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

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

if Harris is smart (she is) she will wait until Trump starts complaining about how they replaced Biden/how long did she know he was mentally incompetent etc. and then take the opportunity to turn it around on him, how he is also old and incoherent but won't get out of the way because he is not a patriotic public servant etc.

"I agree, no one that old and senile should be running - oh I meant YOU"

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.

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR),

although there's only a 10 percent chance of that

it is too bad that this is too long for next month's thread title.

“It’s a very important issue. But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about that — because the child care is, child care, it’s, couldn’t, you know, there’s something, you have to have it. In this country, you have to have it. But when you talk about those numbers compared to the kind of numbers that I’m talking about, by taxing foreign nations at levels that they’re not used to, but they’ll get used to it very quickly — and it’s not going to stop them from doing business with us, but they’ll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country. Those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that we’re talking about, including child care, that it’s going to take care.”

Wow, that's the first Peter Baker byline worth a damn

But his rambling, sometimes incoherent public statements have stirred concern among voters.

Dying @ this. "His threats to murder congress and dissolve the nation have raised eyebrows among some corners of the electorate."

nelsonlaugh.gif

The Nevada Green Party accidentally filed the forms to put the words "Jill Stein" up as a public referendum question instead of as a candidate for President

— charlie 🇺🇦🇵🇸 (@baranskocracy) September 8, 2024

Text: "The Nevada Green Party accidentally filed the forms to put the words "Jill Stein" up as a public referendum question instead of as a candidate for President"

nelsonlaughgif, Part 2:

RFK Jr. remains on the Michigan ballot, as he bailed too late for the things to get reprinted.

Dying @ this. "His threats to murder congress and dissolve the nation have raised eyebrows among some corners of the electorate."

― waste of compute (One Eye Open), M

That's what I'm saying. Imagine reading this in the voice of Frank Drebin.

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

While that is true, Trump's campaign also believes that gross sexism and unhinged misogyny is attractive to unreconstructed men of color: Gaetz says that for every Karen they lose, there’s a Julio and a Jamal ready to sign up.

Hits a quadfecta of cynical, insulting, crude, and cruel.

JD Vance pushing the cat-eating line. So NOW he cares about cats huh.

Months ago, I raised the issue of Haitian illegal immigrants draining social services and generally causing chaos all over Springfield, Ohio.

Reports now show that people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn't be in this country. Where is our border czar? pic.twitter.com/rf0EDIeI5i

— JD Vance (@JDVance) September 9, 2024

As I see it, if Lincoln Project Republicans want to support Democratic candidates they are welcome to, as long as they don't expect concessions for their support. As for treating them with civility (shrug) that's OK with me. There's no reason for the Democrats go out of their way to either praise them or attack them as long as they are reasonably well-behaved. Just say 'thank you' and then ignore them.

"Reports now show"... Trump teaches his disciples well.

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