"grandpa, life is hard for young people."
"no. It's not. Life was hard for ME. Trump and fox say young people just need to work hard and save! And that also Biden ruined the economy."
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How accurate are polls these days? If you can't call people with cell phones, you're forced to call landlines, and those are owned by septuagenarians and octogenarians who lean hard to the right. It's had an effect on the accuracy of polls, as the recently fired Nate Silver will tell you. His analyses used to be eerily accurate, but then cell phones happened.
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So when's he going to gather them all at Mar-a-logo of New Guinea and have them drink Flavoraid?
This just in, Newsweek discovers the concept of cults.
Thats insane I don't trust Biden more than my family and I certainly wouldn't give my life to protect him I might to protect democracy though
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In hungary we have similar thing, but for orban For us there is no way to get out, orban's men are everywhere, even if another party would win with huge majority, they cant do shit, as every department have orban's comrades, and the cant be recalled, or dismissed until their mandate expires (which is 8-9 years
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Sometimes i think Trump is a conspiracy to make people question democracies, I certainly don’t think its good idea that everyone can vote anymore