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Post by The Aztec Panther on Aug 8, 2024 16:46:52 GMT -8
How ANYONE can support that guy, at all, is beyond me. I saw him for what he was almost 40 years ago. I knew he was an arrogant fraud back in the 80's. I've never liked or respected him, and he was sharper then than he is now. Now he's a rambling idiot, making stuff up as he goes along. Only weak minded people support him. Sheep. It's a sad comment on our society that he gets about 37% strong support. 30 years ago his support would be about 10% if he said all this stuff. America has been dumbed down by Fox News and the Republican Party of the 21st Century.
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Post by uwphoto on Aug 8, 2024 17:24:56 GMT -8
How ANYONE can support that guy, at all, is beyond me. I saw him for what he was almost 40 years ago. I knew he was an arrogant fraud back in the 80's. I've never liked or respected him, and he was sharper then than he is now. Now he's a rambling idiot, making stuff up as he goes along. Only weak minded people support him. Sheep. It's a sad comment on our society that he gets about 37% strong support. 30 years ago his support would be about 10% if he said all this stuff. America has been dumbed down by Fox News and the Republican Party of the 21st Century. "Only I can fix it" is pretty strong medicine for the easily duped.
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Post by The Aztec Panther on Aug 8, 2024 17:27:22 GMT -8
How ANYONE can support that guy, at all, is beyond me. I saw him for what he was almost 40 years ago. I knew he was an arrogant fraud back in the 80's. I've never liked or respected him, and he was sharper then than he is now. Now he's a rambling idiot, making stuff up as he goes along. Only weak minded people support him. Sheep. It's a sad comment on our society that he gets about 37% strong support. 30 years ago his support would be about 10% if he said all this stuff. America has been dumbed down by Fox News and the Republican Party of the 21st Century. "Only I can fix it" is pretty strong medicine for the easily duped. And that's my point. 30 years ago there weren't nearly as many people who were so easily duped. The American people have been dumbed down, and now we have idiocracy.
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Post by uwphoto on Aug 8, 2024 17:30:57 GMT -8
"Only I can fix it" is pretty strong medicine for the easily duped. And that's my point. 30 years ago there weren't nearly as many people who were so easily duped. The American people have been dumbed down, and now we have idiocracy. Well, after all...." They aren't coming after me ..they are coming after you!".
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Post by aztecryan on Aug 8, 2024 18:16:25 GMT -8
Seems not good.
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Post by The Aztec Panther on Aug 8, 2024 19:20:31 GMT -8
The main strategy of Texas Republicans is to disenfranchise as many minority voters as they can. They know that the demographic changes in their state do not work in their favor, so they're making it harder for Democrats to vote. They have closed a ton of voting precincts in largely Democratic districts while not doing the same in largely Republican districts - to make it harder for Democrats to vote. Now they're suspending voter registration for largely Democratic voters.
They're cheating. They're subverting Democracy to maintain their hold on power. They don't believe in Democracy because they don't like the idea of losing elections, and they don't want to have to moderate their views and policies to win over more voters.
No, the modern Republican Party isn't a modern Nazi party. They're not. However, they are closer to Putin's strategies than they are to Democratic principles. Trump is not a modern Hitler. He's a modern Mussolini to Putin's modern Hitler. He's a wannabe. He's openly expressed his respect and admiration for Putin. It's out there. And yet Republicans don't care. Why? Because they don't believe in Democracy anymore. They don't like the idea of losing sometimes, and want to take losing out of the equation so they can have total control.
It's become a totalitarian/authoritarian party.
It's actually in THEIR best interest to lose for a while to force them to reinvent the party and moderate their views to match that of most Americans. They want to impose their views on people who don't agree with them, so they need to take the possibility of losing elections off the table.
And that's exactly what they're trying to do in Texas.
