US Politics, September 2024 -- “I’m Not Going to Apologize For Posting a Joke”

Yeah it's from the end of August. Not that you can tell from the article.

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oops sorry! I just saw it was on the timeline now. Never mind, polls are bad.

A spectre is haunting Kamala

Shadow of Tulsi Gabbard looms over Harris ahead of Tuesday’s debate
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/08/tulsi-gabbard-kamala-harris-debate-00177869

Current entirely fictitious and repulsive talking anti-immigrant point being circulated by people including Elon and Jim Jordan is that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are eating good honest white Americans' pet cats and dogs.

There's also a fake story about Venezuelan gangs taking over an apartment complex in Aurora, CO.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13829557/owner-sells-colorado-aurora-apartment-complex-venezuelan-migrant-gangs.html

Hells Angels took care of that problem

"When they came for the cats, I did nothing, because I was not a cat..."

xp - I almost posted about that Ohio thing earlier, it's disgusting. I stumbled on it (in the replies to an account focused on architectural photography no less!) and couldn't believe how horrifically racist the whole thing is.

Why are they so obsessed with cats? Weird.

Jim Jordan is such a stupid asshole.

so let me get this straight, the GOP candidate is a 34x felon with 3 criminal trials pending who tried to overturn an election on the basis of zero actual proof, is now currently campaigning on throwing all Democrats in jail while claiming that Kamala Harris is going to get your pets eaten alive, and according to polls this is a toss-up

People like their pets

he's giving the people what they want

the stories circulating about Aurora CO are maddening, I can't tell if it it's willful disinformation or what; as of a week ago it looked like legit news orgs were reporting stuff about videos with people with guns in the building. Now the people who live there say nothing of the sort happened. Was it somewhere in between? completely false? this shit is going to get worse and worse, and on a bigger scale, very soon; aided by AI, I can imagine film clips of really heinous, terrifying shit being widely disseminated with no good way to counter with the truth outside of eyewitness reports. I mean this stuff was already happening with the Syrian civil war a few years ago, no doubt it's happening with Ukraine/Russia and Israel/Gaza.

also, she might not have even worked at McDonalds!! sham candidate!

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flashback to two weeks ago:

Does anybody think Harris has finished climbing in the polls?

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, August 21, 2024

I worry that she may have.

just yesterday I saw this video of some Walter White-lookin fuck talking about how his granddaughter had to be pulled out of preschool because she didn't speak Spanish and that the school was demanding they hire a full-time interpreter, it is so fucking stupid and yet it had like several million views. I guess once you've convinced people there are litter boxes in schools now because of wokeness you can pretty much just say anything

at least they have released a platform now:

https://kamalaharris.com/issues/

harris stalled with the gaza bullshit

xxxxpost afaict with the Aurora, CO situation, there is a building owned by a slum-lord who refuses to get it up to code or fix anything. The tenants just stopped paying their rents, and the landlord went to the press with a BS story about how he can't enter his building because armed Venezuelan gangs are squatting inside. Of course this was swallowed whole by Fox News and the like.

Didn't know they had Penzey's in PA, as mentioned it's a Wisconsin company. There are a couple in town here and we go all the time, it's a delight. Their newsletter certainly goes hard, but also has crazy deals (often a free bottle of something if you spend any amount in store, or even without purchase).

Penzey's got a bunch of negative Yelp reviews after Harris visited.

I think I thought Penzys was a PA company, as I'd only seen it in Pittsburgh.

That's Yenzeys

Would be cool if Bill Penzey became the liberal Mike Pillow Guy.

Isn’t he kind of already that?

Penzey's got a bunch of negative Yelp reviews after Harris visited

'I tried the Woke Coriander and the Trans BBQ rub and they both stunk! Also they don't even stock Lawry's Seasoned Salt...'

I thought the costco guy was the liberal pillow guy.

Akm, perhaps you've seen this documentary from 1997?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWZmT_k1uxg

flashback to two weeks ago:

Does anybody think Harris has finished climbing in the polls?

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, August 21, 2024

I worry that she may have.

My take is that Harris has had enough time to pick all the low-hanging fruit. Trump picked his long ago. From here forward it will be an all-out battle for the meager number of undecideds and more importantly to motivate their voters right up until they've voted. Tuesday's debate should barely move the needle, but then very little is likely to move the needle more than by small increments now.

honestly platform is low on any specifics and pretty high on vague platitudes and saber-rattling. i’ll pass.

Yeah. Harris cleaned up Biden's damage and probably a few more to her total in the form of likely voters; now let's see how independents break.

She cited Dionne Warwick and Luther Vandross ("A House is Not a Home"). What more can you possibly want?

Good news: I'm seeing a lot more Harris/Walz lawn signs.

Bad news: They are visually indistinguishable from signs for randos running for school board or whatever

https://lakedems.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/harris-walz-yard-sign-photo-v2a.png

lake county democrats need to work on their kerning.

She cited Dionne Warwick and Luther Vandross ("A House is Not a Home"). What more can you possibly want?

I am volunteering for her campaign because of this. I was the specific target

Yeah. Harris cleaned up Biden's damage and probably a few more to her total in the form of likely voters; now let's see how independents break.

A buddy and I were talking yesterday and we both agree that Tim Walz was a perfect choice, but it seems that we're WRONG:

Pollster Nate Silver says Vice President Harris missed a major chance to pick up voters in the center when she passed over Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) as her running mate.

Harris “blew one big opportunity to tack to the center with her selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) rather than Josh Shapiro: that a tiny minority of progressives objected to Shapiro was an argument in Shapiro’s favor, if anything,” Silver wrote in a post on his website.

The election was a 50-50 chance 6 months ago, it was 50-50 when Harris became the candidate, and will likely be 50-50 on election day.

some yeah, others probably went to Trump after the RFK endorsement

as I understand it the story of 2016 and 2020 is quite simple, independents/swing voters went 2:1 for Trump in '16, then 2:1 for Biden in 2020. most indications are that Trump is not exactly winning those folks back. I can buy that his base has expanded among very online young men though.

Yeah, there's a bunch of loser incels who've turned 18 since November 2020.

Beltway Dems are fucking this up by playing civility with Lincoln Project Republicans, when no actual voters are begging for any such collaboration or intervention.

That's most of what Beltway Dems know how to do. They already have drinks with a lot of those guys anyway.

Where they all get together and bitch about Gaza protesters, obviously.

i saw a *white dudes for Harris* lawn sign the other day.

As Debate Looms, Trump Is Now the One Facing Questions About Age and Capacity

With President Biden no longer in the race, former President Donald J. Trump would be the oldest person ever to serve in the Oval Office. But his rambling, sometimes incoherent public statements have stirred concern among voters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/09/us/politics/debate-trump-age-capacity.html

be cool if harris repeated trump's line about biden: "i don't think he knows what he said". that would be funny.

xp yeah, just heard the editor from The Atlantic talking about the same thing on NPR - glad to see this is gathering mainstream attention