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Post by DFW HOYA on Sept 25, 2024 10:43:23 GMT -5
Former President Trump offered a new strategy for world peace during a rally in North Carolina last month: massive tariffs on countries that start wars. “You go to war with another country that’s friendly to us me, or even not friendly to us me, you’re not going to do business in the United States and we’re I alone am going to charge you 100 percent tariffs.” Corrected, so to speak.
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Post by hoyajinx on Sept 25, 2024 11:17:26 GMT -5
People keep going after Harris for not having a detailed plan, but it’s far more detailed than Trump’s. We keep giving this idiot a pass because we’ve set the bar so low for him. Literally, his solution to every problem with which he is confronted is either deport everyone or “tariffs”. It’s so mind-numbingly stupid. I can’t believe this guy is still getting 48%. Lots of dumb racists in this country.
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 25, 2024 13:09:14 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 25, 2024 16:09:07 GMT -5
MAGA morons following Demented Donnie. You really have to be stupid to be a "Republican." Republicans in 2022 suffered a second straight disappointing election — and a second straight drubbing in mail and absentee voting. So some of their leaders began to push harder for the party to embrace these methods. Then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) compared the GOP’s pre-Election Day vote deficit to “starting a race where you’re 30 yards behind.” Then-Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel made similar comments. Republicans have since made a concerted effort to convince their voters to vote early. But it’s always been a tougher sell than it should be, what with Donald Trump frequently deriding these same voting methods as being prone to fraud. Well, the early evidence is in the 2024 election. And Republicans don’t appear to be heeding the calls of the party’s better mail-voting angels. As early and mail voting have begun in some states, new polls show Republicans still aren’t planning to embrace these methods. In fact, the partisan gaps look a lot like they did in both 2020 and 2022. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/25/troubling-signs-gop-mail-voting/
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Post by tashoya on Sept 25, 2024 20:22:48 GMT -5
MAGA morons following Demented Donnie. You really have to be stupid to be a "Republican." Republicans in 2022 suffered a second straight disappointing election — and a second straight drubbing in mail and absentee voting. So some of their leaders began to push harder for the party to embrace these methods. Then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) compared the GOP’s pre-Election Day vote deficit to “starting a race where you’re 30 yards behind.” Then-Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel made similar comments. Republicans have since made a concerted effort to convince their voters to vote early. But it’s always been a tougher sell than it should be, what with Donald Trump frequently deriding these same voting methods as being prone to fraud. Well, the early evidence is in the 2024 election. And Republicans don’t appear to be heeding the calls of the party’s better mail-voting angels. As early and mail voting have begun in some states, new polls show Republicans still aren’t planning to embrace these methods. In fact, the partisan gaps look a lot like they did in both 2020 and 2022. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/25/troubling-signs-gop-mail-voting/While Democrats are, generally, terrible with messaging, in this case the former Republican party has really shot themselves in the foot. And, not the typical, ear-grazing type. An actual full-on hit. They spent so much time demonizing mail-in and absentee voting as part of their fake fraud play (they're still doing it) that their mentally challenged cult can't decide whether they're traitors or not if they take advantage of very safe and convenient ways of voting. Personally, I love the irony. But, I'm also a bit of a dick. The kicker being that Trump himself typically votes by mail-in.
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 26, 2024 0:05:53 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 26, 2024 0:19:13 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 26, 2024 3:40:15 GMT -5
I could have sworn he was caught on tape laughing about how he could just grab women by the you-know-what, was found liable for sexual assault, and bragged about overturning Roe v. Webb leading to the deaths of women and their inability to get proper health care or was I mistaken? Trump says he will ‘protect’ women. Many don’t see it that way. Donald Trump portrays himself as a “protector” of women, who as president will safeguard them from inflation, undocumented immigrants, crime and foreign threats he often speaks about in exaggerated terms. Women will “no longer be thinking about abortion,” since states now make their laws unilaterally, he declares, nodding to the end of Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to the procedure. And while American women are “more stressed and depressed and unhappy,” Trump says, “I will fix all of that, women.” The comments are part of a provocative new pitch the Republican presidential nominee is making with fewer than six weeks left until Election Day, as he seeks to narrow what polls show is a considerable deficit among women, who have accounted for more than half of voters in recent elections. Like much of what Trump says, his words have quickly become a polarizing force, interviews show: While the former president’s message has resonated with some women who say it is reassuring, others called it paternalistic or insulting and recoiled from his assertion that he helped women by making abortion a state issue. www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/09/25/trump-women-voters-harris/
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 26, 2024 11:51:29 GMT -5
As Hurricane Helene is upgraded to a Category 4, it might be a good time to remind you Project 2025 intends to close the National Hurricane Center.
