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I woke up early this morning, so I'm a bit irritated as a baseline, but how the fuck is that even a close race?
It's a rhetorical question, but damn is it mind blowing how dumb people can be.
The US is fucked up and is influencing us here, and I am fucking pissed.
It's worth keeping in mind that:
A) The only poll that matters is the one on Nov. 5th
and
B) Before that, the only people that you can poll are people who are fired up enough about their candidate to agree to participate.
A resigned, grudging, or "meh" vote for Biden would count just as much as a red hat wearing, sign displaying, rally attending Trump vote...but only one of those two cares enough about polling to participate in one before election day.
With Harris, I'm not so sure she will get that many more votes than Biden would have...but more of those voters are of the more motivated kind who will voluntarily participate in these polls.
It shouldn't even be a close race in the poll between Biden and Trump, much less between Harris and Trump.
I was watching Luke Beasley interviewing MAGA people at rallies, and the mental gymnastics is unbelievable. Like even if he can cherry pick who is shown on camera, people have the gall the deny the reality.
I'm extra mad that MAGA thinking is slowly making its way in Canada and our dumb people gobble that shit up.
It might just be my local area but democrats here dont answer random polls. They are treated as door to door salesman or phone scams, completely ignored.
They sometimes use ridiculous data thats completely wrong too. Ive had them text or leave a voicemail referring to me as: my wife, my mother in law, my father, my mother, as well as the past three families that lived at my address.
I just dont know what type of poll I would actually take, trust isnt given to strangers in these parts generally.
(An old sign a friend of mine had)
No Soliciting
We are too poor to buy anything.
Yes, we know who we are voting for.
Yes, we have found jesus.
Unless you are selling Thin Mints, please go away.
Do not forget that Hillary was beating Trump in most polls before the 2016 election.
Never forget.
Oh no!
Anyway....
Just remember this picture everyone, no matter how good it looks right now. And YOU probably don't need to see this, but maybe you have friends who do. I have a few who will be getting this in a text message in October.
The majority of the do not vote block is voter suppression. If you dont experience that in your own life you aren't the group being suppressed.
This is why voting reform is the most important issue of our times.
None of this fluff matters. Vote like fascism is knocking on the doors of the oval office.
I don't want to do fascism. I'm going to vote like fascism is right here, because it is.
Also, predictive polls have been really terrible since 2016. They don't have a good read on the electorate, mainly because they don't understand the younger generations or know how to quantify social media influence.
So I agree. Vote like our collective future depends on it. And remember that there's a lot of downballot races that deserve attention, too.
We need Harris for President cat toys merch already since my two cats also are supporting Harris for president <3
Sad trump, has dementia, his best friend is lab grown JD vance
Is that alleged couch-lover, JD Vance?
*couch fucker. Is JD Vance capable of love?
"couch-lover" above is intended as the colloquial use the word "lover". That is indeed to say, "couch-fucker".
I'm not American, so, to me, Kamala is the clear choice over a convicted felon. Americans I know are telling me she's "done nothing" and is "a waste of space". Why are people saying this?
Friend, I'm sorry to tell this, but the American you know might be the bad ones.
Projection.
this was hillary clinton's criticism of Bernie Sanders, also. I think republicans don't realize they're operating out of the Hillary Clinton Campaign this time. Republicans might as well say "Its His Turn"
Because you're talking to either tankies or conservatives, both of which have a vested interest in sowing division within the populace
Why are people saying this?
Probably to cover for racism and/or sexism.
The impression I keep getting is that these people do not feel like she'd be a good president, but I don't know why anyone thinks that. One person did tell me Trump "literally gave me money" when he was in power, so I don't know what to think lol
Well, uh, she cackles or something. Translation: she laughs. OMG, just like Hillary did!
This seems to be the extent of their argument. Meanwhile, because Kamala laughs and doesn't have a penis, that kind of argument stands, but the tone police will rush in to tell everyone in a Very Serious Way that talking about JD's couch fuckin' is not something anyone Very Serious should ever do, LOL. Um, why? If Kamala's supposed "cackle" is a supposed issue, why isn't JD's alleged couch fuckin'?
You know what? When my friends send me endless memes in the chat, I too cackle like Kamala. It's nice to have a presidential candidate with so much joy in her heart that she cannot help but share it.
Unlike trump, who I don't think I've ever seen laugh, chuckle, chortle, or anything else that would remotely telegraph joy other than a froggy grin when he's leering at his daughter.
If you want to have a fun* time, press the matter on why they feel that way.
Trump didn't. He just signed a bill introduced by others.
Democratic politicians pushed for and voted for giving all citizens a payout when the pandemic forced everybody to isolate, which happened when Trump was president.
Ah, I think I remember people being very excited about how they were going to spend the money they received!
And was delayed by him insisting that his name was on it, iirc.