kescusay @ kescusay @lemmy.world

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I know it's troubling, but try to remember that polling is pretty much fucked right now. The pollsters are having a horrible time trying to get statistically valid samplings, and it's quite possible that the poll in question is very much off the mark.

Every time I see him, I like him more. When the crowd starts going nuts, it's obvious he's genuinely touched by it.

The guy is just amazingly genuine and nice.

You don't get to speak on behalf of my daughter or my son when you're working as hard as you possibly can to elect the Republicans who want to destroy their futures.

What part of the last two decades had a filibuster-proof Democratic supermajority in the Senate? I'll tell you: A two-week span under Obama, during which Ted Kennedy was busily dying in a hospital.

And what part of the last two decades had sufficient Democratic votes to eliminate or reform the filibuster? I'll tell you that, too: None.

Perfect is the enemy of the good. Democrats have been good for my daughter. Republicans are guaranteed, 100%, to be much, much worse. Stop trying to sabotage her future.

What the actual fuck is wrong with him? His parents are immigrants.

No action?

On behalf of my gay daughter who will be able to marry who she wants to because of Democrats, I just want to say [REDACTED SO I WON'T GET BANNED]. And on behalf of my son, who is trans, [THESE WORDS WOULD ALSO GET ME BANNED].

Come to think of it, I have Democrats to thank for a return to sane pandemic policies, and Democrats to thank for the Inflation Reduction Act, the most impactful environmental legislation in thirty years. So you can take your "no action" and [NOPE, NOT GONNA SAY IT].

I'm under no illusion that Democrats are perfect, but they've been as effective as possible, given the situation with literal Russian assets on the other side of the aisle, trying as hard as possible to destroy America.

I genuinely wonder how polling is going to recover. Pollsters are having to rely more and more on the few remaining landlines, online polls of questionable quality, and the rare millennial who is willing to answer calls and texts from unknown numbers. To make up for it, they have to pile on more and more assumptions from things like demographics data.

I don't see any of these factors changing any time soon, and unless pollsters figure out ways to work around them without compromising the quality of their work, they're kind of fucked.

She's going to show up, he won't, and it'll be an opportunity to take tough questions without having to share time and a stage with a gasbag idiot.

Dude, the evidence is overwhelming. You're just embarrassing yourself now.

I'm stealing this. Also: Yeah, on a weirdness scale of 1-10, this shit's around a 43.

There's also the hypocrisy. He's into porn with trans women.

I just googled "Karl Rove dancing." I have regrets.

Is he a recruit from the WWE or something?

1. The president orders the Attorney General to enforce rules that favor his re-election. The rules are clearly unconstitutional.
2. Someone sues in a district court to block it.
3. ...

You can see where this goes. Sadly, the founders weren't nearly as clever and cynical as they needed to be to spot these exploits.

They should put out an album together. The combined musical talent on display would be... the combined musical talent on display.

Oh no, they're very discriminatory when they do that.

"Small government!" cries the Republican party, while trying to grant the president unprecedented levels of power.

Yeah, the guy appears to have been a Republican up until near the end of Trump's term, partially supported him into 2020 (while donating to ActBlue), and then ended up completely disillusioned.

He also appears to be more than a little dangerous. In 2002, he was arrested and convicted of carrying a fully automatic machine gun. The guy should never have been able to get another gun.

Thanks, that's still horrifying, but it's not straight from bizarro world.

So, uhh, this is wild: https://apnews.com/live/trump-shooting-west-palm-beach-updates#00000191-f7ea-d09f-a59f-f7ff80380000

Routh was convicted in 2002 of possessing a weapon of mass destruction, according to online North Carolina Department of Adult Correction records. The records do not provide details about the case.