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 26, 2024 12:49:54 GMT -5
An actual tough guy knows how to reject the fake tough guy. Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal announced in an op-ed published Thursday that he would be endorsing Vice President Harris for president, saying “I have cast my vote for character.” “Ms. Harris has the strength, the temperament and, importantly, the values to serve as commander in chief,” he wrote in The New York Times. “When she sits down with world leaders like President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, representing the United States on the global stage, I have no doubt that she is working in our national interest, not her own.” “I’ve thought deeply about my choice and considered what I’ve seen and heard and what I owe my three granddaughters,” he explained. “I’ve concluded that it isn’t political slogans or cultural tribalism; it is the best president my vote might help select. So I have cast my vote for character, and that vote is for Vice President Kamala Harris.” thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4900632-stanley-mcchrystal-kamala-harris-endorsement-nyt-2024/
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 26, 2024 14:21:19 GMT -5
Election polling continues to forecast a tight race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, but within corporate America, top executives are preparing for Harris to become the next president of the United States, according to a new CNBC survey of C-suite executives across the economy. A majority of chief financial officers (55%) say Harris will win the election, according to the Q3 CNBC CFO Council Survey. That’s a reversal from the prior CFO survey in Q2 (when President Joe Biden was still the candidate) and a majority of CFOs (58%) believed Trump would win. About a third of CFOs (31%) now say Trump will win, while 14% remain unsure of the election outcome. In the Q2 CFO survey, 29% of executives said they were unsure who would win. www.cnbc.com/2024/09/26/harris-trump-election-inflation-economy-cnbc-cfo-survey.html
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Post by tashoya on Sept 26, 2024 14:53:49 GMT -5
I could have sworn he was caught on tape laughing about how he could just grab women by the you-know-what, was found liable for sexual assault, and bragged about overturning Roe v. Webb leading to the deaths of women and their inability to get proper health care or was I mistaken? Trump says he will ‘protect’ women. Many don’t see it that way. Donald Trump portrays himself as a “protector” of women, who as president will safeguard them from inflation, undocumented immigrants, crime and foreign threats he often speaks about in exaggerated terms. Women will “no longer be thinking about abortion,” since states now make their laws unilaterally, he declares, nodding to the end of Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to the procedure. And while American women are “more stressed and depressed and unhappy,” Trump says, “I will fix all of that, women.” The comments are part of a provocative new pitch the Republican presidential nominee is making with fewer than six weeks left until Election Day, as he seeks to narrow what polls show is a considerable deficit among women, who have accounted for more than half of voters in recent elections. Like much of what Trump says, his words have quickly become a polarizing force, interviews show: While the former president’s message has resonated with some women who say it is reassuring, others called it paternalistic or insulting and recoiled from his assertion that he helped women by making abortion a state issue. www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/09/25/trump-women-voters-harris/Another interesting part of that whole thing was him talking about how "everyone" wanted Roe remanded to the states while also saying that the SCOTUS made a "brave" decision with Roe. It reminds me of the part in, "A Few Good Men," where Caffey asks Jessup something along the lines of, if you gave an order that Santiago was not to be touched and your orders are always followed, why was he in danger? Why did he have to be transferred? Of course, Trump is no Aaron Sorkin from a literacy or an entertainment standpoint. Just clicked in my mind that it was the same sort of self-own.
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Post by CTHoya08 on Sept 26, 2024 15:02:01 GMT -5
I was thinking about that "everyone" line earlier today. Would abortion really have been such a salient political issue over the past 50 years if "everyone" wanted Roe overturned?
