This is good news. But you know, just to be on the safe side, let's all go vote for Joe anyway.
this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2024
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Winning California by a lot of votes doesn't matter if he loses Texas, Florida, Michigan, and Ohio.
Don't you guys love how 70% of the country just doesn't matter because everyone already knows what they'll be. So we get to only focus on a few of the most fucked ones to decide the election.
I love the Electoral College, I love FPTP voting, I hate popular votes. This is okay. We're gonna be okay. Everything is okay. Somebody please tell me it's going to be okay.
The world is more fucked up than it should be but it's also mostly better than it's ever been. There's no guarantee that either of those things will continue to be true though. Did that help?
It’s fucking January.
The sex month
Someone help me develop a drinking problem. I'm gonna need it to get through the next year.
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Step 1: Start Drinking
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Step 2: Don't Stop
This sounds expensive. I'm poor.
Ignore other necessities and beg for drink money
Damn, no wonder I have a drinking problem.
Can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning!
Ah that's where I went wrong, I got stuck on step 1, thanks!
"The key to avoiding a hangover is to never stop drinking" - Col. Tigh, Battlestar Galactica
Have you considered smoking? Alcohol gives me a headache. But there's many options on things to smoke - tobacco, weed, fentanyl, etc.. /s
I've tried it; it doesn't help.
Turn on Fox news and take a drink every time someone says something stupid. Two drinks if it's a debunked lie. See you in 2025!
Odds are slim they'll survive to 2025 drinking at that pace.
"Propelled by female voters in just the past few weeks, the head-to-head tie with Trump morphs into a modest lead for Biden.”
I got an idea, let's attack Taylor Swift! That'll help with our female-voter gap!
Imagine if 14 year-old girls could vote, it would be a landslide
I think Swift's main demographic is actually in the bracket 16-25 so plenty of voters there. The younger teens are, generally, into more fresh/new acts and stuff with more of an edge. Swift has been around for a long time now.
Yeah it might skew even higher than that. I'd say up to mid 30s almost at this point.
It's going to be a very long election cycle
Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression <--- we are here
Acceptance
Always has been...
Also interesting to note that the this same poll has Haley beating Biden by 5 points if Trump is not on the ballot and Haley is the Republican nominee .
However, put Biden and Haley on a larger ballot with RFK Jr and the other nobodies running on 3rd party tickets, and Biden ends up winning again.
There is also zero chance Trump doesn't run. Either he's the nominee or he runs third-party and splits the vote. His ego (and legal trouble) simply won't allow him to sit this one out.
If Trump is not the nominee, or if he is judicially removed from the ballot, then he will still run as a write-in candidate.
And even if he doesn't run a write-in campaign, plenty of his supporters will write him in anyway
And even if he would get struck by lightning and pass away prior to November, his supporters would likely just write in Don Jr or Vivek or someone similar.
Under no circumstances is Nikki Haley ever getting even 80% of Trump supporters to vote for her in November. And if she can't get that, then there is no way she can beat Biden. A Nikki Haley victory in 2024 is not plausible
Biden could also die before the election. He's no spring chicken. Then maybe we get Haley vs Harris? Or some other dems jump into the primary race.
or if he is judicially removed from the ballot, then he will still run as a write-in candidate.
He's being removed from the ballot in states because they consider him ineligible to be president. That's not something that gets solved by a write-in.
That doesn't change the fact that his supporters will write him in even if he is found dead on the shitter
Haley leads Joe Biden 1 on 1
Thank you to Republican primary voters for making sure our mediocre candidate can't lose, go collect your prize of... I don't know, bank statements showing how much money you've thrown at the orange shit gibbon over the years and some stupid looking hats?
Good for Joe Biden.
ONLY 10 MORE MONTHS! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....
...OOOOOOOOH!!!!
It's far easier to break things than maintain or build upon them. Always has been the case and always will. Such is entropy.
I confess Biden wasn't even my third choice in the 2020 primaries. But I voted for him anyway, and I'll vote for him again. Because, truly: democracy, equality, justice, truth, and the planet itself is on the line.