Elections; 2024 by THG

Ahhhh...

Today is the day where Second and Ted start living their nightmares.

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Monday, January 15, 2024 7:04 AM

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Gov. Greg Abbott Laments That Texas Can’t Shoot Migrants Because Murder Is Illegal

Greg Abbott lamented that Texas can’t shoot migrants trying to cross the border illegally because “the Biden administration would charge us with murder.”

Shooting unarmed civilians attempting to cross the border would absolutely constitute murder. It would also violate a myriad of state, federal, and international laws protecting migrants and asylum seekers.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/greg-abbott-murder
-charges-shooting-migrants-1234945121/

Why would a Republican governor say that? For a very good reason:

Poll indicates majority of Republicans are xenophobic racists | January 14, 2024

As Donald Trump dominates the GOP nomination race and some of his inflammatory comments find favor with the party faithful, CBS News measured how the public feels about his “poisoning the blood” language. A striking number of voters agree with this description of immigrants who enter the U.S. illegally, and among Republicans, associating the remarks with Trump himself makes them even likelier to agree.

We asked registered voters whether they agreed or disagreed with this statement in two ways. Half of survey respondents were simply asked about “poisoning the blood” without attributing the language to anyone, while the other half were told Trump said it. Either way we ask, most Republican voters agree.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-analysis-most-republicans-agree-
with-poisoning-the-blood-language/

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Monday, January 15, 2024 7:13 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Ahhhh...

Today is the day where Second and Ted start living their nightmares.

Wrong. Trump is absolutely the BEST candidate. He highlights what is wrong with Republican voters. Clarity about who you are running against is very useful. Hitler might still have been elected if he had clearly campaigned on his real policies, but speaking the whole truth probably would have reduced the number of his votes so Hitler was not that stupid. Trump is that stupid, which could make a difference in an election that is more like a coin flip, 50-50.

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Monday, January 15, 2024 7:57 AM

We'll all be much better off when Dementia Hitler is voted out of office in November.

I can't wait to watch you crumble when it happens.

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Monday, January 15, 2024 8:39 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
We'll all be much better off when Dementia Hitler is voted out of office in November.

I can't wait to watch you crumble when it happens.

You are a typical Trumptard, expressing what I hear from the yapping mouths of Texas Trumptards:

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Fuck those Muslim jawa sub-human sand people

Fuck Israel too.

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Brewster Rockit: Space Guy!
https://www.gocomics.com/brewsterrockit/2024/01/15

Scientist: Alien creatures are visiting Earth. Their food source seems to be mo-rons.
Just as photons are elementary particles of light, mo-rons are the elementary particles of stupidity!

Brewster: Then why are they visiting Earth?

Scientist: You just answered your own question.

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Monday, January 15, 2024 10:31 AM

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Despite her low name recognition, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley polls better against Joe Biden than Trump does. Given the Democratic president’s dismal approval rating and advanced age, a minimally normal-seeming Republican nominee might well win November’s election in a landslide. Trump’s singular toxicity is Biden’s lifeline.

Trump helped cost Republicans multiple Senate races, got himself held civilly liable for sexual assault and indicted four times, facing 91 criminal charges.

https://www.vox.com/politics/24035809/trump-iowa-frontrunner-january-6
-insurrection-gop-primary-polls-results

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Monday, January 15, 2024 11:23 AM

lol

No. You're never going to make Nikki Haley a thing.

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Monday, January 15, 2024 12:05 PM

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lol

No. You're never going to make Nikki Haley a thing.

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Oh, and by the way...

That line of bullshit about Haley has come crashing down anyhow, so Vox should probably stop taking propaganda from The Lincoln Project seriously.

RCP Polling Aggregates today...

Haley vs. Biden - Haley 0.4%

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/haley-vs
-biden

Trump vs. Biden - Trump 1.1%

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs
-biden

The ridiculous Wall Street Journal poll that had Haley up by 17% and the equally ridiculous Messenger/Harris X poll that had Haley up by 10% have both aged off.

Expect Trump's numbers to only grow from here on out in both the primary and general election, starting with Trump trouncing everyone else in Iowa tonight.

And no... no amount of trying to bastardize the legal system by throwing your political opposition in prison is going to save you from what you've done to yourselves.

