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gmr548

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  1. Yep. Gen X has consistently been the most pro-GOP generation over the past 8 years. It makes sense. The first Gen X'ers came of age as Carter's presidency was falling apart, most of them came of age under the Reagan Revolution. That was followed up by the 90's, a pretty conservative decade politically despite having a Democrat in the White House for most of the decade. The Democratic platform has moved to the left since then, no doubt about it. Of course, while Democrats have moved the the left, Republicans have gone even further right; so far they've fallen off the rails and into fascism entirely. But Gen X didn't come up with fascism as the boogeyman, it was communism and socialism. I don't think Gen X has gotten more conservative. I think they have always been conservative and the low effort "SoCiAlIsM!1!1" cries from the GOP that we clown on Boomers and Silents for falling for also probably work on Gen X because the environment in which they came of age.
  2. I've gotten more practical in my progressivism now in my 30's vs 10-15 years ago at UT, more willing to see the virtue of incremental progress or compromise. My core views have not changed and if anything I feel stronger that the vast majority of this country is getting turbofucked by the system in place having really gotten in on the fun myself. If anything my biggest policy shifts are predominantly in realizing there are places where major change is needed that I hadn't really considered when I was younger (land use, policing, etc).
  3. Honestly I think it is the opposite. The complete inability to think critically about how the common good and the individual interest can be aligned is almost exclusively a trait of older folks in my experience. At some point your views are just too hardened. Of course, that is anecdotal.
  4. lol I love these shitty housing takes. Do you get these from Facebook or TikToK? Housing has spiked because it was significantly underbuilt after the late 2000's financial crisis. It is simple supply and demand.
  5. The narrative if Biden were to step back and not run for reelection would be a Democratic party in shambles, and all of the campaign/white house infrastructure built over the past four years ceases to matter. Democrats would be campaigning on Trump being such a threat to democracy that... an incumbent POTUS with < 4% unemployment won't even bother trying?
  6. Disagree, Biden should make a point to be out and about on the campaign trail both as a counter to the age/fitness piece and to tout investments in infrastructure, manufacturing, and energy made possible by legislation he passed; many of which are located in purple states.
  7. They were considered losses by Trump by huge margins in public polling in both 2020 and 2016. My contention is that means fuck all.
  8. I mean, that's true of both of them. Against any other candidate he would be a liability but against Donald Trump it's a layup. I have little doubt Biden would be considered a decisive winner in public polls and in media analysis just as he was in 2020, but debates have been definitively proven to not matter at all anyway. They are poo flinging contests.
  9. Larry Hogan is running in MD. https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/02/09/congress/hogan-running-for-senate-00140681 Still probably a slight underdog in a solid blue state with Trump on the top of the ticket, but certainly puts a previously safe Democratic seat in play.
  10. D +20 in 2020 in favor of long term incumbent. Often unopposed before that. Ds have been crushing specials given turnout advantage among more educated voters, but losing an incumbent (I don't know the circumstances). Unless it's scandal or something dragging the Democrat down, I'd want to see them get to that 60-40 margin again, ideally better. Losing outright seems like it would be a disaster and barely on the table, and that tweet is just GOP doing election hype things.
  11. I mean yeah, that's what it was in 2020. It's pretty compelling. Trump was a disaster as President and will be worse a second time around. If Republicans hadn't been thoroughly cucked they would have this election in the bag, but that's their problem. The funny thing is that if one takes five minutes to look over the record and apply a bit of critical thinking Biden actually has an objectively good record - certainly better than what I expected - but that's typically too much to ask of the American public.
  12. TIL 45% of Democratic leaning adults are fucking morons.
  13. Perhaps the most irritating thing is the same kind of sourced accounts that painted a picture of terrifying incompetence in the Trump White House have quoted Republicans admitting Biden is plenty sharp in private settings; debt ceiling negotiations, for example. Biden has always been a public gaffe machine, now he's a little bit more of one because he's 109 years old. That's really all it is as far as I can tell.
  14. I know that and agree. But there's a difference between not tuning in and not knowing at this juncture that it is going to be Donald Trump. If you have any kind of polling or other data to prove me wrong I'd love to see it, because it would materially change my perspective.
  15. This was true two or three months ago but I simply don't buy it now, primaries and Trump legal proceedings have been headline news and covered with the context that Trump is the Republican nominee.
  16. lol turn off the fox news man, literally everything you listed ranges from exaggerated portrayals of a segment of gen z twitter (itself a very small segment of society) to outright fabrication
  17. Yeah, these. Biden is too old to be POTUS in a sane timeline and it does show. Now, it's stupid and extremely frustrating that Donald Trump - someone who is significantly lessmentally and physically fit to be POTUS, and by the way basically the same age - more or less gets a pass for far worse. But this stuff is going to stick.
  18. Being cucked by a tinpot dictator is a foundational piece of the Republican identity. Putin is just trying to make him feel at home in a far away land.
  19. I mean, you and the rest of the GOP base could have elevated a viable alternative that wasn't clearly inferior to a "sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory"... but you chose instead enroll as a card-carrying member of Cult 45, so here we are.
  20. And they are totally fine with burning down not just their cart but the entire block as long as no sandwiches get sold. That's the whole point.
  21. My brother in Christ, the GOP is rigging the propane tank at the sandwich cart to explode, and they are doing it in broad daylight.
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