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

I mean I didn't want to admit it but all the one-liners and nicknames and Twitter shit really did turn out to be good politics given the way the modern media landscape is. the man really did shitpost his way into the Republican nomination, and then the presidency. and he's right that the one thing everyone remembers about this debate is the cats and dogs thing. people just don't give a shit. the main story out of last election's VP debate was that a fly landed on Mike Pence's head. trouble is he went from one of the best posters ever to the guy who posts insane 500 word rants on Nextdoor. his instincts have left him to the point where he's let unlikeable losers like JD Vance and Laura Loomer into his inner circle.

As opposed to those likeable fellows, Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller?

those people at least had some kind of political sense

some kind of political sense

We were told as much after they were given the bulk of credit for a successful presidential campaign, but their subsequent careers have not exactly been crowned by repeated successes. It's hard to pinpoint what acumen they supplied beyond getting Trump into the race and not trying to tone down his racism and penchant for constantly lying.

I'm not arguing they're brilliant minds or anything. Miller in particular seems very dim. but I don't think even he would admit on TV that he's making up fake stories because he thinks racism helps the campaign.

also neither are the VP, who is gonna be your second most visible person. the Mike Pence pick was absolutely the correct one for 2016 - he seemed boring and normal enough, and the Evangelicals liked him, which was important because at the time there was this idea that the human embodiment of all seven deadly sins might be a turn-off for them. but JD Vance fucking sucks. he's incredibly off-putting and he makes for terrible TV. Trump used to have some kind of sense of these things. and Loomer is so obviously insane you'd think he'd know you don't want any association with her whatsoever. the Trump of 2016 at least had the sense to not fully embrace David Duke.

as a counterpoint to the weird undecided youth at the times: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2024/kamala-harris-brat-summer/

Trump Being Trump And Not Just Another Evangelical Creep Republican is how we won in 2016 but that guy is dead.

I think he won in 2016 because of "I know the system is rigged...because I use it". Lines similar to that, but that one in particular.

And he passed the "turn the sound down and judge who won" test

He is flunking the Sound Down test this time time around. Stuff like this does matter, it why some two time Trump voters will vote for Kamala. People hear the tone and fill in their own words, to varying degrees

reading this is what kinda drove me nuts and thought his insanity was actually working on people. this also means that half of his voters don't believe him but don't care and are voting for him anyway:

More than half of Trump supporters believe the unsubstantiated claim made by the former president that Haitian immigrants are abducting and eating cats and dogs, according to a new poll.
a new poll, conducted by YouGov between September 11 and September 12, shows that 52 percent of likely 2024 Trump voters believe that the claim is "definitely" or "probably" true, compared to just 4 percent of likely 2024 Harris voters. Meanwhile, only 25 percent of likely 2024 Trump voters believe that the claim is "definitely" or "probably" false, while 24 percent said they are not sure. Of the likely 2024 Harris voters, 88 percent believe the claim is false and 8 percent are not sure.

The poll also shows that 46 percent of registered Republicans "definitely" or "probably" believe the claim, while 29 percent believe it is not true and 24 percent are not sure.

That is compared to 8 percent of registered Democrats who answered that the claim is "definitely" or "probably" true, and 81 percent who said it is false. Ten percent of Democrats said they were not sure.

Democrats also being racist idiots in huge shocka

What matters is that the pet story is emotionally true.

Answering a pollster in the way most likely to tRigGer tHe liBs is the important thing. Doing this is not normal verbal communication, it is a speech act, done to get a dopamine release. It has the approximate linguistic sophistication of a chimp flinging feces.

In a recent poll, 88% of Trump supporters said that their responses to polls is 93% motivated by a sentiment best described as "because fuck you, that's why."

