• dhork@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Don’t underestimate how disasterous that last debate was for Biden. For many Americans, their last impression of him was a doddering fool who was up past his bedtime. I suspect that if he hadn’t run for a second term, but didn’t change anything else, he would be remembered better.

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      2 hours ago

      They used a speech jammer on him because he said he was going to tax the rich. Literally right after he said that his entire party flooded the news stations with hate for him. Right after the debate they interviewed him and he was perfectly fine.

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      Yeah, I guess when you combine the helpful Murc’s Law Media that is there to capture the vibey narrative for the low-info and the people that are paying the least bit of attention, along with the conspiracy theory/Epstein Class media that is there to capture the people on the far margins, I could see how these kinds of numbers happen.

      As a for instance, the thing about Biden smelling hair - I still see the right wing talking about that, even right now, as their AG is sitting there and covering up for the Epstein Class. That kind of thing, along with Hunter Biden’s hard drive, oops, I mean “laptop”, and nonsense narratives like Pizzagate/Qanon seemingly has completely captured approximately 30-35% of the country, also known as the Sarah Palin Floor of the population. That set of people has been trained to feel Biden and Obama (and Clinton) were the worst thing to ever happen to America.