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goatsestretchgoals
Jun 4, 2011

10 is $10,000+ as the weird right bounces off

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Wombot
Sep 11, 2001

Why the hell did they keep him on stage? Pull him back to the green room, especially after the replacement fails, figure the technical poo poo out, then send him back out with a fresh line up his nose or whatever.

"I have the worst lawyers stage directors"

Zamujasa
Oct 27, 2010



Bread Liar
ive been following along via the trump lols thread d.b.a. gbs elections 2024 and it's been wild watching the wheels on the trump campaign come off. it's like watching that one gif of the guy in the car sliding down the street, bits of the car falling off until they're just on the ground hanging onto the steering wheel.

stands up there for 40 minutes :coolspot:, next day gets up there and :derp: with a muted mic for 15 minutes. just absolute clown poo poo

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





honestly the funniest thing to me was watching his aides awkwardly dance along to his playlist with him trying to look as though this was exactly what was meant to be happening


it was nuuuuuuuuuuuuuts

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

DEER CRACKERS
https://x.com/JoeKassabian/status/1847378888743416233

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Comrade Blyatlov posted:

honestly the funniest thing to me was watching his aides awkwardly dance along to his playlist with him trying to look as though this was exactly what was meant to be happening


it was nuuuuuuuuuuuuuts

Big Ashlee Simpson on SNL energy.

Herstory Begins Now
Aug 5, 2003

Yknow every month for like 6 months I've been thinking 'this is going to get so much more absurd every month, we have no idea' and even still this manages to beat my expectations.

A.o.D.
Jan 15, 2006

Utterly Dethpicable

Wombot posted:

Why the hell did they keep him on stage? Pull him back to the green room, especially after the replacement fails, figure the technical poo poo out, then send him back out with a fresh line up his nose or whatever.

"I have the worst lawyers stage directors"

You can't give Trump directions.

CBJSprague24
Dec 5, 2010

Blue Jackoffs are Rags west
https://x.com/HudsonGiles/status/1847284421835071832

Looks like they've got a fight, fight, fight on their hands.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

President
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Wombot posted:

Why the hell did they keep him on stage? Pull him back to the green room, especially after the replacement fails, figure the technical poo poo out, then send him back out with a fresh line up his nose or whatever.

"I have the worst lawyers stage directors"

Tbh I think it's because Kamala planted seeds in his brain's remaining refuse that have sprouted.

Ever since the debate and its lead-up, she's consistently told people to watch his rallies, note that he's nuts, watch everyone stream out because they're bored of the same old show, and that he's clearly lost a few hundred steps.

The 40 minute dance party got wall-to-wall "wtf?" writeups by everyone and triggered a heavy Kamala emphasis on "is he ok?" So a similar thing happens in Detroit - he has to stop and his brain simply doesn't know what to do. Can't put up a message and leave the stage - people could leave my bigly rally! Can't do what my staff says because then they'd know I need handlers!

It's a lot like how he was on Fox and Friends yesterday morning, demanding to have negative ads about him pulled off Fox News. Even said he was going to talk to Rupert Murdock about it. Dude watches way too much TV, which means way too many attack ads, which means quintupling down on everything stupid he does because he can never admit fault.

CBJSprague24
Dec 5, 2010

Blue Jackoffs are Rags west
This won't help his mood:
https://x.com/krassenstein/status/1847602049443094807?t=AHQwO2h9cg_HYiid_MOkiw&s=19

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Correction: Republicans won't read it because they already know and approve.

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





They took notes on a criminal loving conspiracy

Ronwayne
Nov 20, 2007

That warm and fuzzy feeling.
I mean if the intent is to become the law itself, its a high risk but not necessarily stupid gambit. (its incredibly goddamn stupid). But yeah all of donny's antics make sense in the context of becoming dictator for life would nullify all that legal action against him. If a criminal organization successfully defies a nation state's attempt to reign them in long enough they become the government themselves, or some kind of parallel institution.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

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Donnie disbanded the RNC's GOTV efforts for a lot of that dumb poll watching and litigation poo poo. He figured he could outsource GOTV to Charlie Kirk and Elon Musk.

And lo:

https://x.com/hugolowell/status/1847664261360677200?t=UxZpog8Yg8CzZevKWkDKtw&s=19

(l)

Edit: now here's a pander

https://x.com/jeneps/status/1846320578409779238?t=8PP38nlPRNeei5UgTdt1qw&s=19

https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1847706842081726855?t=Q9vjbimeLsz_2wzgyRzD6A&s=19

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Oct 19, 2024

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

President
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You know what's going to make the undecided voters tune in and vote for you? Talking about Arnold Palmer's hog.

https://x.com/AccountableGOP/status/1847766955299569961

Prompting context: he was at Arnold Palmer Airport

Edit2 for joke from Bluesky: Arnold Palmer: half ice tea, half lemon party

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 23:52 on Oct 19, 2024

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sausage.

Smellrose
My brain hurts.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB
Well he got the gay vote amirightboys?

How is he so bad at being a decent human being?