Tick Tock

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Monday, January 15, 2024 12:15 PM

The New Yorker: Trump Receives a Warm Embrace in Frigid Iowa

Before the caucuses, snow had kept the former President away from his enthusiastic crowds. On Saturday, he finally arrived in Des Moines.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/trump-receives-a-warm-embrace-
in-frigid-iowa

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Trump took the stage in Indianola, where a packed room had waited expectantly for hours; he stood in his white-and-gold hat, staring out at the crowd for the duration of Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.” He surveyed the audience: “We have so much time today. There’s no football game that anybody wants to watch. There’s nothing. We got a lotta time. Should we do the long version or the short version?” “Long!” the crowd responded, and he launched into one of his “two-hour beauties.”

And it's -40 degrees across the state right now...

The General debates between Trump and Biden* are going to be the funniest thing put on air in decades.

4 years later and Trump can still talk to a packed audience off the cuff for 2 hours straight, and Joe Biden can't even find his way off a stage without his handlers running up there and grabbing him by the elbows after he's done with his 2 minute teleprompter read followed by avoiding any and all questions people have for him.

Tick Tock

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024 9:40 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

New Yorker: Trump Receives a Warm Embrace in Frigid Iowa

Before the caucuses, snow had kept the former President away from his enthusiastic crowds. On Saturday, he finally arrived in Des Moines.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/trump-receives-a-warm-embrace-
in-frigid-iowa

You need to learn to look past the obvious. Only 14% showed up to the caucus. That means that 86% of the Iowa voters stayed home.

T

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024 10:08 AM

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Ron DeSantis and his backers completely misread what the GOP electorate wanted.

The DeSantis campaign was fundamentally a product of a certain class of the GOP’s elite: people who admired Donald Trump’s willingness to break the traditional norms of American politics but saw him as basically declassé or ineffectual. These are the sorts of conservatives who look admiringly at Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán, seeing his use of legalistic arcana to crush liberal opposition as a model for how to fight a culture war and win.

Most Republican voters aren’t this hyper-ideological. But DeSantis and his allies theorized that the “Trump but competent” shtick would allow them to pull from all sides of the GOP electorate. By focusing on his “culture warrior” background — like his fights over Covid restrictions and Disney — DeSantis could win over a key portion of the Republican base. By seeming more competent and organized, he could scan as palatable to the traditional establishment.

Except it turned out that the kind of culture war politics DeSantis offered, an often-abstract assault on “wokeness,” paled in comparison to what Trump served up. The MAGA base wanted Trump and his all-consuming post-2020 election anger. The establishment bloc preferred Nikki Haley, sticking DeSantis in no-man’s land. His campaign appealed to a small niche of highly intellectual populist conservatives, but that proved to be just about it.

The MAGA faithful didn’t want a pseudo-Trump gussied up for the GOP’s elite. They wanted Trump and his “retribution.” DeSantis’s failure to recognize this doomed him from the start.

https://www.vox.com/politics/24034491/iowa-caucus-results-polls-desant
is-trump-haley-ramaswamy-republican-party

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024 10:36 AM

Hint, because he lies.

T

Maddow explains MSNBC deferring coverage of Trump speech

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024 5:03 PM

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A federal judge in Florida on Friday ruled that a U.S. law that bars people from possessing firearms in post offices is unconstitutional, citing a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling from 2022 that expanded gun rights.

U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, an appointee of Republican former President Donald Trump...said allowing the federal government to restrict visitors from bringing guns into government facilities as a condition of admittance would allow it to "abridge the right to bear arms by regulating it into practical non-existence."

That's from Reuters. The next step, I suppose, will be a ruling that there's no constitutional paragraph distinguishing between firearms, and therefore no bar to showing up for work with an AR-15 slung over your shoulder. I mean, if you can't bring an assault rifle into a post office or court building, American freedoms are hanging by a mere thread, right?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ban-guns-post-offices-is-unconstituti
onal-us-judge-rules-2024-01-13/

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024 5:05 PM

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Hint, because he lies.

Oh who doesn't, Ted.

Lying is Maddow's bread and butter.

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024 5:36 PM

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Originally posted by THG:

Hint, because he lies.

Oh who doesn't, Ted.

Lying is Maddow's bread and butter.

No, everybody doesn't. You have to believe this so you can justify your anti-social, hateful existence. You're a sad little shit who like Trump, has a need to destroy anything good to make the pain of your being go away.

T

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024 5:44 PM

Sure thing, Theodore.

Tick Tock

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024 6:20 PM

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No, everybody doesn't. You have to believe this so you can justify your anti-social, hateful existence. You're a sad little shit who like Trump, has a need to destroy anything good to make the pain of your being go away.

