Does Kennedy standing as an independent also hurt Biden and give some advantage to Trump?
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Does Kennedy standing as an independent also hurt Biden and give some advantage to Trump?
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Originally Posted by Master
This is possible but also a lot of repubs may decide to vote Kennedy and this hurts Trump
Did not think of that.Quote:
Originally Posted by NoSavingByTheBellQuote:
Originally Posted by Master
This is possible but also a lot of repubs may decide to vote Kennedy and this hurts Trump
Shocking how America and Britain support Israel who was created out of thin air on Palestinian territory and is an OCCUPYING APARTHEID STATE.
UK AND US 100% RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL OF THIS
Whoops I forgot the main point here. Proof that America and Britain controlled by Israel IS THAT BOTH PARTIES LEFT AND RIGHT BLINDLY SUPPORT IT UNTIL THE BITTER END WITH HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS EVERY YEAR.Quote:
Originally Posted by NoSavingByTheBell
IT DIDN'T MATTER WHETHER IT WAS JIMMY CARTER RONALD REAGAN GEORGE BUSH BILL CLINTON GEORGE BUSH JR OBAMA OR TRUMP
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Originally Posted by Master
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy’s presence on the ticket could spell major trouble for former President Donald Trump.
A new poll shows President Joe Biden leading Trump 44% to 37%, with Kennedy notching 16%.
Released by Marist in partnership with NPR and PBS Newshour on Tuesday, the poll shows a five-point drop among Democrats for Biden with Kennedy in the race. Meanwhile, the survey indicates a 10-point drop among Republicans for Trump with RFK Jr. on the ticket.
“Although it’s always tricky to assess the impact of a third-party candidate, right now Kennedy alters the equation in Biden’s favor,” Lee M. Miringoff, Director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, said.
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/wh...mp-than-biden/
Fox News certainly seem to think so too:
“So, I hope you don’t mind, but I did a little research on you. You’re pretty liberal,” the Fox host said before highlighting his work as an environmental lawyer. “You called for curbing logging, oil drilling, fracking. You wanted to eliminate it. You called it a victory for democracy. You want to curb U.S. fossil fuel extraction.”
Turns out he wants to ban guns and is pro abortion too. Amazing that after having him on dozens of times and giving him a primetime town hall they hadn't done any research on him until now.
Not all good news for Biden though:
How is it Dems are cleaning up in special elections/referendums if their national poll numbers are so bad? Because in the Trump era, Dems are excelling w/ the most civic-minded, highly-engaged voters. Their biggest weakness? Peripheral voters who only show up in presidentials.
A big reason Dems beat pundit/historical expectations in the midterms? Only 112M people voted, including a disproportionate turnout among voters angry at Dobbs/abortion bans (many of them young/female). But there will be ~160M voters in 2024. So who are those extra 48M voters?
They skew young, unaffiliated, nonwhite and non-college. They’re also more likely to base their choice on a simplistic evaluation of whether the economy was better under Trump or Biden.On this question - and on immigration/age concerns - Biden is routinely getting clobbered.
Keep in mind: in 2020, when Biden’s favorability was above water and Trump was at 41% job approval (and Biden was ~7 pts ahead in the final polling averages), Trump still came within 42,915 votes in AZ, GA & WI out of ~160M cast nationally of winning a second term.
Now fast forward to 2024 with tied national polls, 40% Biden approval, equally dismal Biden/Trump favorability, more economic pessimism, growing migrant/intl crises and the potential for RFK/West to double Jill Stein’s pull on campuses, etc.Biden is in absolutely dire shape.
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/statu...82445141402038
Also:
https://resolutesquare.com/articles/...-third-parties
You can bet the Trump campaign, Biden campaign, RNC and DNC are currently polling the shit out of a three way race with Kennedy in it. The dark money Republicans behind Kennedy will be doing it too. They were only using him as an excuse to run anti Biden ads directed at the antivax/nutcase sector of the electorate. If they dump Kennedy he'll struggle for serious funding.
