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Cont: 2024 Election Thread part 3

I don't know what it is about men, especially young men, that so many are drawn to authoritarianism but so many are.
It certainly explains Trump's lead among men, especially white men.
There are legitimate reasons to hold grievances against the current system. That being said most young men's grievances aren't literal (the s-word won't put out for me, or my whiteness and maleness no longer affords me every privilege) or, even when they are young men simply don't have the experience to pick out a charlatan or know that their message is false.
 
There are legitimate reasons to hold grievances against the current system. That being said most young men's grievances aren't literal (the s-word won't put out for me, or my whiteness and maleness no longer affords me every privilege) or, even when they are young men simply don't have the experience to pick out a charlatan or know that their message is false.
Most people find authoritarianism acceptable if it is their own sort of authoritarianism. It is the fear of the other sorts of authoritarianism that draws people towards democracy.
 
You know, the only person that has actually stated there will be no more elections if they win is T****y. In addition to being monumentally stupid, it turns out Galaxy Brain has the memory of a dead goldfish.
As an aside there was a nice bit of neurology that I saw in the ignobel prizes. To see how well fMRI worked for looking at brain activity, they performed fMRI scans on the brain of a dead salmon whilst asking the salmon questions and using the then-accepted analysis techniques and didn't get null results.

 
Strongly disagree, Trump needs the win (in his limited mind) to keep out of jail, Elon just needs it to remain the "richest man in the world".

Trump knows he will never go to jail, and he got richer than every before by not being in the White House. Bitching four more years about Harris is Job Safety for him.

Musk faces bankruptcy and criminal charges with no one interested in not jailing him for fear of political consequences.
 
Elon is claiming that Pennsylvania is on track for a "major Republican victory"

He says the gap between 2024 and 2020 is now over 600k, which almost 10% of the entire electorate!
He's been doing this for a while with a number of states.
He's setting up the claim the election was stolen.
 
Apparently all the Amish are voting for the first time this year and they are all voting for Trump.
 
Donald lays it on the line.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Mimi Ramirez-Rodriguez was kidnapped and murdered by an illegal alien—leaving behind a 9 year-old girl. I met her grieving mom Carmen tonight in Georgia. With your vote Tuesday, we will end Kamala’s invasion and we will not allow illegals to spill one more drop of American blood.
 
Apparently all the Amish are voting for the first time this year and they are all voting for Trump.
You know, if you were going to steal a whole state, identifying a subgroup which historically never votes to "reach out to" and lining up a friendly MAGAt judge to sign off on the van of "their ballots" just as you pull it into the driveway might not be a bad approach.
 
You know, if you were going to steal a whole state, identifying a subgroup which historically never votes to "reach out to" and lining up a friendly MAGAt judge to sign off on the van of "their ballots" just as you pull it into the driveway might not be a bad approach.
Unless they arrive by horse drawn buggy, no one will believe it.
 
I’ll go ahead and predict again as I did in 2016 that Trump will win.

I think I predicted so in 2020 but, nobody’s right every time! Guess we’ll see.
 
By the way, I just realized what was so great about Führer Dump's stunt at the airport, where he played make-believe with that truck. It was the garbage driving the garbage truck. A perfect unintentional metaphor for, I don't know, a whole range of things. Obviously he should've been stuffed in an XXL bin and dumped in the back for the event, but instead he got behind the wheel, which in turn is something I'd expect out of some weird surreal decades-old cartoon. Imagine trash making its way to the driver's cabin, climbing in, and driving off. That was Dump on that day.

All this will fly over his supporters' heads, of course (they'll probably spin even his cumbersome, lumbering walk as a positive, he's the ageing hero working tirelessly for MAGA and Murica despite his ailments), but the rest of us can relish the unintentional irony.
 
The 818,000 jobs refers to this:


The 112,000 revision last month?



I do love that Aaron Rupar pretends that Trump was talking about cobs; sorta reveals his integrity.

Yes, how dare he transcribe what Trump said next to a video of Trump saying that, and then make fun of Trump’s rambling gibberish.

True integrity is ignoring Trump’s rambling gibberish and doing research so you can explain to everyone what Trump really meant.
 
In a few years' time, we'll think of trumpkins desperately trying to interpret and reinterpret Drumpf's ramblings the same way we think of devotees trying to make sense of people rolling around on the floor speaking in tongues, or people who claim their cats speak a language only they can understand.

Or we'll be living in fascist dictatorship, but I mean, I'm holding out hope for the former.


Actually, this gives me an idea. You know that experiment they did a while back, where they put together sentences of gibberish and presented them as words of wisdom, and asked people what they thought of them? Now I want to do something like that for trumpkins. Make a list of gibberish nonsense statements, with some paragraphs thrown in of writing by psychotic people and others deep in various mental or cognitive states. Present them as things Drumpf have said. See how many gush over them with a straight face and are genuenely impressed.

Come to think of it, now I want to actually give it a try on various forums https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clangingd see what happens. I googled "Examples of writing by people in psychosis" and came up blank, but I can try to ask ChatGPT to give me some hypothetical examples when I get home.
Edit: Oh, oh, oh. The article Clanging (that's when someone has schizophrenia and it makes them talk like Drumpf) has a perfect example:
We are all felines. Siamese cat balls. They stand out. I had a cat, a manx, still around here somewhere. You'll know him when you see him. His name is GI Joe; he's black and white. I have a goldfish too, like a clown. Happy Halloween down. Down.
Fits the "They are eating the pets" theme perfectly. I'll try this and see what they think.

I'm starting to wonder if this project deserves its own thread.
 
Unless they arrive by horse drawn buggy, no one will believe it.
No one has to believe it. If fact it's better that way. Judge (R) signs off on the obviously fake ballots, says "count 'em." What are you gonna do about it, appeal to SCOTUS?
 

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