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Elections; 2024

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Wednesday, September 25, 2024 9:54 PM

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A Trump return to the White House has UN officials worried about global cooperation.

By Nahal Toosi | 09/25/2024 05:00 AM EDT

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/25/un-leaders-harris-trump-fears
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NEW YORK — United Nations officials who have long worried about the return of former President Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency are experiencing a rare feeling now that Vice President Kamala Harris is in the race.

It’s not joy. It’s not excitement. It’s definitely not confidence.

It’s a word some struggle to say as if they fear jinxing it: “Hope.”

“It’s a cautious hope,” one U.N. staffer rushed to qualify. “We are all biting our nails until the very end and watching with quite a bit of stress.”

The U.S. election is a key topic of discussion among the many officials and diplomats in New York this week for the U.N. General Assembly’s annual meeting of world leaders. This is an internationally minded set well aware of the influence the U.S. president has on the rest of the world, and Harris is widely believed to be more friendly to the U.N. community than Trump, who is skeptical — at best — toward multilateral institutions.

Even if some of the diplomats hail from countries that are avowed U.S. adversaries, they largely believe in the need for international institutions such as the United Nations. And the U.S. is seen as a critical player on transnational challenges that require cross-border cooperation, such as climate change and pandemics.

In his earlier term, Trump moved to withdraw the U.S. from the U.N.’s World Health Organization during the Covid-19 pandemic. He also slashed funding for the U.N. agency that deals with Palestinian refugees and quit the U.N. cultural organization, UNESCO, over concerns that it was biased against Israel.

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Wednesday, September 25, 2024 10:23 PM

Fuck off.

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Wednesday, September 25, 2024 10:29 PM

Joe Manchin just refused to endorse Kamala Harris today.

How come so many Democrats won't back her or are even leaving their party behind right now, but you guys get Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney and 200 NeoCons?

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm....

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Wednesday, September 25, 2024 11:40 PM

The DNC is also following through with persecuting New York mayor Eric Adams for telling America the truth about how bad the Harris/Biden* administration has let the invasion of America get.

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“I always knew that if I stood my ground for New Yorkers that I would be a target — and a target I became,” Adams said in a statement to The Post.

“If I am charged, I am innocent, and I will fight this with every ounce of my strength and spirit.”

In a video statement released later, Adams said he wouldn’t step down and pledged to “fight these injustices with every ounce of my strength and spirit.”

“I will request an immediate trial so that New Yorkers can hear the truth. New Yorkers know my story. They know where I come from. I have been fighting injustice my entire life,” he continued.

“That fight has continued as your mayor. Despite our police, when the federal government did nothing as its broken immigration policies overloaded our shelter system with no relief, I put the people of New York before party and politics.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/26/new-york-city-mayor-eric-adams-indicte
d-in-federal-court.html

https://nypost.com/2024/09/25/us-news/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-indicted-by
-grand-jury-in-historic-federal-probe-sources/

Hey buddy. I know this sucks, but at least Hilary wasn't president. The Clintons would have straight up had you murdered already.

Fight the good fight, and tell Americans before the election who they need to vote against.

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Wednesday, September 25, 2024 11:49 PM

Eric Adams isn't the only Democrat mayor in the papers today...

‘A fuck you endorsement’: How Trump won over a key Muslim mayor in Michigan

https://www.semafor.com/article/09/24/2024/a-f-you-endorsement-how-tru
mp-won-over-a-key-muslim-mayor-in-michigan

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How did the mayor of America’s only majority-Muslim city end up endorsing Donald Trump for president? It took weeks of outreach, a 20-minute meeting with the GOP nominee, a boost from Tiffany Trump’s father-in-law, and an ad-libbed comment from Kamala Harris.

On Aug. 7, Harris’ rally on a Detroit-area airfield was interrupted by Arab-American protesters, demanding an “arms embargo and a free Palestine.” Harris shut them down instantly: “If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that.” Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib, a Democrat still serving his first term, couldn’t believe it.

“Let Kamala Harris finish her speech, so Netanyahu can finish his massacre and genocide!” he posted on his personal Facebook page. “Let those opportunists fall like the autumn leaves, one after another, to endorse her administration’s crimes.”

You guys are fuckin' toast. The Democrat party is a dumpster fire and there aren't any fire extinguishers around because Pete Buttigeg is still on maternity leave and all the fire extinguishers are still stuck on boats waiting to dock.

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Thursday, September 26, 2024 6:20 AM

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Last year, a bipartisan group of lawmakers had negotiated a bill aimed at restricting illegal immigration. It had been written at the behest of Republicans, who said they would fund new Ukrainian military aid only if Congress also tackled the “crisis” at America’s southern border. Then Trump came out against the immigration bill, having reportedly decided that the crisis at the border was good for his reelection prospects, and Republicans promptly fell in line. To Romney, it was clear that the priority for most of his colleagues was “to do whatever their nominee wants”—not to solve the problems they’d been elected to solve: “If Donald Trump says, ‘Hey, kill that immigration deal,’ [they’re] gonna kill the immigration deal.”

Romney told me he’d been invited to deliver a commencement speech, and he planned to illustrate the cynical nature of politics today by talking about his childhood fascination with professional wrestling. As a kid, he’d been enthralled by the theatrical rivalry between “Dick the Bruiser,” a muscle-bound former NFL player, and “Haystacks Calhoun,” a 600-pound farm boy from Texas. The two men riled up crowds by thumping their chests and talking trash about each other. “I was intrigued,” Romney told me, “until my brother, six years older, said it’s all fake. And it suddenly became less interesting.” Congress, he’d come to discover, was more or less the same. “Most of what’s going on in these buildings is just fake”—less policy making than performative animosity and posturing.

I thought it sounded a little bleak for a commencement address, but Romney wasn’t soliciting feedback. Before I could say anything, he was venting about the lack of seriousness in legislative debates over the federal debt and climate change, and the plague of partisan “messaging bills” that are written to score points instead of make law. Finally, when he’d tired himself out, he slumped back in his chair. “We’ve got some real challenges,” Romney said, “and we just don’t deal with them.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/mitt-romney-trump/67
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Thursday, September 26, 2024 7:49 AM

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Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

Author(s): Russ Buettner; Susanne Craig

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Donald Trump’s Many Lucky Breaks

A new book by two New York Times investigative reporters comprehensively debunks the notion that Trump is a good businessman.

