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ajoseph · Sep 17, 2024

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Taylor Swift's endorsement of Harris has Trump fanatics angry. Half of Trump's most committed voters indicated that Swift's endorsement of Harris makes them LESS LIKELY to vote for Harris. Good to know. No word on whether it makes them less likely to vote for Swift.

New Yahoo News/YouGov poll: 8% of Americans say Taylor Swift’s endorsement makes them more likely to vote for Kamala Harris
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My guess is that Swift’s endorsement will energize and drive her followers to vote that may not otherwise have spent the time voting.

enviroGator · Sep 17, 2024

Sure ... he has nothing to do with Project 25.

gatorchamps960608 · Sep 17, 2024

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Taylor Swift's endorsement of Harris has Trump fanatics angry. Half of Trump's most committed voters indicated that Swift's endorsement of Harris makes them LESS LIKELY to vote for Harris. Good to know. No word on whether it makes them less likely to vote for Swift.

New Yahoo News/YouGov poll: 8% of Americans say Taylor Swift’s endorsement makes them more likely to vote for Kamala Harris
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Trump's committed voters would drink Trump branded poison before they would vote for Harris so their responses are meaningless.

philnotfil · Sep 17, 2024

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This is old news (clip from 2022), but tell me how anyone can support a man that wanted to have his military shoot protesters?

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Was listening to a story on the radio about Bangladesh's recent political upheaval. Their tyrant president fled the country, and the people chose nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus as their new president. Lots of information being made public now about how terrible the past president was. Disappearings of people who voiced dissent, some have been released, many can't be found and are assumed dead. Their past president was chosen democratically by their representative republic, but wanted to stay in power and was willing to cross the guardrails preserving the liberty of their people.

ajoseph · Sep 17, 2024

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Was listening to a story on the radio about Bangladesh's recent political upheaval. Their tyrant president fled the country, and the people chose nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus as their new president. Lots of information being made public now about how terrible the past president was. Disappearings of people who voiced dissent, some have been released, many can't be found and are assumed dead. Their past president was chosen democratically by their representative republic, but wanted to stay in power and was willing to cross the guardrails preserving the liberty of their people.
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This is the result of January 6. Trump taught the world how democracy can be foiled .

chemgator · Sep 17, 2024

Scientific American magazine makes its second presidential endorsement in 179 years of operation. Apparently, Trump is viewed as an enemy of science as well as health and the environment ("drill, baby, drill!"), because Kamala Harris is getting their endorsement. The only other time they stepped into the political arena with an endorsement was for Biden in 2020. I wonder who the anti-science, anti-environment, and anti-health candidate was that Biden was running against?

Scientific American makes presidential endorsement for only the second time in its 179-year history

“Vote for Kamala Harris to Support Science, Health and the Environment,” read the headline in Scientific American on Monday, announcing the publication’s official support for the Democratic presidential candidate.

Harris is Scientific American’s second presidential endorsement in its history, after the magazine backed President Joe Biden during the 2020 election.
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“The US faces two futures,” the editors wrote, pushing one candidate who “offers the country better prospects, relying on science, solid evidence and the willingness to learn from experience.”

They continued: “In the other future, the new president endangers public health and safety and rejects evidence, preferring instead nonsensical conspiracy fantasies.”
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sierragator · Sep 17, 2024

chemgator said: ↑

Scientific American magazine makes its second presidential endorsement in 179 years of operation. Apparently, Trump is viewed as an enemy of science as well as health and the environment ("drill, baby, drill!"), because Kamala Harris is getting their endorsement. The only other time they stepped into the political arena with an endorsement was for Biden in 2020. I wonder who the anti-science, anti-environment, and anti-health candidate was that Biden was running against?

Scientific American makes presidential endorsement for only the second time in its 179-year history
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bunch of egghead academic commies I tell ya!

chemgator · Sep 17, 2024

Lifelong (intelligent) republicans: "depressed, disgusted, and horrified" by Trump.

