Donald Trump would be on track to win a historic landslide in November — if so many US voters didn’t find him personally repugnant.
Roughly 53 percent of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of the former president. And yet, when asked about Trump’s ability to handle key issues — or the impact of his policies — voters routinely give the Republican candidate higher marks than President Biden.
In a YouGov survey released this month, Trump boasted an advantage over Biden on 10 of the 15 issues polled. On the three issues that voters routinely name as top priorities — the economy, immigration, and inflation — respondents said that Trump would do a better job by double-digit margins.
Meanwhile, in a recent New York Times/Siena College poll, 40 percent of voters said that Trump’s policies had helped them personally, while just 18 percent said the same of Biden. If Americans could elect a normal human being with Trump’s reputation for being “tough” on immigration and good at economics, they would almost certainly do so.
Biden is fortunate that voters do not have that option. But to erase Trump’s small but stubborn lead in the polls, the president needs to erode his GOP rival’s advantage on the issues.
The message is clear. Republicans want to raise the retirement age to 69, outlaw abortion on a national level. Vote Republican at your own peril.
Vote Republican at your own peril.
Peril is less bad than those communist democrats, I bet all too many morons believe.
I was basically going to say the same thing, they’ll vote anyway, party over policy. It doesn’t matter what they propose. As long as Democrats disagree with it, their constituents will vote for it, standard team-driven advertising.
Most voters don’t care about politics at all, we just want what everyone else wants - a chance at opportunity, some form of health care and social security, you know, the good life. We can all pretty much agree on that and it’s really not that interesting a topic. So, politicians turn politics into a sports game because that’s what people care about and engage with, sports and competition, our old friend, Ego.
Follow your heart, not your ego.
Most voters don’t care about politics at all, we just want what everyone else wants - a chance at opportunity, some form of health care and social security, you know, the good life.
That is politics.
Not really, just basic human rights.
Also politics.
Everything is politics. But people tend to not like to think of things as politics. Because “politics is boring”.
Politics explained simply is about who gets what and when they get it.
Triple funny when you consider all the communists fucking hate biden.
I don’t understand retirement. Didn’t John Oliver just tell us that Millenials already don’t get to retire at 65? I am fucking livid, i am 35, my mom died at 62, I probably won’t even make it to 65 and all the money I have given to the government for this is going to be lost.
It’s not as simple as people pretend. But not all that complicated, either. 65 was the “full” retirement age before law changes in the 80s. For most workers today, it’s 67. But wait! The amount you will get per month from social security depends on 2 things – how much you paid into the system, and what age you actually are when you retire. You can start collecting at 62, but it will be considerably less per month than if you retire at the full retirement age. And to confuse things more, you can keep working until 70(?) and the amount you will get continues to increase every month, so I’m not sure why full retirement age is 67 instead of 70.
You know John Oliver is not actually the government minister in charge of When People Get to Retire?
Retirement is just a number. Once you hit that number, you can retire.
Talking about the “retirement age” is just the age at which social security benefits kick in. It doesn’t mean you’re no longer allowed to work after that age, or that you’re required to work until that age.
No one thinks retirement is when the government forces you to not work… What are you, 14?
You might overestimate Chocrates
You definitely overestimate Lemmy commenters
I am an idiot but this seems pointlessly mean.
Just an accurate observation from my time on lemmy.
Morals to talking about penalties for your retirement accounts…
Which can be significant
Government minister? там, где ты, товарищ, водка хороша?
Wow they even managed to make the funny number not funny anymore.
Obligatory: Nice.
Everyone’s peril.
Vote Republican or stay home at your own peril.
Socialism 2024
Fuck blue maga and their genocide
Meanwhile, back in reality, the GOP recently lost two more special elections in places they normally wouldn’t & nationwide the Democrats are still beating polling by 9+ points at the ballot box post Roe V. Wade fuckery by SCotUS. Also, the GOP’s bank accounts are literally being looted by the Trumps which will devastate down-ballot politicians.
