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At this point I'm expecting a scandal a day and by election day we won't even remember what happened that morning.
Also high visibility vest and orange skin is a big fashion no no. Even the vest is bad for any photo ops, it throws off any lighting.
I’ve only been paying close attention to NC, but the numbers are wierd, and I can see an argument for a Trump win, as Republicans are way up in turnout in early vote from 2020 (probably due to the party encouraging EV), but women are beating men in turnout by 11%(!).
The California conservative refugees are hilarious. I was at a mom and pop gas station in a small town in Wyoming a few years back, and this guy was just trauma-dumping to the cashier about having to flee CA.
Him: “The danged liberals ran me out of California! Or, as I like to call it…”
He then paused, looked around meaningfully, his mouth moving as if he was just chewing on the meat of the insult of he was about to drop.
Me, to myself: “He’s going to say Commiefornia.”
Him, pronouncing it as if he was a bard who just nat 20’d his Perform check: “…Commiefornia!
Me, nodding to myself in satisfaction that the script was properly followed.
No but for real though Utahns hate the California conservative exodus because it had a non-negligible hand in causing our housing prices to skyrocket ridiculously over the past four years.
Yeah they may as well say 'great satan'/'adversary'
Got A1 headline in the Times, unlike Johnson's promise to kill ACA. That's why.
She probably does 85% or better by the time the votes are counted. She's doing much better with white women than Biden was.
I really wish democracy wasn't fucking trick or treat
I read that quick and I was like oh they're saying if they don't do this they'll be ending the whole operation that's wild
But no! That's... probably human trafficking? They brought canvassers to Michigan and paid for lodging there and are threatening to strand them homeless in a different state unless they worked harder.
I've just been doing normal-style canvassing for so long where like people actually want to be there and want you to be there that I missed some of how awful this was!
I can tell you that it was still a pretty big win for him. I saw images of him posted all over the place... In a positive light. Like someone said above if Trump wins then we fucking deserve the mess.
Can we just take a moment to note how trump's spray on tan is so hideous in this picture that it borders on a half-assed attempt at blackface?
The internet and social media and the like are slowly destroying democratic systems and it's so far only getting worse with each new election. And there's no sign of a way to stop it.
Again, just saying Republicans are voting isn't necessarily a bad thing.
One, it probably means less of them voting on Tuesday.
Two, the effort by Harris trying to win over disaffected Rs means that we have no fucking clue how these people are voting.
Three, NC has Mark Robinson on the ballot, and who knows what effect that will have on Trump.
That message being "I'm a fucking idiot who should be ignored because I'm completely unthethered from reality?"
Because yeah: you can not claim to be left or liberal or in any way rational when you are voting in support of a man who is a shitty mustache and crappy military career away from being literal hitler.
A lot of the comments you see from black people who are at least Trump curious in focus groups and the like are the same shit you see from other similar non-black people.
"Trump's good for the economy."
"We need someone who's not just another politician."
"Women are too emotional, you can't put them in charge."
"Trump's a smart businessman."
"Trump is a man's man."
etc
etc
etc
If I had more respect for the competence of his campaign people I’d say it looks like an SEO thing aimed at making sure that when people google ‘trump garbage comment’ they get a bunch of stories about a photo op in a garbage truck and the stories about all the racist stuff at his neonazi rally get pushed to page 2 of the search results.
But as-is it’s just as likely to be something he insisted on doing just because he wanted to sit in a big truck again because he’s a four year old whose brain is mostly plaque now
I think it’s steering into the racism. He’s the garbage man taking out all the garbage.
Remember, to his ardent supporters nothing that was said at MSG Nazi Rally v2.0 was problematic.
Having lots of colleagues who experienced the totalitarianism of Yugoslavia and the Warsaw Pact first-hand, this just weirds me out.
I get why people would flee places where their existence is being threatened by the MAGA crowd.
But you're not a 'refugee' if you're moving to a place where you'll be allowed to threaten people's existence.
Gay black Republicans are as rare as dragons and twice as rich
It's honestly even simpler then that.
Trump can never, ever let shit go. He always responds to any slight, insult, challenge or allegation because he's so desperately insecure that the idea that anyone describe him as "lesser" drives him insane.
