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

anyone who is a genuinely undecided voter at this stage has the political awareness of a squirrel and to the extent they have political opinions at all they are bound to be a compound of shallow, confused, and half-formed nonsense

To be fair, the same can be said of a lot of decided voters.

This is such a perfect name and face for a clueless Trump-leaning undecided voter

https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/459417723_10169276642250304_6871478913847711982_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=_EmNmobbdC0Q7kNvgGoMDM4&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&_nc_gid=A9kh01LnuGLmP76HjsuMkNA&oh=00_AYDp17HR_V4eujILXJ9PfvRNqE-vBn5ww_xJtsMTn3RaQg&oe=66E79864

“something about Harris makes me not trust her. i can’t put my finger on it…”

CNN undecided voter panel had one woman who decided she would vote from Trump and upon further questioning revealed she'd voted for him twice before and was already probably going to vote for him so like...why the fuck did you choose her as an 'undecided voter' cnn?

I'm gonna guess she lied to them

i liked this video that jamelle bouie reposted on tiktok about undecided voters not existing: https://www.tiktok.com/@black_was_genius/video/7413377132094573867

My favorite part of the pre-debate coverage was when Chris Christie appeared on screen and my son asked me if he was a crime boss.

in a manner of speaking

son, it's time you learn about the colorful history of the great state of New Jersey

If you are an experienced canvasser, you've frustratingly found that Undecided voters have an incomprehensibly-contradictory series of issue priorities, it's like they are the human embodiment of a box of split 7-inch singles ("safer streets for my kids to cross" b/w "wider roads with higher speed limits"; "We can't even tell jokes anymore!" b/w "how DARE you blasphemously mock religion!"; "lower my property taxes" b/w "no new construction anywhere near me"; "free healthcare" b/w "cut medicaid spending for unwed mothers"; "get government out of my bedroom" b/w "feminism ruined everything"; "cheap gas" b/w "I want a massive truck"; "no more wars" b/w "never forget 9/11 and bomb the bastards", you get the idea).

I eventually made peace with the fact that things completely unrelated to policy, like vibes, or which side looks like they are having - and will allow you to have - the most fun, determines their vote as much as whatever side of the issue they decide to support that day.

To be fair, the same can be said of a lot of decided voters.

Oh, definitely! I was just hinting that wanting to slam your head against a wall when you hear these nincompoops is a form of unnecessary self-abuse. They're all like that and nothing will ever penetrate their invincible political ignorance.

here it comes

BIG news, Andrew:

Taylor Swift just endorsed Kamala Harris for President.

Will you join Taylor Swift in supporting Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign? A donation of $25 -- or any amount that’s right for you -- is the best way to have an impact right now

Thank you,
Kamala HQ

You belong with her

You need to calm down, Kamala

lol YMP

we are never going back together

haha also excellent ty

I knew you’d give double when you walked in

yeah but did Taylor Swift donate $25? I wanna see proof

Thanks for that TikTok NA

I can't stress this enough: no they don't. In politics there's often a massive gap between what people say they want and what they actually want. There is nobody on the planet less interested in policy details than the "undecided voter." pic.twitter.com/Z7o4CTGgHR

— Christopher Ingraham🦗 (@_cingraham) September 11, 2024

it would be one thing if they had polling indicating that a significant number of people even claim to feel this way. they don't. there are more journalists on the byline (3) than their are voters quoted in the article who support its central claim (2). pure ventriloquism.

If you are an experienced canvasser, you've frustratingly found that Undecided voters have an incomprehensibly-contradictory series of issue priorities, it's like they are the human embodiment of a box of split 7-inch singles ("safer streets for my kids to cross" b/w "wider roads with higher speed limits"; "We can't even tell jokes anymore!" b/w "how DARE you blasphemously mock religion!"; "lower my property taxes" b/w "no new construction anywhere near me"; "free healthcare" b/w "cut medicaid spending for unwed mothers"; "get government out of my bedroom" b/w "feminism ruined everything"; "cheap gas" b/w "I want a massive truck"; "no more wars" b/w "never forget 9/11 and bomb the bastards", you get the idea).

I eventually made peace with the fact that things completely unrelated to policy, like vibes, or which side looks like they are having - and will allow you to have - the most fun, determines their vote as much as whatever side of the issue they decide to support that day.

― Front-loaded albums are musical gerrymandering (Prefecture), Wednesday, September 11, 2024 6:14 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Your grasp of the options is horrifyingly accurate imo. It's like I'm right back in every single community board meeting ever.

I'm open to explanations of how this is not otm but I fear very much that it is. But that's also why it matters which question you ask, in terms of getting survey data and having it mean anything.

