Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats
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figmentPez
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Did you see that he cites historical precedent for refusing to endorse a president? Former Washington Post editor Eugene Meyer also declined to endorse presidential candidates... from 1933 to 1946. What a wonderful time to serve as an example for how newspapers refusing to take political stances never has any negative consequences.
figmentPez
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She is 100% a troll account. Likely a sock puppet. I knew the minute they said all that crap then said they were voting for Jill Stien. It's all about the ragebait.
GasBandit
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Kamala Harris will challenge Americans to “turn the page” on Trump in a speech from the Ellipse in Washington – the same spot where Trump directed his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, to “fight like hell” and march on the Capitol. Harris will step onstage around 7:30 p.m. tonight and, according to the prepared remarks, she’ll detail how “Trump has spent a decade trying to keep the American people divided and afraid of each other. That’s who he is. But America, I am here tonight to say: That’s not who we are.” Harris will frame the election as a choice between two different visions for the country, saying “Trump intends to use the United States military against American citizens who simply disagree with him. People he calls – quote – ‘the enemy from within.’ This is not a candidate for president who is thinking about how to make your life better.” The campaign expects as many as 40,000 people to attend, according to an amended National Park Service permit for the event. (NBC News / New York Times / Associated Press / Wall Street Journal / Washington Post)
Trump and his allies insist he’s “not a Nazi” and when urged to apologize for the racist comments made at his Madison Square Garden campaign rally, Trump responded that it was an “honor to be involved” and called it “an absolute lovefest.” Trump later claimed he was unaware of the speakers at his campaign event, saying: “I don’t know him; someone put him up there. I don’t know who he is.” Nearly a million Puerto Ricans live in swing states. JD Vance, meanwhile, said he doesn’t believe the racist joke that Puerto Rico is “floating island of garbage” will stop people voting for the Republican presidential ticket. He added “we have to stop getting so offended at every little thing in the United States of America. I’m just — I’m so over it.” (NBC News / Associated Press / Axios / NBC News / The Hill / Politico / Axios / New York Times / ABC News / CNN / Wall Street Journal)
Two ballot drop boxes were set on fire. “An incendiary device was placed inside the ballot box” in Portland, Oregon, but a “Fire suppressant inside the ballot box protected virtually all ballots.” Hours later, a drop box in nearby Vancouver, Washington, was set on fire. Officials said “hundreds” of ballots were affected. Police said a “suspect vehicle” had been identified from surveillance footage, that the fires were connected, and that they’re also related to an Oct. 8 incident when an incendiary device was placed at a different drop box in Vancouver. The FBI also said it was investigating both fires “to determine who is responsible.” (NPR / New York Times / Associated Press / CNN)
The Supreme Court declined to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. withdraw his name from ballots in Michigan and Wisconsin. Kennedy, who supports Trump, claimed that the two swing states are violating his constitutional rights by leaving him on the ballot against his wishes. When Kennedy suspended his campaign, he said his name would remain on the ballot and he encouraged his supporters to vote for him in most states. Wisconsin and Michigan, however, are two of the seven states expected to determine the outcome of the election, which is why he’s seeking to have his name dropped from the ballots in states where it could help Trump. (CNN / NBC News / Bloomberg)
Steve Bannon was released from prison after serving four months on contempt of Congress charges for refusing to comply with a subpoena related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. “The four months in federal prison not only didn’t break me, it empowered me,” Bannon said. “I am more energized and more focused than I’ve ever been in my entire life.” (CNN / NBC News / Associated Press / New York Times / Axios)
The federal judge overseeing the prosecution of a man accused of trying to assassinate Trump denied a request to recuse herself in the case. Judge Aileen Cannon, who was appointed to the federal bench in Florida in 2020 by Trump, said Trump’s repeated praise of her — and the “speculation” that he could promote her if elected president — are not enough to warrant her recusal from cases involving Trump. Cannon is separately overseeing the federal classified document and obstruction case against Trump. (Politico / Washington Post / New York Times)
