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Wrong thread But since I sniped I’ll say gently caress Donald Trump. Also Monty rules. Vote for Monty.
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So KamalaHQ sometimes likes to paraphrase a bunch of poo poo to make a political attack. This is a true direct quote: "I don't not believe him" https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1837877308201308188?t=5xas6vYfF7PcoVe6v8zwvQ&s=19
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pantslesswithwolves posted:The Kennedys and unanticipated brain trauma. The karmic vengeance for Rosemary spreads across generations.
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Sep 22, 2024 22:46
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Sadly, he's not actually old enough to have been at Camp Crystal Lake when Jason drowned. 
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A.o.D. posted:Sadly, he's not actually old enough to have been at Camp Crystal Lake when Jason drowned. Woulda made a decent J movie tho. Stilk could. I'm super stoked for everyone to finally realize how to vote this year. Turnout gonna be key for all the folk.
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e- Disregard. The video of Loomer losing her mind apparently wasn't from tonight and it took a bit more of a deep dive into Twitter than usual to verify.
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quote:Former President Donald Trump said he doesn’t believe he would run for office again in four years if he loses the November election. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-wont-run-again-loses-november-election-rcna172147
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Platystemon posted:Former President Donald Trump said he doesn’t believe he would run for office again in four years if he loses the November election. quote:"I shouldn’t joke because you know what? Running against the worst candidate in the history of presidential politics puts pressure on me," Trump said. "Could you imagine if I lose? My whole life, what am I gonna do? I'm gonna say: 'I lost to the worst candidate in the history of politics.' I'm not gonna feel so good. Maybe I'll have to leave the country — I don't know." narrator: he was lying AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Sep 23, 2024 |
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:narrator: he was lying Ding ding ding. He's a malignant narcissist. He was saying something in the moment that won't matter at all the next moment because he never said it in the first place. If he loses he'll Etch-a-Sketch the reality between his ears and suddenly he won but they cheated and stole it so he never lost really when you know the truth. Then he'll run again because he deserves it.
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Trump is going to keep running until he's dead. And even then, I'm anticipating some kind of God Emperor of Mankind situation where his mummified corpse is still put on the ballot.
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psydude posted:Trump is going to keep running until he's dead. And even then, I'm anticipating some kind of God Emperor of Mankind situation where his mummified corpse is still put on the ballot. Thing is, I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up having a stress induced heart attack if he loses. His legal troubles are closing in around him and he's been delaying poo poo for so long, he won't be able to delay it by another 4 years. I don't know that he would ever see the inside of a jail cell. But I could see his lifestyle of hamberders and lack of real exercise finally catching up to him.
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There’s an entire menagerie of GOP characters who were cowed from running in 2024 but are not going to hold back in 2028. Trump dunked on just such a menagerie in 2016, but he’s not even half as energetic eight years later, let alone twelve.
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Sep 23, 2024 10:48
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i still want him to see everything he has get taken away before he dies alone and unloved, but i'll settle for him just dying of fatness
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Sep 23, 2024 10:52
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Platystemon posted:There’s an entire menagerie of GOP characters who were cowed from running in 2024 but are not going to hold back in 2028. Junior is gonna take up the mantle, then. There is no more Republican party - he's turned it into an extension of his family business.
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Sep 23, 2024 11:49
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Yeah but no one gives a poo poo about JR. Let alone caring about Eric or even Ivanka. MAGA will die with Trump, I am curious what the GOP is going to look like after his death.
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Trump said if he loses he won’t run again but he never said if he wins he won’t run for a third term!
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Trump also said if he lost in 2020 you'd never see him again.
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Flikken posted:Yeah but no one gives a poo poo about JR. Let alone caring about Eric or even Ivanka. MAGA will die with Trump, I am curious what the GOP is going to look like after his death. I suspect there's going to be a lot of untangling of Trump and GOP finances, its going to be a mess.
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How did he get so thoroughly enmeshed in the time frame he did? How did Trump become (if that's the right way to say it, I'm not sure) the GOP?
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Leave posted:How did he get so thoroughly enmeshed in the time frame he did? How did Trump become (if that's the right way to say it, I'm not sure) the GOP? The GOP had been wealthy businessmen who thought they were American Conservatism, and were using what they saw as a small idiot selection of evangelicals and segregationists to gain power and implement their laissez-faire paradise. Then Trump brought in all the conservatives who had been sitting out elections since George Wallace and demonstrated that the hypercapitalists were the minority and the fascists were the silent majority (of right wingers) who had just been waiting for one of theirs to gain prominence.
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The way I've always thought about it is that the Republican base has always demanded only getting told what they wanted to hear. Republican establishment types did that, but fed the base what they wanted to hear via consultant language. The base got told what they wanted, but they were irritated that they had to filter out the consultant weasel words. Donnie gives the base what they want, straight-up, with no weasel words. No consultants in the way or moralism to worry about! It's all right there, minimum filtering required. This is also why Republican primary voters keep nominating really, really lovely downballot candidates. Hard to go back to vegetables when Donnie serves up nothing but candy.
