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Former Trump voters that are suddenly against him, even with policy reasons they suddenly matter, I lump into the group of Americans that want to be on the winning team and thought he was that. Rally crowds and whatnot for 2016 and 2020. 
 

Now Harris/walz have those metrics and momentum,  so those people are compelled to find their way over to the new winning team with as much or as little rationalizing as they require. 
 

Really would like to see this all carry on thru Election Day, and the momentum pulls these people not only off of R votes but into D votes, such that the map is 2020 plus NC for sure, and one or both of FL and OH.  Texas would be loony tunes land, but a sweat from state Rs from a much tighter than expected race and maybe some down ballot losses would be good for the state. 

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1 minute ago, Red Five said:

This all tells me that team Dotard is either using AI now or is planning to.

Already has with the dotard and black women a few days ago. Once again, every accusation. 

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2 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Former Trump voters that are suddenly against him, even with policy reasons they suddenly matter, I lump into the group of Americans that want to be on the winning team and thought he was that. Rally crowds and whatnot for 2016 and 2020. 
 

Now Harris/walz have those metrics and momentum,  so those people are compelled to find their way over to the new winning team with as much or as little rationalizing as they require. 
 

Really would like to see this all carry on thru Election Day, and the momentum pulls these people not only off of R votes but into D votes, such that the map is 2020 plus NC for sure, and one or both of FL and OH.  Texas would be loony tunes land, but a sweat from state Rs from a much tighter than expected race and maybe some down ballot losses would be good for the state. 

@Al_4_ISU

How's Walz being received in once-purple NE Iowa?

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1 hour ago, Blotto said:

JD Vance. JD Vance is preventing that. He would have less success than Desantis.

The thing about billionaires is there arent enough of them to swing a vote. half of the republican voting block will disappear in 24 and move on to the newly formed MAGA political party after the election. They have  no path forward without him, and a slim path forward with him. That aint changing in 3 months.

The Trumps have discovered the incredibly successful and lucrative grift opportunities of being the head of a political party. They will not give that up just because the GOP no longer has use for them. I think you can make bank that Junior and his siblings will try to continue the tradition even if his dad strokes out or is put in prison.

Actually, Trump in prison is something junior dreams about every night. He would assume the mantle and the neck beards would keep sending their five dollars to him to get his dad out of prison. Which junior will direct to his own wallet.  And his followers will not vote for any Republican RINOs - because if you are not MAGA, you are RINO, thus neutering the GOP.

it’s perfect, really.

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2 hours ago, Goredho said:

What’s preventing the GOP from trying to steal the Dems playbook?

Trump’s narcissism.

Oh, I see that’s been covered. 

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4 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

Actually, Trump in prison is something junior dreams about every night. He would assume the mantle and the neck beards would keep sending their five dollars to him to get his dad out of prison. Which junior will direct to his own wallet.


Neck Beard Jr has the charisma of a pet rock. The Trump brand dies when Trump pulls an Elvis on the shitter or goes to prison. 

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Just now, Firemans4Horn said:


Neck Beard Jr has the charisma of a pet rock. The Trump brand dies when Trump pulls an Elvis on the shitter or goes to prison. 


Abbott / Cruz / Desantis / Youngkin will try to fill that void 

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Just now, tx 3 putt said:


Abbott / Cruz / Desantis / Youngkin will try to fill that void 

Try. But they don’t have “it”

Also Kemp

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1 minute ago, Gatorubet said:

The Trumps have discovered the incredibly successful and lucrative grift opportunities of being the head of a political party. They will not give that up just because the GOP no longer has use for them. I think you can make bank that Junior and his siblings will try to continue the tradition even if his dad strokes out or is put in prison.

Actually, Trump in prison is something junior dreams about every night. He would assume the mantle and the neck beards would keep sending their five dollars to him to get his dad out of prison. Which junior will direct to his own wallet.  And his followers will not vote for any Republican RINOs - because if you are not MAGA, you are RINO, thus neutering the GOP.

it’s perfect, really.

Trump is a messiah to those people while Jr is a fucking dildo. I have seen many hundreds of clips of people swooning about and pledging their lives to the cause of DJT. I cant recall a single person with much positive to say about that coked up slapdick. Without the big man around, Jr has negative value to whatever remains of the party. MAGA begins and ends with fat donnie. Once he is out of the picture, the loonies will gravitate to Musk or some other fucked up idiot, and Jr will be left crying in the corner with his plastic fuckdoll girlfriend. until she leaves him.

