Weird coincidence, but have you noticed how Trump’s approval, when it’s at its absolute lowest, always hovers around 32%?

I’m not sure I find the idea of a 4Channer with a wife plausible.

This is what drives me crazy about Biden; 2 years ago, the Supreme Court overturns Roe, Biden says, “this must not be the final word,” but does nothing to reign in the court. 1 year ago, the Supreme Court ends affirmative action, Biden says, “this is not a normal court,” but rejects calls expand the court. Now, the Supreme Court has effectively given the President immunity from all crimes, he finally comes up with a set of decent court reforms, 4 months before the election, when his political position is at the weakest it’s been for his entire presidency. He’s such a blind institutionalist that he allowed an American institution to wage war on America’s government and its people for almost his entire term before he got serious about doing anything about it.

We need to worry about motivation, not polls. Very few people will change their minds about the candidates, but many of them will change their minds about voting. Some percentage of likely voters will always stay home. That percentage is going to be much lower for people whose candidate survived an assassination attempt.

You ever feel like you live in some sort of Murphy’s Law parallel universe, where the worst possible outcome of every major event happens?

I would say the argument against Biden is that he will lose. If he came off the debate and turned in performance after performance like the State of the Union, this would have gone away. Instead, he did some teleprompter speeches, an interview, and a press conference that were passable at best. I think if we stick with him, he’ll keep sounding borderline senile for the next two months, the questions will die down but not go away, and then he’ll probably get curb-stomped again in the September debate.

Yeah, the prevalence of credit cards make hiding all your tips, or even most of your tips, basically impossible now. Even if you did only declare your credit card tips, it’s super suspicious to average 20% on cards and 0% on cash. Since your employer has to track tips, they usually want you to report something that’s at least plausible.

It depends on the establishment. Some places will ask you to report legitimately, while some will let you work off the books illegally and not even record you as an employee. My last boss wanted realistic numbers, so I put in about 80% of my tips.

Blue Maga or BlueAnon is the phenomenon where die-hard liberals sometimes fall into similar cult of personality, rejection of reality, and conspiracy behaviors that Trump supporters engage in. It’s not an entirely fair comparison, since MAGA is way more delusional, but the parallels are definitely there.

For example, a recent BlueAnon phenomenon I’ve seen is people claiming that the press is manufacturing the concern over Biden’s debate performance while ignoring recently released Epstien documents that show Trump assaulted a teen girl. In reality, the documents are from an 8 year old lawsuit that was dismissed, and the reaction to Biden is pretty organic. So, it’s not as delusional as QAnon’s satanic pedophile cabal, but it’s still pretty detached from reality, and demonizes the press.

The Mueller investigation was when Blue MAGA peaked. BlueAnon peddlers like the Krassenstein brothers breathless reported on how Mueller had evidence that Putin had crafted Trump into the perfect Manchurian candidate, and it would soon be the beginning of the end for Trump. These outlandish claims, which often got reported by MSM outlets, made the actual Mueller report (which didn’t prove a Trump/Russia connection, but found President could be charged with obstruction of justice) seem underwhelming, which is why it was eventually labeled a, “nothing-burger.” This Louise Mensch tweet from 2017 is a great encapsulation of Blue Maga:

And he already told us he doesn’t believe the polls, so we’re fucked.

If you’re going to complain about the DNC playing kingmaker, I hope you’re equally outraged about Hillary’s campaign being given financial control of the party before the 2016 primary, or Obama convincing multiple candidates to drop out and give Biden enough room to beat Bernie in 2020, or the DNC making the South Carolina primary the first on the calendar to sure up support for Biden in 2024. If that doesn’t outrage you, you might consider the possibility that you don’t actually care that the Democrats pick kings, just that your preferred candidate might not be crowned.

Well, that started very bad, got a bit better in the middle, and then fell apart at the end. What I’m worried about is that he did just well enough to convince himself not to drop out. I doubt anyone feels much better after that though.

He’s kinda lost the plot this answer…he’s just rambling about Putin now.

Not a great sign that this praise sounds like the doctor’s notes from my toddler’s last check-up.

Did he just get heckled or did he get distracted?

Well, started real bad, but it’s starting to stabilize…

Third one is going…OK.

OH DEAR.

Oh dear…

Because Biden’s cognitive decline is news, while Trump’s Epstien connections are not. People on social media think that the recently disclosed Epstien Grand Jury documents name Trump as a co-conspirator and accuse him of raping a 13 year old. In actuality, Trump is not mentioned in the Grand Jury filing, and they are sharing documents from a 2016 civil lawsuit that was dismissed (which doesn’t mean it’s not true, just that it didn’t meet the burden of proof to move forward). For the record, the lawsuit was widely covered by the news at the time.

Trump admits that he was an associate of Epstien, but his official story is that he and Epstien had a falling out before his 2005 arrest, and he knew nothing of his human trafficking. I’m sure that’s bullshit, but we have no evidence to contradict it. So, there are no MSM articles about Trump’s pedophilia because there is no news to report on it, or even evidence that it ever occurred.