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They know what they will get with the status quo, so they’ll vote for anything that isn’t that even if they probably know that Trump won’t help them either

Absolutely this - it got us Brexit as well. And as the Britain First leader said in the Hope not Hate documentary,  they want things to keep going downhill for the next 10 years to attract the support of all those disaffected voters.

Lessons of history, as ever.


 
Posted : 24/10/2024 3:36 pm
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The politicians ‘on the left’ need to be taking a long hard look at themselves and asking why a repellent racist sex pest fraudster is preferable to any of the ‘respectable’ candidates they can put forward

Category error. The left cannot (or in this case Democrats) provide an answer to the "solutions" that the right want to talk about  amongst themselves instead of why their own polices over the last decades have made everybody less well off.  It's precisely why the right talk about immigration (for instance) in the way that they do. Trump needs immigrants to water his golf courses, wash the dishes and cook the food, he knows this, the Republican party know this, they're not daft, and they know that the people becoming angry about "foreigners taking our jobs" do not want to do those jobs either. The Democrats cannot provide an alternative to the Republicans telling themselves fantasies to remain relevant and in power.

What the Democrats do here is totally irrelevant (other than to play the pantomime villain) this is the right having a conversation with itself. It's only listening to itself


 
Posted : 24/10/2024 4:00 pm
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Trump has no interest in normal working people

And he doesn't even need to pretend that he does. Evangelical Christians are among Trump's biggest supporters, approx 80% supported him when he was previously elected. And yet he doesn't pretend to share their religious views, they are totally aware how godless Trump is.

He pitches himself as the best candidate for Evangelical Christians, even if they are aware that he is a serial sinner, he urges them to vote for him because he claims that the alternative is worse than him.

Trump is an avowed sinner – so why did American evangelicals vote for him?

https://theconversation.com/trump-is-an-avowed-sinner-so-why-did-american-evangelicals-vote-for-him-68528

He doesn't pretend to like Jews either, but he expects them to wholeheartedly support him.

Jewish leaders criticized Trump for telling Jewish audience they have 'no choice' but to vote for him instead of Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/09/politics/donald-trump-accused-of-anti-semitic-language/index.html

"A lot of you are in the real estate business because I know you very well. You're brutal killers, not nice people at all. But you have to vote for me, you have no choice," he said.


 
Posted : 24/10/2024 4:26 pm
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The politicians ‘on the left’ need to be taking a long hard look at themselves and asking why a repellent racist sex pest fraudster is preferable to any of the ‘respectable’ candidates they can put forward.

And what is the answer to such a question?


 
Posted : 24/10/2024 6:39 pm
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“A lot of you are in the real estate business because I know you very well. You’re brutal killers, not nice people at all. But you have to vote for me, you have no choice,” he said

LOL!  Trump really knows how to wind people up.  Straight to the point.  Vote or else ... LOL!


 
Posted : 24/10/2024 11:20 pm
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So I see there has been an e.coli outbreak in McDonald's restaurants in the US... after The Sun God served fries there.

Coincidence?

I don't think so.


 
Posted : 24/10/2024 11:34 pm
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I don’t think so.

I have seen a few other references to that.

As an atheist its rather more convincing proof of god getting annoyed than the normal rather untargeted hurricanes and other natural disasters to punish gays/feminists etc.


 
Posted : 24/10/2024 11:42 pm
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^^ Could also be a deep state conspiracy to stop him fueling up on the campaign trail.

Harris, you monster!


 
Posted : 24/10/2024 11:47 pm
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The Return of the Trump.  I can see the headline next month but this election will be a close one.


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 2:48 am
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It might be decided by a few thousand votes, but it's looking eerily like a landslide for Trump in the Electoral Collage.  So many voters seem more interested in punishing the Democrats for inflation problems (world wide) and Gaza (Israel) that they're actively opening the door to 4 years of destruction from Trump.  They're quite literally voting on the past not the potential future.  It's barmy.


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 11:38 am
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And what is the answer to such a question?

Maybe it's the fact that just like here in the UK, they continually put up candidates who refuse to challenge the established neoliberal narrative that there is no other way to organise society and the economy than what we have today. Every time I hear a centre-left politician speak I'm left with the impression that they're telling me what isn't possible and what isn't realistic or feasible. FFS stop telling people what they can't have and start offering them something positive. From what I can see all Harris is offering is that she isn't Donald Trump. Hilary Clinton tried that approach and look what happened.


