It wasn’t that. It was the stumping with a Cheney and being forced to say Trump’s border wall is a good idea to Anderson Cooper. That sort of lurching

It was a weird dichotomy.

This election is so 2016 flavored that it’s killing me inside. I don’t think I’m gonna watch the election night coverage even.

Kid is gonna read that article. Maybe now, maybe one day. Imagine reading an article about how your mom wishes desperately with all her heart that she didn’t have you.

She loves you despite what you are, not because of it. Fuck me.

This dude can’t do anything right anymore. I’m thinking Elon help at this point is basically a dog whistle for well adjusted people to stay away.

Somehow when you add Trump’s skin and Elon’s skin together, it actually gets thinner, it’s wild.

Thank you!!! And when was the NAACP formed. During segregation, where that word takes all it’s American context.

Ah yes, South Africa, bastion of non racist glory! No one uses the word colored in a non racist context in North America. Brian Kilmeade is from New York.

The first word out of this dudes mouth to describe a group of black women being addressed by another black woman was by referring to them as colored. That’s called showing your ass, he just showed us his slimy little racist ass.

Hell he might throw a Niki in there! This whole situation has taken me from being low key terrified to can’t wait for what next.

Nothing says the shining light of democracy for the downtrodden like speaking for bankers at 250k a pop!

I don’t want to hear a single thing from either of these nightmares. The party would do well to divest entirely.

Bold of you to assume this person has friends!

Ooooh thank you, every time someone tags me another angel loses their faith in the electoral system!

Yeah I referenced two articles talking about it in multiple ways.

You acting like it’s a new thing that’s never been discussed was what I was referring too. It’s absolutely a thing! That’s a bit of goal post moving on your part to go from “wow I’ve never heard of this before!” To “I don’t think that’s status statically true.”

https://lemmy.world/comment/11132168

Like correct me if I’m wrong, this is you right? Are you also going senile?

You see it referenced all the time as a bit of democratic dogma. There was even a meme about it that hit the top of all/active like a few days ago on Lemmy. I like how this article from April puts it:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/2024-turnout-apathy-biden-trump.html

It’s not necessarily true, let me be clear, but it’s an active assumption. Higher turnout benefits Democrats. A reduction in turnout due to voter apathy will directly effect the Democrats more than the Republicans. The current propoganda campaign are targeting Democratic voters apathy rather than trying to switch a “swing voter.”

This election will probably be at least as high as 2016, and like I think you are referencing, every election since 2016 had basically had record turnout over the last.

Imo this election comes down to the number of voters who are motivated by abortion and worries about the supreme Court, which is middle aged to older people, high percentage women, reliable voters.

He’s an interesting one that talks about the enthusiasm vs apathy of voters but doesn’t specifically turnout, which is against my interpretation. I struggle to understand the relevance of it in this context:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/02/biden-trump-poll-post-debate/74263315007/

Enthusiasm in this case would be turn out, actually getting butts out of seats to vote.

The existential threat that Trump poses no longer seems enough to motivate people to vote specfically against him. Correct me if I’m wrong, but the reduction in turn out by people who are not energized by Biden and aren’t afraid of Trump has been a thing this whole time, it’s not new.

Like literally the campaigns are targeting people to tell them not to vote at all, right? The fact that Biden is visibly spiralling gives those campaigns a lot of very effective ammunition imo.

Then again you got that x-ray shill vision.