By John Cassidy | September 23, 2024

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/donald-trumps-many-l
ucky-breaks

Circumstances change; Donald Trump doesn’t. In early 1973, when he was twenty-six years old, he and his father, Fred Trump, who was a major developer of houses and apartment buildings in the outer boroughs of New York City, gave an interview to the real-estate section of the Times. The resulting article described Donald as the only one of Fred’s five children to show an interest in the family business, and said that he had become its president after finishing “first in his class” at Wharton business school. The piece also noted that the Trumps were in the process of buying a prime site to develop on the East Side, which Trump fils called “our entry into the Manhattan field.”

More than fifty years on, Trump isn’t letting an election campaign or attempted assassinations interfere with his efforts to hype up and promote his various ventures. The day after federal agents arrested a man who had spent nearly twelve hours hiding outside the former President’s West Palm Beach golf course with an assault rifle, Trump appeared on an X live stream to promote a new crypto outfit, World Liberty Financial. (Three years ago, he called Bitcoin “a scam.”) On Saturday, he plugged a new set of “Official Trump Coins!” on his social-media accounts.

It just so happened that the crypto launch coincided with the publication of a new book about Trump’s business career: “Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success,” by Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig, two investigative reporters at the Times. During Trump’s 2016 Presidential campaign, and when he was in the White House, Buettner and Craig wrote a number of blockbuster stories revealing how, for decades, his businesses had recorded huge losses, and how he engaged in dubious schemes to reduce his taxes. In “Lucky Loser,” the authors trace Trump’s dealings all the way back to the 1973 Times story, which they describe as largely fictitious. Trump “had graduated without honors,” they write. “His brother Freddy had displayed an interest in the business and been pushed aside by their father. . . . The Trumps had not bought land on the East Side of Manhattan for an apartment building and would not do so that decade.”

It’s not news that Trump is an inveterate teller of tall tales. The more penetrating argument that Buettner and Craig make is that he’s a lousy businessman who only got as far as he did because of a series of lucky breaks that “could paper over a litany of failure and still fund a lavish life.” “There is no evidence that in fifty years of labor Donald Trump added to his lucky fortunes,” the authors conclude. “He would have been better off betting on the stock market than on himself.”

According to Axios, Steven Cheung, the director of communications for the Trump campaign, dismissed the new book as “lies” and “nonsense,” and suggested that it belonged in the bargain bin at the bookstore. Actually, it deserves a place in the shop window. Combining the groundbreaking reporting of its authors with details unearthed throughout the years by other journalists and financial analysts, “Lucky Loser” is comprehensive, persuasive, and packed with damning anecdotes.

It starts at the beginning, with Trump’s original charmed break: the family into which he was born. Buettner and Craig relate how Trump’s father, Fred, paid for his private education, created trust funds for him and his siblings, helped to finance some of his early real-estate ventures and his expensive Manhattan life style while he was on the make, and eventually bequeathed him $177.3 million. Pop’s connections were also a boon. It was one of Fred’s old friends, Mayor Abraham Beame, who helped to facilitate one of Trump’s first big plays: obtaining an option to develop the West Side rail yards from a bankruptcy court overseeing the assets of its previous owner, Penn Central. During the construction of Trump Tower, it was Fred that helped him acquire the air rights he needed from a neighboring Tiffany’s building. And the podiatrist who provided Trump with the “bone spurs” diagnosis that enabled him to avoid the Vietnam draft? Buettner and Craig cite a 2018 report in the Times that said he may well have been a doctor who leased office space in a Fred-owned building.

Trump’s second major stroke of good fortune came in the early nineties. A number of banks, for reasons known only to them, had extended him billions of dollars’ worth of credit to finance an acquisition spree that included the Plaza Hotel, the Eastern Air Lines Shuttle, and three hotels in Atlantic City: the Trump Plaza, the Trump Castle, and the Trump Taj Mahal. (He bought the latter one when it was only partially built.) But by the summer of 1990 his businesses were struggling to pay the interest on their debts. He missed some interest payments, which raised the prospect of the banks calling his loans and forcing him and his empire into bankruptcy.

Two factors complicated the situation. Trump had cross-collateralized some of the loans, using the same assets to back more than one of them. Also, the banks had issued him with some nine hundred million dollars in credit based solely on his personal guarantee. If the banks had called their loans, “assets would have to be unloaded at fire sale prices, and they would all be fighting for a place in line to collect,” Buettner and Craig write. Rather than pushing Trump under, the banks agreed to keep him afloat in the hope that his businesses would be worth more as going concerns. They suspended some of his debt payments, issued a new line of credit to keep the businesses operating, and gave Trump a personal allowance of four hundred and fifty thousand dollars a month.

As Trump’s financial crisis dragged on, he was eventually obliged to relinquish the Plaza Hotel, the airline shuttle, his personal yacht, and half of his ownership stakes in the Taj Mahal, Castle, and Plaza casinos, which had entered bankruptcy. But these settlements left him in effective control of the Atlantic City properties and some of his other buildings, and allowed him to avoid a personal bankruptcy. On Wall Street, he was widely regarded as a busted flush. Still, he talked a big game to anyone who would listen, and, in the early two-thousands, fortune shone on him again when Mark Burnett, a reality-television producer, cast him as a successful businessman, despite the copious evidence to the contrary, on “The Apprentice.”

This was Trump’s third, and arguably biggest, piece of luck. Between 2004 and 2015, he starred in fourteen seasons of the show, which turned him into a national celebrity, and generated hundreds of million of dollars for him in fees, profit shares, and licensing deals and endorsement fees that resulted from his enhanced public standing. Even this huge windfall wasn’t enough to cover the ongoing losses from his other businesses, including a string of upscale golf courses that he had acquired. In 2009, Buettner and Craig note, the Trump Organization appears to have recorded accumulated tax losses of nearly eight hundred million dollars, which Trump then used to claim a big refund from the I.R.S. for the taxes he had paid since “The Apprentice” had taken off. In accordance with its standard procedure, the tax agency issued the refund—$72.8 million, including interest—and opened an audit. “The IRS audit would remain open for years to come, posing a potential threat if the final decision went against him,” the authors write. “But for the foreseeable future, the cash was his.”

