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

idk if there's truth to the story that Loomer is now banned from Trump's plane but if so that would be pretty strange, presumably it would be because she's a complete psycho but Trump's surrounded himself with nothing but freaks and losers recently

I guess serving dishes laden with KFC are no longer fit company.

i clicked around twitter trying to figure it out and afaict the banned from plane story originated from milo yiannopoulos fwiw

The random capitalization in that Harris statement is making me IA. Maybe I won't vote for them after all.

You terrible person

so random

Yiannopoulous must be incredibly bitter that all the con artists he came up with have been so much more successful (except for Richard Spencer)

The one that puzzled me most was "where all Americans Breathe easy knowing..."???

But compared to Trump's tweets during office and on Truth Social it was a model of sane spelling, punctuation and capitalization.

They're Taylor Swift song titles ffs

This the kind of thing us older folks might not pick up on

They're Taylor Swift song titles ffs

Which raises the question, is a meme a meme if it falls in a forest of geezers whose hearing aid batteries have all died?

Guess he felt he needed more sympathy again?

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we'll soon see if the national reaction is stifling a yawn and hitting the 'Mute' button

lol I just remembered there's a VP debate too

Most of the immediate response to this shooting news seems to be "Well they finally took care of Vance."

Those Swifties sure act fast...

lol damnit you beat me by 3 seconds

Per NY Post:

“Two people exchanged gunfire outside of Trump International Golf Course West Palm Beach. The shooters were targeting each other, and the gunfire was not targeting Trump, the sources said.”

I assume this happens on the regular.

It is Florida after all.

wonder what Trump voters think of the fact that he's out there golfing while his campaign is in a complete tailspin

It shows he is being a man.

That's how the magic happens.

Loomer and Taylor Greene perhaps

what tailspin? their serene confidence in the Trump's genius and the power of Almighty God would not permit them to question his eventual victory over Satan and his worldly servants

apparently that golf course abuts a warehouse district thats notorious for scam business

Trump owned?

The warehouses I mean. We all know he’s not owned!

theyre not owned by him afaic, heres the video i watched about it, sorry if the guy is annoying its not my fault

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Te4_sWIMy4

And now it's this?

The NY Post article was apparently changed to the following:

"Initial reports suggested two people were firing at each other. However, sources said investigators now believe the Secret Service agent was the only shooter."

Shooting at...who?

A cat, it was lunchtime.

it sounds like it might have actually been another attempt!

they have a backpack and gun. someone fled the scene. cops detained someone at a traffic stop.

AK style gun.

In three minutes it will turn out it was a falling acorn

now they are saying secret service detained them? oh who knows. we shall see. if the deep state wants us to....

as long as it's just lone crazies, I'm fine with an Attempt of the Week. If it's anyone the media can peg as a 'liberal' then it crosses over into territory that can easily be exploited for shifting the election in Trump's direction. ofc, if they succeed, then we're all left with a lump of Vance-shaped putty and a very volatile national mood.

A 40-car Harris-Walz caravan drove past my bookstore a few minutes ago. Encouraging!

-23 wow. he's nearly in JD Vance territory

Favorable Polling:

Harris:
Favorable: 47%
Unfavorable: 44%
Net: +3%

Trump:
Unfavorable: 58%
Favorable: 35%
Net: -23%

Ipsos / Sep 13, 2024 / n=3276 pic.twitter.com/WfO6bG7siG

— Polling USA (@USA_Polling) September 15, 2024

it sounds like it might have actually been another attempt!

― scott seward, Sunday, September 15, 2024 2:30 PM (fifty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

who cares, game's on

This is a very interesting essay about media bias in a way we don't usually think of it.

I am going to start from my experience of something I might call a black mental hole. Some subjects simply cannot be comprehended by some people. They may be able to read the words and even parrot some ideas, but then the ideas drain out of their heads, beyond the event horizon. It is not a denial of those ideas or argument against them. It comes before those mental processes. The subject simply does not exist in their universe.

This is not confined to women’s issues. It happens with issues of racism and colonialism. Sometimes all three at once.

...

The pattern showed up again recently when the push started to remove President Joe Biden as candidate. There was a black hole in the discussion: the Vice President of the United States, the person who had appeared on primary ballots with Joe Biden, the person designated to take his place if he could not serve as president. In particular, one Kamala Harris, a woman of Black and Indian parentage. She was not part of many of those calculations.

A great many of those advocating Biden’s removal proposed an “open primary” or a convoluted method for finding a replacement candidate: three party elders, two convention votes, and a partridge in a pear tree. The black hole bent all the discussion around it.

Nobody was jumping up and down shouting “Kamala Harris must go!” She just wasn’t there at all. Fortunately, there was pushback, and, over a few days or a week, the event horizon began to dissolve, climaxed by Joe Biden’s definitive resignation and endorsement statements.

Similarly... Harris outlined her plan to defeat Trump in the debate ahead of time, but a great many didn’t notice. I’ll argue it’s because of the woman/ Indian/ Black – induced black hole that swallowed her words before they reached their minds.

We’ll see it again. But my sense, in bringing it up indirectly over the past few weeks, is that these mental black holes are becoming more visible.

that was very hard to read and very confusing.

just that excerpt was. i didn't click the link.

"She was not part of many of those calculations."

if this means she wasn't talked about as a substitute for biden she totally was. all through that agonizing "drop-out-joe" thing. lots of people thought she was the obvious choice.

I think there is something to be said that she is consistently underestimated or dismissed because of her identity.

I often agree with her but that column doesn't make sense

"A great many of those advocating Biden’s removal proposed an “open primary”"

most people didn't want this at all. just some yahoos on twitter who enjoy fantasy football and that one guy who wanted it to be like american idol. they were mostly ignored.

"I think there is something to be said that she is consistently underestimated or dismissed because of her identity."

women often are. and women of color even more so. it also didn't help that she was out of sight for most of biden's presidency! you would have really had to search for her to find her on the news or in newspapers.

I think it was more nobody really knew how this was gonna work, people here figured out pretty quick that the only workable successor was gonna be her

I have to admit that it is extremely funny that someone wrote a column talking about the blind spot vortex people of color often find themselves in and the overarching response here is a bunch of (mostly) white guys going “I don’t see it”