"Depressed, disgusted and horrified": These lifelong Republicans say they're finally done with Trump

Robert Nix, a 62-year-old lawyer from Philadelphia, was a lifelong Republican before Donald Trump came to office. He’s voted red in every election since he turned 18, and things were no different in 2016 when he voted for the GOP candidate.

But Nix quickly felt he had made a mistake. He was bothered by Trump’s boisterous comments and attacks on freedom of the press. By the time the next election rolled around in 2020, Nix put aside his ideological differences with President Joe Biden and voted Democrat for the first time in his life.

“I wasn't happy about it, but I didn't see any choice,” Nix said in an interview with Salon. This year, he’s encouraging others to do the same.

Nix is one of hundreds of Republicans sharing their experience in the hopes it will resonate with center-right voters in swing states like Pennsylvania. He is part of Republican Voters Against Trump (RVAT), a $3.5 million ad campaign started by Defending Democracy Together, an advocacy organization for conservatives "dedicated to defending America’s democratic norms, values, and institutions." In 2020, the same group launched a similar project, dubbed Republican Accountability, to share testimonials from conservative voters on their decision not to vote for Trump and encourage others to vote blue.
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sierragator · Sep 18, 2024

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Lifelong (intelligent) republicans: "depressed, disgusted, and horrified" by Trump.

"Depressed, disgusted and horrified": These lifelong Republicans say they're finally done with Trump
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RINOS every one of them! Just ask a maga.

ursidman · Sep 18, 2024

Even more Republicans and former Republican members of Congress endorse Harris and say trump is unfit to serve

chemgator · Sep 18, 2024

Here's a funny story. The producers of the "Apprentice" were horrified at Trump's incompetence at picking people to fire at the end of each episode. The people that the producers picked to succeed in the show's tasks were often the first to be fired. They had to go back and try to re-edit footage to make the best candidate look bad or else Trump would look "like a moron" for firing the wrong candidate.

Also funny: Trump used to call in to Forbes magazine reporters to hype himself and his wealth, pretending to be someone named "John Barron", which is not too far from "Don Morron". He did nothing to disguise his own voice. He wanted people to think he was wealthier than he was (to be listed on the Forbes 400) and more physically attractive. His actually net worth was $5 million at the time, but he was able to con Forbes magazine into putting him at $100 million. He even named his son after his alter-ego character. What a loser. I would be so embarrassed to vote for such a loser.

Trump Was ‘So Bad’ at Picking Who to Fire on ‘The Apprentice,’ Producers Edited to Keep Him From Looking ‘Like a Complete Moron’ | Video

Donald Trump didn’t always make the best decisions as head of the reality series “The Apprentice,” CNN anchor Erin Burnett said during her discussion with the authors of “Lucky Loser” on Tuesday night. “I remember judging some of these tasks, you know,” she explained. “It was supposed to be who did the worst on the tasks. But that he sometimes would be so bad about his choice about who he fired that they’d have to go back and edit it to make that person look bad.”

“Lucky Loser” co-author Russ Buettner confirmed the story and used the experience of “Apprentice” contestant David Gould as an example. “A lot of the producers thought he was going to win that whole series that season, he would just run the whole gauntlet,” Buettner said, “But Trump fired him on the very first episode. And people in the control room, the producers were like, ‘Oh my God, what do we do with this now?'”
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Buettner’s co-author Susanna Craig talked about the fact that Trump used the fake name “John Barron” to plant media stories for years. Burnett agreed with how wild this fact is, telling her, “This is something I’ve been just fascinated by for years.”

“This kind of alter ego bizarre thing,” Burnett continued. “He would pretend to be a guy named John Barron. And he would do it when he was talking about affairs or about, you know, how rich he was. Because he wanted people to think he was richer than he was and get put on the Forbes list and all of these things. He pretended to be this guy, John Barron.”
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Here is the tape with "Barron" and the Forbes reporter:

chemgator · Sep 18, 2024

A polling expert with Northwestern University is calling this election a likely landslide for Harris. Game Over. He looks at how much money is being bet on each candidate winning, and what the odds are of each candidate winning. He called the 2020 election to within 12 electoral votes.

