com/2023/11/rip-zandar.html
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Senate Democrats need nine Republican votes to bypass Tuberville and his retarded hold on military promotions, by allowing them to be passed en masse.
I don't think McConnell supports it, so we'll just have to see whether enough goddamn Republicans are sick of the bullshit and also want to avoid a rules change.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“I don't think McConnell supports it, so we'll just have to see whether enough goddamn Republicans are sick of the bullshit and also want to avoid a rules change.”
A rules change would be better, though, to be honest. I can’t see why a single senator should ever be able to throw a wrench into the appointments process, even if their reasons for doing so weren’t Tuberville-level stupid. This is one of those situations in which when the rule was created, probably nobody foresaw it being abused in this way.
What a crazy time we are living through, that so much thought needs to be applied to the problem of “how to dummy-proof the government.” Can’t we just elect fewer dummies?
Speaking of dummies, how about Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma (yes, that is this slack-jawed yokel’s real name, and no, he didn’t go to college, why do you ask?) challenging a witness to a fistfight during a Senate hearing? The Republican Party is a bad joke at this point.
Later the damn fool said that he would bite an opponent in a fight. I thank a god that I don't believe in that I'm the only member of my immediate family who wasn't born in fucking Oklahoma.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“Later the damn fool said that he would bite an opponent in a fight. I thank a god that I don't believe in that I'm the only member of my immediate family who wasn't born in fucking Oklahoma.”
Things have clearly gotten worse in this country. While I’ve no doubt there are lots of uneducated Bubbas in Oklahoma, in a past era, I don’t think voters would have thought it was a good idea to send them to Washington to represent them.
These days, Republican voters have settled on the idea that knowing stuff is “elitist” (as opposed to being filthy rich and powerful — you know, the actual elites) and they’re sending wrestling coaches and football coaches and other assorted dolts to Congress. And Lauren Boebert.
If pointing that out makes me “elitist” and mean, I don’t care. Doesn’t change the fact that it’s true.
“These days, Republican voters have settled on the idea that knowing stuff is “elitist”
You can thank John McCain for this latest era of knownothings getting into office.
“You can thank John McCain for this latest era of knownothings getting into office.”
Sarah Palin certainly helped this trend along, but the knownothing, anti-intellectual, education-hating rebrand of the GOP must have started a bit earlier.
I remember overhearing some very Republican coworkers in what must have been 2006, going on about how Democrats were the elites. And I was scratching my head, thinking, wait … what?! So Republicans — the union-crushing, tax-cuts-for-the-rich party — are the champions of the little guy now? How brainwashed can you be? Make it make sense!
Found this from a year ago, on the topic of the newfound, stupidity-celebrating, anti-intellectual faux populism of Republicans:
Hang on, Republicans: Who are the real "elites," anyway?
Republican millionaires with Ivy League degrees have somehow convinced people they're fighting against the "elites"
Mega-fraud George Santos finally sees the writing on the wall, declares that he won’t run for re-election.
Elon Musk apparently thinks the Jews are anti-white.
This dude is descending farther and farther down the Nazi rabbit hole. I was aware Elon’s political views were bad, but they are worse than I had suspected. Every day he tweets out something that is even more appalling than the day before.
Joe Munckin of West Virginny says he is contemplating a 2024 run for potus.
“Joe Munckin of West Virginny says he is contemplating a 2024 run for potus.”
Yet another delusional narcissist who cannot possibly win himself, but can only help Trump win and possibly bring about the end of democracy.
Uh oh, infighting on the right? Candace Owens is dared to quit the daily wire if she doesn't like it.
Get the popcorn. This will be so much fun seeing these two imbeciles fight.
A mistrial was declared in the federal trial of ex-detective Brett Hankison for excessive force related to the shooting of Breonna Taylor. He was previously acquitted of state-level charges.
Donald Trump was hit with a gag order for trash-talking the court clerk in his civil fraud trial. Mere hours after the gag order was lifted, he resumed his trash-talking.
