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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

President
Matt Patricia Fan Club
Ann Arbor branch
rip the elon-trump interview, X The Everything App broke

https://x.com/sahilkapur/status/1823148780746596494?t=e7odl6vNak1M8zPcpNu2mQ&s=19

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Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sausage.

Smellrose
:sickos:

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

DEER CRACKERS
Grim Reaper knocking meme and the previous door is Ron DeSantis’.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

President
Matt Patricia Fan Club
Ann Arbor branch
X The Everything App is getting DDOSed (it broke)

https://x.com/ditzkoff/status/1823152833241457061?t=4hUo70ztQkep3TJ5AJzjLw&s=19

Zamujasa
Oct 27, 2010



Bread Liar
who could have possibly seen this coming

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

DEER CRACKERS
Antifa Jan. 6’d his servers. 🤣

Soylent Pudding
Jun 22, 2007

We've got people!


I think Ken White said it best

popehat posted:

If someone really did launch a DDOS attack on X I hope they had the class to just spam the word “cis” at it a few trillion times

Elviscat
Jan 1, 2008


Weird how the Dying Legacy Media manages to stream important events without breaking horribly.

Must be a deep state plot.

Porfiriato
Jan 4, 2016


https://x.com/AlexanderTabet/status/1823154841876930647

Arizona will have a measure on the ballot in November to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution, which has generally been a strong turnout booster for the D side.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

President
Matt Patricia Fan Club
Ann Arbor branch
Donnie sounds like poo poo.

https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1823172183612445076

https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1823175706290831478

pmchem
Jan 21, 2010


god, just play this on loop in every swing state's metro area plz

Herstory Begins Now
Aug 5, 2003

presumably some version of that convo except about making protesters disappear is how his conversations with dictators go

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

God drat what a great photo choice

Elviscat
Jan 1, 2008


These are good, since those clips are about as long as I can stand listening to either of those dildos talk.

not caring here
Feb 22, 2012

blazemastah 2 dry 4 u
Okay, so I thought this was gonna be like a televised interview, but it's just some busted rear end AM radio call in talk show with a brain fried old dipshit and the most divorced man in the world.

Man, at least put a little bit of effort into your fascism, geez.

Vortex Street
Oct 23, 2010

I walked right out of the machinery
.

Vortex Street fucked around with this message at 06:27 on Nov 6, 2024

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug
Pillbug

Vortex Street posted:

https://x.com/krassenstein/status/1823182130165289169?s=46&t=oRCnrb4msSDeZI7cDdUq5A


Go to 2:50 if you don’t want to hear Elon stumble through advocating for sustainability/EVs.

Trump: “I’m sort of waiting for you to come up with solar panels on the roofs of your cars, and on the trunks of the cars…I’m sure that you’ll be the first…but it would seem that a solar panel, on, on the roofs, you know on flat surfaces on certain surfaces might be good, at least in certain areas of the country where you have the, or the world, where ya have the sun.”

And then he veers off into global warming then nuclear warming then idk.

Elon is basically anti-Climate Change now, the dude has gone off the deep end and he's openly supporting people like Trump so he can rightly get hosed. If he cared he wouldn't have invited that bumbling orange buffoon on his stupid Q&A.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

President
Matt Patricia Fan Club
Ann Arbor branch

Vortex Street posted:

And then he veers off into global warming then nuclear warming then idk.

His brain can't generate new material, it's all just soup in there. 12:34 of the latest Daily Show clip kinda shows it: https://youtu.be/-VW6tHIcGfc?si=o-HspwEe_uo_drVw

Really that whole segment is worthwhile as just a recap of the last few weeks.

And Donnie/Elon having a nice lol about firing striking workers is going to come back to bite Donnie. He always says the most self-sabotaging poo poo in friendly interviews.

