Election 2024

Shiftless2 said:
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"Imbecile Vance strikes again. He claims people would have more kids if it wasn’t for those pesky car seat laws. This is beyond weird." #540
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"beyond weird" to the literal-minded perhaps. It's actually a simple formula Trump perfected early in his 2016 presidential campaign. "Crazy like a fox"?
Trump then refined his skill at releasing alarming, and therefore seemingly news-worthy, statements. Trump even demonstrated the discipline to limit such attention-grabbers to the news cycle.
Some estimate Trump obtained about a $Billion dollars worth of free publicity with that technique, also gaining the white house, losing the vote, winning the election.

As Trump's protégé, Vance is using the same technique with similar affect.

Car seat laws suppress population growth? Silly? Of course. BUT !!
It's absurd enough less than 2 months from election day to have entered public discourse.

We fall into the trap by repeating it, amplifying the ridiculous message.

The way to fight back? What did KamHar say today?
 
Shiftless2 said:
" @JDVance staffers knew the racist claims were untrue but Vance and Trump continued making them anyway. " #528
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fab·u·list (făbyə-lĭst)
n.
1. A composer of fables.
2. A teller of tales; a liar.
[French fabuliste, from Latin fābula, fable; see FABLE.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2022 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved.

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Such flagrant gratuitous falsehoods disgrace the candidate, or in this case, the ticket.
That such candidates lead in electoral polls disgraces the nation, & threaten humanity.
 
Shortly after the Harris / Trump debate Taylor Swift endorsed Harris.
The following suggests Swift has forfeited some popularity as a result. QUESTION: Does Swift think it was worth it?

The significant shift from Republican voters has pushed Swift’s overall favorability rating among registered voters lower than last year, decreasing from 40% in 2023 to 33% this year. While 16% had negative feelings about her in 2023, 27% say they do now.
www.nbcnews.com

Bad blood with Republicans drives a decline in Taylor Swift's poll numbers

The number of people with a favorable opinion of Swift declined compared to last year in the latest NBC News poll. Swift endorsed Kamala Harris several weeks ago.
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Moreover, tariffs are paid by the American people, not the "other guys" (China or whoever)
 
Shiftless2 said:
100% to 2% in 2 centuries

tariffs are paid by the American people, not the "other guys" (China or whoever)
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Trump seems to not know that *.
Theatre IRS originates from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, a federal office created in 1862 to assess the nation's first income tax to fund the American Civil War. The temporary measure funded over a fifth of the Union's war expenses before being allowed to expire a decade later.
In 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, authorizing Congress to impose a tax on income and leading to the creation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. In 1953, the agency was renamed the Internal Revenue Service, and in subsequent decades underwent numerous reforms and reorganizations, most significantly in the 1990s. More from Wikipedia
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UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION ARTICLE #16: Ratified February 3, 1913
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

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Not sure what to make of this, both Trump and Putin seem baffled, flummoxed by this.
 
Shiftless2 said:
#546
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While such scandal might sully or destroy the reputation of less dishonest celebrities, such scandal seems to burnish Trump's reputation.

While to the rational benevolent or benign mind that may discredit Trump, it does no better for the millions that support Trump.

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It's impossible to objectively review this Trump era without acknowledging the political consequences.
But the psychology, the dynamics of a sociopath with a microphone, enter ... the age of alarm ?
 
sear said:
While such scandal might sully or destroy the reputation of less dishonest celebrities, such scandal seems to burnish Trump's reputation.

While to the rational benevolent or benign mind that may discredit Trump, it does no better for the millions that support Trump.
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