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 11:43 am
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I think the big issues that face the left is the last time Labour had a proper leftie in charge the press vilified his every move.

Getting the people to actually listen & engage is always tricky when the right sells simple solutions for complicated problems.

My dad & brother inlaw have started to go down the migrant rabbit holes - moaning about various things, as this is sold as the biggest problem facing the UK today - not a problem blown out of all proportion by the previous government.


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 12:32 pm
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Trump has no interest in normal working people

And he doesn’t even need to pretend that he does. Evangelical Christians are among Trump’s biggest supporters, approx 80% supported him when he was previously elected. And yet he doesn’t pretend to share their religious views, they are totally aware how godless Trump is.

He has no interest is young Black male voters, and so on and so on

It's not who he is, or the example he sets, or the solutions policies he offers. What brings all these people together as one voting coalition for Trump is he can say to them that he hates the things they hate. He hates immigrants and he hates women and he hates the justice system and he hates government and taxes and he hates 'the blacks' when it suits him and he hates Jews when it suits him and muslims pretty much all the time. Whatever you hate he hates it too and that gives him more traction that the fact that he hates you as well. That only ever gets pointed out to you by people Trump hates and that you hate too.

His rallies are just a crowd cheering a list of grievances and him cheering their boos. (and 40 minutes of dancing)


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 1:03 pm
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For decades they have voted for so-called ‘serious’ politicians who have broken every promise and every campaign message that things would be better with them in power. If people are not presented with a serious alternative, they’ll vote for an unserious one instead.

I get your point. But trump was in power only 4 years ago, and to best of my knowledge he didn't do anything he promised (remember that wall?), and didn't do anything to improve anything for anyone.

So I'm left with the conclusion that 50% of Americans have either very short memories,  or are thick. I'm leaning towards the latter tbh.

Much to my dismay he's going to win, probably due to the voting system rather than the popular vote. And you can expect his inauguration speech to be as graceless and decisive as it was last time

Although I'm still holding out for him not making it to election day due to having a massive coronary on the shitter ..although that's looking more and more like wishful thinking..


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 1:26 pm
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From what I can see all Harris is offering

Trump supporters aren't going to vote for Harris because she starts offering them an alternative to the Status Quo.  They're voting for Trump because they think he believes, like they do, that climate change isn't real and that gas will stay at 35 cents a litre forever, that they won't be made to feel bad about how the US has treated people of colour in the past, that abortion will be illegal, and their particular brand of evangelical Christianity will become the official religion, he won't take away their guns, and make them accept 'socialised' healthcare.

The things they want are fantasy things, that's the appeal of Trump. The things that you think are a viable, credible alternative to the neo-liberal narrative would go down like a bucket of cold sick with these folks

They want to live in the US of the fifties, not the future.


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 1:29 pm
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I get your point. But trump was in power only 4 years ago, and to best of my knowledge he didn’t do anything he promised (remember that wall?), and didn’t do anything to improve anything for anyone.

Trump lowered taxes (massively) increased tariffs (bigly) and was tough on NATO.  All things he promised to do and did.  Biden kept the tax drop and the tariffs and the US economy has benefitted from the tough on NATO stance.

I dislike Trump as much as the next guy, but let’s at least be fair, otherwise we’re no better than the other liars.


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 1:45 pm
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I'm going to have to stop opening this thread. It seems there's now little-to-no prospect of him losing as things stand, and it's just too ****ing depressing for words.

Someone please PM me when he does have that thromby on the shitter, then I can break out a big bottle of something fizzy. Thanks in advance


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 1:46 pm
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Trump lowered taxes (massively) increased tariffs (bigly) and was tough on NATO.  All things he promised to do and did.  Biden kept the tax drop and the tariffs and the US economy has benefitted from the tough on NATO stance.

Fair point. My judgement is clearly clouded by the fact he's an utter cxxx.


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 1:50 pm
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Good points @maccruiskeen 


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 1:58 pm
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Trump supporters aren’t going to vote for Harris because she starts offering them an alternative to the Status Quo.

Maybe not but it doesn't need a load of rednecks to put a democrat in power, it needs a broad coalition of the working and middle classes who are sick of seeing their standard of living and economic security withering away while the rich get ever richer. Basically what they need is a Bernie Sanders type figure who's a bit younger and a bit more charismatic. It's always going to be one of the greatest 'what ifs?' wondering what might have happened if Hilary Clinton didn't beat Sanders in the 2016 primaries.


