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1 hour ago, Js1 said:

Lol this shit is insane

Fox News - Trump +2 nationally but Harris leads in 6 swing states 

Those 2 things can’t happen 

 

ohh you should listen to hannity radio show, the ‘polls’ hes discussing would make putin laugh. then he’ll have oriley or newt on to back him up or they claim the real polls are showing a huge trump decisive victory 

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2 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

ohh you should listen to hannity radio show, the ‘polls’ hes discussing would make putin laugh. then he’ll have oriley or newt on to back him up or they claim the real polls are showing a huge trump decisive victory 

Why in god’s name would I listen to hannity radio show 

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2 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Honestly, this is about where I am in these last 3 weeks leading up to the election. Definitely going to be there if Kamala loses. Full on nuclear meltdown. 

 

im voting monday for sure 

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/16/media/fox-news-women-town-hall-supporters/index.html

 

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Fox News hosted an all-women town hall with former President Donald Trump, billed as an opportunity for female voters to ask the Republican candidate questions that matter to them.

The Georgia town hall, where Trump took questions on reproductive laws, transgender rights and other issues, aired Wednesday morning. But Fox News did not disclose that the female audience it selected for the event was packed with local Republican supporters and the network edited its broadcast to remove some of their vocal advocacy of Trump.

 

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The Georgia Federation of Republican Women wrote on its Facebook page Wednesday that the group helped host the event, posting photos from the venue and writing they were “Super excited for the opportunity of hosting this event right here in Georgia!”

Shortly after CNN reached out to the group and Fox News about their role, the post was edited to state they were “excited for the opportunity of attending this event right here in Georgia!”

 

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Republican Women of Forsyth County also posted a video from the event showing attendees chatting with Trump and Fox News host Harris Faulkner.

A Fox News spokesperson told CNN the event was not hosted by any Republican group and that it was the network’s event alone. But the right-wing outlet did not disclose the makeup of the audience in its press release announcing the town hall or in Faulkner’s introduction, stating only that it was “held with an audience entirely composed of women.”

 

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The first question posed to Trump at the town hall came from a woman identified as Lisa, who asked the former president a question about the economy. The network did not disclose that Lisa is also the president of the Fulton County Republican Women group.

The local Republican groups did not respond to CNN requests for comment Wednesday.

Some of the town hall attendees made it clear they were supporters of the former president, either in their questioning or in their attire.

“I want to thank you for coming to a room full of women the current administration would consider domestic terrorists,” a woman named Alicia said to laughter from the audience before a question about foreign policy.

But a portion of Alicia’s question was edited by Fox News to remove her admission that she was voting for Trump.

“I proudly cast my vote for you today. I hope they count it,” she added, according to an audio recording from a CNN reporter in attendance.

While it’s common for a pre-taped event or interview to be edited for time, Alicia’s short remark came in the middle of her question, which remained intact on the broadcast.

During another moment missing from Fox’s broadcast, Trump asked the crowd who they were voting for, leading to a chant of “Trump, Trump” breaking out by the attendees.

Fox News did not respond to CNN questions about the missing remarks.

The crowd of women was overwhelmingly supportive of the former president, welcoming Trump with a standing ovation and often breaking out into applause during his responses. When Trump called President Joe Biden “the worst president in history” and Vice President Kamala Harris “the worst vice president,” the crowd burst into cheers.

One woman in the crowd wore an “RNC Delegate” hat. Another named Rachel wore a Trump pin visible on her blazer as she asked the former president a question.

When Faulkner asked the audience whether they opposed “biological men and boys competing against women and girls in sports,” nearly every hand in the room was raised, the Fox host noted. According to CNN’s fact check of the event, Trump made at least 19 false claims in the one-hour town hall. Faulkner did not fact check Trump on stage.

The UK-based news outlet The Independent, which reported from the Georgia event, spoke with attendees and noted many “were from Republican groups around the area whom Fox News invited.”

Rachel, who wore a Trump pin while asking the candidate a question, was later interviewed on Fox News. Though she was identified by anchor Sandra Smith as a Trump supporter, the woman pushed back on The Independent’s reporting.

“I’m nobody and I’m not registered with anybody,” she said. “I found out about this meeting late through my local county Facebook page.”

