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Elections; 2024

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THG

Sunday, October 6, 2024 4:38 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

690,000 people without power.
FEMA is out of $$ while we're throwing another $8 billion to Ukraine.

AMERICA LAST.

Lies comrade, lies.

T

Trump's politicized lies about Helene recovery calls to mind his abysmal record handling disasters

THG

Sunday, October 6, 2024 4:39 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

I read, and I can't where, that FEMA is deliberately bolluxing local rescue efforts in order to interfere with the vote come November. The thought is that people in metro areas will be able to vote, while those in the hinterlands, where rescue efforts are being thwarted, will be too preoccupied just getting their feet under them to vote.

It would be the equivalent of trying to hold a vote in LA after a major earthquake.

You read my ass. How about some sites on those claims? I know, why don't you checkout the governor debunking the bullshit you spew? He says Biden and FEMA have offered all they've asked for.

Do you know the last time NC suffered a crisis Trump only gave them 1% of what they asked for. Did you know that? You're such a moron. People like you who spread bullshit cause a lot more pain for those already suffering.

T

SECOND

Sunday, October 6, 2024 5:06 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

FEMA doesn't have money for hurricanes because it just spent $1.4 Billion transporting, housing, clothing and feeding illegals that it shipped in.

Do you need me to repost the DHS and FEMA articles from their government websites stating these facts again?

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

Do it. I want to see it. Geoff Duncan, the Republican former lieutenant governor of Georgia, said that Trump's false hurricane claims acted as evidence pertaining to the state of his party.

"It's a sobering reminder of where the Republican Party is at right now, and how deep in the gutter we truly are," Duncan said. "To think that we're going to use this platform to politicize one of the worst storms to hit this region ever."

"Donald Trump is down in Georgia today only because he cares about trying to win Georgia," he added. "Because he's realized that if he loses Georgia, he's probably going to end up going to jail."

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-slammed-over-hurricane-helene-lies-1964
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

SECOND

Sunday, October 6, 2024 5:10 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
BLUE VOTER GUIDE — How Did I Not Know About This?!

By Andrew Tobias | October 5, 2024

https://andrewtobias.com/blue-voter-guide-how-did-i-not-know-about-thi
s/

I voted today...
I knew my choice for president, of course. But state tax collector? Which judges to vote to retain?

So here’s all you do:

1. Click BlueVoterGuide. https://bluevoterguide.org/

2. Enter your address.*

3. Make your choices.

Try it — even right now, if you have a few minutes.

Do I need anything more to tell me that libtards are low information voters who need to be told how to vote, who to vote for, how to think, and how to pee?

No. Because I see it every day here on fff.net. So now we have stupid, corrupt politicians telling stupid voters to vote for them, and voters stupid enough to do it.

LIBTARDS: AMERICA LAST.

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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

Signym, you and every Trumptard needs this information:

TRUMP’S HEIST: The President Who Wouldn't Lose

The astonishing inside story of how, in the wake of his 2020 election defeat, Donald Trump and his loyalists set out to engineer victory

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/trumps-heist-president-who-wouldnt
-lose

Alternatively, download Trump’s Heist via a bittorrent using qBittorrent
(free at https://www.qbittorrent.org/ )

and this torrent link: 6E085ECF7F5DC9C2E14D92BE426DEBBAB5972286

Trump’s Heist: The President Who Wouldn’t Lose — sinister barely covers it

This troubling series raises the prospect of more social unrest should Kamala Harris win in November

By James Jackson | Tuesday September 17 2024, 10.00pm BST, The Times

https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/trumps-heist-the-pre
sident-who-wouldnt-lose-sinister-barely-covers-it-5fv2wbc53

You can throw all the outrage you like at Donald Trump, but you can’t say he doesn’t warn us. Back in 2020, some weeks before he lost the election and began his petulant campaign to discredit American democracy — essentially, him crossing his arms, sticking out his bottom lip and stamping his feet like a giant and hideous orange toddler — Trump was declaring on camera, “I’m not a good loser. I don’t like to lose” and, on another occasion, “Losing isn’t easy — not for me.”

Few, however, would have anticipated quite how badly he doesn’t like losing. Indeed, has there ever been as bad a loser in politics, or in any area of public life? Edward Heath’s “longest sulk in history” after losing the Conservative leadership to Margaret Thatcher in 1975 was sullen to behold, but he didn’t immediately react to losing by telling his supporters, “This is a fraud … frankly, we did win this! We will win this!”, as we saw Trump declaring in part one of Dan Reed’s propulsive, alarming documentary Trump’s Heist: The President Who Wouldn’t Lose (Channel 4). The unprecedented election-fraud conspiracy had begun.

This programme was frightening for showing the spiralling madness when a president systematically abuses his power to seemingly mount a coup, and how close things came to anarchy. Whipping up a mob on social media is one thing, but particularly sinister was the pressure Trump and his gang of yes-men attorneys put on those who managed the election in Arizona. When the Speaker there, Rusty Bowers, a Republican, bravely refused to reject votes that gave victory to Joe Biden, he was sent thousands of emails (presumably from Trump supporters) containing threats to his life and his family’s safety. “I thought many times, this is my side,” he said. “My side is coming after me.”

Most conspicuous here among Trump’s newly hired cronies were Rudy Giuliani — the footage of his head visibly melting (or rather his hair dye) no longer seeming so funny — and the lawyer Sidney Powell, who declared: “I’m going to release a kraken.” Recalling the limbo period after the election r

SECOND

Sunday, October 6, 2024 5:29 PM (P)

CNN’s Michael Smerconish asked presidential historian Allan Lichtman about the October surprise and if it ever impacts his prediction for who will win the race for the White House.

"One of the greatest myths of American politics is the October surprise. I have never changed my prediction in response to an October surprise... because the keys gauged the big picture of incumbent governance in strength and don't sway by the events of the campaign."
Allan Lichtman Co-Founder of the "13 Keys to the White House"

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

THG

Sunday, October 6, 2024 6:54 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
690,000 people without power.
FEMA is out of $$ while we're throwing another $8 billion to Ukraine.

AMERICA LAST.

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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

Republican senator and vice presidential candidate JD Vance called the Federal Emergency Management Agency's spending actions a "disgrace" roughly a week after he skipped the vote that would have provided the agency with more funds.
https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-fema-funding-hurricane-disgrace-1964
231

True Americans (Trumptards are untrue) would not support a tax-cheater. Trump doesn't pay his taxes and so FEMA doesn't have money for hurricanes.

By the way, Signym, in past days, America has spent tens of trillions of dollars to stop Russia from taking over the world. And so America spends a few billion in the present day to stop Russia from taking over a little corner of the world in Ukraine.

Between 1940 and 1996, the U.S. spent at least $11.3 trillion in present-day terms on nuclear weapons development. Over half was spent on building delivery mechanisms for the weapon. $709 billion in present-day terms was spent on nuclear waste management and environmental remediation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_of_the_United_States

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

FEMA doesn't have money for hurricanes because it just spent $1.4 Billion transporting, housing, clothing and feeding illegals that it shipped in.

Do you need me to repost the DHS and FEMA articles from their government websites stating these facts again?

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

'Shameful!' Johnson slammed for saying Congress won’t cut recess short to pass disaster relief aid

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/shameful-johnson-slammed-for-s
aying-congress-won-t-cut-recess-short-to-pass-disaster-relief-aid/ar-AA1rMrY2?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=64cbc8c53b5247bf9c4915b2c75be45b&ei=17

Wow you guys are lying clowns. Year after year it's nothing but lies and stupidity from you Jack and signym. Most everything you two post is easily debunked.

T

SECOND

Sunday, October 6, 2024 8:31 PM (P)

Just a reminder....
Trump is not arguing that he’s innocent, he’s arguing that he has a right to be a criminal…
@otto_danger

Supreme Court appears likely to side with Trump on some presidential immunity

By Amy Howe | Apr 25, 2024 at 5:35 pm

https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/04/supreme-court-appears-likely-to-sid
e-with-trump-on-some-presidential-immunity/

The Supreme Court on Thursday appeared skeptical of a ruling by a federal appeals court that rejected former President Donald Trump’s claim that he has absolute immunity from criminal charges . . .

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

SIGNYM

Sunday, October 6, 2024 11:13 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
BLUE VOTER GUIDE — How Did I Not Know About This?!

By Andrew Tobias | October 5, 2024

https://andrewtobias.com/blue-voter-guide-how-did-i-not-know-about-thi
s/

I voted today...
I knew my choice for president, of course. But state tax collector? Which judges to vote to retain?

So here’s all you do:
1. Click BlueVoterGuide. https://bluevoterguide.org/
2. Enter your address.*
3. Make your choices.
Try it — even right now, if you have a few minutes....

SIGNYM: Do I need anything more to tell me that libtards are low information voters who need to be told how to vote, who to vote for, how to think, and how to pee?

No. Because I see it every day here on fff.net. So now we have stupid, corrupt politicians telling stupid voters to vote for them, and voters stupid enough to do it.

LIBTARDS: AMERICA LAST.

SECOND: Signym, you and every Trumptard needs this information:

Quote:
TRUMP’S HEIST: The President Who Wouldn't Lose

The astonishing inside story of how, in the wake of his 2020 election defeat, Donald Trump and his loyalists set out to engineer victory blah blah blah ...

My INDEPENDENT assessment is that the results were hinky and late in coming, and that in Libtard states the voting procedure was so loose it could have, and probably did, lead to ballot box stuffing.

That many libtard county votes needed to be FORENSICALLY AUDITED, but that these audits were blocked by the courts for technical reasons, not because they weren't justified.

And that the only county that was forensically audited was Mariposa. And the only votr counting center that was cleared of specific wrongdoing was in Fulton County.

I'm still a scientist even tho I retired. We analyzed samples in a legally challengable mileu. Our results were regularly challenged, and our lab routinely audited in the minutest detail by guys with clipboards and an agenda, backed by international industries like ExxonMobil and nationwide retail chains like Home Depot.

I know that in order to make good decisions you must be able to produce high quality data that can withstand the highest scrutiny.

DOES OUR VOTE DESERVE ANY LESS?

None of our elections since 2000 have met any legally defensible standard.

I started agitating for better voting procedures ever since the 2000 Florida "vote" was decided by the Supreme Court, and a subsequent stateeide recount revealed that conservative- leaning counties with electronic voting machines undercounted the Gore vote by enough to have swung the election. (Black Box Voting)

And that the 2004 vote revealed the same electronic anomalies except this time across six-states.

I AM AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY DOUBTER.

I have been agitating for hand marked, hand counted ballots ever since, and with this latest fiasco of mail-in ballots, with vote harvesting and apparent ballot stuffing, where many jurisdictions didn't even TRY to match the signature on the envelope with the signature on file ...

The 2020 vote, IMHO, should not have been certified until all significant doubts were resolved. Only THAT would have produced a vote that could be trusted.

Even at this late date, it would be good to audit those counties where the votes seemed most anomalous, whether the result was for Trump or Biden*. What is stopping us?

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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

SIGNYM

Sunday, October 6, 2024 11:26 PM (P)

Oh BTW THGR, about your little dig "let this be a lesson to you", I figured out what went wrong. The link in my signature somehow got corrupted and was returning an error message.

As a courtesy, I will replace it with a smaller flag that doesn't take up so much page space, but I'll still be posting a flag.

Because as Americans we should support America and IMHO try to fix our problems and make us a better, stronger, more independent, more durable nation.

Don't you agree?

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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

SECOND

Sunday, October 6, 2024 11:51 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh BTW THGR, about your little dig "let this be a lesson to you", I figured out what went wrong. The link in my signature somehow got corrupted and was returning an error message.

As a courtesy, I will replace it with a smaller flag that doesn't take up so much page space, but I'll still be posting a flag.

Because as Americans we should support America and IMHO try to fix our problems and make us a better, stronger, more independent, more durable nation.

Don't you agree?

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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

Patriotism having become one of our topics, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an aphorism, at which many will start: ‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.’ But let it be considered, that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak for self-interest.

https://interestingliterature.com/2021/05/patriotism-is-the-last-refug
e-of-the-scoundrel-meaning-origins/

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

SECOND

Sunday, October 6, 2024 11:52 PM (P)

Six days of Trump lies about the Hurricane Helene response

By Daniel Dale | Sun October 6, 2024

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/06/politics/fact-check-trump-helene-respon
se-north-carolina

Former President Donald Trump has delivered a barrage of lies and distortions about the federal response to Hurricane Helene.

While various misinformation about the response has spread widely without Trump’s involvement, the Republican presidential nominee has been one of the country’s leading deceivers on the subject. Over a span of six days, in public comments and social media posts, Trump has used his powerful megaphone to endorse or invent false or unsubstantiated claims.

The chief targets of his hurricane-related dishonesty have been Vice President Kamala Harris, his opponent in the November presidential election, and President Joe Biden.

Monday: Trump falsely claims Biden hasn’t answered calls from Georgia’s governor

During a visit to Georgia on Monday, Trump said of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp: “He’s been calling the president, hasn’t been able to get him.”

It was immediately clear that Trump’s claim was false. Kemp, a Republican, told reporters earlier Monday that he had spoken with Biden the day prior — and that it was Kemp who had initially missed a call from Biden, not the other way around.

Kemp told reporters that he had successfully called Biden right back. Kemp added: “He just said, ‘Hey, what do you need?’ And I told him, you know, ‘We got what we need. We’ll work through the federal process.’ He offered that if there’s other things we need, just to call him directly, which — I appreciate that. But we’ve had FEMA embedded with us since a day or two before the storm hit in our state operations center in Atlanta; we’ve got a great relationship with them.”

Monday: Trump cites baseless ‘reports’ about anti-Republican bias in the North Carolina response

In a social media post on Monday, Trump said of North Carolina: “I’ll be there shortly, but don’t like the reports that I’m getting about the Federal Government, and the Democrat Governor of the State, going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas.”

It’s unclear what “reports” Trump might have been getting, but there was no apparent basis for the underlying claim that the Biden administration and North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper were maliciously abandoning certain communities out of partisan bias.

Trump provided no evidence when a reporter pressed him later in the day.

Thursday: Trump falsely claims the Biden-Harris response had received ‘universally’ negative reviews

Trump wrote in a social media post on Thursday that Biden and Harris “are universally being given POOR GRADES for the way that they are handling the Hurricane, especially in North Carolina.”

That wasn’t even close to accurate. Though the Biden administration’s response had certainly received criticism, it had also been praised by various state and local leaders — including the Republican governors of some of the affected states and the Democratic governor of North Carolina, plus local leaders including the Democratic mayor of the hard-hit North Carolina city of Asheville.

For example, Republican South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said at a Tuesday press conference that federal assistance had “been superb,” noting that Biden and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg had both called and told him to let them know whatever the state needed. McMaster also said FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell had called.

Thursday: Trump falsely claims Harris spent ‘all her FEMA money’ on housing illegal migrants

At a campaign rally in Michigan on Thursday, Trump claimed that “Kamala spent all her FEMA money, billions of dollars, on housing for illegal migrants, many of whom should not be in our country.” He added in an election-related conspiracy theory, saying, “They stole the FEMA money, just like they stole it from a bank, so they could give it to their illegal immigrants that they want to have vote for them this season.”

This is false

SIGNYM

Monday, October 7, 2024 12:40 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh BTW THGR, about your little dig "let this be a lesson to you", I figured out what went wrong. The link in my signature somehow got corrupted and was returning an error message.
As a courtesy, I will replace it with a smaller flag that doesn't take up so much page space, but I'll still be posting a flag.
Because as Americans we should support America and IMHO try to fix our problems and make us a better, stronger, more independent, more durable nation.
Don't you agree?

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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

Patriotism having become one of our topics, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an aphorism, at which many will start: ‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.’ But let it be considered, that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak for self-interest...

And this is where it becomes necessary to determine what agenda is being called for under the guise of patriotism.

Or, I could add, "saving democracy (here)", "promoting democracy (abroad)", "protecting freedom", "human rights`, "saving Ukraine", "the poor immigrants", "BLM/LGBTQX123", "helping the poor", or any other noble sounding cause.

Because NO corrupt politician or bureaucrat or businessman is going to tell you, outright, that they're going to steal your money ot take away your freedoms and remove yuur agency.

NOPE!
hey are going to cloak their true purpose with "noble causes".

Which is why it takes more than low-information voters who mindlessly click wherever they're told.