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 2:12 pm
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It’s not who he is, or the example he sets, or the solutions policies he offers. What brings all these people together as one voting coalition for Trump is he can say to them that he hates the things they hate. He hates immigrants and he hates women and he hates the justice system and he hates government and taxes and he hates ‘the blacks’ when it suits him and he hates Jews when it suits him and muslims pretty much all the time. Whatever you hate he hates it too and that gives him more traction that the fact that he hates you as well. That only ever gets pointed out to you by people Trump hates and that you hate too.

Probably the most incisive  description I've read here or elsewhere.


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 2:18 pm
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All things he promised to do and did.

Private Pike voice: don't mention the wall!

'drain the swamp!'

The swamp was looking bigger than ever under his rule!


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 2:23 pm
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Donald Trump attack on Keir Starmer fails with pre-Budget poll boost for Labour

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trump-starmer-budget-poll-tracker-b2635438.html

I reckon that the Independent's political correspondent might have misunderstood the purpose of Donald Trump's criticism of the "far-left" Labour Party's involvement in the US presidential elections.

It wasn't designed to damage Keir Starmer, it was designed to damage Kamala Harris. And it is still perfectly feasible to  believe that it might have had a minimal negative impact on her campaign despite the obvious hypocrisy.

And I am not sure that I would describe a 1% increase in support for Labour as "a shock pre-Budget poll boost", the margin of error of error is 3% ffs.


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 2:27 pm
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 It seems there’s now little-to-no prospect of him losing

Only if you listen to all the internet noise... Which is only going to become amplified up to the maximum over the next week so.

Harris is still leading in the polls. But the lead has shrunk in the last few days...

But being totally objective.. That doesn't nessesary mean much when you consider the inbuilt structural bias of their electoral college system.

I'm still quietly hopeful my twenty quid bet on Harris will still return me £55.

Remember that MAGA are capable of making a lot more internet noise given Musk is on board.

But noise is noise.. Hype is hype, etc.


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 2:30 pm
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it needs a broad coalition of the working and middle classes who are sick of seeing their standard of living and economic security withering away while the rich get ever richer.

John Steinbeck wrote "Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” They don't want to see the wages for themselves and others lifted, they want to be one of the rich, getting richer. That's the American dream.


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 2:51 pm
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Only if you listen to all the internet noise… Which is only going to become amplified up to the maximum over the next week so.

Harris is still leading in the polls. But the lead has shrunk in the last few days…

I listened to an interesting interview with Denny Carter on polls in the US today - making a comparison between what the polls appear to show and how the campaigns are acting. His analogy was like watching a football game and focusing on the stats at the bottom of the screen rather than the players on the field - it doest matter how how much possession and how many shots on target a team has if in fact they're losing.  The consistent in the media narrative is that the polls are tightening, it's 50:50, it's too close to call. But those stats don't seem to correlate with the the actions of the two campaigns. Harris's campaign is a strategy of a party that is confident it can win. Trump's campaign is a strategy of someone who thinks they're likely to lose, I terms of where they are campaigning, the messages they are putting out and so on. It looks like their internal polling is telling them something very different to the published opinion polls. Think about the Musk $1m dollar bribes - thats not the actions of a campaign that thinks it's in a strong position.

A lot of the published polling data is coming from openly republican-leaning organisations and while there has been an issue of polling efforts  under-reporting Trump's popularity in the past it may well be, as well as honest efforts to better reflect voter intentions theres deliberate efforts to inflate his poll standing. The poll agrigators know a lot of these polls are junk, but are feeding the data in (claiming they are taking account of the bias, but feeding the junk in anyway). Theres a consistent narrative that gets pushed from republican operators in all sorts of elections towards a story of outcomes being likely to be effectively a coin toss even when the reality  is that a particular battle ground is solidly republican or democrat.

Whilst not want to show him as losing It seems useful for republicans not to show him as winning, but to show that knife edge. The Trump campaign has been expertly hoovering money out of its base for a decade now but it takes very little doubt in peoples minds to stop handing over money. Knife edge polling keeps people giving, If these are indeed inflated poll figures then disparity between those and the election day result sets up another long-running 'stolen / rigged' grift. It probably the case that things can't go wrong for Trump in that respect. Losing would still mean the story is all about him.


