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Old 18th July 2024, 12:20 PM
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Interesting poem I found about TMC

The Last American Hero. R.I.P.
He was a hero; thus, he tried to save the world.
He wasn't a superhero; thus, he failed.
The chance was lost. The freedom’s flag is furled.
The grandsons of the brave became the quailed.

A single inch could save, a single shot,
When the entire nation lost its mind!
If I believed in any kind of god,
I would have said: “God hates the humankind.”

Your life—the highest price that you could pay—
Fell like a seed in wastelands dead and dry,
But thanks for trying, Thomas, anyway,
From all of us who did not even try.


I mean it is kinda wrong, but still, what if?
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Old 18th July 2024, 03:26 PM
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I understand they've recovered the kid's iPhone and found stuff on Trump, Biden, and several other politicians. So it seems he just wanted to shoot a high-profile political figure and Trump happened to be in town.

I'm guessing it was some sort of 'manly man' thing.
Suicide by Secret Service thing?
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Old 18th July 2024, 06:05 PM
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Interesting poem I found about TMC
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[sappy poem snipped]

I mean it is kinda wrong, but still, what if?
It's not even 'kinda wrong'. It's utter bullshit. He was just a loser, trying to make a mark on history, like Oswald with JFK, Fromm with Ford, or Hinkley with Reagan, that would let them feel important, rather than the utter losers they actually were.* You have to look to previous US presidential assassins (or attempted, but failed ones) to find ones who were actually trying to be heroes and 'save the country' (Booth with Lincoln, for example). They were all wrong, and wouldn't have/didn't save the country by success (since success didn't/wouldn't have made any real difference in the course of the country), but at least they were trying to be heroes. This clown wasn't.

This clown, (according to the evidence that's been published so far) was just gunning for any prominent politician who presented themself as a target, for him to aggrandize himself for his own personal emotional reasons. Just like the previously named 3 losers. He was apparently just trying to be 'important' to people in his own personal life, for his own personal emotional reasons. He didn't give any more of a shit about the country than Trump, himself, does. From what I've seen so far, the people he was trying to impress... weren't. And wouldn't have been, even if he'd succeeded. They're just sad, just like they'd have been if he had succeeded, or just eaten the gun in his own basement, instead.

The Trumpkin just happened to be the first target who presented himself locally in a way that didn't require any real work for TMC to have to expend to go after.

As far as your 'what if' goes. It's basically just as much chaos as we'll already get, whether or not The Felonious Grifter wins or loses this election. The only difference would have been in the details of the chaos and violence that would have resulted, and just who and how, winds up dead. It won't make a damn bit of difference at all in the amount of chaos. At this point in history, the only difference TFG's living or dying makes is in the future details of the shit we're likely to have to live through.

*Admittedly, Hinkley was only trying to feel important to Jody Foster, rather than important to History, like the other two. He just wanted to get laid by his movie-star crush, and thought he had a 'magic' way of actually achieving that goal. It wouldn't have worked, but what did he know? His delusions about that are exactly why he wound up in the 'nut-hatch' for decades, instead of prison...
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Old 18th July 2024, 07:37 PM
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I think I agree with that. The kid was a nobody and he wanted to make his mark on history. I’m no psychiatrist, but the kid appears to lack any other reason for throwing his life away.

In other news, it appears Biden is going to be shoved aside. He stubbornly refuses to see the writing on the wall. I give him a week max.
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Old 18th July 2024, 08:01 PM
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I'm having a hard time parsing most of that screed. It seems to be vaguely anti-oldwhitemaninpower? But I'm not sure. I'm just not up on the lingo of modern rage I suppose.
It's more antifascist than it is anti-oldwhitemaninpower, but it does realize that the reactionary forces of American fascism right now are mobilized by the fear that old white men will no longer represent the apex of power in our society and that they will have to treat women, gay, and trans people as equals. So instead the major project of American fascism is control of women, gay, and trans people to limit their visibility and power.

