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Post by timmullen on Sept 14, 2024 22:25:10 GMT
[quote author=" gwynthegriff" source="/post/1547705/thread" timestamp="1726350044 And - yes - I was aware that Minaj was Trinidadian so probably Afro-Caribbean rather than latino.[/quote] Again though something Trump was unlikely to know - I can’t imagine he’s her number one fan. I think it shows up his instinctive sexualisation of women that his first reaction was “she’s hot” as opposed to “a brilliant singer” - looks>ability.
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Post by sanders on Sept 15, 2024 3:19:01 GMT
A famous swing county it doesn't look like Harris will win. Dems have struggled in this county for some time. Shapiro's victory speaks to how dodgy Trump-endorsed Mastriano (Jan 6th attendee) was. What matter are, of course, margins. Harris rallying here is smart. Speaking of PA counties, watch Allegheny. It contains the city of Pittsburgh. The margin there will matter too. Fetterman and Shapiro romped home there: It's still not clear why Wisconsin is the bluest rust belt state (it was that in 1988, of course) but current coalitions are very different, to say the least: Last post from X about PA for a while, but here's a map of campaign stops. Harris is outworking Trump and Biden:
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Sept 15, 2024 6:35:19 GMT
And - yes - I was aware that Minaj was Trinidadian so probably Afro-Caribbean rather than latino. Again though something Trump was unlikely to know - I can’t imagine he’s her number one fan. I think it shows up his instinctive sexualisation of women that his first reaction was “she’s hot” as opposed to “a brilliant singer” - looks>ability. Or he doesn't rate her as a singer, but he considers her to be 'hot'..
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Post by sanders on Sept 15, 2024 8:43:25 GMT
Georgia is more conservative than Arizona, where Gov., SofS, and A-G went Dem, but in GA, Senate was the only one Dems won (they could have won Gov. and SofS had the GOP not stuck with Kemp and Raffensberger). The GOP lost with Walker - had they run former Ag. Commissioner, Gary Black, Republicans could have beaten Warnock (speculation and hard to see any Republican doing that well post-Dobbs). It's not just Blacks moving to Cobb, Gwinnett etc. What you might see with a slip in Black support is Republicans win GA-2. That seat is shifting as the population declines. It's a VRA seat - why the GOP haven't 'cracked' it.
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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on Sept 15, 2024 15:35:32 GMT
Donald Trump isn’t taking the Swift endorsement of Harris well.
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Post by greatkingrat on Sept 15, 2024 15:38:55 GMT
Probably thinks Taylor Swift is a man.
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Post by sanders on Sept 15, 2024 17:55:38 GMT
Probably thinks Taylor Swift is a man. Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
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Post by greatkingrat on Sept 15, 2024 19:10:05 GMT
Gunshots reported "in the vicinity" of Trump.
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Post by sanders on Sept 15, 2024 19:20:18 GMT
Gunshots reported "in the vicinity" of Trump. He is fine but this, and the previous attempt, seem to be deterring Trump from doing rallies. The right love their guns.
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Post by riccimarsh on Sept 15, 2024 20:23:01 GMT
Gunshots reported "in the vicinity" of Trump. It’s the United States, probably half the population are “within the vicinity” of gun shots at any one time.
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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on Sept 15, 2024 21:01:33 GMT
Sure, but it does seem there was a wannabe assassin near Trump. That’s two assassination attempts on him in two months. That’s not a good sign for a country’s democracy.
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Post by batman on Sept 15, 2024 21:03:15 GMT
It isn't however the only not good sign for the USA's democracy.
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Post by riccimarsh on Sept 15, 2024 21:08:04 GMT
Sure, but it does seem there was a wannabe assassin near Trump. That’s two assassination attempts on him in two months. That’s not a good sign for a country’s democracy. He tweets that he hates Taylor Swift and then a couple of hours later is (allegedly) shot at. These Swifties act fast.
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Post by timmullen on Sept 15, 2024 21:22:25 GMT
Sure, but it does seem there was a wannabe assassin near Trump. That’s two assassination attempts on him in two months. That’s not a good sign for a country’s democracy. He tweets that he hates Taylor Swift and then a couple of hours later is (allegedly) shot at. These Swifties act fast. Swiftly?
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Post by maxque on Sept 15, 2024 23:13:55 GMT
Sure, but it does seem there was a wannabe assassin near Trump. That’s two assassination attempts on him in two months. That’s not a good sign for a country’s democracy. Indeed, the fact that both were Republicans who fell away from Trump shows that the Republican Party has a wierd concept of democracy.
