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Post by SSHoya on Aug 11, 2024 11:14:07 GMT -5
JD Vance is kinda of an idiot as he keeps pushing the line about Walz lying about his military service on CNN.
Have Demented Donnie and Hillbilly Vance not realized no one (other than cultists and Elvado) believe this line of attack is effective and that it has any relevance? Moron Vance trying to say Harris's selection of Walz shows bad judgment, coming from the guy who has aligned himself with America's Hitler (his words)
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Post by hoyajinx on Aug 11, 2024 16:34:11 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 11, 2024 19:17:21 GMT -5
🏆 … good luck collecting
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Post by guru on Aug 11, 2024 22:21:00 GMT -5
The election is over. Trump is a dead candidate walking. Whether he and his minions will take their loss peacefully is a wide open question. My guess is Jan 6 2021 was just a warmup for what we’ll see in a few months.
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Post by tashoya on Aug 11, 2024 23:11:39 GMT -5
Thoughts, "Republicans?"
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 12, 2024 2:07:08 GMT -5
Flawed assumption in that "Republicans" really don't have any thoughts as that actually requires thinking. They don't think, they only mindlessly regurgitate their cult leader's incoherent rantings.
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 12, 2024 2:08:36 GMT -5
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Post by hoyajinx on Aug 12, 2024 4:17:03 GMT -5
The election is over. Trump is a dead candidate walking. Whether he and his minions will take their loss peacefully is a wide open question. My guess is Jan 6 2021 was just a warmup for what we’ll see in a few months. I wish I shared your confidence. In a country where people could reason objectively, facts mattered, and there wasn’t an online effort to spread BS right wing disinformation and misinformation (especially by a Twitter owner who has been radicalized by his own platform), I would agree with you. Trump would be getting slaughtered for all the lies he spews and how utterly crazy he is. But we do not live in that country. The tides have been turning quickly, and it seems as if something else may be around the corner to upend everything. Look where Republican overconfidence got them.
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 12, 2024 5:51:00 GMT -5
Nice pic!, Ha ha ha! An image of JD Vance allegedly dressed as a woman and wearing a blonde wig was posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, on Sunday. The unconfirmed image quickly picked up steam and began trending under the hashtag #SofaLoren, a reference to the iconic Italian actress Sophia Loren and false claims that the Republican senator had sex with a couch. A spokesperson for the Republican vice presidential pick did not deny the photo’s authenticity when approached by the Daily Beast, and did not offer any further comment. www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vances-campaign-wont-deny-thats-him-in-viral-drag-photo?ref=home?ref=home
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 12, 2024 5:58:05 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 12, 2024 6:47:50 GMT -5
To understand the rise of Donald Trump, you don’t need to go to a diner in the Midwest or read “Hillbilly Elegy,” J.D. Vance’s memoir. You just need to know these basic facts: In 1980, white people accounted for about 80 percent of the U.S. population. In 2024, white people account for about 58 percent of the U.S. population. Trump appeals to white people gripped by demographic hysteria. Especially older white people who grew up when white people represented a much larger share of the population. They fear becoming a minority. The Trump phenomenon and the surge of right-wing extremism in America was never about economic anxiety, as too many political reporters claimed during the 2016 presidential campaign. It was, and still is, about race and racism. theintercept.com/2024/08/10/republicans-trump-vance-racism-white-nationalism/
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Post by hoyajinx on Aug 12, 2024 7:08:11 GMT -5
This makes clear the abject desperation of the Trump ticket: there is no evidence that the VP even makes a real difference to voters, a point acknowledged by both Trump and Vance. Yet, Republicans have been totally fixated on swift boating Walz. This is ALL they have right now. This, and that they think Harris is exaggerating her crowd size. There are less than 3 months left until the election, and this is what they have. This is their focus. If they aren’t going after Harris/Walz on issues (but to be fair, I think by any rational, objective evaluation, Harris/Walz have a distinct edge on most issues), they aren’t swaying voters, and that should make people pulling for Harris happy.
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 12, 2024 8:52:35 GMT -5
Prepare for another J6 especially with election denialist cultists embedded in red states election infrastructure. "Republicans" are vile fascists. ‘AI’ crowds and unskewed polls: Trump prepares to reject another loss Why would Trump and his allies spread a false claim about attendance at a rally that was covered on C-SPAN? In part because many elements of Trump’s base have embraced rejections of basic reality (like the existence of “mules”) for years. In part it’s confirmation bias, with partisans being more likely to accept false information as true when it supports their preexisting beliefs. But in part it’s because Trump and his allies are already eagerly raising questions about the reliability of measures of Harris’s support — and by extension, the reliability of the results in November. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/12/ai-crowds-unskewed-polls-trump-prepares-reject-another-loss/
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Post by hoyajinx on Aug 12, 2024 8:52:59 GMT -5
According to a new poll, people now trust Harris MORE than Trump to deal with the economy. This is huge because it’s been seen as a big weakness for her. Even her getting closer on the issue would be a big coup (not in the Trump insurrectionist way, of course). This should be setting off all sorts of alarm bells for the Trump team. If Trump cannot get focused and address the economy directly because of his insanity and toddler-like attention span, he should be in deep, deep trouble. www.axios.com/2024/08/12/harris-trump-economy-poll-2024-election
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 12, 2024 15:54:37 GMT -5
Demented Donnie decompensating. Trump’s laundry list of increasingly bizarre claims 1. Harris’s rally crowds ‘DIDN’T EXIST’ and ‘nobody was there’ 2. Biden prepared to have the FBI assassinate Trump 3. Democrats’ messaging is to blame for the assassination attempt on Trump 4. Biden faked covid 5. Trump went down in a helicopter with Willie Brown 6. Biden will try to reclaim the Democratic nomination 7. Harris only recently identified as Black 8. Trump’s Jan. 6 crowd was bigger than MLK’s 9. Other countries are emptying their prisons and sending criminals to the United States 10. Democrats want to allow killing babies after birth www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/12/trump-crowd-size-false-claims/
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 12, 2024 17:27:21 GMT -5
Demented Don the Con Trump’s fantasy-based outbursts are getting out of hand, even for him Former president Donald Trump’s ongoing meltdown over his changed electoral prospects is becoming genuinely bizarre. It is foolish to underestimate him, but this doesn’t come off as any kind of subtle gambit in a game of three-dimensional chess. It looks and sounds like angry, disoriented flailing that inflicts more self-harm than damage on his opponents. Trump’s frustration is not without cause. Recent polls show that Vice President Kamala Harris has erased the lead Trump had over President Joe Biden, and the RealClear Politics,polling average — often more generous to Trump than some other aggregators — on Monday had Harris nosing into the lead. Perhaps more galling, Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, have been barnstorming the swing states and drawing the kind of huge, enthusiastic crowds that Trump boasted he alone could muster. That might be the reason for Trump’s transparently false and really strange Truth Social post on Sunday that claimed “there was nobody there” at a rally Harris and Walz held last week at Detroit’s airport. In fact, as documented by news photographers and television crews, an estimated 15,000 supporters greeted and cheered the Democratic candidates. A crowd that size is hard to miss www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/12/gene-robinson-trump-meltdown/
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