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[-] YearOfTheCommieDesktop@hexbear.net 94 points 6 months ago

gotta do it after the primary season is over for absolute minimum democratic engagement to pick his replacement

[-] footfaults@hexbear.net 65 points 6 months ago
[-] Comp4@hexbear.net 74 points 6 months ago

hillary FINALLY SHE DESCENDS UPON HUMANITY ! LIKE LIGHT ITSELF ! FEAR NOT ! HILLARY HAS ARRIVED

[-] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 62 points 6 months ago

Hillary with Kamala as VP would be peak comedy.

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 37 points 6 months ago

:Awkward laughter intensifies:

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[-] YourMom@hexbear.net 52 points 6 months ago

And then spend years blaming third party/independents/non-voters thinking it will bring them around after Gavin loses to drumpf

[-] BynarsAreOk@hexbear.net 68 points 6 months ago

Person earning 7 figures just to tell some clowns about made up fake shit predicting if the chips in the casino will fall face up or down is now also having an opinion on PoLiTiCs.

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 64 points 6 months ago

Who the fuck they gonna run instead? Buttigieg? Yang? Hillary fucking Clinton? Lmaoooooo

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 45 points 6 months ago
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[-] FactuallyUnscrupulou@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago

Would be hilarious to see CNN and MSNBC do everything they can to promote Dean Phillips as the younger Biden.

[-] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago

Cenk Uyghur hasan-smash

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They've spent the last year already using the argument "you might not like it and sure, he keeps explicitly saying he doesn't give a fuck what you think and he won't change any of his policies based on popular opinion but you have tonvote for him because he's THE ONLY PERSON IN THE WORLD who can beat trump"

It's gonna fall pretty flat if they try to say "ok you might also not like this person with the same policies but actually THIS PERSON is the only one who can beat trump"

I mean it'll work on blue Maga but anybody who's not willfully ignorant is gonna chuckle to themselves while figuring out what they want to drink instead of wasting time voting.

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[-] Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida@hexbear.net 63 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If Biden drops out in the early primaries, it would complete this 4-year farcical play he's been doing where he tries to be the dollar-store brand LBJ. The last act involves retiring following your complete alienation of the youth vote over a foreign policy issue they overwhelmingly oppose you on.

[-] Biggay@hexbear.net 38 points 6 months ago

Budget LBJ is a great one, im stealing that

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago
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[-] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 57 points 6 months ago

At this point, it would probably be a major boon to the Democrats, since Biden polls incredibly poorly compared to a generic Democrat (as long as they pick someone other than Kamala or Gavin Newsom).

[-] Comp4@hexbear.net 36 points 6 months ago

Im not really "that" tuned into US politics. Are there really any democrat politicians people are into at the moment ?

[-] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 58 points 6 months ago

Sinc Oct when all the "progressive" Democrats collectively smashed their "support genocide" buttons, no, not really.

The only democrat at the federal level qualified as this point, in my view, is Tlaib. I know others have since joined her, but I consider anyone who wasn't IMMEDIATELY against Israel's genocide to be basically dead to me forever... on the political stage anyway. Some random dipshit can learn and change their mind, ok. But politicians should have already known and been anti Israel before Oct. So, whatever, fuck em all. For the rest of my life, or until Palestine is free, I'll be looking at each candidate and it they take money from AIPAC or express any support for Israel, not voting for them. If that means writing in or not voting, ok. The dems can get my vote if they value it. But they gotta give up genocide and that means give up Israel.

[-] YourMom@hexbear.net 50 points 6 months ago

You're really going to do that? The upcoming election is THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF YOUR LIFE. Enough with the purity tests, jfc

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 39 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If voting changed anything, it would be illegal. If Trump wins, racist gangs will rove the streets with presidential approval. If Biden wins, racist gangs will rove the streets with strongly worded presidential opposition.

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 32 points 6 months ago

Lol i just had someone say that to me on the lib verse

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[-] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 34 points 6 months ago

Unironically Pritzker is someone to watch out for although imo not this election cycle. Of the democrat governors, I've seen more positive and less negative from him. Motherfucker got me legal weed and a paid vacation. That's powerful energy going into the future

[-] RION@hexbear.net 25 points 6 months ago

It's wild that the richest politician in the country is somehow one of the better ones

[-] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago

Same reason FDR was smart enough to invest in guillotine insurance.

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[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago
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[-] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 25 points 6 months ago

As far as I can tell, not really, but there are certainly democrat politicians that are quite loathed. Simple indifference would be a massive improvement over the attitudes towards Biden.

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[-] buh@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago

Biden polls incredibly poorly compared to a generic Democrat (as long as they pick someone other than Kamala or Gavin Newsom).

so basically the concept of a generic democrat but not any particular generic democrat?

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 35 points 6 months ago

Chapo boys said years ago that they'd win every election if they just ran blank silhouettes named "[popular policy]" instead of any specific dem

well then they'd have to actually do the policy which would defeat the whole point of a bourgeois election

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[-] brainw0rms@hexbear.net 48 points 6 months ago

hillary-assassin "health issues"

death to america inshallah-script

[-] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 32 points 6 months ago

A JPMorgan strategist predicts Joe Biden could "have information leading to the arrest of Hillary Clinton" sometime between Super Tuesday and the November election, citing health reasons.