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

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NYT's rally-writer sanewashed the whole thing (edit: lol ap didn't), so Kamala's people are pressing the issue:

https://x.com/TrueFactsStated/status/1847803815380062652

NBC posted:

The Harris campaign quickly pounced on the anecdote. One Harris campaign spokesperson, Sarafina Chitika, suggested that someone should do a "wellness check" on the former president, while another, Matt Corridoni, posted on X that Trump was "Having a totally normal one." In a statement, her campaign sarcastically chided Trump for focusing on "the issue most important to voters in this election: a deceased golfer’s … anatomy."

And Musk has escalated his PAC's $100-per-signature to now giving away $1 million / day to a random sweepstakes winner for anyone that signs the petition. It's awkward as gently caress, likely legal due to being a "petition" versus vote-buying, and would likely get him convicted of vote buying if it ever got to a jury (which lol it wont, he's rich).

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Oct 20, 2024

Zamujasa
Oct 27, 2010



Bread Liar
the longer this election goes on the more convinced i am that every single person voting for trump at this point is either a lost cause or so ignorant of this world that i would love to live under that rock

people literally living in their own, made-up realities, not sharing the same objective truths you and i do

stealie72
Jan 10, 2007

Zamujasa posted:

people literally living in their own, made-up realities, not sharing the same objective truths you and i do
It's this. And no idea how the gently caress we can continue to participate in a democracy with these people.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

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Here are some numbers on that unshared reality point:



It's one of my biggest frustrations that the internet is more or less a wealth of human knowledge (and porn), but Independents / Republicans mostly use it to build special worlds where they only get told what they want to hear. And of all the things they want to hear and believe, it's that fuckhead.

brains
May 12, 2004

facialimpediment posted:


It's one of my biggest frustrations that the internet is more or less a wealth of human knowledge (and porn), but Independents / Republicans mostly use it to build special worlds where they only get told what they want to hear. And of all the things they want to hear and believe, it's that fuckhead.

at some point around the middle of last decade, the right wing mediasphere, which had spent 30+ years carefully curating FUD to a cornered market over traditional mediums, realized that social media algorithms amplify outrage content above all else and went all in. what we see today is the result of 10 years of turbocharged algorithms funneling mildly conservative-leaning people into radicalism- of course these people's minds are broken.

and the pieces of poo poo running the social media companies watched this happen, saw only dollar signs, and poured gasoline all over the process.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Zamujasa posted:

people literally living in their own, made-up realities, not sharing the same objective truths you and i do

Coincidentally this was the plot of the most recent Ghost in the Shell series and it kinda sucked.

Zamujasa
Oct 27, 2010



Bread Liar

brains posted:

at some point around the middle of last decade, the right wing mediasphere, which had spent 30+ years carefully curating FUD to a cornered market over traditional mediums, realized that social media algorithms amplify outrage content above all else and went all in. what we see today is the result of 10 years of turbocharged algorithms funneling mildly conservative-leaning people into radicalism- of course these people's minds are broken.

and the pieces of poo poo running the social media companies watched this happen, saw only dollar signs, and poured gasoline all over the process.

honestly, i think the whole thing was doomed when the fairness doctrine died, and the fox news "entertainment" case really sealed it. the fairness doctrine dying meant there was no reason to actually offer balanced/objective coverage, and the entertainment case meant there was no reason to offer accurate coverage.

i genuinely think that it is the nature of large businesses to be in a state of racing to the bottom. the reason is just because if one person, one company is digging down and there's no penalty for it, there's no reason not to follow them. and so everything slowly gets worse as people continually push the boundaries of what is and isn't acceptable; anyone not playing along is out-competed, and the lack of any obligation to be fair means they can be attacked with wild accusations but can't counter them.

hate gets eyeballs. hate gets clicks. hate makes other people angry and hateful. if you think you can control that beast, you stand to profit immensely in wealth and power.

shame about the rest of the world, though.

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016

facialimpediment posted:

You know what's going to make the undecided voters tune in and vote for you? Talking about Arnold Palmer's hog.

https://x.com/AccountableGOP/status/1847766955299569961

Prompting context: he was at Arnold Palmer Airport

Edit2 for joke from Bluesky: Arnold Palmer: half ice tea, half lemon party

this is the GOP pivot to being pro-LGBTQ+

Cugel the Clever
Apr 5, 2009
I LOVE AMERICA AND CAPITALISM DESPITE BEING POOR AS FUCK. I WILL NEVER RETIRE BUT HERE'S ANOTHER 200$ FOR UKRAINE, SLAVA

Zamujasa posted:

people literally living in their own, made-up realities, not sharing the same objective truths you and i do
This is definitely something that worries me. I want to believe that a majority of people are sane and more or less in touch with reality as I see it, but... the last decade has left me with the impression that a good chunk of even non-Trump, non-evangelical Americans at best have their heads up their own asses, uncritically meandering through life at best or actively chugging down snake oil grift at worst.