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Post by aztecryan on Aug 9, 2024 12:25:56 GMT -8
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Post by aztecmusician on Aug 9, 2024 15:46:45 GMT -8
The main strategy of Texas Republicans is to disenfranchise as many minority voters as they can. They know that the demographic changes in their state do not work in their favor, so they're making it harder for Democrats to vote. They have closed a ton of voting precincts in largely Democratic districts while not doing the same in largely Republican districts - to make it harder for Democrats to vote. Now they're suspending voter registration for largely Democratic voters. They're cheating. They're subverting Democracy to maintain their hold on power. They don't believe in Democracy because they don't like the idea of losing elections, and they don't want to have to moderate their views and policies to win over more voters. No, the modern Republican Party isn't a modern Nazi party. They're not. However, they are closer to Putin's strategies than they are to Democratic principles. Trump is not a modern Hitler. He's a modern Mussolini to Putin's modern Hitler. He's a wannabe. He's openly expressed his respect and admiration for Putin. It's out there. And yet Republicans don't care. Why? Because they don't believe in Democracy anymore. They don't like the idea of losing sometimes, and want to take losing out of the equation so they can have total control. It's become a totalitarian/authoritarian party. It's actually in THEIR best interest to lose for a while to force them to reinvent the party and moderate their views to match that of most Americans. They want to impose their views on people who don't agree with them, so they need to take the possibility of losing elections off the table. And that's exactly what they're trying to do in Texas. The Republicans actually had a primary election. Trump won. The Democrats tried, Biden won and they kicked him to the curb. The Democrats are the party of subverting Democracy, they just disenfranchised 10 million voters! Kamala Harris was put in place by a cabal of corrupt politicians. Whatever the Republicans are doing in Texas or Nevada, clearing out deceased voters off the registry, the Democrat candidate swapping is much more corrupt.
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Post by The Aztec Panther on Aug 9, 2024 16:26:58 GMT -8
The main strategy of Texas Republicans is to disenfranchise as many minority voters as they can. They know that the demographic changes in their state do not work in their favor, so they're making it harder for Democrats to vote. They have closed a ton of voting precincts in largely Democratic districts while not doing the same in largely Republican districts - to make it harder for Democrats to vote. Now they're suspending voter registration for largely Democratic voters. They're cheating. They're subverting Democracy to maintain their hold on power. They don't believe in Democracy because they don't like the idea of losing elections, and they don't want to have to moderate their views and policies to win over more voters. No, the modern Republican Party isn't a modern Nazi party. They're not. However, they are closer to Putin's strategies than they are to Democratic principles. Trump is not a modern Hitler. He's a modern Mussolini to Putin's modern Hitler. He's a wannabe. He's openly expressed his respect and admiration for Putin. It's out there. And yet Republicans don't care. Why? Because they don't believe in Democracy anymore. They don't like the idea of losing sometimes, and want to take losing out of the equation so they can have total control. It's become a totalitarian/authoritarian party. It's actually in THEIR best interest to lose for a while to force them to reinvent the party and moderate their views to match that of most Americans. They want to impose their views on people who don't agree with them, so they need to take the possibility of losing elections off the table. And that's exactly what they're trying to do in Texas. The Republicans actually had a primary election. Trump won. The Democrats tried, Biden won and they kicked him to the curb. The Democrats are the party of subverting Democracy, they just disenfranchised 10 million voters! Kamala Harris was put in place by a cabal of corrupt politicians. Whatever the Republicans are doing in Texas or Nevada, clearing out deceased voters off the registry, the Democrat candidate swapping is much more corrupt. Yeah, because Democrats close Republican voting precincts, right? And Democrats remove LIVING Republican voters from voter registries because, well, just because they feel like it, right? Wait. They don't? Huh, looks like the Republicans are choosing to cheat rather than trying to compete in the arena of ideas and come up with better ideas than they've had for the last 20 years.
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Post by aztecryan on Aug 9, 2024 16:42:51 GMT -8
The main strategy of Texas Republicans is to disenfranchise as many minority voters as they can. They know that the demographic changes in their state do not work in their favor, so they're making it harder for Democrats to vote. They have closed a ton of voting precincts in largely Democratic districts while not doing the same in largely Republican districts - to make it harder for Democrats to vote. Now they're suspending voter registration for largely Democratic voters. They're cheating. They're subverting Democracy to maintain their hold on power. They don't believe in Democracy because they don't like the idea of losing elections, and they don't want to have to moderate their views and policies to win over more voters. No, the modern Republican Party isn't a modern Nazi party. They're not. However, they are closer to Putin's strategies than they are to Democratic principles. Trump is not a modern Hitler. He's a modern Mussolini to Putin's modern Hitler. He's a wannabe. He's openly expressed his respect and admiration for Putin. It's out there. And yet Republicans don't care. Why? Because they don't believe in Democracy anymore. They don't like the idea of losing sometimes, and want to take losing out of the equation so they can have total control. It's become a totalitarian/authoritarian party. It's actually in THEIR best interest to lose for a while to force them to reinvent the party and moderate their views to match that of most Americans. They want to impose their views on people who don't agree with them, so they need to take the possibility of losing elections off the table. And that's exactly what they're trying to do in Texas. The Republicans actually had a primary election. Trump won. The Democrats tried, Biden won and they kicked him to the curb. The Democrats are the party of subverting Democracy, they just disenfranchised 10 million voters! Kamala Harris was put in place by a cabal of corrupt politicians. Whatever the Republicans are doing in Texas or Nevada, clearing out deceased voters off the registry, the Democrat candidate swapping is much more corrupt. Did you graduate from high school? Government is a required curriculum. Biden decided to drop out, Harris was already on the ticket. It's so hilarious (and equally stupid) that you care about Dems being "disenfranchised" (You don't, really) when you didn't care at all prior to a month ago. Just stop.
