Elections; 2024 by THG

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Have SECOND or THUGR posted anything about positive about Kamal yet?

Seems like not much enthusiasm on their part.

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Remember, it's all about JOY!

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
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Tuesday, August 20, 2024 7:21 PM

I haven't heard one positive word out of either of them that wasn't straight up the exact same propaganda that I read off of headlines at RCP every morning since the day I sobered up.

And right now it's "Trump's going down!". With no actual reason behind why they think Kamala is going to win or should win.

The party of "Joy" seems to be catering to the most joyless individuals in the country.

I wonder what Joy Ried and Joy Behar are up to today?

STRENGTH THROUGH JOY!

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Trump will be fine.
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Wednesday, August 21, 2024 6:09 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

That's all you ever do.

Ignored.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

Which is why terrible things happen to 6ixStringJack and Trump. Trumptards can get away with it, most of the time, because America is tolerant of deviants and lets them suffer the consequences of being stupid, whether it is from smoking, drinking, or being unemployable because of that stupidity. In America, you are free to be the biggest failure you can be. Or the biggest success. You are even free in America to be a failure while insisting you are a success. See Trump for an entire life of touting his fictional "successes".

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Wednesday, August 21, 2024 6:10 AM

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What Barack Obama’s DNC speech was actually about

Beneath the campaign rhetoric, Obama offered a strikingly philosophical defense of American liberalism.

by Zack Beauchamp | Aug 21, 2024, 12:45 AM CDT

https://www.vox.com/politics/367911/barack-obama-democratic-convention
-speech-2024

Living this liberal vision, for Obama, means accepting the diversity inherent to a large society made up of people with all sorts of beliefs and worldviews: recognizing that “our fellow citizens deserve the same grace we hope they’ll extend to us.” It means understanding “true freedom” as something that gives all of us the right “to make decisions about our own life [and] requires us to recognize that other people have the right to make decisions that are different than ours.” And it means seeing democracy as more than “just a bunch of abstract principles and a bunch of dusty laws in a book somewhere,” but rather “the values we live by.”

This, to be clear, is not a case that Trump is un-American and thus will definitely lose: Obama took great pains to emphasize that the race was still close and could go either way. Rather, Obama is saying that what Trump stands for contradicts many of the values that Americans claim to hold dear — our core sense of what our country is about and what it stands for. That America’s truest identity is liberal, and that this identity can transcend those things that divide us.

I want to agree with that. But as I argue in my recent book, (The Reactionary Spirit - How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World) there is a deeply illiberal strain in American politics — an ideology born out of the essential contradiction between America’s state liberal ideals and the reality of chattel slavery at its founding.

This tradition, like Trump, rejects core liberal-democratic ideals about equality. It is no more and no less American than our loftier stated ideals; both represent authentic aspects of America’s identity, and both have triumphed at different times throughout our country’s history.

The question, then, is not whether American liberalism can reassert its naturally dominant place. It is whether the America that Obama believes in will triumph in this round of a centuries-old struggle against an authoritarian twin.

FULL SPEECH: Barack Obama’s full speech at the DNC

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Wednesday, August 21, 2024 6:40 AM

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Trump is determined to create all-out chaos 'if he loses'

Asked if he would accept the election results, Trump said, "If, for some reason, I lose — and I think if I lose, this country will go into a tailspin, the likes of which it's never seen before, the likes of 1929."

Trump has repeatedly dodged the question of accepting the 2024 election results, even after being asked three times during his debate with President Biden. Trump and his allies working as election officials in key states are prepared to create major chaos if Harris wins.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-determined-to-create-all
-out-chaos-if-he-loses-analysis/ar-AA1p89l6

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Wednesday, August 21, 2024 8:51 AM

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Republicans scrambled to get Cornel West on the Arizona ballot.

West expressed ambivalence about Republican efforts to help him, which would benefit Donald Trump by siphoning away voters who would support the Democratic nominee otherwise.

The work by the GOP attorneys appears to be part of a broader effort by conservative activists and Republican-aligned operatives across the country to push West’s candidacy and subvert the integrity of the ballot in the months leading up to November’s presidential election.

https://apnews.com/article/republican-lawyers-cornel-west-arizona-88cd
1b4f698715a3071a93b5e1526074

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Wednesday, August 21, 2024 9:51 AM

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Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

That's all you ever do.

Ignored.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Which is why terrible things happen to 6ixStringJack and Trump. Trumptards can get away with it, most of the time, because America is tolerant of deviants and lets them suffer the consequences of being stupid, whether it is from smoking, drinking, or being unemployable because of that stupidity. In America, you are free to be the biggest failure you can be. Or the biggest success. You are even free in America to be a failure while insisting you are a success. See Trump for an entire life of touting his fictional "successes".

Yes. We've already established that not one single person who ever voted Democrat has ever had a cigarette, drank alcohol or been without a job for longer than 6 months in their life.

Get fucked, retard.

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Wednesday, August 21, 2024 9:51 AM

THG

Quote:
Originally posted by second:

Republicans scrambled to get Cornel West on the Arizona ballot.

West expressed ambivalence about Republican efforts to help him, which would benefit Donald Trump by siphoning away voters who would support the Democratic nominee otherwise.

The work by the GOP attorneys appears to be part of a broader effort by conservative activists and Republican-aligned operatives across the country to push West’s candidacy and subvert the integrity of the ballot in the months leading up to November’s presidential election.

https://apnews.com/article/republican-lawyers-cornel-west-arizona-88cd
1b4f698715a3071a93b5e1526074

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The republicans need to block Americans from voting. They cannot win in a, straight forward election. The different ways they've come up with to do that are running out.

America is changing. A new generation is stepping up to effect that change. The republicans are like the boy with his finger in a dyke. The dyke, dam, is cracking all around them.

tick tock

T

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Wednesday, August 21, 2024 9:53 AM

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Originally posted by THG:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:

Republicans scrambled to get Cornel West on the Arizona ballot.

West expressed ambivalence about Republican efforts to help him, which would benefit Donald Trump by siphoning away voters who would support the Democratic nominee otherwise.

The work by the GOP attorneys appears to be part of a broader effort by conservative activists and Republican-aligned operatives across the country to push West’s candidacy and subvert the integrity of the ballot in the months leading up to November’s presidential election.

https://apnews.com/article/republican-lawyers-cornel-west-arizona-88cd
1b4f698715a3071a93b5e1526074

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No article about how Democrats are trying to keep the Green Party off of the ballot in Wisconsin, huh?

Here you go:

Democrats try to block Green Party Candidate from Wisconsin's 2024 presidential ballot

An employee of the Democratic National Committee has filed a complaint seeking to remove Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein from the 2024 ballot in Wisconsin, arguing the party does not have anyone legally qualified in the state who can nominate a slate of presidential electors.

https://pbswisconsin.org/news-item/democrats-try-to-block-green-party-
candidate-from-wisconsins-2024-presidential-ballot/

Shut the fuck up.

Both of you.

