Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@CaptainXtra
Who’s James and Clarence?

And last I checked, Biden didn’t claim that all Mexicans were rapists.

James Woods, former actor and noted lover of candy, and Clarence Thomas, member of the SCOTUS and man who’s known for his manifold conflicts of interests and open pay-to-play corruption.

@Dustcan
…I’m scared of what “lover of candy” means.

I think LegalEagle made a video of him.

I just learn that if you sue the USA and win, they don’t need to pay you a dime. Found that out on MoistCr1tikal’s video on a Destiny streamer suing two organizations and mentioned his own current legal battle (video here).

@Meanlucario
You probably know James Wood best as the voice actor for Hades in Disney’s Hercules

“Ooh piece of candy.”

@Dustcan
Ah. I feared you meant he had a white van and handed out free candy from it.

No that’s what Peter and Brian throws him inside of after the box.

Friendly reminder that the Far-Right have sinister plans if they win big this election year under what they call:

The more that folks hear about it, the better we are at fighting to stop it.

Trump and Co are starting to go after Kennedy as it becomes increasingly noticeable that he’s taking a much bigger bite out of the right than left.

I think one of Kennedy’s staffers admitted the other day that yeah, he’s only running to be a spoiler candidate for Biden.

‘cept he’s so crazy that not only is his own family saying not to vote for him but Republicans are thinking “I don’t know, he’s got a point.”

@Dustcan
Kennedy stealing the Trump vote seems possible.

@CaptainXtra
The US currently has a Democracy Index score of 7.85 as of 2023. Where would Project 2025 put it? Would the score fall by 5-7?

The British dream:

Seriously though, who the fuck is willing to commit to a lifelong mortgage for this bollocks.

@midob
What are their other options?

My side yard alone is probably bigger than 4 of those little box yards put together.

@Wiimeiser
I’d say at least 3 or 4 (probably somewhere comparable to Erdogan’s Turkey).

@Meanlucario
Older houses, which are usually cheaper, better built and aren’t usually so packed together. I’ve never understood the “Oh, it’s newer, it must be better” mentality, the only upside new builds have is better insulation, even the streets in these new estates are shite, narrower than estates built in the 40s-50s when car ownership was uncommon.

This is my solution, far from ideal, not everyone’s cup of tea, but I enjoy it.

It’s a work in progress.

New poll shows 42% of Democrats support deporting illegal aliens

Up or down from the norm?

In a vacuum I don’t disagree with it.

The polls are more noisy than I’ve ever seen. When you can have two polls in the same week, one has Biden winning by 2, and the other Trump winning by 3, with major differences in the spread, polling ostensibly the same groups…something is wrong.

That’s just one example, the polls have been absolutely all over the place. I’ve never seen swings this big even this far out from the election.

That doesn’t bode well. Any potential explanations for what’s going on here?

Hard to say. Polling has been having a pretty rough go of things since 2016.

Polls this far out from the election are not particularly accurate.

Obama was down by about 3ish points to Romney at this point, and Trump was down 5 against Clinton.

But there wasn’t this much variability and noise.

@Zincy
Could be that we’ve reached a point where bias can’t be excluded from statistics, with how polarizing Trump is.

A quick search for prediction markets shows that Biden is currently leading:
https://ballotpedia.org/Prediction_markets_in_the_2024_presidential_election
https://www.270towin.com/maps/polymarket-2024-presidential-election-odds