I’m assuming they are using AI or a something similar for targeting polling to get the “answers” they want,
Polling hasn’t been anywhere near accurate since 2016, but the Media needs its horse race. Make sure you vote & make sure 3 other people vote & we’ve got this.
EDIT: the silly little fascist symp @syllogi has been blocked by everyone, so all they can do is sad little downvotes. How pathetic you are, fash.
Exactly. Who do you think is more likely to answer a phone poll? A rural landline to an older man with nothing better to do then shout “Trump” into the receiver OR an urban mobile number owned by a young non-white woman with two kids?
These polls oversample loud conservatives and undersample quieter Democrats with actual lives. Remember 2020 when Trump had lots of “enthusiasm” at his rallies? How’d that work out?
It doesn’t matter how enthusiastic your vote is, it matters if you vote. Just vote and help others to do the same. Sign up for a Biden or local Democrat’s GOTV effort. That’s actual democracy.
Dude exactly, also a bunch of us dems are just of the type who wouldn’t participate regardless even if they got a hold of us. If they want my time they have to pay.
Cant remember who said it but “polls are fake until voting” comes to mind.
Those people answering the landline are MUCH more likely to vote. Ask Hilary and Bernie how their races went.
Trump is up…the D’s need to realize that and do something about it.
We need more than 4 votes though… (Joke if not obvious)
LOL I must have blocked them a long time ago because I see nothing.
They haven’t commented anything in months, there’s nothing to see. They’re talking about downvotes.
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Obama floated a single-payer option for healthcare, he was stopped by Republicans. People also need to realize that the Democrats scraping by means they have to compromise to survive.
You want them to do more? They need a mandate, not a razor thin slice. The Republicans have gerrymandered the fuck out of your country and made it so that even when they aren’t elected, they can control or block everything. They’ve made it impossible for Democrats to get a landslide, blocked absolutely everything they can, stirred up as much voter apathy as possible, so that even when they lose, they win. And you’re buying right into it.
This is also why everyone should vote Democrat. You only have two parties in your country. If the Democrats always win because the Republicans are too right wing, they will forced to abandon their most repugnant social policies to save the golden goose, tax cuts and cutting social programs.
This will force Democrats to move left to differentiate themselves, and so forth. Short of electoral reform which will never happen, it has to become political suicide to be against abortion, LGBTQ issues, etc like it is in other countries.
Obama floated a single-payer option for healthcare, he was stopped by Republicans.
You might want to check that one out again. The Ds had a majority in Congress and managed to fuck themselves on that one.
Single payer will never pass, big insurance owns too many congress people on both sides of the isle. A couple million dollar payoff for a dissenting vote is much cheaper than the billions they’d lose if either ACA is repealed, or we cut them out of the game with something like universal healthcare.
Stopped by republicans and republicans cosplaying as Democrats. Is that better?
Point is, slim majority at best. Look to any parliamentary democracy to see what a real majority is.
… So Democrats.
republicans cosplaying as Democrats
but we need to vote for the republicans cosplaying as Democrats so that they can continue to be the reason we don’t get anything instead of Republicans. The fatal flaw in the idea that people like Manchin, Sinema and other blue dogs are another obstacle the Dems need to overcome is that Dems. Chose. Them. Those people are in congress getting in the way of the democratic agenda because democrats put them there.
The self titled “Blue-Dog democrats” ruined the ACA into the insurance company payday. Was guys like Manchin.
Never forget that bastard Lieberman
[edit] speak of the devil, he’s gone home now
Lieberman, Manchin, Sinema. There’s always going to be a rotating villain. Our political landscape is designed to invest the least amount of political capital for the preservation of the status quo. Our Congress is beholden to the interests of the ruling class and that money flows to both sides of the aisle.
Presidents can’t just make laws without going through Congress, despite what pretty much every news media organization likes to imply. For two years Biden had an obstructionist Senate and now it’s the obstructionist House.
To your point though, I think Democrats could do a better job promoting all the changes they would make. Say you’ll “enshrine the right to an abortion” into law, say you’ll establish a minimum wage that keeps up with inflation, say you’ll let doctors heal and teachers teach, say you’ll take the title away from China as the leader in renewable energy, and for fuck sake say you’ll stop kowtowing to the Israeli government.
