hoyajinx
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Post by hoyajinx on Jul 23, 2024 15:21:18 GMT -5
Nobody knows nothing. Snap poll meaningless at this point. Exclusive: Harris leads Trump 44% to 42% in US presidential race, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds In a three-way vote choice question that included independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Harris’s edge grew slightly to four points over Trump, 42 percent to 38 percent, with Kennedy drawing 8 percent of registered voters’ support. That’s a slight shift from the Reuters/Ipsos poll earlier in July, where Trump held an insignificant one-point edge over Biden. www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-leads-trump-44-42-us-presidential-race-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2024-07-23/Sure these are meaningless. But if enough of these meaningless polls come with similar results, Trump will become increasingly rattled. A rattled Trump becomes somehow more undisciplined, incoherent, and is more likely to say some wildly offensive things just as people are starting to really pay attention. That’s not going to help with the undecided portion of electorate who wants some normalcy and stability from their politicians. I honestly think these polls can help drive Trump even more batty and start to affect themselves as time goes on.
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Post by guru on Jul 23, 2024 16:03:14 GMT -5
Nobody knows nothing. Snap poll meaningless at this point. Exclusive: Harris leads Trump 44% to 42% in US presidential race, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds In a three-way vote choice question that included independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Harris’s edge grew slightly to four points over Trump, 42 percent to 38 percent, with Kennedy drawing 8 percent of registered voters’ support. That’s a slight shift from the Reuters/Ipsos poll earlier in July, where Trump held an insignificant one-point edge over Biden. www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-leads-trump-44-42-us-presidential-race-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2024-07-23/Sure these are meaningless. But if enough of these meaningless polls come with similar results, Trump will become increasingly rattled. A rattled Trump becomes somehow more undisciplined, incoherent, and is more likely to say some wildly offensive things just as people are starting to really pay attention. That’s not going to help with the undecided portion of electorate who wants some normalcy and stability from their politicians. I honestly think these polls can help drive Trump even more batty and start to affect themselves as time goes on. She's already trending toward the lead in these polls, and she'll get the post-convention bounce. Trump must be a complete basket case right now, and his choice of Vance is looking more and more ill-advised. Wouldn't be surprised if he jettisons his mini-me, if only to grab back the spotlight.
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hoyajinx
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Post by hoyajinx on Jul 23, 2024 16:28:47 GMT -5
Sure these are meaningless. But if enough of these meaningless polls come with similar results, Trump will become increasingly rattled. A rattled Trump becomes somehow more undisciplined, incoherent, and is more likely to say some wildly offensive things just as people are starting to really pay attention. That’s not going to help with the undecided portion of electorate who wants some normalcy and stability from their politicians. I honestly think these polls can help drive Trump even more batty and start to affect themselves as time goes on. She's already trending toward the lead in these polls, and she'll get the post-convention bounce. Trump must be a complete basket case right now, and his choice of Vance is looking more and more ill-advised. Wouldn't be surprised if he jettisons his mini-me, if only to grab back the spotlight. Vance added absolutely nothing to the ticket. I think it was political malpractice that he didn’t go with Rubio or a female. Glad he listened to Musk and took Vance. I laugh every time I hear what a genius Musk is.
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Post by DanMcQ on Jul 23, 2024 18:32:10 GMT -5
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hoyajinx
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Post by hoyajinx on Jul 23, 2024 18:46:06 GMT -5
This doesn’t seem likely. Is there any other verification of this?
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Post by hoyarooter on Jul 23, 2024 18:47:46 GMT -5
Democrats in power., especially those who have failed as spectacularly as Biden/Harris. Call me racist and misogynist all you like. I will not vote for either major party ticket because neither is qualified. You? Failed how? By what metric(s)? Adults, by the way, make tough decisions all of the time. Oftentimes, if not most times, the optimal choice isn't realistic, available or possible. What do you do in your real life when you can't just take your faux outrage and your ball and go home? Not casting a vote for one of two candidates who has a chance to win doesn't make you idealistic and isn't a show of integrity. Because Trump says so, and Trump is always right.
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Post by DanMcQ on Jul 23, 2024 19:20:36 GMT -5
This doesn’t seem likely. Is there any other verification of this? I’m not sure I believe the ballistics test stuff, but if one of those bullets even grazed his ear there would be a ton of damage. I’ve seen people in ER settings hit by those and it’s not pretty.
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Post by tashoya on Jul 23, 2024 22:48:13 GMT -5
This doesn’t seem likely. Is there any other verification of this? I’m not sure I believe the ballistics test stuff, but if one of those bullets even grazed his ear there would be a ton of damage. I’ve seen people in ER settings hit by those and it’s not pretty. It's almost like everything he's even tangentially a part of is entirely fallacious. Shocking.
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Post by tashoya on Jul 23, 2024 22:50:15 GMT -5
Failed how? By what metric(s)? Adults, by the way, make tough decisions all of the time. Oftentimes, if not most times, the optimal choice isn't realistic, available or possible. What do you do in your real life when you can't just take your faux outrage and your ball and go home? Not casting a vote for one of two candidates who has a chance to win doesn't make you idealistic and isn't a show of integrity. This is all a performance. He’s voting for Trump. My assumption is that you're correct. I'm just not entirely ready to give up on Elvado's word when he says he'll do or not do something. That said, if he's "voting with his wallet," he's doing REALLY well so good on him, I suppose.
