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  1. If anyone still thought Joe Biden should be the nominee, this "story" was a good reminder why he is not. Thanks for four years of competency. This is the only follow-up from him I would have accepted
  2. It's a matter of when, not if, Texas will flip.
  3. I want to believe. How are they getting it so wrong, though? Like, how exactly are their methods failing?
  4. These people are such fucking cowards. They want the racism, but are afraid of being judged so they have to pretend to care about their own pocketbooks
  5. they should know by now to keep this fucker far away from podcast microphones but they really can't help themselves
  6. Trafalgar, so add like +4 Harris?
  7. https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/focus/20241024-argentina-plunged-into-recession-as-milei-s-government-imposes-drastic-budget-cuts
  8. Two things about 2008 Iowa/Obama that I want to flag. 1. The social landscape 2008 vs. 2024. Social media was more of a curiosity reserved for tech-savvy and college-aged people, which meant that people were far less ideologically and socially segmented in 2008 than we are today. For those who believe in monoculture, there was a stronger monoculture in 2008 than today, which means a place like Iowa could give you a sense for what middle america is thinking. Today? We have Elon and Zuckerberg curating what everyone sees, reinforcing bubbles and echo chambers, replacing Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather with Dan Bongino and Democracy Now!. The media diet of the average Iowan may not resemble the media diet of the average Pennsylvanian, and their values and voting are more likely to reflect those differences. I think Selzer is a fantastic pollster who knows Iowa better than any pollster knows their respondents, but I would read far less about the national landscape into her polls today than I would in 2008. 2. The political landscape 2008 v. 2024. Obama was a generational talent who tapped into a powerful desire to reject the Bush era. 2024 on the other hand offers two paths that most voters feel like we've been down before: Trumpist chaos-through-fascism vs. Biden-esque stability-through-neoliberalism. With Harris, there is no longer the concerns about age and stamina, and she has made a deliberate point not to emphasize her gender or race. With Trump, there is no longer the pesky global pandemic to dampen his ability to run on his record. With neither candidate in a position to offer anything that feels new to the voters, this might be the first race in recent memory to be a dueling referendum on diametrically opposite values systems, both of which the American people have test driven.
  9. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/tony-hinchcliffe-trump-rally-racist-puerto-rico-remarks-rcna177587
  10. I agree in terms of direct impact. What I love is that this entire event more or less got overshadowed by the joke. Kamala gets a day's worth of ammo for cutting ads, and instead of a coherent closing argument making its way to normies who watch nightly news, Hinchcliff became the story.
  11. Pathetic Joe Rogan orbiter tells a joke so bad it saves America from fascism was not on my bingo card
  12. If Kamala has a massive advantage in cash, you sure wouldn't know it based on the barrage of Trump ads on daytime television.
  13. In Dallas, I thought it was rust. In Austin, I believed it was nerves. Since Nashville, I've known it's something else.
  14. The one thing that binds ALL Trump's supporters across all demographics is their lack of self-respect. It's a core trait, down to the molecular level. No Puerto Rican Trump supporter will ever abandon him. However, this could motivate people who were on the fence or who didn't care enough to vote, but will care now.
  15. NSIAP (Jay Johnston, with photos) https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.257659/gov.uscourts.dcd.257659.191.0.pdf Most interesting part is that apparently he doesn't have enough money to pay a fine. FAFO.
  16. He doesn't think he should have to pay $60k to bury a Puerto Rican news cycle
  17. Might need its own thread https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/28/sport/dwyane-wade-miami-heat-statue-nba-spt-intl/index.html brings back great memories of the Co-op statues
  18. Succession. I fucking called it months ago.
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