Election 2024 Part III: Out with the old!

[GenMarshall]

Trump's goal is to stay out of jail,...

As stated in the video I linked. Trump would give himself a pardon. An unprecedented and corrupt move.

...and punish his enemies.

Given that CI's favorite president is Richard Nixon (re. his enemy list), I don't think that concerns him all to much.

 

[SemiLazyGamer]

I wonder if Trump got this idea from The Purge movies.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1840526130031317329

 

[Arakhor]

The other day Trump claimed that flies wouldn't bother him if only he had been re-elected president. I think it's safe to say that we don't know where his ideas are coming from these days.

 

[EnglishEdward]

The other day Trump claimed that flies wouldn't bother him if only he had been re-elected president.

If so, that was one of his better attempts at a joke.

 

[Joij21]

I wonder if Trump got this idea from The Purge movies.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1840526130031317329

Well that's it then. I'm voting Trump!

 

[Verbose]

I wonder if Trump got this idea from The Purge movies.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1840526130031317329

I think they tried that in the Philippines...

 

[Takhisis]

Well, Duterte also liked calling Obama an SOB so that might be worth considering.

 

[Kaitzilla]

Yeah. She's peaking. All downhill from here.

The election nuke is just a day away now.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/30/business/ports-strike-deadline/index.html

Time is running out to avoid a work stoppage at ports along the entire East and Gulf Coasts in what could become the most disruptive strike to the US economy in decades.

Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association are set to go on strike at 12:01 am ET Tuesday at three dozen facilities spread across 14 port authorities. There are few signs that a deal could be reached by the deadline set by the ILA and the United States Maritime Alliance, which uses the acronym USMX. The maritime alliance represents the major shipping lines, all of which are foreign owned; as well as terminal operators and port authorities.

The strike, which would be the first at these ports since 1977, could stop the flow of a wide variety of goods over the docks of almost all the cargo ports from Maine to Texas.

A strike that shuts down the east and Gulf Coast (military supplies and passenger ships won't be affected) will cost billions of dollars per day?

Hopefully the Biden-Harris administration provides good leadership on this issue.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/30/ports-strike-truckers-rails-billions-in-cargo-shutdown.html

On average, it takes one week to clear out one day of a port closure. As much as 43% to 49% of total containerized goods entering the U.S are processed through ports on the East Coast and Gulf Coast.

 

[Takhisis]

What the hell? Nevadans have put up a ‘43 ft. nude Trump statue along Las Vegas highway’.

Donald Trump has made his mark on Las Vegas — in the form of a 43ft, nude statue.

A naked statue of the former president, titled “Crooked and Obscene”, was erected in a fenced-in lot next to Interstate 15 north of Las Vegas, Nevada, on September 28.​

 

[Birdjaguar]

From the link:

"Much like Trump himself, who has been zig-zagging the country on campaign stops, the project is expected to travel to other cities. Dates and locations have not yet been announced, according to The Wrap."

 

[Core Imposter]

Well. It is time for the October surprise.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Trump is just nuts:

Donald Trump’s Absolutely Baffling Claim About ‘Phone Apps’ Raises New Questions​

The former president seemed out of touch as he tried to describe a basic feature of any smartphone.

Donald Trump’s latest attack on migrants included an unexpected new twist: a reference to “phone apps” as if they are a little-known technology.
Speaking in Wisconsin on Saturday, Trump claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris has an app that allows a “virtually unlimited” number of migrants to enter the country.

“They have a phone app, so the people can come into our country,” Trump said over the weekend. “These are smart immigrants, I guess, because most people don’t have any idea what the hell a phone app is. But they do, these are very intelligent immigrants.”

Trump’s critics served up a fact-check:

Trump’s Absolutely Baffling Claim About ‘Phone Apps’ Raises New Questions

The former president seemed out of touch as he tried to describe a basic feature of any smartphone.

www.huffpost.com

 

[Gori the Grey]

We should maybe welcome these very intelligent immigrants into our country, no?

Like if they're more intelligent than a previous President of the United States, that's really something, isn't it?

We could really benefit from making such people citizens, it would seem to me.

Just a thought.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Trump is just nuts:

Donald Trump’s Absolutely Baffling Claim About ‘Phone Apps’ Raises New Questions​

The former president seemed out of touch as he tried to describe a basic feature of any smartphone.

Donald Trump’s latest attack on migrants included an unexpected new twist: a reference to “phone apps” as if they are a little-known technology.
Speaking in Wisconsin on Saturday, Trump claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris has an app that allows a “virtually unlimited” number of migrants to enter the country.

“They have a phone app, so the people can come into our country,” Trump said over the weekend. “These are smart immigrants, I guess, because most people don’t have any idea what the hell a phone app is. But they do, these are very intelligent immigrants.”

Trump’s critics served up a fact-check:

Trump’s Absolutely Baffling Claim About ‘Phone Apps’ Raises New Questions

The former president seemed out of touch as he tried to describe a basic feature of any smartphone.

www.huffpost.com

Sounds like another example of something he saw on the internet, posted by some wacko conspiracy theorist and decided to repeat it because it sounded good to him. Just more crazy, senile, racist uncle behavior. More evidence of his serious cognitive decline.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Yeah, but it also includes the "most people don't know what a phone app is" craziness.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Right, he's a lunatic, but also a narcissist and this is an example of his delusion that he is a "very stable genius". He imagines that because something is new to him, it must be new to everybody, because he knows more about everything than anyone else, including the generals, doctors, economists, scientists, experts, etc.

 

[Gori the Grey]

And also (setting aside for a moment dementia) just how old people tend to think "ah, all of these new-fangled 'apps' and such; who needs 'em?"

 

[Voidwalkin]

I think that too, FWIW. Apps make life worse, not better.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Yeah, but that's only once you learn what they are!

It's ironic for me to be saying this because I don't own a cellphone, and it's partly the in me that has rejected them.

 

[Core Imposter]

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), the Republican vice presidential candidate, will be walking into the lion’s den Tuesday night when he faces off with Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), the Democratic vice presidential candidate, in front of two heavily biased CBS broadcasters.

According to the latest study of media bias by Media Research Center’s watchdog outlet, NewsBusters, 85% of CBS coverage has been pro-Walz and Vice President Kamala Harris, while 81% of the network’s coverage of the Republican ticket has been anti-Vance and former President Donald Trump.

What’s more, the debate moderators, evening news anchor and managing editor Norah O’Donnell and Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan have a long anti-Trump record.

“During the two months from July 21 (when President Biden left the race) through September 27, our analysts reviewed all 346 minutes of campaign coverage (161 stories) on the CBS Evening News and its Saturday/Sunday twin, the CBS Weekend News. We found that coverage of Vice President Kamala Harris has been extremely positive (84%), while coverage of former President Donald Trump has been lopsidedly negative (79%),” said the study conducted by Rich Noyes, the group’s former research director.

“While there was far less discussion of the vice presidential candidates, we found the same wild imbalance: 89% positive coverage for the Democrat Walz, vs. 89% negative coverage for the Republican Vance,” the study continued.

Debate host bias: CBS 85% pro-Harris-Walz, 81% anti-Trump-Vance - Washington Examiner

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) will be walking into the lion’s den when he faces off with Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) in the vice presidential debate, hosted by two heavily biased CBS broadcasters.

www.washingtonexaminer.com

I think it shows something profound when all the networks are essentially paid propagandists and still the election is so close. Putin and Xi Jinping are able to maintain control of their populations in the same manner.