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The Tweet reads:


“President Biden doesn't believe his bad poll numbers, and neither do many of his closest advisers”

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[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 80 points 2 years ago

President Johnson, hearing chants of "hey, hey, LBJ— how many kids did you kill today?" and taking it as an expression of support and healthy interest in how the war is progressing

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 61 points 2 years ago

We at least have that picture of Johnson being genuinely depressed at how he was viewed.

This is, well, braindead.

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago

If we're thinking of the same photo, I think it's LBJ listening to a tape his son sent back from Vietnam (IIRC his son was a pilot). At least that's the story.

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

Oh, I heard that too. I guess we are thinking the same one.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 72 points 2 years ago

Blue MAGA doesn't believe the lying media or their fake poll numbers.

[-] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 48 points 2 years ago

In ebil Soviet Russia, an ailing gerontocracy refuses to believe that the people do not like it despite hard evidence, leading them to continue ignoring the systematic issues destroying the country from within.

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

Couldn't be us.

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 47 points 2 years ago

the US executive is genuinely monarchist at this point, the emperor is running around with no clothes and none of his sycophantic courtiers dare break the illusion

it honestly makes more sense that the DNC and RNC believe in divine rights to rule with regards to primaries and religious thinking in the general

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

Fucking groupthink.

Soooo 1984, amirite, everyone?

[-] BynarsAreOk@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

It is not just Biden, not just the emperor but the entire court, its literally the entire Dem establishment, from Pelosi to Blinken and Hillary they all believe it. There is no secret opposition to Biden just hiding in the corner. At most you can point to the voters themselves but then its a matter of blue MAGA vs the uncommitted voters campaign for example.

[-] memory_adept@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

it's a duopoly

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago

Not even one advisor is playing devil's advocate here?

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago

Hey! That's exactly what Hillary said too.

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago
[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

First as farce, then again as farce

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Wish you could skip them whenever they do happen.

[-] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

Ad infinum!

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago
[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

His brain is certainly baked.

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 40 points 2 years ago

The numbers, folks. They’re fake. Completely fake numbers. The failing Marxist news media, the tiktok, they’re all fake, folks. They’re fake.

[-] deforestgump@hexbear.net 39 points 2 years ago

Fuck around and find out, I suppose.

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

Seems likely.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago

Libs love Orwell and still make excuses for this

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

I just heard a 1984 podcast ad on, well, a podcast.

Totally 1984!

[-] save_vs_death@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

anyway, when he loses it will be the fault of the damn extreme left (all 1000 of them) that biden lost and not his stupid, incompetent, entitled campaign that failed to mobilise the largest voting block in america: the non-voters

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[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

That's, err, fucking crazy, ngl

[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago
[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

"rofl"

Now that's an acronym I've not heard in a long time....

A long time...

[-] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

A/S/L? Nvm... Afk.

[-] spacecadet@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Bring back the roflmao double combo!

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[-] khizuo@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

In communist China…

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

Wooo democracy! Trust the Science, Yeah!

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

We're liberals! We're not like those pesky evangelicals!

[-] Esqplorer@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 years ago

So I agree with you that this is stupid and Brandon is a dumbass, but polls have been terrible indicators since like 2012. The FTC breaking cell phone numbers by refusing to stop robo calls while the polling companies still rely on randoms answering unknown numbers is a fundamentally dumb way to collect a sample.

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Fair point, and a serious comment in this, well, unforgiving thread lol

Honestly, I should consider that, at least.

[-] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

Will we be entering a period where Democrats and Republicans just trade one-year terms for the rest of this miserable country’s existence?

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

I was literally thinking about this the other day.

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[-] RedundantClam@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

Bold strategy, let's see how it works out for him.

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[-] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago
[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Love me, I'm a liberal.

[-] nothx@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

They know that at the end of the election cycle they are going to get an influx of centrists voting for the lesser evil.

Its a move I’m not sure will work for them.

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

Same.

Always play to your base, as the saying in politics goes...

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