And the FIRST THING you have to do, FOR YOURSELF, is answer the question " WHAT ARE AMERICA'S INTERESTS?"

Not Ukraine's.
Not NATO'S.
Not Israel's.
Not "the poor people of the world".
Not our ruling or corporate elite's.
Not the myriad self- identified internal victim groups.

America
American citizens.

And in order to do that, you have to decide WHAT DO I WANT AMERICA TO BE?

The fact that neither you nor THGR have answered that question over YEARS tells me that you both have hidden agendas.

I've been very open about what I hope for America, and what I believe we are capable of

Productive
Prosperous
Sustainable
Independent (of China for mfr, of the ME for oil, and of the world accepting our endless debt issuance)
Rugged (resistant to shocks and disasters)
Democratic
Meritocratic
Fair minded
Healthy
Helpful to the young, the old, the sick, the disabled, and temporarily out of luck.
Enjoying our Consitutional freedoms

What about you?

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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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, October 7, 2024 1:48 AM (P)

August 12th:

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh boy, oh boy! Kamala is up 0.4 points in the aggregate after 3 weeks of gaslighting without any real interviews or a debate!

On this day in 2020: Biden +7.5

On this day in 2016: Clinton +6.3

Biden won that popularity contest by less than 4 points, and we all know what happened in 2016.

Harris will NEVER rise above 1 or 2 points in the aggregate on Trump, even with the gaslighting. She's peaked. This is her plateau.

Once they can't hide her anymore and everybody gets to see how dumb she is and how toxic her policies are for our country, it's all over for you.

Maybe some of you will finally stop blindly believing everything MSNBC tells you once this happens.

Hope you're really enjoying yourselves in the meantime.

September 8th:

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Repost from last night because it got buried on the previous page after Second's bout of TDS this morning.

1.9 points. 1.9 points was Harris' peak.

She hit 1.7 points on August 21st and has now floundered between 1.5 points and 1.9 points for the 17 days since.

The DNC was August 19th through the 22nd. RFK dropped out of the race on August 23rd.

Both of these events are now baked into the polls.

Morning Consult's most recent poll put Harris at +3 when its previous poll had her at +4. Outside of Rasmussen Reports, any polls that have Harris higher than the last time they polled were a LONG time ago and predated the DNC.

On this day in history Biden was up +7.1 and Clinton was up +3.1 in the meaningless Popular Vote. Harris is only up 1.8 points.

September 20th:

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Harris leads Trump +1.9 in the meaningless Popularity Contest polling aggregate. Harris briefly hit +2.0 for two days this week. If she doesn't rise to 2.1 on Saturday that's a 40 day streak on the initial prediction she would not rise above 2.

On this day in history, Joe Biden lead by +6.5 and Hilary Clinton lead by +1.3.

Don't worry though. This was damage that Clinton did by calling half the country deplorable. The Legacy Media did a great job killing discussion on that and slowly gaslit everyone into believing she was up +6.7 by the middle of October.

September 23rd:

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
40 Days. That's what I got. Kamala rose to 2.2 in the RCP aggregate for the Popularity Contest on Sunday, 41 days after I said she would not rise above 2.

So she has.

Not sure how, seeing how many black people and union members are not going to vote Democrat this cycle.

Clinton began her upswing that saw her once again peak at +6.7 on October 17th this weekend. In only 2 days she'd risen from +1.3 to +2.6 today.

Kamala is now at 2.2. If the election were held tomorrow and the polls were as skewed in favor of Democrats as they have been the last 2 elections, Trump still wins the popular vote.

October 1st:

Quote:
Kamala remained over 2 points for 4 days. 2.1 on September 20th, 2.2 on the 21st and 22nd, and 2.1 on the 23rd. After that 2.0 and back down to 1.8 over the weekend.

You've got 35 days left, and right now it looks like Trump is going to win the Popular Vote.

I made this prediction that she wouldn't rise above 1 or 2 points on the aggregate exactly 50 days ago from today. In that time she only rose .2 points above that for only 4 of those 50 days because of a few outlier polls giving her +5 and +6, and now she's on her way back down.

On this day in History, October 6th:

National00000000Harris +2.2000Biden +9.00000Clinton +4.1
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Wisconsin

THG

Monday, October 7, 2024 4:03 AM (P)

Shut up sigman you stupid Russian troll.

T

North Carolina’s second-largest newspaper condemns Trump for ‘ridiculous’ Helene response ‘falsehoods’

Donald Trump is now facing condemnation from the editorial board of North Carolina’s second-largest newspaper as he continues to take criticism for politicizing the response to Hurricane Helene across the US southeast.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/north-carolina-s-second-largest-news
paper-condemns-trump-for-ridiculous-helene-response-falsehoods/ar-AA1rMU5c?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=560c2919677a47b8ae71bd26aa1b3cc6&ei=11

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh BTW THGR, about your little dig "let this be a lesson to you", I figured out what went wrong. The link in my signature somehow got corrupted and was returning an error message.
As a courtesy, I will replace it with a smaller flag that doesn't take up so much page space, but I'll still be posting a flag.
Because as Americans we should support America and IMHO try to fix our problems and make us a better, stronger, more independent, more durable nation.
Don't you agree?

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

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

Patriotism having become one of our topics, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an aphorism, at which many will start: ‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.’ But let it be considered, that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak for self-interest...

And this is where it becomes necessary to determine what agenda is being called for under the guise of patriotism.

Or, I could add, "saving democracy (here)", "promoting democracy (abroad)", "protecting freedom", "human rights`, "saving Ukraine", "the poor immigrants", "BLM/LGBTQX123", "helping the poor", or any other noble sounding cause.

Because NO corrupt politician or bureaucrat or businessman is going to tell you, outright, that they're going to steal your money ot take away your freedoms and remove yuur agency.

NOPE!
hey are going to cloak their true purpose with "noble causes".

Which is why it takes more than low-information voters who mindlessly click wherever they're told.

And the FIRST THING you have to do, FOR YOURSELF, is answer the question " WHAT ARE AMERICA'S INTERESTS?"

Not Ukraine's.
Not NATO'S.
Not Israel's.
Not "the poor people of the world".
Not our ruling or corporate elite's.
Not the myriad self- identified internal victim groups.

America
American citizens.

And in order to do that, you have to decide WHAT DO I WANT AMERICA TO BE?

The fact that neither you nor THGR have answered that question over YEARS tells me that you both have hidden agendas.

I've been very open about what I hope for America, and what I believe we are capable of

Productive
Prosperous
Sustainable
Independent (of China for mfr, of the ME for oil, and of the world accepting our endless debt issuance)
Rugged (resistant to shocks and disasters)
Democratic
Meritocratic
Fair minded
Healthy
Helpful to the young, the old, the sick, the disabled, and temporarily out of luck.
Enjoying our Consitutional freedoms

What about you?

THG

Monday, October 7, 2024 4:22 AM (P)

North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson is trailing his opponent by 17 points in the state’s gubernatorial race, according to a new poll.

Robinson faces an uphill battle as Josh Stein, North Carolina Attorney General, has 51 percent support of voters compared to the Republican’s 34 percent, the High Point University poll revealed.

SECOND

Monday, October 7, 2024 4:36 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh BTW THGR, about your little dig "let this be a lesson to you", I figured out what went wrong. The link in my signature somehow got corrupted and was returning an error message.
As a courtesy, I will replace it with a smaller flag that doesn't take up so much page space, but I'll still be posting a flag.
Because as Americans we should support America and IMHO try to fix our problems and make us a better, stronger, more independent, more durable nation.
Don't you agree?

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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

Patriotism having become one of our topics, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an aphorism, at which many will start: ‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.’ But let it be considered, that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak for self-interest...

And this is where it becomes necessary to determine what agenda is being called for under the guise of patriotism.

Or, I could add, "saving democracy (here)", "promoting democracy (abroad)", "protecting freedom", "human rights`, "saving Ukraine", "the poor immigrants", "BLM/LGBTQX123", "helping the poor", or any other noble sounding cause.

Because NO corrupt politician or bureaucrat or businessman is going to tell you, outright, that they're going to steal your money ot take away your freedoms and remove yuur agency.

NOPE!
hey are going to cloak their true purpose with "noble causes".

Which is why it takes more than low-information voters who mindlessly click wherever they're told.

And the FIRST THING you have to do, FOR YOURSELF, is answer the question " WHAT ARE AMERICA'S INTERESTS?"

Not Ukraine's.
Not NATO'S.
Not Israel's.
Not "the poor people of the world".
Not our ruling or corporate elite's.
Not the myriad self- identified internal victim groups.

America
American citizens.

And in order to do that, you have to decide WHAT DO I WANT AMERICA TO BE?

The fact that neither you nor THGR have answered that question over YEARS tells me that you both have hidden agendas.

I've been very open about what I hope for America, and what I believe we are capable of

Productive
Prosperous
Sustainable
Independent (of China for mfr, of the ME for oil, and of the world accepting our endless debt issuance)
Rugged (resistant to shocks and disasters)
Democratic
Meritocratic
Fair minded
Healthy
Helpful to the young, the old, the sick, the disabled, and temporarily out of luck.
Enjoying our Consitutional freedoms

What about you?

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

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

I will be as blunt as possible based on a lifetime of interaction with the people who have voted for Trump and will again. Trumptards are rotten people, same as Trump. I don't see that Trumptards have any purpose in life other than to get high, cheat, lie and accomplish as little as the boss will allow. They are mini-versions of Trump. Trumptards are human zeros, same as Trump.

Trumptards excel at creating justifications for doing nothing, for stopping, for resting, for avoiding responsibility all while claiming they are doing the exact opposite of what they actually do, which is next to nothing. This is why Trump is a fire-hose of lies. He has to pretend to be the opposite of what he is and the most effortless way to pretend is to run his mouth and lie constantly. Words are as easy as breathing. Trump is breaking contracts, breakin

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, October 7, 2024 5:03 AM (P)

On this day in History, October 6th:

National00000000Harris +2.2000Biden +9.00000Clinton +4.1
--------------------------------------------------------
Wisconsin0000000Harris +0.8000Biden +5.60000Clinton +5.5
Pennsylvania0000Trump0 +0.0000Biden +6.50000Clinton +7.5
Ohio000000000000Trump0 +8.0000Biden +1.20000Trump00 +1.2
Michigan00000000Harris +0.7000Biden +6.20000Clinton +6.8
Arizona000000000Trump0 +1.4000Biden +3.40000Trump00 +0.7
Nevada0000000000Harris +1.1000Biden +5.30000Clinton +1.2
North Carolina00Trump0 +0.6000Biden +1.40000Clinton +2.2
Georgia000000000Trump0 +1.5000Biden +0.30000Trump00 +4.7
Florida000000000Trump0 +6.0000Biden +3.50000Clinton +3.2

P.S. Don't forget that 22 days before election, Hillary Clinton rose to +7.1 against Trump in the aggregate from her +4.1 today, and +7.1 isn't even CLOSE to her peak of +11.4 against Trump in 2016. Harris will see no such surge, and you are going to go into election day with the smallest polling advantage of any Democrat hopeful in the last 3 election cycles. So small, in fact, that if the same biases exist in the polls that were there in the last few election cycles, Trump is going to win the Popular Vote by a large margin.

--------------------------------------------------

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

SECOND

Monday, October 7, 2024 5:19 AM (P)

Autocracy will bring poverty

Joel Eissenberg | October 6, 2024 10:47 am

https://angrybearblog.com/2024/10/autocracy-will-bring-poverty
https://snyder.substack.com/p/autocracy-and-poverty

Think about the politicians Trump idolizes, Vladimir Putin in Russia and Viktor Orbán in Hungary. The first undid a democracy through fake emergencies, the second through persistent constitutional abuse. It is not hard to see why Trump likes them.

Now consider the Russian and Hungarian economies. Russia sits on hugely valuable natural resources, and yet is a poor country. The profits from its oil and gas are in the hands of a few oligarchs. Hungary sits in the middle of the European Union, the most successful trade project of all time. And yet Hungarians are poorer than their neighbors, in part because the Orbán regime corruptly channels EU resources to friendly oligarchs.

The lesson is clear. Democracy is a method of checking corrupt rulers. When there is no functioning democracy, corruption is unchecked.

And democracy is an element of a more fundamental guarantor of prosperity, the rule of law. In Hungary and Russia, the rule of law has been bent and broken, to the benefit of the few, and to the detriment of the many.

Ending the rule of law is the Trump-Vance platform.

Trump is running as a candidate who has attempted a coup against constitutional rule. Vance has already said, multiple times, that law does not govern who leads the country, and that he would have supported Trump’s coup attempt.

The rule of law begins from the principle that we are all equally subject to to it. Trump promises to weaponize the law to immunize himself and his supporters and to pursue his political opponents. Those who worked with him in the White House believe him.

Laws are executed by trained civil servants. Trump and Vance back a plan to fire the forty thousand federal employees who now execute the law and replace them with forty thousand loyalist hacks. That is Project 2025.

It doesn’t take much imagination to see where this leads. Here are five quick examples.

1. The very rich will not be taxed, but you will be taxed more. The hardest thing the IRS does is to tax the wealthy. In an atmosphere of lawlessness and favoritism, this will become impossible. Insofar as the federal government runs at all, it will be by taxing the middle class.

2. The banks can collapse. As we saw in 2008, our financial system is held together by a very thin tissue of regulation. Unless laws are enforced, as they won’t be under a Trump-Vance administration, the overadventurous will very likely draw us all into another financial disaster. The bailout will be paid for by the average taxpayer because the rich won’t be taxed (see number 1).

3. Americans will be at risk of losing their benefits. Social Security and all the rest depend upon a functioning federal bureaucracy, which is exactly what Project 2025 guarantees that we will not have. Americans take for granted federal institutions, from VA Hospitals to the insurance of bank accounts (see number 2).

4. The stock market can crash. It depends upon the laws that prevent insider trading and other abuses. If these laws are applied selectively, and if the people who used to enforce them have been fired, then corrupt investors will win while others lose out. After a time, the stock market loses its prestige, investors go elsewhere, and everyone loses. (And those who were treating their investments as cushioning to their retirement benefits are now poor: see number 3).

5. Businesses will get stuck. Doing business depends upon all sorts of interactions with the federal government. When the federal government loses its civil servants, much of this will stop happening. Or, worse, companies with personal connections will be able to continue functioning without following any rules, while others will grind to a halt. This means millions of people losing their jobs. (And it is now hard for businesses to raise money: see number 4).

This list could go on. The collapse

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, October 7, 2024 5:21 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Autocracy will bring poverty

Indeed it has. The Harris/Biden* administration has been a shit show.

That's why you're going to see record black and Hispanic turnout for Trump in November as well as record Union turnout for Trump.

It's really just you brainfucked college "educated" white people and the NeoCons voting for Harris this time around.

Good luck!

--------------------------------------------------

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

SECOND

Monday, October 7, 2024 5:23 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
On this day in History, October 6th:

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

You are absolutely unprepared for Trump's defeat. What will you do?

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

SECOND

Monday, October 7, 2024 5:28 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Autocracy will bring poverty

Indeed it has. The Harris/Biden* administration has been a shit show.

That's why you're going to see record black and Hispanic turnout for Trump in November as well as record Union turnout for Trump.

It's really just you brainfucked college "educated" white people and the NeoCons voting for Harris this time around.

Good luck!

--------------------------------------------------

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

All the Trumptards I know say the same thing. They should. They are all a bunch of fucking failures completely maladjusted to America. They should find another country (Russia needs you! Steven Seagal lives in Moscow and is a Trumptard. Follow his example.) or kill yourselves, doing everybody a favor. But instead, they want to drag America down to their level of stupidity, laziness and dishonesty by installing Trump.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, October 7, 2024 5:31 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
On this day in History, October 6th:

National00000000Harris +2.2000Biden +9.00000Clinton +4.1
--------------------------------------------------------
Wisconsin0000000Harris +0.8000Biden +5.60000Clinton +5.5
Pennsylvania0000Trump0 +0.0000Biden +6.50000Clinton +7.5
Ohio000000000000Trump0 +8.0000Biden +1.20000Trump00 +1.2
Michigan00000000Harris +0.7000Biden +6.20000Clinton +6.8
Arizona000000000Trump0 +1.4000Biden +3.40000Trump00 +0.7
Nevada0000000000Harris +1.1000Biden +5.30000Clinton +1.2
North Carolina00Trump0 +0.6000Biden +1.40000Clinton +2.2
Georgia000000000Trump0 +1.5000Biden +0.30000Trump00 +4.7
Florida000000000Trump0 +6.0000Biden +3.50000Clinton +3.2

P.S. Don't forget that 22 days before election, Hillary Clinton rose to +7.1 against Trump in the aggregate from her +4.1 today, and +7.1 isn't even CLOSE to her peak of +11.4 against Trump in 2016. Harris will see no such surge, and you are going to go into election day with the smallest polling advantage of any Democrat hopeful in the last 3 election cycles. So small, in fact, that if the same biases exist in the polls that were there in the last few election cycles, Trump is going to win the Popular Vote by a large margin.

