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Paid
They get some form of financial compensation
There is literally not one, NOT ONE, single organic diehard supporter on the internet. Maybe in some hospice care place there's a 95 year old with a morphine drip mere hours from passing who thinks Biden is an articulate young whippersnapper, but that's about it.
Hillary has her fedayeen. Still with her ™️ forever
Bernie, AOC, Ilhan Omar, and some others all have loyal fans who will keep going to bat, for free, forever
Like there are popular politicians who are charismatic or have otherwise managed to form this unbreakable sort of parasocial thing over decades of massaging.
Biden isn't one. He's a total corporate shill nobody whose career beyond being corporate shill senator from DE #2 was DOA until a Mr Barstool Ocrumbler came along and picked Jim Crow Joe back up to reassure the racists that the black guy would always have the most racist possible VP around to keep him from thinking about doing too much anti-white racism... or whatever.
He's a puzzle piece that got forced into place. He never had any business being in such a position. He should've (metaphorically for legal purposes) died on the primaries campaign trail. No one likes him just like no one likes Manchin. Capitalists like him, sure, and capitalists kept him in his seat as senator for years because he was their loyal doggy with the D after his name. Then he was an invisible VP. Then he was supposed to retire and die... Obama even snubbed him for being his successor. But the old dipshit just won't fucking stop finding the keys to the car. He was useful once again as the right wing "basically just a Republican" guy to win the SC primary (a pointless and irrelevant democratic state primary as SC will NEVER go blue) and for the MSM/DNC to rally around to rob Bernie for the second consecutive time in two primary seasons.
But no one likes him, no one has ever liked him, he was supposed to croak in approx 2019. Anyone supporting him online (and I'll die on this hill 100%) for his entire primary and then presidency is paid in some way or the most unintelligent/ignorant doofus on earth.
Yes, that exists but I think you're underestimating how stupid and basic libs can be.
There are people who will die on Biden Hill.
Looking at all this together I cannot help but think fate has ordained him to perpetually fail upwards and that I should become a devotee to this man whose rise could only be credited to divine intervention.
I think "paid" might be the wrong word. They support him because they get something out of it. Some might be paid, though others might just be so focused on "sports team" politics that they believe they have to support "their guy" no matter what.