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applegrove's JournalMAGA sure likes the opportunity to tell rural people that
an economic boom, be it through Haitian legal immigrants or job opportunities brought to the countryside by broadband, result in increased rents and unaffordable housing. Boy they really don't want those people out of financial dire straights anytime soon. I guess they have the rural poor right where they want them, forever.
Regression analysis proves that people suffering from financial anxiety stop voting with reason and start voting with passion or feeling, and in the case of the USA, against their economic self interest and for Donald Trump and Republicans..
IMHO
Don't let your town of your people fall into the gaze
of predators. That is my take on the traumatizing of Springfield children.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=Gaze+definition&client=ms-android-bell-ca-rvc3&hl=en&lr=lang_en&submit=
GAZE
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verb
look steadily and intently, especially in admiration, surprise, or thought.
"he could only gaze at her in astonishment"
Predators admire people and places that make good victims or pogroms. Hitler would fall for female trapeze artists and shower them with flowers in hospital when they fell and got injured. Humans 'falling', or about to fall, fascinate them. They want to watch I'm talking to you JD Vance.
Trump denies knowing anything about the stocastic bomb threats
that are scaring kids. It is about drilling down into voters' souls that the GOP will deport all non white immigrants and the fact children are scared makes it get even more attention. People can't look away when vulnerable are in dire conditions and that is the conduit Trump uses to sneak the get rid of Haitian immigrants into their souls. It doesn't matter that people are reacting out of concern. Some will be lured into voting with Trump because the immigration pogrom is front and center. This will go on for days traumatizing all the kids of that unfortunate town. An unfortunate town because Vance and the right wing extremists put their 'gaze' on it. The gaze of a predator.
Heather Cox Richardson on why people get caught up in Trump's lies.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/"SNIP...........
All day today, reporters fact checked Trump’s statements, proving them lies. But lies have never damaged him; they reinforce his dominance by forcing subordinates to agree that the person in charge gets to determine what reality is. Victims must surrender either their integrity or their ownership of their own perceptions; in either case, once they have agreed to a deliberate lie, it becomes harder to challenge later ones since that means acknowledging the other times they caved.
That’s why the lie about the size of the crowd at Trump’s inauguration is so important: it is the foundational lie on which all the others stand. Harris, who spent her legal career dealing with criminals and abusers who depend on this technique, knew exactly how to undermine it. She made fun of it, making his “obsession with crowd sizes” a national joke. The jokes set him off not only because he cannot bear to be laughed at, but also because challenging that lie challenges all the others.
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Applegrove:
Harris was engaging in 3 dimensional chess. Thank go for the people we have on our side.
Harris Hires Rural Vote Director
Harris Hires Rural Vote Director
September 6, 2024 at 2:25 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 165 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2024/09/06/harris-hires-rural-vote-director/
"SNIP............
“Kamala Harris is bringing on a new campaign hire as part of her team’s push to clinch must-win states this fall by keeping former President Donald Trump from running up the score in rural counties,” Politico reports.
“Harris is tapping Matt Hildreth of the progressive Rural Organizing group as her rural engagement director… Democrats have been hemorrhaging support in rural America for years, but making even a small dent in Trump’s steep rural margins could determine the outcome in battleground states that may be decided by razor-thin margins.”
...........SNIP"
Applegrove (posted elsewhere):
I hope they tout broadband internet Biden has implemented. It will mean people can start businesses or got to College without leaving their rural areas.
Trump at 58% in swing states? Nate Silver's swing state polls included Texas & Florida.
Nate Silver's swing state polls included Texas & Florida. So that's why way off. If you drop Florida and Texas, Dems get 78% of the vote in swing states if you copy his math.
https://www.natesilver.net/p/nate-silver-2024-president-election-polls-model
The 'math' method he used is to add up the swing state point scores (the amount by which either Trump or Harris are winning the battleground states) of both Harris and Trump (including Texas and Florida for Trump) separately. Then add them together. That is the big total. Divide 100% by the big total of the swing state polls. That gives you the multiplier. Now take the separate total scores of Harris and Trump and separately multiply them by the multiplier. Do it with Texas and Florida included in the Trump swing state total score. Do it without. With Trump is at 58% or 60%. Without Texas and Florida, Harris is ahead by 78%.
That is how it is done. Then do it by making California and New York swing states and see what you get.
It is not really data at all. But such a win for Trump, 58%, serves to cow people who are Kamala curious and depress democrates workers and voters.
Now Trump says he lost by a hair, or something, on November 2020.
So is he back tracking in an attempt to get above that ceiling of 45% or 47% or 48% or whatever it is? Because the people who didn't like Jan 6th, 2021 are staying away? Or will this be like abortion where he goes back and forth depending on the storm it causes.
Not to mention those wound up in it or too traumatized
who committed suicide. And those killed.
Tim Walz is the Spitfire of vp candidates. He can shoot
at his opponents and then take off and turn in on rounded wings into an new analogy. They can't follow his turn at that angle. They can't get him in their sights. Then he does it again. Picking him was one of the first decisions Kamala Harris made as a Presidential candidate. She doesn't seem to make a wrong move. And she herself is nimble in poking fun at Trump but never in a crass or unprofessional way: for instance she never says "lock him up" about Trump, she says "we'll let the courts decide". We have all been covered in such Trump gooey smog in the last decade. It is like we can breath again. Thank you Biden. Thank you Kamala for telling us to take a deep breath and get ready to work. Thank you Tim. Thank you to all the Democratic workers and volunteers. Thank you to all the people who donate. Thank you to the Democratic voters.
Biden Plays Second Fiddle to Harris
Biden Plays Second Fiddle to Harris
September 2, 2024 at 9:17 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2024/09/02/biden-plays-second-fiddle-to-harris/
"SNIP..........
“President Biden gave a demonstration on Monday that the Democratic Party now belongs to Vice President Kamala Harris, stepping to the microphone at a campaign event in Pittsburgh to introduce his No. 2 rather than taking the speaking slot of honor for himself,” the New York Times reports.
Said Biden: “Folks, we’ve made a lot of progress, and Kamala and I are going to build on that progress, and she’s going to build on it. I’ll be on the sidelines, but I’ll do everything I can to help.”
............SNIP"
Applegrove:
Biden is such a mensch.
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