T

That's psychoanalysis talk about Trumptards. Describing them as Nazis fits better. Nazi examples: All my problems are caused by Jews and foreigners. They have taken all that is good in Germany and desecrated it. We are hemmed in by foreigners, who steal our jobs. It all sounds like how Trump talks if you substitute a few proper nouns.

To adjust Nazi talk to fit Trumptards such as 6ixStringJack, instead of the word "Jews", substitute the word "Democrats", which fits because Jews tend to be Democrats. For the word "Germany", substitute the word "America". For foreigners, there are so many choices. Rather than choosing the words "France" and "Russia", as the Nazis did, the Trumptards choose "China" and "Mexico" stealing America's jobs.

We all know what eventually happened to the Nazis, but before that, the Nazis had prosperous years until Democrats from America brutally murdered millions of Nazis. They certainly deserved what happened to them. What part did Republicans play in WWII before 1942? (Germany invaded Austria on March 12, 1938. The war before the Democrats could do something despite the absolute obstinate objections of Republicans was for most of 1938, all of 1939, 1940, and 1941.) Republicans in Congress refused to get involved. The Nazis finally declared war on America but until then the Republicans didn't feel what the Nazis were doing in Europe was wrong.

Republicans still don't have a problem with Nazis and people like 6ixStringJack still don't, or can't, feel that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is as wrong as Germany's invasion of Austria and every other invasion that followed.

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024 7:56 PM

Liz Cheney expected to lead anti-MAGA alliance of Republicans into Biden's camp:

“My view is I disagree with a lot of Joe Biden’s policies. We can survive bad policies. We cannot survive torching the Constitution.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/liz-cheney-expected-to-lead-an
ti-maga-alliance-of-republicans-into-biden-s-camp-columnist/ar-AA1n4wRw?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=9d8d0ec84af845c9a6f5b3c84c0f54a8&ei=105

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024 8:20 PM

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Donald Trump is a psychopathic criminal. He is a racist, fascist cult leader determined to destroy American democracy.

Those facts must be repeated over and over this year, because so many Americans appear willing to re-elect him president.

In the wake of his sweeping victory in the Iowa caucuses, Trump stands astride the ruins of the Republican Party, which he has transformed into a cult of MAGA zombies who believe every lie and conspiracy theory he spouts. Other Republican politicians have long since surrendered, even those who have gone through the motions of contesting the Republican primaries. These days, virtually all Republican politicians try to outdo each other in their goose-stepping fealty to Trump, while Republican voters who hate him have long since become quiet collaborators or left the party.

So Trump will easily win the Republican nomination this year for the third straight time.

The real question is whether non-MAGA Americans will fall for his demented act. Will voters remember why they chose his opponent in 2020?

Trump hopes not; he is counting on America’s recency bias and social media-fueled short attention span to cast a veil over the ugliness and criminality of his first term.

The danger lies in the possibility that Trump’s egotism and criminality will once again be normalized during the presidential campaign, accepted as nothing more than background noise. When voters size up the candidates, will Trump’s greed and dishonesty merely be seen as unpleasant character traits, about equal to the drawbacks of Joe Biden’s advanced age?

https://theintercept.com/2024/01/16/trump-iowa-caucuses-republicans/

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024 8:42 PM

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Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by THG:

No, everybody doesn't. You have to believe this so you can justify your anti-social, hateful existence. You're a sad little shit who like Trump, has a need to destroy anything good to make the pain of your being go away.

T
That's psychoanalysis talk about Trumptards. Describing them as Nazis fits better. Nazi examples: All my problems are caused by Jews and foreigners. They have taken all that is good in Germany and desecrated it. We are hemmed in by foreigners, who steal our jobs. It all sounds like how Trump talks if you substitute a few proper nouns.

To adjust Nazi talk to fit Trumptards such as 6ixStringJack, instead of the word "Jews", substitute the word "Democrats", which fits because Jews tend to be Democrats. For the word "Germany", substitute the word "America". For foreigners, there are so many choices. Rather than choosing the words "France" and "Russia", as the Nazis did, the Trumptards choose "China" and "Mexico" stealing America's jobs.

We all know what eventually happened to the Nazis, but before that, the Nazis had prosperous years until Democrats from America brutally murdered millions of Nazis. They certainly deserved what happened to them. What part did Republicans play in WWII before 1942? (Germany invaded Austria on March 12, 1938. The war before the Democrats could do something despite the absolute obstinate objections of Republicans was for most of 1938, all of 1939, 1940, and 1941.) Republicans in Congress refused to get involved. The Nazis finally declared war on America but until then the Republicans didn't feel what the Nazis were doing in Europe was wrong.

