mdgv2
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Post by mdgv2 on Jul 27, 2024 15:03:10 GMT -5
Mmmm.
Fascism.
Dipshit President for Life.
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herzlos
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Post by herzlos on Jul 27, 2024 15:03:22 GMT -5
He already said he was going to become a dictator on day 1, so elections won't be needed.
Hopefully people start realizing how dangerous that will be and vote for sanity.
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Post by Peregrine on Jul 27, 2024 18:58:32 GMT -5
TBH the "my beautiful Christians" thing is even more disturbing than the threat to end elections, it's like he's losing what little remained of his sanity and going full villain meltdown.
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Post by tannhauser42 on Jul 27, 2024 19:23:42 GMT -5
Jesus, is that a terrifying thing for a presidential candidate to say. But with Trump, it's just another day that ends in "y".
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mdgv2
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Post by mdgv2 on Jul 28, 2024 16:21:32 GMT -5
Anyways. With quite the week in US politics? How’s it looking over there?
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Post by bobtheinquisitor on Jul 28, 2024 20:31:52 GMT -5
Anyways. With quite the week in US politics? How’s it looking over there? It’s frankly astonishing that the Democratic Party worked as a coordinated unit to support Kamala’s succession as the candidate. I was sure they would collapse into chaos until they could form a circular shooting squad.
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Post by Peregrine on Jul 29, 2024 1:17:59 GMT -5
Anyways. With quite the week in US politics? How’s it looking over there? Relief that not only have the democrats managed to not completely botch the decision to replace Biden we're actually seeing enthusiasm about Harris, which is pretty much the best-case scenario here. Tragicomedy over Trump's VP pick and his questionable activities with couches. And of course the same anxiety that Trump remains a terrifyingly horrible candidate and we may need a decisive victory with a multiple state margin to overcome the inevitable republican attempts to overturn the results and install Trump as king.
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Post by redchimera on Jul 29, 2024 2:47:20 GMT -5
Does Trump’s recent campaigning give a sense he’s a little desperate? Sucking up to crypto kings (for the donations) and promising Christian Nationalists that they’ll never need to vote again (to maximise his base)?
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Post by easye on Jul 29, 2024 9:14:30 GMT -5
The fever dream of inevitability that the Republicans had going into the convention seems to have been broken with Biden stepping down and Harris stepping up. It remains to be seen if this is good or bad. Perhaps with the fever broken, they will be more motivated to actually vote. Again, it is hard to tell how much of these swings and feelings are just media narratives for clicks, versus actual trends. Going in I was pretty convinced that Trump had almost no path due to needing to flip 4 states to win, and his base appearing smaller than ever, especially in the key swing states. Therefore, a Dem Presidential win seemed to me to be the most likely outcome, despite what the polling said*. Therefore, all of this day-to-day and week-to-week stuff just feels like so much noise, but not a lot of actual signal to it. * = Let's be honest. The "science" of polling is at an all-time low right now. Too many people, have too many agendas to tinker with the polling models. This can even throw off aggregate polling models too. Therefore, polling has been in the toilet since 2016 at least, with a lot of strange assumption and bias being pre-built into the data sets. That said, Dems have been out-performing polling models since 2018. Edit: www.npr.org/2024/07/28/nx-s1-5055048/harris-campaign-200-million-donationsHarris raises $200 million in her first weekA sign of the Dems enthusiasm getting ramped up by the change of candidates.
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Post by Peregrine on Jul 29, 2024 20:58:14 GMT -5
Does Trump’s recent campaigning give a sense he’s a little desperate? Sucking up to crypto kings (for the donations) and promising Christian Nationalists that they’ll never need to vote again (to maximise his base)? It's hard to say. With a normal candidate those would be signs of desperation but with an unhinged clown like Trump it could be desperation or it could be just another day ending in y.
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Post by semipotentwalrus on Jul 30, 2024 6:19:28 GMT -5
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Post by Disciple of Fate on Jul 30, 2024 7:16:53 GMT -5
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Post by easye on Jul 30, 2024 9:24:33 GMT -5
Next you are going to tell me Billionaires are backing Republicans to win elections! /S
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carlo87
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Post by carlo87 on Jul 30, 2024 14:13:20 GMT -5
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Post by easye on Jul 30, 2024 14:30:49 GMT -5
People over $500K are not billionaires. Although, I did find that link really interesting.
How do you suppose this equates to the data that the J6 rioters tended to be above Median earners?
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