Polls don't mean shit. Vote. Write in your fucking grandma for all I care but vote, and bring your friends. Make a party of it. Or sign up for mail in ballot if you still can, and tell your friends, family, strangers in the grocery line, coworkers, scream into the black void. VOTE.
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Uh don't commit voter fraud wtf
Edit oh you probably mean grandma for president. I'm in
Yes I was referencing a standard write in ballot with <Grandma's Name> being the independent candidate
Illinois just mails me a ballot before every election. Super convenient, it’s a shame more states don’t do it.
They mean something but there’s a thing called polling error, which news outlets studiously ignore.
The race is essentially tied currently. The danger of the new reich is very real.
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But confusingly, Trump has continued to send Vance out to campaign events all week, while the Republican presidential nominee has remained largely out of the public eye. Given Vance’s low appeal, it’s unclear how this strategy helps the campaign.
Trump is going to blame Vance for the failure of his campaign, calling it now. He'll have the usual shit about dems as well, but he's going to scapegoat vance and throw him under the bus just like he's done with literally everyone else before him.
I can't wait for Trump to refer to the couch fucking.
He's a low energy guy. Low energy. I heard some rumors about couches and JD. Nasty rumors. Rumors are sometimes true.
Everybody's saying it...
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Can’t wait for him to run again in 4 years
Hopefully he does and plagues the GOP for the next 3 cycles.
After trying to have his last Veep hung, I'm not really sure why anybody would think it would go any different for them. I guess he found another thoroughbred narcissist to join him this time. "It couldn't possibly happen to me."
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I don't quite understand this reasoning, though, since he would never acknowledge losing anyway and his freedom may rely on winning this election.
That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not my fault. <----- And if it was, I didn't mean it. And if I did, you deserved it.
That's why. He'll jump to number six after he loses, saying the GOP didn't support him enough and they deserved to lose.
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trump knows that winning by votes is off the table. he doesn't care. votes and vice presidents don't matter when your plan is to take over by force
He's going to find that a tall order when he's not an elected official this time.
his muppets in congress, state legislatures, and trailer parks will be doing everything for him. like before, the only thing trump will do is shout "election fraud" every 5 seconds
I don't think it will work. Governors certify the votes, and every swing state except Georgia has a Dem governor. And the governor of Georgia hates Trump.
It's getting really hard to claim fraud the more Republicans that are coming out against him. If he loses the popular vote by 10-20 percent, that is a real big percent to claim was fraud. But then again if he loses the popular vote by 10-20 percent and he gets the courts to overturn the election there are going to be some riots to get us to abolish the electoral college bullshit.
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Look, I hear what you're saying. I'm disgusted by the way Trump faced almost no repercussions for January 6th with so much damning evidence against him.
Last time he literally tried to have his own VP killed by a mob working under his direction while he sat and watched Fox News and refused to respond to the Capitol being attacked.
Even if he tries that again, Biden will call out the National Guard immediately, and I imagine that they will be prepared for a repeat attack this coming January anyway.
Things will not go down the same way again.
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Looks like people are ok with an old racist rapist with dementia, but fucking a couch is where the line is drawn.
It's not just that. Democrats finally found a way to message "these people do not deserve the benefit of rational debate; they deserve ridicule".
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I'm just happy people are finally drawing a line.
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Dan Quayle must be happy to pass that "worst VP ever" torch on to someone else.
i miss the days when the fuckup someone is remembered for was misspelling potato
Those were simpler times. Now it's the Time of Simps.
Slow clap
Well done!
Putting an e on the end of potato basically ended his political career and now Trump supporters shout "covfefe" because they think it's somehow smart. I think about that a lot.
Or the fact that people largely see the photo that Dukakis took in a tank as the moment HW Bush won the 88 election - compared to Trump's photo op in a Fire Truck...
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The 90s: "How could we ever put someone in charge who's so stupid he can't even spell potato?"
George W. Bush: "Watch this drive"
Donald J. Trump: "unintelligible gibberish"
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Worst is subjective. I’d argue that Cheney’s support of blood for oil and Halliburton rebuild scheme was far worse than anything Quayle did.