Could there be a Kamala Harris landslide in November? The data scientist who correctly called the last election is betting yes

In late 2020 and early 2021, this reporter wrote several stories focusing on the election predictions advanced by Thomas Miller, a data scientist at Northwestern University. I was intrigued by the highly original methodology Miller deployed in calling the trends, and outcomes, first in the presidential race, then for the two Georgia senatorial contests, where the surprise twin victories gave Democrats control of the upper chamber.

Now, Miller is back in the arena for the first time since offering those highly unconventional forecasts. He's using a similar system to handicap the supposedly super-tight presidential election that will be decided just 48 days hence. His wildly out-of-the-mainstream call is sure to shock pollsters, pundits and Fortune's readers alike. But Miller's view merits close attention for two basic reasons: First, it's based on numbers-crunching that's arguably a lot more scientific than the voter surveys almost always cited to chart the contest's trajectory, and second, he achieved pinpoint accuracy four years ago.

In all three 2020 contests, Miller beat virtually every pollster, and modeler parsing multiple voter surveys. He missed the size of Biden's win in the electoral college by just 12 votes, tagging every state for the correct column save Georgia. For the two senate runoffs, Miller refined his approach to sorting data on the Peach State, and scored again. A week before Election Day on December 6, 2020, the polls gave Republican David Perdue a wide lead over Democrat Jon Ossoff, and showed the GOP's Kelly Loeffler in a dead heat versus opponent Raphael Warnock. By contrast, Miller's numbers had Loeffler heading for a big loss, and Ossoff en route to a modest victory. Once again, the contrarian academic nailed it: Miller was just 0.2% short on Warnock's 2.0% margin, and precisely on target in forecasting Ossoff's 1.0% final bulge at the ballot box.

Miller's approach vastly differs from the most of political prognostications by relying not on polls, but the prices established by Americans wagering their own dollars on the candidates they reckon are most likely to prevail. "Political betting sites are the best at predicting the wisdom of the crowd," he told Fortune. He states that while polls tell you about the past, the odds on the betting sites map the future. "Polls are as snapshot of the recent past," he adds. "They typically canvas small samples of 500 to 1,500 people. And the pollsters are asking respondents whom they're planning to vote for at that moment, which may have changed a few days later when the results are posted. Most polls are around four or five days behind."
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But Northwestern University data scientist Thomas Miller is leaning toward thinking Harris could win in a landslide in November.
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GatorJMDZ · Sep 19, 2024

chemgator said: ↑

Here's a funny story. The producers of the "Apprentice" were horrified at Trump's incompetence at picking people to fire at the end of each episode. The people that the producers picked to succeed in the show's tasks were often the first to be fired. They had to go back and try to re-edit footage to make the best candidate look bad or else Trump would look "like a moron" for firing the wrong candidate.

Also funny: Trump used to call in to Forbes magazine reporters to hype himself and his wealth, pretending to be someone named "John Barron", which is not too far from "Don Morron". He did nothing to disguise his own voice. He wanted people to think he was wealthier than he was (to be listed on the Forbes 400) and more physically attractive. His actually net worth was $5 million at the time, but he was able to con Forbes magazine into putting him at $100 million. He even named his son after his alter-ego character. What a loser. I would be so embarrassed to vote for such a loser.

Trump Was ‘So Bad’ at Picking Who to Fire on ‘The Apprentice,’ Producers Edited to Keep Him From Looking ‘Like a Complete Moron’ | Video

Here is the tape with "Barron" and the Forbes reporter:

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gator_jo · Sep 19, 2024

GatorJMDZ said: ↑

Link doesn't appear:

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He was also calling reporters to tell stories in order to manipulate stock prices of his crummy companies.

Kind of amazing he wasn't jailed back then.

ursidman · Sep 19, 2024

gator_jo said: ↑

He was also calling reporters to tell stories in order to manipulate stock prices of his crummy companies.