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It’s interesting seeing continued hints of how trump & co grifters seizing the RNC is bad news for state level candidates. In WA governor race they are running a real candidate as opposed to a clown four years ago, yet a lack of national help means he’s badly strapped for funds. He’d probably lose anyway but that’s not a given.quote:The state GOP had just $76,000 in its state accounts at the end of August — less than 2% of the $4.3 million stashed by the state Democratic Party, according to the latest filings to the Public Disclosure Commission. quote:State Rep. J.T. Wilcox, R-Yelm, the former House Republican leader, said it’s been that way as long as he’s been involved in politics. “One of the great misconceptions people have about the parties is that Republicans are the rich party,” he said. Lol I know of at least one evil local aerospace parts supplier CEO who has given trump seven figures multiple times. quote:As if Democrats didn’t have a big enough edge, the Democratic Governors Association has also poured money into the gubernatorial race. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/why-the-wa-republican-party-is-struggling-for-cash/
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Leave posted:How did he get so thoroughly enmeshed in the time frame he did? How did Trump become (if that's the right way to say it, I'm not sure) the GOP? Accommodation with the intent to co-opt him failed over the course of his presidency, with establishment figures again being forced to either step aside or fall into line. Into that vacuum strode the most loyal agents of the Trumpian wing of the party, even after his loss and Jan 6. Mitch McConnell was pivotal in stonewalling Trump being subject to repercussions for his attempt to overthrow democracy and cleared the path for his continued stranglehold. The most important takeaway of this looking back is how it informs our looking forward. There's some vocal folks who ostensibly self-identify as left-wing, but prefer to focus on "liberal perfidy", downplaying the risk of Trump regaining office and complaining that Democrats continuously assert each successive election as the most important in anyone's lifetime. This criticism is obviously wrongheaded, though: Trump has cut himself free of the establishment types who constrained his worst impulses and is openly proclaiming his intent to conduct violent ethnic cleansing and eliminate his political enemies, a roadmap which would effectively end democracy in America. He has the national and most state Republican parties, he has the slavering base of extremists, we're only lucky that he doesn't appear to have a well-organized paramilitary (though I hope that latter doesn't just stem from insufficient coverage of the militias). tl;dr: poo poo's hosed and Trump needs to lose, if only to see the GOP self-cannibalize afterwards. Cugel the Clever fucked around with this message at 14:55 on Sep 23, 2024 |
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Cugel the Clever posted:He has the national and most state Republican parties, he has the slavering base of extremists, we're only lucky that he doesn't appear to have a well-organized paramilitary (though I hope that latter doesn't just stem from insufficient coverage of the militias). My hope is that if the militias do exist, they're so paranoid they have Feds embedded in their midst that they don't follow through on what they'd like to.
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CBJSprague24 posted:My hope is that if the militias do exist, they're so paranoid they have Feds embedded in their midst that they don't follow through on what they'd like to. From first and secondhand experience in the South, the militias are just not really there as any kind of effective force. They are generally paper tigers, badly prone to infighting and really stupid drama, and they really seem to be much less willing to fight when they realize that very permissive gun laws around here mean that they aren’t the only ones who are strapped. The way a friend of mine put it is that these dicks are absolutely willing to kill for their beliefs, but they are not willing to die for them.
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Problematic Soup posted:From first and secondhand experience in the South, the militias are just not really there as any kind of effective force. They are generally paper tigers, badly prone to infighting and really stupid drama, and they really seem to be much less willing to fight when they realize that very permissive gun laws around here mean that they aren’t the only ones who are strapped. The way a friend of mine put it is that these dicks are absolutely willing to kill for their beliefs, but they are not willing to die for them. Back in 2013, between Obama's reelection and inauguration, my friend's proto-chud roommate asked me in all earnestness "why do we let Democrats keep winning elections when we have all the guns?" Dude himself wasn't even a gun owner and had the build of meal team six, but he loved to wishcast a short, victorious civil war.
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Problematic Soup posted:From first and secondhand experience in the South, the militias are just not really there as any kind of effective force. They are generally paper tigers, badly prone to infighting and really stupid drama, and they really seem to be much less willing to fight when they realize that very permissive gun laws around here mean that they aren’t the only ones who are strapped. The way a friend of mine put it is that these dicks are absolutely willing to kill for their beliefs, but they are not willing to die for them. A few (too few) of the jan 6th shitheads going to jail popped the trumo people's notion that they were immune to consequences. That scattered them even harder than his electoral loss. The more die-hard ones have weeded themselves out, either by refusing to get vaccinated for covid or capering dumbass poo poo like the dude who fired a nailgun into the bulletresistant glass of a fed building and texted that they were going to take away his account as opposed to, well, gunning him down.