It's amazing to see the MAGA rank and file turn on Israel to the extent they're currently doing. Even ten years ago they couldn't have been more solidly behind Israel and saw the Palestinians as subhuman animals. This is part of a sea change in attitudes that's been ongoing for almost half a century now. After WW2 American elites had had an up close object lesson in how things go when somebody exploiting blood and soil nationalism gets into power and the entire political spectrum of the elites worked to marginalise any of this stuff in politics. There was a bit of an outbreak with George Wallace but other than that a little bit of red meat at election times, maybe mention getting tough on trade and so on and that would be it.Quote:
Originally Posted by NoSavingByTheBellWhoops I forgot the main point here. Proof that America and Britain controlled by Israel IS THAT BOTH PARTIES LEFT AND RIGHT BLINDLY SUPPORT IT UNTIL THE BITTER END WITH HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS EVERY YEAR.Quote:
Originally Posted by NoSavingByTheBell
IT DIDN'T MATTER WHETHER IT WAS JIMMY CARTER RONALD REAGAN GEORGE BUSH BILL CLINTON GEORGE BUSH JR OBAMA OR TRUMP
The dam started to break in the eighties with Reagan and the elites decided they could take a much bigger slice of the pie and the backlash this caused among the electorate could be marginalised or redirected or whatever. But then the GOP had to lean further and further into culture war stuff just to get anywhere near fifty percent. They just couldn't win the popular vote in national elections anymore. Then talk radio and then the internet and then Trump came along to supercharge the culture war stuff and now we have the MAGA base turning against Israel. Go back a hundred years and look where the Nazis and fascism in Europe in general were and the attitudes and motivations of the people in those countries and it's an almost bang on echo of where things were right now. The 2030s are going to be scary.
Nothing to see here, just good and effective government policy with no drama. But of course that’s not exciting. Good ole effective gov doesn’t sell in today’s reality tv like political media market place. Yep, sure sure Biden is doing a terrible job, just terrible.
https://twitter.com/cornellbelcher/s...06020205904374
By far the best recovery of any major economy.
Related:
I don’t think presidents have much effect on crime. But it’s fascinating that Trump is the first president in 30 years to oversee a rise in crime. And crime has dropped significantly since he left office. Yet Republicans still attack Biden and Democrats on crime. And it works!
https://twitter.com/radleybalko/stat...10768570458629
If any one thing is going to screw Biden it's mortgage rates. Eight percent now.
$400k house with 20% down costs $1000 more per month now than it did two years ago.
https://twitter.com/KellyCNBC/status...92450491548097
People with mortgages vote.
If it isn't mortgage/loan rates it'll be gas prices. Watch Saudi and Putin slash production next summer.
Luckily Biden just has to explain to American voters where the burst of inflation really came from and how it's necessary to raise interest rates to flatten inflation and also explain the geopolitical realities behind the gas price increases that are happening despite record US oil production and they'll understand.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
We're going to get a fascist dictatorship aren't we.
https://i.ibb.co/MyTqNpM/Screenshot-...rump-is-re.png
Defeated ex-President (except to the blind masses who still think the election was stolen) throws rocks at current Administration and how he would've handled the latest Middle East crisis SOOOOOOOO much better. :rolleyes:
Predictable as a Hollywood rerun... and boring as shit.
Don't people get tired of this interminable hamster wheel?
It's a fact that if you repeat something endlessly to people they end up believing it. Like Russia witch hunt. Then you can just substitute the word Russia for whatever current criminality you're being investigated for and it works even better. Classified documents witch hunt. January sixth witch hunt.Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
It works really well with political messaging. Look at this:
Former President Donald Trump complained that interest rates are too high and indicated that if he gets another term in office, he might pressure Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to loosen monetary policy.
In an interview set to air Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Trump also hinted that he would at least consider removing Powell.
“Interest rates are very high. They’re too high. People can’t buy homes. They can’t do anything. I mean, they can’t borrow money,” Trump told MTP host Kristen Welker during her premiere on the long-running talk show. Welker replaces Chuck Todd, who hosted his final show last week.