MonkeyFit
May 13, 2009
I was honestly hoping we'd get a lot of Hello Fellow Kids style memes out of this. But where they're trying to pretend they identify with the hard working American. I guess my hopes were just too high. I hope Donnie actually loses any union votes he did have though.

stealie72
Jan 10, 2007

MonkeyFit posted:

I was honestly hoping we'd get a lot of Hello Fellow Kids style memes out of this. But where they're trying to pretend they identify with the hard working American. I guess my hopes were just too high. I hope Donnie actually loses any union votes he did have though.
Unions are in an. . . interesting place right now. Their leadership obviously knows what party will at least make mouth noises about helping workers, while their rank and file is so caught up in panic about who they might be pissing next to that they've gone chud.

As an example in practice, the Mahoning Valley around Youngstown Ohio used to be union as gently caress and a democratic stronghold (coincidentally it gave us Jim Traficant, a blue collar Trump a generation before Trump rode down the escalator). Trump managed to flip it in 2016 and 2020.

In 2016 it was on the back of then-candidate Trump promising to make a deal with the UAW and GM that would keep GM's Lordstown plant open through some obvious scam deal where GM would sublet the plant to an electric pickup manufacturer. This was a plant that the Obama administration kept running because it made the Cruze, which was one of the more popular cash for clunkers cars. It was also just about the last place for a good union job in the Youngstown area.

Surprise of surprises, President Business Deals deal kept only a handful of jobs, didn't result in a single truck and the C-suite ran away with the money before selling the plant to noted paragon of worker's rights Foxconn, who was totally going to hire hundreds of workers---but still has not.

All of this was obvious by 2020, but the now-unemployed former union workers still turned out for the cheeto goblin. The plant still sits empty today, btw.


TL;DR: Trump made a bullshit deal that allowed the last good union jobs in a community to disappear, and the unemployed auto workers are flying his flags anyway. Because Trump hates gays too.

MonkeyFit
May 13, 2009
I know the chudliest union guys would still vote for him. I'm just hoping it costs him votes among more moderate ones, even if they don't vote for Harris, but choose to stay home instead.

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008

MFW people don't read the theory

MonkeyFit posted:

I know the chudliest union guys would still vote for him. I'm just hoping it costs him votes among more moderate ones, even if they don't vote for Harris, but choose to stay home instead.

That's honestly all you can hope for with this election. Rally your base and depress your opponent.

Kaiser Schnitzel
Mar 28, 2006

Schnitzel mit uns


stealie72 posted:

Unions are in an. . . interesting place right now. Their leadership obviously knows what party will at least make mouth noises about helping workers, while their rank and file is so caught up in panic about who they might be pissing next to that they've gone chud.

As an example in practice, the Mahoning Valley around Youngstown Ohio used to be union as gently caress and a democratic stronghold (coincidentally it gave us Jim Traficant, a blue collar Trump a generation before Trump rode down the escalator). Trump managed to flip it in 2016 and 2020.

In 2016 it was on the back of then-candidate Trump promising to make a deal with the UAW and GM that would keep GM's Lordstown plant open through some obvious scam deal where GM would sublet the plant to an electric pickup manufacturer. This was a plant that the Obama administration kept running because it made the Cruze, which was one of the more popular cash for clunkers cars. It was also just about the last place for a good union job in the Youngstown area.

Surprise of surprises, President Business Deals deal kept only a handful of jobs, didn't result in a single truck and the C-suite ran away with the money before selling the plant to noted paragon of worker's rights Foxconn, who was totally going to hire hundreds of workers---but still has not.

All of this was obvious by 2020, but the now-unemployed former union workers still turned out for the cheeto goblin. The plant still sits empty today, btw.


