Campaign staff: “But all of us trust Tony’s numbers, including the boss. ...
In Tony, we trust[.]" 🙄 Pl-ease. The campaign staff does not for one second believe that Trump's ahead in all of the polls. Who the Hell knows, however, what they're telling Trump.
According to Simon Rosenberg and others who track the status of elections, 30+ questionable Republican polling organizations have dropped at least 130 Trump-positive junk poles in the past 2+ weeks. Republicans did the same thing in 2022 when they were trying to convince everyone that a "red wave" would soon be upon us. You don't suddenly drop 130+ junk polls if you believe you're winning. And you don't make self-serving cya statements to the press either publicly or privately.
Now ... Trump may very well still win. Trump and Harris may, in fact, be tied. But there's no way Trump's campaign staff is convinced he's definitely winning based on "Tony's [internal] numbers." That's just BS. However, as mentioned above, we have no idea what Trump's staff has been telling him. Maybe he truly still believes he's ahead in all of the polls. (Based on his behavior, I doubt it.) Scary either way.
We'll learn what's happening soon enough. I so want my stomach to stop churning.
We can all talk about how crazy, indecent, and toxic Trump is. And yet he is actually the Republican candidate, possibly the president. There are serious, systemic issues in the American political system. This simply shouldn't be happening. What needs to change so we have sane, qualified, governing candidates? Never thought I'd feel nostalgic for Nixon.
How much insecurity and self loathing must Steven Cheung endure every second of his life, in his role of lead mouthpiece for this petty fucking grifter?
“The thing about Donald Trump,” the confidant said, “is that, even when goes off, he knows it’s not necessary to be mad or litigate grievances about 2020. It helps them. It hurts you.”
Sorry, I cannot be convinced that he "knows" any of this. All he has to do is read the freaking teleprompter, but he won't do it because he likes wallowing in grievances much more, and seems to believe that's what his supporters want too.
I also wonder, a lot, if the reason he won't use the teleprompter is that he cannot read, or has a profound reading disability.
I loved the way he called J. Ann Selzer “an enemy” who “hates Trump” when she correctly predicted his victories (in Iowa) in 2016 and 2020. With him it’s definitely “What have you done for me lately”.
People seem to forget that a Trump win actually means Vance becomes President, because His Heinous is ready to be carted off to a locked memory care unit. But if Harris wins, maybe he'll be carted off to a different kind of locked unit.....
Usha is a moron. She’s backing a white man, racist, antisemitic, anti immigration president. She’ll never be anything other than what she is now, a loser at 37.
This one will, in just a few minutes. And I'm not only male, but white, married, not childless, and a registered Republican. Who will vote straight blue as long as the MAGA cult exists.
Thank you! Real me DO support their women. Let's hope there are more men who feel as strongly as you. For the sake of our children and grandchildren (of all genders) this plague has to be eradicated.
We voted at 6:30 this morning----usual time and place for our votes. Never had to wait before, but today it was a 30 minute wait. A long ballot + a long line.
I can't believe I am going to say this because I am not that kind of person, but let's hope this campaign has taken years off his life. I know it has taken years off mine.
The big question is - what do we do if this guy wins and is President again, i.e. when it is clear that the in-band political methods do not work and are not going to work, and these "fascists" believe they can do whatever they want and start in on it - Proj 2025?
Do we just sit there like losers and let him normalize his sick version of society like Hamas? When we do admit there is nothing that is going to fix this except actual action, and how many of us have the guts or creativity to find ways to rebel and turn this back?
Donald Trump has shit on this country, it's traditions, is history, and his followers think they are shitting with him when he is shitting on all of us by the very rich who knuckle under. He shows us he is a forgiving tyrant when accepts all those Republicans who after Jan-6th said he was unacceptable.
If Kamala loses who know what will happen. And what was Joe Biden thinking? Assuming he could thing.
All I keep thinking about is “ The Tale of Two Cities”., by Charles Dickens. I taught it many times, never thinking our country could equate in its themes and madness. After everything that has besieged this country at the hands of the republicans for 9 years, I even better understand the fury and what happened then in France and hope we have the restraint needed in ours .
Why isn't the population, including media ,recognizing that this man is definitely in the throws of dementia? Anyone who has seen someone slip into this sad illness, will see it- irritatedly, sudden mood changes, increased sexual aggressive behavior, both physically and verbally.
It is so obvious. Wake up People! This man, with all his faults, can never be a leader of anything-let alone our country!!