Asked specifically by Welker whether he would try to strong-arm Powell into lowering rates, Trump said, “Depends where inflation is. But I would get inflation down.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna105362
Of course he wasn't asked how he would get inflation down. And if he had been asked he'd give a bullshit answer about how inflation was low when he was in office and he'd get it back to that level and there'd be no followup question.
And he'll be repeating the same I will get inflation down message all day every day during the campaign next year. And it'll work.
Let's see when the media eventually ask him how he'll do it and then once he gives his bullshit answer actually ask him a follow up. I will not be holding my breath on that one.
If he did appoint some nut to the Fed who cuts rates when you combine that with his planned corporate tax cuts and tariffs you're going to get a really bad inflation/debt spiral*. Somebody in the media might want to ask him if he risks being America's Liz Truss. Something else that won't happen. They'll just let him parrot his bullshit all day every day with zero pushback.
*There's going to be some bond market turbulence without the tax cuts, tariffs and central bank banana republicry anyway. And with the way things have been going since 2015 it's going to happen right in the middle of 2024 campaign season to give Trump yet another issue. You just watch.
NEW POLLS: Trump Beating Biden in 5 of 7 Swing States, Tied in a Sixth
New polls show that former President Donald Trump leading President Joe Biden in many of the most critical swing states.
The polls, conducted by Bloomberg News & Morning Consult, were taken in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — seven key battlegrounds. And the returns don’t bode well for Biden — particularly when it comes to the economy.
“Swing state voters trust Trump significantly more than Biden on the economy (49% to 35%), with independents holding even less trust in Biden on this key issue (47% to 25%),” Morning Consult reported. “Among the 1,323 self-identified independents across the seven states, Biden is 10 points behind Trump on the ballot that includes third-party candidates, and he is 8 points behind Trump in a direct head-to-head.”
As for the state-by-state results, in Arizona, Biden is polling at 43 percent while Trump has 47 percent. Biden is also trailing Georgia (Trump 48-Biden 43), North Carolina (Trump 47-Biden 43), Pennsylvania (Trump 46-Biden 45) and Wisconsin (Trump 46-Biden 44)
The Michigan poll shows Trump and Biden in a 44 percent deadlock, and Nevada is the only battleground where Biden is shown to be leading — with 46 percent to Trump’s 43. The poll determined in a closed matchup between Biden and Trump, the former president leads his successor by 4 points overall.
Notably Biden defeated Trump in all but one of these battleground states during the 2020 election.
The new polls are consistent with a series of recent surveys bearing bad news for Biden.
New polls show that former President Donald Trump leading President Joe Biden in many of the most critical swing states.
The polls, conducted by Bloomberg News & Morning Consult, were taken in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — seven key battlegrounds. And the returns don’t bode well for Biden — particularly when it comes to the economy.
“Swing state voters trust Trump significantly more than Biden on the economy (49% to 35%), with independents holding even less trust in Biden on this key issue (47% to 25%),” Morning Consult reported. “Among the 1,323 self-identified independents across the seven states, Biden is 10 points behind Trump on the ballot that includes third-party candidates, and he is 8 points behind Trump in a direct head-to-head.”
As for the state-by-state results, in Arizona, Biden is polling at 43 percent while Trump has 47 percent. Biden is also trailing Georgia (Trump 48-Biden 43), North Carolina (Trump 47-Biden 43), Pennsylvania (Trump 46-Biden 45) and Wisconsin (Trump 46-Biden 44)
The Michigan poll shows Trump and Biden in a 44 percent deadlock, and Nevada is the only battleground where Biden is shown to be leading — with 46 percent to Trump’s 43. The poll determined in a closed matchup between Biden and Trump, the former president leads his successor by 4 points overall.
Notably Biden defeated Trump in all but one of these battleground states during the 2020 election.