You are absolutely unprepared for Trump's defeat. What will you do?

I don't understand the question.

I've lived easily through 4 years of your autocracy while you've done nothing but talk about Russia and scream Trump's name several dozen times per day.

I'll just keep doing what I did the last 4 years. Everything I've got is bought and paid for and I'm always fully stocked up on necessities.

Don't worry about me. You're the one who's about to fall off the cliff either way.

--------------------------------------------------

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, October 7, 2024 5:38 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
All the Trumptards I know say the same thing. They should. They are all a bunch of fucking failures completely maladjusted to America. They should find another country (Russia needs you! Steven Seagal lives in Moscow and is a Trumptard. Follow his example.) or kill yourselves, doing everybody a favor. But instead, they want to drag America down to their level of stupidity, laziness and dishonesty by installing Trump.

Boy. You and Ted are both being particularly nasty today.

I think that means that even a couple of morons like you are finally figuring out what your chances are next month. I know it's why after two years of meaningless tick tock to nothing threads our boy Ted has been hoping and praying all week that Jack Smith is going to swoop in last minute and save him from Trump.

Tick Tock

P.S. It's too bad you wasted another entire weekend being in a bad mood now that you've got to go to bed to get ready for work tomorrow. Maybe one day you'll finally figure out not to do that to yourself all the time.

--------------------------------------------------

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

SECOND

Monday, October 7, 2024 7:23 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

P.S. It's too bad you wasted another entire weekend being in a bad mood now that you've got to go to bed to get ready for work tomorrow. Maybe one day you'll finally figure out not to do that to yourself all the time.

--------------------------------------------------

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

6ixStringJack, you refuse to wake up to being poor, mentally and physically ill, and a guaranteed early death. It is your fault for being stupid about politics and your life.

To the editor: Your article on former President Trump's incoherence states, "Before Biden and Trump, the media tended to treat the mental fitness of would-be presidents gingerly."

Going back all the way to 1960, I cannot recall any presidential candidate with such blatant mental pathologies on full display as shown by Trump. Unlike the days of 1964 and Barry Goldwater, psychiatrists and psychologists today have more than eight years of easily accessible material on Trump, including speeches, public behavior, social media posts, news reports and interviews with numerous people who have worked closely with the former president. His thousands of lies have been documented and counted.

The exact diagnosis is less important than the main issue, which is mental fitness for office. Numerous mental health experts who have closely watched him says there are gigantic red flags.

Should Americans pay attention to all of the warnings issued by medical experts, or should they just roll the dice and hope that maybe Trump is a "sheer genius"? What could go wrong?

Paul Banta, MD, Walnut Creek

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/letters-to-the-editor-no-matte
r-what-causes-trump-to-speak-gibberish-he-s-unfit-for-office/ar-AA1rMfBt

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

SIGNYM

Monday, October 7, 2024 10:07 AM (P)

Unspecified red flags about unspecified mental problems.
Gee, could they possibly be any more vague and scaremonger-y?

And, not to be too facetious but ... no comments about Biden, who is CLEARLY compromised and is supposed to be President?

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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

SIGNYM

Monday, October 7, 2024 10:31 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh BTW THGR, about your little dig "let this be a lesson to you", I figured out what went wrong. The link in my signature somehow got corrupted and was returning an error message.
As a courtesy, I will replace it with a smaller flag that doesn't take up so much page space, but I'll still be posting a flag.
Because as Americans we should support America and IMHO try to fix our problems and make us a better, stronger, more independent, more durable nation.
Don't you agree?

*****

SECOND: Patriotism having become one of our topics, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an aphorism, at which many will start: ‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.’ But let it be considered, that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak for self-interest...

*****

SIGNY: And this is where it becomes necessary to determine what agenda is being called for under the guise of patriotism.

Or, I could add, "saving democracy (here)", "promoting democracy (abroad)", "protecting freedom", "human rights`, "saving Ukraine", "the poor immigrants", "BLM/LGBTQX123", "helping the poor", or any other noble sounding cause.

Because NO corrupt politician or bureaucrat or businessman is going to tell you, outright, that they're going to steal your money ot take away your freedoms and remove yuur agency.

NOPE!
hey are going to cloak their true purpose with "noble causes".

Which is why it takes more than low-information voters who mindlessly click wherever they're told.

And the FIRST THING you have to do, FOR YOURSELF, is answer the question " WHAT ARE AMERICA'S INTERESTS?"

Not Ukraine's.
Not NATO'S.
Not Israel's.
Not "the poor people of the world".
Not our ruling or corporate elite's.
Not the myriad self- identified internal victim groups.

America
American citizens.

And in order to do that, you have to decide WHAT DO I WANT AMERICA TO BE?

The fact that neither you nor THGR have answered that question over YEARS tells me that you both have hidden agendas.

I've been very open about what I hope for America, and what I believe we are capable of

Productive
Prosperous
Sustainable
Independent (of China for mfr, of the ME for oil, and of the world accepting our endless debt issuance)
Rugged (resistant to shocks and disasters)
Democratic
Meritocratic
Fair minded
Healthy
Helpful to the young, the old, the sick, the disabled, and temporarily out of luck.
Enjoying our Consitutional freedoms

What about you?

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

*****

SECOND: I will be as blunt as possible based on a lifetime of interaction with the people who have voted for Trump and will again. Trumptards ... BLAH BLAH BLAH

You're so full of shit, SECOND.
AND you're stupid.

I didn't mean just Americans, I meant America. Not just the people, the system
It's not like I haven't explained this a couple dozen times already.

Do you know what they used to say at the various places where I worked?
The person who works gets rewarded with more work. Not more pay! Just more work!
The person who screws up gets avoided.

Who benefits from continual self-improvement and working 12 hours a day? Unless you own your own business, not you. Not even really the boss. The stock speculators, or private owners. The bank that loaned the business money. Anybody but the smear at the bottom.

And people don't even necessarily want more money, altho for a lot of jobs more money is a necessity. They want more control over their work. Recognition for what they do, not just being a cog in a profit making machine.

If you wa

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, October 7, 2024 11:22 AM (P)

I think second puts such a high value on longevity because he hasn't accomplished anything in life that he wanted to and he's still miserable everyday. Maybe if he lives just one more extra year he'll finally do something that makes him feel good about himself.

--------------------------------------------------

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

SECOND

Monday, October 7, 2024 3:57 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I think second puts such a high value on longevity because he hasn't accomplished anything in life that he wanted to and he's still miserable everyday. Maybe if he lives just one more extra year he'll finally do something that makes him feel good about himself.

--------------------------------------------------

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

I swear to God, 6ix, you are such a worthless asshole. But then, so are all the Trumptards I know:

"The Apprentice" is an accurate origin story of Donald Trump's "wannabe fascism": historians

To truly understand Donald Trump requires learning about Roy Cohn

By Matthew Rozsa | October 6, 2024 5:45AM (EDT)

https://www.salon.com/2024/10/06/the-apprentice-is-an-accurate-origin-
story-of-donald-wannabe-fascism-historians/

"The Apprentice" is the movie that Donald Trump does not want you to see, and it is easy to understand why. Despite taking creative liberties with the source material, historians tell Salon the new film that documents Trump's rise to political celebrity is accurate in its most important assertion: Trump was groomed for power by Roy Cohn, one of the most sinister lawyers in our nation's history.

The notion that legality and ethics are irrelevant and that the raw power wielded by society's status quo should alone determine who wins and loses has always been fundamental to far-right politics. Both in real life and in the film, Cohn summed up the most effective way to implement this philosophy with three rules for succeeding in politics, business and the law: (1) Attack, attack, attack, (2) Admit nothing, deny everything and (3) Always claim victory.

"Like Trump, Roy Cohn delighted in flouting the law and getting away with it."

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

SECOND

Monday, October 7, 2024 4:05 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

You're so full of shit, SECOND.
AND you're stupid.

I didn't mean just Americans, I meant America. Not just the people, the system
It's not like I haven't explained this a couple dozen times already.

Do you know what they used to say at the various places where I worked?
The person who works gets rewarded with more work. Not more pay! Just more work!
The person who screws up gets avoided.

Who benefits from continual self-improvement and working 12 hours a day? Unless you own your own business, not you. Not even really the boss. The stock speculators, or private owners. The bank that loaned the business money. Anybody but the smear at the bottom.

And people don't even necessarily want more money, altho for a lot of jobs more money is a necessity. They want more control over their work. Recognition for what they do, not just being a cog in a profit making machine.

If you want to change behavior, change the reward structure.

I mean, if I worked for a boss like you, with you dripping disdain on everyone, I'd probably sabotage your business deliberately. And you wouldn't find out until long after I had quit.

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

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

Signym, like every Trumptard I have dug into their background, you make it obvious why America hasn't blessed you. But it wasn't obvious to them and it isn't to you. Signym, may I suggest, without digging into your history, that your obliviousness is caused by brain malfunction? You want the system to cater to your disabilities and peculiarities. That will not happen. You have to adjust to it or else suffer. The more inflexible, lazy and odd you are, the less well you will do in America. Trump comforts you because he hasn't adjusted at all, and yet he is a "big American success story". NOT.

How Trump’s Speeches Are a Red Flag for Mental Decline: Experts

RELEASE THE RECORDS

“I can’t tell you how staggering this is,” a social psychologist previously told Stat News. “He does not think in a complex way at all.”

By Sean Craig | Oct. 06, 2024 2:51 PM EDT

https://www.thedailybeast.com/confused-incoherent-trumps-speeches-show
-signs-of-mental-decline-nyt-analysis

An increasingly incoherent and profane former president Donald Trump, 78, is rambling at his rallies at previously unheard-of lengths and showing signs of confusion that could indicate mental decline, according to a New York Times analysis.

An average rally speech by the elderly Republican nominee for president — who has promised to release his medical records and cognitive tests and then refused to do so — lasts 82 minutes this election cycle, nearly double the 45 minutes he averaged in 2016, a computer analysis by the newspaper found.

In addition to Trump’s well documented rambling, repetitive and winding addresses—punctuated with strange asides about things like his “beautiful” body—among the potential signs of cognitive change are that he curses 69 percent more in speeches than he did in 2016. That could be a sign of disinhibition, a kind of impulsivity that is sometimes attributed to mental decline in old age, the Times said.

The newspaper also said its analysis found Trump used negative words 32 percent more than positive ones, up considerably from 21 percent in 2016, another potential indicator of cognitive change.

He also uses 13 percent more “all-or-nothing” terms such as “always” or “never” compared to 2016, another potential sign of advanced age.

Meanwhile, Trump’s seeming obsession with the past—his ramblings have been dotted with stale cultural references to Silence of the Lambs, Johnny Carson, Michael Jackson, Cary Grant, and Charles Lindburgh—have not only dated him, but earned a raised eyebrow from one expert in August.

James Pennebaker, a social psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzed

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, October 7, 2024 5:25 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I think second puts such a high value on longevity because he hasn't accomplished anything in life that he wanted to and he's still miserable everyday. Maybe if he lives just one more extra year he'll finally do something that makes him feel good about himself.

--------------------------------------------------

Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
I swear to God, 6ix, you are such a worthless asshole.

--------------------------------------------------

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

SECOND

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 12:12 AM (P)

Behold our once and future president:

Republicans backing Donald Trump are threatening Deloitte, a consulting firm that is one of the federal government’s largest business partners, with the loss of billions of dollars in contracts because an employee shared messages from 2020 in which JD Vance, now the GOP vice-presidential nominee, criticized the then-president’s record.

Some guy who works for Deloitte embarrassed the Trump campaign. Result: let's make sure Deloitte never gets another federal contract.

Trump's endless threats against anyone who displeases him make him unfit for the presidency. How long is it going to take for 50% of the electorate to figure this out?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/07/vance-messages-delo
itte-retaliation/

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 1:20 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Behold our once and future president:

Republicans backing Donald Trump are threatening Deloitte, a consulting firm that is one of the federal government’s largest business partners, with the loss of billions of dollars in contracts because an employee shared messages from 2020 in which JD Vance, now the GOP vice-presidential nominee, criticized the then-president’s record.

Some guy who works for Deloitte embarrassed the Trump campaign. Result: let's make sure Deloitte never gets another federal contract.

Trump's endless threats against anyone who displeases him make him unfit for the presidency. How long is it going to take for 50% of the electorate to figure this out?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/07/vance-messages-delo
itte-retaliation/

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

Save it.

After more than a decade of Alt-Left potbelly vampire goblins on Twitter cancelling anybody for anything they said that was against the narrative nobody is listening to this bullshit now.

--------------------------------------------------

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

THG

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 2:19 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Unspecified red flags about unspecified mental problems.
Gee, could they possibly be any more vague and scaremonger-y?

And, not to be too facetious but ... no comments about Biden, who is CLEARLY compromised and is supposed to be President?

In case it isn't clear, they have been indicted.

T

How Russia's destabilizes us on the cheap

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 4:23 AM (P)

On this day in History, October 7th:

National00000000Harris +2.1000Biden +8.50000Clinton +4.7
--------------------------------------------------------
Wisconsin0000000Harris +0.8000Biden +5.50000Clinton +5.7
Pennsylvania0000Trump0 +0.0000Biden +7.10000Clinton +7.5
Ohio000000000000Trump0 +8.0000Biden +0.60000Trump00 +1.2
Michigan00000000Harris +0.7000Biden +6.20000Clinton +6.8
Arizona000000000Trump0 +1.4000Biden +3.40000Trump00 +0.7
Nevada0000000000Harris +1.1000Biden +6.00000Clinton +1.2
North Carolina00Trump0 +0.6000Biden +1.40000Clinton +2.6
Georgia000000000Trump0 +1.5000Biden +0.30000Trump00 +4.7
Florida000000000Trump0 +6.0000Biden +4.50000Clinton +3.0

P.S. Don't forget that 22 days before election, Hillary Clinton rose to +7.1 against Trump in the aggregate from her +4.1 today, and +7.1 isn't even CLOSE to her peak of +11.4 against Trump in 2016. Harris will see no such surge, and you are going to go into election day with the smallest polling advantage of any Democrat hopeful in the last 3 election cycles. So small, in fact, that if the same biases exist in the polls that were there in the last few election cycles, Trump is going to win the Popular Vote by a large margin.

Also in the news today...

Yahoo "News" poll shows Harris at +1 for 10/2-10/4. Last poll they had for 9/11-9/13 had Harris up +4.

The last Emerson poll as previously mentioned was +1 when they had Harris up +4 on 8/12-8/14 as well.

The I&I/TIPP poll still has Harris at +3 for like they did on 8/28-8/30.

Two out of the last 3 polls are quite a bit lower for Harris than they were a month ago.

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

SECOND

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 4:53 PM (P)

I'm Behind the Trump-Russia Dossier. We Gave the FBI More Than People Know

By Christopher Steele | Oct 08, 2024 at 4:30 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/christopher-steele-trump-russia-putin-electio
n-dossier-fbi-1963717

We are fully aware that were someone like Trump in office, and particularly him, then there would be a lot more declassification activity that is purely partisan and political in its nature. . . .

I haven't been back to the U.S. since 2016. But I'll be there to promote my new book. There's no sensible reason I shouldn't enter the U.S. My ESTA—a U.S. entry visa—was approved.

But that would change were Trump to be re-elected. I think it would be unwise for me to go back to America for all sorts of reasons. At the moment, though, it's perfectly okay, and I'm looking forward to it.

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

SECOND

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 5:09 PM (P)

Dangerous Trump falsehoods hampering Helene response

Misinformation spread by Trump, his supporters and others about the hurricane has shrouded recovery efforts

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/07/hurricane-helene-trump
-misinformation

A slew of falsehoods about Hurricane Helene, including claims of funds diverted from storm survivors to migrants and even that Democrats somehow directed the hurricane itself, have hampered the response to one of the deadliest hurricanes to ever hit the US, the nation’s top emergency official has warned.

