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"I refuse to believe this poll because PBS and NPR are secretly controlled by the Tri-lateral commission, the Pro Bowlers Tour and Baskin-Robbins. Do your own research!"
- RFK "I am not a crackpot!" Jr.
Also, dippin' dots is NOT the ice cream of the future! (This needs to come back, it was wonderful)
Dippin dots almost went away for good! lucky for them, the plant-based meat substitute industry needed a way to get little drops of fatty stuff cooled down so it could be easily mixed, like fat is distributed through hamburger.
And wouldn't you know it, Dippin Dots had a crazy idea...
Really dude? Baskin Robbins? We all know the world is run by the DQ cabal. There's really no other way to explain how they're still in business in spite of their absolutely revolting food
People eat their food? The one and only thing I ever buy there is a dipped vanilla soft serve cone (butterscotch if they have it, cherry if they don’t). They do that right!
There is no way this jaggoff is polling at 16%.
16% is basically frustration with the other choices available. It's not the percentage that would actually vote for him if an election were held tomorrow. It is a bit high considering how awful RFK is, but it just shows how incredibly unpopular the other options are.
Well duh, he's a Qanon freak
They were banking on Democrats seeing "Kennedy" and blindly pulling that lever.
A certain Louisiana Kennedy comes to mind.
the survey indicates a 10-point drop among Republicans for Trump with RFK Jr. on the ticket.
I really hope that they get completely crushed in the election. The strongest message possible has to be sent. One where they can’t claim the election was stolen or any bullshit excuse (of course they will still try).
This has to be the end of trump and his cronies or it’s going to be the end of us as a nation. There’s no middle ground at all.
Yeah no shit the party of anti-vaxxers and lying about history is more susceptible to grifters.
We live in the dumbest timeline. Do yall think that when Trump goes to jail, the republicans will try to get Kennedy as their nominee?
Makes sense because only non-starters would vote for a highball douchebag Kennedy like little Robbie.
Nobody wants your brand Rob. Rich, drunk, drug user, crazy, dumb fuck.
Nobody wants that.
Funny, I've been told by right-wing commenters that RFK Jr is "Democrats' kryptonite". Are you saying they have no idea what they're talking about, and their model of the inner workings of anyone to the left of Mitch McConnell is faulty?
My 64 year old father who doesn't really pay attention to politics brought up RFK Jr as trouble for Biden. He seemed disappointed when I said the vaccine conspiracy and not supporting Ukraine would sink him.
It's weird to hear him bring up Kennedy Jr out of the blue like that. He's been drowning himself in crypto currency stuff these last few years, so it's not a good sign that he's started talking about the WEF and shit like that.
Might be good to have some politics chats, in particular about propaganda and right wing indoctrination via crypto, YouTube and right wing media. He's obviously getting some kind of influence and there are too many stories about parents being lost to hatred and fear, despite being perfectly normal in the years prior.
kennedy getting favorable coverage for republican media tends to affect republicans.
One thing that's been nice on Lemmy so far is we can actually discuss polls without all the top level posts being something along the lines of "Don't listen to polls, VOTE!".... as if anyone who subs to the politics section of a social media site doesn't know voting is important.
I agree, but I still think you might be surprised how many actually don't sometimes or always in practice. I would assume it's less than the average person, but it's not zero.
If he pulls enough from Biden to cause the contingent election scenario (in which case, the incoming congress decides the winner not by voting seats, but with each state delegation able to cast 1 vote) it might not matter to the GOP if RFK pulls more from Trump than from Biden.
If you game out the probabilities- It's very unlikely that Trump beats Biden It's also unlikely that RFK gets enough votes to deny Biden an outright win, but is it less so? It's very likely that the GOP will control more state delegations than the Democrats will, by virtue of their state-level gerrymanders.
The contingent election moonshot might be the GOP's best shot at winning control of the White House in 2024
Thank fuck.
Cheryl Hines is probably wishing she could get together with Larry David IRL these days
She’s the biggest surprise here. I can’t believe she married this doofus. Not that I know anything about her beyond curb. But I would have hoped she wasn’t on the antivax conspiracy train and it unfortunately appears that she is.
Lololol. That's why the con insiders flipped on this crazy asshole and they were sounding the alarm a few weeks ago. I wonder if their dipshit base will get the memo? I bet missives have been sent out to all their grievance networks to start demonizing this guy...or at least not be propping him up in the hopes that just enough low-info type voters pull the lever for this guy instead of Biden...
Good.