The new polls are consistent with a series of recent surveys bearing bad news for Biden.
https://www.mediaite.com/news/new-po...ed-in-a-sixth/
https://i.ibb.co/T2V7NbC/Screenshot-...rump-is-re.png
Former Donald Trump lawyer Sidney Powell has pleaded guilty to six charges in the Georgia election interference case.
Powell, who was charged alongside the former president, reached a deal with prosecutors and will now testify at future trials.
There are 19 defendants in the case, most of whom have pleaded not guilty.
Powell faced charges of conspiracy to commit intentional interference of election duties.
Her agreement to testify, in exchange for six years of probation, is a huge win for prosecutors in the sweeping case. Powell was intimately involved in Mr Trump's fight to overturn the state's results in the 2020 presidential election.
The deal also required her to record a proffer, essentially a verbal account of her activities, and to pay a fine and write an apology letter to Georgia citizens.
Powell entered her guilty plea in a downtown Atlanta courtroom on Thursday, a day before her trial was set to start.
Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told the BBC it was unsurprising that she took a deal.
"If you're a criminal defendant who's never spent a night in jail and you're offered no time, you take it," Mr Rahmani said.
He added she may act as a "domino", with other defendants following her example.
"I think the other defendants have to be taking a long, hard look in the mirror and asking themselves, 'Hey, do I want to go to Georgia State Prison, or do I want to take this offer that's going to guarantee I do no time?'" he said.
Prosecutors have accused Powell of being among a group of Trump officials and supporters who breached the elections system in rural Coffee County, Georgia, in January 2021. They were trying to persuade officials and voters that the election had somehow been rigged against Mr Trump.
Specifically, Powell was accused of hiring a forensics team and sending it to Coffee County to illegally access government computers to look at voter data.
Prosecutors have said she conspired to tamper with voting machines, electronic ballots and voter data, have ballots taken from a polling place, and stop an election worker from doing her job.
Mr Trump has pleaded not guilty in the Georgia case. In total, the former president faces 13 felony counts - including racketeering - for allegedly pressuring state officials to reverse results in the presidential election.
He has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, and has described the case as politically motivated.
Powell was one of the most visible, and vocal, supporters of his false claims about the 2020 election.
She notably appeared at a press conference with other Trump lawyers in November 2020, where she alleged, without evidence, that US voting machines run by Dominion Voting Systems can be hacked to "take a certain percentage of votes from President Trump and flip them to President (Joe) Biden".
At a White House meeting the following month, Mr Trump mulled appointing Powell as a special counsel to "investigate allegations of voter fraud in Georgia and elsewhere", prosecutors said.
The congressional committee investigating the 6 January Capitol riot featured her prominently in its televised hearings last year, showing she worked closely with Mr Trump and his aides on election overturning strategies.
Dominion has sued Powell for defamation, seeking $1.3bn (£1.07bn) in restitution.
Powell is the second person among the defendants to plead guilty in the Georgia election interference case.
Bail bondsman Scott Hall struck a plea deal with prosecutors in late September.
The former Republican poll watcher was also accused of trying to gain access to sensitive election equipment in Coffee County, Georgia.
As part of his deal, he was sentenced to five years probation. He is also required to testify against others in future trials.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67153479
Biden having such a low approval Compared to trump seems quite funny, America's economy seems to be massively out performing the rest of the world right now on, it without a bit of a cost on the inflation rate but even that is similar to the rest of the world(except Japan:S) but the rest of the world have had a tough time and still haf the inflation.
Being off twitter iand Facebook is really helping trump, hes really sounding quite rough and even more incoherent these days.
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Originally Posted by palmerq
Yet with all of THAT... (economy doing well... Trump being his usual incoherent self... Trump being charged with serious crimes... yadda-yadda-yadda)
Yet with all of that... he could STILL be elected.
This speaks volumes (of what no one wants to admit) of both the US Justice system, AND... the majority of the voting public in the US.
It is amazing trump has the support he does, it really is like a comedy TV show.
I do not understand it. :confused:Quote:
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https://x.com/atrupar/status/1715397215525433823?s=20Quote:
Originally Posted by MasterI do not understand it. :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by palmerq
Trump's like a used car salesman.