Over the course of this year, salon.com has interviewed and posted columns of professionals who have analyzed Trump’s cognition, linguistics, psychological phonetics….myriad times. There was one published as recently as over the weekend with an interview Dr Gartner, for the second or third time, talking about Trump’s failing cognition as per his latest speech. The mainstream media won’t pick them up. I literally printed out an entire interview last spring and sent it to Rachel Maddow, pleading that she interview the psychiatrist and linguist. Never happened. In this latest interview Gartner said that the Eisenhower rule,, which has kept all psychiatrists from making judgements without seeing the person, finally has been lifted. Finally these people in control admit that the DSM , ie, the diagnostic statistics manual, which all mental health workers use, offering a criteria of symptoms for every psychological diagnosis, is based on factual criteria , non subjective. Therefore psychiatrists making judgments about trump are using a diagnostic tool. BTW the DSM has been around for decades. We could have had myriad warnings about Trump, beyond the 21 psychiatrists in 2017, who were banned because of Eisenhower, all along.What took they so long to lift it? Perhaps then the media would have flooded the airwaves.
I have wondered the same thing, especially after he called attention to Joe Biden’s decline. And yes, he’s always been “eccentric” (to put it mildly), but it’s obvious to me that he isn’t even as sharp or as energetic as he was on other campaigns. I think that’s why he isn’t drawing the crowds he once did and they’re ambling out before he’s finished. Maybe his heart isn’t in it this time - he just wants to stay out of jail.
When you listen to people who have known Trump for a long time, a couple of them David Cay Johnston and Mark Cuban and maybe his niece Mary Trump they say he has always been the way he is. That is, he cannot read or learn, but he has learned instead how to manipulate and con people. They learn to make words their interface to the world - and intimidation and offensiveness to keep people from knowing their weakness.
I don't think this is necessarily dementia, or it may be ADHD with dementia. I'd bet he has a lot of the same characteristics of Ronald Reagan.
What it means is that he will cede power, i.e. delegate his adminstration to JD Vance and his others who will bypass him and implement this Project 2025 thing.
I am very anxious about this election, and wondering what happens, what do we do if this person actually wins the election?
Ronald Reagan had Alzheimer’s, although it’s uncertain whether he had it when he was still in office. But when you see Reagan’s blank facial expressions in some of those old videos (with that serene smile of his), you have to wonder.
I guess we take a deep breath and hope for the best. Fight him on every inappropriate decision when and where we can. Applaud him when he makes a good decision so that he will keep them coming. What else can we do?
Yes, imagine if Joe Biden did not even know what state he was in. Donald Trump is in Greensboro North Carolina and is asking where the republican senate candidate in Pennsylvania is. Now that is cognitive decline on an immense scale. To be fair, since David McCormick lives in Connecticut, Trump may have thought he was in Connecticut. And tonight, in an effort to get in the good graces of women voters, Donald Trump praised Mike Tyson as a great guy, a convicted rapist who served prison time for his crime. And asked Mike Tyson to get in the ring with Liz Cheney. A candidate for president with the worst support from women ever, is asking a convicted rapist and boxing champion to punch a women in the face. Meanwhile back on the ranch (earth 1) Kamala Harris just gave a wonderful speech to an excited crowd in Philadelphia at the Rocky steps. Please, let's unite to defeat MAGA. When we fight we win.
WHAT VALUES HAVE OUR SOLDIERS RISKED THEIR LIVES FOR?
For those who have not yet voted in this election, let us ask ourselves: What did hundreds of thousands of American soldiers throughout our history risk their lives for as they headed into battle, with many never to return?
Was it to install an egotistical despot who propelled an angry mob of his followers to violently lay siege to the Capitol, leaving bodies strewn on the ground, in execution of a fraudulent plot to prop him back onto his throne?
Was it to enable a snake-oil salesman, with a list of felony convictions, sexual molestations, and business frauds to lie and cheat his way back into office?
Was it to promote the imposition of white supremacy and a white male Christian dominated theocracy that would defeat the aspirations of our founding fathers?
Was it to reduce the status of women to second class citizens devoid of the right to control their own bodies?
Was it to insure that our President could exercise total immunity for the commission of crimes. including crimes against his political enemies and anyone else who stands in his way?
Was it to enable our egotistical leader to stuff his cabinet with cranks, crackpots, sycophants, ex-cons, misfits and scoundrels as pay-back for their election support?
Was it install as President a man who has consistently demonstrated his contempt for soldiers who went into battle to defend our values but who were either wounded or captured?
If you were in a landing craft in the early morning hours of D-Day headed for the Normandy beachheads, how would you answer these questions?
Campaign staff: “But all of us trust Tony’s numbers, including the boss. ...
