Pre-match: Can't believe it took this long for this thread, the 2024 Presidential election thread!

Trump and Biden are similar. They are / were both in power. Just another political career for them, enrichment of their CV’s. We only see financed wars abroad, so called democracy installation in countries where only dictatorships work. How can we implement the western values in such states, women rights, LGBTIQ rights, religious rights, ethnic or tribal equal rights? All those wars aim only one thing: the natural resources.

What is the future of Ukraine, even if Ukraine wins? The bridge between East and West? Western protectorate? One of the richest states in Europe? All ex-Soviet republics are in hands of Russia. They also have satellites in Balkan Peninsula, non-EU countries.

Such systems are horrible in economic way. Salary for residents is low, the general standard seems bad, credit rating: S&P, Fitch…if you write: the poorest countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, Central and South America, among them we can see certain type of the same people in power. They only switch from time to time: President, Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs…

The standard of Toronto and Tashkent is not so similar.

I mentioned Hungary once. Albania, just another random country in chaos, just like other countries in that area.

Many if those countries you can’t abandon even because of tourist reasons, strict visa programs…maybe 30 countries have normal economic perspective…the rest are funny flag colors, dictators who behave just like aristocrats and royal families.

The perspective of Chad, Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Somalia…Mali, Togo…and many others?

 

I am blaming you on this ....You are willingly and deliberately agitating one of the craziest posters I have ever seen on BS....

 

Great poll for Biden:

📊 NATIONAL POLL: NPR/Marist

🟦 Biden 51% (+3)
🟥 Trump 48%

Definitely voting
🟦 Biden 53% (+6)
🟥 Trump 47%

• Suburban voters: Biden 58-41%
• March poll: Biden 50-48%
• January poll: Biden 49-48%
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🟦 Biden 43% (+5)
🟥 Trump 38%
🟨 RFK Jr 14%
🟨 West 2%
🟩 Stein 2%… pic.twitter.com/McfeqVdyri

— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) April 22, 2024

 

I don't know. A BigSoccer poster using a random word generator. It's so Bush 43 second term.

TRADITION

 

I was just coming to post about that. She ended with 17% of the vote. That’s a lot of people going out of there way to raise their middle fingers at Trump.

 

There were some Dean Phillips votes registered against Biden yesterday. I think it was 93 - 7, though.

 

I heard this theory today, that all the anti Israel protests are being magnified as a way to create a wedge among democrats, plus also it gets clicks:

For those commentating on the campus protests, a few @HarvardIOP youth poll data points:
- Vote intensity similar to spring of 2020, a high turnout hear
- Biden is close to his 2020 results with likely 18-29 year voters
- Many issues rank much higher than Israel-Gaza https://t.co/AahLm1vI9l

— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) April 24, 2024

 

however, Ivy League graduates working at legacy media outlets are going to continue acting like what happens on their campuses is more important than what’s happening elsewhere in America. Or for that matter, Gaza.

 

It really needs to be stated that outside of a few, Gaza really isn't a big deal in the general zeitgeist.

 

Throwing your hands up in the air because you know that it's never going to change is not the same thing as not caring. I feel outrage every single day that Israel are acting like circumcised Einsatzgruppen and they have been for decades. But I also know that I can't do anything about it.

Kids know this less than adults.

From a •purely• political point of view, Israel is not a powerful issue because the Democrats are terrible and the Republicans are even more terribler. If your issue is Israeli genocide, the only way you change policy is to protest at Starbucks or whatever. In other words, a complete waste of time.

 

The RNC is really going beyond the scope:

RNC co-Chair Lara Trump: We have lawsuits in 81 states right now pic.twitter.com/3vZ8mRYvgE

— DNC War Room (@DNCWarRoom) April 24, 2024

 

It's not throwing up your hands. It's a matter of what's relevant. Abortion and the fact that Trump might be back in office is relevant.

Thing is, Gaza isn't the issue that'll topple Biden despite what leftists, and several pundits think (What's uncommitted doing again?).

Israel isn't a big issue to most Americans because it's a country a thousand miles away. There's no American troops there, there isn't anything except a small but vocal group of people.

 

Maybe, but it could also have a similar impact to the Defund the Police protests had. Not many actually supported it, but the protests allowed Republicans to run ads about lawless liberal cities and how Democrats as a whole were going to defund police departments across the country.

 

Both
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/02/i...oom-just-a-bunch-of-ivy-leaguers-kinda-sorta/

So what did I find?

• The Ivy League is, in fact, a major feeder to the Times newsroom. Of the eight colleges most common among the staffers in my study, six are Ivy League schools. (In descending order, those are Yale, Columbia, Harvard, Brown, Cornell, and Princeton. The two non-Ivies are Northwestern and U.C. Berkeley.)
• Even outside the Ivy League, staffers’ alma maters are disproportionately highly selective private colleges — think Stanford, Duke, Georgetown — or top state flagship schools like UNC, Michigan, or Texas.
• When it comes to graduate school, Columbia is king, by a wide margin.

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His conclusion:

To sum up: In this group of hundreds of Times staffers, more than a quarter are literal Ivy Leaguers. A roughly similar number attended other somewhat-elite-to-definitely-elite selective private universities. About a quarter went to a flagship or flagship-like state school, with the rest a mix of smaller private and public colleges. (Six staffers listed an HBCU as an alma mater — two each from Howard and Florida A&M and one each from Grambling State and Fort Valley State.9)​

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If they're trying to assemble a "newsroom that looks like America," they're failing to do so.

 

Summer-of-Love-Right-Before-The-Upcoming-Election: Part II