Like we saw the same thing 8 years and change where the news cycle had turned against hillary and instead of sitting back and letting her deal with the scandal (I think it was the first round of Comey investigations?) Trump instead responded to a legiitmate complaint about his platform and thus sucked oxygen out of her scandal and towards his.
Fuck, the man was sending pictures of his hands for years because he'd been accused of being a short fingered vulgarian by some magazine writer.
If I want to volunteer on Sunday should I look for a particular organization to contact?
I tried googling "my state Democrats volunteer" and got so many organizations.
I am worried about being catfished politically.
For real. My parents fuckin' fled the former Yugoslavia because my dad was imprisoned as a suspected spy after coming back from University here in the United States because, and I quote my dad's explanation "They could not understand why was I paid (read: He got a Full-Ride Scholarship to come here) to go to University and still come back to Yugoslavia. Thus I must be a Spy for the United States!" Thankfully he was eventually released but that was the impetus for both my mom and dad to get the fuck out of dodge and never return until Yugoslavia finally broke up into the various republics. These fuckos have no earthly idea what they're gibbering about. Like yes, California is a high cost of living state and does lean progressive, but ffs at least be honest about your reasons.
Wud yoo laek to lern aboot meatz? Look here!
Never thought to try to be less vulgar, though
Do remember that "moving to a place where you'll be allowed to threaten people's existence" is in a very literal way part of the the American origin story, with the Puritans fleeing across the sea so they could continue their abusive Calvinist beliefs.
That dude ain't left wing he's just a fucking liar.
It's also a case that the high cost of living is a reflection of the prosperity of the state; Like the state has more then twice the GDP of Spain, a country that has been around for 291 more years then the US as a *nation*.
So yeah, of course you're going to spend more there then living in fucking wyoming.
I wish I believed that, but I've seen so many utterly insane leftists that I honestly can't dismiss him as a liar; people who straight up insisted that trump and kamala are the same because neither one is pro-union or Anti-israel or whatever fucking pet issue exists and think "vote blue no matter who" is a trap for stupid people to accept that life is shitty and it will never get better and thus it's better for Trump to win so that the democrats will have to spend some time in the wilderness figuring out how to survive or going "If only we'd appealed to the leftists and completely handed over our whole system we could have been drinking clean water directly from the detroit river, children everywhere would have bellys full of GORP, NATO would be dissolved and this would of course lead to putin abdicating power so that Communism as envisioned by Marx could thrive. If only..."
These people of course, are unable to learn properly from history, that Trump's time in office was an unmitigated disaster on virtually every front, that he's spent years doing nothing bitching about how hard done by he is and getting investigated and/or charged and/or convicted for all kinds of stupid shit directly relating to his political career while also promising to engage in draconian measures to purify the nation of "wrong think" with nothing to actually prevent him from going buck fucking wild.
HuffPo has the article up this morning...
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/howard-lutnick-trump-vaccines_n_67237fe0e4b02f5ab1d287fe
Kennedy being charge of any public health agency is absolutely terrifying. Well, him being in charge of anything period is terrifying.
I thought the thread could use some levity and also I thought I’d share what others are trying to do to get the message out about Trump and the right.
The man legitimately had a parasite try and eat part of of his brain.
Like, I don't think it's ableism to say that Cabinet members should have intact brains.
Does this mean I finally get my taco trucks on every street corner?
I was promised that and it still hasn't been delivered!
People have been noticing that it's a darker tint recently. There's a picture from an event a few weeks ago where he almost blends into the dark background.
Do not engage the Watermelons.
No that only happens in a Clinton third term
Its amazing how they seem to have a policy portfolio designed to wreck the country and economic standard of living in the fastest way possible.
Remove vaccine requirements, availability, etc? Check.
Deport 20 million people, thereby reducing the workforce by 10 million+ workers? Check.
Deep cuts in government spending and programs? Check.
Large Tarrifs on consumer goods, increasing prices by up to 20%? Check.
So we’re going to suck a ton of spending and workers out of the economy, while at the same time significantly increasing consumer pricing, and we’re going to significantly increase healthcare costs for people with children at the same time?
Biden’s term was definitely the Tokyo drift of the Obama presidency franchise.