Bravery, in this case, is more easily found in women, gay, and trans people who challenge the dominant political power of society rather than in the fascists who seek to use the power of police, government, courts, and paramilitaries to force them back into closets and out of the halls of power.
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Old 19th July 2024, 12:03 AM
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I mean, one would want for 'Donald who Ducked the bullet' to be fine, well and healthy, so he could fair and square stand trial for many many shady things he did, right? No point in going blam-blam. We want real justice, not mobster shenanigans.
Yeah, I guess same deal with Pootin - in case of sudden double-ass-in-nation all those types just will be replaced by some nondescript next in command, in Ruzzia, by another uniformed fsb ganglord (to spy, harrass and torture), and in the States by another friend of Big Corps'n'Churches (to steal and fool).

on another note
Ruzzia just sank even lower - now they Reuters Article sentenced (6.5 years !) a theatre stage director and a playwright for wrong think - like 'inciting terrorism' just because the play itself deals with the topic of Russian women involvement with Islamic men who do jihad things and all the complex tragic drama that ensues. Total absurdity. Creativity totally choked, don't you dare not to repeat the government spouted mantras in your works or even ask unallowed question - or you're a criminal. I guess the play analysis is too hard for weak putinist brain - they just get triggered by words, like automated bots.
If that is not 1984, I don't know what is. Let's hope Americans will not be forced to quote bible and the like in all their creative works or risk being labelled commie extremists or something like that with that on the horizon.

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Old 19th July 2024, 06:25 AM
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I mean, one would want for 'Donald who Ducked the bullet' to be fine, well and healthy, so he could fair and square stand trial for many many shady things he did, right? No point in going blam-blam. We want real justice, not mobster shenanigans.
I'm cool with anything that means he can't harm this country any more than he already has.

I have no confidence at all that the US justice system will be able to impose any sort of meaningful punishment on him, given how many legal situations he's managed to slither his way out of already.

I realize that if his end is in any way suspicious, his minions will make him into a martyr, but none of them have his mix of warped charisma and trainwreck factor. With no one to rally around, I think the whole lot will just kind of fade back into the background where they came from.
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Old 19th July 2024, 08:36 AM
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Unexpected Consequences. V 1.0

Judge Cannon ruled that (basically) trumpys MaL case was illegal as the Special counsel’s appointment was illegal. She left it quite broad in its reach finding that special counsel’s were not legal.

SO… Hunter Biden has now filed to have his cases and conviction dismissed, as will undoubtedly all the other’s prosecuted by a special counsel. I think Cannon’s ass must be quite sore from her ruling biting her in that same ass so many times.

Legal scholars predict a quick reversal of her ruling, which is already under appeal.
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Old 19th July 2024, 06:21 PM
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Unexpected Consequences. V 1.0

Judge Cannon ruled that (basically) trumpys MaL case was illegal as the Special counsel’s appointment was illegal. She left it quite broad in its reach finding that special counsel’s were not legal.

SO… Hunter Biden has now filed to have his cases and conviction dismissed, as will undoubtedly all the other’s prosecuted by a special counsel. I think Cannon’s ass must be quite sore from her ruling biting her in that same ass so many times.

Legal scholars predict a quick reversal of her ruling, which is already under appeal.
Now, imagine if Trump wins the presidency and the Republicans win control of the Senate.

Hundreds of Aileen Cannons on the district/circuit court level and maybe a 7-2 or 8-1 majority on the Supreme Court bench.

Yes, you have immunity for whatever the fuck you wanna do as long as you can claim it was related to an official act of the office.

Sure, you can declare martial law as president. It's an official act.
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Old 20th July 2024, 11:56 AM
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I'm cool with anything that means he can't harm this country any more than he already has.
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Old 20th July 2024, 03:45 PM
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The thing I hate most about The Great Trumpkin is what he's done to the American Flag. I just saw heard an asshole in a pickup truck race it by my house, and roar his 'vroom vroom' exhaust. I heard that, and was immediately thinking 'asshole', then looked, and it was a pickup with a US flag flying from its bed. My first thought was 'Trumpkin'.

He's managed to make the flag no longer represent the country I love. It now represents 'Trumpkin', and nothing more. If you see a US flag, proudly displayed around here, these days, you're seeing a 'Trumpkin'. Period. He's stolen my country, and the flag that used to represent it from me. If nothing else, that, alone, would be a damn good reason to hate the bastard.