Republicans still don't have a problem with Nazis and people like 6ixStringJack still don't, or can't, feel that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is as wrong as Germany's invasion of Austria and every other invasion that followed.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Hey. Would you look at that.

That's the first time in the history of the RWED that Second has ever recognized your existence, Ted.

So glad I could be a part of it. I almost shed a tear.

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024 4:43 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Hey. Would you look at that.

That's the first time in the history of the RWED that Second has ever recognized your existence, Ted.

So glad I could be a part of it. I almost shed a tear.

I saw a comic that completely changed my mind. I am voting for Trump!

Shed a tear, 6ix:

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/01/14

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024 4:45 AM

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Team Trump to decimate regulations on fossil fuels

01/16/2024 05:00 AM EST

Former President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement and staffed his environmental agencies with fossil fuel lobbyists.

Expect a second Trump presidency to show even less restraint.

Trump’s campaign utterances, and the policy proposals being drafted by hundreds of his supporters, point to the likelihood that his return to the White House would bring an all-out war on climate science and policies — eclipsing even his first-term efforts that brought U.S. climate action to a virtual standstill. Those could include steps that aides shrank back from taking last time, such as meddling in the findings of federal climate reports.

He’s alleging that human-caused global warming is fake, is baselessly blaming whale deaths on wind turbines and said last month that if elected he would be a “dictator for one day” — in part so he could “drill, drill, drill.”

Meanwhile, many of his former staffers are building out a comprehensive plan to decimate both climate policy and regulations on fossil fuels. And Trump allies expect that the former president would fill his next administration with officials who are even more hostile to efforts to address global warming.

More at https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/12/trump-second-term-climate-sci
ence-2024-00132289

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Thursday, January 18, 2024 12:36 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Quote:
Jim Jordan Demands Answers After Biden Admin Caught Flagging "MAGA" And "Trump" To Track Political Opponents' Financial Transactions

Who's the dictator?

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/jim-jordan-demands-answers-after-b
iden-admin-caught-flagging-maga-and-trump-track

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Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM

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Thursday, January 18, 2024 11:07 AM

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Trump Says Presidents Should Be Allowed To ‘Cross The Line’ Without Being Prosecuted

By Alison Durkee | Jan 18, 2024, 06:40am EST

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2024/01/18/trump-says-presid
ents-should-be-allowed-to-cross-the-line-without-being-prosecuted/?sh=51e5bf50351e

Key Facts

Trump has tried to have criminal charges against him for trying to overturn the 2020 election thrown out on grounds of “presidential immunity,” claiming he should be immune from prosecution for actions he took as part of his presidential duties in the White House.

As a federal appeals court weighs that issue, Trump said on Truth Social he believes presidents should have “FULL IMMUNITY” and would not be able to “PROPERLY FUNCTION” if they didn’t.

“Even events that ‘cross the line’ must fall under total immunity,” Trump claimed, arguing that otherwise there will be “years of trauma trying to determine good from bad.” (Spoken like a defense lawyer who believes good/bad is unknowable until after the jury convicts and the Supreme Court upholds the conviction. Perhaps even after all that legal machinery has taken years to calculate its ultimate decision, good/bad is still up for debate.)

The ex-president and 2024 candidate likened the situation to police officers being allowed to perform “strong and effective crime prevention” even though there are “rogue cops,” writing, “Sometimes you just have to live with ‘great but slightly imperfect.’”

Trump’s comments come after his attorney Dean John Sauer took a very expansive view of immunity in court: When judges presented the hypothetical possibility of a president selling military secrets or assassinating political rivals, Sauer argued they could not be criminally charged unless they were first impeached and convicted by the Senate. (With Trump, the difference between good/bad is always a confusing and foggy feeling for him. For an example, see below.)

Trump didn’t respond to those hypotheticals specifically after the hearing, telling reporters only that he “feels that as a president you have to have immunity, very simple.”

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Thursday, January 18, 2024 11:24 AM

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Quote:

Jim Jordan Demands Answers After Biden Admin Caught Flagging "MAGA" And "Trump" To Track Political Opponents' Financial Transactions

Who's the dictator?

SIGNYM

Lying again I see comrade. And since you asked.

T

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Thursday, January 18, 2024 11:27 AM

Why do you keep posting videos made by NeoCon Bushites, Ted?