Good at all the rah-rah stuff. Doesn't know shit about cars, but says he knows more about them than anybody else. Talks shit about the other dealerships. Promises all kinds of shit he has no intention of doing. Can be totally clownish at times. Appeals to the lower levels of society. Lies through his teeth about the car itself, all while keeping a straight face. Many times looks and dresses like a clown. Tacky as all hell. Nauseating to some. Can be a bully when he has to. Flashes a fake, condescending smile.
Lowest inflation rate of any major economy. Core inflation at two point one percent over the last six months. Basically back to the Fed's standard two percent target (central banks aim for two percent inflation as it allows for stable economic growth). Japan is a little lower but they've spent the last thirty years trying to generate inflation in Japan, a legacy of an ageing population who save more than they spend, no immigration, low birthrate etc etc. Three percent is like hyperinflation for their economy. The problem is voters don't understand economics. All they know is there's been significant inflation after decades where they didn't notice it and the person in power in whichever country you look at gets the blame. The highest approval rating of any major economy leader right now is the Italian fascist lady with forty odd percent and she has only taken over recently/took over after most of the inflation had happened.Quote:
Originally Posted by palmerq
You're right about Trump and twitter. But maybe because he knows he isn't going to get the coverage he had when he was on twitter so he can be more extreme to play to his hardcore base without it making national headlines. I have a feeling he'll tone it down when the election campaigns really get going and he's getting daily national coverage. Hope I'm wrong.
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Originally Posted by palmerqhttps://x.com/atrupar/status/1715397215525433823?s=20Quote:
Originally Posted by MasterI do not understand it. :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by palmerq
Jesus Christ.
Sidney Powell and Cheeseboro have just flipped on him and will be testifying against him in the Atlanta trial. Just wait till Jesus flips on him. He really will lose it on social media when that happens.
Who do you think Republicans will side with, Trump or Jesus. Hahahahahahahahaha. Jesus is on the outs with the MAGA base anyway, they can't stand all that turn the other cheek give all your money to the poor liberal stuff anymore.
"Homicides in the U.S. dropped significantly in 2022 and have plummeted even faster this year, putting the country on track for one of the biggest declines in killing ever recorded, crime statistics show." Surprised to hear that? You're not alone
https://twitter.com/NickBaumann/stat...49054946115711
Things returning to normal after the Trump crime wave. You can click the photograph to read it.
This is a really good read:
https://jabberwocking.com/the-life-a...y-grandfather/
Also for all the people terrified about America's soaring debt and so on:
https://jabberwocking.com/we-can-fix...or-2-7-of-gdp/
America pays over five percent of GDP more than any other country just for healthcare. Lots of ways to make this apart from raising taxes. And get the budget somewhere near balance and the debt just melts away* over a couple of decades.
*Debt:GDP ratio anyway. We have already covered this, I'm sure everybody remembers.
Both baseball league championship series now going to game seven. I'm hoping Phillies Rangers.
Well you got one half of that correct already. ;)
So long as the Astros didn't make it I'm fine. Would like the Phillies to win tonight but I can handle Arizona Texas.
The New York Times reports that Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt privately recorded his intentions to give Donald Trump money in order to advance his business interests in the United States. Pratt wrote, “If Potus is having his election party at mar Lago I’ll book as many rooms as available,” because doing so would not only help Trump win the election but also “be good for business.”
The Times reports that, according to witness testimony to federal prosecutors, Pratt “spent $1 million to attend the party, well in excess of the normal charge.” That is to say, Pratt was not merely indulging himself in amenities offered by Trump’s private club but consciously using those payments as a vehicle to pay Trump directly.
While there is no evidence this alleged scheme violates any criminal statute, the colloquial term for this behavior is bribery.