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Thursday, September 26, 2024 8:07 AM

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How the world’s climate financing hinges on the U.S. election

Trump has vowed to again withdraw from the Paris Agreement, as well as from the overarching UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91195800/un-climate-financing-world-us-ele
ction-trump-harris

Countries have a chance to use this week’s UN meetings in New York to resolve big differences over boosting the world’s annual goal for climate finance, but uncertainty over the U.S. election could jeopardize progress ahead of the next UN climate summit in November.

Negotiators told Reuters that countries were reluctant to stake out their positions before knowing who might win the November 5 U.S. presidential vote and be setting climate policy for the world’s largest economy—and biggest historical polluter—for the next four years.

But by waiting until November for that answer, countries could be risking the chance of reaching a new deal before the world’s current $100 billion financing pledge expires at the end of this year, the negotiators and observers warned.

“The elections are in the calculus” of global climate talks, said finance negotiator Michai Robertson of the Alliance of Small Island States.

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Thursday, September 26, 2024 8:13 AM

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Maryanne Trump Barry said of her brother, "All he wants to do is appeal to his base. He has no principles. None. His goddamned tweeting and lying... oh my god. I'm talking too freely, but you know. The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy shit. [...] It's the phoniness of it all. It's the phoniness and this cruelty. Donald is cruel." She added that he did not read books and had someone take the college entrance exam in his place. In the recordings, Barry also criticized her brother's family separation policy and the bankruptcies of his businesses, adding that "you can't trust him".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryanne_Trump_Barry#Private_criticism_o
f_Donald_Trump

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Thursday, September 26, 2024 9:12 AM

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Would another Trump defeat end Trumpism?

A second Trump loss would change the GOP, but probably not in the ways conservative purists hope.

By Eric Levitz | Sep 26, 2024, 5:30 AM CDT

https://www.vox.com/politics/373376/trump-loss-2024-election-republica
n-party

Most conservatives are as interested in voting for Kamala Harris as they are in eating a bowl of tofu marinated in motor oil.

After all, the Democratic nominee has vowed to legalize abortion nationwide, ban assault weapons, regulate prices, and increase federal spending. As Donald Trump — in his own wildly exaggerated fashion — would put it, she wants “this country to go communist immediately, if not sooner.”

And yet, some on the right are quietly rooting for Trump’s defeat. To this contingent, preventing Trump and JD Vance from remaking conservatism in their image takes precedence over keeping Harris out of the White House.

Their reasoning is simple: Trump has revised GOP orthodoxy, to the detriment of core conservative interest groups. His contempt for NATO and affinity for Vladimir Putin have incensed national security hawks. His enthusiasm for tariffs has dismayed economic libertarians. His gestures of moderation on abortion have dispirited the religious right. And his affection for mobs that threaten to kill Mike Pence has alienated Mike Pence.

All this might not amount to a case for Harris were it not for Trump’s running mate. With the notable exception of abortion rights, JD Vance is even more ideologically hostile to traditional conservatism than the GOP nominee is.

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Thursday, September 26, 2024 12:00 PM

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Would another Trump defeat end Trumpism?

SPOILER ALERT: Not a chance.

Fuck the NeoCons. They're your problem now.

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Thursday, September 26, 2024 12:49 PM

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The United States is the biggest country in the G7 by far and the fastest growing by far. That's not a combination you see very often.

Every once in a while everybody in the country should look at this chart and be agog.

https://jabberwocking.com/raw-data-gdp-growth-in-the-g7/

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Thursday, September 26, 2024 5:33 PM

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The United States is the biggest country in the G7 by far and the fastest growing by far. That's not a combination you see very often.

Every once in a while everybody in the country should look at this chart and be agog.

https://jabberwocking.com/raw-data-gdp-growth-in-the-g7/

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That's what happens when you have an infinite money press and you get to make money out
of thin air.

That's not going to last forever once we've finally forced everyone else to get off the dollar
because of how we mismanaged the fuck out of it.

Kevin Drum, once again, shows how stupid he is.

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Thursday, September 26, 2024 7:23 PM

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Donald Trump’s Sexual Assault Accusers Tell Their Stories in Chilling New Ads (Exclusive)

Ads launching on Wednesday, Sept. 25, feature two of the presidential nominee's accusers, including former PEOPLE reporter Natasha Stoynoff

By Ingrid Vasquez | September 25, 2024 08:00AM EDT

https://people.com/donald-trump-sexual-assault-accuser-ads-8717764

The first ad centers around former PEOPLE reporter Natasha Stoynoff, who claims she was assaulted by Trump during a December 2005 trip to Mar-a-Lago to interview him and his wife, Melania Trump, for the magazine — something he previously said had "no merit or veracity."

"At one point, Melania went upstairs to change her clothes for the next photo shoot, and Trump said to me, 'I want to show you this beautiful painting, this beautiful room.' He leads me to this room, pushes me against the wall, and starts kissing me forcefully," she says. "I tried to push him. He kept coming back at me."

"I was in shock and smothered, and he had his hands here against my shoulders. I felt sick inside. I felt horrified, and thank goodness the butler charges into the room," she continues. "Like many women, I blamed myself. So Trump turned to me and said, 'You know we're going have an affair, don't you?' and Melania was approaching. I was horrified."

The second ad features Jessica Leeds. While Trump denied the claims in the Times article, Leeds vividly recalled the alleged encounter in the new ad, saying, "The airplane took off, and all of a sudden Donald Trump started groping me. He was trying to kiss me and I'm trying to push him away, he was basically overpowering me."

"When he started putting his hand up my skirt I got out of the seat, grabbed my purse, and went back to my original seat and I certainly was shook up by the whole thing," she adds.

Trump has been accused of varying degrees of sexual misconduct by at least 26 women during his career, though he has vehemently denied wrongdoing.