Misinformation spread by Donald Trump, his supporters and others about the hurricane has shrouded the recovery effort for communities shattered by Helene, which tore through five states causing at least 230 deaths and tens of billions of dollars of damage. Many places, such as in western North Carolina, are still without a water supply, electricity, navigable roads or vital supplies.

“It’s frankly disappointing we are having to deal with this narrative, the fact there are a few leaders having a hard time telling the difference between fact and fiction is creating an impedance to our ability to actually get people the help they need,” Deanne Criswell, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), told MSNBC on Monday.

Marjorie Taylor Greene condemned over Helene weather conspiracy theory
Read more

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

THG

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 2:38 AM (P)

Hey TWO, what do ya think?

T

Adult entertainment industry launches campaign against Project 2025

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 3:18 AM (P)

On this day in History, October 8th:

National00000000Harris +2.0000Biden +9.80000Clinton +4.6
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Wisconsin0000000Harris +0.8000Biden +5.50000Clinton +5.7
Pennsylvania0000Trump0 +0.2000Biden +7.10000Clinton +9.0
Ohio000000000000Trump0 +8.0000Biden +0.60000Trump00 +0.3
Michigan00000000Harris +0.7000Biden +6.70000Clinton +6.8
Arizona000000000Trump0 +1.4000Biden +3.10000Trump00 +0.7
Nevada0000000000Harris +1.1000Biden +6.00000Clinton +1.2
North Carolina00Trump0 +0.6000Biden +1.80000Clinton +2.6
Georgia000000000Trump0 +1.5000Biden +0.30000Trump00 +4.7
Florida000000000Trump0 +6.7000Biden +3.70000Clinton +3.0

P.S. Don't forget that 22 days before election, Hillary Clinton rose to +7.1 against Trump in the aggregate from her +4.6 today, and +7.1 isn't even CLOSE to her peak of +11.4 against Trump in 2016. Harris will see no such surge, and you are going to go into election day with the smallest polling advantage of any Democrat hopeful in the last 3 election cycles. So small, in fact, that if the same biases exist in the polls that were there in the last few election cycles, Trump is going to win the Popular Vote by a large margin.

Also in the news today...

Reuters/Ipsos' new poll for 10/4-10/7 shows Harris up by +2. The last poll they had for 9/21-9/23 had Harris up by +6.

The newest Yahoo "News" poll shows Harris at +1 for 10/2-10/4. Last poll they had for 9/11-9/13 had Harris up +4.

The newest Emerson poll as previously mentioned was +1 when they had Harris up +4 on 8/12-8/14 as well.

The I&I/TIPP poll still has Harris at +3 for like they did on 8/28-8/30.

Three out of the last 4 polls are quite a bit lower for Harris than they were a month ago.

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

SECOND

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 8:46 AM (P)

The hurricane conspiracy theories Greene, Trump, and Musk are pushing do not bode well for the election.

By Jim Newell | Oct 08, 2024 5:35 PM

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/10/hurricane-milton-helene-gr
eene-musk-trump-fema-democrats-biden-harris.html

The grandaddy of all the conspiracy theories going around would have to be one promoted by Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. According to Greene, an undefined “they”—who, if we’re being generous, is meant to be the Democrats, the deep state, or the “establishment”—“can control the weather.” In other words, “they” are actively working to crush communities with historic storms.

Despite backlash from basically every possible corner, she continues, still, to push this idea that the government can enhance and steer hurricanes on a path that does the most destruction to red America, ostensibly to create a mess in swing states that can’t be restored in time for voting. I’ve covered Congress for a while, so I don’t say this lightly: I’m not sure I’ve ever heard a member say something this disassociated with reality. But there are people who will believe it.

The pattern and spread of misinformation that’s emerged following Hurricane Helene does not give me confidence that the aftermath of the 2024 election, in the event of a narrow Kamala Harris victory, will go more smoothly than that of 2020. It almost feels like a dry run ahead of the election to test that the systems of deceit are still operable. They sure seem to be—only this time, Elon Musk owns the social media platform that dictates the pace of “news.”

Much more at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/10/hurricane-milton-helene-gr
eene-musk-trump-fema-democrats-biden-harris.html

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

SECOND

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 9:05 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Hey TWO, what do ya think?

T

Adult entertainment industry launches campaign against Project 2025

I think all advertisements for political positions are worthless.

Great line from Vontra, an antagonist in the #TheWildRobotMovie :

"Despite my cheery demeanor, I am unfeeling, inflexible, and morally neutral."

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 9:15 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Hey TWO, what do ya think?

T

Adult entertainment industry launches campaign against Project 2025
I think all advertisements for political positions are worthless.

Great line from Vontra, an antagonist in the #TheWildRobotMovie :

"Despite my cheery demeanor, I am unfeeling, inflexible, and morally neutral."

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

The irony on display here just can't go without being commented on...

What might be the 3rd time I have ever seen Second reply directly to Ted about anything is in direct contrast of his normally morally grey, inflexible and unfeeling way he usually carries himself.

He still made no effort to address Ted as another person at all in his post, but in a rare real moment between the two of them Second actually showed somebody else a small kernel of his actual real life personality.

How about that?

I'd thought at 45 years old I couldn't be surprised anymore.

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

SECOND

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 5:11 PM (P)

SECOND

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 5:11 PM (P)

JD Vance’s Shifting Stance on Donald Trump | The VP Choice

The documentary delves into the formative role of Vance’s time at Yale Law School, and tracks his evolution from a “never-Trumper” to a leading figure of the “New Right” movement and Donald Trump’s running mate.

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

SECOND

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 5:32 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

How about that?

I'd thought at 45 years old I couldn't be surprised anymore.

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

I've have always been able to work with and get the best out of Trumptards because of my moral neutrality toward their foolish, often evil, ways of life.

Drunks, cheaters, thieves, wife-beaters, liars, incompetent workers, the kind of behavior Trump displays. But there are occasions when a Trumptard has to be sent away because their natural stupidity, lack of self-control, and fundamental dishonesty can't be tolerated in a particular position when their faulty nature is ruining a project of mine. They are sinners, born to be evil, living silly and meaningless lives. And totally unaware, completely oblivious, to what they and Trump are.

I have never been surprised by a Trumptard. They are assholes. They can't help themselves.

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

SECOND

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 7:49 PM (P)

Trump promotes vaccine resistance

By Joel Eissenberg | October 8, 2024 8:25 am

https://angrybearblog.com/2024/10/trump-promotes-vaccine-resistance

Vaccines are an unalloyed triumph of public health. That Donald Trump is attacking vaccines — any vaccines — is obscene.

“ . . . on at least 17 occasions this year, Trump has promised to cut funding to schools that mandate vaccines. Campaign spokespeople have previously said that pledge would apply only to schools with COVID mandates. But speeches reviewed by KFF Health News included no such distinction — raising the possibility Trump would also target vaccination rules for common, potentially lethal childhood diseases like polio and measles.

“The Trump campaign did not respond to requests for comment on this article.
Trump has presided over a landslide shift in his party’s views on vaccines, reflected this campaign season in false claims by Republican candidates during the primaries and puzzling conspiracies from prominent conservative voices. Republicans increasingly express worry about the risks of vaccines. A September 2023 from Politico and Morning Consult showed a narrow majority of those voters cared more about the risks than the benefits of getting inoculated.

“A surge in anti-vaccine policy in statehouses has followed the rhetoric. Boston University political scientist Matt Motta, PhD, who tracks public health policy, said preliminary data shows that states enacted at least 42 anti-vaccine bills in 2023 — nearly a ninefold surge since 2019.

“In some states, it has the look of a crusade: The 2024 Texas GOP platform, for example, proposes a ban on mRNA technology, the innovation behind some COVID-19 vaccines that scientists believe could have significant applications for cancer care.

“Last month, Trump made an appeal to anti-vaccine voters by landing the endorsement of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of the nation’s most prominent vaccine skeptics — and appointing him to his transition team. In a recent tour with former Fox News broadcaster Tucker Carlson, Kennedy said he was “going to be deeply involved in helping to choose the people who run FDA, NIH, and CDC.””

What has happened to America that a political grifter with zero public health experience can persuade tens of millions of people that facts and evidence don’t matter and they should rather suffer and die based on the ruminations of Dear Leader?

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

SECOND

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 8:26 PM (P)

Chief Justice John Roberts doesn't understand why people were upset about his presidential immunity ruling earlier this year:

Roberts was shaken by the adverse public reaction to his decision affording Trump substantial immunity from criminal prosecution. His protestations that the case concerned the presidency, not Trump, held little currency.

Is Roberts serious? He invented a sweeping presidential immunity out of whole cloth. It has no basis in either the text of the Constitution, statutory law, or our nation's history. It has never been applied to any of our previous 44 presidents. Every lower court rejected it. Roberts's ruling is so preposterous that it forbids prosecutors from even mentioning conversations a president might have had about committing crimes. And all of this was plainly the work of justices who had bought into right-wing grievances about Democratic "lawfare" against a Republican president.

But Roberts is upset that people don't realize it was actually just a modest little ruling that affects all presidents equally? You've got to be kidding me.

https://jabberwocking.com/john-roberts-is-puzzled/

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

THG

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 9:39 PM (P)

Can you say Trump is dumb as a rock. I can, I can say it.

T

What Trump thinks about climate change

SECOND

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:05 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Can you say Trump is dumb as a rock. I can, I can say it.

T

What Trump thinks about climate change

Trump is paid to perform. He is the singing/dancing frontman working for the oil & gas executives. He doesn't have to understand the lyrics of the songs he sings. His audience does not understand the meaning of the words any more than he does. The music and sound of Trump's voice calm his audience. It is the executives who know perfectly well what they are doing, what it means to sell fuel, not the zonked-out-of-their-minds customers buying the fuel or chatty Trump selling it to them.

Most oil companies acknowledge that climate change is real. Yet they also argue strongly for the world's continued use of massive quantities of fossil fuels, which power both the global economy and their profits. Dec 5, 2023

How oil firms talk about climate change — and how to decode it

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/05/1215499778/cop28-uae-climate-talks-oil-
exxon-mobil-chevron-climate-change-net-zero-unabated

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

SECOND

Thursday, October 10, 2024 12:30 AM (P)

The Trump Believability Gap

Voters detest the things that Trump wants to do. But they just don’t believe he’ll follow through.

By David A. Graham | October 9, 2024, 10:46 AM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/10/trump-believability-
gap/680201/

The paradox of running a campaign against Donald Trump is that you have to convince voters that he is both a liar and deadly serious.

On the one hand, much of what the Republican presidential nominee says is patently false. Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are not eating cats and dogs; President Joe Biden is not dodging calls from the governor of hurricane-stricken Georgia; crime is not, in fact, on the rise.

And yet, on the other hand, Trump is not bluffing when it comes to his plans to radically shift the federal government and change the fabric of American life. These include a huge expansion in political-patronage jobs, campaigns of retribution against political adversaries, and mass deportation of undocumented immigrants—all things that Trump has placed at the center of his campaign and that he tried to do in his first term. Trump’s critics talk about these plans not just because of an abstract commitment to democracy—it’s also good politics. Many of these ideas are deeply unpopular, and will motivate voters to oppose Trump.

That’s the theory, at least. But Trump exists in a strange zone where voters hear what he’s saying and then largely discount it, perhaps as a result of his past dissembling, or perhaps because the ideas just seem too extreme to be real. Amanda Carpenter, a former GOP staffer turned Trump critic who now works for the nonprofit Protect Democracy, has dubbed this the “believability gap.”

“[These ideas] are out in public. They’re on video. They’re very easy to see and understand,” she told me. “What a lot of people are failing to comprehend is how he would turn that rhetoric into a reality.”

One way to think about the believability gap is to consider Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation–coordinated blueprint for a second Trump term. Such external planning documents are not unusual, I noted in August, and even given that many of the details in this one are far out of the mainstream, Democrats’ success in turning Project 2025 into a campaign liability is surprising. An NBC News poll late last month found that 57 percent of voters viewed Project 2025 negatively; almost all of this group viewed it very negatively. Even a third of Republicans dislike it. A recent survey from the progressive pollster Navigator found 50 percent disapproval and just 9 percent approval for Project 2025.

But the trick is that even though Project 2025 is deeply unpopular, Trump is somewhat immune to the effects if people think he won’t really do the things in it. Lake Research Partners (LRP), a Democratic firm, recently polled swing-state voters about Project 2025. When respondents were asked about specific policies within the document, an important split emerged between how they felt about each idea versus how likely they thought it was to happen. For example, 57 percent were very concerned about cutting programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security, but only 33 percent thought that was very likely. Similarly, 46 percent would be very concerned about Trump deploying troops against American citizens, yet only a quarter thought Trump would ever do such a thing—even though Trump showed enthusiasm for doing just that in 2020, including in public statements.

But the believability gap nearly disappears when it comes to two of the most traditional GOP policy priorities. Even though Trump in 2024 is the most aberrant major-party nominee in American history—outdoing even earlier Trump iterations—the LRP polling finds that voters are very concerned about tax cuts for the wealthy and restrictions on abortion, contraception, and infertility treatments and also think Trump would be very likely to implement those policies.

Voters’ dismissal of the likelihood of Trump pursuing his most extreme ideas, Carpenter told me, represents

SECOND

Thursday, October 10, 2024 12:30 AM (P)

Trump Will Follow Through on His Threats

By David A. Graham

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/01/trump-veterans-da
y-speech-vermin-reelection/676137/

Trump Isn’t Bluffing

We’ve become inured to his rhetoric, but his message has grown darker.

“We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections,” Donald Trump said this past November, in a campaign speech that was ostensibly honoring Veterans Day. “The real threat is not from the radical right; the real threat is from the radical left … The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within.”

What immediately leaps out here is the word vermin, with its echoes of Hitler and Mussolini. But Trump’s inflammatory language can overshadow and distract from the substance of what he’s saying—in this case, appearing to promise a purge or repression of those who disagree with him politically.

This sort of language isn’t entirely new. Trump spoke in Manichaean terms throughout his first campaign and term, encouraging chants to lock up Hillary Clinton in 2016, and in 2018 referring to undocumented immigrants as “animals” who would “infest our country.” Over time, the shock of Trump’s rhetoric has worn off, making it easy to miss the fact that his message has grown even darker.

Trump himself has changed, too—the old Trump seemed to be running for office partly for fun and partly in service of his signature views, such as opposition to immigration and support for protectionism. Today’s Trump is different. His fury over his 2020 election defeat, the legal cases against him, and a desire for revenge against political opponents have come to eclipse everything else.

In the past few months, the former president has described himself as a “very proud election denier.” He has repeatedly threatened and intimidated judges, witnesses, prosecutors, and even the family of prosecutors involved in the cases against him, going so far as to say that his legal opponents will be consigned to mental asylums if he’s reelected. He has suggested that the man he picked for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff deserves to be executed on grounds of treason. He’s called for investigating NBC and possibly yanking the network off the air, also on grounds of treason—one of his most direct attacks on the First Amendment. And he’s vowed to arrest and indict President Joe Biden and other political opponents for no apparent reason other than that they oppose him.

The fact that Trump’s ideas have become more authoritarian is not yet fully appreciated. One reason is people have heard Trump say outlandish things for so long that they can’t identify what’s new, or they’ve become numb. Another is venue: Once Trump left the White House and stopped tweeting, his vitriol became less noticeable to anyone who didn’t attend his rallies, seek out videos of them, or join Trump’s own Truth Social network.

Even when a comment is so extreme that it does break into the mainstream, what happens next is predictable. The first time Trump says something, people react with shock and compare him to Hitler. The second time, people say Trump is at it again. By the third time, it becomes background noise—an appalling but familiar part of the Trump shtick.

This is just the sort of “normalization” that Trump’s critics warned against from the start, but it’s also a natural human response to repeated exposure. The result is that Trump has been able to acclimate the nation to authoritarianism by introducing it early and often. When a second-term President Trump directs the Justice Department to lock up Democratic politicians or generals or reporters or activists on flimsy or no grounds at all, people will wring their hands, but they’ll also shrug and wonder why he didn’t do it sooner. After all, he’s been promising to do it forever, right?

