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The 2024 Presidential Election

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by adoo, Jul 15, 2024.

  1. durvasa

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  2. DaDakota

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    Ok this is funny.

    DD
     
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    This guy gets it.

     
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    This is something that has been known for quite awhile that Democratic policies are favored over current Republican ones. It’s why abortion referendums have passed overwhelmingly even in Red States, why the ACA is more popular now than ever to the point that Trump is lying about actually wanting to save it, and it’s why even Republicans that voted against the infrastructure bills are campaigning as though they were coauthors.
     
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    Meanwhile at Trump rallies they are calling Harris the antichrist. Not crazy at all.. :rolleyes:
     
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    Those riots happened while Trump was president.
     
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    Not crazy. Just ****ing weird.
     
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    Greg Sargent of The New Republic

    ...The event at the Garden actually is Trump’s closing argument.

    This isn’t to say that the “grievances, misogyny, and racism” on display are the only thing he’s closing on at the end of this presidential race. There is certainly a lot of messaging about the economy as well. Rather, it’s to say that this spectacle absolutely should be seen as an explicit, very public declaration that when he wins, well, he told you exactly what you were going to get, so you’d better bend the knee and get ready to swallow all of it.

    For many months, Trump and his top allies have been engaged in a two-step. Trump has been running on an explicit platform of ramped-up racism, vows of a mass purging of the nation’s internal enemies, and open threats of cleansing retribution and authoritarian violence. Again and again, as Trump has laid all this bare, his spinners and advisers have insisted that he doesn’t really mean what he’s saying, he’s being taken out of context, he’s not actually threatening to do what he’s telling us he’ll do in his own words.

    The rally at Madison Square Garden is best understood as the final coming-out party, the ultimate declaration that, yes, he has indeed meant every word of it all along.
     
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    Not doubting it was said but Ive never heard a Trump supporter call her the antichrist. I have heard them call Trump that. Even then, I'm sure we can find several random crazy comments said at Kamala rallies because that's all that antichrist comment was...random.
     
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    It's like ACA vs Obamacare. Basically the reason rural healthcare exists today is because of Medicare and they keep voting for Republicans who want to get rid of it.
     
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    Trump appears to have lost the Geraldo vote ...

    [​IMG]
     
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    How will he ever recover from that.

     
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    The "floating island of garbage" remark was vetted by the Trump Campaign and read from a teleprompter by a comedian.


    Trump’s Puerto Rico fallout is ‘spreading like wildfire’ in Pennsylvania

    Donald Trump has a serious Puerto Rico problem — in Pennsylvania.

    Many Puerto Rican voters in the state are furious about racist and demeaning comments delivered at a Trump rally. Some say their dismay is giving Kamala Harris a new opening to win over the state’s Latino voters, particularly nearly half a million Pennsylvanians of Puerto Rican descent.

    Evidence of the backlash was immediate on Monday: A nonpartisan Puerto Rican group drafted a letter urging its members to oppose Trump on election day. Other Puerto Rican voters were lighting up WhatsApp chats with reactions to the vulgar display and raising it in morning conversations at their bodegas. Some are planning to protest Trump’s rally Tuesday in Allentown, a majority-Latino city with one of the largest Puerto Rican populations in the state.

    And the arena Trump is speaking at is located in the middle of the city’s Puerto Rican neighborhood.

    “It’s spreading like wildfire through the community,” said Norberto Dominguez, a precinct captain with the local Democratic party in Allentown, who noted his own family is half Republican and half Democratic voters.

    “It’s not the smartest thing to do, to insult people — a large group of voters here in a swing state — and then go to their home asking for votes,” Dominguez said.

    The timing couldn’t be worse for Trump. Almost a week before Election Day, he’s pushing to cut into Harris’ margins among Latinos, especially young men who are worried about the economy. But the comments from pro-Trump comedian Tony Hinchcliffe Sunday night, referring to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage,” has reverberated throughout Pennsylvania and elsewhere, prompting even the former president’s Republican allies to defend the island and denounce the comments. And with the race essentially a toss up, every vote counts — especially in Pennsylvania.

    “This was just like a gift from the gods,” said Victor Martinez, an Allentown resident who owns the Spanish language radio station La Mega, noting some Puerto Rican voters in the area have been on the fence about voting at all.

    “If we weren’t engaged before, we’re all paying attention now,” Martinez said. He added the morning radio show he hosts was chock-full of callers Monday sounding off on the Trump rally comments, including a Puerto Rican Trump supporter who is now telling people not to vote for the former president.
     
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    I don't know how you post stuff like this and assume that it's real. It's a picture of Carville and Harris and some nonsense un-cited comment. You're too smart to fall for that.
     
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    Whether it's real or not doesn't matter to them. Not the point.
     
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    He should be too smart to fall for that.

    These dudes are desperate to believe these things.

    Remember back in 2015, 2016, that story about Ted Cruz having affairs with something like five women? Few people believed something so transparently fake. (Who would have Ted Cruz other than his wife?)

    But every little fake b.s. story, these MAGA, grabbing onto it like catnip.
     
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    A speaker at MSG whose speech was approved by the campaign called her the antichrist. It wasn't some rando.
     
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