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

They raised a lot of money, though.

Some interesting observations from a UNC professor about his students' engagement with the election and their media consumption habits in general, particularly with respect to what they find authentic/trustworthy. In short, hangout/shoot-the-shit podcasts YES, mainstream news articles and major celebrity endorsements NO.

(I'm reminded of that NYT focus group of younger voters that I posted the other day, in which someone said that Kamala going on SNL was a key moment for her in a negative way: "All her focus was going to entertainment industries and avoiding interviews. That came off to me as very phony.")

Thanks for that, Jaymc.

Also, wow.

While she “avoided interviews” early, she later did a Fox one and a CNN town hall one. Trump didn’t do CNN and never faced tough questions from Fox. Just from the Black Journalism organization. Most of the podcasts with big audiences are white Republican bro leaning .

attacking "big pharma" hardly seems a Republican rallying cry.

This caught my eye and I don't see anyone addressing it, so I will try.

The Republican Party to all purposes no longer exists. From November 8th going forward it is now the Trump Party. In the transactional world of Trump this attack on Big Pharma makes great sense if you consider it purely in terms of a shakedown.

As a president with a supinely compliant Congress Trump will have enormous power over Big Pharma and they know it. He doesn't give a fuck about RFK's brainworm ideas, but he knows that he can use them as a weapon to threaten Big Pharma into doing whatever he wants. Other than money, he doesn't even know yet what all he might want from them in the future. He's just setting up the relationship so that he is their unquestioned boss and they'll hop when he says jump. This is straight out of the Hitler/Mussolini fascist playbook.

Jaymc the prof you posted said :

(I vote every time I can because it’s meaningless rather than because it’s meaningful, a stance I’m happy to explain over a cup of tea but isn’t really relevant here

I would like to have a cup of tea with the guy and I note that I don’t think his article mentioned the loss of Roe v Wade , or which party has pushed tax cuts for the wealthy for decades, and why none of that seems to matter to him or his students

While she “avoided interviews” early, she later did a Fox one and a CNN town hall one. Trump didn’t do CNN and never faced tough questions from Fox. Just from the Black Journalism organization. Most of the podcasts with big audiences are white Republican bro leaning.

Yeah, but they present themselves as fora for open-minded discussion. It's not about subjecting yourself to a tough interview. In fact, the traditional network news approach to interviews with politicians, with their own formalized/staged conventions, would probably also be registered as phony. It's about having an unfiltered conversation where anything can come up and you can roll with it. People made fun of Trump asking Theo Von about cocaine, but it was also the most human Trump has seemed in years.

That said, I also think that "Kamala avoiding interviews" was a right-wing talking point that took hold with a lot of people.

podcasts have ruined an entire generation

I note that I don’t think his article mentioned the loss of Roe v Wade

The federal Democratic Party not (being capable of) doing anything about it, maybe? Absent a willingness to pack the courts and reverse Dobbs on the national level, abortion is a state issue and voters have routinely turned out to defend choice at that level but outrage alone isn't going to be much of a boost for a national candidate.

and why none of that seems to matter to him or his students

You're looking for a guy to be mad at who ultimately had zero impact on the Democrats losing.

Trump Justices took away Roe and made abortion a state issue. And yea Dems and Hilary ran a lousy campaign compounded by a press and fbi focused on her emails, but they weren’t the ones who took a constitutional right away .

And yes subsequently it’s hard to do anything, but not mentioning it seems problematic

Trump Justices took away Roe and made abortion a state issue

If your expectation is that voters will be avenging angels for judicial appointments for a decision that came down after the appointer was no longer in office, you are doomed to disappointment.

The federal Democratic Party not (being capable of) doing anything about it, maybe? Absent a willingness to pack the courts and reverse Dobbs on the national level, abortion is a state issue and voters have routinely turned out to defend choice at that level but outrage alone isn't going to be much of a boost for a national candidate.

There are hundreds of tik toks by women who voted for trump using this as the reason they did not consider or looked past abortion/repro health when voting. Said it was a non-issue now that it's state level and since KH wouldn't haven't been able to anything about it, it was a non-issue. Genuinely get the impression this is how a ton of people reconciled their votes.

“I will pack the court with teenagers to protect your rights” - maybe not a winning argument but at least an actionable promise instead of banking on residual anger.

There can/should still be a national reproductive health law! Granted you’d need control of White House and Congress, but it’s emphatically untrue that the president can’t do anything about it.

I agree with you completely! I am not one of those women and it drives me nuts but I keep seeing women saying exactly that excuse.

I keep editing my posts but messing up. Stupid phone. I meant to say 'using" that excuse.

hesgeth was accused of sexual assault in CA in 2017

https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/trump-s-pick-to-lead-defense-department-was-19919156.php

this is going to be a cabinet full of rapists isn't it?

Are ballots still being counted?

CA is still 88% counted

Interesting-- at this point Trump is beating his 2020 total by about 2 million votes. Harris is 8 million behind Biden's 2020 total.

Maybe we need to do one o them "Deep States"

“The stuff that he eats is really, like, bad,” he told marketing industry podcaster Joe Polish at a live recording of his “The Joe Polish Show” published Tuesday. “Campaign food is always bad, but the food that goes onto that airplane is like just poison. You have a choice between—you don’t have the choice, you’re either given KFC or Big Macs. That’s when you’re lucky and then the rest of the stuff I consider kind of inedible.”

RFK jr on trump’s diet

Wonder how long it's been since Trump took a normal dump.

they've got to be grinding up laxatives in his McFlurries to keep him from dying

this is going to be a cabinet full of rapists isn't it?

Kavanaughs all the way down

wait they've discovered something more inedible than KFC?

Golden Chick

Church’s

Popeye’s anywhere outside of Louisiana

popeyes is good where i am but i'm not a popeyes expert.

good enough that i wish there was one in my town here. there is no decent fast food here. and no fried chicken! shameful, really.

KFC is gross. I've never been to Popeye's or Church's. The best fried chicken I've had is the salt and pepper chicken from a couple of Chinese restaurants in SF - Capital Restaurant in Chinatown in particular. It is crispy but is not breaded and there is no flabby skin. It is served with sliced hot green peppers

Popeyes is great.

Popeye's is good but I prefer Church's and I feel weird for that. There's a Korean wings spot near me that has my actual favorite fried chicken.

🚨🚨Scoop: Rahm Emanuel weighs bid for DNC chair https://t.co/LM3Lwzwmgy

— Jim VandeHei (@JimVandeHei) November 15, 2024

awesomeness

I mean, why not?

Rahm Emanuel weighs bid for DNC chair

I guess it's time to stop thinkin' about tomorrow, because it'll be here all too fucking soon and it's written somewhere that "sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof".

America to Democrats: “We ARE going back”

Democrats to America: “What the fuck do you want from us?”

Rahm is dying to hoover up all the troops who get tossed out by SecDef Fox News

America to Democrats: “We ARE going back”

― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Friday, November 15, 2024 5:26 PM bookmarkflaglink

sadlol

Rahm is dying to hoover up all the troops who get tossed out by SecDef Fox News

The bankers have chosen a new Treasury Secretary https://t.co/pK6TcZRwv8

— Joe Colangelo (@Itsjoeco) November 14, 2024

pretty good joke, but it should be white smoke, shouldn't it?

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