TL;DR: Trump made a bullshit deal that allowed the last good union jobs in a community to disappear, and the unemployed auto workers are flying his flags anyway. Because Trump hates gays too.
Another way alot of those folks could be interpreting/reacting to events is 'we stuck with the union and the democrats for forever and look what it got us-the plant's closed, there are no more jobs.' I don't think that's entirely a correct interpretation, and it blames the union/democrats for larger forces like outsourcing/offshoring/moving production to lower-cost southern states/automation that arguably are beyond their control (we won't get into how much blame to lay on the Democratic party for offshoring etc.), but the end result is still 'we, working class people are markedly worse off than we were 10 years ago and Trump acknowledges and panders to our sense of grievance.' Add in some culture war bullshit and it has worked so far, but I don't think it's entirely fair to blame it entirely on 'these people are bigoted'

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

President
Matt Patricia Fan Club
Ann Arbor branch
The UAW gets how you need to react to these things, if just for PR purposes:

https://x.com/UAW/status/1823361230167257114?t=rRv1KitVl9P338SDjFqybw&s=19

https://x.com/UAW/status/1823361235460465003?t=1K0aje5-V2MR39Zr_ra7Og&s=19

And a retweet of one of Bernie's policy advisors:

quote:

The problem is not the dude from Guatemala picking tomatoes for starvation wages. The problem is billionaires like Trump and Musk who exploit workers, rip-off the American people and make a fortune by being conmen. The problem is corporate greed, boss. Trump and Musk are scabs.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug
Pillbug

facialimpediment posted:

The UAW gets how you need to react to these things, if just for PR purposes:

https://x.com/UAW/status/1823361230167257114?t=rRv1KitVl9P338SDjFqybw&s=19

https://x.com/UAW/status/1823361235460465003?t=1K0aje5-V2MR39Zr_ra7Og&s=19

And a retweet of one of Bernie's policy advisors:

Again with the openly admitting to crimes on live TV.

The smartest people.

Kaiser Schnitzel
Mar 28, 2006

Schnitzel mit uns


facialimpediment posted:

The UAW gets how you need to react to these things, if just for PR purposes:

https://x.com/UAW/status/1823361230167257114?t=rRv1KitVl9P338SDjFqybw&s=19

https://x.com/UAW/status/1823361235460465003?t=1K0aje5-V2MR39Zr_ra7Og&s=19

And a retweet of one of Bernie's policy advisors:
Them both laughing about firing a bunch of workers and massively disrupting the lives of a whole lot of working families simply because the workers wanted to better their lot (might we even say...they were trying to pull themselves up by their bootstraps??) was one the most sinister evil billionaire things I've ever heard, and I hope the Harris campaign blasts it non-stop till election day.

Mustang
Jun 18, 2006

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

Kaiser Schnitzel posted:

Another way alot of those folks could be interpreting/reacting to events is 'we stuck with the union and the democrats for forever and look what it got us-the plant's closed, there are no more jobs.' I don't think that's entirely a correct interpretation, and it blames the union/democrats for larger forces like outsourcing/offshoring/moving production to lower-cost southern states/automation that arguably are beyond their control (we won't get into how much blame to lay on the Democratic party for offshoring etc.), but the end result is still 'we, working class people are markedly worse off than we were 10 years ago and Trump acknowledges and panders to our sense of grievance.' Add in some culture war bullshit and it has worked so far, but I don't think it's entirely fair to blame it entirely on 'these people are bigoted'

So it's just a coincidence these people turn out to vote for the racist and homophobic party?

Which economic policies are they voting for?

"Economic anxiety" is a myth. These people are voting for Trump because his culture war appeals to them. It's pretty obvious: their culture sucks.

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007

Nick Soapdish posted:

That's honestly all you can hope for with this election. Rally your base and depress your opponent.

Honestly has there been any other kind since 9/11 drew up the demarcation lines together with the first purity tests? That "with us, or against us with the terrorists" attitude never petered out

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

President
Matt Patricia Fan Club
Ann Arbor branch

Kaiser Schnitzel posted:

I hope the Harris campaign blasts it non-stop till election day.

They will and they'll get significant union support to do it. Harris's best decision was walking a picket line back during the 2019 primary. Walz has walked picket lines too.

And a fun coincidence - Walz is solo today, addressing the AFSCME convention in Los Angeles. I predict that speech will be a real Minnesota humdinger with poo poo outright pulled from last night's rant.

Edit: oh hey

https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1823352605445173463?t=tBEDopZhNUOSgiZko7yCOw&s=19

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Aug 13, 2024

MonkeyFit
May 13, 2009

facialimpediment posted:

a real Minnesota humdinger

New thread title

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
I have decided to be a good citizen and pay attention to politics leading up to the election.