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity,

SECOND

Thursday, October 10, 2024 12:56 AM (P)

Trump Is Doing His Best to Make the Hurricane Into a Bad Issue for Him

By Ben Mathis-Lilley | Oct 09, 2024 2:18 PM

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/10/us-presidential-election-t
rump-hurricane-response.html

About a month ago, polling guru Nate Silver wrote a (paywalled) piece for his Substack called “This Was Trump’s Election to Lose. And He Just Might.” Its most important line may have been this one: “In newsless periods, [Trump] becomes the favorite.” Everything else about him aside — and, granted, it’s a lot to put aside — Trump is a candidate who’s remembered by voters for being president when the economy was good and prices were low, and he’s running against the vice president from an administration that’s unpopular because of inflation. It’s a no-difficulty setting. Lie low and cruise to victory!

Trump is not a “lying low” kind of guy, though, and his response to the hurricane situation in the South — Helene hit last month, and Milton is headed toward Florida presently — is the latest instance of his compulsion to center himself in the national news, to his own detriment.

In a nutshell, his response to the hurricanes has been bizarre and unhelpful. Trump has said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is trying to avoid helping displaced Republicans in North Carolina, that it has run out of money because it’s housing illegal immigrants, and that there haven’t been any helicopters deployed for rescue missions in areas affected by Helene. None of those things, if you can believe it, are true. He hasn’t yet repeated Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s claim that “they” (Democrats, Jews, whoever) can “control the weather” and are doing it in this instance to attack MAGA voters, but he probably will, sooner or later (in a vague way). Hell, he may have already done it on his Truth Social feed, but they don’t pay me enough to look at that thing. No one gets paid enough to look at it.

Anyway, hurricane conspiracy stuff is probably bad for him electorally. Polls (and common sense) suggest that voters want a president who can “unify” the country during emergencies. And in being as un-unifying as possible, Trump is re-creating some of the circumstances of his loss in 2020.

In that year, the U.S. was experiencing not just the COVID pandemic but civil unrest triggered by video of George Floyd’s murder. Voters as a whole didn’t like Trump’s handling of either issue. If you’ll recall, Trump usually ignored COVID precautions and had to be hospitalized after he contracted the virus in October 2020, which probably did not help instill widespread faith, just before the election, in his pandemic management skills. His responses to police brutality protests were generally considered inflammatory and divisive — perhaps most notably, he had protesters outside the White House tear-gassed and beaten to clear space so he could take a photo in front of a nearby church. According to polls, Biden went on to win voters who were concerned about the pandemic and the issue of racism, and was widely believed to be more likely to “unify” the country.

When Trump was nearly killed this July, he had the chance — really the best possible chance — to show that he understands how to be a dignified, “presidential” leader. He blew that chance pretty much immediately by, among other things, accusing Kamala Harris of lying about being Black (?). Natural disasters in the Gulf present another such opportunity, but he will probably just continue pissing into the wind.

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

THG

Thursday, October 10, 2024 2:19 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Can you say Trump is dumb as a rock. I can, I can say it.

T

What Trump thinks about climate change
Trump is paid to perform. He is the singing/dancing frontman working for the oil & gas executives. He doesn't have to understand the lyrics of the songs he sings. His audience does not understand the meaning of the words any more than he does. The music and sound of Trump's voice calm his audience. It is the executives who know perfectly well what they are doing, what it means to sell fuel, not the zonked-out-of-their-minds customers buying the fuel or chatty Trump selling it to them.

Most oil companies acknowledge that climate change is real. Yet they also argue strongly for the world's continued use of massive quantities of fossil fuels, which power both the global economy and their profits. Dec 5, 2023

How oil firms talk about climate change — and how to decode it

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/05/1215499778/cop28-uae-climate-talks-oil-
exxon-mobil-chevron-climate-change-net-zero-unabated

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

You say Trump is a paid performer. I completely agree. However, I find the way he speaks annoying. Much of what he says is flat, and lacks emotion or tone. It's like he's dead inside. Then he delivers a line with enthusiasm, before going back to a flat emotionless tone.

In reality, his speeches consist of indifferent rhetoric, delivered in a flat voice. Monotone, expressing a lack of interest or concern.

Plus, what he is saying in these speeches is not just untrue, it's complete nonsense. It explains why his voters are uneducated. Maybe to them it's like daddy reading them a bedtime story. Only while he is doing so is he completely detached from the child emotionally. It's disturbing, sickening even.

T

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, October 10, 2024 5:42 AM (P)

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, October 10, 2024 5:44 AM (P)

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

How about that?

I'd thought at 45 years old I couldn't be surprised anymore.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
I've have always been able to work with and get the best out of Trumptards because of my moral neutrality toward their foolish, often evil, ways of life.

Drunks, cheaters, thieves, wife-beaters, liars, incompetent workers, the kind of behavior Trump displays. But there are occasions when a Trumptard has to be sent away because their natural stupidity, lack of self-control, and fundamental dishonesty can't be tolerated in a particular position when their faulty nature is ruining a project of mine. They are sinners, born to be evil, living silly and meaningless lives. And totally unaware, completely oblivious, to what they and Trump are.

I have never been surprised by a Trumptard. They are assholes. They can't help themselves.

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

Shut the fuck up, degenerate.

You're going to be surprised by all of them when you wake up on November 6th. For the 2nd time.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, October 10, 2024 5:53 AM (P)

On this day in History, October 9th:

National00000000Harris +2.0000Biden +9.70000Clinton +4.6
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Wisconsin0000000Harris +0.5000Biden +5.50000Clinton +6.3
Pennsylvania0000Trump0 +0.2000Biden +7.10000Clinton +9.4
Ohio000000000000Trump0 +8.0000Biden +0.60000Clinton +2.3
Michigan00000000Trump 0+0.5000Biden +6.70000Clinton +7.3
Arizona000000000Trump0 +1.4000Biden +2.70000Trump00 +0.7
Nevada0000000000Harris +1.1000Biden +6.00000Clinton +1.3
North Carolina00Trump0 +0.6000Biden +1.80000Clinton +2.6
Georgia000000000Trump0 +1.5000Biden +0.00000Trump00 +4.7
Florida000000000Trump0 +6.7000Biden +3.80000Clinton +2.9

P.S. Don't forget that 22 days before election, Hillary Clinton rose to +7.1 against Trump in the aggregate from her +4.6 today, and +7.1 isn't even CLOSE to her peak of +11.4 against Trump in 2016. Harris will see no such surge, and you are going to go into election day with the smallest polling advantage of any Democrat hopeful in the last 3 election cycles. So small, in fact, that if the same biases exist in the polls that were there in the last few election cycles, Trump is going to win the Popular Vote by a large margin.

Also in polling news recently...

Trump overtakes Harris in the Michigan polling aggregate for the first time since July 29th. Trump is now up +0.5 in Michigan as of 10/09/2024.

The newest Yahoo "News" poll shows a TIE. For 10/2-10/4 Yahoo had Harris up +2 and back on 9/21-9/23 Yahoo had Harris up +4.

The newest Emerson poll for 9/29-10/1 as previously mentioned was +1 when they had Harris up +4 on 8/12-8/14 as well.

Reuters/Ipsos' new poll for 10/4-10/7 shows Harris up by +2. The last poll they had for 9/21-9/23 had Harris up by +6.

The I&I/TIPP poll for 10/2-10/4 still has Harris at +3 like they did back on 8/28-8/30.

3 out of the last 4 polls are quite a bit lower for Harris than they were a month ago, and now the Yahoo News poll has trended toward Trump 2 polls in a row.

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

SECOND

Thursday, October 10, 2024 6:27 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Shut the fuck up, degenerate.

You're going to be surprised by all of them when you wake up on November 6th. For the 2nd time.

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

“We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections,” Donald Trump said this past November, in a campaign speech that was ostensibly honoring Veterans Day. “The real threat is not from the radical right; the real threat is from the radical left … The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within.”

In the past few months, the former president has described himself as a “very proud election denier.” He has repeatedly threatened and intimidated judges, witnesses, prosecutors, and even the family of prosecutors involved in the cases against him, going so far as to say that his legal opponents will be consigned to mental asylums if he’s reelected. He has suggested that the man he picked for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff deserves to be executed on grounds of treason. He’s called for investigating NBC and possibly yanking the network off the air, also on grounds of treason—one of his most direct attacks on the First Amendment. And he’s vowed to arrest and indict President Joe Biden and other political opponents for no apparent reason other than that they oppose him.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/01/trump-veterans-da
y-speech-vermin-reelection/676137/

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, October 10, 2024 6:42 AM (P)

Yup.

And we're taking it back next month.

Tick Tock

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

THG

Thursday, October 10, 2024 6:47 AM (P)

Oops...

T

Trump faces ‘devastating blow’ as record Republicans swap to Harris

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, October 10, 2024 6:49 AM (P)

Apparently your clickbaiters don't pay attention to the trending in the polls.

On this day in History, October 9th:

National00000000Harris +2.0000Biden +9.70000Clinton +4.6
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Wisconsin0000000Harris +0.5000Biden +5.50000Clinton +6.3
Pennsylvania0000Trump0 +0.2000Biden +7.10000Clinton +9.4
Ohio000000000000Trump0 +8.0000Biden +0.60000Clinton +2.3
Michigan00000000Trump 0+0.5000Biden +6.70000Clinton +7.3
Arizona000000000Trump0 +1.4000Biden +2.70000Trump00 +0.7
Nevada0000000000Harris +1.1000Biden +6.00000Clinton +1.3
North Carolina00Trump0 +0.6000Biden +1.80000Clinton +2.6
Georgia000000000Trump0 +1.5000Biden +0.00000Trump00 +4.7
Florida000000000Trump0 +6.7000Biden +3.80000Clinton +2.9

Trump is going to wipe the floor with your girl.

Tick Tock

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

SECOND

Thursday, October 10, 2024 8:12 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yup.

And we're taking it back next month.

Tick Tock

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

There is 50% chance Trump loses. If he wins, there is a small chance Biden kills Trump because the Supreme Court granted Presidents immunity for official acts:

For private acts, the court concluded that the president is not above the law. So I assume if the president had an affair with a woman and her jealous husband came to the White House and the president shot the husband in the Oval Office—that’s a private act, and he would not be above the law. But if he ordered Navy SEALs to do it, then it would be an official act and he would be above the law because that’s a presidential act.

So this decision is outrageous. It’ll be overruled by some future court, God willing. It’s a case that really gives the president a free pass.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/09/trump-roy-cohn-movie-real-
life-version.html

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

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Thursday, October 10, 2024 8:13 AM (P)

"Separated": Film Shows How Trump Tore Immigrant Families Apart as 1,300 Kids Still Alone

We speak with Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris about his new documentary, Separated , based on NBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff’s book of the same name. The film details the horrors of the Trump “zero tolerance” immigration policy, under which thousands of immigrant children were forcibly separated from their parents after they crossed the southern U.S. border, part of the administration’s broader crackdown on immigration.

The cruel policy was enforced as early as July 2017, initially without public acknowledgment by Trump officials. It was ultimately rescinded amid widespread outrage, but it continues to impact the families who were targeted, and about 1,000 children remain effectively orphaned years later, with authorities and rights groups still unable to locate their parents.

“It wouldn’t have happened were it not for decades of bipartisan deterrence-based immigration policy that continues to this day,” says Soboroff. Morris says “the most appalling part of the policy” was the lack of record-keeping. “OK, let’s separate the children, but let’s not actually keep a record of how to ever reunite them. Let’s separate them for good. Let’s just create orphans, abandon children,” he says.

Separated plays for a week at the IFC Center in New York, starting tonight, before it gets wider theatrical distribution and airs on MSNBC this December.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, October 10, 2024 8:41 AM (P)

It airs on MSNBC.

Uh huh.

Yeah. I bet it does.

MSNBC is to News as The History Channel is to History and The Learning Channel is to Learning.

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

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Thursday, October 10, 2024 8:53 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It airs on MSNBC.

Uh huh.

Yeah. I bet it does.

MSNBC is to News as The History Channel is to History and The Learning Channel is to Learning.

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

Trump can't keep track of the thousand orphans he created: Morris says “the most appalling part of the policy” was the lack of record-keeping. “OK, let’s separate the children, but let’s not actually keep a record of how to ever reunite them. Let’s separate them for good. Let’s just create orphans, abandon children,” he says.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, October 10, 2024 9:09 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It airs on MSNBC.

Uh huh.

Yeah. I bet it does.

MSNBC is to News as The History Channel is to History and The Learning Channel is to Learning.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Trump can't keep track of the thousand orphans he created: Morris says “the most appalling part of the policy” was the lack of record-keeping. “OK, let’s separate the children, but let’s not actually keep a record of how to ever reunite them. Let’s separate them for good. Let’s just create orphans, abandon children,” he says.

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

I'm sure this is the product of some hard-hitting journalism and receipts have been brought to wrap up all of these claims stating exactly where you can find out who was responsible for what and when. Yanno... Objective journalism and actual facts that matter.

It won't be a flashy emotional puff piece with sad music where the sad parts go and inspirational music where the inspirational parts go, while all those subtle words of propaganda are being spoken to you once they've got you in the right frame of mind.

It won't just be a bunch of words that they tell you are facts because they're backed up by so-called "experts" with job titles you've never heard of before in fields you've never knew existed. You've never met these people in your life, but you should trust them completely and believe that everything they're saying to you is the absolute truth. If they're a minority with a fancy job title than then look out because everything they are telling you is beyond reproach and it would be racist and/or sexist for you to even question them. How dare you even consider such a thing?

It would be Anti-American not to trust them. Maybe it's even a Threat to Democracy if you didn't trust them. You might even be a Putin spy if you don't trust them and believe everything that they told you.

Enjoy the movie.

I'll be watching this right after I get through my first Dinesh Joint, which I plan to watch right after I finish Joker 2: The Musical Poo.

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

SECOND

Thursday, October 10, 2024 3:45 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

I'm sure this is the product of some hard-hitting journalism and receipts have been brought to wrap up all of these claims stating exactly where you can find out who was responsible for what and when. Yanno... Objective journalism and actual facts that matter.

Most Trumptards I know are focused on the distressing thoughts inside their head and pay little to no attention to the outside world, so they do not do so well in the world. The world wrecks the emotionally distracted ones. See your personal history for an example of a crash, 6ix. Or Trump. That guy has had a traumatic life. One damn thing after another happens to Trump.

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

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Thursday, October 10, 2024 3:45 PM (P)

In Florida Senate Race, Two Candidates With Vastly Different Views on the Climate

Incumbent Rick Scott, a Republican, reportedly banned the words “climate change” from state agencies as governor. Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell favors climate-resilient infrastructure.

By Amy Green | October 9, 2024

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09102024/florida-senate-race-vastly
-different-climate-views/

At stake is U.S. climate policy including the Inflation Reduction Act, the $370 billion package President Joe Biden signed into law in 2022. The monumental measure includes clean energy incentives that former President Donald Trump has vowed to repeal if re-elected.

Florida is uniquely vulnerable to the consequences of climate change, especially hotter temperatures, rising seas and more damaging storms. In the last seven years the state has weathered six major hurricanes.

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

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Thursday, October 10, 2024 4:04 PM (P)

Trump ends speculation on another debate: ‘There will be no rematch’

The former president is turning down both invitations from Fox News and CNN.

His refusal to debate, even on the friendly territory of Fox News, suggests he is unwilling to risk the unpredictability of a head-to-head contest with the vice president in the final weeks of the campaign. Harris has said she’s open to another matchup.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/09/trump-harris-debate-no-rematc
h-00183179

The first and only debate was a traumatic car crash for Trump because he couldn’t stop talking about his angry feelings. Sad for him.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, October 10, 2024 5:52 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Trump ends speculation on another debate: ‘There will be no rematch’

The former president is turning down both invitations from Fox News and CNN.

His refusal to debate, even on the friendly territory of Fox News, suggests he is unwilling to risk the unpredictability of a head-to-head contest with the vice president in the final weeks of the campaign. Harris has said she’s open to another matchup.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/09/trump-harris-debate-no-rematc
h-00183179

The first and only debate was a traumatic car crash for Trump because he couldn’t stop talking about his angry feelings. Sad for him.

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

The first debate didn't move the needle. We've already been over that in the polls.

Trump's in the driver's seat. He doesn't need to give any of his time to the person that the DNC appointed as the Democratic Party candidate against the will of the people who voted for Joe Biden*.

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

SECOND

Thursday, October 10, 2024 7:00 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

The first debate didn't move the needle. We've already been over that in the polls.

Trump's in the driver's seat. He doesn't need to give any of his time to the person that the DNC appointed as the Democratic Party candidate against the will of the people who voted for Joe Biden*.