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Wednesday, August 21, 2024 10:01 AM

Biden DOJ Asks SCOTUS To Keep Arizona From Requiring Proof Of Citizenship For 2024 Election

https://thefederalist.com/2024/08/20/biden-doj-asks-scotus-to-squash-a
rizonas-proof-of-citizenship-voter-requirements-for-2024-election/

Keep telling us that Democrats aren't allowing illegals to vote.

That's all you can do is cheat.

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Wednesday, August 21, 2024 10:40 AM

THG

I keep posting a sea of truth in an ocean of bullshit.

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'No morals': Trump WH staffer spills secrets and backs Harris

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Wednesday, August 21, 2024 11:09 AM

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Wednesday, August 21, 2024 12:18 PM

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T

Wow. That picture is racist as shit. You know a white college "educated" dude drew that.

I'm more black than Harris is, yet the artist decided to make her nose 1/5th of her face and gave her those big Kool-Aid sippin' lips.

And it looks like Walz really wants to get his nose right up in those THICC ass cheeks that she doesn't have in real life either. A self insert? Or is he saying that Walz is a degenerate?

You people are unbelievable.

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Wednesday, August 21, 2024 4:09 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Quote:
US Jobs Revised Down By 818,000 In Election Year Shocker, Second Worst Revision In US History

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-jobs-revised-down-818000-election
-year-shocker-second-worst-revision-us-history

Something for Kamala* to fix.

Would she?

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Wednesday, August 21, 2024 4:14 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Biden Approved Secret Nuclear War Strategy Focused On Simultaneous Conflicts

https://news.antiwar.com/2024/08/20/biden-approved-nuclear-strategy-to
-prepare-for-nuclear-war-with-russia-china-and-north-korea/

Does Kamala even know about this?

Any plans to renegotiate nuclear treaties?

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

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Wednesday, August 21, 2024 4:19 PM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Yes. We've already established that not one single person who ever voted Democrat has ever had a cigarette, drank alcohol or been without a job for longer than 6 months in their life.

Get fucked, retard.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

There are millions of para-Democrats and semi-Democrats who are ruining their own lives by smoking, drinking, drugging, fornicating, adultery and being super-gluttonous because they are piggish fools. The government doesn't stop them beyond placing warnings on packs of cigarettes and cases of beer. There will be horrifying consequences for being that stupid and lacking self-control. On the Trumptard side, all the Trumptards I know are giving the maximum effort to ruining themselves with their foolish drive to maximize the freedom to be a total asshole. See that fat blob Trump for an example. If tub-of-lard Trump makes it to 83 years old, finishing a term in the White House, I'll be surprised. If Trump was Canadian, he might make it, but fat-ass Americans tend to drop dead in their 70's or earlier, keeping down the cost of Social Security and Medicare. The life expectancy for Canada in 2023 was 82.96 years, a 0.18% increase from 2022. In America, its 74.8. Trump is past his expiration date.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/life-expectancy.htm

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Wednesday, August 21, 2024 5:44 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Yes. We've already established that not one single person who ever voted Democrat has ever had a cigarette, drank alcohol or been without a job for longer than 6 months in their life.

Get fucked, retard.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
There are millions of para-Democrats and semi-Democrats who are ruining their own lives by smoking, drinking, drugging, fornicating, adultery and being super-gluttonous because they are piggish fools.

A thousand pardons, Your Holiness. They're not good salt of the earth Democrats like you are.

Whatever you say, Estus Pirkle.

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Thursday, August 22, 2024 12:31 AM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

A thousand pardons, Your Holiness. They're not good salt of the earth Democrats like you are.

Whatever you say, Estus Pirkle.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

Rush Limbaugh was dead by 70 because of his disgraceful health habits. To Rush, freedom meant doing what pleased himself. 6ixStringJack is worse behaved than Rush because he doesn't have to pull himself together for a radio show and 6ix doesn't have Rush's resources to keep him alive. 6ix will be dead at a younger age than Rush. Maybe 6ix won't even live to be as old as Matthew Perry, another with disgraceful health habits and strong belief in the freedom to do what is pleasurable, who died at 54.

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Thursday, August 22, 2024 12:35 AM

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Republicans are defecting from Trump’s MAGA army in droves

“After January 6, after Donald Trump has refused for four years to acknowledge that he lost, and his threats against democracy — I think it’s important to turn the page.”

“There is only one political party and one candidate for the presidency that can claim the mantle of defender and protector of America’s democracy, the Constitution, and the rule of law,” Luttig wrote in a statement. “I will unhesitatingly vote for the Democratic Party’s candidate …Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris.”

Then there’s the far right, terminally online influencers who make up the beating heart of the MAGA movement. Those mostly young political movers include figures like neo–Nazi Nick Fuentes, who was once friendly enough with Trump to score a dinner invitation to Mar-a-Lago. Now Fuentes is casting doubt on the former president, saying he predicts a “catastrophic loss” for Trump and the GOP in November.

Likewise for long-time Trump ally and right-wing performance artist Laura Loomer, who rose to fame in part by riding Trump’s media coattails. “Have you noticed how weak so many of the Trump surrogates sound on TV?” Loomer asked in a post on X. “Needs to change FAST because we can’t talk about a stolen election for another four years.”

All of that criticism from former Trump loyalists has other MAGA culture warriors weaving conspiracy theories to explain away Trump’s weakness. Far-right podcaster Brenden Dilley used his platform to accuse Fuentes of being — of all possible things — a secret Democratic operative paid by the Harris campaign. The mind truly reels at the thought.

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4837058-harris-rise-gop-trump-wea
kness/

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Thursday, August 22, 2024 12:54 AM

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Donald Trump Interview Goes Off The Rails During Cocaine-Focused Tangent

The politician dove deep into comedian Theo Von's former drug habit during a wild sit down.

By Kelby Vera | Aug 21, 2024, 04:03 PM EDT

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-theo-von-cocaine-podcast_n
_66c61e4fe4b0f1ca469381fd

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Thursday, August 22, 2024 1:51 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

A thousand pardons, Your Holiness. They're not good salt of the earth Democrats like you are.

Whatever you say, Estus Pirkle.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Rush Limbaugh was dead by 70 because of his disgraceful health habits. To Rush, freedom meant doing what pleased himself. 6ixStringJack is worse behaved than Rush because he doesn't have to pull himself together for a radio show and 6ix doesn't have Rush's resources to keep him alive. 6ix will be dead at a younger age than Rush. Maybe 6ix won't even live to be as old as Matthew Perry, another with disgraceful health habits and strong belief in the freedom to do what is pleasurable, who died at 54.

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Do you ever listen to yourself?

If you do, you'd be the only person who ever did.

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Thursday, August 22, 2024 2:17 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Quote:
Originally posted by SECOND; Rush Limbaugh ... blah blah blah ... Matthew Perry, another with disgraceful health habits and strong belief in the freedom to do what is pleasurable, who died at 54.

According to this, Matt Perry was a Hollywood liberal.
https://hollowverse.com/matthew-perry

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
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Thursday, August 22, 2024 8:13 AM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Do you ever listen to yourself?

If you do, you'd be the only person who ever did.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

Trump would be dead now from Covid-19 if he had not been President:

Read Inside the extraordinary effort to save Trump's Life

Trump catches Covid and almost dies
https://www.google.com/search?q=Trump+catches+Covid+and+almost+dies

6ixStringJack, I still remember you claiming nobody died from Covid-19. I remember you say some extraordinarily stupid things about vaccinations.