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 3:17 pm
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Maybe it’s the fact that just like here in the UK, they continually put up candidates who refuse to challenge the established neoliberal narrative that there is no other way to organise society and the economy than what we have today. Every time I hear a centre-left politician speak I’m left with the impression that they’re telling me what isn’t possible and what isn’t realistic or feasible. FFS stop telling people what they can’t have and start offering them something positive. From what I can see all Harris is offering is that she isn’t Donald Trump. Hilary Clinton tried that approach and look what happened.

So they're going to vote for someone who is promising policies that will put them in a worse position?

So I’m left with the conclusion that 50% of Americans have either very short memories,  or are thick. I’m leaning towards the latter tbh.

And not just Americans, here too.


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 3:19 pm
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Macruiskeen +1


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 3:29 pm
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Getting the people to actually listen & engage is always tricky when the right sells simple solutions for complicated problems.

So get the left to sell simple solutions to complicated problems. Not the same ones, but why aren't the left making more of the pay differential between CEOs and workers? Tell us stories about Bezos making his drivers pee in bottles. How about the right's complete disregard for the environment? Shit in our rivers, Musk's rockets burning the manatees. Whatever. There seems to be a collective lack of imagination and a certain amount of cowardice on the left at this point, and it's a mistake.


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 8:49 pm
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There seems to be a collective lack of imagination and a certain amount of cowardice on the left at this point,

There has never been a better time for left wing parties to offer a vision of a better society in contrast to the right wing status quo.

But they bottle it.


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 9:24 pm
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5 Live played some audio this afternoon of Trump rambling on at one of his rallies about the size of Arnold Palmers cock.

I mean seriously…. WTF?


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 10:00 pm
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Just put a tenner on Harris to win

Can't believe that Americans would be insane enough to vote him in a second time.
I reckon enough swing state voters in particular will know what's at stake, but I could see him piling up votes in red areas so that he actually wins the popular vote. If I couldve got odds on both those things I'd have gone for that!


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 10:13 pm
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Can’t believe that Americans would be insane enough to vote him in a second time.

I recall everyone saying the same the last time around. I’ve thought for a while that there’s a certain inevitability to it.

They really are that insane


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 10:19 pm
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So the Washington Post has declined to endorse a candidate.

To put this in perspective, this is the first time it has ever done this in 40 years and it has tended to endorse democrats in the past.

To put this in further perspective the Post is fairly recently owned by everyone's favourite wobbly vibrator shaped 'rocket ' man  Jeff Bezos.

The LA Times has also failed to endorse a candidate this election for the first time, though in the past it has also tended to endorse democrats.

The Times is has also been recently acquired by a billionaire.

Endorsing candidates is a big deal in the US.

In addition there is a fairly well substantiated rumo(u)r that Space Karen has been playing both sides and whilst ensconced in the Trump camp has been in frequent communication with Vlad the poisoner  for at least the last 2 years.....

I think its about time the public started having a problem with this billionaire ****


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 10:32 pm
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I think a big psycological human problem is that people feel a compulsion to pigeon-hole things as a binary choice... or they simply lack the mental capacity to see otherwise...

..of left or right... even on this forum.

It doesn't help anything... some on here even use the term 'centrist' as a thinly veiled slur against differing opinions.

So we can't really blame some American news papers for sitting on the fence...if they endorse Harris and trump gets in, he will put them out of business.


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 10:34 pm
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They really are that insane

I'll see your 'insane' and raise you an 'unpleasant'.


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 10:38 pm
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Jesus H Christ, I just noticed this thread has been going for nine years. NINE YEARS!


 
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In addition there is a fairly well substantiated rumo(u)r that Space Karen has been playing both sides and whilst ensconced in the Trump camp has been in frequent communication with Vlad the poisoner  for at least the last 2 years…..

Sorry not following why that is playing both sides?  Trump and Vlad aint exactly on opposite sides.

Now if you were referencing the muskrats bowing to the CCP demands you might have a point.


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 10:52 pm
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So the Washington Post has declined to endorse a candidate

Bezos apparently worried about his space contracts if Trump wins, which I guess is not unlikely considering how deep Musk is into Trump

Abject cowardice but I don't know if it won't backlash, on the Trump campaign


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 10:55 pm
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In addition there is a fairly well substantiated rumo(u)r that Space Karen has been playing both sides

When you say "fairly well substantiated" you mean the stories in the Guardian and Wall Street Journal?


 
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Jesus H Christ, I just noticed this thread has been going for nine years. NINE YEARS!

Statistcally speaking, it's highly unlikely Trump will still be alive in another 9 years... it's what he's paving the road for, that is more of a concern.