86% of voters said they’re personally prepared to accept the outcome of the 2024 presidential election – regardless of who wins. 66% said Trump is not prepared to accept the results of the election, while 69% said Harris is. (ABC News)
Trump and his allies insist he’s “not a Nazi” and when urged to apologize for the racist comments made at his Madison Square Garden campaign rally, Trump responded that it was an “honor to be involved” and called it “an absolute lovefest.” Trump later claimed he was unaware of the speakers at his campaign event, saying: “I don’t know him; someone put him up there. I don’t know who he is.” Nearly a million Puerto Ricans live in swing states. JD Vance, meanwhile, said he doesn’t believe the racist joke that Puerto Rico is “floating island of garbage” will stop people voting for the Republican presidential ticket. He added “we have to stop getting so offended at every little thing in the United States of America. I’m just — I’m so over it.” (NBC News / Associated Press / Axios / NBC News / The Hill / Politico / Axios / New York Times / ABC News / CNN / Wall Street Journal)
Two ballot drop boxes were set on fire. “An incendiary device was placed inside the ballot box” in Portland, Oregon, but a “Fire suppressant inside the ballot box protected virtually all ballots.” Hours later, a drop box in nearby Vancouver, Washington, was set on fire. Officials said “hundreds” of ballots were affected. Police said a “suspect vehicle” had been identified from surveillance footage, that the fires were connected, and that they’re also related to an Oct. 8 incident when an incendiary device was placed at a different drop box in Vancouver. The FBI also said it was investigating both fires “to determine who is responsible.” (NPR / New York Times / Associated Press / CNN)
The Supreme Court declined to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. withdraw his name from ballots in Michigan and Wisconsin. Kennedy, who supports Trump, claimed that the two swing states are violating his constitutional rights by leaving him on the ballot against his wishes. When Kennedy suspended his campaign, he said his name would remain on the ballot and he encouraged his supporters to vote for him in most states. Wisconsin and Michigan, however, are two of the seven states expected to determine the outcome of the election, which is why he’s seeking to have his name dropped from the ballots in states where it could help Trump. (CNN / NBC News / Bloomberg)
Steve Bannon was released from prison after serving four months on contempt of Congress charges for refusing to comply with a subpoena related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. “The four months in federal prison not only didn’t break me, it empowered me,” Bannon said. “I am more energized and more focused than I’ve ever been in my entire life.” (CNN / NBC News / Associated Press / New York Times / Axios)
The federal judge overseeing the prosecution of a man accused of trying to assassinate Trump denied a request to recuse herself in the case. Judge Aileen Cannon, who was appointed to the federal bench in Florida in 2020 by Trump, said Trump’s repeated praise of her — and the “speculation” that he could promote her if elected president — are not enough to warrant her recusal from cases involving Trump. Cannon is separately overseeing the federal classified document and obstruction case against Trump. (Politico / Washington Post / New York Times)
86% of voters said they’re personally prepared to accept the outcome of the 2024 presidential election – regardless of who wins. 66% said Trump is not prepared to accept the results of the election, while 69% said Harris is. (ABC News)
figmentPez
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That wasn't what he was saying when people were calling him a weird couch-fucker.
GasBandit
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Texas 'Trump Klan' flyers threaten Harris supporters with 'painful misery'
"Yes! After our chosen guy gets elected and carries through on his threat to eliminate the IRS, you will be audited going all the...hey waitaminit."
Texas 'Trump Klan' flyers threaten Harris supporters with 'painful misery'
--Patrick
He was a decent governor. There are some things he could have done better, of course, but our state thrived with him at its helm. And I don’t agree with him on a lot of key ideas! But he is. Republican from a time when that wasn’t just a party for psychotic, conspiracy theory peddling loons with no idea how the real world works.
I guess what I’m saying is that this makes sense. He wasn’t the best politician ever, but he wasn’t too bad either.