Who didn’t see this coming? Trump can’t help himself. Obviously, you need to shut him up until the trial is over.
Rosalyn Carter enters hospice at home with hubby, former potus James Earl Carter. Be a sad day for America when these two decent humans have gone on to their just rewards.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rosalynn-carter-entered-hospice-care-home-carter-center/story?id=104987086
“Sarah Palin certainly helped this trend along, but the knownothing, anti-intellectual, education-hating rebrand of the GOP must have started a bit earlier.”
She made the resentment and hate palatable for mass consumption. Prior to that even Republicans required there elected officials to at least know SOMETHING. You can say W started it but in his defense his dad was prez and his brother ran a. state. Palin had a pregnant teen daughter and a penchant for illiteracy. 🤷🏾♂️
ooops, their elected officials😖
Correction of comment 42.... The judge was a district court judge, not the supreme court and here is a breakdown of what the judge decided. This is really weird....
In her ruling, District Judge Sarah Wallace explained that Trump wasn't in the capacity of a sworn-in officer when he was standing before a massive crowd who then stormed the Capitol building to hold up congress from certifying the election results.
Vance added that, "The judge after making this tremendous finding that Trump... in fact was involved in insurrection .. but I'm not going to order that he be removed from the ballot because he was not an officer of the United States."
Elon Musk says that he’s going to file a “thermonuclear” lawsuit against Media Matters for reporting that advertisers on Twitter/X had their advertisements placed alongside Nazi posts.
I don’t think he understands that he can’t simply SUE users into coming back to his social media platform after he has toxified it.
Hope it blows up like his last 2 space adventures. And where is the harm for X after Musk basically ruined it for all?
I'll give you dollars to donuts that Media Matters has verified screenshots of those ads running alongside Nazi bullshit. Elon's penis-rocket blowed up real good, but he's calling it a success.
The media seem to be lapping up his bullshit with a biscuit, like always. And now, in the media, Biden is responsible for a lasting peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians before the election.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Defending Elon by cosigning his vile views:
Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens discuss how they think Jews are funding university programs that promote “white genocide.”
Charlie Kirk says that “Some of the largest financiers of left-wing anti-white causes have been Jewish Americans”
Rosalynn Carter has died.
“Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished,” President Carter said. “She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me.”
Without her in this world, I don't see him hanging in there much longer.
Long excellent lives, but still a damn shame. The Carters, along with Bishop Barber, are the evidence that good Christians exist.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Argentina has elected a mini-Trump, Javier Milei, as their new president. Here is the moron, acting moronic. The chainsaw he is brandishing is to demonstrate how he is going to fix everything by chopping up the government, I guess?
Argentina’s economy is a complete train wreck, and I’m not going to defend the previous governments. They’ve mismanaged things for decades. But this maniac is definitely not the solution to Argentina’s problems.
I’ll never understand why voters keep making this mistake. How many times do they have to learn the hard way, before the lesson sticks? Neither Trump nor any of his clones have ever managed to make anything better.
Trump's overall health is fucking excellent and his cognitive abilities are fucking exceptional!!!
Yours Truly
Trump's Doctor
The pole should be centered in drumpf's butt hole and shoved in as far as possible.
Well, the strategy of Elon Musk’s “thermonuclear” lawsuit against Media Matters is becoming clear … and it’s not good.
Musk can’t prove that ads on Twitter didn’t, in fact, appear alongside Nazi content, because Media Matters compiled proof that it did. So it now looks like Musk is instead going to claim that Media Matters manipulated the platform’s algorithm “to force a situation in which a brand ad post appeared adjacent to fringe content.”
“You tricked my website into doing bad stuff!”, does not sound like a winning legal argument to me.
Texass AG, who should be in prison is investigating Media matters so they can be drug through rigged texass courts in the case against X.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4320745-texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-opens-probe-media-matters-x-ads/
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