Biden/Harris 2020
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annabenedetti
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Putting that FB post in perspective... happened to come across this while looking for something else.
Basically a blip which couldn't even be attributed to either candidate got amplified by FB, Trump, and Rupert Murdoch's New York Post.
And because Google Trends is dynamic, people searching for "is change my vote trending" had an effect on the data.
Indeed, what the data demonstrate is that any “trend” in people looking to change their votes following the final presidential debate is virtually non-existent compared to the trends apparently driven by viral social media chatter, the New York Post’s reporting, and Trump’s tweeting on the topic.
Basically a blip which couldn't even be attributed to either candidate got amplified by FB, Trump, and Rupert Murdoch's New York Post.
And because Google Trends is dynamic, people searching for "is change my vote trending" had an effect on the data.
Indeed, what the data demonstrate is that any “trend” in people looking to change their votes following the final presidential debate is virtually non-existent compared to the trends apparently driven by viral social media chatter, the New York Post’s reporting, and Trump’s tweeting on the topic.
annabenedetti
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The flag artwork is inspired.
Well done, David Parkins.
annabenedetti
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Why it has to be Biden
Donald Trump has desecrated the values that make America a beacon to the world
However, our bigger dispute with Mr Trump is over something more fundamental. In the past four years he has repeatedly desecrated the values, principles and practices that made America a haven for its own people and a beacon to the world. Those who accuse Mr Biden of the same or worse should stop and think. Those who breezily dismiss Mr Trump’s bullying and lies as so much tweeting are ignoring the harm he has wrought. . . .
The most head-spinning feature of the Trump presidency is his contempt for the truth. All politicians prevaricate, but his administration has given America “alternative facts”. Nothing Mr Trump says can be believed—including his claims that Mr Biden is corrupt. His cheerleaders in the Republican Party feel obliged to defend him regardless, as they did in an impeachment that, bar one vote, went along party lines.
Partisanship and lying undermine norms and institutions. That may sound fussy—Trump voters, after all, like his willingness to offend. But America’s system of checks and balances suffers. This president calls for his opponents to be locked up; he uses the Department of Justice to conduct vendettas; he commutes the sentences of supporters convicted of serious crimes; he gives his family plum jobs in the White House; and he offers foreign governments protection in exchange for dirt on a rival. When a president casts doubt on the integrity of an election just because it might help him win, he undermines the democracy he has sworn to defend.
Partisanship and lying also undermine policy. Look at covid-19. Mr Trump had a chance to unite his country around a well organised response—and win re-election on the back of it, as other leaders have. Instead he saw Democratic governors as rivals or scapegoats. He muzzled and belittled America’s world-class institutions, such as the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. As so often, he sneered at science, including over masks. And, unable to see beyond his own re-election, he has continued to misrepresent the evident truth about the epidemic and its consequences. America has many of the world’s best scientists. It also has one of world’s highest covid-19 fatality rates.
Mr Trump has treated America’s allies with the same small-mindedness. Alliances magnify America’s influence in the world. The closest ones were forged during wars and, once unmade, cannot easily be put back together in peacetime. When countries that have fought alongside America look on his leadership, they struggle to recognise the place they admire.
That matters. Americans are liable both to over- and to underestimate the influence they have in the world. American military power alone cannot transform foreign countries, as the long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq proved. Yet American ideals really do serve as an example to other democracies, and to people who live in states that persecute their citizens. Mr Trump thinks ideals are for suckers. The governments of China and Russia have always seen American rhetoric about freedom as cynical cover for the belief that might is right. Tragically, under Mr Trump their suspicions have been confirmed.
Four more years of a historically bad president like Mr Trump would deepen all these harms—and more. In 2016 American voters did not know whom they were getting. Now they do. They would be voting for division and lying. They would be endorsing the trampling of norms and the shrinking of national institutions into personal fiefs. They would be ushering in climate change that threatens not only distant lands but Florida, California and America’s heartlands. They would be signalling that the champion of freedom and democracy for all should be just another big country throwing its weight around. Re-election would put a democratic seal on all the harm Mr Trump has done. . . .