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Problematic Soup posted:From first and secondhand experience in the South, the militias are just not really there as any kind of effective force. They are generally paper tigers, badly prone to infighting and really stupid drama, and they really seem to be much less willing to fight when they realize that very permissive gun laws around here mean that they aren’t the only ones who are strapped. The way a friend of mine put it is that these dicks are absolutely willing to kill for their beliefs, but they are not willing to die for them. A ton of the stuff at end of 20th century seems to actively promote lone wolf BS. There's at least one book called They Want To Kill Americans which examines what author calls the Trump Insurgency in The US. He references research into a bunch of their right gunshow literature and I had three takeaways. McVeigh, etc did real small group weird poo poo. This may continue. Meanwhile the militias themselves are like racist GravySEAL Halo 2 clans. And they are all not worth discounting/dismissing as unthreatening. They can vote or carry tiki torches.
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There was a joke in the militia movement in the 90s that I heard as a kid. "You have a squad of 9 guys. How many men do you have?" "1, and 8 loving Feds." I'd venture most militia groups larger than maybe 6 have Feds in them, or on them already. They just don't care to do anything.
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Mister Tuxedo posted:A ton of the stuff at end of 20th century seems to actively promote lone wolf BS. There's at least one book called They Want To Kill Americans which examines what author calls the Trump Insurgency in The US. He references research into a bunch of their right gunshow literature and I had three takeaways. You do realise the threat difference between terrorism and gaining control of the us government right? The weather forecast has more firepower than the former
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bulletsponge13 posted:There was a joke in the militia movement in the 90s that I heard as a kid. I had worried for a time that the hands off approach to the bird refuge whackos and the fact that only the tarp wizard got shot would embolden the militias but fortunately that doesn't seem to have played out.
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Arrath posted:I had worried for a time that the hands off approach to the bird refuge whackos and the fact that only the tarp wizard got shot would embolden the militias but fortunately that doesn't seem to have played out. A lot of lefties, arguably correct, believe that AG Garland was Biden's worst pick, as he's been way, way too focused on poo poo like decorum when republican federal courts are openly changing rules and poo poo just because they can. But his DOJ just crossed 1500 J6 prosecutions and they're up to 900 guilty pleas. That's basically why these last four years have been relatively quiet. When the J6ers weren't greeted as liberators like they thought they'd be, and actually got some fuckin consequences, poo poo cooled down a whole lot.
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https://x.com/VoteHubUS/status/1837855763877810463?t=tfhnOgNLjoODyC5BFFCbzA&s=19 I'd like to hope this is a good signal.
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CBJSprague24 posted:I'd like to hope this is a good signal. Disregard almost all of it. Democrats, especially in Pennsylvania, went absolutely nuts for mail voting for 2020. 2022 had a steep decline in Democrats requesting mailed ballots and same deal for expectations for 2024 countrywide: https://x.com/tbonier/status/1837256099411407098 Also, Donnie is kinda-sorta pushing mail voting. This will be one of the elections where everyone will yap about the early vote returns and early voting periods while knowing jack poo poo about what any of it actually means. 2020 was a complete outlier with the pandemic, 2022 was a midterm, and during the last comparable presidential in 2016, both candidates were despised. Harris is favorability-neutral, which is near-shocking, and Donnie's higher than he's ever been, but still around -10.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:You do realise the threat difference between terrorism and gaining control of the us government right? The weather forecast has more firepower than the former Of course boss. We talkin about the wee folks I thought and their literature. Now that the election looks the way it does, I wonder what kinda drama is coming out of folks mouths next
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Nice to see Lucy pulling the football from someone else for a change: https://x.com/igorbobic/status/1838323489163415877 Donnie, Graham, and chucklefucks really made a push in the last week to shut off the Kamala's Blue Wall Only strategy. Turns out nobody really moved and one of the critical state senate votes really, really wants to be mayor of Omaha, the city they wanted to gently caress with. Oops!
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I live in rural Missouri. Drove through ruraler Missouri today to grab a trailer. There were a shocking number of Harris/Walz signs out there. It was 4 total that I noticed, but that was still surprising to me. I generally expect zero when out and about. Relatively few trump shrines either. Also surprising.
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I've started seeing a few 3'x3' Harriz/Walz signs around town, which seems like a new format. It definitely stands out.
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Mark Robinson is now in the rare territory of getting unendorsements. Been a while since I've seen that! https://x.com/MurphyAJC/status/1838363013029429325?t=kD6Zrhce7sEvObub4r9Rkw&s=19 Edit: more poo poo from politico - the IP address matched Robinson's location and it wasn't just Ashley Madison with his email address: quote:Leaked database files from other website breaches show that Robinson’s email address was registered on the dating websites Adult Friend Finder and Mate 1, and the now-defunct website Lords Of Porno. And again, if Brown pulls it off in Ohio, it's another case of really lovely Republican candidate quality: https://x.com/metzgov/status/1838363945062498508?t=opPNaUd0EfuvfgG7fwzknQ&s=19 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Sep 24, 2024 |
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