It feels like the former group will vote for Trump because they can't be arsed to think beyond objectively false vibes like "the economy is bad", "crime is up", or "Trump manifests strength". The latter group wants to cast down the establishment they think is holding them down.

I dunno, I hope that characterization is mistaken and just reflects my own being too online. I'm in a spot where I feel like Harris has got this and we might even see a silent, sane majority turn out to vote in a blue wave that the polls are somehow missing, but there's a mountain of doubt :(

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

Cugel the Clever posted:

I dunno, I hope that characterization is mistaken and just reflects my own being too online. I'm in a spot where I feel like Harris has got this and we might even see a silent, sane majority turn out to vote in a blue wave that the polls are somehow missing, but there's a mountain of doubt :(

It seems like Harris probably does have this even if the margins are a little tighter than most are comfortable with. Unfortunately it looks like the Republicans are going to win the Senate by picking up WV and Montana, but may lose the House. So at the very least a Harris victory will be tightening the tourniquet on the arterial bleed that is America’s rightward lurch, and hopefully the midterms will allow for a better picture for the Dems.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

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Concerns aside, this is the good stuff, right here.

https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1848006397146911113?t=JBa_VnLCRbZUXRIgWTm_0A&s=19

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug
Pillbug

That's your big wet boy Johnson, your "Christian" leader, so maybe you need to explain yourself

CBJSprague24
Dec 5, 2010

Blue Jackoffs are Rags west

Zamujasa posted:

the longer this election goes on the more convinced i am that every single person voting for trump at this point is either a lost cause or so ignorant of this world that i would love to live under that rock

people literally living in their own, made-up realities, not sharing the same objective truths you and i do

MAGA has normalized stupidity. Conspiracies, fairy tales, and alternate realities have gone from something to be mocked and eyerolled at to something to be loud and proud about it because, to paraphrase Squidbillies, "the TV picture box what all my opinions come from" spews it all the time. There's no point in critical thinking when the hot blonde lady on Fox tells you what you're supposed to think.

It doesn't help that the person who, for 4 years, was the leader of the Free World amplifies everything and has had no problem burning everything down because he had a big sad because he was a loser when he seemingly was programmed his entire life to be a winner and couldn't handle it.

My big question to the election deniers is, if elections are really stolen, how the hell did W win in 2004?

stealie72
Jan 10, 2007

CBJSprague24 posted:

My big question to the election deniers is, if elections are really stolen, how the hell did W win in 2004?
You mean the only time a republican won the popular vote since 1988?

I have a kid in college, and the GOP has won the popular vote one time since I was in 7th grade. To paraphrase Futurama's Morbo, why do the democrats, the more popular party, simply not eat the Republicans.

Flikken
Oct 22, 2009

10,363 snaps and not a playoff win to show for it

stealie72 posted:

You mean the only time a republican won the popular vote since 1988?

I have a kid in college, and the GOP has won the popular vote one time since I was in 7th grade. To paraphrase Futurama's Morbo, why do the democrats, the more popular party, simply not eat the Republicans.

And he only won that because of "Don't change the horse midstream" bullshit

Voyager I
Jun 29, 2012

This is how your posting feels.
🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥
Good god, I'm hitting middle age and they've won it once in my life. I didn't realize it was that bad.

Naramyth
Jan 22, 2009

Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.
And the only reason W won in 04 was the war on islam terror

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

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um

I think the "Kamala never worked at McDonalds" gambit backfired just on the visuals

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1848059426265051494

tbd if he does anything besides stare at the baskets, hungry

CBJSprague24
Dec 5, 2010

Blue Jackoffs are Rags west

facialimpediment posted:

um

I think the "Kamala never worked at McDonalds" gambit backfired just on the visuals

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1848059426265051494

tbd if he does anything besides stare at the baskets, hungry

Just don't let him near a headset for the drive-thru. That line will never move once he realizes he has a microphone.

Naramyth
Jan 22, 2009

Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

facialimpediment posted:

um

I think the "Kamala never worked at McDonalds" gambit backfired just on the visuals

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1848059426265051494

tbd if he does anything besides stare at the baskets, hungry

That’s not working the fryer

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

President
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Naramyth posted:

That’s not working the fryer

shocking development, but looks like donnie lied about what he was going to do


Edit2: He apparently did like a normal human, with two hands like they always do

NYT posted:

Donald Trump briefly worked the fry station at a McDonald’s franchise in Feasterville, Pa., on Sunday. He lifted fries in and out of the oil, shook them, salted them and placed them into cartons for service. He praised the staff and the company.

“I’m going through the french fry stuff,” he said.

“I’ll never forget this experience,” he said later.


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ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
It's one thing that the reactionaries reacted to the end of the age of the babyboomers with wanting to murder the rest of us and everything and everyone who changed a little. I can accept the A-to-B privilege, the hurt feelings logic of it.
But why, do our nazis, have to be so, so viscerally, unendingly, pathetic. What is this weird clownshow
I tells ya, it's not like it used to be. Our ancestors got enemies you could respect. Bullfighters have opponents you can respect. All we get is this decades long parade of loosers. It's insulting.

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