Meanwhile, House Republicans are continuing to circulate allegations that President Biden was connected to his son Hunter’s influence-peddling business. Representative James Comer has made a series of uncorroborated allegations that the conservative media have uncritically promoted, insinuating that Joe Biden personally benefited from his son’s business. Republicans have produced communications between Hunter Biden and his father, which might be expected between a father and a son, but no clear evidence that Joe Biden received any payments stemming from Hunter’s work.
They are attempting, so far without success, to show Biden did what Donald Trump is proven to have done.
Whataboutism is the lowest form of political argument. Trump’s misconduct does not excuse Biden’s poor judgment in permitting his son to trade on the family name, even if he was only selling the illusion of access.
At the same time, however, the swirling charges of corruption are obviously being used in the context of a presidential-election contest between Biden and Trump. And whatever combination of criminal charges he is ultimately convicted of, Trump is unambiguously guilty of corruption. The Republicans’ accusations against Biden usefully frame the scope of Trump’s culpability.
The facts of the Hunter Biden case are that he performed consulting work for a series of clients who obviously hoped he would have influence with his father. The accusation Republicans make, but haven’t proven, is that Joe Biden was in on this arrangement and collected money from it.
Trump also had a son running a business during his presidency. But the idea Trump profited from the business isn’t an accusation. It’s a fact nobody denies.
Instead of a consulting business, Trump ran a social club at Mar-a-Lago. Unlike the bank-shot proposition offered by Hunter — Hire me, and maybe I’ll put in a word with my dad — Trump offered a direct proposition: Put money directly into my pocket, and I will be grateful.
Three years ago, the Times reported in detail on the extensive corruption embedded in Trump’s running of Mar-a-Lago. The story, which is some 10,000 words long and came out in the crazed final days of the 2020 election, did not receive the attention it merited. But its primary conclusions were extremely damning. The Times found:
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Despite promising to leave the handling of his business to his son, Trump took a direct role in overseeing the cash flow of his properties.
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After winning election, Trump noticed an increase in the demand to join the Mar-a-Lago club and gain access to him and twice raised membership prices to capitalize on it.
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Pratt is one member who exploited this arrangement by gaining access to Agriculture secretary Sonny Perdue, whose influence over food regulations pertained directly to Pratt’s packaging business.
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The Times found “over 200 companies, special-interest groups and foreign governments that patronized Mr. Trump’s properties while reaping benefits from him and his administration.”
– One lobbyist paid the membership fee because “the president’s wishes had been made clear to him — and he needed to ante up.”
Just imagine if Joe Biden were not only receiving money from Hunter’s business but letting lobbyists know they’d better pay up if they wanted favors from him!
Biden shouldn’t lower his standards to Trump’s. But the conservative hyperventilation about unproven allegations against Biden, combined with a complete lack of interest in proven corruption by their party’s nominee, doesn’t deserve to be taken seriously as a form of accountability. If your interest in corruption is primarily directed at Joe Biden, then you are not in the corruption-exposing business. You’re in the corruption-enabling business.
The Japan part was a bit of a joke, although I think it's true, even I with my rudimentary reading on these subjects know about Japan's amazingly low interest rates and low inflation...Canada is quite similar to America as they seem to forget the rest of the world exists or at best are RPG NPCs doing whatever they do due to whatever the player(america decides).. it doesn't seem to difficult to find out how well America has recovered compared to the rest of the world, just look at some graphs obviously something worldwide happened and somebody recovered a lot better than the others, shame it doesn't work like that in effect.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland LaingLowest inflation rate of any major economy. Core inflation at two point one percent over the last six months. Basically back to the Fed's standard two percent target (central banks aim for two percent inflation as it allows for stable economic growth). Japan is a little lower but they've spent the last thirty years trying to generate inflation in Japan, a legacy of an ageing population who save more than they spend, no immigration, low birthrate etc etc. Three percent is like hyperinflation for their economy. The problem is voters don't understand economics. All they know is there's been significant inflation after decades where they didn't notice it and the person in power in whichever country you look at gets the blame. The highest approval rating of any major economy leader right now is the Italian fascist lady with forty odd percent and she has only taken over recently/took over after most of the inflation had happened.Quote:
Originally Posted by palmerq
You're right about Trump and twitter. But maybe because he knows he isn't going to get the coverage he had when he was on twitter so he can be more extreme to play to his hardcore base without it making national headlines. I have a feeling he'll tone it down when the election campaigns really get going and he's getting daily national coverage. Hope I'm wrong.