In this election America faces a fateful choice. At stake is the nature of its democracy. One path leads to a fractious, personalised rule, dominated by a head of state who scorns decency and truth. The other leads to something better—something truer to what this newspaper sees as the values that originally made America an inspiration around the world.
In his first term, Mr Trump has been a destructive president. He would start his second affirmed in all his worst instincts. Mr Biden is his antithesis. Were he to be elected, success would not be guaranteed—how could it be? But he would enter the White House with the promise of the most precious gift that democracies can bestow: renewal.
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The flag artwork is inspired.
Well done, David Parkins.
What sort of a drooling retard would think that Dementia Joe and Racist Kamala would make it better?
annabenedetti
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Putting that FB post in perspective... happened to come across this while looking for something else.
Basically a blip which couldn't even be attributed to either candidate got amplified by FB, Trump, and Rupert Murdoch's New York Post.
And because Google Trends is dynamic, people searching for "is change my vote trending" had an effect on the data.
Indeed, what the data demonstrate is that any “trend” in people looking to change their votes following the final presidential debate is virtually non-existent compared to the trends apparently driven by viral social media chatter, the New York Post’s reporting, and Trump’s tweeting on the topic.
sod posted that FB graph around here somewhere. sod likes his FB memes, but most of them distort the truth. Not that he seems to mind.
I think Dementia Don is starting to realize he's in trouble. He cancelled his "victory celebration" and will be back in the WH bunker election night. Even extensive voter suppression may not be enough to carry the day for him.
And he knows what's waiting for him in the courts if he loses.
If he loses, get ready for some really weird things; he always seeks revenge on those who frustrate him, and in this case, it will have been America that did it to him.
And he knows what's waiting for him in the courts if he loses.
If he loses, get ready for some really weird things; he always seeks revenge on those who frustrate him, and in this case, it will have been America that did it to him.
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The WaPo was reporting that Trump/McConnell judges have voted overwhelmingly for restrictions on extensions of time to count votes. Then you have Trump saying at a rally "If we win on Tuesday or — thank you very much, Supreme Court — shortly thereafter…" and you can see the handwriting on the wall. His last resort is to drag the election through the courts.
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As wife secretly votes for Biden in the voting booth...
ok doser
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As wife secretly votes for Biden in the voting booth...
And how should a disobedient wife be disciplined?
Mrs. Barbarian:
"You're not going to vote libertarian again, are you?"
"This time, it might matter. So voting for Biden."
annabenedetti
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No such thing as a "disobedient wife."
annabenedetti
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There's going to come a time when we're not going to be able to tell political real from political deepfake when it's really important that we know the difference.
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Not if she knows her place! :thumb:
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Unlike the weasel Lindsay Graham, digging a deeper hole for himself. I'm so hoping he loses in a big way...
Senator Lindsey Graham, a vulnerable Trump ally from South Carolina, on Sunday suggested that any young woman in America can “succeed” — if they oppose abortions, support religion and embrace a “traditional family structure.”
Mr. Graham’s remark came three weeks after he made comments seen as an attempt to dictate the political rules of engagement on racial matters, saying that Black people “can go anywhere in this state” as long as they are “conservative” and not liberal.
“I want every young woman to know there’s a place for you in America if you are pro-life, if you embrace your religion and you follow a traditional family structure — that you can go anywhere, young lady,” said Mr. Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee who is facing a surprisingly strong challenge from Jaime Harrison, a Democrat, who is Black.
“I want every young woman to know there’s a place for you in America if you are pro-life, if you embrace your religion and you follow a traditional family structure — that you can go anywhere, young lady,” said Mr. Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee who is facing a surprisingly strong challenge from Jaime Harrison, a Democrat, who is Black.
"There's a place for you in America if...?!"
Arthur Brain
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It's just beyond pathetic isn't it? He deserves to lose "bigly" style...
Indeed it is. Are you prepared for four more years of Trump?
Four more years of winning?
Don't you get tired of it?