2024 Election - Trump vs. Harris, important downballot

[AntiFascistVoter]

I know it's been said before, but this is actually worse than Watergate.

This alone would have gotten any President removed from office, and this barely a footnote to one of the many larger cases against Trump. That's how silly all of this is.

Arthur "speedo" Sulzberger VI will disagree with you. Why should this be on the front page of his precious NYT? Sure it would drive clicks, but not the proper type of clicks.
The fact that Kamala wont sit down and interview with the NYT, is his personal Vietnam.

[Edge-]

Is it just me or is the 60 Minutes interview and resulting coverage almost as much about Donald as it is about Kamala?

Which makes me wonder why Kamala should bother again if media are just going to treat everything she does as an excuse to cover Donald yet again.

[Doctor Amadeus]

Charlie Kirk will make a great contender for the GoP nomination in 2028, if Trump loses this election. Though, I am honestly not sure who will win at this point. I fear the conspiracies involving Hurricane Helene will hurt Harris' campaign as well as FEMA giving money to immigration. Sad!

I don't know about that, I think this November is truly the moment where the future of this country and that of this planet is going to be decided. If Trump loses, I think we are going to see a rapid decline in his sort of extreme Alt-Right and Alt-Left in it's current form. I do NOT think this is the end of the Alt-Right or Alt-Left, but it will likely morph and adapt again to try to gain wider appeal.

However if Trump wins, pretty much game over, I hate him he belongs in prison, but honestly if this is what is going to happen despite all my efforts and everyone else. Yeah it's over and the supporters Trump caters too will mostly be cast aside and those fighting against him who will likely finally have to accept him. That's my view anyways. The Senate and Congress are equally pivotal, but another Administration of Trump whether he serves the 4 years or more. That is going to be the path and mandate of his country better or worse. Any effort to stop him COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY LOSE for good should he be elected same as those who support him if he loses.

[Edge-]

Racist Dementia Grandpa is sundowning and hallucinating, again -

After Donald Trump was asked in a Monday interview about the future prospects of Gaza, the former president made a curious claim: “You know, I’ve been there, and it’s rough.”

There is no public evidence of Trump ever having been to Gaza, which has been governed by militant group Hamas since 2007. He certainly didn’t go to Gaza as president, and CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post have all found no proof he made a prior visit.

Let's ask the Donald Translators to translate the guy who "is a straight shooter who says it like it is"!

Trump’s campaign said Monday night that he meant what he said about having been to Gaza in particular – and the campaign insisted the claim is true.

“President Trump has been to Gaza previously and has always worked to ensure peace in the Middle East,” campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told CNN.

Oh...uh...

Leavitt, though, did not provide a single detail about Trump’s supposed trip to Gaza. And she did not respond when we repeatedly asked for even the most basic information, like the year of the supposed visit.

Surely media will have wall-to-wall coverage about Donald talking about a trip he never took, to a place he's never visited, and his campaign lying and doubling down on this claim, right?

[Valdhammer]

I know it's been said before, but this is actually worse than Watergate.

This alone would have gotten any President removed from office, and this barely a footnote to one of the many larger cases against Trump. That's how silly all of this is.

It is 1000 times worse but nothing matters anymore.

[Gestopft]

Charlie Kirk will make a great contender for the GoP nomination in 2028, if Trump loses this election.

As someone that votes for Democrats, I think the GOP should definitely nominate Charlie Kirk. I would enjoy the results of that election.

[Edge-]

Donald's campaign is still leaning on their entertainment experience, they hired fake autoworkers (again) for a rally - https://newrepublic.com/post/186943/...michigan-event

It turns out that some of the people wearing “Auto Workers for Trump” shirts at J.D. Vance’s rally in Detroit Tuesday weren’t autoworkers at all.

The Detroit News’s Craig Mauger covered the rally and spoke to some of the more than dozen people wearing the shirts. Six of the people wearing the shirts told the newspaper that they didn’t work in the automobile industry.

Do you reckon these were "crisis actors"?

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Republican Donald Trump mixed up Democratic Gov. Janet Mills’ gender on a phone call with supporters in Maine, The Bangor Daily News reported Tuesday.

The newspaper obtained a recording of the call in which Trump attacked Mills on immigration, saying the governor is going to turn Maine into a “third world” country. Trump was trying to energize voters on Monday, the first day of early voting in the state.

Trump referred to the state’s first female governor as “he" several times while accusing her of seeking to “resettle 75,000 migrants” at the behest of the Biden administration. “He’s weak and ineffective, and they told him to do so, and he’s saying, ‘Yes, sir. Yes, ma’am. I will do it,’” Trump said, referring to Mills, who's serving a second term.