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Thursday, January 18, 2024 11:28 AM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Hey. Would you look at that.

That's the first time in the history of the RWED that Second has ever recognized your existence, Ted.

So glad I could be a part of it. I almost shed a tear.
I saw a comic that completely changed my mind.

That explains why you're finally relating to Ted. He is capable of thinking only in cartoons.

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Friday, January 19, 2024 11:10 AM

Betting averages for Trump in November hit double digits for the first time.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/betting-odds/2024/presiden
t/

That's a 10.3 advantage over Biden* now.

For the 48 hours prior to that it had briefly jumped to 11.5.

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Friday, January 19, 2024 11:18 AM

Carville: A Third-Party Candidate "Is Going To Get A Lot Of F*cking Votes In 2024"

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/01/19/carville_a_third-pa
rty_candidate_is_going_to_get_a_lot_of_fcking_votes_in_2024.html

Agreed.

Most of them will be Democrat defectors since their house is broken.

Trump's only getting stronger every day.

Tick Tock

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Friday, January 19, 2024 6:12 PM

Trump back up to a +2 advantage in the general election aggregate today.

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Friday, January 19, 2024 6:19 PM

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Friday, January 19, 2024 6:25 PM

THE HILL: Trump vows to block creation of digital dollar

https://thehill.com/business/4416139-trump-vows-to-block-creation-of-d
igital-dollar/

POLITICO: ‘Tyranny’: Trump vows to block any Fed effort to launch digital currency

The Fed has not decided whether to make a fully digital version of the U.S. dollar.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/18/trump-vows-to-block-any-fed-e
ffort-to-launch-digital-currency-00136328

That's great. Because Joe fucking Biden* isn't going to block it.

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Friday, January 19, 2024 6:26 PM

Nobody cares about what Mika or Joe "intern rapist" Scarbourough have to say about anything, Ted.

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Saturday, January 20, 2024 1:39 PM

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It was not a momentary mixing up names because Trump kept repeating Nikki Haley - Nikki Haley - Nikki Haley - Nikki Haley

Trump blames Nikki Haley for January 6th and says she was in charge of security for the Capitol. There is video.

8:30 PM · Jan 19, 2024
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1748533500117233721

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Saturday, January 20, 2024 7:15 PM

Blaming Nikki Haley for what?

Nothing happened on January 6th.

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Saturday, January 20, 2024 7:34 PM

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Blaming Nikki Haley for what?

Nothing happened on January 6th.

Trump blamed Nikki Haley for Trump being charged with election obstruction. There is a wiki article to get know-nothings up to speed:

Federal prosecution of Donald Trump (election obstruction case)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_prosecution_of_Donald_Trump_(ele
ction_obstruction_case)

I never ran into a Trumptard whose life was not a complicated mess, so I don't expect anything from Trump or 6ix, both of whom have messed up their lives. 6ix thinks that is all in his past; it is not. It is his future.

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Sunday, January 21, 2024 7:29 AM

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Science is revealing why American politics are so intensely polarized
Political psychologists say they see tribalism intensifying, fueled by contempt for the other side

By Joel Achenbach | January 20, 2024 at 9:45 a.m. EST

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/01/20/polarization-science
-evolution-psychology/

ATKINSON, N.H. — They stood in line for hours, in steady snow that became steady sleet, to hear the leader of their tribe.

Fresh from a major victory in Iowa, former president Donald Trump was scheduled to speak at 5 p.m. The parking lot at the country club opened at 10 a.m. The doors opened at 2 p.m., and hundreds of people were already in line. When everyone finally got inside, most had to stand tightly packed for hours more until the snowstorm-delayed candidate finally arrived just before 7 p.m.

It’s not always logistically easy being in the Trump tribe, but people stuck it out — and when instructed to turn around and express their sentiments directly to the news media, they dutifully booed and raised middle fingers.

The antagonism that Trump supporters feel toward the media is a small piece of a broader political and cultural phenomenon. This country, though politically fractious since its founding, is more polarized than ever, the rhetoric more inflammatory, the rage more likely to curdle into hate. It’s ugly out there.

As the 2024 primary season revs up, and with the political stakes this year extraordinarily high, voters are both polarized and hardly budging. Pundits expect another close election that’s a repeat of 2020. There’s not a lot of wobble on either left or right.

Social scientists have taken note of these hardening political divisions, pumping out academic articles and books that add data to what appears to be a steady rise in tribalism.

