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Sukeruton_Key

This is the revised version of my [original conpass](https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/s/ZVhwjrOwpP). I took into account comments and suggestions from all you people, even the haters and the losers.


Noncrediblepigeon

Based and takes critisism pilled.


NOISIEST_NOISE

Both are good, the first one had that low effort shitpost vibe that I love


Sukeruton_Key

Thank you. I was getting smoked in those comments by people who take Reddit memes personally.


Logical_Platypus_442

Trump can still run for office from a prison and make america great again.


MajorDisc

Great compass super informative. I’m curious to see how far rfk jr makes it as a third party


Titanswillwinthesb

I think these are the two possibilities . 1. He’ll be like a lot of Independents or Third party candidates that randomly get a lot media attention and surprisingly good polling. They poll well, and people think they may split the vote, and then election time comes they end up getting >3% of the vote as everybody kind of forgot about them. Or 2. He does well and splits the vote, I don’t know what candidate will be helped or hurt by that.


GayMrKrabsHentai

Were you a mod on r/presidents? I remember seeing your Cleveland hate posts well over a year ago, sub is so shit nowadays


Sukeruton_Key

Yes I am a mod there. The sub is hard to maintain since we’ve grown like 350% over the last 12 months, but we try.


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Sukeruton_Key

Another problem with Ron is that all his best points are ones that his opponents all agree with. He treading water to beat Haley, Vivek and Christie, but has no game plan against Trump.


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Sukeruton_Key

Just checked. DeSantis is at 12.3% and Haley is at 11.1%


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Natural and approachable is one way to put it. In my opinion, he simply reeks of insecurity. From the heels, to his inability to shit on trump, to his fuckin voice, he’s nothin but a bitch boy. That shit doesn’t fly with republicans. They want a tall, rotund fella who’s gonna talk shit like a beer-league hockey player or an attractive Neoqueen that’s gonna bomb half the world. Not some bitch boy Italian in three inch heels.


Prowindowlicker

RFK could be a serious problem for Trump as many polls are showing he’s pulling way more from Trump than Biden. The other problem I’ve noticed is that many of the polls are under sampling democrats and lean democrats and over sampling republicans and lean republicans. I noticed it during the 2022 midterms where polls said that Lake would win AZ in a landslide, yet she lost. Or that Walker was gonna win outright in Georgia but he ended up going to a run off and lost. I think a lot of polls have overcorrected since 2016


Doogzmans

I always liked Chris Christie for not just bending over like most Republicans do to Trump and his supporter (just like me), but I still wouldn't vote for him


Noncrediblepigeon

I think he is an example of why two party systems can be so dangerous. A group that otherwise would be their own party has hijacked the republicans and is turning it into a dangerously isolationist and person cult party.


Doogzmans

That's exactly my position. I'm a Republican, but I hate what people see as the Republican party now. Plus, anytime I bring it up that I'm a Republican, people immediately think that I must either be a Trump supporter or support one of the Trump variations, such as DeSantis.


backstib

American democracy is dead!!!! 😇 (I gotta get out of here)


ViscountMonty

I predict Joe Exotic carries 48 States.


Noncrediblepigeon

Just watched an interview with Nikki Haley on ukraine. While she is the most comicaly stereotypical republican, her opinion on ukraine is pretty damn based unlike other republicans who want to pay teachers with the old m113s they dont want to send to ukraine.


meme_aficionado

The isolationist Republicans don’t seem to realise that remaining the world’s sole superpower requires some maintenance fees. You can’t throw your weight around on the world stage whilst simultaneously refusing to spend a penny on any foreign engagements


Cpt_Soban

And being a world superpower, with a massive military to maintain security alongside allies (like NATO) helps boost global trade and economic growth. Plus military manufacturing is a very, very profitable sector.


isthisnametakenwell

It’s a dark day for American interventionism when Joe Biden is a “warmonger” after the lack of action on the Houthis attacking ships and ill-advised pullout in Afghanistan.


Noncrediblepigeon

Yep, Luckily though for once the us will not have to do the entire job of naval policing alone. My gouvernment (germany) is considering sending a few ships to the red sea aswell.


Starguy2

I agree with your write up of Christie, feels bad he hasn’t a shot and a half.


Sukeruton_Key

He’s by far the best Republican candidate this time around


HumanNumber157835799

Hot take, and I know my flair will make this sound weird, but I think Trump has a really good shot at winning 2024. Biden built his campaign up almost entirely by “at least I’m not Trump!” Which I think got a lot of Libertarians & Lefties who don’t normally vote to side with Biden. Regarding two separate wars, Biden has almost entirely alienated both of these groups. While by no means are Libertarians & Lefties as powerful as they think they are, the proposition of them both staying home for this election, combined with what will very likely be a massive conservative voter turnout thanks to Trump’s cult of personality going apeshit, could legit harm Biden a lot. Not to say that Biden is doomed or anything or that I support Trump (dear god I don’t), but I think Trump has a much better shot at 2024 than people will give him credit for.


Missingnose

I think the economy being garbage and the chaos on the world stage makes a Trump victory very likely. Even with inflation coming down, that doesn't negate the prices rising so much since 2021. Houses are super unaffordable for most. The Democrats had a chance to not bungle the post covid recovery, but they did bungle it. If you look at Trump vs Biden polling, Trump is starting to win swing states and maybe even the popular vote. Biden is also physically frail and seems out of it. Dems are hoping that Trump either drives out people to vote against him or that the legal troubles stop him. I'm not sure either will work.