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Old 20th July 2024, 06:04 PM
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They used to have trump trains. Morons with pickup trucks would get the biggest trump/MAGA flags and mount them in back then convoy around with the flags waving in the slipstream, horns honking rednecks howling.
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Old 21st July 2024, 10:11 AM
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We knew it was coming. Biden is retiring. An American hero who served his country honorably for 50 years.
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Old 21st July 2024, 11:04 AM
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Thanks, Joe! Job well done.
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Old 21st July 2024, 11:45 AM
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Trumpy says Biden was the worst pres ever. Now it’s time to play the age/dementia card on trumpy. He’s the old fossil now.

Harris is picking up endorsements like crazy now. It’s looking like Kamala and possibly PA governor Shapiro for the VP spot? Still 4 weeks until the DNC so this will be interesting. It’s time to take the press attention back from trumpy.
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Old 21st July 2024, 12:21 PM
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Trumpy says Biden was the worst pres ever. Now it’s time to play the age/dementia card on trumpy. He’s the old fossil now.

Harris is picking up endorsements like crazy now. It’s looking like Kamala and possibly PA governor Shapiro for the VP spot? Still 4 weeks until the DNC so this will be interesting. It’s time to take the press attention back from trumpy.
Trump is the worst president ever. I wasn't enamored of Biden but I still would have voted for him. Anybody but a convicted felon, adulterer, bigot, and pervert.
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Old 21st July 2024, 02:01 PM
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In other news, it appears Biden is going to be shoved aside. He stubbornly refuses to see the writing on the wall. I give him a week max.
3 days... Nice guess! Here's your prize!



He says "I decided...", but that's what they always say when they're given the choice: 'Jump, or be pushed', when they decide to take 'jump'. At least in his case, there's an honorable, comfortable retirement, instead of a 'splat' at the end.

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I'd be thrilled if Shapiro got the vp nod, but then I'd have to worry about who we'd be stuck with in Harrisburg 😵*💫
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I'd be thrilled if Shapiro got the vp nod, but then I'd have to worry about who we'd be stuck with in Harrisburg 😵*💫
I like Shapiro, but this is the wrong year to make him the VP. He can be effective by being PA gov.

No crystal ball but the pundit-sphere money is on Mark Kelly (AZ) and I won't disagree.

Harris has better odds than Biden, but they're still 50/50 for now. I don't think people appreciate the working class campaign structure/platform that MAGA has built.
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Old 21st July 2024, 06:35 PM
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Anybody but a convicted felon, adulterer, bigot, and pervert.
let's not forget he has been a liar all his life and now his cognition is obviously impaired.
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Old 21st July 2024, 06:41 PM
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Still, if it's Kamala, get ready for the avalanche of 'blowjob' snarks. Because in MAGAts' brains, women can only become successful by trading sex for power. So obviously, any successful woman is an unqualified slut. "Sigh."
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I’m more looking forward to the “prosecutor v the felon.”
I’m waiting for the MAGA nuts to mention crime and I hope that’s the dem response.
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Old 22nd July 2024, 06:09 AM
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We knew it was coming. Biden is retiring. An American hero who served his country honorably for 50 years.
Unca Joe was the man we needed in 2020 - the calm, easygoing, sensible counterpoint to the orange toddler who could bring order back to Washington DC.

Full kudos for realizing his limitations and putting his party and the future of the country ahead of his own ego, unlike Cheato.

Hillary Clinton was just another old white politician in a suit and I don't think the establishment ever saw her as more than an extension of Bubba. I think Harris will bring a different sort of energy to politics and I hope that she'll become someone that especially women and people of color will rally around.

SHe can even have Josh Shapiro. He was attorney general during the whole election fraud bullshit and I'd just LOVE to see him be able to counter those accusations on the national stage.

The owner of my local yarn shop and Shapiro are buddies. They tailgate together at Penn State games. So Josh would have a lot of pointy sticks to back him up, too.
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I'd be thrilled if Shapiro got the vp nod, but then I'd have to worry about who we'd be stuck with in Harrisburg 😵*💫
Lt. Gov. Austin Davis would serve out Shapiro's term; no special election required.

Similarly, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear (a popular Democratic governor in a red state) would be succeeded by KY's Lt. Gov., Jacqueline Coleman, no questions asked; that's pretty much what a Lieutenant Governor is for.