He also did a video basically denouncing MAGA after Jan 6th and was kind of hoping that would be the end of Trump's political ambitions. Since that didn't happen you know he was stewing on this for awhile before deciding to do a full enforcement of Kamala, just because he hates Trump that much.
He knows fascism
He grew up in a house of a nazi.
GasBandit
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House Speaker Mike Johnson promised a “massive reform” of the Affordable Care Act if Trump is reelected and Republicans retain control of the House. “Health care reform’s going to be a big part of the agenda,” Johnson told the crowd at a rally in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. “When I say we’re going to have a very aggressive first 100 days agenda, we got a lot of things still on the table.” When an attendee asked Johnson, “No Obamacare?” Johnson, rolling his eyes, replied: “No Obamacare. The ACA is so deeply ingrained, we need massive reform to make this work and we got a lot of ideas on how to do that.” Trump, meanwhile, has only offered that he has “concepts of a plan” when it came to replacing the Affordable Care Act. Trump tried and failed to repeal the ACA as president. (NBC News / Washington Post / New York Times / CNN)
Trump promised to give Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “control” of several public health agencies, and appoint Elon Musk to a new “government efficiency commission” that would “necessarily involve some temporary hardship.” Kennedy, an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist, said his agenda would be “making America healthy” through the “control of the public health agencies, which are HHS and its sub-agencies, CDC, FDA, NIH and a few others, and then also the USDA […] Because we’ve got to get off of seed oils, and we’ve got to get off of pesticide intensive agriculture.” During the racist campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Trump said he would let Kennedy “go wild on the medicines.” Musk, meanwhile, agreed that Trump’s plan to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, extend his 2017 tax cuts, eliminate the personal income tax, and impose blanket tariffs up to 20% on all imported goods would “necessarily involve some temporary hardship” to “ensure long-term prosperity.” Economists widely agree that Trump’s economic and fiscal proposals would “lead to higher prices, larger deficits, and greater inequality,” as well as undermine the rule of law and political certainty. (CNN / NBC News / New York Times / HuffPost / ABC News / Mother Jones)
The economy grew at an 2.8% annual rate during the third quarter. While the GDP increase is at a slightly weaker pace than the second quarter’s 3% rate and below economists’ expectations of 3.1%, the economy has outperformed expectations and defied every prediction of a recession under the Biden administration. (CNN / Wall Street Journal / Politico / Axios / New York Times / CNBC)
The Supreme Court allowed Virginia to remove about 1,600 people from the state’s voter registration rolls less than a week before the presidential election. After a federal judge ruled that Virginia purged 1,600 people from the state’s rolls too close to Election Day in violation of federal law, the Supreme Court granted Virginia’s emergency appeal with no reasoning. The National Voter Registration Act doesn’t allow states to make “systematic” changes to voter rolls within 90 days of a federal election to prevent any last-minute mistakes. Nevertheless, Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed an executive order in August requiring daily updates to state voter rolls to remove suspected noncitizens. It’s illegal for noncitizens to vote, but studies have found that noncitizens voting is extremely rare. (Associated Press / Washington Post / Axios / NPR / Politico / NBC News / Bloomberg / New York Times)
Kamala Harris, delivering her closing message to a crowd of 75,000 people at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., urged Americans to embrace a “new generation of leadership.” America, Harris argued, was born “when we wrested freedom from a petty tyrant” and that over generations, Americans had fought threats both foreign and domestic to preserve that freedom. But, “they did not struggle, sacrifice and lay down their lives, only to see us cede our fundamental freedoms, only to see us submit to the will of another petty tyrant” – a reference to Trump. The U.S. “is not a vessel for the schemes of wannabe dictators,” she said, but the “greatest idea humanity ever devised.” The Ellipse is where Trump, on Jan. 6, 2021, encouraged his followers to march to the Capitol and “fight like hell” to stop Congress from certifying Biden as president. “Americans died as a result of that attack,” Harris said, noting that Trump’s response to his staff describing how protesters wanted to kill Mike Pence was reportedly, “So what?” Before she ended, she said: “It is time to turn the page on the drama and conflict, the fear and division.” (New York Times / Axios / The 19th / CBS News / Associated Press / Wall Street Journal)