Your days will be cut short because of your negligence.

6ixStringJack, why were all your teeth pulled? Was it clean living? Or were you just stupid like a Trumptard? Your brother had to tell you about how ill you were from diabetes because you are stupid. Your brother is dumber than normal but still smarter than you or a Trumptard.

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Thursday, August 22, 2024 8:45 AM

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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by SECOND; Rush Limbaugh ... blah blah blah ... Matthew Perry, another with disgraceful health habits and strong belief in the freedom to do what is pleasurable, who died at 54.

According to this, Matt Perry was a Hollywood liberal.
https://hollowverse.com/matthew-perry

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

Reportedly, I am Trumptard. Texans don't know I never voted for Trump and I am not telling them.

Californians didn't know everything Matt Perry did in private or who he voted for. Californians only knew what Perry wanted them to know. If Perry was really open about who he was, he would have tweeted: "I just got a huge injection of ketamine and now I am going to float in the pool, face up, and hallucinate for a while because my life is a constant search for pleasure and escape from being a responsible adult. (See Trump for another famous example.) If I drown, this was my last tweet. I regret only that I was not more selfish/foolish/lazy in life." Trump could send that same tweet, but instead of mentioning ketamine, Trump seeks the admiration of crowds for his high.

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Thursday, August 22, 2024 9:06 AM

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Here's a reminder of why lots of people are afraid of Trump's authoritarian streak:

• He tried to overthrow the 2020 election violently.

• He often speaks admiringly of foreign dictators.

• He has explicitly promised to use the Justice Department to go after his enemies.

• He wants to eliminate big chunks of the civil service so he can appoint his own loyalists instead.

• He writes about "rooting out" all the vermin who don't support him.

• He laughs about being a dictator on "day one" and then stopping.

These aren't merely points of ordinary partisan disagreement. They are the signs of a man who will at least try to bring down the rule of law for his own aggrandizement. He may not succeed, but it won't be for lack of desire.

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Thursday, August 22, 2024 9:42 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Do you ever listen to yourself?

If you do, you'd be the only person who ever did.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Trump would be dead now from Covid-19 if he had not been President:

Read Inside the extraordinary effort to save Trump's Life

Trump catches Covid and almost dies
https://www.google.com/search?q=Trump+catches+Covid+and+almost+dies

6ixStringJack, I still remember you claiming nobody died from Covid-19. I remember you say some extraordinarily stupid things about vaccinations.

Your days will be cut short because of your negligence.

6ixStringJack, why were all your teeth pulled? Was it clean living? Or were you just stupid like a Trumptard? Your brother had to tell you about how ill you were from diabetes because you are stupid. Your brother is dumber than normal but still smarter than you or a Trumptard.

Now you're just making stuff up.

Why don't you just shut the fuck up for once, cunt.

You have no audience. Nobody here gives one single shit about your opinion. You should be very familiar with that feeling since nobody in your real life does either.

Everybody you have ever met hates you.

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Thursday, August 22, 2024 9:53 AM

RFK Jr. expected to drop out of race by end of week, plans to endorse Trump: Sources

https://abcnews.go.com/US/rfk-jr-plans-drop-presidential-race-end-week
/story?id=113028999

Quote:
Kennedy told ABC News regarding the Democratic convention and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, "I think it was a coronation, it's not democracy. Nobody voted. Who chose Kamala? It wasn't voters."

"She went in four weeks from being the worst liability for the Democratic Party to the second coming of Christ without giving one interview, without showing up for a debate, without a single policy that anyone thinks isn't ridiculous," he said. "It's not democracy."

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Thursday, August 22, 2024 10:09 AM

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Harris is now three points ahead

By Kevin Drum | August 21, 2024 – 9:44 pm

Here's the latest YouGov breakdown of the presidential race:

Kamala Harris started out three points behind Trump and is now three points ahead.

I should note that I routinely show the YouGov poll for a couple of reasons. The first is that it's a pretty good poll: reliable, weekly, and with good crosstabs. The second is that by tying myself to a single poll I avoid cherry picking the polls that are most favorable each week and thereby fooling myself about how well things are going. It's a discipline thing.

And for those who are going to insist that only state polls matter, that's not really right. State polls are certainly useful, but they also tend to be smallish and error prone. And while it's true that we don't elect presidents via a national popular vote, the states do generally follow the national vote. If Harris gets to a five-point lead, it will be very unlikely that she loses the electoral vote. That's the target.

https://jabberwocking.com/harris-is-now-three-points-ahead/

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Thursday, August 22, 2024 10:11 AM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Why don't you just shut the fuck up for once, cunt.

You have no audience. Nobody here gives one single shit about your opinion. You should be very familiar with that feeling since nobody in your real life does either.

Everybody you have ever met hates you.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936, spoke at Madison Square Garden:

Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.

I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master.

The American people know from a four-year record that today there is only one entrance to the White House—by the front door. Since March 4, 1933, there has been only one pass-key to the White House. I have carried that key in my pocket. It is there tonight. So long as I am President, it will remain in my pocket.

Those who used to have pass-keys are not happy. Some of them are desperate. Only desperate men with their backs to the wall would descend so far below the level of decent citizenship as to foster the current pay-envelope campaign against America's working people. Only reckless men, heedless of consequences, would risk the disruption of the hope for a new peace between worker and employer by returning to the tactics of the labor spy.

Here is an amazing paradox! The very employers and politicians and publishers who talk most loudly of class antagonism and the destruction of the American system now undermine that system by this attempt to coerce the votes of the wage earners of this country. It is the 1936 version of the old threat to close down the factory or the office if a particular candidate does not win. It is an old strategy of tyrants to delude their victims into fighting their battles for them.

Every message in a pay envelope, even if it is the truth, is a command to vote according to the will of the employer. But this propaganda is worse—it is deceit.

They tell the worker his wage will be reduced by a contribution to some vague form of old-age insurance. They carefully conceal from him the fact that for every dollar of premium he pays for that insurance, the employer pays another dollar. That omission is deceit.

They carefully conceal from him the fact that under the federal law, he receives another insurance policy to help him if he loses his job, and that the premium of that policy is paid 100 percent by the employer and not one cent by the worker. They do not tell him that the insurance policy that is bought for him is far more favorable to him than any policy that any private insurance company could afford to issue. That omission is deceit.

They imply to him that he pays all the cost of both forms of insurance. They carefully conceal from him the fact that for every dollar put up by him his employer puts up three dollars — three for one. And that omission is deceit.

But they are guilty of more than deceit. When they imply that the reserves thus created against both these policies will be stolen by some future Congress, diverted to some wholly foreign purpose, they attack the integrity and honor of American Government itself. Those who suggest that, are already aliens to the spirit of American democracy. Let them emigrate and try their lot under some foreign flag in which they have more confidence.

Much more at https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-madison-square-garde
n-new-york-city-1

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Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Why don't you just shut the fuck up for once, cunt.

You have no audience. Nobody here gives one single shit about your opinion. You should be very familiar with that feeling since nobody in your real life does either.