In Tony, we trust[.]" 🙄 Pl-ease. The campaign staff does not for one second believe that Trump's ahead in all of the polls. Who the Hell knows, however, what they're telling Trump.
According to Simon Rosenberg and others who track the status of elections, 30+ questionable Republican polling organizations have dropped at least 130 Trump-positive junk poles in the past 2+ weeks. Republicans did the same thing in 2022 when they were trying to convince everyone that a "red wave" would soon be upon us. You don't suddenly drop 130+ junk polls if you believe you're winning. And you don't make self-serving cya statements to the press either publicly or privately.
Now ... Trump may very well still win. Trump and Harris may, in fact, be tied. But there's no way Trump's campaign staff is convinced he's definitely winning based on "Tony's [internal] numbers." That's just BS. However, as mentioned above, we have no idea what Trump's staff has been telling him. Maybe he truly still believes he's ahead in all of the polls. (Based on his behavior, I doubt it.) Scary either way.
We'll learn what's happening soon enough. I so want my stomach to stop churning.
We can all talk about how crazy, indecent, and toxic Trump is. And yet he is actually the Republican candidate, possibly the president. There are serious, systemic issues in the American political system. This simply shouldn't be happening. What needs to change so we have sane, qualified, governing candidates? Never thought I'd feel nostalgic for Nixon.
He still is facing the court on November 25 for his penalty.
How much insecurity and self loathing must Steven Cheung endure every second of his life, in his role of lead mouthpiece for this petty fucking grifter?
“The thing about Donald Trump,” the confidant said, “is that, even when goes off, he knows it’s not necessary to be mad or litigate grievances about 2020. It helps them. It hurts you.”
Sorry, I cannot be convinced that he "knows" any of this. All he has to do is read the freaking teleprompter, but he won't do it because he likes wallowing in grievances much more, and seems to believe that's what his supporters want too.
I also wonder, a lot, if the reason he won't use the teleprompter is that he cannot read, or has a profound reading disability.
I loved the way he called J. Ann Selzer “an enemy” who “hates Trump” when she correctly predicted his victories (in Iowa) in 2016 and 2020. With him it’s definitely “What have you done for me lately”.
People seem to forget that a Trump win actually means Vance becomes President, because His Heinous is ready to be carted off to a locked memory care unit. But if Harris wins, maybe he'll be carted off to a different kind of locked unit.....
Usha is a moron. She’s backing a white man, racist, antisemitic, anti immigration president. She’ll never be anything other than what she is now, a loser at 37.
Now is the time for all good women to come to the aid of their country. Hopefully there will be a lot of good men to help out.
This one will, in just a few minutes. And I'm not only male, but white, married, not childless, and a registered Republican. Who will vote straight blue as long as the MAGA cult exists.
Thank you! Real me DO support their women. Let's hope there are more men who feel as strongly as you. For the sake of our children and grandchildren (of all genders) this plague has to be eradicated.
We voted at 6:30 this morning----usual time and place for our votes. Never had to wait before, but today it was a 30 minute wait. A long ballot + a long line.
I can't believe I am going to say this because I am not that kind of person, but let's hope this campaign has taken years off his life. I know it has taken years off mine.
My prayer is that after this week Trump will be defeated decisively and we will never have to hear him again.
Trump is toast and he knows it.
The big question is - what do we do if this guy wins and is President again, i.e. when it is clear that the in-band political methods do not work and are not going to work, and these "fascists" believe they can do whatever they want and start in on it - Proj 2025?
Do we just sit there like losers and let him normalize his sick version of society like Hamas? When we do admit there is nothing that is going to fix this except actual action, and how many of us have the guts or creativity to find ways to rebel and turn this back?
Donald Trump has shit on this country, it's traditions, is history, and his followers think they are shitting with him when he is shitting on all of us by the very rich who knuckle under. He shows us he is a forgiving tyrant when accepts all those Republicans who after Jan-6th said he was unacceptable.
If Kamala loses who know what will happen. And what was Joe Biden thinking? Assuming he could thing.
All I keep thinking about is “ The Tale of Two Cities”., by Charles Dickens. I taught it many times, never thinking our country could equate in its themes and madness. After everything that has besieged this country at the hands of the republicans for 9 years, I even better understand the fury and what happened then in France and hope we have the restraint needed in ours .
Why isn't the population, including media ,recognizing that this man is definitely in the throws of dementia? Anyone who has seen someone slip into this sad illness, will see it- irritatedly, sudden mood changes, increased sexual aggressive behavior, both physically and verbally.
It is so obvious. Wake up People! This man, with all his faults, can never be a leader of anything-let alone our country!!