Trump promised to give Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “control” of several public health agencies, and appoint Elon Musk to a new “government efficiency commission” that would “necessarily involve some temporary hardship.” Kennedy, an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist, said his agenda would be “making America healthy” through the “control of the public health agencies, which are HHS and its sub-agencies, CDC, FDA, NIH and a few others, and then also the USDA […] Because we’ve got to get off of seed oils, and we’ve got to get off of pesticide intensive agriculture.” During the racist campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Trump said he would let Kennedy “go wild on the medicines.” Musk, meanwhile, agreed that Trump’s plan to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, extend his 2017 tax cuts, eliminate the personal income tax, and impose blanket tariffs up to 20% on all imported goods would “necessarily involve some temporary hardship” to “ensure long-term prosperity.” Economists widely agree that Trump’s economic and fiscal proposals would “lead to higher prices, larger deficits, and greater inequality,” as well as undermine the rule of law and political certainty. (CNN / NBC News / New York Times / HuffPost / ABC News / Mother Jones)
The economy grew at an 2.8% annual rate during the third quarter. While the GDP increase is at a slightly weaker pace than the second quarter’s 3% rate and below economists’ expectations of 3.1%, the economy has outperformed expectations and defied every prediction of a recession under the Biden administration. (CNN / Wall Street Journal / Politico / Axios / New York Times / CNBC)
- Trump wants you to believe that the US economy is doing terribly. It’s untrue. “Despite his claims to the contrary, unemployment is low, inflation is way down, and job growth is remarkably strong.” (The Guardian)
The Supreme Court allowed Virginia to remove about 1,600 people from the state’s voter registration rolls less than a week before the presidential election. After a federal judge ruled that Virginia purged 1,600 people from the state’s rolls too close to Election Day in violation of federal law, the Supreme Court granted Virginia’s emergency appeal with no reasoning. The National Voter Registration Act doesn’t allow states to make “systematic” changes to voter rolls within 90 days of a federal election to prevent any last-minute mistakes. Nevertheless, Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed an executive order in August requiring daily updates to state voter rolls to remove suspected noncitizens. It’s illegal for noncitizens to vote, but studies have found that noncitizens voting is extremely rare. (Associated Press / Washington Post / Axios / NPR / Politico / NBC News / Bloomberg / New York Times)
- The Trump campaign sued Pennsylvania’s Bucks County Board of Elections over claims the county had “turned away voters” who were attempting to apply in person for a mail-in ballot. Pennsylvania Common Court Pleas Judge Jeffrey Trauger granted a preliminary injunction to extend the in-person mail-in-ballot deadline to Nov. 1, finding that the county violated the state’s election code. The previous deadline had been Tuesday. The campaign had asked for one-day extension. (Bloomberg / ABC News / Associated Press / NBC News)
Kamala Harris, delivering her closing message to a crowd of 75,000 people at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., urged Americans to embrace a “new generation of leadership.” America, Harris argued, was born “when we wrested freedom from a petty tyrant” and that over generations, Americans had fought threats both foreign and domestic to preserve that freedom. But, “they did not struggle, sacrifice and lay down their lives, only to see us cede our fundamental freedoms, only to see us submit to the will of another petty tyrant” – a reference to Trump. The U.S. “is not a vessel for the schemes of wannabe dictators,” she said, but the “greatest idea humanity ever devised.” The Ellipse is where Trump, on Jan. 6, 2021, encouraged his followers to march to the Capitol and “fight like hell” to stop Congress from certifying Biden as president. “Americans died as a result of that attack,” Harris said, noting that Trump’s response to his staff describing how protesters wanted to kill Mike Pence was reportedly, “So what?” Before she ended, she said: “It is time to turn the page on the drama and conflict, the fear and division.” (New York Times / Axios / The 19th / CBS News / Associated Press / Wall Street Journal)