Everybody you have ever met hates you.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936, spoke at Madison Square Garden:

Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.

You are no F.D.R., son.

You're just a little miserable internet troll who says all the terrible shit that you need to get out of your system online because everybody in real life has turned their back on you. You're nothing but poison in a meat sack.

It makes one wonder what your obsession with living long is all about then. Why bother? All you do is spread hate and misery everywhere you go.

Go have a drink or two dozen.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

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Thursday, August 22, 2024 11:04 AM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

You are no F.D.R., son.

You're just a little miserable internet troll who says all the terrible shit that you need to get out of your system online because everybody in real life has turned their back on you. You're nothing but poison in a meat sack.

It makes one wonder what your obsession with living long is all about then. Why bother? All you do is spread hate and misery everywhere you go.

Go have a drink or two dozen.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

FDR was attacking deceitful people like 6ixStringJack. 6ix and similar people of FDR's time hated FDR for calling them liars and deceitful. They did not limit their hatred to just FDR. All Democrats were hated by them. When Trump is caught lying, he angrily makes a false counterclaim that he is telling the truth and that the "real" liars are those who show Trump lied. Trump is a silly person, but so are his Trumptards. When I was about 10, I stopped wondering why bad things happen to people who are very similar to today's Trumptards. It seems obvious why their lives are hard, but not obvious to them. Instead of blaming themselves and fixing themselves, they blame the Democrats, as they did back in FDR's time.

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Thursday, August 22, 2024 11:50 AM

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Other than defeating Democrats on Election Day and cutting taxes, there isn’t a lot that Republicans agree on these days. There are huge divides over trade and economic policy and more fundamental disagreements over the role America should play in global security. On character, the rule of law and more, the divide in the party is there for all the world to see.

Perhaps the best example of this absurd level of public disarray on the right in the Trump era is the 2018 government shutdown. Even though it controlled the House, the Senate and the presidency, the party ended up stumbling into a government shutdown after the midterm elections. It’s the only government shutdown to take place at a time when the government was not divided by party.

For those of us who have been covering politics since before the turn of the century, it’s a striking change in how both parties behave. It was the Republicans who always had an order to how they did things; it was always someone’s “turn” to be the nominee — whether Ronald Reagan in ’80 or George H.W. Bush in ’88 or Bob Dole in ’96 or John McCain in ’08, each of them having previously run for president and lost. The party was bigger than any one person; sure, Reagan was a North Star, but he was never bigger than the institution of the GOP. Neither was Dole or either Bush or McCain. It wasn’t until Trump that the party began to organize itself more as a cult-of-personality party, rather than an institution.

To Trump’s credit in 2016, he did make time to honor “Mr. Republican” Dole at his convention, but only after Dole pledged to support him. Trump holds very little reverence for the GOP’s past. He has actually said he believes he’s more popular and more influential than Abraham Lincoln, the party’s first president — and if that’s his mindset, why would he want to glorify the past accomplishments of either a Bush or a Reagan? “The party of Lincoln” isn’t a phrase Trump wants to hear uttered. He’d prefer “the party of Trump.”

More at https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/chuck-todd-democratic-party
-flexes-institutional-strength-rcna167414

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Donald Trump: ‘I Hate My Opponent’

He’s ready to go personal in next month’s debate against Harris. Advisers are urging restraint.

By Marc A. Caputo | Aug 22, 2024

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-trump-i-hate-my-opponent-harris-de
bate-prep

Donald Trump has no plans to heed the advice of his aides and limit himself to policy contrasts when he debates Kamala Harris. He wants to make it personal.

“This is just the way I am. I hate my opponent. I hate my opponents,” Trump told a confidant who advised the former president to consider backing away from calling the vice president “stupid” or “dumb” at their high-profile standoff in a few weeks, which he has done repeatedly.

Trump explained to the confidant that he’s treating Harris the same way he did Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. “Hillary, Joe, Kamala. It doesn’t matter. I just hate them.”

To another adviser, Trump was blunt about taking on Harris: “I’m going to be mean.”

Trump’s desire to stay personal and vicious comes as some aides and advisers have grown fearful that such an approach could very well play into the vice president’s hands. Harris has structured her campaign on the Obama-esque pledge to move beyond the politics of division, and polls indicate it has so far resonated with voters.

The clashing of these styles will come to a head on September 10, when Harris and Trump are scheduled for a debate on ABC.

The fate of Trump’s campaign could depend on just how tough and personal he’ll be onstage during that debate, and how Harris responds to his attacks.

Trump’s early discussions about how to approach his debate with Harris—shared with The Bulwark on condition of anonymity by those who have spoken to him—mark a shift from his successful June 27 debate against Biden.

In that encounter, Trump was determined to remain calm, wary of repeating the missteps he made in their 2020 debate when he repeatedly talked over Biden and the moderator, Chris Wallace.

Trump succeeded, perhaps too well. Biden imploded so badly that twenty-four days later he quit the race under pressure from Democrats. That led to Harris’s ascension and reshaped the race to such a degree she’s now marginally leading, deeply angering Trump who saw his hopes of an easy win evaporate.

Trump advisers recognize that he’s committed to being aggressive and personal, and, as such, they are not attempting to sell him on the virtue of being Mr. Nice Guy at the September standoff. But some want him to tone down the assaults on Harris’s intelligence because it could turn off swing voters and set the bar exceedingly low for the vice president.

“If Harris is an idiot and she holds her own, then you could have two idiots on stage,” a Trump insider fretted. “Call her ideas stupid. Don’t call her stupid.”

Marc Short, a former top Trump administration official who prepared Vice President Mike Pence for his 2020 debate against Harris, said Pence made sure to not make it personal.

“You can’t get around the fact that having a white male debate a minority female creates a different dynamic,” said Short. “And you’re always sensitive to the media saying you’re ‘mansplaining’ if you get into a conversation in which you appear to try to put down your opponent. That’s always delicate. Trump doesn’t do delicate well.”

Another reason Pence focused on policy, Short said, was that the team had read in contemporaneous press accounts that Harris “doesn’t always prepare, she missed a lot of opportunities. Ask Tulsi Gabbard.”

Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, damaged Harris in a presidential primary debate in 2020 by attacking her record as a prosecutor. Gabbard is now a Trump supporter and is helping with his debate prep, alongside Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, who was instrumental in Trump’s preparations against Biden.

“Tulsi knows how to outflank Kamala, and she just knows what it’s like to be on the big stage,” said one Trump adviser.

“Gaetz helped a ton. He is the best at this by far,” another adviser said. “He’s good at one-liners. He knows the issues in and out because he takes the time to study. He knows debating as an art form. He knows what’s coming and he knows what to say back.”

Unlike Pence, who insisted on conducting multiple 90-minute mock sessions in preparation for his 2020 debate with Harris, Trump is not making traditional preparations. Instead, he’s practicing set-piece exchanges on various topics and issues that may arise and holding what one adviser calls, “policy refresher” sessions.

“We’re doing not-debate-prep prep. And that keeps him in a better mindset,” said another adviser. “Getting back to these on a regular basis puts him where he wants to be.”