One theme emerges in much of the research: Our politics tend be more emotional now. Policy preferences are increasingly likely to be entangled with a visceral dislike of the opposition. The newly embraced academic term for this is “affective polarization.”

“It’s feelings based,” said Lilliana Mason, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University and author of “Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity.” “It’s polarization that’s based on our feelings for each other, not based on extremely divergent policy preferences.”

The tendency to form tightly knit groups has roots in evolution, according to experts in political psychology. Humans evolved in a challenging world of limited resources in which survival required cooperation — and identifying the rivals, the competitors for those resources.

“The evolution of cooperation required out-group hatred, which is really sad,” said Nicholas Christakis, a Yale sociologist and author of “Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society.”

This is just as true on today’s political stage. There are two major parties, and their contests are viewed as zero-sum outcomes. Win or lose. The presidency is the ultimate example: There are no consolation prizes for the loser.

No researcher argues that human nature is the sole, or even the primary, cause of today’s polarization. But savvy political operatives can exploit, leverage and encourage it. And those operatives are learning from their triumphs in divide-and-conquer politics.

The case of the warring Boy Scouts

People are instinctively prone to group identification.

“We wouldn’t have civilizations if we didn’t create groups. We are designed to form groups, and the only way to define a group is there has to be someone who’s not in it,” Mason said.

Experiments have revealed that “children as young as two will prefer other children randomly assigned to the same T-shirt color,” Christakis writes.

What’s most striking is that in the process of defining who is in and who is out of a group, enmity and derision can arise independently of any rational reason for it.

Mason and Christakis point to a famous-among-academics experiment from 1954. Social psychologist Muzafer Sherif took 22 Boy Scouts and separated them into two groups camping at Robbers Cave State Park in Oklahoma. Only after a week did they learn that there was another group at the far end of the campground.

What they did next fascinated the research team. Each group developed irrational contempt for the other. The boys in the other group were seen not just as rivals, but as fundamentally flawed human beings. Only when the two groups were asked to work together to solve a common problem did they warm up to one another.

The warring Boy Scouts “have a lot more in common with today’s Democrats and Republicans than we would like to believe,” Mason writes in her book.

“In this political environment, a candidate who picks up the banner of ‘us versus them’ and ‘winning versus losing’ is almost guaranteed to tap into a current of resentment and anger across racial, religious, and cultural lines, which have recently divided neatly by party.”

Shanto Iyengar, a Stanford political psychologist who coined the term “affective polarization,” explained in a 2018 paper why people typically identify with a group.

“Homo sapiens is a social species; group affiliation is essential to our sense of self. Individuals instinctively think of themselves as representing broad socioeconomic and cultural categories rather than as distinctive packages of traits,” he wrote.

Here’s where psychology gives way to political science. The American political system may cultivate “out-group” hatred, as academics put it. One of the scarce resources in this country is political power at the highest levels of government. The country has no parliamentary system in which multiple parties form governing coalitions.

Add to this fact the redistricting that ensures there are fewer truly competitive congressional races. The two parties have inexorably moved further apart ideologically, and leaders are more likely to be punished — “primaried” — if they reach across the aisle. And because many more districts are now deeply red or blue, rather than a mix of constituencies, House members have fewer reasons to adopt moderate positions.

How sorting feeds polarization

Human nature hasn’t changed, but technology has. The fragmentation of the media has made it easier to gather information in an echo chamber, Iyengar said. He calls this “sorting.” Not only do people cluster around specific beliefs or ideas, they physically cluster, moving to neighborhoods where residents are likely to look like them and think like them.

Partisan clustering has increased even within households. In 1965, Iyengar said, only about 60 percent of married couples had the same party registration. Today, the figure is greater than 85 percent, he said.

Research shows that affective polarization is intensifying across the political spectrum. Recent survey data revealed that more than half of Republicans and Democrats view the other party as “a threat,” and nearly as many agree with the description of the other party as “evil,” Mason said.

Asked in the summer of 2022 if they agree or disagree that members of the other party “lack the traits to be considered fully human — they behave like animals,” about 30 percent in both parties agreed, Mason’s research shows.

Now, even the partisans fret about polarization.

“We’re on the verge of a civil war, without a doubt,” said Brad Rowe, 40, a Republican who attended the talk of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in Hampton, N.H., on Wednesday and is leaning toward supporting independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Some voters find the polarization confusing, because they don’t see how anyone could possibly support a candidate on the other side. That’s the sentiment of Susan and Peter Delano, both 60, who also came to see DeSantis.

“If you are voting Democrat today, you are supporting Biden. I don’t understand it,” she said.