 

 

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We really need to revise our national elections so that any candidate that gets over 50% wins outright, with a deferral to the electoral college if not.  Would encourage national campaigning, increase the importance of third parties, and swing states would still keep their significance in close elections.
I've thought that splitting EC voted might have this effect. If Dems thought they could squeeze 7-10 EC votes out of Texas can you imagine how much more money would be spent in Texas? Imagine what that would mean for Dem candidates down the ballot? Texas Dem Party might actually have to make an effort and find some candidates.
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12 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Why would Stormy Daniels owe Trump any money?

If memory serves, she lost the defamation suit and owes fees (I think due to shitty counsel, but that's just how I recall it).  

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14 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Why would Stormy Daniels owe Trump any money?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/05/31/stormy-daniels-still-owes-trump-money/73919980007/

 

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Porn star Stormy Daniels - who is at the heart of the hush money case that landed Donald Trump a conviction Thursday - still owes the former president more than half a million dollars in legal fees.

The debt stems from a failed defamation case brought by Daniels against Trump in 2018, where she was ordered to repay Trump for attorney's fees. It was filed after Daniels had released a composite sketch of a man she claimed threatened her to stay quiet about her alleged sexual encounter with Trump. Trump dismissed the sketch as a "con job" on X, formerly Twitter.

 

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A judge dismissed the case, labeling Trump’s tweet as “rhetorical hyperbole” and noting that it was protected by the First Amendment. 

Daniels said in her testimony during the hush money trial that her former lawyer, Michael Avenatti, who is now in prison for embezzlement and other crimes, wanted to file the lawsuit. Trump has sued Daniels in Florida to get the money, but she still hasn't paid, she testified. 

She also confirmed on the witness stand to Trump lawyer Susan Necheles that she owed Trump $560,000 in legal fees. When asked if that was before interest, Daniels replied, “I would assume, yes.”

 

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Daniels’ lawyer Clark Brewster told USA TODAY the amount she owes Trump is a moving target given the growing interest but it's "$600,000 or $620,000, somewhere in that range." 

At one point during a cross examination with Necheles, Daniels said about the case that Trump “prevailed, but I was not found to have lost.”

In an interview with USA TODAY on Friday, Brewster said he and Daniels intend to fight paying Trump the money the court says she owes Trump.

“That’s a pending matter” in Florida, Brewster said, “and we'll defend on whatever grounds are available to us there.”

 

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4 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

No disagreement.  But still, when for centuries, you've had a 100 yard head start in the race, and now you only have a 50 yard head start....and because you had the 100 yard head start you never bothered to learn to run that fast because you didn't need to, the head start gave you all the advantage you needed....well, loss of a huge advantage into a smaller advantage can feel like a DISadvantage.

Young white men still have every chance to succeed -- they even have built in advantages.  But they have to actually fucking work for it now because there's competition.  We gotta figure out how to get them off their asses to compete.

You have to take into account that some of them just aren’t smart enough to compete. The poor dumb white guy has limited opportunities, just like he did 20 years ago just like he did 40 years ago. 

But now that the mine is closed down or the factory is gone, anyone that was smart enough or ambitious enough to get the fuck out and do something is gone. So the only ones that are left are the morons. 

And when you’re sitting around poor and dumb, I’m sure it’s a real seductive message to be hearing that it’s not your fault. It’s their fault. You’re a red blooded white skinned natural born American in the country that built the world. Greatness is your birthright if only those people over there would stop fucking it up. The blacks and the browns and the Jews and the Asians and the Indians and the Muslims and the gays and the trans are all being handed what should be yours. And it’s the fucking democrats that are giving away your birthright. 

 

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7 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

Sorry if this was already posted but WTAF

 

That dude isn’t a farmer.

He’s a farm worker. 

There’s a fucking difference.

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3 minutes ago, heso said:

You have to take into account that some of them just aren’t smart enough to compete. The poor dumb white guy has limited opportunities, just like he did 20 years ago just like he did 40 years ago. 

But now that the mine is closed down or the factory is gone, anyone that was smart enough or ambitious enough to get the fuck out and do something is gone. So the only ones that are left are the morons. 

And when you’re sitting around poor and dumb, I’m sure it’s a real seductive message to be hearing that it’s not your fault. It’s their fault. You’re a red blooded white skinned natural born American in the country that built the world. Greatness is your birthright if only those people over there would stop fucking it up. The blacks and the browns and the Jews and the Asians and the Indians and the Muslims and the gays and the trans are all being handed what should be yours. And it’s the fucking democrats that are giving away your birthright. 