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 10:57 pm
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It doesn’t help anything… some on here even use the term ‘centrist’ as a thinly veiled slur against differing opinions.

No they dont. Which shows, ironically, that you might be having difficult understanding positions varying from your own simplistic one whilst busily announcing others are mentally deficient.


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 10:57 pm
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Jesus H Christ... 12inchs....well according to Donny anyway.


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 10:58 pm
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When you say “fairly well substantiated” you mean the stories in the Guardian and Wall Street Journal?

Yes, two of the most respected publications on either side of the Atlantic with a long history of journalistic integrity (even the WSJ seems to have kept that with its current ownership), yes that would be it.

Why?

"Sorry not following why that is playing both sides?  Trump and Vlad aint exactly on opposite sides."

Whilst your flippancy is understandable they are actually on different sides.

In addition the security clearance levels given to Musk based on his ownership of Space X and his partnership with NASA plus Starlink and its connections with Ukraine and other global conflicts and his ownership of X, a transmission device for fake news mean that he is clearly in a position to play both sides. This would not necessarily be an issue accept that........everything.


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 11:02 pm
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No they dont. Which shows, ironically, that you might be having difficult understanding positions varying from your own simplistic one whilst busily announcing others are mentally deficient.

Your opinion, nothing more.


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 11:03 pm
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It certainly dovetails well with the statements hes made about Russia which were very much in line with putins own takes on the war.

It's mad that Musk apparently has US security clearance and they are soon to be in government


 
Posted : 25/10/2024 11:23 pm
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Nick Offermans message to votors is spot on


 
Posted : 26/10/2024 12:21 am
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Whilst your flippancy is understandable they are actually on different sides.

They're both kleptocrats cooperating for each other's mutual benefit. I think it's fair to describe that as "being on the same side".

One of Trump's many creepy obsessions is his infatuation with totalitarian dictators and he has publicly fawned over Putin on many occasions. The fan boy behaviour has been so ridiculous that several people have suggested Putin must have something on him. Woodward's recently published book claims Trump secretly gifted Covid testing machines to Putin during the pandemic and has had multiple phone conversations with Putin since leaving office.


 
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Nick Offermans message to votors is spot on

Excellent and I'm so pleased he is one of the good guys on this.


 
Posted : 26/10/2024 3:19 am
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Anyone watched the Rogan podcast yet?

I was willing to watch it out of curiosity.

From the clips I’ve seen already this morning, it’ll be a tough watch. Nothing to do with his politics, just his complete inability to get out a coherent sentence.


 
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Anyone watched the Rogan podcast yet?

Nah, I used up all my "shout at the audio" rage earlier this week, there's only so much bro science I can absorb without wanting to scream obscenities at inanimate objects.


 
Posted : 26/10/2024 4:15 pm
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I thought about listening to it but I don’t honestly have the energy


 
Posted : 26/10/2024 6:04 pm
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I got about half way through before it all got too infuriating and depressing.

Hard to believe it's the same guy who was enthusiastically backing Bernie Sanders not that long ago.

Incidentally, Bernie was on Lex Fridman recently.  Everything he proposes is so reasonable and humane, and the average person on the street would agree with him.  Yet, he was totally squashed by the corporate controlled system running the US.


 
Posted : 26/10/2024 6:46 pm
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One interesting take away from the Rogan interview is he's still struggling holding the line with his own bullshit about the last election. Having upset a lot of his closest supporters recently by actually saying he 'lost by a whisker' (supporters who've lost millions, face trials and prison so on becuase they supported him in his claim) and having to backtrack and say it was somehow a joke and admitting earlier this week that he's never actually seen an evidence of cheating in the election - he did it again, this time trying to get the toothpaste back in the tube mid sentence

“I lost by, like..... I didn’t lose,”


 
Posted : 26/10/2024 8:27 pm
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considering how deep Musk is into Trump

Come again…?


 
Posted : 26/10/2024 9:49 pm
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Anyone watched the Rogan podcast yet?

I'm afraid not, this is where I agree with the whole going "Homer  Simpson" on some issues for your own peace of mind.

Epic that Arabic leaders/Islamists are endorsung him today. I get that they don't agree with the Biden administration about Gaza... But thinking Trump will support Gaza more and not encourage Israel to hit the gas pedal?

I'm utterly amazed.


 
Posted : 26/10/2024 10:52 pm
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I’m utterly amazed

Mindboggling, but that sums up Trump for ya

Polls are still 50/50 but it's exactly that kind of support that makes you think he might well win!