Following a 2023 civil trial, a jury held him liable of sexually abusing one accuser — former Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll.

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Thursday, September 26, 2024 7:25 PM

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That's what happens when you have an infinite money press and you get to make money out of thin air.

That's not going to last forever once we've finally forced everyone else to get off the dollar because of how we mismanaged the fuck out of it.

Kevin Drum, once again, shows how stupid he is.

6ix, you were drunk for decades. Then Trump (more typical drunks are saved by Jesus) came into your life to save you from alcoholism. You are not a smart person, 6ix. Now you have no income and live on government handouts to the poor. Shut up, you good-for-nothing, goddamn, angry poor white trash.

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Thursday, September 26, 2024 8:03 PM

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Atlanta Fed forecasting Q3 GDP growth of 2.9%

The third quarter is almost over, which means the Atlanta Fed's GDPnow estimate is probably pretty close. They're forecasting Q3 real GDP growth of 2.9%:
https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow

https://jabberwocking.com/atlanta-fed-forecasting-q3-gdp-growth-of-2-9/

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Thursday, September 26, 2024 8:47 PM

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That's what happens when you have an infinite money press and you get to make money out of thin air.

That's not going to last forever once we've finally forced everyone else to get off the dollar because of how we mismanaged the fuck out of it.

Kevin Drum, once again, shows how stupid he is.
6ix, you were drunk for decades. Then Trump (more typical drunks are saved by Jesus) came into your life to save you from alcoholism. You are not a smart person, 6ix. Now you have no income and live on government handouts to the poor. Shut up, you good-for-nothing, goddamn, angry poor white trash.

None of the above is true.

Try again.

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Thursday, September 26, 2024 9:39 PM

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None of the above is true.

Try again.

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Trump will be fine.
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Your life will be disrupted if Trump loses, you know. I suggest you fight for him by joining a domestic terrorist group. That will get you out of the house and into the big world beyond your little neighborhood. You will meet new people. There will be adventure. Drama. Wild experiences beyond Indiana's mundanity, action sequences unavailable via the internet or motion pictures from Hollywood. Your future will be exciting! Trump's future? Not so much unless courtrooms are exciting to him.

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Thursday, September 26, 2024 10:15 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

None of the above is true.

Try again.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Your life will be disrupted if Trump loses, you know.

No. It won't.

I fixed myself without Trump's help, and I didn't start drinking during the last 4 years of a shitshow that people like you inflicted on America.

I'll be fine either way. It's you and Ted that I'm worried about. Especially after watching you both go insane over the last 4 years while your pudding brained idiot has been running the country. I'm worried for people you know in real life and what you're going to do to them when Harris loses.

Go fuck yourself.

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Friday, September 27, 2024 12:36 AM

North Carolina election board removes 747,000 from voter rolls for ineligibility

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/north-carolina-elect
ion-board-removes-747000-voter-rolls-ineligibility

That's the 2nd swing state now that has purged the voter rolls before the election. We're going to make sure that there aren't any dead Democrats voting for Harris outside of California where it doesn't matter.

Tick Tock

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Friday, September 27, 2024 12:40 AM

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

None of the above is true.

Try again.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Your life will be disrupted if Trump loses, you know.

No. It won't.

I fixed myself without Trump's help, and I didn't start drinking during the last 4 years of a shitshow that people like you inflicted on America.

I'll be fine either way. It's you and Ted that I'm worried about. Especially after watching you both go insane over the last 4 years while your pudding brained idiot has been running the country. I'm worried for people you know in real life and what you're going to do to them when Harris loses.

Go fuck yourself.

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

Speaking of the pudding brained idiot that you and Ted inflicted on Americans...

Biden blunders at New York City speech, telling the audience 'Welcome to Washington'

'He’s sharp as a tack,' one commentator joked

https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-blunders-new-york-city-speech-tell
ing-audience-welcome-washington

It's even funnier because there are two signs next to him on the podium that say "New York, NY"

Too funny, huh Ted?

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None of the above is true.

Try again.

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Your life will be disrupted if Trump loses, you know.

No. It won't.

I fixed myself without Trump's help, and I didn't start drinking during the last 4 years of a shitshow that people like you inflicted on America.

I'll be fine either way. It's you and Ted that I'm worried about. Especially after watching you both go insane over the last 4 years while your pudding brained idiot has been running the country. I'm worried for people you know in real life and what you're going to do to them when Harris loses.

Go fuck yourself.

So now you are the self-made man. Every Trumptard claims the same thing. Funny how sour tasting failure is the largest ingredient by weight or volume in the recipe for a self-made man.

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Friday, September 27, 2024 7:23 AM

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Prosecutors File Sealed Brief Detailing Allegations Against Trump in Election Interference Case

Though the brief is not currently accessible to the public, prosecutors have said they intend to file a redacted version that could be made available later, raising the prospect that previously unseen allegations from the case could become public in the final weeks before the November election.

The Trump team has vigorously objected to the filing, calling it unnecessary and saying it could lead to the airing of unflattering details in the “sensitive” pre-election time period.

“The Court does not need 180 pages of ‘great assistance’ from the Special Counsel’s Office to develop the record necessary to address President Trump’s Presidential immunity defense," Trump's lawyers wrote, calling it “tantamount to a premature and improper Special Counsel report.”

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2024-09-26/prosecutors-f
ile-sealed-brief-detailing-allegations-against-trump-in-election-interference-case

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Prosecutors File Sealed Brief Detailing Allegations Against Trump in Election Interference Case

Though the brief is not currently accessible to the public, prosecutors have said they intend to file a redacted version that could be made available later, raising the prospect that previously unseen allegations from the case could become public in the final weeks before the November election.

The Trump team has vigorously objected to the filing, calling it unnecessary and saying it could lead to the airing of unflattering details in the “sensitive” pre-election time period.

“The Court does not need 180 pages of ‘great assistance’ from the Special Counsel’s Office to develop the record necessary to address President Trump’s Presidential immunity defense," Trump's lawyers wrote, calling it “tantamount to a premature and improper Special Counsel report.”