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

Two things:

1) Trump had a mental breakdown during the first debate. Trumptards don't care because their mental health is similarly fragile. Trumptards won't change their vote because they want a President with their weaknesses and defective thinking. They have no use for someone who is calm or stable and doesn't share their freaky ideas.

2) Democratic Party candidates are NOT selected by popular vote. A convention selects the candidates.

(I just realized that these two things are the same things keeping Trumptards from prospering in America. 1) Trumptards go into a downward spiral when faced with even the tiniest adversity. 2) Trumptards don't understand procedures, even the simplest ones. The Trumptards I know in Texas are conceited yet dopey dimwits. Maybe there are smarter ones somewhere?)

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

THG

Thursday, October 10, 2024 7:49 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Apparently your clickbaiters don't pay attention to the trending in the polls.

On this day in History, October 9th:

Trump is going to wipe the floor with your girl.

Tick Tock

Poor Jack, he has to go back to 2016 and Clinton for hope, because things are looking bad for Trump in 2024. Sorry Jack, a major difference between then and now, is half the country despised Clinton. The republicans had been trashing her for 30 years. That hate drove republicans to the voting booth. And we mustn't forget James Comey.

Comey went outside the department’s chain of command and broke with FBI norms to announce his initial findings, and then later, to announce he was reopening the Clinton investigation without notifying higher-ranking officials. This just 10 days before the election. None of this shit is happening now Jack.

Even though I voted for her against Trump, I still despised her. This is not the case with Kamala. Which is why Trumps campaign message is geared towards getting people to hate her. Evidence shows it isn't working; Oops. Big difference, big difference.

T

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Friday, October 11, 2024 1:04 AM (P)

Crypto is spending wildly in the 2024 race

By Kevin Drum | October 10, 2024

https://jabberwocking.com/crypto-is-spending-wildly-in-the-2024-race/

Back in the day — i.e., 2022 — crypto in politics was all about Sam Bankman-Fried, who lavished his millions on politicians under the guise of altruistic giving. It was a lie, of course, but everyone pretended to accept it for a while.

Bankman-Fried is warming a prison cell these days and the crypto industry has moved on. Alexander Sammon explains:

This time, there’s no grand political theorizing. No time to waste on utopian futures or societal aspirations. In fact, Coinbase’s billionaire CEO Brian Armstrong, the closest thing to a leader of this political formation, has openly declared that the United States is a society in “decline” and that “backup” options for existing nation states must be pursued. No, the 2024 crypto money machine has been reborn out of a cold, hard determination to do one thing and one thing only: put politicians in power who will stay out of crypto’s way.

And the crypto money machine is huge beyond imagining. Here's an estimate of corporate political contributions by sector for 2024:

Crypto is massively outspending everyone else combined, and this money is being wielded for one specific purpose: to gain passage of a bill that would only lightly regulate crypto. And it is being wielded ruthlessly:

Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, who has advocated for stricter regulation of the crypto industry in the past, is firmly in the lobby’s crosshairs. The group is spending an astronomical $40 million to oppose Brown, the chair of the Senate Banking committee.... That wild spending makes his victory look much more difficult. (“Money moves the needle,” Armstrong told Axios. “For better or worse, that’s how our system works.”)

Now, there's a lot more to the political world than direct corporate contributions. In fact, it's a fairly small share of the billions of dollars in total political spending this cycle. Nevertheless, this is a very impressive figure for an industry that contributed approximate zero in 2022. They want to be left alone to continue scamming the American public, and they're willing to spend eye-watering amounts to insure that.

So if you're wondering why practically everybody is either friendly or at least not hostile to crypto these days, this is it. They're facing too big a war chest to risk saying anything directly about regulating crypto. The $40 million flame thrower aimed at Sherrod Brown is all the warning they need.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, October 11, 2024 2:13 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Poor Jack, he has to go back to 2016 and Clinton for hope, because things are looking bad for Trump in 2024. Sorry Jack, a major difference between then and now, is half the country despised Clinton. The republicans had been trashing her for 30 years. That hate drove republicans to the voting booth. And we mustn't forget James Comey.

This has nothing to do with Clinton. It has everything to do with math. And we've got two election cycles to work with here.

Even though the polls tightened up before the 2016 race, Clinton won the popular vote by far fewer than the polling aggregate suggested she would. The same thing happened with Joe Biden*. Right now, Joe Biden* was up 10 full points on Trump. Double digits. Biden* only won the popular vote by 4.5 points.

At no point in the 2016 or the 2020 election was either Democrat as low against Trump in the National polling by only 1.8, which is close to Harris' peak this election cycle.

If the same Democrat bias is in the polls in 2024 that existed in both 2016 and 2022, Trump doesn't only win the electoral college easily, but he also wins the popular vote.

On this day in History, October 10th:

National00000000Harris +1.8000Biden +10.0000Clinton +5.8
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Wisconsin0000000Harris +0.4000Biden +5.50000Clinton +6.8
Pennsylvania0000Trump0 +0.3000Biden +7.10000Clinton +9.4
Ohio000000000000Trump0 +7.4000Biden +0.60000Clinton +2.3
Michigan00000000Trump 0+0.8000Biden +6.70000Clinton +7.3
Arizona000000000Trump0 +0.9000Biden +2.70000Trump00 +0.7
Nevada0000000000Harris +1.0000Biden +6.00000Clinton +1.3
North Carolina00Trump0 +0.6000Biden +1.90000Clinton +2.6
Georgia000000000Trump0 +0.8000Trump +0.40000Trump00 +4.7
Florida000000000Trump0 +6.2000Biden +3.90000Clinton +2.9

Trump is going to wipe the floor with your girl.

Tick Tock

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, October 11, 2024 2:27 AM (P)

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

I'm sure this is the product of some hard-hitting journalism and receipts have been brought to wrap up all of these claims stating exactly where you can find out who was responsible for what and when. Yanno... Objective journalism and actual facts that matter.
Most Trumptards I know are focused on the distressing thoughts inside their head and pay little to no attention to the outside world, so they do not do so well in the world. The world wrecks the emotionally distracted ones. See your personal history for an example of a crash, 6ix. Or Trump. That guy has had a traumatic life. One damn thing after another happens to Trump.

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

You're just salty that I did everything you ever dreamed of doing and will never achieve by the time I was only 32 years old.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, October 11, 2024 2:46 AM (P)

The Hill: Democrats start to hit the panic button

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4922690-democrats-nervous-kamala
-harris-campaign/

Quote:
Democrats’ nerves are at an all-time high.

Maybe this explains Second's and Theodore's terrible disposition over the last week.

It doesn't excuse it, but it explains it.

They'd probably be in a better mood right now if they listened to me when I was telling them reality vs. the nonsense they fill their heads with every day from the media.

At the very least, expect nothing and that way you won't be let down.

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

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Friday, October 11, 2024 4:15 AM (P)

America Has Quietly Been Changing Before Our Eyes. They’re Behind Much of It. They’re Just Getting Started: Ban Abortion. End Gay Marriage. Outlaw Birth Control.

A powerful Christian conservative legal group is quietly reshaping America through the courts. Here’s what it’s after.

By Susan Rinkunas | Oct 10, 2024 5:45 AM

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/10/abortion-supreme-court-all
iance-defending-freedom-agenda.html

If you heard about a well-funded right-wing group with a detailed plan to achieve conservative policy goals, you’d likely think of Project 2025. The Heritage Foundation–backed coalition has crafted an agenda for a second Donald Trump term that encompasses some truly unsettling policy ideas, and the amount of negative attention it’s gotten from Democrats, celebrities, and even Trump himself has led its leaders to retreat from the spotlight.

The thing is, there’s a lesser-known organization that’s already been working for decades to reshape America into a Christian nation—and will keep doing so, regardless of who wins the presidential election in November. It keeps racking up wins at the Supreme Court: It’s the Alliance Defending Freedom, and it may be the country’s most sinister advocacy group that people have never heard of. The law firm, which is based in Scottsdale, Arizona, says its work “advances the God-given right to live and speak the Truth” and publicly describes itself as “the nation’s largest legal organization committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, marriage and family, parental rights, and the sanctity of life.” ADF reported more than $100 million in revenue in both 2021 and 2022.

The organization has already made great strides in implementing its far-right agenda through its work on behalf of Christian fundamentalist, anti-LGBTQ+, and anti-abortion plaintiffs. It was integral to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, and now it’s waging war against protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The group’s CEO, Kristen Waggoner, has said she believes that the 2015 marriage equality ruling should be overturned as well.

ADF has also faced scrutiny for apparently manufacturing lawsuits involving Christian wedding vendors who object to same-sex marriage; one such case involving a website designer succeeded at the court in 2023 even though the plaintiff, Lorie Smith, had never designed wedding websites and a potential customer who contacted her turned out to be straight. ADF also seems to have invented a group from scratch to be the plaintiff in an ongoing case about an abortion drug. These actions aren’t illegal, but they are deeply unethical. The group is weaponizing the court system to remake laws despite no actual plaintiffs being harmed. (ADF did not respond to Slate’s multiple requests for comment, made by phone and email, nor did it respond to a detailed list of questions.)

By bringing lawsuits before friendly judges, ADF can shape American society to match its vision for the nation. The group’s individual cases may not appear all that connected, but when taken together, they paint a very clear picture. As Gillian Branstetter, a communications strategist at the ACLU, put it, ADF “is using the state to uphold the heterosexual, patriarchal nuclear family as the primary—if not the only—way of living one’s life.”

Here are 10 things we can conclude about ADF’s agenda, based on its lawsuits, model legislation, and comments to the press.

1. Ban Abortion Nationwide

ADF wrote and defended the Mississippi law that the court used to overturn Roe and end the federal right to abortion. Now it’s working on getting courts to agree to federal restrictions on abortion pills and procedures as stepping stones to a national ban.

2. Reclassify Birth Control as Abortion — and Ban That Too

Eight more at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/10/abortion-supreme-court-all
iance-defending-freedom-agenda.html

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

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Friday, October 11, 2024 4:37 AM (P)

In his grand giveaway tour, Donald Trump has now casually proposed making the following tax free:

• Tips
• Overtime
• Social Security benefits
• Auto loans
• "Double taxation" of overseas income

I'm no deficit hawk, but it's still become obvious that the deficit is out of control and needs to be reined in. So forget all the Trump tax breaks. What we need to do is return to the tax rates we had in the late 1990s—which was a pretty prosperous time, as I recall:

This is approximate but pretty close. If we simply returned to the tax rates of 2000 we'd increase revenue by about $850 billion—and cut the deficit by half. Add in some moderate payroll tax increases to keep Social Security and Medicare solvent and you'd be up to $1.2 trillion.

This reduces the deficit to $600 billion or so, and that will mechanically reduce interest rates and therefore interest payments too. The deficit would be all but gone in a few years.

Easy peasy, except that no one is willing to do it despite the fact that our experience during the Clinton era suggests it would work great and not overburden anyone.

To summarize:

• Return personal and corporate rates to 2000 levels.

• Increase Social Security taxes from 6.2% to roughly 7.2% and Medicare taxes from 1.45% to maybe 1.75%. This is an inevitable consequence of demographics and everyone knows it.

• Find about 5% in budget cuts to the military, domestic programs, and welfare spending.

• Bank a few hundred billion dollars in interest payments as a result of reduced interest rates.

We could literally do this tomorrow with very little pain if we felt like it. We're not Greece, after all. We're the most powerful economy in the world with loads of leeway to do what we need to. Instead we seem dedicated to running ourselves into a ditch and eventually being forced to make genuinely painful choices, which is Stupid.

https://jabberwocking.com/its-time-to-raise-taxes-not-cut-them/

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

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Friday, October 11, 2024 6:25 AM (P)

Donald Trump’s Plan B

Here’s how he’s already laying the groundwork for contesting an election loss.

By Dennis Aftergut | Oct 10, 2024

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-trump-plan-b-contesting-election-l
oss

“IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU WON OR LOST THE ELECTION. You still have to fight like hell.” That is, according to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s recent evidentiary filing in his case against Donald Trump for the January 6th insurrection, what Trump said at a crucial moment in 2020. That was his plan then—and all signs indicate that it is his plan now.

There’s nothing normal about Trump’s campaign this year. Even the standard features—the rallies, fundraising, and ads—are dominated by appalling lies, conspiracy theories, and grotesque exploitation of fear and xenophobia. Case in point: On Monday, Trump quintupled down on his earlier hateful messaging that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country”—language straight from Mein Kampf—by telling conservative broadcaster Hugh Hewitt that immigrants bring the “bad genes” of murderers.

Running alongside Trump’s out-in-the-open campaign is the political Plan B that he and his allies are quite clearly pursuing. It’s a strategy that we can piece together from reliable reporting and Trump’s own ever-escalating unhinged threats and rants. It involves setting the stage right now for trying to overturn the vote if he loses so he can grab power anyway.

In other words, there’s an obvious reason Trump has repeatedly refused to say he would accept the election results if he loses: Just as in 2020, he’s ready to “fight like hell” to overturn his defeat.

There’s a method to his madness. Trump and his allies are

(1) softening the public’s belief in the legitimacy of election results ahead of time by hammering the message that the election will be rigged;

(2) abusing the courts with pre-election lawsuits as a launching pad for the claim that he was the real winner; and

(3) inciting anger among his followers—including perhaps armed militants eager to turn to violence—should he suffer election defeat.

The good news is that there’s an antidote. As John Pitney, a political scientist and Never Trump conservative, recently wrote:

Trump will almost certainly refuse to accept defeat. But if he loses big in the popular vote, as well as losing the electoral vote, it will be harder for him to claim that he is the people’s choice. The larger the margin, the weaker his claim.

Simply put, every vote matters, even outside the swing states.

Let’s look at each of the three parts of Trump’s strategy.

(1) Normalizing the idea that Trump won what he lost.

Trump is the sorest loser in American history. Refusing to accept election results and saying that an election was “stolen” from him are among the oldest moves in his playbook. In 2016, after his Iowa primary loss, Trump tweeted, “Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, he stole it.”

Sound familiar?

Later that year, he preemptively sowed distrust by tweeting this about an election he expected to lose: “The election is absolutely being rigged. . . . SAD.” And after he prevailed, he falsely boasted: “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.”

Months before Election Day 2020, Chris Wallace asked Trump if he would accept the election results. The then-president answered: “It depends.” He said he’d “have to see.”

And of course, once he lost, he began to push his Big Lie that the election was stolen by ballot fraud, tried to interfere with the certification of Joe Biden’s win, and set loose violence upon Congress and the nation on January 6th.

Jack Smith’s evidence details how Trump was repeatedly told by insiders that his claims could not be proven. Trump’s response: “The details don’t matter.” What does matter for propagandists untethered from truth is repetition of falsehoods. The message is the medium.

The same is true this time around: On October 1, when a reporter asked Trump if he would trust thi

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, October 11, 2024 8:54 AM (P)

That's a moot point since Kamala Harris doesn't stand a chance.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, October 11, 2024 8:56 AM (P)

Teamsters President Sean O'Brien: Democratic Party Is "Bought And Paid For By Big Tech Companies"

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/10/08/teamsters_president
_sean_obrien_democratic_party_is_bought_and_paid_for_by_big_tech_companies.html

Quote:
SEAN O'BRIEN, TEAMSTERS PRESIDENT: I'll be honest with you, I'm a Democrat, but they have f*cked us over for the last 40 years. Not all of them -- but for once, we are standing up as a union. I'm probably the only one right now saying, WTF have you done for us? And I'm getting attacked from the left.

You think you've got it bad, buddy? Be a black person who doesn't vote Democrat and watch how they get attacked for stepping off the plantation.

Quote:
I was like, "You had no problem taking $550,000 from me three weeks prior to me going to the Republican convention, and then you want to be a tough guy on Twitter -- like, whatever.

Yup.

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

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Friday, October 11, 2024 11:15 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's a moot point since Kamala Harris doesn't stand a chance.

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

You do realize Harris has a 50-50 chance? Which precludes "Harris doesn't stand a chance." You and Trump will be enraged if Trump doesn't win. Next step after a loss would be for Trump to go crazy, insist he won, file hundreds of cases to "prove" he won, lose the cases, go to the Supreme Court where the 6 Trumptards will rule in his favor, etc. etc. More and more craziness and nonsense from the Trumptards, exactly the same way they live the entirety of their sub-optimal lives.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, October 11, 2024 11:24 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's a moot point since Kamala Harris doesn't stand a chance.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
You do realize Harris has a 50-50 chance?