I'd say trump is one prison sentence away from declaring himself Jesus reborn, if only the Bible had some warnings about this sort of thing the "Christians" might be a bit suspicious right now, he's even super goldy orange coloured :S.....
As for trump and toning it down, I'm not sure he can resist telling everyone on the national stage that us is spelt U S! No one ever noticed before!.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1716547648658850017?s=20
Trump is babbling now like a very old uncle no one listens to.
Also how orange is he becoming?
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cp...ce19f.jpg.webp
'Heck of a reunion': Donald Trump silent as Michael Cohen dishes dirt
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67211840
Soooo.... Trump is simultaneously "getting in more and more hot water" every day.... and seeing his ratings go up and up and up, at least in comparison with Joe Biden.
Got it. :rolleyes:
What was it that Don King used to say? Only in America? Or was that a movie I'm forgetting? :D
May as well start outfitting his future jail cell with a desk and a red phone, I guess. :D
Supreme Court corruption scandal still going:
https://twitter.com/crampell/status/1717269446857756773
Next is a simple point; these people are partly who they — wealthy, immune to most economic pressures, and essentially above the law — are because of the sweeping power of regulatory and political capture. GOP megadonors get their problems legislated or regulated into oblivion. They understand the purely transactional nature of MAGA capitalism, namely, kleptocracy.
They know if they give, they get. They know if they don’t, they get punished.
It’s the freakshow mirror of the free market the old GOP preached. Lobbyists, friendly regulators, captive legislators, and an army of eager political, media and public relations consultants thrive off the largesse of this donor community.
The system works very well for them, and even if the President is a madman, a criminal, and an insurrectionist, they truly believe they’ll get what they want.
It’s not just transactional.
It’s the venality of evil.
https://therickwilson.substack.com/p...utm_medium=web
By the numbers: Just five years ago, the country had never experienced 500 mass shootings in one year:
- 2018: 335 mass shootings
- 2019: 414 mass shootings
- 2020: 610 mass shootings
- 2021: 689 mass shootings
- 2022: 645 mass shootings
https://www.axios.com/2023/09/17/mas...ed-states-2023
The Senate adopted an amendment yesterday making it easier for veterans with mental disabilities to buy guns. Sen. Angus King of Maine voted in favor. Chris Murphy said it will allow "actively suicidal," veterans to buy deadly weapons.
https://twitter.com/KenDilanianNBC/s...80779717283992
Hours before a U.S. Army reservist who sources said had mental health symptoms allegedly shot and killed 18 people in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday, the U.S. Senate approved an amendment that would scale back background check requirements for some veterans and service members with mental health issues.
The amendment was authored by Republican Sens. John Kennedy and Jerry Moran, who had concerns that veterans could lose gun rights. It prohibits the Department of Veterans Affairs from reporting certain veterans to the National Criminal Background Check system when their finances are being managed by a conservator at the VA.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/main...y?id=104378487
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-p...s-r-1850961776
Mike Pence baffled as to why he couldn't get any Hang Mike Pence party voters to support him.
Vice President is out of the race and a back bench house member is speaker entirely because one didn’t go along with the Trump coup and the other did. The only GOP litmus test.
https://twitter.com/Timodc/status/1718336168423469404
So chronologically speaking...
Trump calls Pence a pussy for basically not going along with the January 6th Capitol riot.
Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2021
Then Trump blames Pence for what happened on January 6th.
“Had he sent the votes back to the legislatures, they wouldn’t have had a problem with January 6, so in many ways you can blame him for January 6,” Trump told reporters on a flight to Iowa for a campaign appearance.
Now Trump says Pence should support him now that he's (Pence) dropped out of the race.