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Post by aztecryan on Aug 12, 2024 12:59:36 GMT -8
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Post by azson on Aug 12, 2024 13:49:40 GMT -8
Sept. 10th can't come soon enough. I know you think debates are meaningless, but my instincts tell me that graph spikes for Harris after she slams dunks his dumb @$$. Hopefully then we can give him the Curry "night night".
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Post by aztecryan on Aug 12, 2024 14:18:38 GMT -8
Sept. 10th can't come soon enough. I know you think debates are meaningless, but my instincts tell me that graph spikes for Harris after she slams dunks his dumb @$$. Hopefully then we can give him the Curry "night night". Won't matter that much, just too late. The convention bounce isn't even in yet. The numbers will be historically on par with what you see in the popular vote, but now that the EC gap is closing, it looks worse for Trump at the moment than it did before. Silver calls it a 50/50 race, but that's more of a proverbial statement than anything else.
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Post by aztecryan on Aug 12, 2024 14:39:24 GMT -8
And before the post police come in, not saying Harris is winning in a landslide or anything goofy like that. Margins in the swing states will be relatively close, pretty much no matter what.
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Post by johneaztec on Aug 12, 2024 16:19:00 GMT -8
Sept. 10th can't come soon enough. I know you think debates are meaningless, but my instincts tell me that graph spikes for Harris after she slams dunks his dumb @$$. Hopefully then we can give him the Curry "night night". Oh yeah, I also think any debate they have has the potential to be election changing. I also understand that most debates won't change views enough to affect an election, but this one is different, just like the last debate with Biden was different. This will be Harris first debate as a presidential candidate elect, and it will be interesting to see how she holds up. It could mean the election.
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Post by aztecryan on Aug 12, 2024 17:01:39 GMT -8
Sept. 10th can't come soon enough. I know you think debates are meaningless, but my instincts tell me that graph spikes for Harris after she slams dunks his dumb @$$. Hopefully then we can give him the Curry "night night". Oh yeah, I also think any debate they have has the potential to be election changing. I also understand that most debates won't change views enough to affect an election, but this one is different, just like the last debate with Biden was different. This will be Harris first debate as a presidential candidate elect, and it will be interesting to see how she holds up. It could mean the election. It absolutely could not.
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Post by johneaztec on Aug 12, 2024 17:18:31 GMT -8
Oh yeah, I also think any debate they have has the potential to be election changing. I also understand that most debates won't change views enough to affect an election, but this one is different, just like the last debate with Biden was different. This will be Harris first debate as a presidential candidate elect, and it will be interesting to see how she holds up. It could mean the election. It absolutely could not. Thanks for your "opinion".
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Post by aztecryan on Aug 12, 2024 17:28:52 GMT -8
Thanks for your "opinion". In another month, we'll have a treasure trove of data to work with once the interview cycles ramp up. There's nothing "new" about this debate, in reality, just as there was nothing new in the last debate. Media coverage will probably influence narratives, but there's not enough meat left on the bone for the debate to swing the election. Pennsylvania starts voting six days after the first debate, so we'll get treated to performative theater.
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Post by azson on Aug 13, 2024 8:28:02 GMT -8
Sept. 10th can't come soon enough. I know you think debates are meaningless, but my instincts tell me that graph spikes for Harris after she slams dunks his dumb @$$. Hopefully then we can give him the Curry "night night". Oh yeah, I also think any debate they have has the potential to be election changing. I also understand that most debates won't change views enough to affect an election, but this one is different, just like the last debate with Biden was different. This will be Harris first debate as a presidential candidate elect, and it will be interesting to see how she holds up. It could mean the election. If she does even half of what she did to Kavanaugh, she should obliterate him.
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Post by aztecryan on Aug 13, 2024 11:09:14 GMT -8
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