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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 5, 2024 7:08:22 GMT -5
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 5, 2024 11:49:14 GMT -5
Republican lawmakers say the Trump campaign was caught off guard by President Biden’s decision to drop his reelection bid and that the former president’s team has faltered in responding to the surge of momentum behind Vice President Harris. Some Republican senators think former President Trump should have seen the swap atop the Democrat ticket coming and crafted a messaging and political strategy weeks ago. GOP lawmakers also view Trump’s selection of Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate as evidence that the former president didn’t expect Biden to drop out of the race. They worry Vance’s outspoken views on restricting abortion and his claim that “childless cat ladies” run the country play right into the message that Harris and Democrats will center their campaign on in the fall. thehill.com/homenews/senate/4808507-republicans-trump-campaign-surge/
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 5, 2024 14:19:04 GMT -5
I had drinks with an Army Colonel I served with in Egypt who now teaches at the Army War College. He is a Republican but anti-Trump. He voted for Haley in the PA GOP primary. Says she sold out, wish Trump had selected her for VP and is says that he cannot vote for Trump. He may sit out the election.
Other guy in the bar who inserted himself into the conversation (violating the rule of no politics in a bar!) was a Jewish Republican from Baltimore County and a Captain in the BCFD. He is also anti-Trump and he said he is uncertain what he will do in November. Says Harris is obviously an improvement over Biden and seemed amenable to considering voting D more so than the Colonel. He is a Larry Hogan fan.
I told them the choice was between autocracy and democracy and that you can't vote for the crazy guy.
I also told them that at least the Dems had the balls to "encourage" Biden to quit whereas the MAGA GOP could have jettisoned Trump at impeachment. They had no response to that.
Most interestingly, both believe that Trump cannot win in November!
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 5, 2024 15:28:58 GMT -5
The view from the National Review opinion columnist. Does Trump even want to win? Donald Trump is three months away from a presidential election that is likely to determine whether he goes to jail for a considerable amount of time. And not even stakes that high are enough to get the Republican nominee to stop publicly raging and ranting about perceived betrayals by allegedly disloyal GOP officials, including Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Speaking at a rally in a Georgia State University arena in Atlanta on Saturday, Trump periodically sounded like he was running for governor against Kemp. Telling the audience that “your numbers in Georgia are very average, your crime numbers, your economic numbers, all of your numbers, you’re very average. You can do a lot better and you’ll do a lot better with a better governor,” Trump said of Kemp, whose approval rating is a robust 63 percent, “He’s a bad guy, he’s a disloyal guy, and he’s a very average governor.” Oh, and Trump referred to Kemp, who’s perhaps an inch shorter than the former president, as “Little Brian, Little Brian Kemp.” Saturday night was just the seemingly billionth example that at any given moment, Trump cannot prioritize anything, not even his own long-term interests, above his sense of grievance. Kemp and Raffensperger refused to help Trump game the 2020 election results, therefore they’re the enemy — regardless of how useful their support could be for 2024 in a state that could have a big influence on Trump’s fortunes. The more intensely someone tells Trump not to stick a fork in an electric socket, the more Trump lunges to jab it in there, just to prove he can. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/05/donald-trump-georgia-presidential-election/
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 5, 2024 16:09:15 GMT -5
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Post by hoyajinx on Aug 5, 2024 17:34:44 GMT -5
Can somebody please help me here? I literally find this incomprehensible. I think that I lack the “common sense” to which he refers, I showed my wife. She also lacks the same “common sense”. This a letter to the editor to a paper in Pennsylvania:
“It’s your brother, West Virginia. I know, you’re only 75% Appalachian, still, I’m sure you have enough common sense to catch what I’m throwing at you. Look, at one point in time you had the Capitol of our nation. You pretty much gave us The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, Hershey’s chocolate, Rocky and I have to say it - Gettysburg. 50,000 Americans died there fighting for what they believed in. It’s in your DNA. And here we are. The news people say that you are the most important state in this whole election. Thank God we won’t have to look at the TV ads you’re going to endure! You see, West Virginia will vote 75% Trump. Here’s a tip, just hit the mute button. Here’s why I’m writing. Use some of that 75% common sense and figure out why 75% of West Virginia is so solid for Trump when just 20 years ago we were a solid blue state. Why do you think that is? If I have to tell you. You’re not thinking. Here’s a clue. Did you hear in that Trump speech the other day he said “Christians, get out and vote. Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years. You know what? It’ll be fixed. It’ll be fine! You won’t have to vote anymore…” Why do you think this doesn’t upset the 81 million Americans who are still voting for him? The news media’s saying he’s going to outlaw elections and be dictator for life. Do you honestly believe - that we believe that? He was talking about the 19th point in the 2024 Republican Platform - Secure the Election! It’ll be fixed. Try that common sense thing - you’re about to get played every day.”
Any help in understanding his point would be greatly appreciated.
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Post by tashoya on Aug 5, 2024 18:18:53 GMT -5
Opioid addiction is a HUGE problem in WV. Maybe the person that wrote it was high?
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Post by hoyajinx on Aug 5, 2024 18:28:19 GMT -5
Opioid addiction is a HUGE problem in WV. Maybe the person that wrote it was high? That is a distinct possibility. It is so unfocused. Maybe you have to believe that our elections aren’t secure and 75% of WV residents are ignorant enough to believe it? Also, are people from Appalachia known for “common sense”? In any event, the second part certainly doesn’t flow from the first. WV went from blue to red over 20 years because elections aren’t secure? Are Republicans cheating in WV? Also, his interpretation of the quote doesn’t even follow from it. If elections aren’t secure and Trump fixes that, wouldn’t they still have to vote in 4 years? Ironically, the title of the letter is “West Virginians aren’t stupid”.
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 6, 2024 3:27:41 GMT -5
Pathetic attempt to defend the weirdo's cat lady comments. Why didn't she get asked about Demented Donnie's racist comments? Usha Vance, the wife of Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance, mischaracterized her husband's past comment deriding women without children as "childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives," as she defended him in a Fox News interview that aired Monday. www.npr.org/2024/08/05/g-s1-15408/usha-jd-vance-childless-cat-ladies
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 6, 2024 5:29:41 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 6, 2024 8:04:04 GMT -5
Sounds like it's Walz. Harris picks Tim Walz as VP ahead of multistate tour Vice President Harris has told allies that she has chosen Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate, opting for a former high school teacher and Midwestern Democrat to complete a newly assembled presidential ticket, according to two people familiar with the pick who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a decision that is not yet public. Walz is scheduled to appear with Harris in coming days in each of the seven most competitive states — Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada. www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/08/06/2024-election-campaign-updates-harris-trump/
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 6, 2024 13:16:56 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 6, 2024 13:20:31 GMT -5
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Post by hoyajinx on Aug 6, 2024 14:20:13 GMT -5
Don’t forget though, these are people who see being a decent, kind human being as weakness and being a repugnant, repellent, narcissistic bully as strength.
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 6, 2024 18:32:46 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 6, 2024 18:42:19 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 6, 2024 18:55:46 GMT -5
In the hours since Vice President Harris named Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate Tuesday, the pair has raised more than $20 million, the campaign announced. Earlier, the campaign said Tuesday was already one of its best fundraising days thus far. The August fundraising numbers will be confirmed next month when the financial disclosures are due.
-- WaPo, 8/6/24, 7:36 pm.
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 6, 2024 19:24:49 GMT -5
Wow
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 6, 2024 19:26:09 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 6, 2024 19:43:46 GMT -5
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