Over the course of this year, salon.com has interviewed and posted columns of professionals who have analyzed Trump’s cognition, linguistics, psychological phonetics….myriad times. There was one published as recently as over the weekend with an interview Dr Gartner, for the second or third time, talking about Trump’s failing cognition as per his latest speech. The mainstream media won’t pick them up. I literally printed out an entire interview last spring and sent it to Rachel Maddow, pleading that she interview the psychiatrist and linguist. Never happened. In this latest interview Gartner said that the Eisenhower rule,, which has kept all psychiatrists from making judgements without seeing the person, finally has been lifted. Finally these people in control admit that the DSM , ie, the diagnostic statistics manual, which all mental health workers use, offering a criteria of symptoms for every psychological diagnosis, is based on factual criteria , non subjective. Therefore psychiatrists making judgments about trump are using a diagnostic tool. BTW the DSM has been around for decades. We could have had myriad warnings about Trump, beyond the 21 psychiatrists in 2017, who were banned because of Eisenhower, all along.What took they so long to lift it? Perhaps then the media would have flooded the airwaves.
I have wondered the same thing, especially after he called attention to Joe Biden’s decline. And yes, he’s always been “eccentric” (to put it mildly), but it’s obvious to me that he isn’t even as sharp or as energetic as he was on other campaigns. I think that’s why he isn’t drawing the crowds he once did and they’re ambling out before he’s finished. Maybe his heart isn’t in it this time - he just wants to stay out of jail.
When you listen to people who have known Trump for a long time, a couple of them David Cay Johnston and Mark Cuban and maybe his niece Mary Trump they say he has always been the way he is. That is, he cannot read or learn, but he has learned instead how to manipulate and con people. They learn to make words their interface to the world - and intimidation and offensiveness to keep people from knowing their weakness.
I don't think this is necessarily dementia, or it may be ADHD with dementia. I'd bet he has a lot of the same characteristics of Ronald Reagan.
What it means is that he will cede power, i.e. delegate his adminstration to JD Vance and his others who will bypass him and implement this Project 2025 thing.
I am very anxious about this election, and wondering what happens, what do we do if this person actually wins the election?
Ronald Reagan had Alzheimer’s, although it’s uncertain whether he had it when he was still in office. But when you see Reagan’s blank facial expressions in some of those old videos (with that serene smile of his), you have to wonder.
Yes, he had the beginnings of the disease while still in office. It has been documented.
I guess we take a deep breath and hope for the best. Fight him on every inappropriate decision when and where we can. Applaud him when he makes a good decision so that he will keep them coming. What else can we do?
REALLY???
Yes, imagine if Joe Biden did not even know what state he was in. Donald Trump is in Greensboro North Carolina and is asking where the republican senate candidate in Pennsylvania is. Now that is cognitive decline on an immense scale. To be fair, since David McCormick lives in Connecticut, Trump may have thought he was in Connecticut. And tonight, in an effort to get in the good graces of women voters, Donald Trump praised Mike Tyson as a great guy, a convicted rapist who served prison time for his crime. And asked Mike Tyson to get in the ring with Liz Cheney. A candidate for president with the worst support from women ever, is asking a convicted rapist and boxing champion to punch a women in the face. Meanwhile back on the ranch (earth 1) Kamala Harris just gave a wonderful speech to an excited crowd in Philadelphia at the Rocky steps. Please, let's unite to defeat MAGA. When we fight we win.
WHAT VALUES HAVE OUR SOLDIERS RISKED THEIR LIVES FOR?
For those who have not yet voted in this election, let us ask ourselves: What did hundreds of thousands of American soldiers throughout our history risk their lives for as they headed into battle, with many never to return?
Was it to install an egotistical despot who propelled an angry mob of his followers to violently lay siege to the Capitol, leaving bodies strewn on the ground, in execution of a fraudulent plot to prop him back onto his throne?
Was it to enable a snake-oil salesman, with a list of felony convictions, sexual molestations, and business frauds to lie and cheat his way back into office?
Was it to promote the imposition of white supremacy and a white male Christian dominated theocracy that would defeat the aspirations of our founding fathers?
Was it to reduce the status of women to second class citizens devoid of the right to control their own bodies?
Was it to insure that our President could exercise total immunity for the commission of crimes. including crimes against his political enemies and anyone else who stands in his way?
Was it to enable our egotistical leader to stuff his cabinet with cranks, crackpots, sycophants, ex-cons, misfits and scoundrels as pay-back for their election support?
Was it install as President a man who has consistently demonstrated his contempt for soldiers who went into battle to defend our values but who were either wounded or captured?
If you were in a landing craft in the early morning hours of D-Day headed for the Normandy beachheads, how would you answer these questions?
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