Kind of amazing he wasn't jailed back then.
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I remember the cover of The NY Post allegedly quoting Marla Maples just after their divorce “Best sex i’ve ever had”. No doubt in my mind this was either total fabrication by the paper and/or stipulated in the divorce settlement.

enviroGator · Sep 19, 2024

Trump's BO is so bad that is burning the eyes of his "rally" attendees.

Mystery as Trump rally attendees report bizarre eye burning symptoms post-event

Ok, I'll admit, I'm just speculating that it is his BO. It could be they were intentionally spraying something to cover his BO.

chemgator · Sep 19, 2024

enviroGator said: ↑

Trump's BO is so bad that is burning the eyes of his "rally" attendees.

Mystery as Trump rally attendees report bizarre eye burning symptoms post-event

Ok, I'll admit, I'm just speculating that it is his BO. It could be they were intentionally spraying something to cover his BO.
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I thought it might be his hair spray or his fake tan COVFEVE spray (I am assuming that they are two different sprays).

chemgator · Sep 19, 2024

Trump insults women by wondering how a woman is doing better than Joe Biden was doing in the presidential race. And Trump, one of the dumbest presidential candidates in U.S. history, believes that Harris is not knowledgeable about various things.

Donald Trump Makes Eyebrow-Raising Observation About Kamala Harris

Donald Trump appeared to find it curious that “somehow” a woman was doing better than Joe Biden had been in the presidential race.

During an appearance on Fox News’ “Gutfeld!” on Wednesday, the Republican nominee reflected on the president’s decision to end his campaign and Vice President Kamala Harris’ entry into the race.

“She doesn’t like doing interviews. And she’s not knowledgeable about economy and various things, and I think it would be a problem,” Trump said. “But you know what? [Biden] was pretty much gone. They said, ‘Joe, it’s over. You’re getting out.’”

“And they put her in, and she somehow — a woman — somehow she’s doing better than he did,” he added. “But I can’t imagine it can last.”
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chemgator · Sep 19, 2024

Trump continues to display his senility, claiming that the crowd went crazy for him during the debate with Harris. Only one problem: there was no audience.

"Delusional and unsettling": Trump forgets there was no debate audience, claims crowd "went crazy"

Former President Donald Trump appeared on a taped segment of Fox News' "Gutfeld!" Wednesday, complaining once again that the ABC News debate moderators bothered to fact-check him while falsely claiming that the debate audience "went crazy" for his performance. Host Greg Gutfeld chose not to fact-check Trump over the fact that there was no debate audience whatsoever, per the rules set by ABC News and agreed to by both campaigns.

"They didn’t correct her once,” Trump complained, referring to Vice President Kamala Harris. “And they corrected me, everything I said, practically. I think nine times or 11 times. And the audience was absolutely — they went crazy.”

MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes argued that the Republican candidate's remark validated concerns about his age and mental capacity.

"Trump talking about 'the audience' at the debate (where there famously was no audience) is more delusional and unsettling than any moment of Joe Biden misspeaking all year and it’s not close," Hayes wrote on social media.
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G8trGr8t · Sep 19, 2024

How is it that she hasn't already been removed from the case? Is it really that difficult to have a judge found incompetent?

Judge in Trump’s classified documents case under fire for failing to disclose right-wing banquet (msn.com)

The Florida federal judge who dismissed the special counsel classified documents case against Donald Trump failed to properly disclose her attendance at a 2023 banquet funded by a conservative law school. The May 5, 2023, event at George Mason University was held in honor of the late conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and included attendees from the conservative legal group the Federalist Society and right-leaning judges from across the country.

One of the attendees included William H. Pryor Jr., chief judge of the 11th Circuit, which is currently hearing an appeal of Cannon’s decision in the documents case. Cannon failed to follow a 2006 rule requiring judges to disclose within 30 days their attendance at paid seminars that could pose or suggest the appearance of a conflict of interest, according to reporting from ProPublica.

“Judges administer the law, and we have a right to expect every judge to comply with the law,” Virginia Canter, chief ethics counsel for the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), told the outlet.

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