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It wasn’t just Lemmy, I know otherwise reasonably intelligent people who became literally brainwashed from TikTok. We’re talking far left, never Trumper’s, knew he was an existential threat, but couldn’t have their moral superiority tarnished and HAD to vote 3rd party. They bought into that propaganda hook, line and sinker.

shocking - It’s almost as if there was a coordinated media campaign to paint both sides the same, and convince a bunch of people to vote against their own self interests. Absolutely did not see this coming… Nope, absolutely not.

This is highly unlikely to cause a statistically significant difference in the polls. Having this strong of a view point on the matter is largely isolated to a specific demographic of younger, progressive voters, who are notoriously difficult to reach and accurately account for via traditional polling methods.

It registers as the 15th most important issue via a Gallup poll, and that doesn’t account for which “side” the individuals polled support.

Of the 30% of the population saying it is an “extremely important issue,” it gives no indication of what their desired resolution is.

On the extreme end of the spectrum, consider that 30% of our nation is in a death cult that believes Israel plays a role in their eventual salvation, not to mention how many people are blatantly racist and view anyone with darker skin as a terrorist.

I am registered, politically active, not difficult to locate and have had the same phone number for 20 years, yet, I MIGHT have been polled once in that time!

This isn’t to say there aren’t those who are doing as they say, but it is not likely to move polls one way or another.

Please don’t ban me… I joined .ml because it was privacy, security and FOSS focused! I had no idea about the ancillary political focus now associated with it.

Assuming this isn’t an attempt at trolling, Trump ran up the deficit nearly double that of Biden. Given that the argument is generally government spending leads to inflation, how exactly would that not indicate who is more responsible for inflationary costs?

Same!

They did the same in Florida… And we are yet going to try again…

I understand your point, and you are accurate about the majority, my apologies, however; (and I did look this up and couldn’t find an answer) how many of the bills passed by the house have been brought to the floor during the 118th congress were only brought forth with enough votes to pass them with GOP only votes? Are there any exceptions? Would they even bring one to the floor? It seems effectually this rule has been taken to an extreme. It appears today, McCarthy finally put on his big boy pants and is proposing a 45 day clean spending bill, but it’s just kicking the can down the road again.

Many of the items put in the majority of bills that could normally pass with bipartisan support are non-starters for Democrats. These insane “anti-woke” (whatever the hell that means), policies and support/proliferation of Russian propaganda resulting in our neglect of Ukraine aid are not in our nations best interest.

It’s amazing to me that under GOP control they will cut taxes, spend like lunatics, blow up the deficit, and then their constituents buy into the “fiscal conservatism” ploy, hook, line and sinker as soon as they are the opposition party. It’s baffling to me. No one, especially me, disagrees with the fact that our national deficit is way beyond egregious, but shutting down the government, defaulting on debt, crashing the economy, harming our military service members, and ruining our currency and credit rating is political terrorism.

No one is willing to take on our defense spending issues, and I’m not talking about supplying our troops, I’m talking about only having one company that provides parts or equipment with no competition, changing absurd prices, and the same goes with much of our investment into equipment development. I cant recall if it’s the JSF or the F22, but while they are publicly funded programs the US doesn’t even own the patent rights and can’t allow for competition for replacement parts etc. It’s insane, our defense budget is so out of wack it needs a complete overhaul.

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You are missing a very important part of the GOP insanity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastert_Rule#:~:text=The Hastert Rule says that,would vote to pass it

Don’t attempt to both sides this issue, they won’t bring a bill to the floor that doesn’t have support to pass WITHOUT bipartisan support. The entire GOP is run by extremists and has been for a long time. When your core principal says that you cannot be bipartisan, you are infact an extremist party by nature.

It’s literally come to the point where you can almost guarantee doing the opposite of what any member of the GOP says, is actually the right thing to do.

I live in Florida, he’s a total piece of shit pandering to lunatics to attempt to be to the right of Trump…

I got my booster Monday evening, despite this chuckle fuck and his supposed doctor “surgeon general.” Oh and I’m well under 65…

Small houses in most Florida Metro areas are in the 400k range… Multiple 3/2s in the 1500sq range are 500k+

I wondered why I was getting more political spam in my inbox for a bit…

I find solace in the fact that 50 cents out of every dollar of his campaign money is being spent on legal fees at the moment. His main PAC had a balance of over 100 million and sank to under 5 million. This was all prior to the George charges, which I imagine is going to radically increase his legal exposure.

These people are systematically transferring hundreds of millions to the ultimate con man.

Since Sync came out, absolutely love it! Hope more people join!

Well, I mean if you media is literally fictional propaganda, then maybe it should be cancelled?

This is so dumb, he must not realize that a significant portion of the GOP voter base has relied upon mail in ballots here for many years.

I suppose they have run the numbers and think it will still benefit their party somehow or another, but I think they grossly over estimate the competency of the average GOP voter here.

It is pretty awful these days…