Democrats being immigration reactionaries themselves makes combating reactionary immigrant lies a wee bit difficult.

https://i.imgur.com/ymrmfrj.jpg

evangelicals liked him, which was important because at the time there was this idea that the human embodiment of all seven deadly sins might be a turn-off for them.

just have to point out that the seven deadly sins is a catholic thing*. evangelicals don't care about trump's deadly sins because they're convinced that god is working through him and bringing about endtime events through him (the cyrus thing). the belief is not far off from Q shit, and there's a lot of overlap

*yes i know, christianity experts, i know it's not 100.0% a catholic thing

also, although the formal structures of a lot of white evangelical churches are very loose, the groupthink there is absolutely out of control. so whoever seems to be the leader of the group, the one who others respect and the one who translates glossolalia into english, that kind of stuff - basically whatever that person says is what god thinks. they say what they think god is thinking, and then everyone in the room either nods along and smiles and says "amen, brother", and if they don't like that they can leave. there's no rule that says they have to do exactly what the leader says, but in reality, in warped reality, where fucked up things happen in white evangelical churches all the time, there seems to be no one who can defy the spiritual leader of the group who is also the one who knows most about american politics and is also the one understands how god is doing invisible stuff and what the overall plan is. it's just "amen, brother"

anyway, sorry for the weird interruption. alfred's paul ryan meme otm

naw good post

Anyone -- pundits usually -- who wail about evangelicals supporting Trump (yeah but JESUS) don't realize it's not about Jesus, it's about the Old Testament and Revelations.

They tend to forget about the false prophet though

religion is the story we tell about our cultural values or some shit, i dont think its that simple but theres a lot of that going on

as Joan Didion said, we tell ourselves stories about Jesus in order to hang other people on the cross.

accidentally clicked on For You X this morning and was cast into a wild landscape of people defending that Matt Walsh movie Am I Racist--something about it was ok to dupe people who appeared and gave consent to be in the movie which led me into crazy right wing xtian twitter which jesus christ those people are fucking freaks

this guy is getting absolutely roasted in the comments

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— Mushroom Kingdom Schizo (@MKSchizo) September 17, 2024

man, Bradley Cooper took the loss of Maestro at the Oscars hard.

Messing with prosthetics again I see

Time for Negronis

https://wapo.st/47v14Do

New NYT/Sienna poll has Trump and Harris tied nationally, but Harris 4 points ahead in PA. Whatever.

https://bradleycooper4congress.com/the-cooper-agenda/
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"but Harris 4 points ahead in PA. Whatever."

ah, but the washington post says they are tied in PA!

polls are the dumb.

I think the important point is that trump hasn't gained in the polls anywhere that matters (except maybe nevada? not sure) and harris has not slowed her trajectory since entering the race. She/Dems would have to monumentally fuck up at this point not to win, I think.

Emerson has all the swing states basically tied.

dont really love the tied thing, way ahead would be better

Xpost - NYT polls guy Nate Cohn is almost as annoying as Nate Silver.

You hate Nates.

trump hasn't gained in the polls anywhere that matters (except maybe nevada? not sure) and harris has not slowed her trajectory since entering the race

i don't think either of these things is necessarily true? trump has gained in wisconsin over the past month. the race is tighter in PA than it was a month ago. trump is back on top in GA polls.

Natred has no home here

Xp

Ha. Just those 2 Nate polls guys. Not other Nates

She/Dems would have to monumentally fuck up at this point not to win, I think.

Can't overstate how vehemently I disagree with this. I think they have had to have surefooted success after surefooted success just to get to the point of having a roughly 50/50 shot.

i think the polls are wrong again

She was up 6 in another recent national poll, which means even a polling error and the electoral college wouldn’t save him

???

Sources with direct knowledge have spoken with Carolina Journal on the condition of anonymity and said that Robinson is under pressure from staff and members of the Trump campaign to withdraw from the governor’s race due to the nature of the story, which they say involves activity on adult websites in 2000s.

https://www.carolinajournal.com/robinson-under-pressure-to-withdraw-from-gubernatorial-race

“The main ones I remember were that they were alleging he made some extremely racist comments about Martin Luther King, referred to himself as a Black Nazi and used antisemitic language referring to Jews,” Williams stated in the text message.

https://businessnc.com/upcoming-cnn-story-has-robinson-on-defense/

pressure
pushing down on me
jacking off online
doom boom ba beh

Some major drama is shaking out in NC's gubernatorial race. Sources tell me a CNN story is forthcoming. Robinson's two campaign events today in Vance and Warren counties have been cancelled. Robinson's closest advisers & Robinson himself aren't taking my calls for comment. #ncpol

— Bryan Anderson (@BryanRAnderson) September 19, 2024

mail ballots out tomorrow in NC btw lol

this guy gotta have the biggest number of bombshell stories ever

oh yeah, I remember when we permabanned that guy

read that as "closet advisors"