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1 hour ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

quick non-sequitur but I want to be Doug Emhoff when I grow up. Dude is living his best life and being superbly supportive of his wife at the same time. we already share a first name, so I'm halfway there! now to convince my fiancée  to run for office. lulz.

And now I’m halfway to finding out your true identity. 

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Abbott / Cruz / Desantis / Youngkin will try to fill that void 

Lying Ted and Meatball Ron have already had their balls cut off snd shoved down their throat by Trump and Abbott is a cripple. Those guys ain’t picking up the mantle with all the MAGA bros.
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1 minute ago, Sawbonz said:

Fuck you Chris

Seriously. I'm happy that the man in the most powerful position in the world can occasionally ride a bicycle without falling. But he still isn't physically/mentally capable of being president after his term is done. He was going to lose. It's over, Chris. Joe's moved on, you can too.

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No, Friedo is going to be the one everyone points to for Trump losing. Him and Elon for pushing Vance on Trumps. The diehards will look for someone to blame and it won't be their God King. 

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12 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Former Trump voters that are suddenly against him, even with policy reasons they suddenly matter, I lump into the group of Americans that want to be on the winning team and thought he was that. Rally crowds and whatnot for 2016 and 2020. 

Now Harris/walz have those metrics and momentum,  so those people are compelled to find their way over to the new winning team with as much or as little rationalizing as they require. 

You have hit on something that’s pretty important. People want to be associated with success and winners.    My analogy will be football gear. Now, alumni will always rock their school’s gear. But sports fans without a direct affiliation will wear the jersey of the team that’s winning right now.  Florida was filled with Miami hurricane fans in the late 80s and early 90s.   The rest of the 90s was all FSU and UF stuff,   with everything UF in the mid-2000s

The important thing is to be associated with the bad-ass winner. It is a human trait.  People are so shallow that when their friends and neighbors support somebody or some thing, most people have a real problem opposing that for fear of losing friendships or being denigrated by the group.. 

That is my long-winded way of saying, I agree, and the continued success of Harris and Waltz will result in more bandwagon voters switching to the perceived soon-to-be winning side- - - because they want to be on the winning side.

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9 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:


Neck Beard Jr has the charisma of a pet rock. The Trump brand dies when Trump pulls an Elvis on the shitter or goes to prison. 

I respectfully disagree. I agree with you if Donny strokes out - but if he goes to prison, then junior will be his media conduit to the MAGA faithful from Donald’s prison cell.   

Naturally, junior will be walking the line between backstabbing his dad and taking the money - and supporting his father because he thinks that’s how he makes the most money.

But because he is a Trump with a Trump personality, inevitably his dad will turn on him when the embezzlement from his father reaches unacceptable levels.  But in the immediate post-prison aftermath they will be grifting at the speed of light, and junior will have a leading role in that.

Just my opinion, probably complete bullshit. 

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28 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Former Trump voters that are suddenly against him, even with policy reasons they suddenly matter, I lump into the group of Americans that want to be on the winning team and thought he was that. Rally crowds and whatnot for 2016 and 2020. 
 

Now Harris/walz have those metrics and momentum,  so those people are compelled to find their way over to the new winning team with as much or as little rationalizing as they require. 
 

There is a “wanna be on the winning team” effect.  Not sure how big it will be in the cult, but people love being on the winning team…..

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If he loses, we'll get a good 2-3 years of grievance whining from him and his base. The Republicans left to pick up the pieces will have to placate the morons for a time. Maybe by 2028's cycle we'll see contenders emerge who disavow the Trump wing and run strictly as an alternative to 4 more years of Kamala. 

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2 minutes ago, mdmost said:

If he loses, we'll get a good 2-3 years of grievance whining from him and his base. The Republicans left to pick up the pieces will have to placate the morons for a time. Maybe by 2028's cycle we'll see contenders emerge who disavow the Trump wing and run strictly as an alternative to 4 more years of Kamala. 

Good. That should help in 26 to not have a backlash. 

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22 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

And now I’m halfway to finding out your true identity. 

Plenty of folks on this site already know me. I'm a tailgate fixture, or was (we'll see how much work allows me to pregame this season), so you can learn all about me in person anytime you want. I'm definitely more a golden retriever than whatever that weird cartoon Doug was all about, if that's your next question.

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1 hour ago, nbmishoid said:

Wrong, period.  Try Doug Sahm’s version of Roger’s “Invitation to the Blues”.    I went to see Roger in 1970 at the Ft Hood NCO club ballroom, with my retired Sgt. Major Dad, then Postman (on Ft Hood).   Roger got heckled plenty.  I guess that was you.

