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orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



facialimpediment posted:

It's been like a week since the weird thing stuck.

They've still got nothing. Possibly inverse nothing.

https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1819103885400687027?t=Z3ZgTVMQHtcH7XWjPZYonA&s=19

IM NOT WEIRD IM NOT

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Nuclear Tourist
Apr 7, 2005

Please don't put in the papers that I'm weird.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
I SAID I'M NOT WEIRD, I DO NOT HAVE WEIRD OPINIONS, VOTE FOR ME

https://x.com/RachelCoyleOhio/status/1819116826434949430?t=lUzZ8r_Ee9nmb-CvG3DH1Q&s=19

Incidentally, this is why "weird" isn't just a childhood insult, but a correct descriptor.

Wingnut Ninja
Jan 11, 2003

Mostly Harmless
The Vance Opposition Research Vault has got to look like the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark at this point.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Trump is a schoolyard bully at his very core, how does he not understand that even saying that is a guarantee it lasts longer? I guess it's the narcissism? He has to lash out at his attacker no matter the outcome?

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





facialimpediment posted:

I SAID I'M NOT WEIRD, I DO NOT HAVE WEIRD OPINIONS, VOTE FOR ME

https://x.com/RachelCoyleOhio/status/1819116826434949430?t=lUzZ8r_Ee9nmb-CvG3DH1Q&s=19

Incidentally, this is why "weird" isn't just a childhood insult, but a correct descriptor.

whoa

OddObserver
Apr 3, 2009

facialimpediment posted:



Incidentally, this is why "weird" isn't just a childhood insult, but a correct descriptor.

I suspect weird is just Minnesota polite for "creep".

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

DEER CRACKERS
It’s a euphemism for “hosed-up”.

Madurai
Jun 26, 2012

2024: The Weirdening

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Nuclear Tourist posted:

Please don't put in the papers that I'm weird.

It's in the papers that they're weird and Donnie hates it.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-jd-vance-weird-remarks-1235072789/

quote:

According to two sources with knowledge of the matter, in recent days, Trump has been repeatedly complaining to advisers and confidants about how much amplification the Democrats and Team Kamala Harris’ “weird” attacks on Trump, Vance, and their allies has gotten in the media, including on his generally friendly home-turf of Fox News. The ex-president has grumbled that it makes no sense to him that any “weird” attacks on Vance would stick in the public consciousness, not when Harris has, for instance, “that laugh.” (On the campaign trail, the former president has been trying to convince voters that the vice president is “nuts,” largely based on the manner in which Harris laughs.)

“Of course he’s upset by it,” one of the sources, who talks regularly to Trump, tells Rolling Stone. “The Democrats and the media are smearing this good man who came from nothing as some sort of weirdo. It’s an insult to [Vance], and the millions of forgotten men and women … It’s Kamala’s ‘deplorables’ moment.”

"Kamala's deplorables moment" l o l

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


"Good" man who came from nothing, who thinks rape and incest are just some of life's inconveniences :jerkbag:

Calling him weird is being polite about it.

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



facialimpediment posted:

It's in the papers that they're weird and Donnie hates it.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-jd-vance-weird-remarks-1235072789/

"Kamala's deplorables moment" l o l

"Good man who came from nothing" LMAO WTF

JD you carpetbagging son of a :ramsay:

Mustang
Jun 18, 2006

“We don’t really know where this goes — and I’m not sure we really care.”

facialimpediment posted:

It's in the papers that they're weird and Donnie hates it.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-jd-vance-weird-remarks-1235072789/

"Kamala's deplorables moment" l o l

Democrats should have been doing this for years.

loving Michelle Obama and her moronic "they go low and we go high" bullshit.

These people shouldn't be able to go out in public without being mocked. They deserve to be condescended to.

Don Dongington
Sep 27, 2005

#ideasboom
College Slice
If the polls slide as far as I think they might after the last 24 hours, look forward to the Team Trump narratives around "Fake Polls" as they continue to flail and corncob themselves.

Not to get too far ahead of things, but there's got to be a point where the polls look so bad that their "stop the steal" operations end up being abandoned as the margins are just too high for it to work - not saying it'll get there, or that the Trump inner circle won't try anyway - but I think it makes sense that the wider the margin, the less likely state-based republicans are going to risk getting involved, so they'll try to build a narrative that their own polls had them substantially ahead, and the media were complicit in stealing the election.

Also expecting a lot of "it's all Trump's fault we tried to stop him" from Murdoch mouthpieces and the GoP the day after the election if it's not a close race.

Plastic_Gargoyle
Aug 3, 2007

Mustang posted:

Democrats should have been doing this for years.

loving Michelle Obama and her moronic "they go low and we go high" bullshit.

These people shouldn't be able to go out in public without being mocked. They deserve to be condescended to.

Yes yes, we are all familiar with your admiration for those golden days of street fighting in Weimar Germany.

Mustang
Jun 18, 2006

“We don’t really know where this goes — and I’m not sure we really care.”
Lmao, right. Making fun of chuds is the same thing as kicking their teeth in.