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago

Being Clinton’d does have adverse effects on your health, yes

[-] macerated_baby_presidents@hexbear.net 43 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

important to note that this is basically a "just for fun" section, dunno why BI is picking it up. source

Market Strategist Byron Wien passed away last year at the age of 90. For over 30 years whether at Morgan Stanley or Blackstone, Byron published a top ten list of surprises for the following year. I never read any of the articles that kept score on how well Byron’s predictions did since that’s not the point. They were an exercise in thinking against the grain about what might happen in an industry dominated by consensus. In Byron’s honor, for one time only, here’s my list of top ten possible surprises for 2024.

neat newsletter. I have a soft spot for capitalists who nevertheless face economic motivation to be truthful. You can get some nice stuff reading from a Marxist perspective and at the same time laugh at them complaining that the EU has been "underspending" (<2% GDP) on war.

Tidbits (emphasis mine):


We also expect wage inflation to decline based on the decline in advertised wages (second chart); observed declines in temporary help, manufacturing and overtime hours worked, unit labor costs, the “job switcher vs job stayer” premium, the share of private industries with rising employment and the voluntary quits rate; and rising female labor force participation. While negotiated pay raises are still at peak levels, union workers are only 7% of the workforce, below the 20%-30% range which prevailed during the 1970’s.

new wave of union militancy starting to show up in the data. fuck yeah

The problem for the US is the starting point; every round of fiscal stimulus brings the US one step closer to debt unsustainability. I don’t think we’re there otherwise we wouldn’t recommend long duration US government bonds. We also wrote last year on how there has been no material change in the dollar’s role as reserve currency.

to give accurate financial advice, you have to recognize that the US national debt doesn't really matter much. JPMC also recognizes as realistic possibilities

  • a wealth tax
  • further pushback against pharmaceutical capital in the form of Medicare negotiation and stuff.

Estimates of US household excess savings

now that's a trendline, check out this graph. something funny will happen when it hits 0

China’s challenge stems from misallocated investment in real estate rather than from excess industrial capacity. Its home ownership rate peaked at ~90% and 20% of Chinese households own more than one home.

China’s 430 square feet of housing stock per capita is double the levels in Europe or Japan (D. Gros/Project Syndicate)

66% of US households own the home they live in. Whole section is interesting. Bigger Chinese households?

[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 42 points 6 months ago

A member of the boug tells Biden he should quit while he's still ahead

[-] DyingOfDeBordom@hexbear.net 35 points 6 months ago

his frontal lobe could barely handle the last election, now he's 4 years older

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[-] davel@hexbear.net 33 points 6 months ago

Somehow the opinion of a JPMorgan asset management strategist is newsworthy.

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[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

biden-supervised Hey listen Jack, we in the administration, has, I have... I have information that will lead to, frankly, the arrest of uh ah

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[-] pumpchilienthusiast@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago

let's do push ups together man

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago

Genocide Joe is gonna win the election with a comfortable margin

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago
[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago

Think about it, genocide and student loans are not gonna sway boomers or Gen Xers one way or the other

Trump's legal battles are gonna bog his campaign down and many of his supporters don't trust voting because of his "2020 steal" narrative

Housing prices and the line are up which means everyone in the top 30% income percentile who isn't online adores Biden

Biden will probably win with a slightly larger margin than last time

[-] brainw0rms@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In reality Biden is going to perform very, very poorly.

The only thing Biden had going for him in 2020 was not being Trump. Okay, what Trump era policies has he reversed? What "progressive" policy has he pushed through that hasn't been immediately struck down by the courts or shelved in the House? Libs like to bring up Build Back Better, the CHIPS Act, the Inflation Reduction Act. Yeah sure, whatever the fuck those even are. Ask the average American how those policies have materially improved their lives, and they couldn't tell you. He shit the bed with Afghanistan. Roe was killed on his watch. The concentration camps at the border are still open. We're financially on the hook for two foreign wars that are being waged by maniacs that have no true path to victory.

The majority of normal people think the economy is shit right now, and feel gaslit when they are told "maybe-later-kiddo ackshually bidenomics is working and you're just wrong stupid poors lol maybe-later-honey" which is the narrative his campaign and the media have been pushing for months. No one is buying it.

The fact is, he's utterly failed to distinguish himself from his predecessor, a literal fascist. Without a major change in campaign and legislative strategy, he is done for. He cannot lose a single state that he won in 2020, and the threat of a second Trump term isn't enough to save him anymore. Also, thinking that Trump voters will stay home "because it's stolen anyway so why bother" is deranged magical thinking.

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[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago

Biden will probably win with a slightly larger margin than last time

Big doubt there.

I don't think its possible to call this election at the moment, but i do doubt he does better than in 2020. It'll be interesting to see what the turn out is compared to 2020 as well. I wouldn't be suprised if its lower on both sides

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[-] MaxOS@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago

Who gave JP Morgan access to the lathe?

[-] Comp4@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
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[-] M500@lemmy.ml 19 points 6 months ago

How about we do this fresh no Trump and no Biden. Let’s get something new in there.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 28 points 6 months ago

The new in question: holden-bloodfeast cedar-rapids the-democrat

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