Did you watch the State of the Union?
Your point being? Strong presidential talk at the State of the Union does not give them the power to pass laws without congress.
I was responding to the second paragraph where they said that Democrats need to message better. I believe a lot of the topics they gave as examples that the Democrats could push in their messaging was in the State of the Union.
Oh, alright, my bad, the State of the Union was definitely some of the best messaging I’ve seen of a united democratic party I’ve seen in a while.
Can we please stop with the whole “if the Republicans make the country terrible enough, they will start losing!”
No. That’s a terrible strategy. It worked once, with the repeal of abortion protections, and even then it didn’t work super well. And the tradeoff was not worth it. Women are dying.
Voters, especially Republican voters, are so stupid and brainwashed that they will believe the GOP when the GOP tells them that it’s actually Democrats (and immigrants etc etc) who have made their lives worse.
Accelerationists come in two flavors: bad actors and morons.
40 percent of voters said that Trump’s policies had helped them personally, while just 18 percent said the same of Biden.
One significant change I’ve noticed from Biden’s policies in my daily life is the capping of overdraft fees. Previously, having a negative balance was a financial emergency as I had to borrow money from friends to avoid hefty $30 fees while waiting for my income check to clear.
The biggest campaign disaster is not touting the monumental investments in infrastructure. You almost certainly have a water line replacement, lead service line replacement, or bridge reconstruction project in your town funded by Biden.
Trumps tax policies benefits the majority of Americans who take a standard deduction. He made sure his name was on the COVID checks and the Child Tax credit checks. He was the President that stopped student loan payments.
None of these are historically GOP policies but they did help the average person. Trump is pretty good at making sure people know that he’s helping them in some way.
The child tax credit checks were for 2021 which was Biden. Also him making sure just name was on the checks created delays and is just an ego things. Also when they doubled the standard deduction they took away exemptions.
For example, prior to increasing the standard deduction you could deduct a portion of your rent and bills if you worked from home. I used to take advantage of this and ended up owing taxes for the first time thanks to them taking away exemptions. Luckily my alimony is from 2018 or I wouldn’t be able to deduct that anymore either.
The supermajority of Americans take the standard deduction. You have to understand math to take the other routes. So removing those exemptions was not a negative to the majority of lower and middle class Americans.
It may have delayed the checks, but the checks stopped under Biden. And that’s what people remember.
They were paying the credit out early during COVID, not simply including it in your taxes. To the average person it looks like more moola.
As someone who deals with this everyday for work I can tell you the tax cuts and jobs said act of 2018 did not help anybody but those that already had money. The tax returns got"simpler" but as for families they didn’t see that much of a difference or owed more.
Trump’s policies jeopardized the lives, livelihoods, and overall welfare of transgender people.
I know that, but most people don’t care (or even worse agree with it). Trans issues are really only popular online; similar to homosexual issues in the 90s/00s.
Which many people, unfortunately, consider a good things
Trumps tax policies benefits the majority of Americans who take a standard deduction.
Up until the tax breaks sunset during the Biden admin as it has been I tended to do, making it worse for the majority of Americans.
Funny enough, THAT is a historically GOP policy: give just enough to make the opposition look bad when you take it away.
You and I get that. The average person doesn’t. That’s why it’s effective.
It’s unusual this was down voted. I took your statement as to say Trump is better at messaging, and it’s something Biden needs to do better.
Everyone seemed to take the tone as support for Trump, which doesn’t appear to be the intent.
What’s more; the majority of Americans don’t vote. Trump realized that if you can convince non-voters to vote you can crush in an election and that’s where the majority of his support has come from. Biden, the Democrats (and honestly the establishment Republicans) still don’t realize or are unwilling to utilize this fact.
To win; Biden needs to help American’s pocketbooks and do so now.
Everyone seemed to take the tone as support for Trump, which doesn’t appear to be the intent.
Ya that’s pretty normal. Trump is the worst president in my lifetime. He should be easy to beat.
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Cram it in your cram whole Lafleur!
