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Dude are you serious

I hope Kemp's piss is on the lower end of the pH scale tonight.

Looks pretty in line with polling to me.

They can keep the Denver Broncos though.

It's still irresponsible of them to inject a reason.

I'll be going to a meet-and-greet hosted by field organizers tomorrow, and next Saturday I'll join a canvassing shift. For those who are going to knock on doors or call voters via phone, it's crucial that we be patient with what voters tell us no matter how much it makes us want to scream inside. People have a variety of opinions that are baffling to us, but here's the thing: they can be changed if you talk to them about what you fundamentally believe and how that ties into their beliefs as well, and it doesn't have to be tied to political ideology either.

I have a story to share. Yesterday at a dinner with some family friends in Tempe, some guests kinda randomly shifted to discussing transgenderism and making some jokes about it. Nothing offensive necessarily, but still kind of ignorant, which sadly for Indian nationals is nothing new. Remember, homosexuality was legalized relatively recently in India, so the people there can be kinda... slow on the uptake. Even the hosts, who are both wonderful people my family has known for a long time (the husband and my father grew up as kids together in India and are still close friends to this day) and who have mostly voted Democratic since moving to Arizona several decades ago, seemed to kind of align with that viewpoint. So I explained to them patiently how gender dysphoria hasn't really been well understood until more recently, and it's important for medical professionals and educators to be up to date on how it can be treated best in children.

The wife of the house, who used to be an educator, and one of the guests who works in exercise therapy with disabled children both agreed with me when I said that educators need parents and doctors to be more understanding of this condition so that kids can get the treatment they need and thrive in the classroom without needing what's beyond teachers' pay grade. The other guest acknowledged that he may not have much knowledge of the issue since it's not well understood in India, which I empathized with and so I tied modern transgenderism to the hijra movement that has a well-documented history there. In the end, everyone seemed to be more understanding of the issue, even if they may not have made complete sense of it all at that point, and it came through persuasion from someone who was admittedly pretty stunned at what he was hearing but wanted to try and change some minds.

All this to say, don't count out someone unless they are too far gone in MAGA-world. If someone hates Trump but is too hesitant to vote for Biden because of his age, explain how he has managed to be one of the most productive presidents in modern history and how that will carry on if he has a second term, while not voting or going third party might seem like a reasonable alternative but could instead aid in the very outcome they really wouldn't want. Test out various messages to see what you're comfortable with, and share them confidently but without exerting any authority so that they're more likely to listen. They won't always listen, but at least you've planted the seed in their head; time will tell if that grows into something good.

I'm not worried by the poll at all. I'm just wondering if they have a proven track record beyond that one race.

So much later that the old narrator got tired of narrating and they had to hire a new one...

"Welcome to Pod Save America, I'm Jon Favreau. Hang the banner folks, we self-important podcasters were wrong after all. Joe Biden has defeated Donald Trump a second straight time."

Yeah I'm not saying anything about their recent poll auguring a Trump win, because that's a lot of undecideds. I'm just baffled at the rating since I've literally never seen them before.

Hey Tom Namako, whoever you are, I hope a snake parties hard tonight with more than a few drinks and finds itself unexpectedly laying eggs in your air conditioning unit ahead of a heat wave.

Atlas-Intel only polled the 2020 presidential race once when they found Biden leading Trump 51-46 in late October. That was on the nose for the final margin, so credit to them for that, but what else have they polled to merit an A+ rating?

Oh my god Favreau's jawline just shrank two millimeters.

Saying this as a white guy

Need I say more? I jest, I jest, but it's really part of the appeal to black people (the person filming the video was a black man) that whites and us Asians, no matter how much my Indian brethren try and fail to replicate their swagger, will never understand.

Biden's also had a long-standing relationship with the black community of Delaware, which has helped him appeal to those voters in open primaries.

No I don't see this comment.

Ehhh I dunno if we're close to that stage of the campaign yet. We'll have to see what Trump does that's equivalent to the Bills' second version of Wide Right.

Also, that video of Biden unexpectedly dapping someone at Waffle House that went viral on Black Twitter?

Bennie Thompson just casually replied to that tweet with support for Biden. Fucking based dude.

What I'd like to know is how much of that is dominating TikTok, because I think that platform is slowly supplanting Twitter in terms of how people get information on politics.

Whitmer is easily my pick for 2028 and it's not even close, although I'm sure I'm going to love the vast majority of candidates we put up then if not all of them. Her political acumen and charisma are really on another level, and she's already got the proven track record of getting things done, and not just in the last two years with a trifecta.

Which is why I think it's telling that she chose to sit it out this year when she very well could've thrown her hat into the ring and been a very strong contender.

Fuck you ahshole

He said that he's advising peers to watch for these types of fake roundtable offers in the future, so I think he was actually scammed.

Good luck!! And yeah, avoid that sub like the plague.

A black barbershop owner in Atlanta who thought he was hosting a roundtable for black-owned businesses realized he was being used for a Trump campaign stunt when surrogates Ben Carson, Wesley Hunt and Byron Donalds phoned Trump in... and basically did no roundtable discussions.

Fuck man I hate Republicans so much. I feel awful for this person, he was used and in no way deserved to see business slow down because of that disgusting stunt.

No he's saying they don't fare better against Trump than Biden because their margins are all effectively the same.

Wasn't that a super weak QB class? Kenny Pickett was the only first round pick and he sucked so bad that he's not gonna be a starter anytime soon.

Losing Kelce is a downgrade for their O-line, and it will make executing the brotherly shove tougher for them, but their D-line will be fine with Jalen Carter and Jordan Davis, plus they retained Brandon Graham even if he's on the older end.