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Simpler times. He gave us these nuggets of wisdom:
- "You take the UNCF model that what a waste it is to lose one's mind or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
- "The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. ... No, not our nation's, but in World War II. I mean, we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century, but in this century's history"
- "I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future"
- "I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy, but that could change"
- "potatoe" (when trying to "correct" a 12-yr old's spelling of "potato")
At least Dan Quayle convinced Pence not to play ball with Trump's schemes.
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Let's be real, JD Vance was picked by the party to be the adult in the room who can actually get Project 2025 passed under Trump since Trump doesn't care about Project 2025 and just wants what's best for himself at that moment and to be a petty little bitch
Also worth noting that Vance has no personality. When asked in Eau Claire, WI "why should a voter want to have a beer with you" he responded "uh I uh haha um I actually like beer haha" (he also tried to sidestep a question about Tim Walz by saying "we aren't talking about Minneapolis policy, were talking about Wisconsin" while literally standing 1 hour's drive from Minneapolis
And when asked "what makes you smile" instead of any sane answer he answered "insane questions from biased reporters like you!" Then followed it with waffling about how he loves his job so much while forcing the fakest smile you've ever seen
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Good. Don't care. Behave like the polls show Harris two points behind. Get everyone you know to commit to voting. Offer to drive them to vote. Get them to bring their friends.
I'm genuinely thrilled to see Harris getting people energized and moving the needle, but complacency is our enemy.
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Donald is sending this hated guy around to campaign solely because Donald is a low-energy geriatric suffering from dementia. He is far too old to be president.
Wish people actually believed this, rather than just tossing it out as a barb. Wouldn't mind seeing a statutory requirement for Presidents to be under the age of 75. But it would never see the light of day in our gerontocracy.
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I got so much concern trolling for saying Biden was bad and should step down. People accused me of wanting fascism. They insisted I was naive and we should be standing behind Biden.
I just want to say to those people: you were wrong. Dumping Biden has wildly hurt Trump's chances, and you were the ones arguing against it.
I was definitely one of those people that thought we should stick with Biden because his name was known, and that we were too close to the election to get a new candidate enough exposure to be competitive. It wasn't that I thought Biden was the best choice for president, just that I thought the timing was too tight.
I'm so happy to be wrong about this. The enthusiasm for Harris is fantastic, and she's doing great with the spotlight on her. The candidate switch has stolen the media attention from Trump and it's pretty clear he doesn't know how to handle it. Younger people are more interested in voting, minorities are more interested in voting, women are more interested in voting - it's fucking great.
I was wrong. And I couldn't be happier about it.
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I am happy to admit I was wrong, I really thought Biden was the best shot this late in the race. I grossly underestimated how strong and positive the response would be for Harris, given her performance during her previous presidential run. It feels fantastic to be wrong.
With that said, I think it's a bad faith argument to lump all concern together as concern trolling. If enthusiasm had been weak, the shoe could have just as easily been on the other foot, with countless armchair politicians lamenting those 'fascist agitators' who convinced Biden to drop out, thereby handing Donnie Dipshit the presidency.
Hindsight is 20/20, I'm just glad we're still in this.
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Won't anyone comfort j.d. vance through this difficult time? Anyone? Any...thing?
Wow, really looks like little-t fucked the couch on this one.
Don't believe polls, they don't mean anything. Go out and vote. It's not over till it's over. Otherwise we risk things going tits up again.
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Doom is overstating things, especially with the fucking electoral college in the US and election shenanigans afoot in Georgia. Don't lose focus!
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Well, he's an election denying Maga billionaires' toady, that lacks any charisma, trashes where he came from and then hitches himself to someone he previously denounced in an effort to gain political power. Oh and he wants to completely ban abortion. He's an unlikable political opportunist. It's no wonder that the publics opinion of him will continue to drop.
Polls in August never "spell doom" for anyone, but especially when the other candidate has only been in the race for 3 weeks. There is no certainty that the poll numbers will maintain as people learn more about the candidates.
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