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archive.today • Trump Indictments Haven't Sunk His Campaign, but a Conviction Might - The New York Times

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think that's the thing I find so incredulous about it all, that there are people going back and forth rather than just looking at how fucked it all is and giving up. These people have no political sense whatsoever, but an opinion on everything, I'm sure.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's reality tv for them. Which contestant do they really want to be the last one on the island?

an opinion on everything

They are like American pundits. No matter how stupid their opinion is - the important thing is that they say something. I scanned David Frum's recent Atlantic article "Here’s What Biden Can Do to Change His Grim Polling". I thought it might be horrible-funny. But it was only horrible-bad. It's boilerplate GOP concern trolling. Biden should move to the right. And Frum suggests Biden should punch left. This is bizarre...

Picking a fight with Kanye West worked for Obama. Photo ops with cute kids wearing school logos worked for Clinton. Biden needs to make triangulating opportunism work for him. Every day, the furthest fringes of American culture create even more lucrative targets for Biden to whack at.

But it's entirely unclear what he wants Biden to whack at. This was sort of funny...

[Look] how closely Biden’s approval numbers have tracked the numbers from former President Barack Obama’s first term. Obama’s numbers slumped in the second half of his third year, 2011. In the middle of that October, his disapproval number reached 41 percent, not very far off from Biden’s 37 percent at the same point in October 2023.

What kind of "analysis" is that? It's a pile of nonsense. Obama had the celebrity and fan base of a rock star. People really loved him. Biden has the celebrity and fan base of a really old guy on a sitcom that people know the name of but wish he was replaced because he's too old and they don't like him. Also and of course - Obama didn't have a Gaza war happening that would most likely even ruin his reelection chances.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

What kind of "analysis" is that? It's a pile of nonsense.

Oh, comrade, are you unaware that presidencies happen in a vacuum where the only variable that affects them is time? I can see how confusing this might be for you then. data-laughing

Obama had the celebrity and fan base of a rock star. People really loved him. Biden has the celebrity and fan base of a really old guy on a sitcom that people know the name of but wish he was replaced because he's too old and they don't like him. Also and of course - Obama didn't have a Gaza war happening that would most likely even ruin his reelection chances.

Not disagreeing with your overall point, but don't forget that Obama had the entire Right Wing media and their astroturfed lackies as his heel. I still remember playing spot the black guy when the pictures of the anti-healthcare rally in DC came out. He was the Secret Muslim Terrorist Communist President who wanted to give everyone healthcare, supposedly. Don't get me started on the reality of it though.