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So the little lady should shut up an take it?

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For the love of God, stop treating 538 like it still has ANY credibility.

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#1 Speak the unspeakable forbidden words ... HE BELONGS IN JAIL. Biden finally did and wasted no time walking it back. At least ask the question ... why did you need inmunity for your treasonous criminal acts when no other president before or since has needed immunity but you. Malicious prosecution of a former president has never happened and no one has ever even threatened such a thing but you.

#2 Why on earth are Kamala and Democrats so willingly accepting the blame for the drastic inflation that resulted from the pandemic when the blame lies 100% with Insane Clown's clownish response to said pandemic. Like Obama said, Insane Clown inherited that thriving economy. He should have gone further and said that Insane Clown did everything to wreck that economy. Billionaire tax cuts. Trade wars. Government shutdown. Before finally succeeding with the pandemic. Obama should have gone even further and said how Insane Clown inherited $400M from Papa Trump and went bankrupt 6 times. For good measure 4 years of Insane Clown's clowning dismanling the EPA set the climate crisis back decades. Also his clownish dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and even the Post Office in a clownish attempt to thwart mail votinng. Insane Clown's release of 5000 Taliban and ordering a mass exodus from Afghanistan by Xmas 2020 before relenting and leaving a 2500 troop skeleton crew bear full responsibility for the disaster that occurred when Biden finally did withdraw.

Democrats are sheep and will be fucked like sheep.

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"in a clownish attempt to thwart mail votinng"

...which is how he regularly votes.

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K so Kamala has ever so slightly (imo and with due respect for your observation on how this may be helping 2028 Rs, or even down ticket moderate 2024Rs) shifted from Our Giggly Likeable Future Commander in Chief to Our Exhausted and Angry but Still Coherent and Ready for Prime Time Future Commander in Chief. Polls will be polls, and pundits will pund, but it’s still GOTV time and I refuse to say it’s over til the last voting booth closes in the last state (or territory, we’ve still got those right?), and TFG pulls his last foot out of his last mouth, forever (or at least for this election cycle). So one last time: please be sure you’re not implying impossible (double) standards on the Harris-Walz campaign…even if not doing so makes you even more of an exception to our pathetic MSM than you already are. Cause you are the exception I do badly need, and it’s just not yet time to critique Kamala’s first term.

Basically/FWIW I think The Kamala has walked an excruciatingly fine line, for the reasons you’ve noted (no primary preparation, still tied to His Bidenship [I mean that in a nice way, but then I’m not a registered Palestinian-Michigander so Harris’s tie to Joe has never really bothered me]), Orange Meanies and good ol American racists/misogynists on every side etc) and also for others that I feel keenly as an educated woman (in my case, White) who’s done her share of tiptoeing around the male ego and STILL managed to get punched in the face by her (PhD Jewish scientist Dad of two) then-husband nobody expected such behavior from (he did two nights at Cook County Jail and 18 months of community service, too, for which in return he also got the $600,000 suburban home, the Volvo, the suburban synagogue and the grandchildren).

Where was I? Oh, right. To use the old saw, Kamala is doing everything the Rs are doing for TFG, but “backwards and in high heels”—I agree the gifts to Black men aren’t well thought out, but I’ve already voted (as have millions of other Americans—without expectations of special gifts) while TFG supporters are being coaxed out of the woodwork by Elon Musk. And even so—former Rep Upton is well respected in my former home state (the summer home my ex didn’t get). So.

It ain’t over yet.

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this is the most over-thought, over-wrought wackery i've read all year

what you're basically saying is that when harris was depending and riding on her laugh, energy, and vibes, everything looked rosy, and now that she's gotten SEAR-REE-US, like everyfucking media outlet told us and her that that's WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT, she's in trouble?

you DO realise that THAT pretty much means our democracy is FUCKED EITHER WAY, right?...because politics as spite-and-grievance-fueled entertainment is all that matters?

face it--eventually we're fucked either way, win or lose, because the 'murrikan electorate generally has the attention span of a methed-out mosquito, and nothing matters and so fucking what if it did, I WANT MY CHEAP GAS AND EGGS! 🤷🏼‍♂️

also, polls are shit and are to be ignored...murc and cleek have their laws, i have mine...*Polls_Are_Shit*...internet-name it as you will

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If a media outlet is not independent, it's corporate, and by that alone we can assume that when they say what people want, it's not what people want or what corporate wants, but what corporate wants us to think so they get what they _really_ want, which usually is keeping things as they are because they're already winning.

One way to get that despite the yearning for a change, is to make sure the change is as small as possible. Like, Democratic party wining by the slimmest of margins, so no one would get angry when very little changes.

And if Democratic party loses,l... "oh well. We'll have to do with more tax breaks and less regulation."

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Oct 24Liked by Jonathan Larsen

“Dad comes home. And he’s pissed. … You know what he says? ‘You’ve been a bad girl. You’ve been a bad little girl and you’re getting a vigorous spanking.’”

So, so very gross.

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Is he advocating for child abuse?

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Oh, it's that and several other terrible things. Do not want to see his browser history, ever.

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Only person who should be talking like that to me is my spouse in the bedroom.

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Oct 24Liked by Jonathan Larsen

I want to break the shitty system. Forever. Starting with the one I work for. Thanks for the inspiration.

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Oct 24Liked by Jonathan Larsen

538 IS NOW CREDIBLE AGAIN? SINCE WHEN???

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I mean, I think I acknowledged that, no...?

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All other News are sinking sand...

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