Gotta love this guy:

As he watched post-debate commentary on cable news, Mr. Henderson said he bristled at the pundits who widely panned Mr. Trump’s performance. Had they watched the same debate, he wondered?

I am gonna take this one day to luxuriate in the knowledge that Donald “J” Trump is absolutely seething today. He cares DEEPLY about reviews

But doesn't he only see the ones his minions print out for him?

he watches cable news a lot

I'm sure OAN is very critical of his performance.

If there's one thing I'm fairly sure of, it's that he's got some means--a massive wall of computers in some underground bunker or something--to monitor every reaction everywhere to every single thing he ever does or says.

he def watches cnn prob msnbc too, he like tv, hes a bit of a tv critic

it's kind of weird how someone who has so much on camera experience didn't do basic stuff last night like look at the camera

between kamala getting in his face and the moderators fact checking him he was shook

If you're going to compile a detailed enemies list, you need to do your homework.

he's already threatened to go after ABC and have their FCC license revoked, something that just won't happen

The Federal Communications Commission does not license major broadcast networks such as ABC

https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/public-and-broadcasting#:~:text=We%20license%20only%20individual%20broadcast%20stations.%20We,general%2C%20we%20also%20do%20not%20regulate%20information

We license only individual broadcast stations. We do not license TV or radio networks (such as CBS, NBC, ABC or Fox) or other organizations that stations have relationships with, such as PBS or NPR, except if those entities are also station licensees.

Meantime, maybe he ended up watching this to feel better.

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/megyn-kelly-slams-taylor-swift-endorsing-kamala-harris-1236141178/

lol She's on Sirius FM. Who the hell has that?

I'm not even sure who Megyn Kelly is

She's the one who was bleeding out of her whatever

I thought Kelly tried to do a mainstream pivot, guess that didn't work out?

That was the mourning joe lady xp

She doesn’t care what happens to these kids, just like he doesn’t give a shit what happens to all the young men who take the Pfizer booster he’s been pushing on them.

Megyn Kelly is an anti-vaxxer now?

pretty powerful address by the Springfield OH father:

Father of Ohio boy, 11, tells Trump and Vance to stop using son’s death for ‘political gain’

The father of an 11-year-old boy who was killed last year when a minivan driven by an immigrant from Haiti collided with his school bus has asked Donald Trump and JD Vance to stop using his son’s name for “political gain”.

During a city commission meeting on Tuesday in Springfield, Ohio, Nathan Clark, the father of Aiden Clark, addressed the forum alongside his wife, Danielle. Speaking at the meeting, Clark said: “I wish that my son, Aiden Clark, was killed by a 60-year-old white man. I bet you never thought anyone would say something so blunt, but if that guy killed my 11-year-old son, the incessant group of hate-spewing people would leave us alone,” the Springfield News-Sun reports.

Clark went on to list politicians including Donald Trump and JD Vance who he said have been using his son’s name for “political gain”.

“Bernie Moreno [the Ohio Republican senate candidate], Chip Roy [the Texas Republican representative], JD Vance and Donald Trump … have spoken my son’s name and used his death for political gain. This needs to stop now. They can vomit all the hate they want about illegal immigrants, the border crisis, and even untrue claims about fluffy pets being ravaged and eaten by community members. However, they are not allowed, nor have they ever been allowed, to mention Aiden Clark from Springfield, Ohio,” said Clark.

“I will listen to them one more time to hear their apologies. To clear the air, my son, Aiden Clark, was not murdered. He was accidentally killed by an immigrant from Haiti. This tragedy has been all over this community, the state and even the nation. But don’t spin this towards hate,” he continued.

Clark went on to say: “Did you know that one of the worst feelings in the world is to not be able to protect your child? Even worse, we can’t protect his memory when he’s gone. Please stop the hate.”

lol She's on Sirius FM. Who the hell has that?

people who just bought/leased a new car and haven't been prodded to pay for it yet

Also interstate truckers and former Howard Stern fans who bought a lifetime subscription

My favorite Sirius FM story is when they started a Young Turks channel and just played the same episode on a loop for months.

I always listen to it in rental cars, and I always have the same revelation on the Grateful Dead channel: "Say, these guys aren't that bad!" followed shortly by "What a godawful, boring boogie jam this is..." and then switching over to the new age station which is nice when you're driving through the redwoods

jesus christ lol

JD Vance on Taylor Swift: I don't think many people are going to be influenced by a billionaire celebrity who I think is disconnected from the interests and the problems of most Americans. pic.twitter.com/NzZ0FY4DWY

— Acyn (@Acyn) September 11, 2024

jesus christ

Worse: Taylor Swift.

Ha! WOW.