The 2024 U.S. Presidential race

[Soen Eber]

He likes McDonalds?

Were his taste buds killed during COVID?

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

He likes McDonalds?

Were his taste buds killed during COVID?

I don't know that he ever had a taste for "fancy" food? He seems to only ever be eating greasy garbage.

 

[Monica Dream]

He likes McDonalds?

Were his taste buds killed during COVID?

Are we talking about Trump? He's never had taste, and he's always been a McDonald's eater.

 

[detrius]

He likes McDonalds?

Were his taste buds killed during COVID?

From 2017:

https://eu.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2017/03/01/president-trumps-choice-well-done-steak-and-ketchup-raises-eyebrows/98576882/

 

[Free]

2017:

https://eu.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2017/03/01/president-trumps-choice-well-done-steak-and-ketchup-raises-eyebrows/98576882/

You can't get a good steak at McDonald's. I've tried.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

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

As I recall, most of the time he was president he showed up and pretended to work, too.

 

[Ellie]

Rump renews his scurrilous accusations these 5 POC minors were guilty of murder. Hope they bankrupt him, if there's anything left to take.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/21/central-park-five-trump-defamation-lawsuit

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Lengthy but very accessible and interesting article on US political polls, how seriously to take them, or not, and why. Plus a prediction.

The Garden of Forking Paths | Brian Klaas | Substack

Wandering around an infinitely complex, ever-changing world. Click to read The Garden of Forking Paths, by Brian Klaas, a Substack publication.

www.forkingpaths.co

Evernote Link

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Evernote Link

Perhaps unsurprisingly, authoritarians back Trump, liberal democracies back Harris, but there are other geopolitical and economic considerations at work, too.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Donald Trump making french fries at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania. He also handed some out at the McDrive window.


Jon Stewart about that moment of bliss, praying to McD "Give him the job full time, save democracy!"

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Donald Trump’s ground game in Arizona and Nevada may be undercut by canvassers working for America Pac using GPS spoofing to pretend they have knocked on doors when they haven’t, according to multiple people familiar with the practice and a leaked how-to-fake-location video.
The ramifications for Trump may be far reaching, given America Pac has taken on the bulk of the Trump campaign’s ground game in the battleground states, and the election increasingly appears set to be decided by turnout.

A bootleg how-to-spoof video, made by an America Pac canvasser in Nevada and obtained by the Guardian, shows the apparent ease with which locations can be changed to fake door-knocks, calling into question how many Trump voters have actually been reached by the field operation.


The video, shared with a few hundred canvassers, walks through the setup: a user downloads a GPS-spoofing app to falsely place themself at the door of a Trump voter, fakes responses to the survey and takes steps to cover up the fraud by varying the survey responses to make it believable.

 

[Soen Eber]

I'd spoof. There are certain kinds of people in the Republican wheelhouse I'd very much want to avoid.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Evernote Link

 

[Imnotgoing Sideways]

> Well done

...good steak...

Are we speaking the same language here? (o.o)

 

[Free]

> Well done
Are we speaking the same language here? (o.o)

I dunno. I'm speaking English, but sometimes it's a real chore.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

While this is almost certainly prima facie illegal under British election law, it seems to me extraordinary that the people responsible for conducting election polls according to US law don't seem to be treating it as a matter of some urgency to determine its legality under local US laws.

 

[Soen Eber]

About those New York Times Headlines

One, on a story about how Harris has avoided specifics in order to stay on message as she does press interviews read: In interviews, Kamala Harris continues to bob and weave.
The other, on a story about Trump’s alarming language about migrants as carriers of supposedly impure bloodlines and genes read: In remarks about migrants, Donald Trump invoked his long-held fascination with genes and genetics.

EDIT: Oops, Isabeau already posted this in Nobody Cares PRS on the 14th. Sorry for the repeat.

 

[Isabeau]

Doesn’t matter, it bears repeating.

 

[Isabeau]

He says exactly what I’m sure everyone here is thinking.

Why oh why aren’t there as many headlines about Trump threatening to send the national guard on people like Pelosi and Shift (along with all the so-called radical left). Instead we get news about dicks and McDonald’s.