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2024-09-26/prosecutors-f
ile-sealed-brief-detailing-allegations-against-trump-in-election-interference-case

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Do you honestly think that any of this bullshit is going to move the needle at all?

Good luck with that.

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None of the above is true.

Try again.

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Trump will be fine.
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Your life will be disrupted if Trump loses, you know.

No. It won't.

I fixed myself without Trump's help, and I didn't start drinking during the last 4 years of a shitshow that people like you inflicted on America.

I'll be fine either way. It's you and Ted that I'm worried about. Especially after watching you both go insane over the last 4 years while your pudding brained idiot has been running the country. I'm worried for people you know in real life and what you're going to do to them when Harris loses.

Go fuck yourself.
So now you are the self-made man. Every Trumptard claims the same thing. Funny how sour tasting failure is the largest ingredient by weight or volume in the recipe for a self-made man.

Now? I've always been.

How was work today honey?

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Friday, September 27, 2024 5:52 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

When SECOND resorts to personal attacks
...

he's got nothin'.

Meanwhile

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Biden-Harris Admin Let A Staggering 650,000 Criminal Illegals Loose In The US: ICE

New data from US Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) reveals that over 650,000 migrants with criminal histories were let loose in the United States between 'mid-May 2023 through the end of July 2024.'

In a response to a March letter from Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX), deputy DHS Director Patrick J. Lechleitner writes:

"As of July 21, 2024, there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE's national docket, which includes those detained by ICE and on the agency's non-detained docket. Of those, 435,729 are convicted criminals, and 226,847 have pending criminal charges."

Yep. Bc Biden* and Harris are patriots who only want the best for the United States.
/sarcasm

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Saturday, September 28, 2024 8:24 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

I made the mistake of reading a few MSM articles about the election:

Polling numbers, voter rolls, the deepstate's anti- Trump dirty trick of not providing sufficient security and forcing Trump to cancel rallies, and the media's constant covering of Harris' (frequent) shortcomings.

For my peace of mind, I decided to go back to NOT reading those articles. It's too easy to get sucked into the 'horse race'/ 'team cheerleader" mentality. But that approach is used to distract an awful lot of people away from legitimate issues, like

Who is going to fix our economy?
Who is going to secure our border?
Who is going to break our addiction to debt?
Who is going to put America first?
Who is going to secure our energy, now and for the foreseeable future?
Who is going to put us on the path to sustainability?
Who is going to break the back of the deep state, and restore our Constitutional rights?
Who is going to save us from the prospect of nuclear holocaust?
Who is going to preserve the safety nets set up for the very young, the disabled, the elderly, and those expeiencing temporary misfortune?
Who is going to unite America by rewarding work in a mileu of an equal opportunity meritocracy, without favor to race, age, sex, religion, gender, or the many other wedge interests that have been used to divide us?

*****

All of these are real and IMHO existential problems that deserve, and NEED, legitimate answers. The more we focus on 'who's running ahead?' and "my team versus your team' the more these questions get buried. And that's what TPTB want.

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After Letting 600K Criminals Into The US, Kamala Slithers Down To The Border And Does Trump Impression

Friday, Sep 27, 2024 - 08:00 PM

On Friday, 'Border Czar' Kamala Harris flew down to Arizona for a photo-op at the southern US border - through which untold millions of migrants from all over the world have entered the United States illegally during the Biden-Harris administration.

While there, she gave a ridiculous speech in which she (get this) called for tougher border security - pledging to enact various forms of immigration reform if she's elected in November, including a 5-year ban on reentry for those who enter the country illegally.

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Saturday, September 28, 2024 5:00 PM

Trump is up +4.8 in the popular vote from where he was today in 2020.

Trump is up +3.7 in the battleground states from where he was today in 2020.

Trump's favorability rating is up +7.2 from where he was today in 2020.

Sleep Tight.

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Saturday, September 28, 2024 7:43 PM

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JD Vance, meanwhile, in 2020 text messages, said Trump “thoroughly failed to deliver” — yet now (having also called him “America’s Hitler”) is fully on board.

Trump’s last VP — “hang Mike Pence” — has quite famously declared Trump should never be president again.

So, too, Shark Tank’s Mark Cuban.

Even Bashar, the “extraterrestrial entity from a parallel reality in the future” channeled by Darryl Anka, of whom I had not heard until today but who has millions of followers — and who until now has never dabbled in politics — even Bashar seems to have adopted an urgently pro-Kamala point of view!

https://andrewtobias.com/the-word-from-an-extraterrestrial-entity/

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Shut up bitch.

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Trump is up +4.8 in the popular vote from where he was today in 2020.

Trump is up +3.7 in the battleground states from where he was today in 2020.

Trump's favorability rating is up +7.2 from where he was today in 2020.

Sleep Tight.

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I'll wait until after the election before I start counting votes! The DNC - neocon/transnational - media complex is a powerful entity with enough resources for no end of mischief.

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Trump is up +4.8 in the popular vote from where he was today in 2020.

Trump is up +3.7 in the battleground states from where he was today in 2020.

Trump's favorability rating is up +7.2 from where he was today in 2020.

Sleep Tight.

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I'll wait until after the election before I start counting votes! The DNC - neocon/transnational - media complex is a powerful entity with enough resources for no end of mischief.

This is true, but they're also kind of dumb.

Most of the people I've ever met with money are. I think you get sloppy when you've got more than you need.

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Trump Launches Into 'Dark Speech' On Illegal Immigration

Republican Donald Trump said himself that his speech in Wisconsin, filled with racially charged lines about illegal immigrants, was 'dark'

By AFP - Agence France Presse | September 28, 2024

https://www.barrons.com/news/trump-launches-into-dark-speech-on-illega
l-immigration-9f3bff28

Donald Trump on Saturday called Democrat Kamala Harris "mentally impaired" and said illegal immigrants are out to cut the throats of ordinary Americans in their own homes as he doubled down on the racially charged rhetoric fueling his unprecedented bid to regain the US presidency.

Trump was seeking to strike back at Harris after she visited the US-Mexico border on Friday and vowed to do more to control asylum claims and undocumented migrant crossings.

