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Exactly. Dances is somewhere below Once Upon a Time in the West and the Dollars Trilogy, both of which are below this, the best western of all time. Lee Marvin, Jane Fonda, and Nat King Cole at their best.

World's richest man spends his days and nights in fear. I'd laugh if it's not just the constant need to be tweeting at all hours of the day to get the likes from 12 year-old incels, but the paranoia that's keeping him awake at night.

Times Radio is just straight up trolling Russians, at least until they aren't. They definitely hate Putin.

On the one hand, probably still trying to catch Trump’s attention, all the while nobody around Abbott will tell him the truth - that Trump doesn’t like people in wheel chairs around him. On the other, and this is completely anecdotal, while dropping my youngest off this morning, I talked to one of the other parents, who is a staffer for a legislator, and she mentioned that her Republican counterparts are “concerned” about some down ballot races that they think Trump is putting into play. And this was before todays “animals” comments. She said there is some scrambling over finances, donors are being asked to pony up directly to the Texas organizations and even to individual campaigns, and not Trump Co., and that Abbott seems to give no fucks about the down ballot folks.

Hey, when the 12 year-old comes back from the principal’s office, he has to show the other 12 year-olds that his spirit is not broken.

I'd say they are publicly releasing what is actually burning into the atmosphere!

General/public polling by news organizations and other groups, is ostensibly about trying to guess a race and present a story to the public. It can be cheap as hell - paying a call center to call a list of people and ask a few questions. A lot of internal polling is about where to spend money, and so it's a lot more in-depth and expsneive, they know who they are polling, and it's not merely calling people on the phone - it can involve things like social media engagement (companies have databases of people in specific areas and what their social media accounts are, voting records are, etc.), things like yard signs in a given area, how meet-and-greets/local rallies are shaping up, the voting records of people in a particular area, demographics changes in that area (have 500 people moved into an area, how many moved out, etc.) etc. For instance, if you see the Texas GOP is dumping a bunch of money into races in an area they would normally appear to have a lock on, that means their internal polling freaked them out. They try to spend as little as possible in the "safe" areas and save the rest for at-risk areas. And these days, they can really drill down on where to spend money, practically targeting small communities or small areas of a city or suburban area. If some politician has a Facebook page or twitter, and they post some big news or an attack on their rival, multiple companies are trawling through all of the likes, comments, retweets/reposts, etc., and weeding out the bots and weeding out people who are not from within the voting area of that politician, trying to put together a picture of what's really happening. If Ted Cruz posts something online, and 1000 people engage with it, the companies will see that 400 of those people are from out-of-state and 200 are bots and both groups can be ignored, but they'll look at the 400 remaining. If 300+ of the 400 remaining are anti-Cruz, it'll set off some flags and cause them to make some more posts ostensibly from Cruz, or they'll post comments and see what the engagement is. People would be shocked at how much info companies can buy about them. Cambridge Analytica should have woken people up. And they'd be shocked at how much of what they see online is either auto-generated or meant to measure engagement/enthusiasm. There are plenty of social media posts "from" political candidates that were really created by the analytics folks to measure various things.

I have a hard time believing this, because Trump (and Vance) has done nothing over the past few weeks (going back to Arlington and looking like a weak-ass clown in the debate) to make a bunch of people who voted Biden to switch from Biden (and now Harris) to Trump. If anything, Trump is even more of a butt of a lot of jokes with the eat the dogs stuff, and he's looking like a fucking moron listening to (and hanging all over) Laura Loomer (complete with the 9/11 stuff), and the GOP is being forced to defend racist bullshit (and Vance is fueling the flames with this "fried chicken" comment). This is what I think is the deal with a lot of white guys though vvvvvvv Or struggling to even show up to vote in the first place.

Was she shaggy? Is she in the room with us now?

She knows Donnie will be done in politics after this election, but Taylor has many years to come.

We are lucky that Byron Donalds is not on Trump's ticket - he acts much more like a human being than Vance, or he's a much newer model with a lot less lag.

So just like about 80% of us here? If we had social media around in the 80s, I don't know how many of us would have grown up thinking Reagan was The Man. We'd probably be fixated on how good of a blowjob Nancy could give.