U.S. Politics, November 2024: GARBAGE DAY!!

I think the weed timing was right because it came after her podcast circuit so it was a good time to throw a bone to younger voters and/or vaguely libertarian podcast dudes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1CB4V9KD9o

that interview with Ann Selzer was great. the call who was a senior woman made a very compelling case for why women around that age could be breaking hard for Harris in light of the Dobbs decision compared to the 2016 and 2020 elections.

Trump's comments to Arabs whose vote he desires...

“I have many friends who are Arab,” he said recently in an interview on Al-Arabiya, an Arabic-language TV channel. “They’re very warm people. It’s a shame what’s happening over there. They’re the warmest people.”

Vance in...New Hampshire?

Looking for an Ethan Allen outlet, no doubt...

was gonna say, he should be stumping in Michigan, and hitting up the La-Z-Boy HQ for a quickie on the way out...

These photos of a Vance/Trump Jr. appearance in PA are... not what the Trump campaign wants to see two days out, I suspect.

They were expecting thousands of people at JD Vance rally, with Don Jr, in Pennsylvania. Only tens of people showed up. pic.twitter.com/X8m6OcJABN

— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) November 3, 2024

Crap Pants Vance really showing out

Final Univision poll in PA has 64-30; among Puerto Ricans, 67-27. Trump holding only 82% of his '20 voters (vs. Dems 89%)

The garbage joke broke through. Voters heard about it & don't laugh it off: 69% say it was "more racist than humorous", 67% see it as sign of Trump racism. https://t.co/mdV1M5XmOj pic.twitter.com/RxAgI4TeQ1

— Carlos Odio (@carlosodio) November 3, 2024

Trump goon punches 70-yr-old lady at Florida Harris rally

https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/martin-county/2024/11/02/stuart-police-charge-teen-with-punching-harris-supporter-70/76014623007/

looking at some clips of his rally tonight and I cannot overstate how bored everyone looks, meanwhile Harris has been lookin like Obama 2.0 the last couple weeks, I've never seen an enthusiasm gap like this

Harris has a huge Philadelphia rally at the Rocky steps tomorrow. Half the city closing down already.

xp And somehow no one in the audience seems as bored as the man himself.

I dunno just look at them

https://i.imgur.com/GB1kc6s.mp4

Given it's mostly young women and black people I am like 99% sure they got these people from Craigslist

crisis actors

Lol Trump stooge FCC commissioner goes to Twitter to make daddy proud of him one last time to say that Kamala's SNL appearance violated the equal time rule, only for the FCC's policy director to go to multiple news outlets and tell them all he doesn't speak for the FCC

A 17-year-old boy — wearing a T-shirt featuring an image of Trump raising his middle finger in front of an American flag background — punched the Harris supporter, knocking her off her feet, according to police and the woman, Stuart resident Kathleen Tomasko.

Seems like Trump's effect on asshole kids doesn't get discussed enough.

“We’re ahead of my opponent, and I feel comfortable with our polling,” KARI LAKE insisted. “Our polling is a little different. We take polling, but we also combine it with AI, which reads all of what’s happening on social media and across the Internet.”https://t.co/C63c3DJH3b

— Greg Krieg (@GregJKrieg) November 4, 2024

still trying to temper my expectations here but it actually very much does seem like Trump's campaign is generating noticeably less enthusiasm in the final week which I don't think I've ever seen in any campaign that wasn't obviously doomed, and for sure not a Presidential one. like look at Kamala's rallies, that's what they're supposed to sound like at the end of the campaign, even Trump's 2016 rallies had a lot of that energy, this just really doesn't feel like a voter base that's gonna show up on Election Day

Nah, I distinctly remember Trump and his staffers coming across as cooked in the last week or two of 2016 (as opposed to being drooling, yelling assholes in 2020). There are a lot of different moving parts now than there were in 2016, but my guard's all the way up.