The issue is one of the Democratic vice president’s weakest in polling, as she runs neck-and-neck against Trump in the November 5 election.

Trump dismissed Harris’s speech at the border, swearing and telling supporters in the small town of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, that President Joe Biden and Harris are responsible for an "invasion" of violent criminals.

Anti-immigrant sentiment has been at the core of Trump's appeal in economically depressed, majority-white parts of the country ever since his 2016 presidential victory, but the rhetoric is turning ever more extreme as election day nears.

The 78-year-old businessman -- the first major presidential candidate in US history to be a convicted felon and subject of multiple ongoing court cases -- said former California prosecutor Harris, 59, is "dumb."

"Joe Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born that way. She was born that way. And if you think about it, only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country," he said.

Harris, meanwhile, spent Saturday at a fundraiser in San Francisco, California, where she said Trump was using "the same tired playbook we've heard for years."

"This election is about two very different visions for our nation and we see that contrast on the campaign trail," she said.

Trump spoke in Wisconsin while flanked on stage by large mugshots of migrants accused of crimes, painting a hellish picture of an America under violent assault -- despite a plunge this year in illegal border crossings and what the FBI says is a steep decline in crime overall, particularly murder.

"They will walk into your kitchen, they'll cut your throat," Trump said of illegal immigrants.

"Small towns in America are terrified of migrants coming in and, even when they haven't arrived, they’re terrified," he said. They will "rape, pillage, thieve, plunder and kill the people of the United States of America."

The illegal migrants, whom he called "animals," will take the jobs of minorities and of union workers, he added.

Apparently rankled by Harris’s bid Friday to deliver a tough message on the Mexican border, Trump cursed on the nationally streamed event and branded her "a liar."

He complained that Fox News, the conservative network which has provided him with a loyal platform throughout his White House career, had covered Harris's speech.

"They shouldn’t be allowed to put it on," he said.

Donald Trump is neck and neck with Kamala Harris in the polls and is hoping that anger over illegal immigration will help him across the finish line

Evidently, Trump was aware that his speech was unlike what Americans have been used to in presidential campaigns over the years.

He paused at one point to say: "Isn’t this a wonderful and inspiring speech? I’ve got people sitting in the front row -- they’re going 'oh my God.'"

"This is a dark, this is a dark speech," he said.

Trump campaigns in Prairie Du Chien, Wis. (Trump starts at 1:08)

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Sunday, September 29, 2024 6:06 AM

Time to get rid of every single illegal and all of their illegal children.

Every single one of them.

You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.

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After Letting 600K Criminals Into The US, Kamala Slithers Down To The Border And Does Trump Impression

Friday, Sep 27, 2024 - 08:00 PM

On Friday, 'Border Czar' Kamala Harris flew down to Arizona for a photo-op at the southern US border - through which untold millions of migrants from all over the world have entered the United States illegally during the Biden-Harris administration.

While there, she gave a ridiculous speech in which she (get this) called for tougher border security - pledging to enact various forms of immigration reform if she's elected in November, including a 5-year ban on reentry for those who enter the country illegally.

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Time to get rid of every single illegal and all of their illegal children.

Every single one of them.

You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.

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As a reminder of how to get rid of millions of people, see Nazi concentration camps, gas chambers, and crematoriums. The Nazis did not say that is what they doing while they were doing it, and the Trumptards won't, either.

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Sunday, September 29, 2024 7:37 AM

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Time to get rid of every single illegal and all of their illegal children.

Every single one of them.

You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.

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As a reminder of how to get rid of millions of people, see Nazi concentration camps, gas chambers, and crematoriums. The Nazis did not say that is what they doing while they were doing it, and the Trumptards won't, either.

None of that is necessary.

We're dropping them all off in Mexico and letting the Mexican government figure it out since that's how they all got here.

Stop using the word Nazi. It just signals that you've already lost the argument.

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You want to see a Nazi? Here's a Nazi

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Sunday, Sep 29, 2024 - 09:15 AM

The World Economic Forum held its 'Sustainable Development Impact Meetings' during last week's United Nations General Assembly in New York City. Speaking at the meeting, far-left elitist and former presidential climate envoy John Kerry expressed frustration to fellow globalists, stating that the First Amendment frequently obstructs their agenda.

"Our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to hammer [disinformation] out of existence. What we need is to win...the right to govern by hopefully winning enough votes that you're free to be able to implement change," Kerry said.

Kerry noted, "It's very hard to govern today."

We'll translate "govern" for readers as it essentially means narration control (or official government-approved propaganda)—that is, through the censorship blob at federal government agencies in Washington, DC, the intel community, Silicon Valley's big tech, fact-checkers, think tanks and legacy corporate media.

Kerry's choice of words and tone shows that far-left radicals in the Obama-Biden-Harris team are frightened that their own misinformation and disinformation propaganda jammed through far-left corporate media outlets is no longer sticking as the citizens gravitate to the 'free speech' X platform run by Elon Musk for their news in the pursuit of truth after being lied to for decades by their corrupt government and corporate overlords.

MORE AT https://www.zerohedge.com/political/john-kerry-says-quiet-part-out-lou
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Sunday, September 29, 2024 5:36 PM

You wouldn't happen to have a video of this, would you?

I've long said that Obama isn't done with us. It hasn't happened yet, but I always thought the plan was for him to head up the UN and/or NATO and try to bring all the nations under a one-world umbrella. It's bullshit like this from NeoCon fake-Democrat fucks like Kerry that just solidifies that.

ETA: Oh. There it is, right in the article. WTF.

I'll be making sure everyone I know sees this video.

Did you see the Emma Tucker video below it?

Fuck you, Emma. Nobody "owns" facts, bitch.

Now we know where Mika Brazinski gets her marching orders and why she believes its her job to "control what people think".

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Sunday, September 29, 2024 6:30 PM

This election is over.

MSNBC: Poll: Democrats' advantage with Latino voters continues to shrink

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While Harris’ 14-point advantage is an improvement from President Joe Biden’s standing when he was at the top of the ticket, it is still lower than the past leads Democratic presidential candidates enjoyed in 2012 (by 39 points), 2016 (50 points) and 2020 (36 points), according to NBC’s merged polling data from those past cycles.