MonkeyFit
May 13, 2009

Don Dongington posted:

Also expecting a lot of "it's all Trump's fault we tried to stop him" from Murdoch mouthpieces and the GoP the day after the election if it's not a close race.

It would be pretty awesome if they turned on Trump and started bringing receipts as "newly discovered" evidence of his grifting to turn half the base on him as well. We all know if things do turn on Trump, they'll claim he was a mastermind that was able to pull the wool over the entire country's eyes.

Mustang
Jun 18, 2006

“We don’t really know where this goes — and I’m not sure we really care.”
Trump's cultists will never turn on him. They've been given countless opportunities to do so and they never take them.

They'll double down on supporting him for the same reason Trump doubles down on picking Vance and being a piece of poo poo. If there's one thing they'll never do, it's admit they were wrong.

CBJSprague24
Dec 5, 2010

Thank you, Johnny Hockey.

facialimpediment posted:

It's in the papers that they're weird and Donnie hates it.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-jd-vance-weird-remarks-1235072789/

"Kamala's deplorables moment" l o l

So which suck up is their source based in that kind of speak? Roger Stone?

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Don Dongington posted:

If the polls slide as far as I think they might after the last 24 hours, look forward to the Team Trump narratives around "Fake Polls" as they continue to flail and corncob themselves.

Will be very interesting, though Donnie's last two days were basically his entire campaign back in 2016. It appears he's trying to run an anti-Obama playbook (Kamala can't talk without a teleprompter and she's fake black!) combined with trying to make her Hillary (her laugh is so weird, she's crazy!!!). He has a real big problem in that he lost his juice and his VP pick is a creep.

I still don't know if this is going to be a squeaker or a comfortable win in either direction. I don't think it's going to be decided in the last month anymore though.

CBJSprague24 posted:

So which suck up is their source based in that kind of speak? Roger Stone?

I don't know Swin's sources, but I've always thought they're quite valid. And the quotes he gets are rarely that far up Donnie's rear end!

Nuclear Tourist
Apr 7, 2005

This election will be the first time I'm voting in a US presidential election since I became a naturalized citizen, I'm also wondering if this will be the last time I'm voting in a US presidential election. In a rare moment of proactive thinking I decided to get off my rear end and get my citizenship done in late '22 while Biden was still in office because who the hell knows what's going to happen after that.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

DEER CRACKERS
It’s not Weimar German politics.

It’s Gilded Age American politics.

J. D. Vance heckling is on a level with “Ma! Ma! Where’s my Pa?”

Qtotonibudinibudet
Nov 7, 2011



Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki
i am on some level enjoying watching someone whose main credentials are "succeeding in VC spheres" crash and burn when exposed to common people

like yeah, being able to brownnose rich people and fail upwards is a skill in a sense if you wanna ladder climb in that space, but it generally requires being a disgusting person in the eyes of most, and those skills don't transfer to impressing people who arent used to having no problems and being surrounded by sycophants

psydude
Mar 31, 2008

Qtotonibudinibudet posted:

i am on some level enjoying watching someone whose main credentials are "succeeding in VC spheres" crash and burn when exposed to common people

He didn't even succeed in VC spheres. He had a single $150m fund that Thiel helped him put together, which is an absolute joke when it comes to VC fund sizes.

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

bird food bathtub posted:

It's kind of a divide-by-zero effect on the racist shithead Republican brain. You can tell a Republican you're biracial and they can wrap their lovely grey matter around the concept as long as one part of that is "white" because then they have "...and all the rest" to categorize as the appropriate target against the whiteness. Tell someone you're Jamaican and Indian though and everything just kinda goes *frzzzzt* upstairs because "....and all the rest" isn't supposed to be multiple categories. It's just "not white". So you're telling them that they need to divide their whiteness index of that person by zero.
I've been picturing basically exactly this as a retake on the WKUK "race war" skit:

"C'mon man, race war! Bring Kamala. No, wait, don't bring Kamala, what is she, Indian?"
"Well, she's half Indian, half Jamaican."
"<a slackjawed stare evolves into a slowly shaking head> ...no, it don't work like that."
"What?"
"Which half's white?"
"Neither, dude."
"<scratches head with bat> well, either way, she's not American, so she's on the red team."
"Red team? poo poo, Trevor, she's as American as you or me!"

https://youtu.be/VYy77IGsBFc?si=dchAuJD0kS4U612H

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus

Cugel the Clever posted:

I've been picturing basically exactly this as a retake on the WKUK "race war" skit:

"C'mon man, race war! Bring Kamala. No, wait, don't bring Kamala, what is she, Indian?"
"Well, she's half Indian, half Jamaican."
"<a slackjawed stare evolves into a slowly shaking head> ...no, it don't work like that."
"What?"
"Which half's white?"
"Neither, dude."
"<scratches head with bat> well, either way, she's not American, so she's on the red team."
"Red team? poo poo, Trevor, she's as American as you or me!"