I don’t think GOP voters really care about policy at this point. They have voted against their own interests all the time. I’ve seen it 1st hand working at the SNAP office in my state. People voting/worshiping guys like DeSantis while he makes it harder for them to get food or help.
The phrase I’ve heard in the past is a Republican would eat shit if it meant a liberal would have to smell their breath.
These people hate Dems and liberals so much they’ll vote for the most vile people. They just don’t care as long as a Dem isn’t in power.
But it’s not about the core voters that always vote for the same party. It’s about the people that are switching and still (somehow) unsure. And they can be reached.
Bull puckey, dumps would in no way definable be “on track to win a historic landslide”.
He didn’t win by a landslide in 2016, he lost in 2020, and he’s in a far weaker position today than in either of those elections.
Friendly reminder he lost the popular vote in 16.
And 20. Woop woop.
They’re so desperate to create false realities.
I think you misread that line. They meant if Trump was less of a personally crazy person, but made the same accomplishments, he would be on the way to win by a landslide when you also consider bidens popularity.
That being said hope your right. Polls don’t look great and I’d rather have them saying that trump is looking very bad.
I don’t think dumps would be on track to win by a landslide or even a margin taking into account all contemporary factors, including biden’s ostensible poll popularity.
I understand the line, it does not reflect reality.
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He’s demonstrably the actual biggest loser in history, and he only gets more loser-y folks… If any of you are starting to have your memories fade, here’s a quick refresher to read this morning and then copy and send to your aunt karen in Missouri.
- 0 re-elections won
- 1 term president
- 2 times impeached
- 3 marriages
- 4 inch lifts in his shoes
- 5 kids, from 3 different mothers
- 6 bankruptcies
- 7 US Capitol police suing him for Jan 6 terrorist insurrection and murder of police
- 8 trillion + dollars added to the US debt in a single term
- 9 trump lawyers sanctioned by federal judge for lying in frivolous election fraud lawsuits and ordered to pay defendant’s legal fees
- 10 years that trump paid $0 in income taxes between 2000 and 2015. ($0 to cops, teachers, roads, prisons, disaster relief, etc)
- 11 trump associates charged with serious crimes over the past 5 years
- 12 million votes (the big lie) - trump claims he won the 2020 election by 12 million votes when in reality, he lost by about 7 million votes.
- 13 of August, 2021 - one of multiple days that trump was supposed to magically become president again according to Qanon and a crack addicted pillow salesman (the two most respected information sources in the gop)
- 14 year old girl in a youth choir that trump approached in 1992 to say, “Wow! Just think - in a couple years I’ll be dating you.”
- 15 originally confirmed cases of COVID in the US trump said would soon be, “down to close to zero.” followed by, “like a miracle, it will disappear.” - over 1,000,000 Americans have since died of COVID as it continues to kill years later.
- 16 years old - age of daughter ivanka when she hosted “miss teen” pageant and, according to long time trump associate Noel Casler, “trump called her over in the middle of a rehearsal and had her give him a lap dance while he leered at the crew.”
- 17 known trump and russia investigations from local, state and federal prosecutors
- 18 gop senators that ignored trump threats / warnings and supported Biden admin’s infrastructure bill.
- 19 as in COVID19 - trump was verified as the single largest source of disinformation on the virus, with a Cornell study claiming that 38% of the “misinformation conversation” originated with trump
- 20 the day in January, 2021, when Biden was sworn in despite trump inciting a violent insurrection to stop election verification at the US Capitol.
- 21 gun salute that trump ordered for himself when he left office after a humiliating defeat, even though he never served in the military, famously called military members “losers” and “suckers” and actively avoided the draft with a cowardly “bone spurs” excuse.
- 22 date in August, 2021, when Alabama hate rally crowd booed trump for finally saying people should get vaccinated, only after 700,000 Americans had died due in large part to his failure as president
- 23 as in wrestlemania 23 in 2007 where trump, a cartoon level failure with no other prospects, participated in a fake bet that a proxy wrestler would win a fake fight on his behalf or he would shave his wig and hair plugs off.
