(Master Thread) 2024 Election Strategies, Issues, & Candidates [merged threads]

[TBoneTX 45,043]

Some good points (from leftward) are made here.

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Donald Trump lost the debate because he's too online

 

If you are reading this, you probably knew who you were going to vote for long before Tuesday night's presidential debate.

 

The reason for this is simple:  The minority of American voters who lack a strong attachment to either party tend to pay less attention to politics than partisans do.  Any political actor trying to reach undecideds must therefore mind the knowledge gap that lies between themselves and their audience.

 

And that is one thing that Donald Trump utterly failed to do at the debate in Philadelphia.  For this reason, among others, Vice President Kamala Harris was likely the chief beneficiary of her first oratorical showdown with the Republican nominee.  [...]

 

https://www.vox.com/politics/371345/trump-harris-debate-winner-truth-social

[TBoneTX 45,043]

See the video interviews of Springfield citizens here.

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Vance Nails It on Pet Eating Scandal

 

Are Haitians eating people's pets in Springfield, Ohio?  Media folks want you to know that it isn't happening.

 

Sure, nobody cared about the RESIDENTS of Springfield, who have been watching their city drown in a flood of Haitian "refugees" sent there by the Biden/Harris administration--a quarter of the town is now mostly Creole-speaking third-worlders who come from a country where people eat each other.  But that is no big deal, and never was to the mainstream media.

 

What really matters is that a city official says he isn't sure that cats are being eaten by said migrants, proving that anybody who thinks they might be are bad bad xenophobic racists.

J.D. Vance is having none of it.  And he is right.  [...]

 

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/09/11/vance-nails-it-on-pet-eating-scandal-n3794344

[TBoneTX 45,043]

Media Assures Americans That Migrants Haven't Killed Any Cats, Just Women And Children

 

U.S. — In response to viral allegations that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are killing and eating cats, dogs, and park fowl, media outlets have assured Americans that illegal immigrants are in fact only killing vulnerable women and children.

The pet-eating allegations have spread quickly online, especially in the form of memes such as images of kitten militias wielding assault rifles and wearing MAGA hats.  Congressional Democrats held emergency hearings to warn Americans that these images were probably not real, as kittens' paws are not well-suited to holding rifles.  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/media-assures-americans-that-migrants-havent-killed-any-cats-just-women-and-children

[TBoneTX 45,043]

In Brief Moment Of Lucidity, Biden Endorses Trump

 

SHANKSVILLE, PA — The day-to-day grind of the presidential campaign trail was turned upside down today, as in a brief moment of lucidity, President Joe Biden endorsed former President Donald Trump.

The stunning incident was the first momentary instance of Biden showing any sense of clarity, coherence, and good judgment, as he paused to put on a "TRUMP 2024" baseball cap during a campaign stop at a local fire station.  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/in-brief-moment-of-lucidity-biden-endorses-trump

[TBoneTX 45,043]

Tapper:  Why Won't Kamala Answer Questions?

 

[...] Yesterday, focus groups started telling Reuters, CNN, and the New York Times that Kamala Harris didn't impress them as a serious candidate, even if she managed to out-jab Donald Trump.  While pundits sang hosannas (and in some cases in conservative media, dirges) over Harris' ability to irritate her opponent, actual voters wondered why Harris couldn't answer questions about her policies and positions -- and what she'd do differently than the last four disastrous years.

 

CNN's Jake Tapper wondered the same thing, in fact.  [...]

 

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/09/12/tapper-why-wont-kamala-answer-questions-n3794394

[TBoneTX 45,043]

This is highly interesting -- perhaps telling -- and pictures don't lie.  Look and see if you agree, and please comment.

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A Tale of Two Receptions

 

The start of this is going to sound like the intro to one of those truly awful old stand-up jokes.

 

You know, the ones that always start like, "So, a priest and a rabbi walk into a bar..."

 

Only this is a tale of two campaigns and the commemoration ceremonies of the ghastly events of September 11th, 2001.

 

At Ground Zero yesterday, [...]

 

https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/09/12/a-tale-of-two-receptions-n3794420

[TBoneTX 45,043]

White House Responds To Haitian Immigrant Crisis By Airdropping Crates Of Cats Into Springfield, OH

 

SPRINGFIELD, OH — U.S. military cargo planes airdropped crates full of cats over Springfield on Thursday in a strategic response authorized by President Joe Biden to aid residents in light of the ongoing Haitian immigration crisis.

"Problem solved," Biden said, departing for Rehoboth Beach in celebration.

The airdrops began early this morning, just before dawn.  Lieutenant Colonel ####### Kraven said of Operation Land On Their Feet, "We [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/white-house-responds-to-haitian-immigrant-crisis-by-airdropping-crates-of-cats-into-springfield-oh

[TBoneTX 45,043]

Democrats Concerned California Wildfires May Burn Up Their Stock Of Prefilled Kamala Harris Ballots

 

LOS ANGELES, CA — As the wildfires in California intensify, Democrat politicians across the state have shifted into lockdown mode to protect the state's strategic reserves of prefilled Kamala Harris ballots.