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Post by prhoya on Jul 23, 2024 23:18:23 GMT -5
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Jul 24, 2024 2:44:02 GMT -5
Now the Republicans are the ones saddled with a candidate who can’t make a clear argument or finish a sentence. [T]rump himself appeared, and it was as if the emperor with no clothes had taken the stage. There was nothing strong about an overweight, heavily made up yet nevertheless shiny-faced elderly man who rambled and babbled for an hour and a half, completely undermining the slick image created in the previous four days. He began by sticking to his script, solemnly referencing the failed assassination attempt against him days before. But even when telling that story, he could not master the appropriate tone and almost immediately changed the subject. “And there’s an interesting statistic,” he said: “The ears are the bloodiest part. If something happens with the ears, they bleed more than any other part of the body. For whatever reason, the doctors told me that.” Eventually, instead of sounding like an “American Bad Ass,” he digressed into pure gibberish. One example: They’re coming from prisons. They’re coming from jails. They’re coming from mental institutions and insane asylums. I—you know the press is always on because I say this. Has anyone seen The Silence of the Lambs? The late, great Hannibal Lecter. He’d love to have you for dinner. That’s insane asylums. They’re emptying out their insane asylums. And terrorists at numbers that we’ve never seen before. Bad things are going to happen. On Thursday evening, this performance seemed deranged, sinister, and frightening. Now, following Biden’s decision to halt his own campaign, it just looks deranged. On the one hand, we have a sitting president who understood his limitations and, in an act of patriotism, selflessness, and party unity, decided to step away from power. On the other hand, we have a former president clinging to power, holding on desperately to the myth of a lost election, evoking the same predictable descriptions of carnage and disaster he served up eight years ago. Today, he is still attacking Biden, who is no longer his opponent. www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/trump-looks-older-and-more-deranged/679186/
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hoyajinx
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Post by hoyajinx on Jul 24, 2024 5:18:09 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Jul 24, 2024 6:47:09 GMT -5
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Jul 24, 2024 11:30:02 GMT -5
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) made a prediction in January that sounds pretty ominous for Donald Trump’s election hopes now that President Joe Biden has pulled out of the 2024 race.
“The first party to retire its 80-year-old candidate is going to be the party that wins this election,” Haley said six months ago.
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Post by Elvado on Jul 24, 2024 17:22:49 GMT -5
There is one democracy in the Middle East.
Its duly elected leader spoke to Congress today.
The VP did not attend
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Post by DanMcQ on Jul 24, 2024 17:57:09 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Jul 24, 2024 18:16:44 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Jul 24, 2024 18:33:30 GMT -5
There is one democracy in the Middle East. Its duly elected leader spoke to Congress today. The VP did not attend Half of Congress, including JD Vance, did not attend Speaker Johnson’s show either. VP Harris is meeting said leader tomorrow.
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Post by DanMcQ on Jul 24, 2024 18:50:25 GMT -5
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hoyarooter
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Post by hoyarooter on Jul 24, 2024 20:00:32 GMT -5
Now the Republicans are the ones saddled with a candidate who can’t make a clear argument or finish a sentence. [T]rump himself appeared, and it was as if the emperor with no clothes had taken the stage. There was nothing strong about an overweight, heavily made up yet nevertheless shiny-faced elderly man who rambled and babbled for an hour and a half, completely undermining the slick image created in the previous four days. He began by sticking to his script, solemnly referencing the failed assassination attempt against him days before. But even when telling that story, he could not master the appropriate tone and almost immediately changed the subject. “And there’s an interesting statistic,” he said: “The ears are the bloodiest part. If something happens with the ears, they bleed more than any other part of the body. For whatever reason, the doctors told me that.” Eventually, instead of sounding like an “American Bad Ass,” he digressed into pure gibberish. One example: They’re coming from prisons. They’re coming from jails. They’re coming from mental institutions and insane asylums. I—you know the press is always on because I say this. Has anyone seen The Silence of the Lambs? The late, great Hannibal Lecter. He’d love to have you for dinner. That’s insane asylums. They’re emptying out their insane asylums. And terrorists at numbers that we’ve never seen before. Bad things are going to happen. On Thursday evening, this performance seemed deranged, sinister, and frightening. Now, following Biden’s decision to halt his own campaign, it just looks deranged. On the one hand, we have a sitting president who understood his limitations and, in an act of patriotism, selflessness, and party unity, decided to step away from power. On the other hand, we have a former president clinging to power, holding on desperately to the myth of a lost election, evoking the same predictable descriptions of carnage and disaster he served up eight years ago. Today, he is still attacking Biden, who is no longer his opponent. www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/trump-looks-older-and-more-deranged/679186/It's really not a fair comparison, because only one of the two is trying to stay out of jail. Hint: It's not the head of the Biden Crime Family.
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