Suspicious Futurama GIF

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Just now, SubliminalHorn said:

Looks like no one has given him any pointers on his make up 

yo! you feeling better? I was worried about you for a minute on the biden thread - or maybe it was this one. I dunno. 

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3 hours ago, TexPx said:


I gots no kids and it’s nobody’s fucking business why.

And that's Walz's message--stay out of our business.  

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9 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:

They have been.  

 

Was that created with the intent of fooling people? Looks less realistic than a Gary Peterson tweet. 

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1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:

and I hate to say it, but the death of that loathsome pustule Rush Limbaugh probably cost the GOP a few percentage points.   He was like Joe Rogan on steroids, getting somewhat normal people to believe his absolute, crazy bullshit and become GOP haters worried to death about the other.

I’m not saying other GOP pundits aren’t trying to pick up the baton, but I don’t think they have the reach and depth of support that Rush had in his hay day

Thing about rush vs even Rogan is that you pretty much have to go find Rogan. Pretty much no one listens to podcasts other than headphones or by themselves in the car. Rush would just be on - in the warehouse, in your office, in your coworker's car

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33 minutes ago, mdmost said:

If he loses, we'll get a good 2-3 years of grievance whining from him and his base. The Republicans left to pick up the pieces will have to placate the morons for a time. Maybe by 2028's cycle we'll see contenders emerge who disavow the Trump wing and run strictly as an alternative to 4 more years of Kamala. 

If he doesn’t flee the country to avoid jail/prison.  
 

And I stand by my previous post of MTGump taking Trumps place as the heir apparent.  She’s every bit as loud, hateful and stupid as trump and everyone on the Right is scared of her. 

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2 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

 

Sounds like all of us the last eight years. Should lead off all national news programs, asking any and every republican official when he will be stepping down due to his mental illness, etc.

But, nope.

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2 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

 

Even if this was true (there was video, correct?) what the fuck did she cheat at? What is this lunatic talking about? Disqualified? From what?

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3 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

 

All that waitstaff was going to get a huge dividend from supply-side economics and trickle-down! Look at the Laffer curve!

Thanks, President Reagan!

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David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's budget director during his first administration and one of the early proponents of supply-side economics, was concerned that the administration did not pay enough attention to cutting government spending. He maintained that the Laffer curve was not to be taken literally—at least not in the economic environment of the 1980s United States. In The Triumph of Politics, he writes: "[T]he whole California gang had taken [the Laffer curve] literally (and primitively). The way they talked, they seemed to expect that once the supply-side tax cut was in effect, additional revenue would start to fall, manna-like, from the heavens. Since January, I had been explaining that there is no literal Laffer curve."[48] Stockman also said that "Laffer wasn't wrong, he just didn't go far enough" (in paying attention to government spending).[49]

Some have criticized elements of Reaganomics on the basis of equity. For example, economist John Kenneth Galbraith believed that the Reagan administration actively used the Laffer curve "to lower taxes on the affluent".[Shocking!] Some critics point out that tax revenues almost always rise every year, and during Reagan's two terms increases in tax revenue were more shallow than increases during presidencies where top marginal tax rates were higher.[51] Critics also point out that since the Reagan tax cuts, income has not significantly increased for the rest of the population. This assertion is supported by studies that show the income of the top 1% nearly doubling during the Reagan years, while income for other income levels increased only marginally; income actually decreased for the bottom quintile.[52] However, a 2018 study by the Congressional Budget Office showed average household income rising 68.8% for the bottom quintile after government transfers (in the form of various income support and in-kind programmes, subsidies, and taxes) from 1979 to 2014. This same study showed the middle quintile's income rising 41.5% after government transfers and taxes.[53]

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2 hours ago, Red Five said:

I love it that they had the opportunity four years ago to rid themselves of this cancer forever, but didn't, because they're cowards (I think five republicans total voted for impeachment... after the attempted coup). Now they get to watch him get his fucking ass kicked by a black woman and America's Dad. 

Of the four times Republicans could have taken the off ramp with Trump, evangelicals provided the firewall that could not be penetrated. They are more than any other single force responsible for all of Trump’s nine lives.

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If Tim Walz can help get these types of people to vote for Kamala, it’s gonna be a landslide. He already did it for himself in Minnesota. 

 

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41 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Good. That should help in 26 to not have a backlash. 

I also assume if Harris wins we will have a competent AG in charge ready to drop the hammer on any MAGAts that try to step over the line.  And I’m talking about the heavy hitters, not just the Proud Boys and other incel dipshits.

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