Trump, advisers say, has begun coming to grips with Harris’s ascension on the ticket and Biden’s departure from it. And he has expressed a desire to have more of a presence on the campaign trail. He is keen on throwing haymakers at his opponents, including former President Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama, who attacked and mocked him Tuesday night in their Democratic National Convention speeches.

On Wednesday, at a North Carolina rally, Trump twice mentioned Obama as he took issue with unnamed advisers who told him, “Sir, please stick to policy. Don’t get personal. . . . You must stick to policy.”

Trump suggested that restraint would be unfair since his Democratic critics are “getting personal all night long.”

Later, Trump returned to the issue of whether he should get personal or not.

“We’re going to do a free poll,” he told the crowd. “Here are the two questions: Should I get personal? Should I not get personal?”

Almost everyone cheered for the former, almost no one for the latter.

“My advisers are fired,” Trump smirked.

“Nah,” he said, “we’d rather keep it on policy, but sometimes it’s hard when you’re attacked from all ends.”

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'Kamala Harris can't solve a problem cause she is the problem': Trump jabs at Democrats' nominee (The Economic Times)

Aug 21, 2024 #economictimes #latestnews #businessnews
Former US President Donald Trump visited a Michigan town on Tuesday (August 20), one month after white supremacists rallied there, sparking renewed criticism from Democrats who accuse his campaign of stirring up racial tensions for political gain. The campaign stop is one of a number Trump is holding this week as Democrats meet in Chicago to formally choose Vice President Harris as their nominee in the Nov. 5 election.

Trump said, “We're here today to talk about how we are going to stop the Kamala crime wave that is going on at levels that nobody has ever seen before. And she is, as you know, the most radical left person ever even thought of for a high office, certainly for the office of president… Since comrade Kamala Harris took office, her administration's crime statistics show she's presided over a 43% increase in violent crime. These are all government numbers, 43% increase in violent crime… They lied last night about things that nobody's ever seen. They lied about soldiers at a gravesite. They lied about Charlottesville. They lied about inflation.”

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Thursday, August 22, 2024 2:08 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

You are no F.D.R., son.

You're just a little miserable internet troll who says all the terrible shit that you need to get out of your system online because everybody in real life has turned their back on you. You're nothing but poison in a meat sack.

It makes one wonder what your obsession with living long is all about then. Why bother? All you do is spread hate and misery everywhere you go.

Go have a drink or two dozen.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
FDR was attacking deceitful people like 6ixStringJack. 6ix and similar people of FDR's time hated FDR for calling them liars and deceitful. They did not limit their hatred to just FDR. All Democrats were hated by them. When Trump is caught lying, he angrily makes a false counterclaim that he is telling the truth and that the "real" liars are those who show Trump lied. Trump is a silly person, but so are his Trumptards. When I was about 10, I stopped wondering why bad things happen to people who are very similar to today's Trumptards. It seems obvious why their lives are hard, but not obvious to them. Instead of blaming themselves and fixing themselves, they blame the Democrats, as they did back in FDR's time.

Every time SECOND gets personal you know he's got nothing. All he's trying to do is drag everyone off topic.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

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Every time SECOND gets personal you know he's got nothing. All he's trying to do is drag everyone off topic.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

The fundamental problem with the world is that a large percentage of humans are out of the minds. You can tell who the crazies are because they have the most problems adjusting to the world. For example, see Trump, whose maladjustment keeps lawyers very busy in court, while costing Trump $1 million per week:

Are Trump's lawyers paid a million dollars per week?
https://www.google.com/search?q=Are+trump%27s+lawyers+paid+a+million+d
ollars+per+week

Mar 21, 2024 — Former President Donald Trump has paid his lawyers nearly $50 million since March 2023 as he nears the one-year mark since his first criminal indictment.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2024/03/21/trump-lawyers-pai
d-nearly-50-million-from-political-pac-since-first-indictment/

How Trump Paid $100 Million in Legal Fees

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000009385516/trump-legal-
fees.html

Voters who do not see what is wrong with Trump, but instead insist Trump is right and the justice system is wrong, are crazy voters. Their craziness causes their problems adjusting to reality, same as Trump has problems. What explains the attraction between crazy voters with troubled lives and crazy Trump with his numerous troubles? Birds of a feather flock together.

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‘I Have No Idea’: Trump Says No One Knows What ‘Net Zero’ Emissions Means During ‘Intellectual’ Speech on the Economy

By Alex Griffing | Aug 14th, 2024, 6:01 pm

“You know what? Net zero. They have no idea what it means. By the way, it’s net zero. What does that mean? Nobody knows what it means. We’re going to go to a net zero policy. What does that mean? I have no idea,” Trump told his Asheville, North Carolina audience.

“We’re talking about a thing called the economy. They wanted to do a speech on the economy. A lot of people are very devastated by what’s happened with inflation and all of the other things,” Trump began, adding:

“So we’re doing this as an intellectual speech. You’re all intellectuals today. Today we’re doing it, and we’re doing it, right now. And it’s, very important, they say, is the most important subject. I think crime is right there. I think the border is right there for personally, we have a lot of important subjects because our country has become a third world nation.

We literally are a third world nation. We’re a banana republic in so many ways, and we’re not going to let that happen because we’re starting a free fall. But from today and from the day I take the oath of office, we will rapidly drive prices down.”

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/i-have-no-idea-trump-says-no-one-kno
ws-what-net-zero-emissions-means-during-intellectual-speech-on-the-economy/

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Trump’s Made-Up ‘Kamala Crime Wave’

By Paul Krugman | Aug. 22, 2024, 7:00 p.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/22/opinion/kamala-harris-trump-crime.h
tml

I was mugged in Cambridge, Mass., back in 1979. I wasn’t hurt; I matter-of-factly handed over my wallet, and that was that. But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t rattled, and from then on I was a bit more careful about where I walked, especially after dark.

I tell this story now only to say that I’m old enough to remember from personal experience what it was like when many of America’s cities really were dangerous — and I don’t need official crime statistics to know that they’re much safer now. I live in New York these days, and I never hesitate to strike out on foot or, say, take the subway home from a late-night concert at the Bowery Ballroom.

As it happens, though, the official numbers match my perception. In 2023, there were 83 percent fewer robberies in New York than in 1990. Murder declined by roughly the same percentage. Oh, and homicides have fallen substantially since 2021 despite a large influx of migrants. Violent crime trends at a national level haven’t been quite as pronounced, but overall the murder rate in 2023 was far lower than it was in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s.

Which brings us, of course, to Donald Trump.

The Republican National Convention devoted a whole day to the theme “Make America Safe Again.” On Tuesday, as part of his effort at counterprogramming as the Democrats formally nominate Kamala Harris, Trump held an event near Detroit that was supposed to be devoted to crime and safety, in which he asserted that we’re in the midst of a “Kamala crime wave,” with crime at levels “nobody has ever seen before.” In big cities “almost all run by Democrats,” he claimed, “you can’t walk across the street to get a loaf of bread. You get shot. You get mugged. You get raped.”

Astoundingly false claims, even for him.

Also on Tuesday, The Detroit News reported that the Trump campaign had agreed to participate in an interview, but “after the newspaper began asking about the Michigan crime data before the event, a campaign aide said the presidential candidate no longer had time for an interview.”