But I really think that he really believes that, because his team was telling him "everyone wanted this--you did a great thing!" and he isn't hearing any dissenting voices and isn't capable of thinking critically about it.
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Post by DFW HOYA on Sept 26, 2024 16:53:53 GMT -5
I was thinking about that "everyone" line earlier today. Would abortion really have been such a salient political issue over the past 50 years if "everyone" wanted Roe overturned? It's largely the same it was 30 years ago. news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 26, 2024 18:20:20 GMT -5
Young voters could have a monumental impact on the election, including the deadlocked presidential contest. Nationwide, nearly 42 million 18-to-27-year-olds — the group known as Generation Z — will be eligible to vote, according to a Post analysis of 2022 census data. Nearly half are people of color. In the seven battleground states — Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — about 7.8 million Gen Zers are eligible to vote in this fall’s election. The momentum is building just as a national poll released Tuesday indicates 18-to-29-year-old likely voters are leaning heavily toward Harris. The Harvard Youth Poll showed Harris leading Trump 64 percent to 32 percent among likely young voters. The poll, conducted by the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School earlier this month, also found a widening gap in enthusiasm,, with 74 percent of young Democrats saying they would “definitely” vote in November, compared with 60 percent of young Republicans. Harris also held pronounced leads of at least 20 points over Trump among young adults who were asked which candidate they trusted more to handle issues including climate change, abortion, health care, and gun violence prevention, researchers found. www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/09/25/college-students-young-voters-key-states-election-2024/
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Post by hoyarooter on Sept 26, 2024 19:01:09 GMT -5
Young voters could have a monumental impact on the election, including the deadlocked presidential contest. Nationwide, nearly 42 million 18-to-27-year-olds — the group known as Generation Z — will be eligible to vote, according to a Post analysis of 2022 census data. Nearly half are people of color. In the seven battleground states — Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — about 7.8 million Gen Zers are eligible to vote in this fall’s election. The momentum is building just as a national poll released Tuesday indicates 18-to-29-year-old likely voters are leaning heavily toward Harris. The Harvard Youth Poll showed Harris leading Trump 64 percent to 32 percent among likely young voters. The poll, conducted by the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School earlier this month, also found a widening gap in enthusiasm,, with 74 percent of young Democrats saying they would “definitely” vote in November, compared with 60 percent of young Republicans. Harris also held pronounced leads of at least 20 points over Trump among young adults who were asked which candidate they trusted more to handle issues including climate change, abortion, health care, and gun violence prevention, researchers found. www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/09/25/college-students-young-voters-key-states-election-2024/Trump will win the saving dogs and cats vote. Maybe I'm slow, but there are a couple things that are baffling to me. First, how few people view the events of January 6, the efforts to steal the 2020 election through the promotion of the fake electors, and the ongoing big lie to be an absolute disqualification, regardless of any other baloney that may be promoted by the Republican candidate. And second, how a recent poll at our sister Jesuit school Notre Dame showed 56% support for Trump, and 39% support for Harris. What??? This certainly flies in the face of the supposed Gen Z support for Harris, and comes from a supposedly educated group. Latest ND poll, cited below. --Admin
"Notre Dame students prefer Donald Trump over Kamala Harris in the 2024 U.S. Presidential election, a new Irish Rover poll of 705 students found...Among likely voters, the former president leads the incumbent vice-president by a margin of 47.6 percent to 45.9 percent. " irishrover.net/2024/09/notre-dame-students-favor-trump-irish-rover-poll-finds/
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 26, 2024 20:03:43 GMT -5