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Post by eastmidlandsright on Sept 15, 2024 23:19:25 GMT
Sure, but it does seem there was a wannabe assassin near Trump. That’s two assassination attempts on him in two months. That’s not a good sign for a country’s democracy. He tweets that he hates Taylor Swift and then a couple of hours later is (allegedly) shot at. These Swifties act fast. Well the Swifties are both fanatical and borderline mentally ill but it seems that the would be assassin was from an even more idiotic group, he is a pro-Ukrainian nutjob.
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Post by riccimarsh on Sept 15, 2024 23:38:05 GMT
He tweets that he hates Taylor Swift and then a couple of hours later is (allegedly) shot at. These Swifties act fast. Well the Swifties are both fanatical and borderline mentally ill but it seems that the would be assassin was from an even more idiotic group, he is a pro-Ukrainian nutjob. Well I don’t personally see being pro-Ukraine as a problem, though you are entitled to disagree and be pro-Putin. Certainly anyone who wants to carry a gun “in the vicinity” of a Presidential candidate should be considered a nutjob, though. However, given that Florida law absolutely entitles people to carry guns, and that Trump’s golf course appears not to have been designated a “sensitive area” by the Secret Service or other relevant authorities, I’m at a loss as to why the SS apparently shot at someone who was merely exercising their second amendment rights. Trump is pro-gun rights, yes?? So I’m confident he won’t be saying “take the guns first, then have due process later”. I will be interested to see if there is any confirmatory evidence that this alleged shooting actually took place, and if so who the shooter is. I suspect they are an illegal transgender drag queen pet-eating Haitian Taylor Swift fan. Maybe even a relative of the person who was assaulted during the illegal photo-op at Arlington Cemetery, however long ago that was.
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Post by eastmidlandsright on Sept 16, 2024 0:11:00 GMT
Well the Swifties are both fanatical and borderline mentally ill but it seems that the would be assassin was from an even more idiotic group, he is a pro-Ukrainian nutjob. Well I don’t personally see being pro-Ukraine as a problem, though you are entitled to disagree and be pro-Putin. Certainly anyone who wants to carry a gun “in the vicinity” of a Presidential candidate should be considered a nutjob, though. However, given that Florida law absolutely entitles people to carry guns, and that Trump’s golf course appears not to have been designated a “sensitive area” by the Secret Service or other relevant authorities, I’m at a loss as to why the SS apparently shot at someone who was merely exercising their second amendment rights. Trump is pro-gun rights, yes?? So I’m confident he won’t be saying “take the guns first, then have due process later”. I will be interested to see if there is any confirmatory evidence that this alleged shooting actually took place, and if so who the shooter is. I suspect they are an illegal transgender drag queen pet-eating Haitian Taylor Swift fan. Maybe even a relative of the person who was assaulted during the illegal photo-op at Arlington Cemetery, however long ago that was. The second amendment gives Americans the right to keep and bare arms, it does not give them the right to shoot at somebody. Since a suspect has been detained and the FBI are calling it an apparent assassination attempt it would seem that there is some fairly substantial evidence .
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Post by sanders on Sept 16, 2024 5:22:40 GMT
Guns were far less powerful in 1791 when the Bill of Rights was enacted compared to today. Both Trump's would-be assassins had rifles I think. It'd be another eerie parallel to 1968 (along with the incumbent President dropping out and the DNC being in Chicago) that the leading candidate is taken out by a gunman. In 1968, Robert F. Kennedy (Bobby) (not the current nut job RFK) was infamously felled. Trump's assassin only needs to be lucky once - Trump needs to be lucky every time. I hope we can dial down the rhetoric, since we all know from Jo Cox and David Amess how politicians can be assassinated, but Trump doesn't help things one iota with his diatribe. I'm not justifying any attempts to shoot him, but there seemed a moment after the previous attempt that he was mollifying his tone a bit (not now).
In practice, this is likely to mean even fewer Trump campaign visits. Compare the calendar for this week for example - Harris and Walz are doing about three campaign stops a day (Trump and Vance are doing one). Today, for example, Vance is in Atlanta, Georgia, but Harris and Walz are campaigning in both Georgia and North Carolina. Many will remember that Trump quite demonstrably outworked Clinton in 2016 (she did not campaign once in Wisconsin). He would do about three events a day, and she did one. She also collapsed on stage as I recall. Trump is obviously 78 now.
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Post by J.G.Harston on Sept 16, 2024 7:51:40 GMT
Won't this just feed the paranoia "deep state" out to prevent Trump by any means possible?
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