They spend around 35 paragraphs trying to sugarcoat the fuck out of the data, but that paragraph right there says it all.

You've lost the Latinos.

You've lost the Blacks.

You've lost the Teamsters.

Sorry boys. You don't have enough self-hating white college "educated" wine moms to win in November.

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Sunday, September 29, 2024 7:01 PM

On this day in history, September 29th:

National00000000Harris +2.0000Biden +6.10000Clinton +3.0
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Wisconsin0000000Harris +0.8000Biden +6.10000Clinton +4.7
Pennsylvania0000Harris +0.1000Biden +5.70000Clinton +2.4
Ohio000000000000Trump0 +8.2000Biden +3.30000Trump00 +1.8
Michigan00000000Harris +1.4000Biden +5.20000Clinton +4.7
Arizona000000000Trump0 +2.0000Biden +2.80000Trump00 +2.5
Nevada0000000000Harris +1.3000Biden +5.30000Trump 00+0.4
North Carolina00Trump0 +0.7000Biden +0.50000Trump 00+0.3
Georgia000000000Trump0 +1.4000Trump +1.20000Trump00 +4.9
Florida000000000Trump0 +6.0000Biden +1.10000Clinton +1.2

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You want to see a Nazi? Here's a Nazi

Signym, you truly are stupid. Not surprising that terrible things happen to stupid people like you. So is Trump, and he has had many terrible things happen to him but his Daddy's money, and the best lawyers money can buy, keep saving him decades after Daddy was buried.

Will Trump try to end democracy? Yes — but these scholars claim he can't pull it off

"Dictator's Handbook" authors say a second Trump term will be dreadful — but he can't push US into autocracy

By Émile P. Torres | September 29, 2024 6:00AM (EDT)

https://www.salon.com/2024/09/29/will-try-to-end-democracy-yes--but-th
ese-scholars-claim-he-cant-pull-it-off/

Shortly after Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, I contacted Alastair Smith and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, the two NYU political scientists who, several years before that, co-authored a book entitled "The Dictator's Handbook," which outlines a novel theory of how political leaders — whether they are democratically elected politicians, unelected autocrats, or somewhere in between — acquire and hold onto power. I wanted to explore the question of what a Trump presidency might mean for the future of American democracy, which seems even more urgent eight years later.

My interview with Smith and de Mesquita, published in early 2017 by Salon, was surprisingly hopeful in tone. De Mesquita expressed the view that the United States is a “mature democracy,” and “mature democracies don’t become authoritarian.” Even though Trump had clear authoritarian and even fascist tendencies, the authors reassured me that our democratic institutions would survive — and in large part, they were right. Despite Trump’s “Big Lie” about the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 insurrection, Joe Biden took his seat in the Oval Office and reversed some of Trump’s anti-democratic policies, such as the “Schedule F” executive order aimed at turning the entire executive branch into a political instrument. While countries like ours may “oscillate a bit and become more or less democratic,” de Mesquita said, there has “never” in history been a mature democracy that has slid into authoritarianism, dictatorship or autocracy. It just doesn’t happen.

Well, OK. But what about this time around? What if Trump gets elected again? As many have noted, Trump entered the White House in 2017 completely unprepared for the job. That won’t be the case if he moves back in next January: Despite his disavowal of Project 2025, he will immediately begin to implement many of its proposals, most notably by replacing much of the “deep state” (i.e., nonpartisan federal employees who are hired and promoted based on competence and expertise) with MAGA loyalists. Trump has also threatened to punish political opponents, journalists and other voices of dissent, whom he has called “vermin” and “scum.” In July, he reposted an image on Truth Social calling for a televised military tribunal of former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney, who voted to impeach Trump after the Jan. 6 insurrection and then helped lead the resulting congressional investigation.

Worse yet, the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity removes many barriers to potential presidential misconduct. If Trump returns to office, he could — according to some interpretations of that decision — literally order the assassination or imprisonment of his rivals with zero legal consequences. He could get away with almost everything he’s fantasized about doing since he was first elected. So there seems to be a significant and realistic chance that Trump could become an autocrat who rigs future elections, locks up dissidents and pursues vicious retribution against his perceived enemies.

Faced with mounting anxiety about the future of our democracy, I contacted Smith and de Mesquita once again to get their take on a possible Trump 2.0 administration. Since a second Trump term would almost certainly be much worse than the first, I was curious as to whether they had changed any of their views. Are they still hopeful, or do they now believe that Trump and his MAGA cronies could actually destroy our democracy and replace it with an autocratic state headed by Dear Leader?

More at https://www.salon.com/2024/09/29/will-try-to-end-democracy-yes--but-th
ese-scholars-claim-he-cant-pull-it-off/

Download the second edition (2022) of Dictator’s Handbook from the mirrors at https://libgen.is//search.php?req=Dictator's+Handbook+New

From the introduction to The Dictator’s Handbook

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Journalists, authors, and academics have endeavored to explain politics through storytelling. They’ve explored why this or that leader seized power, or how the population of a far-flung country came to revolt against their government, or why a specific policy enacted last year has reversed the fortunes of millions of lives. And in the explanations of these cases, a journalist or historian can usually tell us what happened, and to whom, and maybe even why. But beneath the particulars of the many political stories and histories we read are a few questions that seem to emerge time after time, some profound, some seemingly minor, but all nagging and enduring in the back of our minds: How do tyrants hold on to power for so long? For that matter, why is the tenure of successful democratic leaders so brief? How can countries with such misguided and corrupt economic policies survive for so long? Why are countries that are prone to natural disasters so often unprepared when they happen? And why do lands rich with natural resources have populations stricken with poverty?

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Donald Trump -- Check Out His Little Commander-in-Chief ... 43-Foot-Tall Naked Statue

https://www.tmz.com/2024/09/28/naked-donald-trump-statue-off-freeway/

Sources with direct knowledge tell us the statue bears the name "Crooked and Obscene" ... a reference, we're told, to the controversial nature of both the man and the statue itself.

