A year away from Election Day 2024, former President Donald Trump is set to testify in a civil fraud trial and separately faces more than 90 criminal charges, setting up the possibility that a convicted felon tops the Republican ticket next November.

But it’s President Joe Biden’s political prospects that are plunging.

In another extraordinary twist to a 2024 campaign season that is more notable for court hearings than treks through early voting states, Trump is expected to be called to the witness stand in New York on Monday. This is hardly typical activity during a post-presidency. But Trump was, after all, the most unconventional president.

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    8 months ago

    This is the embarrassment that is America now. We will probably never recover from this.

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      8 months ago

      You think you recovered from slavery or the genocide of the indigenous people, but not trump?

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        I mean the US is pretty much the wealthiest and most productive society in the history of the world. Yes, our collective souls are stained forever by the sins of our fathers, but that’s hardly unique to the US.

        Trump is actually going to usher in a new era of darkness which is going to be as bad as anyone alive has ever seen. I get that some people are still in denial, but this real.

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          8 months ago

          I got some bad news for ya buddy, Biden signed off on more land than trump to be used for fossil fuel extraction. Doesn’t matter who’s in charge when we’re heading full steam ahead towards a climate apocalypse thanks to capitalism! Choo Choo!

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      8 months ago

      Still talking about the Hillary polls?

      The polls correctly predicted a high likelihood of her winning the popular vote. It’s not the fault of the polls that the actual decider is an anti-democratic and unpollable system that disproportionately favors empty land over people.

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        8 months ago

        There were several models from sources like 538 that took the electoral map into account and still got it wrong. People didn’t admit their cult membership back then, today they are afraid to hide it.

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          That’s partly true. 538 in particular has a tendency to be overly sure of itself and too cute by half.

          A lot of what they do includes much more educated guesswork than actual polling, though, so “538 got it wrong” ≠ “the concept of polling got it wrong”

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          8 months ago

          No. They correctly and accurately measured likelihood of winning the popular vote.

          That people misinterpret them doesn’t make the polls wrong, it makes the people misinterpreting them wrong.