“We see the polls. We ask: Why are they still voting Democrat?” he said.

David Fox, 60, a limo driver who waited in the frigid line to cheer for Trump in Atkinson, said he thinks President Biden is a liar who stole the 2020 election. Fox is not fond of Democrats generally.

“I think they’re very angry people. I think they don’t hold doors open for people, they don’t wave to people, they don’t say hi to people,” Fox said.

Meanwhile, there are voters who can’t believe their choice this fall may come down to Trump or Biden.

“Trump is terrifying, and Biden I don’t think is cognitively there,” Karl Schumacher, 53, said Wednesday as he waited to hear Nikki Haley in Rochester, N.Y.

Trump’s polarization powers

Though partisan vitriol is intensifying across the spectrum, Trump looms large among researchers on polarization and group identity. He has cultivated an extraordinarily devoted base of supporters who see his long list of felony indictments not as evidence of potential wrongdoing, but as proof that the elites are out to get him.

Meanwhile, his opponents, including Biden, have described him as an aspiring dictator who poses an existential threat to democracy.

Rep. Dean Phillips, a long-shot Democratic candidate on the ballot here in New Hampshire, suggested Thursday that a reelected Trump might defy the constitutional limit on presidential terms and try to remain in power: “There may not be a 2028 [election] if we allow Donald Trump to return to the White House,” Phillips said Thursday during a pitch to New Hampshire voters in Manchester.

In an interview, he explained that he thinks Trump has taken cues from dictators abroad and may try to block the transfer of power: “He’s already tried it once and now he’s on a revenge mission.”

A recent paper published in the journal Science argued that the three core ingredients of political sectarianism are “othering, aversion, and moralization.” Trump has mastered that recipe. He activates emotional responses in his followers by telling them that they are threatened.

“I would give it to Trump: He figured out he could cash in on polarization,” Iyengar said.

Trump, he said, began running for president in 2015 when the country was already divided and he leveraged those divisions. He used inflammatory and racist language that violated political norms, called the media the “enemy of the people,” and promoted a vision of America besieged.

Trump lobs racially charged attacks against Haley ahead of N.H. primary

A New Hampshire campaign flier touting Trump shows him pumping his fist and looking combative, and quotes him: “They’re not after me, they’re after you. … And I’m just standing in the way!”

At the Trump rally Tuesday, former Republican presidential rival Vivek Ramaswamy told the crowd, “We are in the middle of a war in this country … between the permanent state and the everyday citizen.”

Trump “is not just saying be afraid. He’s saying, ‘Be angry,’” said Dannagal Young, a professor of communication and political science at the University of Delaware. “Anger is a mobilization emotion because it makes people do things. When you’re angry, you’re angry at someone.”

The media do their part to keep things inflamed. Conflict grabs attention.

“We’re evolutionarily predisposed to pay attention to conflict, because we might be in danger. We don’t turn our head really quickly to look at a beautiful flower. We turn our heads quickly to look at something that may be dangerous,” Mason said.

That’s a part of human nature anyone can exploit.

“There are politicians who are good at this,” Mason said. “Trump is the best.”

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Sunday, January 21, 2024 11:09 AM

One side is perpetually miserable no matter if their party is in power or not and no matter how much money they have.

Normal people pretty much function normally.

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Sunday, January 21, 2024 10:53 PM

Trump Wins. Haley is about to fail. DeSantis backs Trump.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/01/21/ron_desantis_ends_c
ampaign_endorses_trump_.html

Tick Tock, Joe.

You get destroyed in the debates now.

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Monday, January 22, 2024 7:07 AM

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Biden needs to campaign a lot harder on abortion rights and how it’s inextricably tied to the threat Trump poses to democracy.

Even outside of direct votes, politicians who support abortion rights have been smoking anti-abortion ones. The pattern is so obvious that Republicans who were previously fire-and-brimstone abortion opponents are now curiously mum. Former President Donald Trump, whose appointment of far-right justices to the Supreme Court ushered in the demise of Roe v. Wade, has characteristically tried to play all sides, calling state restrictions “terrible” while also boasting that the “miracle” of overturning Roe was to his credit; he has also said he supports some very limited exceptions to general abortion bans (ever the amoralist, he says he just wants “to get something where people are happy”). Trump’s position may be ever-wavering, but he seems to understand one thing the anti-abortion movement doesn’t: The long-held GOP opposition on abortion is really, really unpopular, and this has given Democrats a significant advantage.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/01/abortion-biden-trump-2024-
campaign-democracy.html

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Monday, January 22, 2024 8:08 AM

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Biden needs to campaign a lot harder on abortion rights and how it’s inextricably tied to the threat Trump poses to democracy.

