does it really count as “polarized” when everyone fucking hates you

100 points

In games such as golf, you win by scoring lower than any of your opponents. But in the realm of presidential job approval, such an approach is a recipe for political upheaval, as President Biden has found over the past few months.

Essay wordcount ass writing style.

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51 points

It’s so condescending “Let me give you context and explain to you that in fact, higher numbers are better usually”

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38 points

I just realized he calls it an approach, as if there would be a president that decided that actually, being unpopular is a cool curveball approach to electoral politics.

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Joe Biden is just the sort of outsider we need! :fedposting:

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28 points

reddit always has this sort of surface level intelligence that compels them to say ‘just cuz u dn’t understand probability doesn’t mean 538’s numbers are wrong’. u can manipulate stats and numbers and misinterpret data when making a model u assholes

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43 points

It reads like those recipe websites with like 3 pages of narrative for SEO purposes lmao

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Recipe blogs, but for failson political pundits

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34 points

I dare the motherfucker to tell me another game off the top of his head with golf scoring

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Having a low approval rating is bad

And other shocking news at 11

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You say that, but I’ve heard the opposite. Like this shows the system allows dissent, western democracies have less propagandized citizens…

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In games such as golf, you win by scoring lower than any of your opponents. If the Special Military Operation were a game of golf and the “score” was how many of your opponents soldiers you’ve killed, Vyolyodymyr Zyelyenskyyeye would be doing super well right now. It would also be super good for Zyelyenskyeyeyeye if the “score” was how many of your own soldiers you have left. But unfortunately, war is not like golf, unless if you scored it by either how many of your own soldiers die or how many soldiers your opponents have left. A cruel lesson for the brave democratic resistance. Slava Geroide

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Whoa there Ivan, his name is Eyelyenskyyeye, only Russians and their assets use the forbidden last letter of the alphabet

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20 points

Wow, he’s sooooo smart!

:so-true:

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nonononononononononono we don’t work with theories of “why” people hate the president here at 538, we only train computers to look for correlations in big spreadsheets

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28 points

Wow, you sound fucking evil

Why would you make fun of his stutter like that?

:maybe-later-kiddo:

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17 points

Nah, they were pretty honest. Nothing will fundamentally change

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4 points

The dude even accomplished Trump campaign promise at that.

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53 points

So it’s kinda surreal how I knew biden was going to be a bad president, but he’s actually leagues worse

I don’t know how long liberals will be able to keep this up. They are treating biden the exact way republicans treated trump

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It’s even more pathetic, because at least Trump provided slop for his hogs. Meanwhile Biden’s out here bumping fists with MBS, ramping up nuclear tensions with Iran, building the border wall, and doing jack shit about any of the number of domestic crises. Not even the shitlibs are getting what they wanted. Nobody is getting a fucking thing except the finance zombies to hold this party by the balls.

There are a hundred thousand hogs out there who would take a bullet for Trump. All Biden’s got are overpaid shitheads who can spend 16 hours a day scoldtweeting.

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21 points

Shitlibs are getting what they want, they just pretended like they wanted something different during the primaries and early in the Biden admin (when everything was still “in the future”).

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The thing liberals want more than anything else is for their precious institutions to be held in high regard. Congress (article I) has 16% public approval, Biden (article II) has 36%, and the Supreme Court (article III) has something like 39%. Democratic party apparatchiks are doing fine, but this is really fucking bad for liberalism, and there are many liberals well read enough to understand this. They have built themselves a world where the legislature is only a fraction as popular as the cops.

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He’s owning the left! We’re such owned out of touch activists! We’re soy wojak crying at his chadly “sure thing Jack, I’ll nominate an anti-abortion judge as a favor to my good friend Mitch expecting nothing in return”

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24 points

I briefly felt good when he pulled out of Afghanistan. But it looks like he only did it in order to implement an even crueler policy on them. And he isn’t pulling out of the countries where sanctions would be less cruel than the status quo (Yemen), while he is also very belligerent against Iran.

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17 points

I seriously believe at this point they only pulled out of Afghanistan because Biden had heard about before because his son was a veteran and because there were already plans in place to do so (if as messily as possible). Idk at this point, it’s incredibly difficult to reverse engineer these decisions.

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He pulled from afghanistan because the situation was unsustainable. When obama took power there were 2k taliban then it was 16k then 60. 4 years later it was 200k. And so on. Trump just ignored the problem. When nothing could be done he decided to pull out in may. Then biden tried his best to stay, pull out later but everything collapsed and the got removed? in august. That is after the trump deadline. They got removed they did not leave. That is the important thing.

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8 points

Hmm, wonder why it’s unsustainable and Taliban keep increasing :soviet-hmm:

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12 points

I don’t know how long liberals will be able to keep this up.

forever

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4 points

Yes but no. When the crops start to die they’re toast but they don’t think it can happen so silver lining: these dumb motherfuckers will die in denial.

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Unfortunately, because of their class position they will be the last to die, if they die at all. They will side with the fascists, hoard all the remaining resources and kill everyone else.

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So it’s kinda surreal how I knew biden was going to be a bad president, but he’s actually leagues worse

The American Empire was going to have to collapse sooner or later. And it wasn’t going to continuously decay under a good president.

All told, America’s going to shit but a lot of other regions are doing rather well. Biden’s the accelerationist President. A shit politician, but he’s bringing this thing down from the inside better than any leftist could dream of.

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True die hard libs are really in denial

The country is falling apart. And they are wondeting why no one wants centrism any more.

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34 points

uhmmm, that graph with note about Bush getting a huge bump from 9/11

wonder why they decided to include that

:cool-zone:

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