Conservatives have conflated a 2019 economic plan that calls for growing the workforce by 75,000 with a separate Office of New Americans created by the governor last year, portraying her as only seeking foreign-born people.

Mills referred to Trump’s opponent, Democrat Kamala Harris, in a brief retort on X: “He better get used to recognizing women. He’s about to get beat by one.”

There was no immediate response from the Trump campaign.

Increasingly, I doubt Donald could again pass the "Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV." test he bragged about some years back.

Donald can't even keep his act together for a small internal phone call, the man is a complete fucking disaster.

[Captain N]

Man if only Trump would learn just one thing about pronouns he could have avoided this disaster.

[Poopymonster]

Man if only Trump would learn just one thing about pronouns he could have avoided this disaster.

This is the same party that said, in public, their pronouns were "Kiss, My, and Ass."
I wonder if ass knows what ass was getting assself into.

[PhaelixWW]

Donald's campaign is still leaning on their entertainment experience, they hired fake autoworkers (again) for a rally -

Do you reckon these were "crisis actors"?

More like... "chassis actors".

"Tractor actors"?

We'll workshop it.

[DarkTZeratul]

Do you reckon these were "crisis actors"?

Are you implying that the Trump campaign is in crisis? Because if you are, then you are... Actually pretty accurate.

[Breccia]

Do you reckon these were "crisis actors"?

No.

Actors get paid.

[Kaleredar]

Are you implying that the Trump campaign is in crisis? Because if you are, then you are... Actually pretty accurate.

I certainly hope that the depressed turnout to his rallies acquiesces to a depressed Trump voter turnout in November.

[Flarelaine]

Donald's campaign is still leaning on their entertainment experience, they hired fake autoworkers (again) for a rally - https://newrepublic.com/post/186943/...michigan-event



Do you reckon these were "crisis actors"?

The sad thing is: if you convince MAGA folks these people were indeed actors, they will just go "see we told you crisis actors were real!"

[Breccia]

The sad thing is: if you convince MAGA folks these people were indeed actors, they will just go "see we told you crisis actors were real!"

Just makes sense, the Party of Trump is based on projection. It's refreshingly sane if they're consistent.

[deepr]

So you either vote for a criminal narcissist lying lunatic, or someone who at least appears to be somewhat of a decent and civilized person.
It really is that simple is it?
Please, as a EU citizen I ask you, vote Harris, so we can get this moron off the world stage for good. One less thing to worry about.

[DarkAmbient]

Please, as a EU citizen I ask you, vote Harris, so we can get this moron off the world stage for good. One less thing to worry about.

Seconded. Can't wait for this grotesque piece of shit to finally fuck off. However, checking the betting sites just now and most favour a slim Trump win. The fact it's even this close is just surreal. After everything. If Trump wins again America is cooked and so is Ukraine, which is bad for all of us.

Trump looks and sounds tired though. I doubt he even wants to be president again for any reason other than pardoning himself. I bet he'd rather just quit it all and play golf til he croaks, but he can't because of the consequences of his crimes.

[Belize]

Not to be Debby Downer, but even if/when Trump loses, there's no putting the Christofacist toothpaste back in the tube.

Even with Trump gone it's now been made acceptable and normalized to be a raging asshole and the GOP will simply find a new figurehead, which is potentially a worse case scenario because there's a chance they find someone with all the same dreams of being a dictator, but that's able to look presentable and appealing to a larger chunk of the country.

The exit from the woods is still very far away.

[Draco-Onis]

Not to be Debby Downer, but even if/when Trump loses, there's no putting the Christofacist toothpaste back in the tube.

Even with Trump gone it's now been made acceptable and normalized to be a raging asshole and the GOP will simply find a new figurehead, which is potentially a worse case scenario because there's a chance they find someone with all the same dreams of being a dictator, but that's able to look presentable and appealing to a larger chunk of the country.

The exit from the woods is still very far away.

As long as Trump is alive he isn't leaving politics don't be surprised if he runs again in 2028 if he loses. The obscene amount of money he is making now grifting his base (NFTS, stocks, crypto, sneakers, clothes etc) means it's too good to give up. It doesn't take a genius to see him keeping this going until the end of his days growing more negative as it goes.

[Poopymonster]

Seconded. Can't wait for this grotesque piece of shit to finally fuck off. However, checking the betting sites just now and most favour a slim Trump win. The fact it's even this close is just surreal. After everything. If Trump wins again America is cooked and so is Ukraine, which is bad for all of us.

Trump looks and sounds tired though. I doubt he even wants to be president again for any reason other than pardoning himself. I bet he'd rather just quit it all and play golf til he croaks, but he can't because of the consequences of his crimes.

I could see him being 25th'd and Hillbilly Vanilli goin whole hog on his Christofacist agenda.