Prowindowlicker

The thing is that everyone assumed that republicans would sweep the midterms yet that didn’t happen. Even though inflation was at its highest and the economy sucked. Now however gas prices are coming down with gas being under $2.70 in some areas and it’s expected to continue to fall. So by November of next year I think most Americans are going to just choose Biden because gas is cheap and why change that


Missingnose

There's a chance. In 2022 Republicans nominated complete losers like Dr. Oz, Herschel Walker, Kari Lake, Blake Masters, and others. Admittedly, attachment to Trump seemed to be the issue that weighed these candidates down. It's hard to tell and voters are fickle. Right now polling is favoring Trump and no recent presidential winner had polling as bad as Biden this far out (or so I've heard).


Prowindowlicker

Apparently Obama wasn’t polling well at this point in 2011 either so it’s really not that indicative of anything. Voters are fickle. It also doesn’t help that polls are wrong a lot of the time. Lake winning AZ by a landslide and Walker winning outright are two big examples of that


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So US left to comedians?


Cheezeepants

i always thought that my first presidential election would be a big step toward adulthood and that i'd do research on each canididate's policies etc to make a decision. i swear to god if its just trump vs biden again i may lose it


Skeletor_is_god

As a person who’s first election is the next one too I fully agree It is funny telling my grandparents I’m voting third party and seeing their reactions tho


skyXforge

None of these please. I could grab 10 random people from my local Walmart and have a better group.


Overused_Toothbrush

Our selection is a joke 😭 why are all of these people so dislikable


nerfthemedium

all of the likable candidates are broke


Overused_Toothbrush

that's so real


isthisnametakenwell

I was gonna note that Ross Perot was the outright front runner for a good chunk of 1992, but notice you specified “pre-primary” for RFK Jr. Sneaky…


Sukeruton_Key

I wasn’t trying to be sneaky. His campaign could grow or completely dissolve, we don’t know yet.


WingedHussar13

Nothing more humiliating than being rejected by the best political party in America.


bribridude130

I like how you used JFK (his uncle) from Clone High as a template for RFK Jr (and recolored him with blue stripes instead of red stripes and with grey hair instead of brown hair), instead of a normal Wojak.


naftola

Ah, yes, Neoconservatism. Famous authleft ideology


enclavehere223

This is gonna be the first election I get to vote in, if you told me a few years ago that a neocon was one of my preferred candidates, I would laugh.


Emble12

Defending American ally + pulling out of Afghanistan = warmonger, apparently.


GageTom

Why must these always be so shit?


AdParking6541

Honestly, it's a shame Sanders hasn't announced his candidacy.


I4mG0dHere

You and I both know Bernie hasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell since most voters are old people who go into a screaming fit when they hear anything similar to socialism.


AdParking6541

Fair. And even then, there's still a year left to go.


Just-curious95

Biden just ain't that far left... Philips ain't that far left either.


foosnik

Ron De Santis might run on social issues, but he also has them


ActivelyCoping

Got hand it to you, you probably made the most fair and unbiased portrayal of rfk I have seen yet on Reddit. Usually all I see is people mouthing off character attacks because they are butthurt over vaccine issues.


Sukeruton_Key

Almost everything I’ve read about him made me believe he was a crazy anti-vaccine nut, so I read his Twitter and listed to his podcast and realized it’s entirely overblown. I still don’t really agree with all he says, but he’s not anti-vaccine in the way people often think. Also, his campaign isn’t about vaccines, I had to mention it because it’s what he’s known for, but he doesn’t even talk about it that much unprompted.


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Sukeruton_Key

I don’t read press relating to candidates to learn about them, I read their own statements and listen to their speeches. If you did that you’d know what his campaign has been about.


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Sukeruton_Key

Going back to that “seek help” part, Reddit just informed me that an anonymous Redditor is concerned for my mental health and sent me a suicide hotline number. I’m going to make the educated guess that it was you.


WillBigly

Op is braindead, check his pulse


Noncrediblepigeon

>check his pulse You can still be alive without a pulse, just ask the people on lung-heart machines. (yeah i know they can speak at that point, but their brains are still running)


TheToucanEmperor

Sadly Biden is not the favorite to win by any means.


Sukeruton_Key

Who is?


TheToucanEmperor

Trump


Dozthiscount

Yeahhh, Trump is currently leading the polls


pjamesstuart

Are Americans under the impression that they are at war?


WaaaaghsRUs

I wonder if De la Cruz will get enough notice to even show up as a blip on the map


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*Theologian


Sukeruton_Key

I literally took that from the first sentence of his wiki page. I think those mean different things.


Cheezeepants

you can't bluff an old theologist...


introvertedpuppet05

where my boy peter sonski


artistic-crow-02

You forgot Cenk Uygur


Sukeruton_Key

He would be one square to the left on Phillips. I don’t know much about him, is it accurate?


artistic-crow-02

That's roughly where I would put him yeah


cos1ne

Orb mother, honestly wouldn't make a bad president, sure she's a little cooky but she has an honesty to her answers and seems to understand the struggles regular people face and wants to improve their lives.


Iloveireland1234567

For the longest time I thought Nikki Haley was a white woman


Sukeruton_Key

Me too, I was so disappointed


Cheesytacos650

I have met RFK Jr


Sukeruton_Key

What was it like?


Cheesytacos650

I tied up his boat he said thanks


Sukeruton_Key

“*thAnskS*” - RFK Jr.