My 2¢: Mark Kelly needs to stay in the Senate, and we need to get Ruben Gallego to join him as the AZ Senate delegation; fortunately, Kari Lake's schtick is getting less and less traction as it ages less and less well.

Think Joe Manchin could swallow his pride and run as Kamala's ticketmate rather than her competitor? That would put him closer to the Oval than ever and put him in line for a 2032 run, presumably; that may soon come to look like the best path to the presidency from his POV. I can't think of a more balanced ticket than Harris-Manchin: Woman of color from CA, on the progressive side of the Dem ideological spectrum and also a former prosecutor, teamed with a DINO white man from West Virginia who's a goddamned coal baron? The appeal is so broad it borders on hypocrisy.

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Old 22nd July 2024, 09:27 PM
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Think Joe Manchin could swallow his pride and run as Kamala's ticketmate rather than her competitor? That would put him closer to the Oval than ever and put him in line for a 2032 run, presumably; that may soon come to look like the best path to the presidency from his POV. I can't think of a more balanced ticket than Harris-Manchin: Woman of color from CA, on the progressive side of the Dem ideological spectrum and also a former prosecutor, teamed with a DINO white man from West Virginia who's a goddamned coal baron? The appeal is so broad it borders on hypocrisy.
I can't think of a worse running mate. But then, people said the same thing about LBJ and Nixon, as veeps on their party's ticket, so maybe it could work. I'd prefer that Harris chooses someone who's been less antagonistic to the current administration.
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Old 27th July 2024, 06:27 AM
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Old 27th July 2024, 08:45 AM
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Let’s play “What’s the idiot thinking.”

A. He’s going to destroy America.
B. He’s going to burn the Constitution.
C. He’s going to empty Fort Knox and buy a throne and a crown.
D. All three.
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Old 27th July 2024, 09:21 AM
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Seriously, like, what the fucking fuck?

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Old 27th July 2024, 01:29 PM
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rump has been just making shit up for a long time now, why would we be surprised?
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Old 27th July 2024, 01:56 PM
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Yeah, Trump tells this particular lie often and never seems to experience any pushback on it. I did hear one time that the reference to the VA governor part has its basis in something he said when discussing the neonatal palliative care needed by some unfortunate newborns. I didn't look into it farther because what's the point.
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Old 27th July 2024, 03:13 PM
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Wow, after a week of investigating, the FBI has determined that it was a bullet that struck trumpys ear. That’s mighty fine detective work right there. I would never figured out the shooter actually shot.
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Old 27th July 2024, 08:24 PM
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Interesting poem I found about TMC

The Last American Hero. R.I.P.
He was a hero; thus, he tried to save the world.
He wasn't a superhero; thus, he failed.
The chance was lost. The freedom’s flag is furled.
The grandsons of the brave became the quailed.

A single inch could save, a single shot,
When the entire nation lost its mind!
If I believed in any kind of god,
I would have said: “God hates the humankind.”

Your life—the highest price that you could pay—
Fell like a seed in wastelands dead and dry,
But thanks for trying, Thomas, anyway,
From all of us who did not even try.


I mean it is kinda wrong, but still, what if?
WTF?
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Old 28th July 2024, 06:38 AM
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Wow, after a week of investigating, the FBI has determined that it was a bullet that struck trumpys ear. That’s mighty fine detective work right there. I would never figured out the shooter actually shot.
First off, it's their job to figure out the ballistics and forensics of a shooting. There was quite a bit of shrapnel from flying glass and they had to determine that the shot was possible and likely from a single shooter and that there was no chance of a backup gunman. It's all absolutely standard investigation and there's zero reason to mock them for being thorough about an attempted shooting of a presidential candidate.

Secondly, Trump became absolutely incandescent with rage that there was any question that he got hit with a bullet and he went off into absolute tantrums at being questioned by the FBI. And I'm sorry, but that's just some world class trolling by the cops. Kudos!
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Question, because civics was never my best subject in school. Is Shitgibbon stuck with Vance now that he's been Picked? Vance has already jammed both feet into his mouth, shown himself to be a waffler in that he's now on the ticket with an orange lard golem he once called "America's Hitler", and has only been in politics since 2022, where he hasn't accomplished much. On top of that he hasn't run so much as a lemonade stand on his own. Given the howling yam's age and flabbiness, he's got a good chance of carking it in office (whereas Biden is older but looks after his health). J Danforth Fucking Quayle was less unqualified than this guy.