'You know, people are leaving now, and they're all endorsing me,' Trump said. 'I don't know about Mike Pence.'
'He should endorse me, you know why? Because I had a great successful presidency and he was the vice president,' the former president added. 'He should enforce me. I chose him, made him vice president. But people in politics can be very disloyal. I've never seen anything like it.'
:D
This is circus-worthy. Not to mention Trump saying all those who are dropping out are supporting him. Trump lies are like his breathing... it happens automatically and without a second thought. The dude says whatever bullshit line comes into his head.
If Pence has any dignity (which I don't think he does), he won't dignify Trump with a response. Or else he'll throw his support behind someone else... ANYBODY.
I always knew Pence was Trump's whipping boy. :rolleyes:
The new GOP Speaker of the House weighs in on mass shootings:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing
From the flags here you expect Speaker Johnson to be saying something about the US/Israel relationship but he’s actually explaining that the way to end school shootings is to ban abortion.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/sta...41810221482056
also:
https://twitter.com/MiaFarrow/status...14261592043877
Mitt Romney Reveals Most Republicans Didn’t Impeach Trump Because They Feared Violent Attacks from His Supporters
Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) revealed to biographer McKay Coppins that the threat of physical violence effectively kept many elected Republicans from voting to impeach or convict President Donald Trump, even though they wanted to.
Coppins is doing the media rounds to promote his new biography Reckoning and chatted with Brian Stelter for a thoughtful interview, which Vanity Fair published on Thursday.
NYU Journalism professor Jay Rosen flagged one particular passage on social media, writing: “Read this paragraph and tell me that the 2024 election can be responsibly reported using the same tools and terms in use for every national election.”
The passage in question reveals that many Republican members of Congress wanted to vote to impeach or convict the former president but that the threat of political violence by Trump supporters effectively kept them from doing what they thought was right. Stelter writes:
“One of the biggest revelations to me in my conversations with Romney was just how important the threat of political violence was to the psychology of elected Republicans today,” said Coppins, who recalled Romney telling him “story after story about Republican members of Congress, Republican senators, who at various points wanted to vote for impeachment—vote to convict Trump or vote to impeach Trump—and decided not to, not because they thought he was innocent, but because they were afraid for their family’s safety. They were afraid of what Trump supporters might do to them or to their families.” That “raises a really uncomfortable question,” Coppins said, which is “how long can the American project last if elected officials from one of the major parties are making their political decisions based on fear of physical violence from their constituents?”
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/mi...is-supporters/
Mike Pence should be forced to carry his Presidential campaign to term.
https://twitter.com/DarrigoMelanie/s...39430245662800
The Ron De Santis Louboutin scandal is growing legs. Stop the video at eight or ten seconds when he has his leg bent and knee fully extended. Look at it. Just look at it:
https://twitter.com/reedgalen/status...72462818590798
Then he gets destroyed about it by some talk show person and there's video:
https://twitter.com/RealDylanMO/stat...78451699695827
https://i.ibb.co/GTKzH1d/c6b.jpg
This man claims to be five feet ten.
This fucker is spending his life hobbling round Iowa talking to tiny numbers of people at any place that will have him and is now basically in third place. His campaign is circling the drain and he's going to be forever known as the guy wearing lifts in his shoes. No fun being Ron right now.
"tiny little baby steps" a certain someone will say..... But anyhow I have never made any secret of the several reasons why I hate Donald Trump so here is my next pronouncement:
DONALD TRUMP IS A CUNT FOR SUPPORTING ISRAEL AND FOR MOVING THE US EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM
Vivek Ramaswamy was on Piers Morgan the other day and is a mini Trump who will probably be a really serious contender after this election. He thinks his ideas are new and innovative but they are frighteningly naïve and ill considered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-i2mJM4xm8
Vivek is getting extremely popular with the Southeast Asian communities in California and New York but he has no chance in this upcoming election as he is pulling somewhere around 7or 8%Quote:
Originally Posted by Master