It’s not hard to see why. Detroit’s homicide rate is much higher than that in New York, which despite its reputation is remarkably safe. But the homicide rate in Detroit was lower in 2021 and 2022 than it was in 2020, and it dropped sharply in 2023. Clearly, Trump would have found a data-driven discussion awkward.

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Friday, August 23, 2024 4:14 AM

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Here is Donald Trump in North Carolina:

“Remember when Biden sent Kamala to Europe to stop the war in Ukraine. She met with Putin, and then three days later, he attacked.... She met with Putin to tell him, "Don’t do it." And three days later, he attacked.”

This is not the usual kind of falsehood, which has some small kernel of truth. It's got nothing. Harris didn't meet with Putin and didn't tell him "Don't do it." It just flat didn't happen, and neither did anything else even remotely close.

So where did Trump get it? I suppose it was the same place where he discovered that Harris's huge crowds were an AI invention. Or that a technical and long-planned annual revision of employment figures was really Joe Biden "fraudulently manipulating Job Statistics to hide the true extent of the Economic Ruin they have inflicted upon America."

He's just literally making stuff up these days based (apparently) on the unhinged Twitter posts that he inhales every night. He is really and truly losing it in the face of a campaign he doesn't know how to fight.

https://jabberwocking.com/donald-trump-is-still-losing-his-mind/#comme
nts

And the NYT, WaPo and the other usual suspects will drop something like this in the middle of an account of this rally that desperately attempts to clean it all up to sound like he was almost coherent and at least semi-sane: "Trump additionally claimed, without evidence, that Harris met with Putin shortly before Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent it. Ms. Harris' campaign states that she has never met Putin and there is no record that the two have ever met." That's about it. And they'll never really mention it again, even if it is incorporated into Trump’s daily airing of grievances. Barely a one-day story--like Trump's $10 million Egyptian bribe or Jared Kushner's $2 billion Saudi gratuity.

$10 million bribe story
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-egypt-payments-2016-presidential
-election-sisi-1935917

$2 billion bribe story
https://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushner-addresses-2-billion-given-saudi
s-1869757

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Trump tells rally crowd he’ll try to overturn election if he loses

By Maya Boddie | August 23, 2024

https://www.alternet.org/trump-north-carolina-rally/

During an in-depth interview with TIME earlier this year, former President Donald Trump warned that he just might attempt to overturn another presidential election if he doesn't win.

"If we don’t win, you know, it depends," the MAGA leader said. "It always depends on the fairness of the election."

Trump presented a similar warning to a North Carolina crowd this week.

He said: "Our primary focus is not to get out the vote, it is to make sure they don't cheat. Because we have all the votes we'll need."

Trump is not being subtle. He's never subtle. He's telling us out in the open that if he loses the election, he'll say it was fraud. He'll try to take power anyhow like in 2020.

A longtime Republican operative said:

“Why is the RNC building out hundreds of thousands of people for an 'election integrity project' instead of hundreds of thousands of precinct captains and GOTV [get out the vote] people focused on actually convincing and turning out voters? It’s because it’s much easier to yell 'rigged' when he inevitably loses another f---ing winnable race because he has no idea how to make a case for his own vision.”

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Tim Walz and JD Vance are having the argument that matters

By Matt Bai

You can see why Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz as her running mate, and why Democrats have fallen in love with him. The guy delivers a stemwinder in the tradition of the great plains populists, full of passion and humor and plain-spoken defiance.

But let me tell you something: Nobody delivers a speech that good unless he’s got a clear intellectual argument behind it and a burning conviction that he’s right. And that’s why the contrast between Walz and JD Vance might be the most interesting of the campaign.

We’ve seen Donald Trump meander and contradict his way through endless stretches at a lectern. You’ll soon see Harris capably work her way through an amalgamation of platitudes and applause lines.

But in the contrasting rhetoric of Walz and Vance, in particular, we get a much sharper sense of what’s really being litigated in this election: two sharply contrasting views of what being American actually means.

The most important passage in Vance’s convention speech last month was the one where he described the country as something physical, rather than an abstraction. “America is not just an idea,” Vance said. “It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future. It is in short, a nation.”

Literally speaking, this is not debatable; America exists, it is a nation and it has a history. But Vance isn’t being literal. He is articulating the central idea that animates all forms of nationalism (including the white variety), as well as the Trump movement. He is arguing that there is such thing as a common American culture, with its own language (English), its own religious ethos (Judeo-Christian) and its own concept of family (heterosexual, with naturally conceived children).

Of course there’s room for immigration and racial diversity in Vance’s worldview; his own wife is of Indian descent. But in his view of America, the outsider becomes American by adopting a set of cultural norms — living here “on our terms,” as he put it in his speech. In this way, he sees America as no different, really, from France or Russia or any other country with common ethnic heritage. The price of admission is cultural conformity.

What Walz articulates — about as clearly as anyone has in the party since Barack Obama arrived on the scene 20 years ago — is a competing view that says, no, actually America is very much an idea. Alone among nations, we have from the very start been a collection of immigrants and outsiders, bound together not by any common origin or culture, but rather by a common set of laws and values and institutions — what Abraham Lincoln called our “political religion.” (This is the liberal version of “American Exceptionalism” — the thing that makes us different from everyplace else.)

In the America Walz described in his convention speech, it doesn’t matter what language you speak at home or what god (if any) you worship, or whether you have kids (naturally or otherwise). Because as long as you believe in the American promise of liberty and adhere to its laws, you’re just as American as anyone else, and anybody who doesn’t like it should “mind their own damn business.”

Community, in Walz’s telling, isn’t defined by somebody’s idea of cultural norms, but rather by your connection to your neighbors. If you’re willing to help out with a stranded car or a bake sale, then he doesn’t care if you’re an atheist or a cat-owner (or, God forbid, both).

In a campaign season that may already feel small and shallow, this is a very big disagreement, and I would argue that it’s more important than any one policy having to do with the price of groceries or the tax code. It is an argument that will shape the way we govern ourselves for years to come — whether we conceive of American liberty as something that exists chiefly to protect White, Christian Americans from having their culture trampled, or whether we understand liberty to mean the freedom to choose whatever culture you like, as long as you respect the Constitution while you do it.

I come down firmly on the Harris-Walz side here. My own sense is that historians in the distant future will place the Trump movement among periodic eruptions in our history of the basest kind of nativism — Know-Nothings, the Immigration Restriction League, the Japanese American internment, Citizens’ Councils, and the Ku Klux Klan. How significant this eruption will be in that continuum depends, I suppose, on whether Trump is elected a second time.

But I’m glad we have candidates for vice president, if not at the top of the ticket, who are able and willing to engage in that theoretical argument, and I can’t wait for their scheduled debate in October. The only thing more depressing to me than arguing about the merits of rising nationalism would be never getting to argue about it at all.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/22/tim-walz-democratic
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Friday, August 23, 2024 9:44 AM

Have you seen Vance get interviewed by Alt-Left news outlets?

He's going to destroy Walz in their debate.