AI Polls tell us we're 3% ahead in LA Paz county, 6% ahead in Greenlee County, and 10% ahead in Macedonia County. While some have said the latter county doesn't exist, I prdfer to think AI has unearthed a county people forgot about

I don't recall Trump ever coming across as defeated in the last few weeks in 2016. He was pretty defiant the whole time to my recollection, other than whining that the Comey investigation was closed too fast the second time

The low point was the Access Hollywood tape, where Republican congresspeople started telling each other to try and salvage their downticket races. But confidence was even starting to return in those quarters the last few weeks, when it blew over.

I had to watch some 2016 rallies to remind me but he is like, maybe 10% as lucid now as he was in 2016. he had a good last week and his rallies were pretty rowdy. iirc he was even able to get like, Kid Rock. where the fuck is Kid Rock right now? remember a few weeks ago when he was talking about whether he'd rather die by shark or be electrocuted? he doesn't even seem mentally capable of staying on topic that long anymore

what does the part of the population that only watches Fox News think, though? We obviously don't, nor do any of the communities I engage with online, but this only seeing half the picture leads to getting burned sometimes (2016, for instance)

I mean my god in one of his court cases last year he mistook a woman he sexually assaulted for his wife, he has probably been suffering from dementia for a while but it seems to be really progressing now

I engage with way more MAGA doors than I ever did in 2016.

They're all convinced it will be 538-0 Trump

yeah no idea but it appears the MSG stuff really did break through in a way nothing else has, the energy does feel like it did right after Access Hollywood dropped but there's no time to bounce back and Trump himself is utterly incapable of driving the news right now

Also he shits himself a lot

He got Herschel Walker today to offer a ringing endorsement of Don jr. and someone named Jonald https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.bsky.social/post/3la3grfqyh52d

might I add we are two days out from what Trump repeatedly calls "the most important day in the history of our country" and the right is currently obsessed with a story about a pet squirrel

They're all convinced it will be 538-0 Trump

A big part of that is their information bubble obviously, but there are also a huge number of them who simply cannot believe that anyone would vote for Kamala Harris. As hard as it for people on the left to conceive of voting for Trump, I think it seems even more implausible to a lot of the MAGA base that any number of people will vote for this cackling brown-skinned woman. It just isn't possible in their sense of the world.

the information bubble is real but it kinda feels like this campaign is doing worse and worse amongst people who don't dedicate 8 hours every day to following Trumpworld, like does your average voter really know why these people are wearing garbage cans now?

they might be picking up some voters who just like garbage tho

The key Oscar the Grouch demographic. After all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQyTpPu0gvc

https://i.ibb.co/0yBvjYd/98vh4j.jpg

Beautiful, N!

It would be so cool if trump gets sentenced to prison on November 26.

haha only kidding

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/03/politics/video/donald-trump-rally-shoot-news-comment-trene-digvid

just here to say that this is the first time i’ve seen Maya Rudolph’s Harris and the voice is UNCANNY. just extremely high level stuff

Also how has Maya Rudolph basically not aged in 25 years

in 2016. he had a good last week and his rallies were pretty rowdy. iirc he was even able to get like, Kid Rock. where the fuck is Kid Rock right now?

Kid Rock endorsed Donald Trump in a Rolling Stone interview in May, performed at the RNC in July, and appeared at multiple Trump rallies in August.

But what has he done for Don lately?

He had a busy schedule of singing sweet home Alabama all summer long iirc

Tomorrow!

“She announced it on Oct. 14.”

I follow politics fairly closely and totally missed that this happened

On top of everything else there has GOT to be a better way to make the average American aware of stuff like this

Maybe - just brainstorming here - you could deliver a stack of papers each day to each household.

The most important things could be on the top page, with more detail on subsequent pages for those who were interested.

Just a thought.

That’s so crazy it just might work

lol fair play this is a good burn

"Hopefully, we get rid of @LeaderMcConnell pretty soon... Can you believe he endorsed me? Boy, that must have been a painful day in his life... what a disgrace." — #Trump #KYSen pic.twitter.com/DBdPK2WT7X

— Philmonger (@phillipmbailey) November 4, 2024