Young voters could have a monumental impact on the election, including the deadlocked presidential contest. Nationwide, nearly 42 million 18-to-27-year-olds — the group known as Generation Z — will be eligible to vote, according to a Post analysis of 2022 census data. Nearly half are people of color. In the seven battleground states — Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — about 7.8 million Gen Zers are eligible to vote in this fall’s election. The momentum is building just as a national poll released Tuesday indicates 18-to-29-year-old likely voters are leaning heavily toward Harris. The Harvard Youth Poll showed Harris leading Trump 64 percent to 32 percent among likely young voters. The poll, conducted by the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School earlier this month, also found a widening gap in enthusiasm,, with 74 percent of young Democrats saying they would “definitely” vote in November, compared with 60 percent of young Republicans. Harris also held pronounced leads of at least 20 points over Trump among young adults who were asked which candidate they trusted more to handle issues including climate change, abortion, health care, and gun violence prevention, researchers found. www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/09/25/college-students-young-voters-key-states-election-2024/Trump will win the saving dogs and cats vote. Maybe I'm slow, but there are a couple things that are baffling to me. First, how few people view the events of January 6, the efforts to steal the 2020 election through the promotion of the fake electors, and the ongoing big lie to be an absolute disqualification, regardless of any other baloney that may be promoted by the Republican candidate. And second, how a recent poll at our sister Jesuit school Notre Dame showed 56% support for Trump, and 39% support for Harris. What??? This certainly flies in the face of the supposed Gen Z support for Harris, and comes from a supposedly educated group. Notre Dame is not a Jesuit school. A Jesuit education is a Catholic education, but not all Catholic education is Jesuit. There are plenty of colleges in the U.S., like the University of Notre Dame (Congregation of Holy Cross) and the Catholic University of America (my third rate law school to which I no longer contribute any money because of its hard turn to the right) in Washington, D.C., that are Catholic but not Jesuit. And IMHO, Notre Dame has always skewed conservative. The ND College Republicans mimic Demented Donnie. The Notre Dame College Republicans are the largest political group at Our Lady's University. We are cultivating the next generation of conservative political leaders through speaker events, social gatherings, and intellectual discourse. With your support, you can help Notre Dame students to put America First and make our country great again. notredameday.nd.edu/organizations/college-republicans-42a7392c-2d55-43a1-bf10-c2b086905816www.holycrossusa.org/about-us/education/
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 27, 2024 5:13:16 GMT -5
MAGA morons led by cult leader Demented Donnie doing Vladimir Putin's bidding. Why do "Republicans" hate American democracy and love autocracy?? Any HoyaTalk "Republicans" wish to answer the question??? Donald Trump’s plan to make thousands of federal employees more like at-will political appointees poses a particular risk to the prime duty of government — national security. That was the message from a Senate hearing last week into the Republican presidential nominee’s intention to undercut the federal civil service by reinstating a new category of federal employment, known as Schedule F. It would remove job protections from certain employees that prevent them from being fired for political or other inappropriate reasons. The potential impact of replacing civil servants with “our people,” partisan loyalists, would disproportionally strike national security agencies that employ about 70 percent of federal employees. Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, told the hearing that Trump’s plan “to replace at least 50,000 nonpartisan career civil servants with appointees” beholden to him “would weaken our national security and make us vulnerable to serious threats that continually face our nation. More than 70 percent of the federal workforce serves in defense and national security agencies.” Trump’s plan, Peters added, “would hit hardest where the stakes are the highest.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/27/trump-schedule-f-national-security/
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 27, 2024 10:26:20 GMT -5
And the grift continues. MAGA morons are the real suckers and losers. Clown moron candidate. How stupid do you have to be to vote for Demented Donnie? Pretty damn stupid. Former president Donald Trump is promoting $100,000 watches branded after him as he seeks a return to the White House, the latest — and priciest — product he has helped sell in a string of unusual for-profit enterprises for a presidential candidate. The Trump Victory Tourbillon is “almost entirely made out of 18 Carat Gold and decorated with 122 Diamonds,” according to the website selling it, which also offers cheaper Trump-branded watches starting at $499. Only 147 Tourbillons are being made. Trump, in a social media post Thursday, said the watches are “truly special” and suggested them as a Christmas gift. “Don’t wait, they will go fast,” Trump said. “GET YOUR TRUMP WATCH RIGHT NOW!” The $100,000 watch is the most expensive merchandise that Trump has lent his name to during his 2024 presidential campaign. He has pitched $499 sneakers, $99 digital trading cards — even a Bible that is about $60. Trump sometimes offers to autograph the items, sending the price higher. www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/09/27/trump-watches-100000/
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