According to Governor Gavin Newsom, the fires could present an existential threat to election security in California if they get too close to the stacks of already filled-out Kamala Harris election ballots.

"Let's go, go, go!" Newsom shouted as teams of Democrat staffers sweated to move the precious bankers' boxes of Kamala Harris ballots out of fireproof security trucks and into strategic vaults.  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-concerned-california-wildfires-may-burn-up-their-stock-of-prefilled-kamala-harris-ballots

[TBoneTX 45,043]

Taylor Swift's Cats Endorse Trump

 

NASHVILLE, TN — Hot on the heels of their global superstar owner's public announcement that she was supporting Kamala Harris for president, Taylor Swift's cats issued a press release endorsing former President Donald Trump.

While the news was a stunning deviation from the pop star's own endorsement, a Swift insider revealed the singer's cats — Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson, and Benjamin Button — were heavily swayed by Trump's pledge to protect pets and other small animals from being abducted, killed, and eaten by bands of marauding Haitian migrants.

"This election is about what kind of country we want to have," Benjamin Button said in the announcement.  "Do we want  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/taylor-swifts-cats-endorse-trump

[Nous Eb 86]

3 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

This is highly interesting -- perhaps telling -- and pictures don't lie.  Look and see if you agree, and please comment.

 

 

VERY telling. The democrats have weaker and weaker candidates. Clinton was by far the strongest and couldn't beat him, Biden was already declining in 2020 or he might have fooled more people but he did worse (unless you believe Biden had 81 million votes, LOL!) and Harris is literally so bad they just selected her without any voting.

 

There is something up with Biden. Not just lately, but since the start. Biden has helped Trump more than he hurt him and he has kept crucial E.O.'s in place. Sometimes I wonder what the real story is. In fact, sometimes I wonder who the real Biden is!

 

Not sure if anyone is interested, or if you think it's stupid conspiracy stuff. I believe all this stuff is highly interesting. Thought I'd share: https://rumble.com/v51ne0d-is-trump-running-a-clandestine-military-operation-the-roseanne-barr-podcast.html 

 

 

[Dashinka 24,404]

3 hours ago, Nous Eb said:

 

 

VERY telling. The democrats have weaker and weaker candidates. Clinton was by far the strongest and couldn't beat him, Biden was already declining in 2020 or he might have fooled more people but he did worse (unless you believe Biden had 81 million votes, LOL!) and Harris is literally so bad they just selected her without any voting.

 

There is something up with Biden. Not just lately, but since the start. Biden has helped Trump more than he hurt him and he has kept crucial E.O.'s in place. Sometimes I wonder what the real story is. In fact, sometimes I wonder who the real Biden is!

 

Not sure if anyone is interested, or if you think it's stupid conspiracy stuff. I believe all this stuff is highly interesting. Thought I'd share: https://rumble.com/v51ne0d-is-trump-running-a-clandestine-military-operation-the-roseanne-barr-podcast.html 

 

 

Democrats seem to want everyone to forget that she was not actually chosen by the Democrat base.  What party is more of a threat to our Republic?

[Nous Eb 86]

11 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

Democrats seem to want everyone to forget that she was not actually chosen by the Democrat base.  What party is more of a threat to our Republic?

 

Democrats also want people to forget exactly that, that the United States is a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy. "Donald Trump is a threat to our Democracy". I think I heard that phrase thousands of times by now. IT'S NOT A DEMOCRACY!! As if anyone would want 2 wolves and a sheep voting what's for dinner. 

[Boiler 45,349]

 

[Crazy Cat 41,621]

44 minutes ago, Boiler said:

 

If true, someone at ABC should be prosecuted for election interference.

Edited September 13 by Crazy Cat

[TBoneTX 45,043]

After you read this article by a former liberal Democrat, please comment.  It all makes sense, or at least better sense, I think.

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Trump's Surprising Secret Weapon:  Sympathy

 

[...] I, too, thought Kamala Harris had won the debate.  By the end, I was so demoralized, so sad, and so full of despair that I just went to bed and hoped it would be gone by morning.

 

I knew it wasn't just a debate.  It's much bigger than that.  It's a TIME magazine cover.  It's Frank Luntz and the Spectator declaring the debate will cost Trump the election.  It's a thousand points of light on Twitter, a once-great coalition undone by ugliness for ten long years.  It's a Stephen Colbert monologue.  It's a Taylor Swift endorsement.  It's the center of Bill Maher's entire universe on Friday night.  It will be Saturday Night Live.  It's too big.  Too insurmountable.  It's everything, everywhere, all at once.

 

Or is it?

When I woke up, scrolled through TikTok, and read the post-debate polls, I found headline after headline declaring voters' choice for president unmoved.  It made no difference whatsoever, and, if anything, sympathy tipped in Trump's direction, and Harris suddenly became as unlikable or "likable enough" as Hillary Clinton.

Why?  [...]

 

https://sashastone.substack.com/p/trumps-surprising-secret-weapon-sympathy