Kamala Harris is gleefully going on the attack regarding his lack of experience and the double standards at play (white dude with no experience accepted without question; woman of color with loads of relevant experience catching hell) in order to undermine Shitzenpantzen's campaign.

What are the odds they can replace Vance with someone experienced and scary, like Pence?
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Is Shitgibbon stuck with Vance now that he's been Picked?
Good question. Found this in a Newsweek article speculating that he might do just that:
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"There's a clear deadline for filing to be on a ballot in each of the states," Brown previously told Newsweek, adding that as long as a new vice presidential candidate is picked before that deadline, they can replace Vance.
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Old 29th July 2024, 06:52 AM
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Vance is too busy trying to backpedal his cat lady comment and hide his paper thin resume. Probably a net positive for the blue team when he’s coupled to the old white man in the race.

Also exciting is the change in the tempo for the blue team keeping the senate. Before Biden stepped aside, there was no positive energy for that happening, now it’s there (at least there is that energy in the news reports) the other good news is that congress clowns like MTG aren’t getting the ink they were before.

All in all, I just feel a very positive excitement from what’s happening. That definitely wasn’t there before.
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the other thing I'd point out re: Vance is that Trump is completely unable to admit making a mistake, and replacing Vance would imply there was an error. This won't mean he wouldn't blame Vance for a defeat which he also wouldn't admit, but there you go. He'd be much more likely to attempt to force Vance to drop out, perhaps for the ever popular "to spend more time with his family" reasons.

also, to no particular surprise, the very things that make us shudder re: Vance are not necessarily disliked by Trump core voters. and Trump seems convinced that he will win with only them (a very unlikely belief).

I'm still predicting though, outcomes possible:

Trump secures sufficient electoral college votes to win - would need help from friendly state governments/courts to discard/disrupt voting

Harris secures sufficient electoral college votes to win - Trump supporters will absolutely reject this outcome and launch assaults in courts, the House, the streets.

I honestly believe that there are roughly same amount of voters who will vote Dem no matter what and voters who would vote Rep no matter what. Key is independents and swing voters who most likely will veer past Trump no matter who else is running, but would probably go Harris vs. Biden. the next factor is turn out. and therein will lie one major factor - how badly will certain states skew voting ability - we've already seen issues about casting votes in predominately Dem leaning areas.

So, in any event, watch for Trump and his crowd to make a mockery of democracy.

Make Democracy Safe Again, please.
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Question, because civics was never my best subject in school. Is Shitgibbon stuck with Vance now that he's been Picked?
I can answer your questions, because I minored in PoliSci in school, and thus have several semesters of courses on the workings of the US federal, state, and local governments, their current workings, and the history behind that. Never scored less than a B. And you got a B for ace-ing the course work, BUT... you could only get an A by writing an A paper on top of that. I only had time to do that in one course, in my freshman year, given the heavy Science and Math you need to do in the first two years of my Chemistry major. After researching and writing that paper, I can tell you far more than you ever want to know about the politics behind the chemical warfare of WWI and the Geneva Protocols that outlawed it after the war. My prof was ...err... impressed is an understatement, from what he had to say when he gave me my A.

Anyway, enough of my qualifications, now to answers...

First question, "Is Shitgibbon stuck with Vance now that he's been Picked?":
Yes, because the VP candidate is separately nominated. He's stuck with Vance, because Vance was separately nominated. Unless Trump, or someone else, can convince Vance to drop out. Ever since the amendment changing the VP slot from the runner-up in the Electoral College to a separate vote for P & VP, they have been separately nominated at the conventions. Legally, they are separate candidates for separate offices. Ever since the amendment that separated the Electoral votes for the two offices, the parties have nominated the Presidential-nominee's choice for VP-nominee, but legally, they are two separate nominees to two separate offices, and once the nomination is done, the only way to dump a VP nominee is to convince him to withdraw, then nominate a new one. The only example I can recall is Eagleton, under McGovern (Democrats) in 1972 (ETA: He voluntarily withdrew, and another VP candidate got nominated. Sargent Shiver, but I don't know the details on how, and am not interested in reading about it, now. Maybe I'll look it up, tomorrow.). If the VP nominee wants to be an asshole about it and not withdraw, he can be, and a party wanting to withdraw their nomination is utterly unprecedented.

