• @[email protected]
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    1526 months ago

    I like Joe. He did infrastructure and the chips act. He’s a meat and potatoes guy. But his best attribute will always be not being Donald Trump.

      • Track_Shovel
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        456 months ago

        Fun fact: 10% of Americans will vote for a guy that had his brain eaten by a worm. Just look at five thirty eight

        • Twinklebreeze
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          256 months ago

          Everyone that made 538 worth reading was laid off. Even Nate Silver is gone, and he took his model with him. We’ll see how they do this election, but I’m not paying attention to them this election.

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            46 months ago

            Votemaster and Zenger at electoralvote.com have a decent site. They take a ‘model of models’ approach and while their editorials are decidedly liberal, they put math and statistical analysis at the forefront and show their work.

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              66 months ago

              They weren’t incorrect, they predicted Trump had a chance to win and he made that chance happen

              What they did that was stupid was oversell what an odds advantage meant for Clinton and when caught in their own mistelling of how their own reports work proceeded to make themselves look like that nerd who can’t admit that he fucked up and blames it all on other people not understanding what he was “akshualay” saying.

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              No they weren’t. They gave trump a 33% chance of winning and successfully predicted how he could win.

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          Well there is the convicted felon, rapist and wannabe dictatorial psychopath, there is the guy with the dead brainworms in his head, and there is the guy who you can vote for if you would like things to continue as they are.

          Oh, you can also choose between reluctant and enthusiastic support of genocide, and breaking up strikes versus shooting at protestors. Clearly the US is the citadel of democracy.

        • Lemminary
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          36 months ago

          His brain wasn’t eaten by a tape worm because it was most likely cysticercosis caused by the young form of the parasite that usually calcifies. The adult worms grow in the intestine, don’t have teeth, and absorb nutrients passively.

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      216 months ago

      He also didn’t cause inflation or invade hamas or start a war in Afghanistan or any of the other things he was blamed for.

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        186 months ago

        Now that you mention it, both of the last two Republican presidents signed off on huge bailouts and then blamed the inflation on their Democrat successor. Nixon would be proud!

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          116 months ago

          Yeah that’s what gets me about the news always acting like the economy would be better under trump somehow. It’s his poor response to the pandemic that caused this whole situation we are in. It’s bullshit. The prices started going up during COVID. I remember. People were hoarding toilet paper and we couldn’t leave our homes without masks. Suddenly lumber prices skyrocketed from all the home projects people were doing while they were home. Then the price over other stuff started to go up randomly. I remember there were tariffs set on things from China too.

          Then Biden took over and things slowly got back to normal but the prices are still high. If we get trump again things will get much worse again.