The statue is constructed from foam over rebar and weighs around 6,000 lbs. It's a marionette -- yes, those massive arms move. As for his other appendages ... we're less sure about that.

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Donald Trump -- Check Out His Little Commander-in-Chief ... 43-Foot-Tall Naked Statue

https://www.tmz.com/2024/09/28/naked-donald-trump-statue-off-freeway/

Sources with direct knowledge tell us the statue bears the name "Crooked and Obscene" ... a reference, we're told, to the controversial nature of both the man and the statue itself.

The statue is constructed from foam over rebar and weighs around 6,000 lbs. It's a marionette -- yes, those massive arms move. As for his other appendages ... we're less sure about that.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Yup.

Democrats are pretty fucking perverted and depraved.

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Trump will be fine.
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Sunday, September 29, 2024 8:45 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

This statue ... and SECOND posting it?
Smells like desperation.

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Meanwhile

Who is going to fix our economy?
Who is going to secure our border?
Who is going to break our addiction to debt?
Who is going to put America first?
Who is going to secure our energy, now and for the foreseeable future?
Who is going to put us on the path to sustainability?
Who is going to break the back of the deep state, and restore our Constitutional rights?
Who is going to save us from the prospect of nuclear holocaust?
Who is going to preserve the safety nets set up for the very young, the disabled, the elderly, and those expeiencing temporary misfortune?
Who is going to unite America by rewarding work in a mileu of an equal opportunity meritocracy, without favor to race, age, sex, religion, gender, or the many other wedge interests that have been used to divide us?

Trump didn't create these problems. So the answer isn't "not Trump".

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

Americans support America

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Sunday, September 29, 2024 9:57 PM

While I appreciate your trying to use the Socratic Method here Sigs, I don't think it's going to work on automatons. They left their critical thinking skills back in grade school.

Second is the upgraded version of Ted. Ted's only able to think in slogans and political cartoons. Second is a step above that, but twice as nasty.

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Sunday, September 29, 2024 11:33 PM

Uh oh...

Looks like the illegal alien invaders are becoming quite the problem in Pennsylvania.

The Establishment is fucking stupid. With an election coming up they should have only been planting them in states that weren't going to be battlegrounds.

War might be coming within our own shores.

How much you want to bet that the white college "educated" retards who voted all of this board up their houses and hide from it and pretend that they weren't responsible for it.

No tears for anyone who votes Democrat and gets raped or murdered by the invaders they allowed here. That might just be the only way they ever learn.

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Sunday, September 29, 2024 11:46 PM

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
This statue ... and SECOND posting it?
Smells like desperation.

*****

Meanwhile

Who is going to fix our economy?
Who is going to secure our border?
Who is going to break our addiction to debt?
Who is going to put America first?
Who is going to secure our energy, now and for the foreseeable future?
Who is going to put us on the path to sustainability?
Who is going to break the back of the deep state, and restore our Constitutional rights?
Who is going to save us from the prospect of nuclear holocaust?
Who is going to preserve the safety nets set up for the very young, the disabled, the elderly, and those expeiencing temporary misfortune?
Who is going to unite America by rewarding work in a mileu of an equal opportunity meritocracy, without favor to race, age, sex, religion, gender, or the many other wedge interests that have been used to divide us?

Trump didn't create these problems. So the answer isn't "not Trump".

Let's pick one problem: the second on the list. Border.

The solution to "Border" will be called "Culling" in the abstract. Think of it as the same as culling a herd of wild rampaging hogs, for example, tearing up a neighborhood, rooting up lawns looking for food. Congress will have to set "Culling" limits: How many migrants can be "culled" during a season? Can females be "culled" or only males? Can immature migrants be "culled"? To make "Culling" easier to understand, it could be the same as killing, but it also could be 1) arrest, 2) appearance before a judge, and 3) deportation. If Congress goes with the 1-2-3 steps to "culling," Congress will have to also pass a much larger budget to cover all those steps.

Whatever rules a committee in Congress writes for "Culling" will never pass so long as there are 41 Senators of the opposing party. There has to be at least 60 votes to overcome a filibuster in the Senate.

The result is no rules get passed by Congress for "Culling" migrants along the "Border" problem.

The same is true with every problem on Signym's list. Until one party or the other has 60 or more reliable Senators, without one or more Senator Manchin pretending to be reliable yet completely unreliable, nothing is going to get done. The Founding Fathers, and Senators, have designed a governing system that was intended to gridlock until one side has a super-majority in Congress. That's a very poor design, unless the electorate is super-supportive of one party or the other. But at the moment the electorate is split approximately 50-50, as it has been for many decades.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, September 30, 2024 2:51 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Uh oh...

Looks like the illegal alien invaders are becoming quite the problem in Pennsylvania.

The Establishment is fucking stupid. With an election coming up they should have only been planting them in states that weren't going to be battlegrounds.

War might be coming within our own shores.

How much you want to bet that the white college "educated" retards who voted all of this board up their houses and hide from it and pretend that they weren't responsible for it.

No tears for anyone who votes Democrat and gets raped or murdered by the invaders they allowed here. That might just be the only way they ever learn.

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

Looks like Elon knows why they're putting them in the swing states...

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Very few Americans realize that, if Trump is NOT elected, this will be the last election. Far from being a threat to democracy, he is the only way to save it!

Let me explain: if even 1 in 20 illegals become citizens per year, something that the Democrats are expediting as fast as humanly possible, that would be about 2 million new legal voters in 4 years.

The voting margin in the swing states is often less than 20 thousand votes. That means if the “Democratic” Party succeeds, there will be no more swing states!!

Moreover, the Biden/Harris administration has been flying “asylum seekers”, who are fast-tracked to citizenship, directly into swing states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and Arizona. It is a surefire way to win every election.

America then becomes a one-party state and Democracy is over. The only “elections” will be the Democratic Party primaries. This already happened in California many years ago, following the 1986 amnesty.

The only thing holding California back from extreme socialism and suffocating government policies is that people can leave California and still remain in America. Once the whole country is controlled by one party, there will be no escape.

Everywhere in America will be like the nightmare that is downtown San Francisco.

A vote for Kamala Harris is a vote for Dick Cheney.

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