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November 9, 2024

Real estate will collapse because 11 million people will

be kicked out of the country. Artificial Intelligence will kill off the jobs of the educated. They will sell their houses too.

November 8, 2024

So republicans I assume have access from big data

on every person in the USA. So they knew who Democratic voters were, or potential democratic voters, who were often bros. And their phone numbers. So they messaged them with things to make them stay on the couch and not vote? More than 7 million fewer voted for a Democratic President than did in 2020. That is my hypothesis.

Is it right to assume the GOP has data on every person in the USA through not just social media but corporations? And their phone numbers?

November 8, 2024

House Democrats Are Not Conceding Anything

House Democrats Are Not Conceding Anything

November 7, 2024 at 2:01 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 295 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/11/07/house-democrats-are-not-conceding-anything/

"SNIP..............

“House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Democrats aren’t conceding anything,” Punchbowl News reports.

Said Jeffries: “It has yet to be decided who will control the House of Representatives in the 119th Congress. We must count every vote and wait until the results in Oregon, Arizona and California are clear.”

“Democratic leaders also said this wasn’t time for them to get into a post-mortem about what went wrong on Election Day. There’s enormous infighting going on inside the party since Donald Trump romped to a big win and pulled House and Senate Republicans along with him.”

............SNIP"

Applegrove:

if Dems don't win the House they should definitely litigate all close races in the courts for 8 months the same as Al Franken faced when he first won his Senate race.

November 6, 2024

Donald Trump's Revenge

Donald Trump’s Revenge
November 6, 2024 at 6:26 am EST By Taegan Goddard 635 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/11/06/donald-trumps-revenge/

"SNIP..........

Susan Glasser: “Electing Donald J. Trump once could be dismissed as a fluke, an aberration, a terrible mistake—a consequential one, to be sure, yet still fundamentally an error.”

“But America has now twice elected him as its President. It is a disastrous revelation about what the United States really is, as opposed to the country that so many hoped that it could be.”

“His victory was a worst-case scenario—that a convicted felon, a chronic liar who mismanaged a deadly once-in-a-century pandemic, who tried to overturn the last election and unleashed a violent mob on the nation’s Capitol, who calls America ‘a garbage can for the world,’ and who threatens retribution against his political enemies could win—and yet, in the early morning hours of Wednesday, it happened.”

............SNIP"

Applegrove:

No it is not his policy or his characteristics people are voting for. It is his charisma. The difference between charm and charisma is that if you are charismatic "you come to me". If you are charming "I go to you". Kamala is charming. Trump is charismatic and he can get people to do things as "they go to him" and vote. It is not the policies or character. It is the charisma that makes people vote for him. When he is gone, politicians like JD Vance or DeSantis will not be able to keep the band together.

November 5, 2024

Maybe the Republicans who didn't pick up the phone when

pollsters called were not regular Trump voters but Kamila voters who did not want to tell big Republican data that they would vote for Democrats this one time. But were corrected for as probable Trump voters by the pollsters.

Did not think of that until now.

October 29, 2024

Meant to cause paranoia pain and then voters retreat into their

'it will be okay' pollyanna corners of their minds. Relative to psychopaths, we people are pollyannaish.Then Trump will threaten again and again voters will say 'he doesn't mean it' which is delusional denial pollyanna making bad things look good. Then Trump will threaten again and again people will get paranoid of what Trump will do then retreat into pollyanna denial where there is less pain and you say to yourself 'well, it will not be us who are attacked'. Do you see a pattern here? Like when you get your car stuck in snow (Prime Minister Chretien of canada famously used this analogy) you rock the car back and forth till finally it gets over the barrier and drives forward out of where it was stuck. Back amd forth the car goes building up momentum over time overwhelms your morals and ethics. You are now accepting of the Trump campaign rhetoric and out of the pain of paranoia scenario because you are all about conspiracy/denial theories and cannot distinguish what is real but you need to hide under a 'leader' who has the power to protect you. Fascist rely on this lack of ability to distinguish truth to pick up followers. And the sudden lack of empathy in you. How to you stop this? Expect the fear bombs and baiting coming from the Trump in a periodic fashion. Accept them as bombs (sometimes true, sometimes not, but always painful). Don't go into denial. Believe him the first time that he is trying to cause pain and is a fascist who could carry bad things out. Belly breath. Don't go into denial. Let the pain of fear and not knowing for sure build a place in you where you park unknowns. Cry because it hurts. Then you know the patterns of the rollers. Then you win.

October 28, 2024

Likely planned to set off Democrats and others

who are not voting Republican to infer that the vote won't matter. So why vote?

October 26, 2024

And if you feel the abject and deep pain that is fascist fomented fear

and you think of passively voting Trump to make the pain go away, by joining Trump's abuse train and protection racket, stop yourself. Belly breath and fight with your vote for Kamala. And live to fight another day in a Democracy where fear is rare once again and your government works to mitigate it, not spread it everywhere.

October 25, 2024

I would assume it is bull**** until it gets verifyed and picked up by a major

MSM source or two. Otherwise ignore stories like this. We have work to do and though it is nice to think there is some magic that will befall us in the next 12 days, we can't get dreamy. We've got to fight.

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