No. She doesn't.

With the entire might of the Legacy Media behind her, she couldn't peak higher than +2.2 in the national polls, which she has hit twice and is now receding a second time, even harder than the first in between. And she sits at only 1.8 points right now.

Joe Biden* was up by 10.0 points today by comparison.

2020 was a coin flip and was ultimately decided by 44,000 extra votes for Democrats combined in Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin.

This is not a coin flip. This is a blowout that just hasn't been announced yet.

You'd do best to reconcile with the truth now instead of having to take it all in on November 6th. You are quite a volatile person.

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

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Friday, October 11, 2024 4:40 PM (P)

From phys.org

Study: Disappointment, not hatred is driving polarization in the United States

Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Oct 10, 2024

https://phys.org/news/2024-10-disappointment-hatred-polarization-state
s.html

A new study is redefining how we understand affective polarization. The study proposes that disappointment, rather than hatred, maybe the dominant emotion driving the growing divide between ideological groups.

The findings are published in the journal Cognition and Emotion. The team was led by Ph.D. student Mabelle Kretchner from the Department of Psychology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, under the supervision of Prof. Eran Halperin and in collaboration with Prof. Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler from Reichman University and Dr. Julia Elad-Strenger from Bar Ilan University.

Affective polarization, characterized by deepening negative feelings between members of opposing ideological groups, is a major concern to democratic stability worldwide. While numerous studies have examined the causes and potential solutions to this phenomenon, the emotional underpinnings of affective polarization have remained poorly understood.

The study addresses a critical gap in current research, which typically relies on one-dimensional measures of affect, that gauges the general positive or negative feelings (ranging from cold to warm) of ideological group members toward their opponents. This traditional approach, according to Kretchner and her colleagues, oversimplifies the complex emotional landscape between ideological group members. Instead, their research advocates for a more nuanced exploration of discrete emotions, emphasizing the role of disappointment.

In particular, we propose that the nature of the ideological relationship is ambivalent and complex, as members of opposing groups simultaneously hold roles as both ideological adversaries and fellow citizens within a common nation and society. As such, we suggest that the emotions underlying ideological conflict should capture this complexity, encompassing both the intense negative experiences of ideological rivalry and the positive regard and expectations from the outgroup to advance and support shared group goals as fellow citizens.

"Disappointment is an emotion that encapsulates both positive and negative experiences," explains Kretchner.

"While hatred is destructive and focuses on viewing the outgroup as fundamentally evil, disappointment reflects a more complex dynamic. It includes unmet expectations and a sense of loss, but also retains a recognition of shared goals and the potential for positive change. This dual nature makes it a more accurate representation of the complexity embedded in ideological intergroup relations."

Across five studies conducted in the US and Israel, disappointment was the only emotion consistently linked to affective polarization, while other negative emotions did not show the same consistent association. Notably, hatred did not predict affective polarization in any of the studies, even during politically charged periods such as the Capitol riots, the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the Supreme Court hearings on Roe v. Wade.

Mabelle Kretchner noted, "Recognizing disappointment as the key emotion underlying affective polarization, even in challenging times, offers a silver lining: it explains not only the hostility observed between ideological adversaries, particularly as we may feel now during election times, but also the underlying hope that the 'appointment' may still take place in the future—that the other side will eventually act in a way that benefits the national common good."

This finding suggests that interventions aimed at reducing affective polarization might be more effective if they target specific emotions underlying affective polarization like disappointment.

As societies across the globe grapple with rising political tensions, the insights from this study offer a fresh perspective on how to heal divisions. By recognizing the complexity of emo

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, October 12, 2024 4:25 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's a moot point since Kamala Harris doesn't stand a chance.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
You do realize Harris has a 50-50 chance?

No. She doesn't.

With the entire might of the Legacy Media behind her, she couldn't peak higher than +2.2 in the national polls, which she has hit twice and is now receding a second time, even harder than the first in between. And she sits at only 1.8 points right now.

Joe Biden* was up by 10.0 points today by comparison.

2020 was a coin flip and was ultimately decided by 44,000 extra votes for Democrats combined in Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin.

This is not a coin flip. This is a blowout that just hasn't been announced yet.

You'd do best to reconcile with the truth now instead of having to take it all in on November 6th. You are quite a volatile person.

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

As of today, based off the state polling aggregates, a no toss up election electoral college breaks for Trump 302 to 236.

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

THG

Saturday, October 12, 2024 4:51 AM (P)

T

Obama: ‘For Trump, freedom is getting away with stuff’

THG

Saturday, October 12, 2024 4:58 AM (P)

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, October 13, 2024 2:58 AM (P)

On this day in History, October 12th:

National00000000Harris +1.8000Biden +10.2000Clinton +6.2
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Wisconsin0000000Harris +0.3000Biden +6.30000Clinton +6.0
Pennsylvania0000Trump0 +0.1000Biden +7.30000Clinton +9.2
Ohio000000000000Trump0 +7.4000Biden +0.60000Clinton +2.3
Michigan00000000Trump 0+0.9000Biden +7.00000Clinton +9.6
Arizona000000000Trump0 +1.0000Biden +2.70000Trump00 +0.7
Nevada0000000000Trump0 +0.2000Biden +6.00000Clinton +1.3
North Carolina00Trump0 +0.5000Biden +2.70000Clinton +2.6
Georgia000000000Trump0 +0.5000Biden +3.50000Trump00 +4.7
Florida000000000Trump0 +6.2000Biden +3.50000Clinton +3.2

Trump has a lead in the aggregate in all swing states except for Wisconsin now. Harris' lead in Wisconsin is only +0.3.

If the state polls look like that on Election day, the blowout is going to be even bigger than anticipated with the chronic historical Democrat bias in polls.

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

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Sunday, October 13, 2024 5:05 PM (P)

The Wrong-Direction Election

A brief history of the phrase — directionally correct — the right uses to justify Trump’s BS.

The Phrase the Right Uses to Explain Why It’s OK That Trump Makes Things Up

By Ben Mathis-Lilley | Oct 12, 2024

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/10/us-presidential-election-d
onald-trump-lies-directionally-accurate.html

At an Oct. 5 rally in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump told a seemingly apocryphal story about a decades-old women’s weightlifting record that was purportedly broken with ease by a man who had “never lifted before” but cheated the system by identifying as trans. A Canadian women’s powerlifter named April Hutchinson, who seemed to believe that the former president was referring to a specific trans rival of hers from the province of Alberta, posted a clip of the anecdote (which Trump tells frequently) on Twitter/X. The details Hutchinson gave, though, don’t really line up with the vague scenario that Trump describes in his stump speech, in which he sometimes claims to have watched actual footage of a woman losing a competition to the trans lifter in question.

Fortunately Jay Richards, director of the DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family at the right-wing Heritage Foundation think tank, was there to square the circle. “Classic Trump hyperbole,” he declared. “Directionally correct but carefully engineered to drive critics crazy over the details.” Problem solved: Trump wasn’t exaggerating, and he definitely wasn’t just getting mad about something that never happened—he was being directionally correct.

And being directionally correct—or sometimes directionally accurate—is, according to many of Donald Trump’s supporters, something that Donald Trump is very good at. His claims about trans athletes, immigrants, and the 2020 election might not be strictly true, these advocates say, but they are directionally so, because he’s talking about a real problem, or at least a feeling that there’s a real problem.

“Trump’s hyperbole is directionally accurate and benign,” wrote Scott Adams, the Dilbert creator–turned–right-wing thought leader, after the presidential debate in June during which Trump (for example) described Jan. 6 rioters as “a relatively small number of people that went to the Capitol and in many cases were ushered in by the police.” On Fox News, host Greg Gutfeld said the same thing. “Trump doesn’t lie more than Biden,” Gutfeld elaborated. “He lies better.”

Trump’s defenders responded similarly to his outburst, in the second presidential debate, about illegal Haitian immigrants in Ohio stealing and eating U.S.-born Americans’ pets. That rumor had no basis in reality; not only were Springfield, Ohio’s Haitian residents not eating pets, they had also been admitted legally through a refugee program created by an act of Congress in 1990. Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, nonetheless told reporters that he planned to continue to refer to the individuals in question as “illegal aliens” because he considered the refugee program to be “fundamentally” illegal. Directionally, in other words, he believed Trump was accurate about who should and should not be in the United States.

Lawyerly justifications of Trump’s bogus claims are Vance’s stock in trade, but he doesn’t appear to have used the phrase directionally correct himself. He did endorse a book by far-right conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec, though, that lays out what might be the ultimate theory of directional honesty in a passage that attempts to explain why its premise—that the United States is controlled by repressive communists—is a fair one despite the abundant evidence that the United States is not controlled by repressive communists.

Something is deeply wrong with the way things are going and you know it. You may not be able to explain it with studies, surveys, or statistics, but you feel it. You’ve felt this way for a while. Like there’s some outside force or group or … something … that’s sent us all off course from the libertarian utopia we should’ve achieved by now. It doesn’t

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, October 14, 2024 12:08 AM (P)

Using Don Rumsfield's opinion to try to win the election isn't going to help you any more than the endorsement of other 200 NeoCons did.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, October 14, 2024 12:17 AM (P)

NBC just gave Kamala some bad news in polling and even wrote an article about it...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/dead-heat-trump-pulls-e
ven-harris-nbc-news-poll-rcna174201

Their last poll from 9/13-9/17 had Harris up +5. Today they have the race at a Tie.

ABC News just put out a poll today that has Harris up +2. Their last poll from 9/11-9/13 had Harris up +4.

That's now 5 of the last 6 polls from Leftist outfits showing huge drops for Kamala.

Keep in mind that when NBC "News" says it's a "dead heat", what they really mean to say, given ample evidence of chronic oversampling of Democrat voters in polls, is that Trump is up by about 4 or 5 points now in reality. For the popular vote.

Calling this a "dead heat" now only works on your idiot readership who never catches you lying about anything. With a peak of +2.2 in the national polling aggregate, there is not one single time that Kamala Harris has been tied with Trump since they went against the will of the people and crowned her the candidate. She's always been down by at least 2 points or around 4 Million votes in the popular vote. From last weekend until now, it's edged closer to a 5 Million vote loss for Harris.

On this day in History, October 13th:

National00000000Harris +1.7000Biden +10.0000Clinton +6.7
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Wisconsin0000000Harris +0.3000Biden +6.30000Clinton +6.0
Pennsylvania0000Trump0 +0.1000Biden +7.00000Clinton +9.2
Ohio000000000000Trump0 +7.4000Biden +0.60000Clinton +1.8
Michigan00000000Trump 0+0.9000Biden +7.00000Clinton +11.4
Arizona000000000Trump0 +1.0000Biden +2.70000Trump00 +0.7
Nevada0000000000Trump0 +0.2000Biden +5.20000Clinton +1.3
North Carolina00Trump0 +0.5000Biden +3.20000Clinton +3.0
Georgia000000000Trump0 +0.5000Biden +0.80000Trump00 +5.3
Florida000000000Trump0 +6.1000Biden +3.70000Clinton +3.2

Trump has a lead in the aggregate in all swing states except for Wisconsin now. Harris' lead in Wisconsin is only +0.3.

If the state polls look like that on Election day, the blowout is going to be even bigger than anticipated with the chronic historical Democrat bias in polls.

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

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Monday, October 14, 2024 5:11 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Using Don Rumsfield's opinion to try to win the election isn't going to help you any more than the endorsement of other 200 NeoCons did.

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

6ix, Rumsfeld loved and used Trump's rhetoric. Both knew that "if you can convince enough people that the country is headed in the wrong direction, it ultimately doesn’t matter if you’re correct or not."

Trump Wants the Military to Target Americans Who Oppose Him

October 13, 2024

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-military-tar
get-americans-oppose-him-1235132806/

Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat told NBC News that Trump’s threats to curb dissent are “out of the autocratic playbook. He’s actually rehearsing, in a sense, what he would be doing as head of state, which is what Orban does, Modi is doing, Putin has long done,” naming the dictatorial leaders of Hungary, India and Russia, all of whom Trump has lavishly praised.

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

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Tuesday, October 15, 2024 4:08 AM (P)

In Texas, Republican politicians do NOT really oppose illegal immigration

By Kevin Drum | October 14, 2024 – 1:34 pm

https://jabberwocking.com/in-texas-no-one-really-opposes-illegal-immig
ration/

In the current issue of Texas Monthly Jack Herrera has a top notch story about illegal immigration in Texas. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/border-crisis-texas-solutio
ns/

He writes about the main reason for the recent spike in border crossings:

Arguably the most important factor—one too rarely considered—is the interplay of supply and demand. In 2021, as the pandemic began to ease, “We’re Hiring” signs started to appear in the windows of businesses across the U.S. Acute labor shortages hobbled entire industries, interrupting supply chains and fueling inflation. In response, a record number of workers crossed the southern border.

Hererra then focuses specifically on worker shortages in Texas's booming construction business:

The deficit in construction is historic, by some measures.... Texas building executives are speaking in apocalyptic terms about the labor shortage they’re still facing. Behind closed doors, they bluntly acknowledge that countless new projects won’t get off the ground unless they hire workers who are in the country illegally.

....The industry also faces a labor-force problem it cannot address quickly simply by raising pay. For two decades, the number of U.S.-born workers entering the construction trade has nosedived.... Cutting off the supply of undocumented workers, then, would be like cutting off the supply of concrete and lumber.

....Whenever Texas politicians threaten to pass laws that would make it harder for businesses to employ undocumented workers, phones in the Capitol start ringing. Stuck with the need to show their base that they’re cracking down on migrants, politicians, including [Governor Greg] Abbott, have instead found a middle ground: They keep up their bombast regarding the border, but they avoid stringing any razor wire between undocumented immigrants and jobs in the state’s interior.

Herrera's main takeaway is that Texas politicians deliberately do things that get public attention—Project Lone Star, high profile disputes with the feds, busing immigrants to New York—but that won't make a dent in the numbers. That's because the business owners who really control Texas politics won't abide anything that actually works. So the charade continues.

In 2017, after Donald Trump first moved into the White House, his acting ICE chief, Thomas Homan, declared that he intended to increase worksite enforcement by “four hundred percent.” He largely succeeded. By the end of 2018 ICE had quadrupled investigations of undocumented workers, and agents had arrested seven times as many immigrants in workforce raids compared with the year before.

But one metric stayed virtually static: the number of managers arrested for hiring undocumented immigrants. In 2019 the Associated Press reported that convictions of managers who hired workers without legal status had even declined.

Williams made an argument I heard from Marek and others: that the government doesn’t have an interest in shutting down construction projects, which is what would happen if it required contractors to hire only legal workers. Of all the immigration-related crimes to prosecute, why go after those building the houses the country so badly needs?

It's not just construction, of course. And there's an obvious solution: mandatory E-Verify and real penalties for employers who violate it. But precisely because it would work, Republican business donors oppose it and Republicans, therefore, aren't much interested in it.

The simple truth is that there aren't enough legal residents to fill all the jobs in the US. Everyone knows this. When Donald Trump thunders about

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Tuesday, October 15, 2024 3:30 PM (P)

Nixon's Reelection and Watergate: Why Americans Ignored the Warning Signs

An administration called the “most deceitful in history” went on to win 49 states.

By Julian E. Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University | October 14, 2024

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/10/14/warning-signs-presidential-electi
on-nixon-mcgovern-watergate/?tpcc=recirc_latest062921

A famous parable revolves around the troubled relationship between a scorpion and a frog. A scorpion needs to cross a river. Unable to swim, the scorpion asks a frog to carry him on his back. Listening to the request, the frog responds that he is hesitant because he fears that the scorpion will sting and kill him. After the scorpion assures his new friend that he would never do that, the frog agrees. Halfway through the journey, the scorpion stings the frog. Slowly dying, the frog asks, “Why did you do this?” The scorpion responds, “I’m sorry, but it’s in my nature.”

The story is a classic lesson about how dangerous people don’t usually change. Even when promising that they will act differently, the likelihood is that they won’t. It is also a tale about taking warning signs seriously. The frog understood the risks that he faced, yet he chose to ignore them.

U.S. presidential elections frequently involve warnings signs. Over the course of a campaign, voters learn a great deal about the candidates running and the potential costs of putting someone in office. Sometimes, a majority of voters decide to heed those warnings, yet there are other times in U.S. history when voters end up the frog.