- 24 day in August, 2021, when trump actually filed a lawsuit in Florida court against YouTube, a private company, demanding that they reinstate his YouTube channel like a desperate, irrelevant embarrassment with no platforms left to abuse.
- 25 plus credible sexual assault allegations against trump, spanning decades and with accusers starting as young as 13 years old at time of assault.
And…
- 91 indictments.
It’s a big number jump but I think you forgot 91 indictments.
Fixed it for you, worthy addition and jump
It literally doesn’t matter, unless people go out and vote. Seriously, if you don’t vote, you deserve 4 more years of that loser.
I don’t think “not voting” should lead to what trumpers will do to this country. BUT, voting is easy enough that if they really care they better make the little effort it takes.
Just throwing this out there: it’s not so easy for everyone, red states in particular love to add roadblocks to it including closing so many polling places that voters at the remaining places will likely face many hours of standing in line, particularly in areas more likely to vote blue, and have even passed laws making it illegal to shuttle people to the polls or pass out water to people waiting to vote.
I don’t live in a swing state. Voting for President is literally pointless for me.
You can get me to the poll if the vote is for abolishing the electoral college, or if ranked choice/instant runoff becomes the method used to determine the winner.
Not going to bother otherwise.
President is just one of many things you’re voting on. Passing on voting because of that is a very bad idea.
President is just one of many things you’re voting on.
Uh, yeah, that’s why I specifically said “voting for President”.
Plus this whole thread is specifically about the Presidential race.
You can get me to the poll if the vote is for abolishing the electoral college or if ranked choice/instant runoff becomes the method used to determine the winner.
Not going to bother otherwise.
You said you won’t go to the poll, meaning you won’t vote for anything. It’s all on the same ballot.
Bad word choice, what I meant is that I’m not interested in voting for President unless that particular vote also came with one/both of those things ‘attached’.
Oh, okay, if you wanna leave the president part blank and you’re not in a swing state, no harm, no foul. Or just write someone in.
I dunno if you know but the US has 2 branches of govt that are democratically elected… One could argue the legislative branch is actually far more powerful than the executive.
Can someone explain to me what would stop dems from infinitely fillibustering any of the Republicans bullshit laws if they got control, similar to how the Republicans have?
Gridlock doesn’t benefit Democrats like it does Republicans.
How so?
Democrats run on a platform of “we want to do x, y, and z to make things better. Vote us in and we will do those things.”
Republicans run on a platform of “we want to destroy things a, b, and c to make things better. Vote us in and we will destroy those things.”
Filibustering helps destroy things. It does not help to build things.
It’s easier to destroy than build.
Nothing, though the budget reconciliation process allows for one filibuster-proof bill a year if it primarily deals with the budget.
That said, the filibuster is just an internal Senate rule. A majority could simply eliminate it at any time, but that of course may come back to bite them when the balance of power shifts.
I don’t see this causing real problems. It would make the Senate more democratic if there were no fillibuster.
The Republicans will obliterate the fillibuster the day they want to, claiming the Democrats are forcing them to.
That would honestly be great for Democrats long term, which Is why they wouldn’t do it.
Don’t they need a super majority to do that?
No, the filibuster is just a rule the Senate made up and it only takes a majority of the Senate to change their rules.
The Constitution allows each chamber to set their own rules however they like. Just the barest majority is all that is required.
Presumably Project 2025.
…respondents said that Trump would do a better job by double-digit margins.
…in a recent New York Times/Siena College poll, 40 percent of voters said that Trump’s policies had helped them personally, while just 18 percent said the same of Biden.
So these polls are just showing that Trump gets all the Republicans because they don’t actually care about policy, and Biden only gets a few Democrats because these questions are actually about issues, and his entire platform is that he isn’t Trump
All my life, I voted for the greater good of the greater whole, at my own expense. I am not a Biden fan and many who voted lockstep for the neolibs are most certainly voting on the issues.
That’s a pretty strong platform in my opinion. Trump is an extrema threat to all of us.
And then there are the “Who cares, we’ll be dead by then!” crew. My bios included.
Try passing this and then ask Americans if they’re better off now than they were 4 years ago.
