The 2024 U.S. Presidential race

[Cindy Claveau]

Donnie is "tired"!

 

[Free]

I think Cindy is "tired" of providing links.

An ‘exhausted’ Trump says no to another interview

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I am going to confess that I don't understand why the US has a two party system. There is, I assume, some historical or structural reason for it?

First past the post winner takes all.

in my last electoral riding in Canada there were three viable parties that could win, the center liberals, the “labour “ NDP, and the conservatives. And most often a tory would go to Ottawa on 34% of the vote with a firm mandate from Canadians to put homeless people in privatized prisons.

and that’s what happens with first past the post.

edit late to the party

 

[Scylla Rhiadra]

First past the post winner takes all.

in my last electoral riding in Canada there were three viable parties that could win, the center liberals, the “labour “ NDP, and the conservatives. And most often a tory would go to Ottawa on 34% of the vote with a firm mandate from Canadians to put homeless people in privatized prisons.

and that’s what happens with first past the post.

edit late to the party

Yep. I live in a very safe Liberal riding in Toronto, but even so the Liberals will likely poll under 50%, as they have in past elections.

Which is why so many of us were so pissed off when Trudeau reneged on his promise for electoral reform and proportional representation in 2015.

 

[Free]

Elon Musk Helped Fund The Most Cynical Super PAC Of The 2024 Election

Future Coalition PAC has argued to Arab American voters that Kamala Harris is too pro-Israel — and to Jewish voters that she is too pro-Palestinian.

www.huffpost.com

A super PAC engaged in a cynical two-step designed to simultaneously discourage Arab American and Jewish voters by advertising contrasting messages about Vice President Kamala Harris’ Middle East policies is being funded by a dark-money group that is bankrolled by right-wing tech and auto industry billionaire Elon Musk, according to a financial disclosure made public on Tuesday.

Here’s how it works: In areas of Michigan with large numbers of Arab and Muslim voters, Future Coalition PAC is running digital ads about how Vice President Kamala Harris is a staunch and unyielding supporter of Israel.

But it’s the second component of Future Coalition PAC’s advertising that really raises its cynicism to new heights. The group is simultaneously targeting Pennsylvania’s Jewish voters with advertisements claiming Harris has been “pandering” to Palestinians.

So Harris is in the pocket of Israel and the Jews, while simultaneously being run by the Palestinians. Someone has got to stop this monster.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

"Aseurasians"

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

"Aseurasians"

Somebody went unmanageably viral.

 

[Isabeau]

It’s an opinion piece, but still, it’s in the Boston Globe.

Trump’s decline is too dangerous to ignore - The Boston Globe

Why are Republicans and the press holding Trump to a different standard than Biden?

www.bostonglobe.com

“We can see the decline in the former president’s ability to hold a train of thought, speak coherently, or demonstrate a command of the English language, to say nothing of policy. So why are Republicans and the press holding Trump to a different standard than Biden?”

Yes, the press has a lot to wrestle with when it comes to Trump, including his embrace of authoritarian strongmen, his refusal to vow to accept the election results, his criminal conviction and civil judgments for fraud and sexual abuse, and his racism and disparagement of women, LGBTQ people, and immigrants.

But his diminishing cognitive ability can’t be ignored. He may not be able to get a grip, but it’s long past time the news media and Republicans stop participating in the gaslighting. We can see reality with our own eyes.

 

[Isabeau]

Audrey (@parickards.bsky.social)

Ask Aubrey: JD Vance's mom was able to get off of Medicaid and onto private insurance because she bought it off the Ohio Healthcare Marketplace, or better known as Obamacare.

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[Free]

Hmm, sure feels like an Antichrist-like gathering to me.

Trump scheduled to address right-wing media prophets and pastors who claim he’s “anointed to be King”

www.mediamatters.org

Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to address a group of extreme right-wing media “prophets” and pastors who have claimed that “demonic forces” are behind the popularity of the Harris campaign, declared that Trump is “anointed to be king,” and said that Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and vice presidential candidate Tim Walz “go to churches that are synagogues of Satan” because they are Baptist and Lutheran.

 

[Beebo Brink]

So.... speaking of Trump's mental decline, what few social filters he may once have had are in tatters.

Trump raises eyebrows after crude 12-minute anecdote about Arnold Palmer manhood

‘But don’t call them weird,’ one X user quipped

www.independent.co.uk

Trump was speaking in Latrobe, Palmer’s birthplace, on Saturday evening when the 12-minute tangent began. The former president began by praising Palmer’s career and describing his previous conversations with him. “There were a few golfers that you could say may be slightly better, a few, not many,” he said. “But there was nobody that had his magic.”

But the former president’s anecdote, which is just the latest in a series of increasingly bizarre rally claims, quickly devolved as he discussed some intimate details about the golfing icon.

“This is a guy that was all man,” Trump said. “He took showers with the other pros, they came out of there, they said, ‘Oh my God, that’s unbelievable.’ I had to say it.”

“I had to tell you the shower part because it’s true,” he added.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I'm not sure I can order an Arnold Palmer with a straight face now.

 

[Essence Lumin]

I'm not sure I can order an Arnold Palmer with a straight face now.

You can order a Shirley Temple.

 

[Cristiano]

This is epic:

 

[Free]

EDIT:

Trump Gets a Participation Trophy: Election Updates

Harris’s ads, Trump’s fries, Arnold Palmer’s package, Vance’s clean up, Monday’s swing-state polls, and more.

nymag.com

Was Donald Trump's McDonald's shift "staged"?

Rumors have been circulating on social media that former President Donald Trump's visit to the popular fast food chain was staged.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Noodles]

Sure, oh wait, you don't mean McNuggets and McChickens.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

EDIT:

Trump Gets a Participation Trophy: Election Updates

Harris’s ads, Trump’s fries, Arnold Palmer’s package, Vance’s clean up, Monday’s swing-state polls, and more.

nymag.com

Was Donald Trump's McDonald's shift "staged"?

Rumors have been circulating on social media that former President Donald Trump's visit to the popular fast food chain was staged.

www.newsweek.com

Maybe he's practicing for when he has to work the kitchen in the prison cafeteria.