In 2024, there are more warnings signs than usual about one of the major candidates: the Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump. There are big red flags from both his first term in office and his post-presidential years waving over and over about what Trump 2.0 would bring. Another one came on Wednesday, when the Washington, D.C., district judge handling the federal election conspiracy case against Trump unsealed a 165-page document with the fullest picture of what special counsel Jack Smith had found.

To understand how voters have the capacity to cover their ears to avoid hearing alarm bells, look back to 1972, when President Richard Nixon won reelection in a landslide victory against Democratic Sen. George McGovern. Too often, the story of Nixon’s reelection in 1972 and Watergate are treated separately. The thing is, there were, in fact, many people warning of who Nixon was as a politician and what he would likely do when freed from the restraints imposed by having to worry about reelection.

The familiar narrative on the 1972 election is that, riding high on diplomatic breakthroughs with the Soviet Union and China, Nixon defeated McGovern in a stunning victory that rivaled President Franklin Roosevelt’s coalition-building reelection win in 1936. There were many Americans who didn’t like Nixon or his policies, but it wasn’t until investigations in 1973 that his severe abuses of presidential power were revealed. Had the country only known more, so the story goes, the electorate could have averted the disaster they collectively faced on Aug. 9, 1974, when Nixon stepped onto a helicopter, leaving the White House in the middle of his second term.

In fact, numerous representatives and senators had been trying to expose Nixon’s nature even before that election. After Nixon announced on April 30, 1970, that he had secretly deployed troops to Cambodia and conducted a massive bombing campaign, there was a fierce outcry from Democrats about how he had lied and threatened the balance of power to accelerate a disastrous war. Idaho Sen. Frank Church and Kentucky Sen. John Sherman Cooper began drafting a bill to prohibit the president from using congressional funds for operations in Cambodia. Congressional critics railed against Nixon’s turn to impounding funds that they had appropriated and which he failed to veto. Soon after the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate building in June 19

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Tuesday, October 15, 2024 5:05 PM (P)

Trump campaign furious Walz using Trump’s own 'reckless, dangerous rhetoric' against him

By David Badash | October 14, 2024

https://www.alternet.org/tim-walz-trump-campaign/

The Trump campaign lashed out at Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Monday after the Democratic vice presidential nominee quoted the Republican presidential candidate who repeatedly over the weekend has been saying he would like to use the U.S. military against American citizens.

As NCRM reported, the Republican presidential nominee said he thinks the U.S. Armed Forces should be used against Americans who oppose him, called his critics “the enemy from within,” and declared they are more dangerous than America’s greatest foreign adversaries, including Russia, China, and North Korea.

“I always say we have the outside enemy, so you can say China, you can say Russia, you can say, Kim Jung-Un,” Trump told supporters at an Aurora, Colorado rally on Friday. But, he added: “It’s the enemy from within, all the scum that we have to deal with that hate our country. That’s a bigger enemy than China and Russia,” he said as the audience cheered.

Then, on Sunday, Trump told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo of his desire to use armed forces against Americans on Election Day.

“I think the bigger problem are the people from within, we have some very bad people, we have some sick people, radical left lunatics. And I think they’re the — and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary by the military.”
https://x.com/VetsForRL/status/1845502168788599137

Trump War Room, the official social media account of the Trump campaign, posted video of Walz on Monday speaking with supporters.

“Donald Trump over the weekend was talking about using the U.S. Army against people who disagree with him,” Walz had said. “Just so you’re clear about that, that’s you. That’s what he’s talking about. This is not some mythical thing out there. He called it the ‘enemy within.'”

The Trump War Room social media account wrote: “Tim Walz peddles a disgusting lie that President Trump will use the U.S. Army against his political opponents: ‘That’s you, that’s what he’s talking about.’ This is reckless, dangerous rhetoric,” the campaign stated. “Tim should be ASHAMED of himself.”

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

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Tuesday, October 15, 2024 6:56 PM (P)

The term fascism has been so overused as a denunciation that many people have understandably tuned it out. But every American should be shocked to hear a presidential nominee say that other Americans (including a sitting member of Congress) are more dangerous than two nations pointing hundreds of nuclear warheads at America’s cities. Indeed, one might expect that other Republicans would be horrified to hear such hatred directed at their fellow citizens and such comfort given to the nation’s enemies.

Pretty to think so. But today’s Republican leaders are cowards, and some are even worse: They are complicit, as Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin proved today in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. At least cowards run away. The GOP elected officials who cross the street against the light just to get away from the reporters are at least showing a tiny, molecular awareness of shame. Youngkin, however, smiled and dissembled and excused Trump’s hideousness with a kind of folksy shamelessness that made cowardice seem noble by comparison.

Tapper read Trump’s remarks verbatim, and then asked: “Is that something that you support?” Youngkin replied that Tapper misunderstood Trump, who he said was referring to undocumented immigrants. No, Tapper responded, Trump clearly meant American citizens. Tapper added that Trump had singled out Schiff. Youngkin aw-shucksed his way through stories about Venezuelan criminals and Virginians dying from fentanyl. “Obviously there is a border crisis,” Tapper said. “Obviously there are too many criminals who should not be in this country, and they should be jailed and deported completely, but that’s not what I’m talking about.” And then, to his credit, Tapper wouldn’t let go: What about Trump’s threat to use the military against Americans?

Well, Youngkin shrugged, he “can’t speak” for Trump, but he was certain that Tapper was “misrepresenting [Trump’s] thoughts.”

Some of the people who watched Youngkin’s appalling dishonesty immediately thought of one of the most famous passages from George Orwell’s 1984: “The Party told him to reject the evidence of his eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

But this interpretation gives Youngkin too much credit. Orwell’s dictators were able to terrify people with torture and deprivation into accepting the government’s lies. Youngkin, however, is not a terrified subject of an authoritarian regime: He’s just an opportunist. Like J. D. Vance, he knows exactly what he’s doing. Youngkin is demanding that everyone else play along and pretend that Trump is just a misunderstood immigration hawk, and then move on—all so that Youngkin can later say that he was a loyal Republican when he contends for the leadership of the GOP after Trump is either defeated, retired, or long gone.

In this, Youngkin joins a long list of utterly dishonorable people, including Nikki Haley, who ran against Trump with energy and honesty and then bowed and scraped after she was defeated. As The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, has noted, 10 Republican senators could have changed the course of history by supporting Trump’s impeachment. Ohio Senator Rob Portman, a supposed GOP moderate, is a particularly galling example. Portman twice voted against convicting Trump. He announced his retirement just weeks after the January 6 insurrection, and he had no electoral chances to protect (not that protecting one’s electoral chances is an honorable excuse). Still, he let Trump slide, perhaps out of fear of reproach from his neighbors back in Ohio.

It’s not exactly a revelation that the Republican Party’s elected ranks have become a haven for cranks and opportunists, and sometimes, it’s hard to tell the difference: When Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, for example, talks about how “they” can control the weather, it’s hard to tell if she is just a kook, if she herself is an anti-Semite, or if she is employing yet another anti-Semitic trope because she knows that some of the MAGA base feasts on such garbage.

For someone like Green

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Wednesday, October 16, 2024 2:49 AM (P)

Trump Crumbles When Pressed on Economic Policy in Tense Interview

By Nikki McCann Ramirez and Ryan Bort | Oct 15, 2024

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-crumbles-pre
ssed-economic-policy-bloomberg-interview-1235134459/

Donald Trump continued his pre-election economic event tour on Tuesday with a lengthy interview with Bloomberg at the Economic Club of Chicago. It was a total mess.

Bloomberg Editor-In-Chief John Micklethwait did not take it easy on Trump, and it quickly became clear that the former president has no conception of the mechanics of or the potential ramifications of the economic platform he's running on. Bluntly, the former president was incoherent when pressed with real questions about his policies.

Micklethwait spent most of the interview attempting to break Trump out of what the former president repeatedly referred to as "the weave," his term for his rambling digressions - with ever-decreasing intelligibility - and general inability to focus on a given topic for more than a few seconds during his rallies and interviews.

Micklethwait didn't weave along with Trump, however, repeatedly working to bring him back on topic and answer the actual questions. The grilling exposed Trump's total cluelessness with regard to his own economic policy, and led Trump to attack Micklethwait as biased.

Here are the most notable moments from the most rigorous round of policy questioning Trump has been subjected to in recent memory.

Trump gets schooled on tariffs

The central pillar of Trump’s economic plan is widespread tariffs on all imported goods, with penalties appearing to increase depending on how much he dislikes the country. Economists have warned that such a policy could have devastating effects on American consumers, who would be saddled with increased costs for all imported goods.

When questioned about the specifics of his plan, and if he was aware of its pitfalls, Trump seemed ignorant of basic economic principles, insisting that other countries, not American consumers, would pay for the tariffs.

Micklethwait tried to explain the actual impact. “Three-trillion worth of imports and you will add tariffs to every single one of them, and push up the cost for all of these people to buy foreign goods,” he said. “That is just simple mathematics.”

Trump countered that he was “always good at mathematics,” and that high tariffs — and thus costs — would force companies to move production into the United States.

“That will take many, many, many years,” Micklethwait said, to which Trump replied that high enough penalties would make the move immediate as if companies could simply wand wave production plants, orchards, wineries, factories, and the like into existence.

The former president also insisted that his tariff proposal would not result in the loss of jobs that are dependent on trade, because companies that moved to the U.S. would not be subject to the tax. “All you have to do is build your plant in the United States and you don’t have any tariffs,” he said.

Trump gets frustrated and bashes the interviewer

Micklethwait’s attempts to keep Trump on topic earned him no grace from the former president, who hates few things more than being contradicted.

When Micklethwait asked Trump to address a report by The Wall Street Journal estimating that his economic proposals would raise the national debt by upwards of $7 trillion, the former president fell back on his standard playbook: bashing the interviewer.

“What does The Wall Street Journal know? They’ve been wrong about everything, and so have you by the way, you’ve been wrong,” Trump replied, crossing his arms and curling into his seat.

“You’ve been wrong all your life on this stuff,” he added.

Much more at https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-crumbles-pre
ssed-economic-policy-bloomberg-interview-1235134459/

Donald Trump speaks at the Economic Club of Chicago on the economy, crime, trade

SECOND

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 4:09 AM (P)

Book Review: Good Reasonable People : The Psychology Behind America's Dangerous Divide

Do They Really Believe That Stuff?

According to a new book, America’s political derangement has psychological roots.

By Joshua Rothman | Oct 15, 2024

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/do-they-really-believ
e-that-stuff

Over the last couple of months, a neighbor of ours has been upping her sign game. In addition to the usual stuff—“Law and Order,” “Not My President,” “No Legal Rights for Illegal Immigrants,” and so on—she’s added “Democrats Are Communists and Terrorists—ARE YOU?” and “The Democratic Party HATES AMERICA—DO YOU?” Since I’m a Democrat, these signs make me mad. But, as a fellow-resident, they inspire a different feeling. We’re not friends, but I’ve had nothing but the most pleasant interactions with my neighbor over the years; I doubt that, if she knew anything about my politics, she’d treat me or my family all that differently. I just can’t square the extremity of the signs with the normalcy of the person.

That sort of dissonance is commonplace now. In parts of the country where everyone is of the same political persuasion, it’s possible to think of those on the other side as entirely evil, stupid, or deranged. But in places like the one where I live, where voters are roughly split, there’s no avoiding the fact that many ordinary, likable, and reliable people hold opinions that you find not just disagreeable but disturbing. Where do those opinions come from, and how deep do they go? Should they cause us to reconsider the character of those who hold them? These worrisome questions have been at the center of American life for years.

In theory, we should be able to answer them through conversation; by interrogating our zany uncles, we might find out what they really believe. But talking it through doesn’t always help. A central roadblock, the psychologist Keith Payne writes, is that people employ “flexible reasoning.” By conceding here and asserting there, they evade our queries, leading us into mazes of rationalization. Once we’re in the maze, it can seem as though these people don’t have stable beliefs, or don’t believe things in the usual way. In “Good Reasonable People: The Psychology Behind America’s Dangerous Divide,” Payne recounts arguing with his brother, who supported Trump, about whether the 2020 election was stolen. “I didn’t know how I could relate to him if he embraced Trump’s lie,” Payne recalls. To Payne’s great relief, his brother rejected Trump’s denialism, writing, on Facebook, that “by the letter of the law, yes, Biden won.” Yet his brother went on to say, “I think there was some malfeasance there in areas, I do. But it can’t be proven.” Like many people, Payne concludes, his brother had arrived at a kind of semi-belief, which allowed him both to acknowledge reality and “to hold on to the larger feeling that Biden’s victory was, deep down, illegitimate.”

It’s tempting to assume that only one’s political opponents are this slippery. But flexible reasoning, in Payne’s view, is “a bipartisan affair.” He recalls hearing, in the spring of 2020, that Tara Reade, a former Senate aide, had accused Joe Biden of sexual assault. His first thought was entirely partisan: “Would this mean four more years of Trump?” His second thought was that Reade had no evidence. Then he remembered how, during Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, he himself had argued that claims of sexual assault should be taken seriously even when evidence couldn’t be produced. Eventually, he reasoned that “the worst-case scenario would be that we have two men, both accused of sexual assault, running for president.” This whole thought process, Payne recalls, “unfolded over about ten seconds while I rinsed the coffee pot.” What, exactly, did he think about the allegations? Who knows. The main thing “was that I was once again comfortable that I didn’t need to change my preference or my vote.”

We expect people to perform mental gymnastics in the political sphere. We call it spin, and regard it as normal.

THG

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 6:19 AM (P)

He was supposed to take questions. It was after all, a town hall. He couldn't do it so he stood there for 40 minutes and swayed to music. What the fuck?

T

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Wednesday, October 16, 2024 4:32 PM (P)

Notes on Trump’s Bloomberg interview

By Kevin Drum | October 16, 2024 – 3:01 am

https://jabberwocking.com/notes-on-trumps-bloomberg-interview/

. . . Trump also complained that Fed chair Jerome Powell kept interest rates too high while he was president—until Trump threatened to fire him. That scared him so much he cut rates immediately. In fact, "he dropped them too much."

This is nuts. Even in 2019, when the economy was running hot, interest rates were always below 2.5%. Late in the year they were lowered moderately, but it was only after the pandemic started that they went to zero—as they certainly should have.

Then Micklethwait made the mistake of asking Trump precisely what he'd do to cut waste in the government. It probably seemed like a nice, concrete question, but Trump wouldn't answer. Instead he took the opportunity to yet again brag about how he saved $1.7 billion dollars almost overnight on a new pair of Air Force Ones. All he had to was call the CEO of Boeing and ask, something that no one before him had ever thought to do.

This is yet another Trump fantasy. He played no role in negotiating the Boeing contract, which ended up where everyone always thought it would. But no one ever challenges him, so he keeps repeating this tall tale every chance he gets.

On the subject of fantasies, Trump also insisted that he gave Apple a break on tariffs but only if they started manufacturing in the US. And they did! They opened a factory in Austin to make Mac Pros.

Except for one little detail: that factory opened in 2013, long before Trump was around. But he's been taking credit for it anyway since 2019.

After it was all over and Trump had done nothing but repeat his usual lies and demonstrate that he knows nothing about the economy, his fans at Fox News immediately began marveling at Trump's masterful performance in schooling Micklethwait. Why, Trump's command of economics was so overwhelming the poor guy never stood a chance. Seriously, they said that. It's a case study in toadying unrivaled in recent history.

At https://jabberwocking.com/notes-on-trumps-bloomberg-interview/ there are graphs showing that what Trump claimed to be happening did not happen.

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

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Wednesday, October 16, 2024 6:17 PM (P)

During the Biden administration, the Republican controlled Supreme Court wielded its power aggressively. It greenlit abortion bans in numerous red states. It abolished affirmative action at nearly all universities. It has turned itself into a printing press for court orders benefiting the Christian right. It’s given itself sweeping veto power over literally anything done by a federal agency that should be controlled by the president. And then there was that whole affair where the Republican justices said that Donald Trump was allowed to commit crimes while he was in office.

Along the way, the Court has pulled new legal rules out of thin air, then used these newly invented rules to nullify many of Biden’s most ambitious programs.

If the American people had voted for this agenda then it would be difficult to criticize the Republican Party's Supreme Court justices for pushing it. But the electorate did nothing of the sort.

More at https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/377729/kamala-harris-supreme-court-
electoral-college-senate-constitution

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

THG

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 8:37 PM (P)

Have I said I'm voting for Kamala? I am, I am voting for Kamala.

T