That's all you little bitches got left.

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Monday, January 22, 2024 8:18 AM

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MAGA voters cling to myths about the “Trump Economy.”

But the reality was quite different.

At the end of 2019—before Covid hit—Trump was leading the US economy toward collapse.

Here are 5 facts to prove it.

1. Trump said his tax cuts for the rich would “supercharge” the economy. But he created 15% fewer jobs in his first 3 years [pre-Covid] than Obama created in his final 3.

2. His first 3 years in office—pre-Covid—were devastating for factory workers.

3. 2019 was the worst year for U.S. farmers since the farm crisis of the 1980s.

4. By 2019, he was running trillion-dollar deficits, even as poverty soared in Red States.

5. The Trump recession started BEFORE Covid. Despite his deficit-busting tax cuts, Trump's mismanagement brought to an end the Obama-Biden recovery, which in 2019 became the longest US economic expansion in history.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1747387364945662164.html

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Monday, January 22, 2024 8:24 AM

Try convincing all the Democrat voters of any of that when they can't afford the basic necessities to live in 2024. Or don't... and then wonder why record numbers of black and Mexican voters vote Trump in November.

You're done. Just like I've been telling you.

Tick Tock

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Monday, January 22, 2024 9:21 AM

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Brian Klaas, a political scientist at University College London, captures the remarkable nature of the 2024 presidential election in an Oct. 1 essay, “The Case for Amplifying Trump’s Insanity.”

Klaas argues the presidential contest now pits . . .

A 77-year-old racist, misogynist bigot who has been found liable for rape, who incited a deadly, violent insurrection aimed at overturning a democratic election, who has committed mass fraud for personal enrichment, who is facing 91 separate counts of felony criminal charges against him, and who has overtly discussed his authoritarian strategies for governing if he returns to power.

against “an 80-year-old with mainstream Democratic Party views who sometimes misspeaks or trips.”

“One of those two candidates,” Klaas notes, “faces relentless newspaper columns and TV pundit ‘takes’ arguing that he should drop out of the race. (Spoiler alert: it’s somehow *not* the racist authoritarian sexual abuse fraudster facing 91 felony charges).”

Klaas is asking how Trump gets away with this. Why aren’t the newspapers reporting his looney-toons to the public?

https://angrybearblog.com/2024/01/former-president-is-the-gravest-thre
at-to-democracy-we-have-seen

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Monday, January 22, 2024 9:24 AM

You all should probably just get ready to move out of my country.

Maybe they'll treat you better in Australia?

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Try convincing all the Democrat voters of any of that when they can't afford the basic necessities to live in 2024. Or don't... and then wonder why record numbers of black and Mexican voters vote Trump in November.

You're done. Just like I've been telling you.

Tick Tock

As a reminder, I work around people who express the same opinions about the economy. I know these people and their money troubles. I know why they are in trouble: they are stupid and undisciplined and never learn from past mistakes. Not at all surprising that they either will vote for Trump or won't vote at all because they are too undisciplined to be registered voters.

Sad to say, but changing Presidents does not make stupid people smarter, and because they are unchanged their money problems will endure until they do change or die.

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Monday, January 22, 2024 9:30 AM

Nobody believes anything you say about your life dude.

Please do give the walking comorbidity idiot Kevin Drum my best wishes as he blogs from his hospital death bed with all that cancer swimming around in his diseased lefty brain, and tell him that I'm sorry that his life long Democrat voting streak didn't turn out to be the fountain of youth and immortality that he was promised.

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Monday, January 22, 2024 9:34 AM

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Nobody believes anything you say about your life dude.

Sadly, death is several times more likely than 6ix change himself one iota for the better.

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Monday, January 22, 2024 9:41 AM

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Please do give the walking comorbidity idiot Kevin Drum my best wishes as he blogs from his hospital death bed with all that cancer swimming around in his diseased lefty brain, and tell him that I'm sorry that his life long Democrat voting streak didn't turn out to be the fountain of youth and immortality that he was promised.

Health update
Author Kevin Drum
Published on January 19, 2024 – 10:59 am

Nutshell summary: Good news!

Final words: My multiple myeloma has always been fairly slow reacting. Check back with me in 2028 or so and we'll know.

https://jabberwocking.com/health-update-52/

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