US politics - is weird (part 6)

And that is the problem

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Unfortunately it doesn’t mean anything when his entire voting base treats him as a martyr.

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Now he’s calling Jews disloyal for voting for the enemy ( when the Dems have traditionally secured over 60% of that vote). It’s a dangerous call, encourages the far right to blame them if he loses again, going down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories.

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Interesting that faking a Ginni Thomas email account would be the way to access the Trump/Vance dossier.

Why would / should she have access to Trumps closest advisors?

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He actually looks cooked.

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Looks like a typical Russian conscript in Ukraine.

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Looks like someone who would willingly eat donald trumps faeces.

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I remain convinced that even Trump thought his initial presidential run was just a lark to see how far outrageousness, satire and grifting could be tolerated, then they discovered that a large proportion of the population actually love that idiocy and will fund them unthinkingly.

Even now, anyone that cares to listen to the complete gibberish, laced with hatred and dog whistling, that he puts out every single day should be thinking this guy should be in care, not becoming the pre-eminent world “leader” (advisedly used) again. Yet here we are.

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And yet the current president is unbelievably competent. You guys crack me up :joy::joy::joy:

Interesting electoral college map

FWIW, I can’t see Trump taking Michigan and Wisconsin

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And yet you refuse to discuss anything about Trump , what he says, what he does, the straight up lies he tells, the insurrection he encouraged in 2020, the dismantling of rights that his SCOTUS appointments have created, or what he and his followers are aiming for in the next term.

Which I’d have thought are kinda important. You’d also crack me up, were this not so serious for world affairs.

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The actual polling map by Atlas Intel before the Political Polls twitter account messed around with it:

It’s a realistic potential outcome from the election. I’m not overly convinced that this is the clear picture of where things are at. For example, of the last 16 polls of Pennsylvania, all but 2 have been tied or 1-6% in favour of Harris. Of the two Trump results, one was a 1% lead and this poll is 2.9%. It screams like it’s an outlier rather than the single company who is getting the right answer.

It’s good to see a mix of results, but I suggest not cherry picking the results that you personally find interesting.

Also, 75% for the Republicans to take the senate is pretty spot on. The map hugely favours the GOP in this 1/3 of the senate seats that are up for grabs this year. That’s more to do with the seats in play than an inferrence about the presidency, Harris could realistically dominate the electoral college and the Dems are still likely to lose the senate.

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He’s pushing the limits of US Constitution rights of free speech and freedom of the Press.
There have been judicial interpretations of the limits, described as ‘fighting words’.
When such words incite violence, they may be considered as no different from guns fired into a crowd.
Some might claim that he has brought the assassination attempts on himself by his strategy of encouraging more divisions within society.
The holder of Office of President could give a cloak of immunity from prosecution that others don’t have.

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So your position is that because Biden has hit the wall in a quite worrying fashion, it’s justifiable to make the same mistake on Trump who’s showing signs of also losing it and will finish his term older than Biden?

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I’ll be more than happy to take individual bets on a lot of those light shaded states for the reverse result, both ways.

Newsflash: Biden isn’t running.
And for the same reason he’s not, Trump shouldn’t be either.
They’re both completely cooked, but 1408 is still 100% onboard with one of them.

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