https://youtu.be/VYy77IGsBFc?si=dchAuJD0kS4U612H

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Vortex Street
Oct 23, 2010

I walked right out of the machinery
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Vortex Street fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Nov 6, 2024

Zamujasa
Oct 27, 2010



Bread Liar
you can just see his face light up, he was ready for that one

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Zamujasa posted:

you can just see his face light up, he was ready for that one

Having Paul Whelan in the package really hosed up the Fox News talking point

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1819062100918259717?t=MXjE0w-x_SSbT8z_iDePng&s=19

Also, some comedy on the tarmac as Evan et al came back:

https://x.com/dreyesceron/status/1819222441400455663?t=_GtYGllXugLGUcsrwAJeXQ&s=19

Hyrax Attack!
Jan 13, 2009

We demand to be taken seriously

I know it’s still an extremely unlikely scenario but would be fun if trump meltdown like if he quit in October or something depressed GOP turnout so much they lost statehouses in deep red states, if just for the shenanigans it would uncover after decades of one party corrupt rule.

Like in Arizona where the new governor found massive new desert developments had been green lit despite knowing there was insufficient water, or in Ukraine when they threw out the bad president in 2014 and found had a private zoo & restaurant that looked like a pirate ship.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
The Kamala fundraising number was Really Really Big:

https://x.com/bresreports/status/1819299214309937439?t=LsEexQNQ_RnE4z6IQURNHg&s=19

Donnie has a ton too, but not that much.

Meanwhile old Nate Silver (not linking that poo poo) and new Nate Silver agree: we're tied

https://x.com/gelliottmorris/status/1819380703236088275?t=ExejuvGuwpJgqHkBKX1YSQ&s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Congrats y'all, you made it through the presidential primary season.

https://x.com/ec_schneider/status/1819422955283083586?t=vBk8-hLuUGKidfX1Bafbpg&s=19

And I do like how the democratic response to a JD Vance insult is basically just "huh, that's really weird"

https://x.com/aaronlarnavarro/status/1819420236254179820?t=spfYno5bimQwA4G2xuBbcQ&s=19

Mustang
Jun 18, 2006

“We don’t really know where this goes — and I’m not sure we really care.”
Phoney Baloney? Who the gently caress talks like that?

Qtotonibudinibudet
Nov 7, 2011



Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki

Mustang posted:

Phoney Baloney? Who the gently caress talks like that?

MALARKEY!

Quackles
Aug 11, 2018

Pixels of Light.



The Grauniad thinks Shapiro will be Harris's running mate.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/02/josh-shapiro-kamala-harris

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Quackles posted:

The Guardian thinks Shapiro will be Harris's running mate.

There is a monumental amount of head-faking going on, as basically all the known candidates cancelled their weekend fundraiser appearances. I don't think any news organization truly knows, but the timing and first rally location sure makes it sound like Shapiro.

Mustang posted:

Phoney Baloney? Who the gently caress talks like that?

I don't know him much at all, but he has four kids, three still in grade school, and is a super-observant jewish guy. Guessing he's dropped a few sassafrasses around the household.

Though gently caress I'd like to see Vance/Donnie repeat that verbatim at some rally.

Porfiriato
Jan 4, 2016


It's still too early to get worked up about individual polls but if Rasmussen has Harris +5 that's pretty wild.

https://x.com/ScottWRasmussen/status/1819362636384846022

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Porfiriato posted:

It's still too early to get worked up about individual polls but if Rasmussen has Harris +5 that's pretty wild.

Different Rasmussen than the hyperchud variety. Rasmussen Reports are the hyperchuds that basically rig polling to get Republican-friendly numbers, enough to get kicked out of 538's numbers. The original guy runs RMG Research as his own independent thing:

quote:

In 2003, Scott founded Rasmussen Reports and served as President of the company for the following decade. Over time, however, he and the majority investors had different visions for the company’s future. In January 2013, Scott informed the board that he would not renew his contract. He left in July of that year and has not been involved with the firm since that time.

But, the poll-over-poll thing stands - a big enough gap that 538 isn't even using polls before the Biden dropout. Always worth checking a pollster's old numbers to their new numbers, so long as the methodology is legit.

Porfiriato
Jan 4, 2016


Ahhh that makes a lot more sense. I even checked 538's pollster ratings to make sure it was (what I thought) was the joke pollster - they list them as "Scott Rasmussen (Rasmussen Reports)" so seems like they're a bit out of date as well.

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hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008


Does anyone know what exactly this means:

quote:

Josh Shapiro spent five months studying in Israel and volunteered in the Israeli army.
(From here: https://digitalcollections.lib.rochester.edu/islandora/object/ur%3A104985?page=9&search_api_fulltext=Josh%20Shapiro%20Palestinians )

And an excerpt from an editorial written by him with a snarky tweet:
https://x.com/allezlesboulez/status/1819412741947261193?s=46

Does “volunteer” mean he actually served in the IDF and wasn’t drafted or does it mean something completely different?

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