My summary of the situation as someone who didn't pay much attention until a few weeks ago, and I think is common among people who don't really keep track: things are still very stupid, but at least I feel a little bit better about voting this time.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

President
Matt Patricia Fan Club
Ann Arbor branch

boop the snoot posted:

My summary of the situation as someone who didn't pay much attention until a few weeks ago, and I think is common among people who don't really keep track: things are still very stupid, but at least I feel a little bit better about voting this time.

These charts show that same story: https://x.com/JacobRubashkin/status/1823007752584618445?t=_VKbZHDVoEYzzkniMOlSEQ&s=19

Democrats went up +6 points in a few weeks, in updated polls, just by listening to the general voting populace when they said HOLY gently caress WE DON'T WANT A REMATCH, I'LL EVEN TAKE A GENERIC DEMOCRAT JESUS CHRIST. Republicans didn't budge, so the same populace is screaming JESUS CHRIST THIS FUCKIN GUY.

The lead not being higher is the "things are still very stupid" portion. Feeling a bit better is also a consequence of Donnie's tricks being hilariously stale and he's playing the hits with a broken racism dial. Dude got shot and nobody gives a gently caress anymore.

Hyrax Attack!
Jan 13, 2009

We demand to be taken seriously

One development I wouldn’t have thought possible a month ago is polls showing the democrat nominee having a more positive than negative approval rating. With Biden cracking 40% would have been a reason to pop champagne but Harris could get above 50% which holy cow.

CBJSprague24
Dec 5, 2010

Blue Jackoffs are Rags west

facialimpediment posted:

The lead not being higher is the "things are still very stupid" portion. Feeling a bit better is also a consequence of Donnie's tricks being hilariously stale and he's playing the hits with a broken racism dial. Dude got shot and nobody gives a gently caress anymore.

The few minutes of CNN I got to hear last night agree with your last point. The panel talked about how, for the first time in his political life, he's not stealing all the oxygen in the media realm; all eyes aren't on him and things like his presser and the Twitter event last night for him trying to insert himself back into the narrative.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

President
Matt Patricia Fan Club
Ann Arbor branch
And that gives him a big, big problem that he can't possibly deal with. Pre-dropout, everyone basically agreed that if the election was about Biden, Biden loses. If the election was about Trump, Trump loses. Biden couldn't make the election about Trump because his brain and/or mouth hosed up.

So for the last few weeks, the election has been entirely about Kamala. And...

https://x.com/gelliottmorris/status/1823358058023842211?t=qbtDg8XtQRUjfXdLR9vbQQ&s=19

what happens if the election becomes about Trump (Trump loses), while if the election becomes about Kamala and Kamala could win? Here's where the downballot is going: a Suffolk poll has Trump 47-42 in Florida, then this comes out

https://x.com/JakeSherman/status/1823408057466204443?t=vJETcLHVn7gnotckFmwaeQ&s=19

dude's rich, but starting to squirm!

Farking Bastage
Sep 22, 2007

[
I'd love nothing more than that dead eyed voldemort looking motherfucker to lose. He is despicable beyond words.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

DEER CRACKERS

Folks, he’s right.

And that’s why you should sign this card.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

DEER CRACKERS

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

President
Matt Patricia Fan Club
Ann Arbor branch

facialimpediment posted:

And a fun coincidence - Walz is solo today, addressing the AFSCME convention in Los Angeles. I predict that speech will be a real Minnesota humdinger with poo poo outright pulled from last night's rant.

Not quite humdinger level, but works for me:

https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1823457313803374726?t=P7ZDs6a4mEQ5PPN5wtgHZQ&s=19

And I don't think this would work if JD Vance wasn't such a piece of poo poo, but he is, so it does:

https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1823448892547223685?t=zk6TEhHIxOPSGi9DJJBAFQ&s=19

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orange juche
Mar 14, 2012




oh my loving god

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