politics

"A person can be smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals"

Also, the Darwin Awards are a long-standing, constant reminder of the "can" in that statement.

I wouldn't trust him to handle a casino, much less the economy... oh wait, he ran several casinos and bankrupted them all.

And his "signature issue", building a wall between the US and Mexico was a joke that really doesn't even deal with why people are coming into the US in the first place or who is giving all these undocumented workers jobs in the first place, not to mention that they're not taking jobs that any Americans even want.

To a lot of people, 'the economy' means taxes.

Democrats = tax Republicans = no tax

But because Republicans have worked to dismantle quality public education for decades, people don't understand that Democrats tax and wage policies generally mean the average voter is paying no more in taxes and the billionairea and multi millionaires stop leeching off of their hard work.

The rampant racism and fear mongering hasn't helped either.

Every single one of Trump’s economic policies is inflationary. We finally have a candidate that can make a policy argument, and Kamala needs to nail home that Trump has no idea what he’s doing and will make inflation, prices, and the economy way worse.

This is why it's good to mentally replace "the economy" with "rich people's yacht money" in articles

You need to try harder. “This happened under Biden.” They can basically repeat that over and over and it’s all that matters to them.

Hell, Trump could say that he loves abortion and the next day refute that and say he never said it. He’s very “believe what I say not what I do”

So NYT, another way to put that would be that most voters don’t think she’s too progressive?

they phrased it that way to put it in contrast with biden:

Forty-two percent of voters said Ms. Harris was too liberal; 37 percent said the same about Mr. Biden last October.

but i agree that people have to stop being scared of the "insult" liberal.

it is like when they use the word woke as an insult; i mean what is the fucking alternative - being asleep?

I like how you can tell who the big donors are by watching policy movement. Gotta get that campaign money, but fuck.

But also... HOPE! It's okay to feel good about this as long as you avoid complacency.

Some hopeful things you can do:

• Encourage friends and family who don't vote often to go to the polls.
• Plan out election day trips to take them, if needed (doesn't apply in states with 100% vote by mail).
• Offer to sit down with them and go over the choices offered by this year's ballots.
• Volunteer if you have some time.

Battle complacency with hopeful action!

oh it does matter. but go and vote indeed 😜

So sick of people hating on polls for causing optimism. Being optimistic is not being complacent

Yes absolutely - looking at electoral college prediction sites based on the polls, if the Dems won Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania alongside the leaning and safe states, they would get 270 electoral college votes and win. Obviously they need to work tirelessly to go way beyond that and it's a long way to November, but it shows how the switch to Harris has completely upended the election and reinvigorated the Dems electoral chances.

It's crazy to think only a few weeks ago Trump was on a massive high - Biden on the ropes from a disastrous debate, Trump survived an assassination attempt, had a triumphant conference, and had multiple unexpected legal successes. And overnight by Biden stepping down and Harris stepping up unopposed the Dems have changed the entire narrative and are dominating the coverage.

Winning PA, WI, & MI is enough, GA isn’t needed.

that's not really the case though. conservatives are a minority. the main reason they get to power is because 1. your democracy is fucked and popular vote doesn't even elect the president, and 2. gerrymandering and voter suppression.

don't be fooled by the so-called 49%, that's 49% of people who vote. most US elections are won by whoever comes second to "did not vote" because apparently "did not vote" can't be president.

and sometimes it's whoever comes third even, because fuck voters. and that's almost always the republican, losing popular vote to both "did not vote" and the Dem who comes second, but still gets the presidency.