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How can I make a contribution to the Harris campaign without giving up a bunch of information that causes them to hound me forever? I’m already dealing with way too many spam calls.

Whoa seriously? Is this whole campaign just about grifting money and not even caring whether he wins? Or makes no sense to close field offices, unless they are still open in swing states.

A bunch doesn’t appear on mobile. Not sure if it’s yarn or something else.

Machinator being back has me all excited, which is ridiculous and pathetic.

Ok dammit. Stop killing my Walz buzz with a bunch of boring posts about Minnesota weather.

Walz may not win you a ton of new votes, but he shouldn't lose you any. Shapiro would have lost you some votes, and may not have offset those with enough new votes. It's a safe good pick. VP's aren't supposed to overly-impact the voting. Palin showed there's a lot of downside, and no one has ever shown much upside.

I can now say my source was Kamala. She and I are tight. She works at a UToteM down on Greenville.

My political connection says it’s Walz. TIFWIW

What site is this

I finally have been able to develop my action strategy wrt Trump voters. I have them in the following buckets with the associated action: 1. Too Stupid To Understand - these are idiots who fall for all of the propaganda and are simply too stupid to educate. Who wants to be around stupid people? I cut them all out my life except for family that I have to see. I minimize all conversation with those that remain. I just ignore them for the most part. 2. Tragically Uninformed - with these people I tell them straight out my thoughts on Trump in the harshest way possible. I then ask them if they’ve actually read and researched various issues on non-biased sources. None of them have. I tell them I have and they are victims of disinformation campaigns and their views are simply wrong. I don’t give shit if I make them mad or hurt their feelings. The only exception I make here is if they are important family or work related people. In that case I soft pedal my views by saying I’m an independent and don’t support Trump because of all the research I’ve done. This usually shuts up this group, and maybe just maybe causes 1 out of 10 to change their mind over months or years. 3. The Selfish Anti-Americans - these are the wealthy or religious nut jobs who support Trump solely for their self interest anti-America views. Fuck them. I cut them out of my life unless I have to tolerate them. I don’t waste a second trying to change their minds because it will never happen. This is why Elon and I are no longer friends. Of course we never were friends, but still! 4. The Confused - this is the most difficult group to deal with. They are educated, fairly well informed, recognize that the Republican Party does have some decent policies, but they perceive most facts thru a biased lens. They don’t realize they are victims of disinformation campaigns and think they’ve figured it all out. And, they are correct in saying that some Democrats policies are not good and so they don’t want to vote Democrat. I don’t cut these people out. I gently and rationally talk with them, but not often, about real facts and what disinformation is going around. I chip away at these people over years. I’m pretty sure I’ve flipped a fair number of them, or they figured out themselves that Trump is a moron. The rest are the ones we have to worry about at the polls This is my game plan. I think it’s good and I think everyone should be implementing it.

Cops, firemen, veterans, tradesmen, farmers are all groups with quite a few Trump voters and it is surprising that they haven’t seen through his bullshit. Part of it is the testosterone charged environment where acting like an ass and saying politically incorrect things is still happening.

Dak Prescott has no idea who this is.

I know dozens (100+?) of CEO’s that also are Pro Trump. They are conditioned to think in simple black and white stereotypes of a) Republicans good for business, b) Democrats bad for business. While this is a gross misleading oversimplification, it’s the environment they are in so they are just blind to facts. It’s why I respect the heck out of CEO’s, like Sydney here, and others who’ve deprogrammed themselves. I got out of that mindset in the mid-2000’s. But in the early 1990’s I was listening to Rush Limbaugh bs. Pfffft. I created Tik tok videos for them.

Apparently unlike you, my kids respect me and my views on various topics. Sorry your kids think you are an idiot. Thoughts and prayers.

It should have pissed me off, but it surprised me instead. The kids are smart and politically aware. But it made me realize that a lot of young people don’t really understand how serious of a situation the country faces. I don’t talk politics with my kids. I’ve always assumed they are smart enough to see through the bullshit, but now I’m not so sure. I’m going to have a conversation with them and send them a write up of my thoughts.

Saw our close friends yesterday who are pretty far left supporters. They’ve been Democrats their whole life. They told me that when Biden dropped out and Harris stepped in, their two 20’s kids and their friends got wildly excited. Here’s the kicker. Until that happened they weren’t going to vote! They were so beaten down by old white man syndrome they had just given up. I think Harris is going to bring a lot of new young voters to the polls and that obviously spells bad news for Trumpanzees.

That’s why she needs to spice it up for the Idiocracy generation by doing in a remote region of Alaska with nothing but 12 survival tools, no food, and a battery powered camcorder.

I’ve spent the last several days totally lost until I just saw this post. I have the Olympic app and while it shows the US events, it doesn’t show tv coverage. I kept thinking NBC would be the “hub” of Olympic coverage, providing summaries of what is happening at the moment in different sports, and clarifying channel coverage, but for the most part they just cover events like every other channel. I kept missing stuff like golf. I had no idea it was on the golf channel.

IMO none of the VP choices are ideal, except for Whitmer and she isn’t in play. I still think they should figure out a way to get her on the ticket. I don’t believe the theory that it has to be a white man, but I could be wrong.

Such a stupid trade.

Taaffe with a Lambo?

It’s not the ads, it’s the intrusiveness of the ads. It just makes someone want to immediately leave.

The top ad front and center was not dismissable. There was no x to hit. And what about the ad that flew in to cover almost the entire screen? That’s acceptable?

Okay, I logged out and looked at the site. Below is a perspective that is broader than just this Business question, but it’s because I believe we are asking the wrong question. My comments are harsh but I’m trying to provide a perspective of a new internet roamer, not me as a registered user. 1. The ads are slightly better than a few weeks ago when I was logged out, but as you can see above fuck that abusive shit. Not only do the ads cover the whole pages in some cases, I wasn’t able to shut the window sitting front and center top. And every few scrolls resulted in a complete failure to load the page. Sometimes it came back and sometime I just went into failure to load. Unregistered users will see this and keep on scrolling past the site because it’s just too abusive and frustrating. 2. While I agree that this issue isn’t specifically relevant to the Business forum, I believe the better question to ask is why isn’t the site growing more, with more content in many forums. A lot of the forums are stale, not just Business. It’s because the established users of the site have their favorite forums and that’s where they focus. You want more traffic in other forums, get more users with other interests. 3. What would help is a front and center message to unregistered users that makes it easy to see that they can avoid ads and have other benefits for registering, like not having to remember where you stopped reading a thread, etc. 4. Of course fewer ads means less revenue, but maybe there is a way to get better ads that produce more click through or as you discussed before, make them sponsored ads instead of google ads. The business section (investments) in particular would potentially be attractive. Trey’s firm might even sponsor it. A good customer experience is the first rule of getting customers, keeping customers, and increasing usage. There are certain websites I refuse to visit, like Forbes, because the ads are so intrusive and technically screwing up the page loads.