RVInit wrote: ↑Tue Jun 18, 2024 6:45 pm
sad-cafe wrote: ↑Sat Jun 15, 2024 5:46 pm
I honestly am scared the mfer will cheat his way into power and then we will all be screwed.
My passport is only good till 26
I am fearful that voters will do what they have always done when it comes to an incumbent President and perceived economic issues during an election year.
"It's the economy, stupid" has been a well known explanation of how the typical low information voter decides who they will vote for. And the media seem to be fixated on constant talk of inflation, inflation, inflation. And now talking about how godawful electric bills are expected to be all summer because of extreme heat. It would be nice if the majority of voters thought in terms of long term, which party is most responsible for the lack of effective response to climate change, and other issues. But sadly, they are not. If "it's the economy, stupid" rules the thinking like it seems to always do, we are fucked and looking at Trump to be elected again. Every single incumbent since I was old enough to vote became a one term president when we had various economic issues during an election year. Some of them were doomed by other nonsense as well, like Carter, who was fucked when Reagan and his hoodlums made a deal with Iran to keep the hostages until after the election, but he was primarily screwed by inflation and gas prices. I really wish Biden would hammer more on the fact that every country in the world is experiencing inflation in the aftermath of Covid, and, that we have the lowest rate of inflation than any other country, and that has been true during his entire presidency. That needs to be on repeat constantly, not just during the debate, given how these voters use the economy as their number one decision making issue.
He can repeat it as much as he wants, the media wont bother reporting it and any mentions on social media will be neutered and won't spread.
That's what I don't get when people start shouting about "the Bully Pulpit" and "HE SHOULD JUST SAY IT!!!" He's probably saying it every frigging day and
you're just not hearing it. Especially if you are stuck on social media for your news.
Its just like people here were complaining that Hillary never gave interviews, when she was doing 8 interviews a day.
And just to prove my point I just did a search for "Biden Economy advert" on Duckduckgo, and, ya, he's running adverts on it. He's been releasing them for months.
But if you are stuck on social media you will never see them because you will just get hosepiped with Russian bots and bullshit and even the "left wing" will be just fake accounts poisoning your thinking into blaming your guy for "not doing" things. And getting you angry about ridiculous unimportant topics to waste your energy, and split you apart.
Example here is the NYT talking about an advert from a week ago
https://www.nytimes.com › 2024 › 06 › 13 › us › politics › biden-ad-inflation-trump.html
Biden Addresses Inflation in New Ad - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/us/p ... trump.html
Being the NYT it just immediately talks about how "many voters" give marks to Turnip on the economy rather than talking about Biden.
How to avoid this crap? Keep your head out of social media. Its just too controlled and rigged in people with moneys favour. And most voters are not on Social Media, at least not anymore. Its just bots shouting at one another and providing copy for lazy journalists, and making people think certain causes are more righteous and popular than they are...