Many Americans are too idiotic to realize the president is not the legislature. They can champion laws/policies, but the Executive is not the Legislative. It feels so weird to me that so much focus goes to the presidential slot when senators and house reps are the primary power brokers. It’s equally weird how we’ve allowed so much power creep to seep into the presidential office, where presidents have routinely exercised powers that are way out of their constitutional lane on numerous occasions. It sometimes feels like Americans want a totalitarian form of government.
president is not the legislature
Worse, when they blame the economy, they are ignorant to the fact that Republicans passed a law to specifically make the US Central Bank (the Federal Reserve) a PRIVATE entity that is outside the reach of the president.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
And yet, when asked about Trump’s ability to handle key issues — or the impact of his policies — voters routinely give the Republican candidate higher marks than President Biden.
More recently, they tried to dissociate their party from the most unpopular aspects of the anti-abortion movement’s agenda, voicing opposition to the shutdown of in vitro fertilization clinics in Alabama.
Raising the full retirement age to 69 — as the RSC proposed last fall — would translate into a roughly 14 percent cut to Social Security benefits, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
To the contrary, he has signaled plans for slashing federal tax revenues by trillions of dollars, policies that would make preserving existing benefit levels even more fiscally challenging.
Biden, on the other hand, has called for substantially raising payroll taxes on Americans earning over $400,000 a year in order to sustain Social Security in its current form.
It’s unlikely that any of this will make a big impression on undecided voters, who do not typically pay much attention to budget proposals in general, let alone those without a prayer of actually passing in the current Congress.
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If you read the article, it says the Republicans are proposing raising the age to collect full Social Security benefits to 69 (it is now currently 67). That’s not quite the same as ‘cutting’ social security.
BTW, the surplus SS currently has in its account will run dry in about 10 years. Once that happens, Social Security will become a pay as you go program if nothing changes, which means benefits will be reduced by about 25% (i.e. the amount of money coming in from SS taxes will only cover about 75% of projected outlays).
Not to defend their stance, but you obviously have no idea what Social Security is and the reasoning you won’t be getting a single dime.
I did read the article. The current age to collect full benefits is 67. They are proposing it be raised to 69. Please illuminate for me what I am missing.
So when you paid into it, you were told you would get money out at 67.
You will no longer be getting paid for those 2 years, thus are getting less money back from the gov (and forcing 67-69 y/os potentially back into the work place).
I’m not a fan of raising it but you’re just incorrect and ought to look into how this works.
You can start pulling benefits out at 62 but you can collect more per month the longer you wait.
There is nothing stopping you from deciding at age 62 to start collecting if you’re fine with the lower amount.
Next, the amount provided is never promised. You pay into Social Security for current benefit recipients and Social Security gives you an estimated amount of benefits you may see. This is called out many times, and I implore you to utilize the information on its site effectively.
Here’s the disclaimer:
We can’t provide your actual benefit amount until you apply for benefits. And that amount may differ from the retirement estimates because: …
- Your estimated benefits are based on current law. The law governing benefits amounts may change. Congress has made changes to the law in the past and can do so at any time.
Bro they hope you fucking die before you take it out. It’s a “cut” per OPs question you dork.
Have fun being mad at the world. It isn’t good for your blood pressure.
If you haven’t made an effort to get ahead of the potential nonsense around social security with 40-50 years of notice, that’s on you. The Republicans have made it no secret they’ve been wanting to tear it down, especially through the 90s.
Now who has no idea what Social Security is? If this proposal passes, I can still retire at 62 (with reduced monthly benefits). The proposal is to increase the age at which you receive ***full ***benefits.
“You will no longer be getting paid for those 2 years” - That is absolutely not true. I would not receive full benefits for those two years if this proposal passes.
One additional fun fact I gleemed from the article that no one here has mentioned: according to this article, if this proposal passes, it would amount to a 14% cut. But if nothing changes, the Social Security trust fund will become insolvent in 2033 (just 9 years away!!) which will result in a 23% cut.
Care to edit the OG comment that you were wrong?
wrong about what?
