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[ClashAndBurn]

5 hours ago, Espresso said:

 

Dunno why conservatives are so concerned, since Biden intentionally designed it to fail in the courts by justifying it with COVID Emergency powers while simultaneously stating the pandemic is over. Biden is on their side; he just wants to kill any hope of there ever being student debt relief, even after he's dead and gone, by getting the Supreme Court to step in and say it can't ever be done.

 

If he wanted it to have standing, he would have backed it with the Higher Education Act, yet he chose the flimsiest legal defense of it for a reason.

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The fact that this man is SO unpopular and SO strongly despised, and yet he's gonna go virtually unchallenged. He's so ******* old and his chosen successor that we're left with who's almost 100% guaranteed to be anointed is so absolutely incapable and undeserving of even basic respect. Unbelievable.

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[GhostBox]

His polls numbers have remained in the 42-45 range for a long time now 😂 of course people might not like him or want more from him but they will happily take him over trump again any day of the week. 👏🏼👏🏼

[Sergi91]

18 hours ago, Espresso said:

 

 

Why is his Twitter handle say Gov when he left office years ago?  I thought former politicians weren’t allowed to keep their government accounts 

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That NYT article has even more funnier excerpts to it

 

 

Neither of them were particularly liked in the primary, but because Jim Clyburn told his specific constituents that Joe Biden was the guy, they flocked to him. And guess what. He almost lost. 43k votes going the other way in three states would have been all it took.

 

And the strategy from here on will be to freeze out any non-establishment candidate.

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On 2/4/2023 at 1:13 PM, Mike91 said:

At the same time, having SC first might have hurt someone like Biden as well. SC is usually what saved someone's campaign and turned their momentum around after underperforming in the other three states. Getting it out of the way first might make it not matter in the long run. Just as winning IA didn't ultimately matter for a campaign as well.

 

Candidates aren't going to put as much effort into it if they feel it's too swayed towards one candidate.

Worth noting that South Carolina followed Iowa’s lead in 2008. If they had been in front, Hillary was winning the state, but they took the affirmation from the white state that they’d be open to a black president and were willing to take the risk that they would have been too cautious to do otherwise.

 

South Carolina voters are known for playing it extremely safe and don’t respond to grassroots campaigning as much as they do what they trust the establishment to tell them what is best. South Carolina doesn’t normally save campaigns, but being the first in the series will make them even more influential in that they will elevate an establishment candidate and maybe signal to a crowded field of moderates who is best to coalesce their support around in order to crush the progressives.

 

My only solace in this is that it means Pete Buttigieg will never be the nominee for president. Kamala gets the path paved for her in 2028 but Democrats probably lose big that year anyway.

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Biden and Democrats running on and flaunting the "strength of the economy" is a choice.  The vast majority of actual people on the ground don't feel like they're doing well compared to a few years ago, as polls are showing. Upper-middle class data wonks can point to unemployment numbers all day long, but tech layoffs have been happening since December and continue to happen, gas prices have been going up again, grocery prices remain high, and people are not seeing their wages increase.

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Just now, Thuggin said:

Biden and Democrats running on and flaunting the "strength of the economy" is a choice.  The vast majority of actual people on the ground don't feel like they're doing well compared to a few years ago, as polls are showing. Upper-middle class data wonks can point to unemployment numbers all day long, but tech layoffs have been happening since December and continue to happen, gas prices have been going up again, grocery prices remain high, and people are not seeing their wages increase.

The only economy these people care about is the stock market. They're not the ones buying eggs for $7+ so they're really not feeling the reality of the market forces everyone else has to bear.

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@Bears01 You beat me to the punch  Are we surprised?  Let the games begin!

 

 

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I seen egg prices are starting to drop as well 🤷 

 Also the announcement the fed believes inflation will continue to decline this year. 
 

no wonder the gop are scared he might get more popular and all they have in the war chest is to hurt the economy themselves by not raising the debt ceiling 💀

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The dynamics here are tiring if not slightly fascinating...unpacking that he's doing essentially his own Fox show while prepping to run.

 

So it's the streamlined propaganda combined with celebrity but without the hijinks. That he's making fun of Trump is icing on the cake.

 

 

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34 minutes ago, Espresso said:

@Bears01 You beat me to the punch  Are we surprised?  Let the games begin!

 

 

 

It’s even worse than I thought  if Desantis enters the primary (which the $$$ is kinda pointing to he will) I fully expect him to go THERE with bringing up trumps connections to Epstein….

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Marty Walsh leaving the Labor Secretary position for the NHL.

 

Regardless of folks feeling's about him, it's a big loss for Biden from a campaigning perspective - he went to a lot of labor events and pickets, etc.