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On this day in history, August 23rd:

National00000000Harris +1.5000Biden +7.80000Clinton +5.5
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Wisconsin0000000Harris +1.0000Biden +4.60000Clinton +11.5
Pennsylvania0000Trump0 +0.2000Biden +5.70000Clinton +9.2
Ohio000000000000Trump0 +8.5000Biden +2.30000Clinton +4.8
Michigan00000000Harris +2.0000Biden +7.00000Clinton +8.0
Arizona000000000Trump0 +0.2000Biden +2.20000Trump00 +0.3
Nevada0000000000Trump0 +1.4000--000000000000Clinton +2.3
North Carolina00Trump0 +0.9000Trump +0.50000Clinton +1.8
Georgia000000000Trump0 +1.0000Trump +1.10000Clinton +1.0
Florida000000000Trump0 +6.3000Biden +4.80000Clinton +4.5

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Friday, August 23, 2024 5:56 PM

RFK Jr. endorses Trump and suspends presidential campaign

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-ends-presidential-bid/

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Friday, August 23, 2024 7:44 PM

Salon: The DNC did not unify Democrats. Donald Trump did that

https://www.salon.com/2024/08/23/the-dnc-did-not-unify-democrats-donal
d-did-that-long-before/

You can keep lying and saying that Democrats are united all you want, but you've lost the Latino vote and you're losing the black vote. And Rashida Talib was nothing close to resembling "Joyful" when it was her turn to speak at the DNC.

You white college "educated" liberals really need to step outside of your retarded echo chambers and talk to people you pretend you don't think are beneath you.

Maybe you'll be forced to when Salon.com goes out of business, and you're stuck working a job in retail Mrs. Parton.

SPOILER ALERT: This isn't the 1990's anymore and as a white lady you're going to be in the minority among your peers when that day comes.

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C L R James Foresaw the Crisis of US Democracy

The brilliant thinker is remembered as an admirer of the US but he also warned of its dark political future

By Harvey Neptune | 16 August 2024

https://aeon.co/essays/c-l-r-james-foresaw-the-crisis-of-us-liberal-de
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James’s basic contention in American Civilization was that a critical mass of the population had become so desperately distressed by the failure of the promises of liberal democracy that they were prepared to give up on it and, instead, to live vicariously through violently amoral political heroes, e.g. Trump. ‘The great masses of the American people no longer fear power,’ wrote James near the end of the manuscript. ‘They are ready to allocate today power to anyone who seems ready to do their bidding.’ This popular disenchantment with liberalism and the accompanying vulnerability to totalitarian leadership manifested in the entertainment industry, according to James. In films, novels, magazines and comics, he identified a contemporary archive of the cultural politics of totalitarianism – not a source of special affection for the modern republic (James actually trashed much of US popular culture as ‘ephemeral vulgarity on a colossal scale’). For him, moreover, the dire US situation was not exceptional but simply a richer symptomatic case of a modern derangement.

American Civilization sounded an alert that liberal democracy had arrived at a moment of palpable historic crisis. By the mid-20th century, hope in the idea of Americanism as heroic individual freedom was exhausted. Disenchantment with the nationalist liberal creed had been growing over the course of the 19th century, according to James, especially with the rise of corporate capital in the Gilded Age. With the Great Depression, however, its fate was sealed. For the masses of Americans, the ‘struggle for happiness’, once real, had become futile. ‘The worker during the last twenty years no longer has any illusions that by energy and ability and thrift or any of the virtues of Horatio Alger, he can rise to anything,’ observed James. Instead, the average American felt demoralised and objectified, not unlike another ‘piece of production as is a bolt of steel, a pot of paint or a mule which drags a load of corn’. Their dreams and aspirations lay strangled by the undemocratic organisation of economic life, which, under corporate capital, ‘imposed a mechanized way of life at work, mechanized forms of living, a mechanized totality which from morning till night, week after week, day after day, crushed the very individuality which tradition nourishes and the abundance of mass-produced goods encourages.’ What most struck James about the masses of working people in the US was the ‘bitterness, the frustration, the accumulated anger’ that lurked within them. He saw in them the kind of despair and alienation that stalked interwar Europe.

Although these despairing masses had not yet gone the barbarous route of totalitarianism, James found ominous signs in the kind of fictions they chose for entertainment. In the films, books, magazines and comics patronised by the US working classes, he diagnosed a desire for a new kind of fundamentally and violently undemocratic hero. The public were entertaining themselves with stories of protagonists with ‘totalitarian tendencies’. In his view, it was their way of negotiating the tensions between the promise of individual freedom and the reality of ‘the endless frustration of being merely a cog in a great machine’. Here was the analytical climax to American Civilization: a critical examination of ‘what is so lightly called the “entertainment industry”’ as an expression of the deepest feelings of the people. James justified this approach by pointing out that the products of the business had to appeal to the audience, that they ‘must satisfy the mass’ or, at the least, must not offend them. The people were not ‘passive recipients of what the purveyors of popular art give to them,’ James insisted. Granting more agency to consumers than most of his Marxist contemporaries, he noted that the paying mass ‘decides what it will see. It will pay to see that.’ And in the materials that the public were electing to see, listen to and read, he concluded, lay evidence of an attraction to a vicious fictional character.

Hinted at a century earlier in Moby Dick, this totalitarian protagonist had been flourishing on the entertainment scene since the Great Depression, according to James. Whether discussing the comic strip Dick Tracy, the film The Public Enemy (1931) or the bestselling fiction of the now largely forgotten African American writer Frank Yerby, he underlined the avid popular demand for a new type of hero, one who was amoral, primitivistic and endowed with more than a twist of misogyny. Embodied in what James called the ‘gangster-detective’, this character displayed a brutal disdain for the established order. Here was a protagonist who ‘lives in a world of his own according to ethics of his own’, a man who was ready to ‘break every accepted rule of society’. For James, the gangster-detectives epitomised the legendary free individuality of US nationalist myth. They ‘live grandly and boldly. What they want, they go for.’ And although virtually all of them eventually learn that ‘crime does not pay’, they nevertheless give audiences the pleasure of seeing them acting out heroically, dying while trying. In this way, according to James, the fictions churned out by the entertainment industry served ‘to many millions a sense of active living, and in the bloodshed, the violence, the freedom from restraint to allow pent-up feelings free play, they have released the bitterness, hate, fear and sadism which simmer just below the surface.’ The American dream was degenerating into the image of the American gangster.

James worried about the crossover of manufactured Hollywood heroism from entertainment to politics

The popular demand for this new totalitarian hero was not accidental but indexical, James stressed: ‘The gangster did not fall from the sky nor does he represent Chicago and the underworld.’ Rather, expressed in this protagonist was an unmistakably American desire for what was no longer possible in society, for the ‘old heroic qualities in the only way he can display them’. The gangster-detective was ‘the derisive symbol of the contrast between ideals and reality’ in a society where the myth of ‘Americanism’ no longer held; he was ‘the persistent symbol of the national past which now has no meaning – the past in which energy, determination, bravery were certain to get a man somewhere in the line of opportunity.’ For James, this fictional hero betrayed the real-life frustrations of audiences, providing them ‘an esthetic compensation in the contemplation of free individuals who go out into the world and settle their problems by free activity and individualistic methods.’ In the world of popular entertainment, he saw Americans indulging totalitarianism as a resolution to their nationalist crisis of liberalism.