 

There is also a big failure to launch problem that I've noticed.  I'm not sure if it's entirely because of helicopter parenting, which someone alluded to earlier or what.  In my neighborhood, there are multiple guys in the 30s that literally have never left home (they aren't all white, well one guy isn't).  They don't get jobs very often, when they do, they are as dead end as possible; and of course they never last.  You don't necessarily have to have a collegiate education to be successful in this country, there are plenty of guys in trades that do great.  However, these guys that fail to launch (and I loathe the term) seem to have no interest in pursuing anything at all, not mechanics, not a trade, nothing.  Basically, there's a just a pure loser quotient in all this. 

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2 hours ago, TexEx15 said:

A sampling

Interestingly when I went back to pull these my “For You Page” was completely lacking of any responses to the interview. However, as I read through the page 10-15 mins ago there were tons of random tweets about it. Again by and large positive. All gone now. Weird…

Nick cannon is a panelist on Fox News too?

Jesus christ.

What TV won’t he do.

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10 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

Sorry if this was already posted but WTAF

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Again with the “insane asylums” references when talking about immigration. It’s 100% clear someone talked to Trump about asylum seekers and his mush brain assumed the borders were overrun by escaped mental patients. Thus the Hannibal Lecter shit.

It reminds me of when I was a little kid and I overheard my parents tell someone that they found termites in “our beds.” I was terrified that termites would eat me as I slept that night. I got over it when, after asking my parents about it, they explained that they were talking about the flower beds outside of the house. 

Trump has the mental capacity of a 6 year old. Except, unlike a normal 6 year old, he doesn’t have the curiosity to ask questions or mental capacity to process the answer. 

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19 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

Sorry if this was already posted but WTAF

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I honestly can't even listen to what he's saying because the contrast between his face and hands is so overwhelmingly impossible to ignore.

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2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

To be fair, nobody would hate and actively campaign against the actual Jesus Christ than Republicans.  Jesus Christ is 100% unelectable.  And not just because he's.....(((you know))).

A brown-skinned, woke Chris-tard?

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39 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

why would murderers and rapists want to take jobs picking vegetables?  i mean, there’s only so many hours in the day. 

You know what kinda appetite one gets murderin and raping?  They may be rapist, but even they know the importance of eating at least 5 servings of fresh vegetables to keep a healthy lifestyle 

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25 minutes ago, CTC2 said:

Does anyone else kind of feel that not enough is being made of the high probability of JD Vance be coming President if Trump is elected?

I agree. 2 years from now, I want to be thinking about JD Vance about as much as I think about Tim Kaine. 

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11 hours ago, texasdago said:

 

"The lawfare that has been practiced by the current administration against Trump (and even against Musk by CA regulators) is the biggest threat to the rule of law not Trump.  Show me the man and I'll find you the crime.  There is a far bigger threat to the rule of law state than Mr. Trump."

 

"So you are telling me that you don't think suspending the statute of limitations in NY state for a year so that a lady could file a claim against Trump from 1975 over a Bergdorff Goodman alleged rape that she told no one about and didn't report to the police before having the SOL revert back to its normal 10-year period is not something out of the KGB playbook.  Show me the man and I'll find you the crime.  The legislature in that instance particularly enacted this legislation to get Trump."

Can't speak to the background on the E. Jean Carroll case but why are we talking about a state court case here?  

AND he then said I was being influenced by TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome)

F me... 

Anyway, I dug up our WhatsApp conversation from January 10, 2021 where he admitted I was right about him the whole time.   Screenshot and sent to him.  I told you... you eventually saw through him, you can still see through him.  Best I can do is throw his words back in his face.

Holy shit your friend is bonkers

 

and a died in the wool true believer trumpkin 

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2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Why would Stormy Daniels owe Trump any money?

Avenatti filed some clown-ass defamation suit that she lost bigly and he was awarded $300k in attorneys fees. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/stormy-daniels-must-pay-300k-donald-trump-losing-defamation-case-appea-rcna21002

As a prelminary matter, it's a pretty dick move to attempt to collect attorneys fees when the economic imbalance is that of Trump and Daniels, but apparently Trump or his attorneys (likely the latter, because he stiffed them), filed suit against her and they're trying to coerce her into another NDA.

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