GasBandit
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Trump vowed to “protect” women “whether the women like it or not” after he said his “people” told him it was “inappropriate.” He added: “I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not; I’m going to protect them.” The comments follow Trump remarks in recent months that he would “protect women” and make sure they wouldn’t be “thinking about abortion” despite appointing the three justices to the Supreme Court who formed the conservative majority that overturned the federal right to abortion. Kamala Harris, meanwhile, called Trump’s comments “offensive to everybody” and that they’re proof Trump “is not going to be fighting for women’s reproductive rights.” Women have outpaced men in early voting in states where results are reported by gender. (Washington Post / New York Times / NBC News / Axios / Associated Press / Politico)
- They Want to Ensure That, This Time, White Women Vote for a Woman. “Donald Trump has won white women, the country’s largest voting bloc, for two elections running. White female Democrats are trying to stop that from happening again, but it may be an uphill fight.” (New York Times)
- MAGA Bros Are Freaking Out Because So Many Women Are Voting. ““Unless this changes, Kamala Harris takes PA and it’s over,” tweeted right wing gadfly Mike Cernovich.” (Daily Beast)
- ‘Like it or not’: In one quote, Trump distills the 2024 gender gap. “The former president’s comment at a Wisconsin rally was a pithy encapsulation of the concerns that are spurring a lot of women’s votes.” (Washington Post)
- The Next President Inherits a Remarkable Economy. “The high quality of recent economic growth should put a wind at the back of the White House’s next occupant.” (Wall Street Journal)
- U.S. Turns to China to Stop North Korean Troops From Fighting for Russia. “American agencies have assessed that China dislikes the growing partnership between Russia and North Korea. The State Department has raised the troop issue with Chinese diplomats.” (New York Times)
This is the most encouraging news I've seen in 10 years.
Iowa Poll: Kamala Harris leapfrogs Donald Trump to take lead near Election Day. Here's how
The new Iowa Poll shows Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump by 3 points. Pollster J. Ann Selzer: “It’s hard for anybody to say they saw this coming.”
www.desmoinesregister.com
I refuse to be hopeful. 2016 hurt a lot, and I don’t want to feel that way again.This is the most encouraging news I've seen in 10 years.
Iowa Poll: Kamala Harris leapfrogs Donald Trump to take lead near Election Day. Here's how
The new Iowa Poll shows Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump by 3 points. Pollster J. Ann Selzer: “It’s hard for anybody to say they saw this coming.”www.desmoinesregister.com
By election day is was closer to 2 to 1, and it was almost entirely the Comey BS that swung it.
And that year, Selzers poll was the one result that was way out of national perception, having Iowa at Trump+7 (Obama won Iowa by 9 and averages had Clinton +3). Five days later, Trump won Iowa by 9.
I've been looking for this poll all week because it's the gold standard of polling and was figuring if Harris was within 3-5 points of Trump there, it would be encouraging.
3 points ahead though? That's pants on head crazy encouraging.
There's polls from all the battleground states, with most being easily within margin of error... And all of them are mainly counting really votes etc, so they aren't entirely representative.
We'll see. I expect it to be close enough the Trump won't accept the loss and it'll be months of threats, potential for violence, etc...
And I also expect the R to take both house and senate, so Harris won't achieve anything.
We'll see. I expect it to be close enough the Trump won't accept the loss and it'll be months of threats, potential for violence, etc...
And I also expect the R to take both house and senate, so Harris won't achieve anything.
For what it’s worth, Nate silver wrote a big article about how the swing state polls are fake this year. In the sense that basically every poll has them within 1% of each other, while even if the are neck and neck there would still be a few showing Kamala up 5 and Trump up 5 and they’d just balance out. He comes to the conclusion that every pollster is just skewing their results to be basically even so nobody can say they were wrong after the fact.
The only reason the Iowa one is getting so much attention is because it’s historically a very good poll and is indicating a wildly narrative-breaking result. It could be right or wrong but there is 0% chance it was skewed.