Finally, and maybe most originally, James identified resources for totalitarianism not only in the industry’s projections of fictional protagonists but also in its production of ‘stars’ in reality. Since the Great Depression, he noted, a vital development in popular culture involved the professional packaging of celebrities (Hollywood actors, especially) into ‘synthetic characters’, produced by a ‘vast army of journalists, magazine writers, publicity men, etc’. The rise of these stars concerned James because he believed that through them the masses ‘live vicariously, see in them examples of that free individuality which is the dominant need of the vast mass today.’ Celebrities, he wrote, ‘fill a psychological need of the vast masses of people who live limited lives.’ In this regard, James saw an intrinsic connection between the industrial fabrication of these real-life heroes to be consumed by the admiring masses and the conditioning of the public for totalitarian rule: ‘We have seen how, deprived of individuality, millions of modern citizens live vicariously, through identification with brilliant notably effective, famous or glamorous individuals. The totalitarian state, having crushed all freedom, carries this substitution to its last ultimate.’ The entertainment industry’s heavy investment in the production of stars readied the republic for an antidemocratic regime.

In fact, the ultimate worry in James’s analysis of US popular culture was the potential crossover of manufactured Hollywood heroism from entertainment to politics. The feared translation of the celebrity into a totalitarian leader had not yet happened, but the potential had appeared in the figure of the ‘radio priest’ Charles Coughlin: ‘For a brief period Father Coughlin showed the political possibilities that slumber behind these manifestations of our time. Other countries in the modern world have shown not only the possibilities but the realities.’ Though not even the genius of James could have predicted the celebrity presidency of Donald Trump, it is almost impossible to read American Civilization faithfully in our times and not find a forewarning. (Indeed, this text gives new meaning to mass entertainment fictions like The Sopranos and The Wire and to entertainers like Jay-Z.)

And read it should be. Even if we can no longer avoid the antidemocratic predicament about which James warned, we can still turn to James’s writing for some illumination as to how the US ended up here in this darkening place.

More at https://aeon.co/essays/c-l-r-james-foresaw-the-crisis-of-us-liberal-de
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How Kamala Made Trump the Incumbent

August 23, 2024 12:46 p.m.

This morning on Twitter, Tim Murtaugh, a former Trump campaign spokesman, concluded a tweet attacking Harris by writing: “Her whole vacant message sounds like it’s from a party that’s out of power. But they’re her messes.” Through the spittle and frustration you can see him making a point which quite understandably has Trump’s campaign angry and bewildered. Harris has made Trump into the incumbent with her as the challenger running on a campaign message to turn the page. Whether this is fair or true or any number of other descriptors you might come up with, there’s little doubt that it is an accurate description of the campaign we are in the midst of. The Trump campaign itself is telling us this, almost in spite of itself.

A month ago the Trump campaign ran a four-day convention aimed at a man who has now retired from politics. The central theme of their convention was Trump’s miraculous deliverance from an attempted assassination which barely anyone can even remember. For both those reasons, Trump gained zero forward momentum from his convention and was basically idling in neutral when the Harris juggernaut hit them. The Harris campaign has moved so fast that Trump’s hasn’t been able to reposition or retool or reconceptualize the race before she’s off to the next thing.

Harris’ campaign has essentially redefined the last eight years as the Trump Era, the first four years dominated by Trump’s malignant degeneracy and the second by the looming fear of Trump’s return.

But there’s another paradoxical way that Trump himself laid the groundwork for this campaign, and made it possible for Harris to turn his own political heft against him. The centerpiece of Trump’s post-presidency is the wicked conceit that he never stopped being president at all. At the most basic level he never admitted that he lost the 2020 campaign. His most ardent supporters believe he is the legitimate president and some of the most febrile actually believe in a funhouse mirror, QAnony way that he still holds secret reins of power. But much of it is more immediate and open. He still calls himself president. He demands and universally receives that billing from his followers. He moves through the country with the trappings and insignia of the presidency. He continues to meet with foreign heads of state, not as an elder statesman but as though he never left office. He even argues that national secrets and presidential documents are his personal property. This has been an open, weird and much-discussed feature of Trump’s post-presidency since the first weeks after leaving office. If Trump and his toadies are now complaining that Harris is treating him like the incumbent it is because in ways vast and small he has acted like one and demanded to be treated like one for almost four years. She’s taken his most perverse and vainglorious conceit and turned it into a massive liability.

The policy agenda matches this. A challenger talks about a new future. Trump hasn’t done that at all. In a way that’s natural and inevitable. At its most innocent MAGA sees the Biden presidency as an illegitimate interregnum and Trump’s second term as a restoration. But it goes beyond that. Trump’s entire platform is retribution — retribution for his 2020 defeat, which he lacks the character to recognize, and retribution for what he considers his mistreatment during his term as president. While Project 2025 really was authored by Trump’s top advisors as a second-term guide to governing, most of the stuff in it Trump couldn’t give a crap about. The parts he really cares about are the parts that allow him to take revenge on those he blames for his first-term ego injuries and to coerce fealty more effectively in his return to power. Most of us have been horrified by this possibility. We’ve recognized the severe threat it represents to the American republic. But at the most basic level it’s about the past, relitigating, being mad about, wanting to fix things that happened in 2017, 2018, etc. Trump’s true second term agenda is undoing and getting even for what he’s mad about from the first term.

Harris’ campaign is essentially taking everything that happened since 2016, the whole long parade of horribles, blaming it all on Trump — mostly true — and saying let’s turn the page and put all that behind us. That has Trump’s campaign steaming mad. But they laid the groundwork for it. Trump himself meanwhile is too tired and probably too old to gin up a new story. And the truth is that the country is ready.

Much more at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/how-kamala-made-trump-the-incumbe
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How Kamala Made Trump the Incumbent

The MEDIA made Trump the Incumbent, and they were able to do so because they speak to low IQ cultists.

Period.

Politico: Democratic pollsters have a warning about Kamala Harris’ lead

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/22/democrat-pollsters-kamala-har
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Quote:
So now that Kamala Harris has caught Trump in the polls in her first month as a candidate, it’s left Democrats wondering: How real is her surge?

Here at the Democratic convention this week, some in the party’s professional class are trying to tamp down the exuberance. Officials with the top pro-Harris super PAC said their polling “is much less rosy” than public surveys. Other Democratic pollsters noted that — even if their polling is right — Trump still maintains a lot of advantages.

Yup.

The article linked from the underlined in the 2nd paragraph above...

Reuters: Harris super PAC founder says public polls are too optimistic

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-super-pac-founder-says-public-
polls-are-too-optimistic-2024-08-19/

And don't forget...

1) Polling for both Biden* and Clinton fell sharply from their highs against Trump between the end of summer and election day in the last two cycles.

2) Polling for both Biden* and Clinton were much higher than reality in both cases on election day.

Let's see how big of a buffer Harris has from any DNC sugar high bump if any before her polling starts trending downward again.

Tick Tock

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