1y ago

MAGA candidates tanked the midterms. Biden thinks they could again.

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Just a moment...

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Seems like wishes are officially part of campaign policy now.
- I wish people weren't idiots who worship a senile, narcissist criminal, but here we are...
The midterms where we lost the House?
I guess it worked out for Biden tho, it most have been super awkward for the "Senate whisperer" to keep telling people he couldn't get a Dem congress to support the Dem platform after literally running his 2020 campaign on how only he could get republicans to vote for the Dem platform.
If he had any shame he'd probably have been really embarrassed about that.
- Ahh yes, I forgot that Biden was the only person that determined who got elected to the a completely separate branch of government.
  You can just say that you're a republican or a foreign agent and that you don't like Biden. You would sound more believable.
  
  Not to mention Biden actually got a ton of stuff done. The shills tend to move the goalposts seamlessly from "he did only terrible things and all on purpose" to "well okay he tried to do tons of good stuff but the Republicans blocked him and that's his fault" to "well okay never mind your 10 good things he got done what about this 1 bad thing" to "the 1 bad thing definitely was the worst thing in the world and I refuse to listen to your qualifications to it" to silence or insults, as the conversation progresses. This "did nothing on purpose" is just the first stage from the first account in the conversation.
  It's a weird little quirk of human psychology that if someone's not paying all that much attention, that kind of kettle logic actually works quite well to produce the engineered result. It hits the "Biden bad" button from multiple angles and the "System 1" part doesn't really notice that the different falsehoods contradict each other. It just knows they come from multiple sources and angles.
  
  Saying negative things about Biden doesn't make someone a secret Republican or a foreign agent. That statement is fucking ridiculous. He's not a very good candidate. The fact that his opponent is one of the worst candidates I can imagine doesn't change that.
  
  Biden is saying he hopes the Midterms repeat...
  We lost the House in those midterms...
  Because republicans gained enough seats.
  So what about that bodes well for 2024?
  Do you think Biden just sort of forgot what happened?
- You really have to look at the specific seats that had no incumbents and or were redistricted in favor of a particular party. Of those seats, the GOP had some pretty big advantages that they absolutely blew in a number of districts.
  The GOP had known safe voter blocks, with a well documented voting history, and they shot themselves in the foot by nominating people that were downright wacky.
- I can add tags to users in Boost. It helps sort out the morons.
- He said that MAGA aligned republicans didn't do well in the midterms, not that Republicans didn't do well in the midterms.
  Historically, the house flips to the opposite party of the president in a midterm election, which it did in 2022, but not as strongly as it typically does. Additionally, candidates that fell in line with trump didn't do as well as predicted.
  
  Historically
  Same thing I just told the other account:
  When the president doesn’t keep campaign promises, it depresses turnout for their party.
  That is true.
  But we could always just try running a candidate that will put the work in, even if they don’t succeed.
  The 73rd to 79th congress had full Dem majorities.
  When moderates and republicans United to kick out FDR, republicans swept it all.
  And I’m sorry to have to go back to when Biden was a toddler, but it’s been a minute since we had a president who wanted and legit tried to help Americans.
  Unfortunately Republicans and moderate Dems united to stop that and move the country to the right.
  There's better strategies to beat Republicans than running the lesser of two evils, in fact, that's the hardest way to beat Republicans. The easiest is a popular candidate.
- Where we lost he house and gained the senate with a democratic President. History shows that the party in power usually continues to lose seats and instead we gained in the senate and only lost some in the house.
  
  gained
  Maintained...
  Biden had a Dem House and Dem Senate for two years
- Parties always lose at least one arm of congress in a midterm. The fact it was so close was actually odd.
  
  Parties always lose at least one arm of congress in a midterm.
  That's recent.
  Progressive presidents don't, it's just been a long time since we were allowed one.
  When the president doesn’t keep campaign promises, it depresses turnout for their party.
  That is true.
  But we could always just try running a candidate that will put the work in, even if they don’t succeed.
  The 73rd to 79th congress had full Dem majorities.
  When moderates and republicans United to kick out FDR, republicans swept it all.
  And I’m sorry to have to go back to when Biden was a toddler, but it’s been a minute since we had a president who wanted and legit tried to help Americans.
  Unfortunately Republicans and moderate Dems united to stop that and move the country to the right.

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