And then there are the "Who cares, we'll be dead by then!" crew. My bios included.
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...respondents said that Trump would do a better job by double-digit margins.
...in a recent New York Times/Siena College poll, 40 percent of voters said that Trump's policies had helped them personally, while just 18 percent said the same of Biden.
So these polls are just showing that Trump gets all the Republicans because they don't actually care about policy, and Biden only gets a few Democrats because these questions are actually about issues, and his entire platform is that he isn't Trump
All my life, I voted for the greater good of the greater whole, at my own expense. I am not a Biden fan and many who voted lockstep for the neolibs are most certainly voting on the issues.
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Bull puckey, dumps would in no way definable be "on track to win a historic landslide".
He didn't win by a landslide in 2016, he lost in 2020, and he's in a far weaker position today than in either of those elections.
I think you misread that line. They meant if Trump was less of a personally crazy person, but made the same accomplishments, he would be on the way to win by a landslide when you also consider bidens popularity.
That being said hope your right. Polls don't look great and I'd rather have them saying that trump is looking very bad.
I don't think dumps would be on track to win by a landslide or even a margin taking into account all contemporary factors, including biden's ostensible poll popularity.
I understand the line, it does not reflect reality.
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They're so desperate to create false realities.
They gotta get those page views and ad impressions.
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Try passing this and then ask Americans if they're better off now than they were 4 years ago.
Many Americans are too idiotic to realize the president is not the legislature. They can champion laws/policies, but the Executive is not the Legislative. It feels so weird to me that so much focus goes to the presidential slot when senators and house reps are the primary power brokers. It's equally weird how we've allowed so much power creep to seep into the presidential office, where presidents have routinely exercised powers that are way out of their constitutional lane on numerous occasions. It sometimes feels like Americans want a totalitarian form of government.
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Can someone explain to me what would stop dems from infinitely fillibustering any of the Republicans bullshit laws if they got control, similar to how the Republicans have?
The Republicans will obliterate the fillibuster the day they want to, claiming the Democrats are forcing them to.
That would honestly be great for Democrats long term, which Is why they wouldn't do it.
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Nothing, though the budget reconciliation process allows for one filibuster-proof bill a year if it primarily deals with the budget.
That said, the filibuster is just an internal Senate rule. A majority could simply eliminate it at any time, but that of course may come back to bite them when the balance of power shifts.
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Presumably Project 2025.
The party of taking things away strikes again!
Let me add a side dish of - I'm increasingly convinced they want a system designed such that we can all work to increase the wealth of the 1% right up to the moment we drop dead in our cubicles.
No need to be unconvinced, right wingers have explicitly said that's what they want. Benny Shaps recently said something to the effect of "It's unhealthy to retire, everyone that retires ends up dying in a few years. We should all work as long as possible."
Perhaps it's that social security doesn't let folks do much beyond existing. If they had money to travel and adventure and indulge in hobbies, maybe folks would live longer. Ben just convinced me that we need to pay people way more both while they work and in retirement.
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The message is clear. Republicans want to raise the retirement age to 69, outlaw abortion on a national level. Vote Republican at your own peril.
Vote Republican at your own peril.
Peril is less bad than those communist democrats, I bet all too many morons believe.
I was basically going to say the same thing, they'll vote anyway, party over policy. It doesn't matter what they propose. As long as Democrats disagree with it, their constituents will vote for it, standard team-driven advertising.
Most voters don't care about politics at all, we just want what everyone else wants - a chance at opportunity, some form of health care and social security, you know, the good life. We can all pretty much agree on that and it's really not that interesting a topic. So, politicians turn politics into a sports game because that's what people care about and engage with, sports and competition, our old friend, Ego.
Follow your heart, not your ego.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
And yet, when asked about Trump’s ability to handle key issues — or the impact of his policies — voters routinely give the Republican candidate higher marks than President Biden.
More recently, they tried to dissociate their party from the most unpopular aspects of the anti-abortion movement’s agenda, voicing opposition to the shutdown of in vitro fertilization clinics in Alabama.
Raising the full retirement age to 69 — as the RSC proposed last fall — would translate into a roughly 14 percent cut to Social Security benefits, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
To the contrary, he has signaled plans for slashing federal tax revenues by trillions of dollars, policies that would make preserving existing benefit levels even more fiscally challenging.
Biden, on the other hand, has called for substantially raising payroll taxes on Americans earning over $400,000 a year in order to sustain Social Security in its current form.
It’s unlikely that any of this will make a big impression on undecided voters, who do not typically pay much attention to budget proposals in general, let alone those without a prayer of actually passing in the current Congress.
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