FTR. I was nine years old when it all happened, and I don't remember any of that. My memory of presidential politics starts with Nixon and his resignation (which I didn't know why) and Ford becoming president. I was a pre-teen kid at the time, and only know about it from reading about the history, after the fact. I only know about the history from reading about it.

But, yeah. Trump can't unilaterally dump Vance, at this point, unless he wants to walk into unprecedented territory. AND he won't be able to control any of that. He loves chaos, but he only loves chaos that he controls. He sure as shit WONT control that.

Sure... Let him do that. Dump Vance, now. I'd LOVE to see him do that...


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Vance has already jammed both feet into his mouth, shown himself to be a waffler in that he's now on the ticket with an orange lard golem he once called "America's Hitler", and has only been in politics since 2022, where he hasn't accomplished much. On top of that he hasn't run so much as a lemonade stand on his own. Given the howling yam's age and flabbiness, he's got a good chance of carking it in office (whereas Biden is older but looks after his health). J Danforth Fucking Quayle was less unqualified than this guy.

Kamala Harris is gleefully going on the attack regarding his lack of experience and the double standards at play (white dude with no experience accepted without question; woman of color with loads of relevant experience catching hell) in order to undermine Shitzenpantzen's campaign.

What are the odds they can replace Vance with someone experienced and scary, like Pence?
Ok, reading that, there IS no 'second question'. There's nothing in the rest of that, that I can answer. I'm trying not to laugh. My mother's leading of some religious glurge and laughing about the previous paragraphs wouldn't be good.

That first bit I answered, the answers were the best I could do. The stuff I was going to answer afterwards don't have an answer. There is no fucking addressable QUESTION in any of that section.

That's where the shitgibbon walks into unprecedented territory. I have literally NOTHING I can say about any of that.

But DAMN! I can get long-winded about things I studied, when you trip my triggers from my college years. That's probably why my PoliSci profs loved me.

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Usually, running mates are selected to give some balance to the ticket (geographically, demographically, politically, or otherwise). I suppose one could make the argument that Vance was selected to nail down Ohio, but Trump already has Ohio in the bag. He didn't need Vance for that. The fact that Trump didn't balance the ticket ought to tell us something. He wanted the most amoral, boot-licking motherfucker he could find to go along with whatever #StopTheSteal & Operation Wetback 2.0 he's got in mind. He doesn't want a running mate who's going to puss out like Pence did. Point being, if Harris is declared president-elect either on election night or in the days that follow, he wants Vance to go along with the effort to steal the election from voters.
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Another thing to worry about: Reportedly, the MAGAts have been quietly planting public officials in swing states who will on cue refuse to certify the election if Harris wins.
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Another thing to worry about: Reportedly, the MAGAts have been quietly planting public officials in swing states who will on cue refuse to certify the election if Harris wins.
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The Middle East is liable blow up with an earth-shattering kaboom any day now. The thought of Shitgibbon being in charge here for that is enough to give you nightmares.
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Limited time only. Your favorites President is making available to you for the small price of $24.99, his official Assassination Glass. A glass with a bullet through the side of it.
Get yours here while supplies last.
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What, a whiskey glass isn’t something you want? How about a pair of genuine Trump Assassination attempt sneakers? As long as you’re size 5 through 8 you’re in luck. The larger sizes sold out. Only 5000 available, so get your order in. Only $299.00.
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From CNN: Donnie Dorko's ass in in a sling because when one googles "assassination" he isn't the top result.

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Former President Donald Trump on Monday criticized Google and said people should “not use it” over what he claimed was censorship by the search engine over his assassination attempt last month.

“The market speaks. Everybody should maybe just go off Google, not use it. There are so many other things,” Trump said in a streamed conversation with Internet personality Adin Ross.

Trump claimed, “When you put up the name, the word assassination, it went to Lincoln, it went to many other people, many of whom I didn’t even know there was an attempted assassination. The only one it didn’t have was Trump. Think of it. And when you put up the word assassination it also sent you to Kamala, and people were really angry.”

Trump said Google was “really crooked” and horrible.”
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