Definitely a sustainable campaign
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They donât. Middle and upper-class folk eat fast food way more often than working-class people.
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Seems highly unlikely Trump would debate a replacement. Strategically it makes zero sense.
He is all impulse and ego, so I guess there would be a chance.
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I think this is in part why the GOP attack ad on Biden and inflation is so effective. It plays Biden saying inflation is barely going up month to month, then asks audiences, âIs this dishonesty or dementia?â That line is so good in the current climate that it becomes the question about anything with which the audience might criticize Biden.
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Itâs amplified by the media and by Trump (âBiden inflation nightmareâ) and other sources of disinformation.
I suspect interest rate talk is just a handy way to say âthings are badâ. How many people really know or care what the absolute rate is or understand how rates work? I donât. I had to look up what the current rate is.
Wages have gone up, if only a little, even relative to inflation. Ok, things arenât great, but people are focused on just the negative. Where does that come from? The sentient beings are being manipulated.
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Iâm having a hard time imagining Trump doing anything less than gleefully accepting an opportunity to stick it to a female brown person.
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Inflation of food and essentials is not disinformation.
Even economists make a distinction between the capital E economy, and what working people face, that half of UP is unwilling to acknowledge
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Exaggerate, omit context, mix in some lies. Voila.
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Lol I forgot about the fly.
Honestly you make her sound like a good replacement candidate. Iâm fine with her being bad at inspirational speeches.
I am too. Itâs ok to not be good at something, you just need honest feedback from people in your circle so you stop making the same mistakes.
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I think sheâd be incredibly difficult to attack. People like her and see that sheâs not driven by ambition and would sympathize with her having the limelight thrust on her. Shes like the anti-Hillary where any given attack worked. You could just be like âshes doing some kind of shady bullshit with emailsâ and everyone was like âsounds about rightâ. With Michelle if they were like âshe has no experience and she botched the answer to this questionâ peoples instinct would be like âfuck off, leave her alone, sheâs tryingâ. This would be exacerbated with how batshit insane the right would get if she ran. Weâd probably get transvestigator shit from elected Republicans. I honestly think sheâd just have to stand there and she would win.
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He was always gonna lose. This whole debacle just makes it more pathetic and, unfortunately, even more consequential.
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Why does he even want this so bad? From where I sit, heâs got little to gain and everything to lose. Heâs got a decent legacy now and risks being the person who dragged the entire country down with him. If I were him Iâd be like please someone else run
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I canât wait to read the (AI summaries of) the bullshit memoirs about these weeks, written by âdisillusionedâ morons who are completely complicit.
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Im grunching here.
This statement may be true, but we have to recognise that coming to this conclusion, where at least 3 of the 4 words are completely subjective, has been done through at least three biased lenses.
Our own (mostly biased slightly sexist men)
The media (sexist as fuck)
Our culture (sexist as fuck)
I.e. itâs not a completely neutral statement.
The same goes for Kamala and her weirdness.
Of course. In terms of impact on win ing elections, where the perception comes from doesnât matter.
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Heâs the only thing protecting us from Trump, or so he seems to believe.
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The fact that a brutal sexist society wasnât able to beat down the Obamas doesnât mean that itâs necessarily Hilaryâs fault that they beat her down. (Necessarily being a key word here)
The 5% of female CEOs existing doesnât mean that the system around them isnât sexist.
The Obamas were once in a generation charismatic, nailed their messaging, and there was TWO of them.
Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about the need for POCs to be twice as good to get along. The Obamas were much more than that.
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