 
Posted : 26/10/2024 11:25 pm
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Epic that Arabic leaders/Islamists are endorsung him today. I get that they don’t agree with the Biden administration about Gaza… But thinking Trump will support Gaza more and not encourage Israel to hit the gas pedal?

Which ones? Most of the leaders couldnt give a flying **** about the Palestinians.

Its reckoned one of the factors for the Hamas attack were the talks between Saudi Arabia and Israel looking very positive. So the hope was the inevitable backlash would completely destroy that and get Saudi to side with Hamas. Obviously hasnt quite worked.

Trump is definitely a better business partner for Saudi Arabia etc. Just look at who invested in Kushners funds.


 
Posted : 26/10/2024 11:38 pm
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Great rant by San Antonio Spurs head coach against Trump.  Gets going about 2 minutes in.


 
Posted : 27/10/2024 10:06 am
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Rogan podcas

Rogan is a major throbber and massively toxic, but inexplicably popular.


 
Posted : 27/10/2024 2:54 pm
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Trump dressed up in Proud Boys Colours at Madison Square, the place of the 1939 Nazi rally.

He knows exactly what he's doing.


 
Posted : 27/10/2024 3:18 pm
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Listened to the Rogan Podcast.

Trump came across relatively reasonable (on the Trump scale anyway. Obviously not any normal scale). Which is quite worrying because I fear he's winning more votes.

I want to punch Rogan in the face sometimes. You can tell he's not buying into all his shit, yet for somebody who's always insisted he didn't want to give Trump a platform, he did exactly that and sided with him for most of the conversation, selling the narrative that the left control the media and go in unfairly hard against Trump. American politics perplexes me.


 
Posted : 27/10/2024 3:59 pm
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American politics perplexes me.

Start by looking at which group forms the largest segment of Trumps core vote.


 
Posted : 27/10/2024 6:26 pm
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Gonna have to stop looking at twitter

It's amazing that there seems to be completely different narratives from partisan commentators who are certain that either Trump or Harris will win comfortably, with tons of polling and early vote, registration and other data to back up their claims


 
Posted : 27/10/2024 9:43 pm
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^that's a very grim picture...

But I guess we'll all find out in a week or two...


 
Posted : 27/10/2024 10:33 pm
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Well seems like Trump held a weird ego massaging victory rally at Madison Square Garden that all went as you might expect

With jokes about African Americans carving watermelons instead of pumpkins, Puerto ricans living on a trash island, latinos being unable to stop breeding, a deranged rant about Palestinians by Giuliani and a guy chanting America for Americans only
Also Musk being deeply weird

Will it move the dial? With the several million Puerto rican voters, maybe.

Just seems very daft to have a racismpalooza gig in the last week, gifting Harris campaign clips for attack adds they can run for the next 9 days


 
Posted : 28/10/2024 9:04 am
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Also, he'll get inflation to 0% and deport millions of illegal immigrants on day one. Which is nice. Those little hands will be working hard. Do you think you can irradiate inflation completely whilst simultaneously playing a round of golf - I suppose it depends how bigly you are.


 
Posted : 28/10/2024 9:14 am
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Also, he’ll get inflation to 0% and deport millions of illegal immigrants on day one. Which is nice.

How can anyone anyone expect and electorate to  fall for this crap - he'll be claiming he'll fix the crisis in social care once and for all and building 40 new hospitals next.


 
Posted : 28/10/2024 9:42 am
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I think the issue with a podcast is it's the softest of interviews - if I had a podcast & managed to get him on, I would do my best to piss him & get him to walk out in a strop.

But no one would want to come on ultimately because I wouldn't tolerate guest bullshit.

Rogan knows exactly what he's doing in order to stay top of the podcast tree.


 
Posted : 28/10/2024 10:14 am
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Trump is really quite exceptional at changing hats to speak to whichever demographic he's lasered in on isn't he, you have to give him credit for that.  Those people he's speaking to care about as much about politics as the average UK voter, so they don't see or hear any of the contradictions and just lap up all of the rhetoric. It's no different over here.

He, and his team, have done brilliantly since he hit the scene at finding those people and giving them what they want to hear.  The fact that he keeps their loyalty after everything he says and does says a lot more about them, than him.

Rogan just gave him the perfect platform to mobilise all the young male voters who don't ordinarily vote, and they'll have heard nothing that makes them vote for Harris. Another clever move by the campaign team. The fact that he kept the rally goers waiting too, so much contempt, but he knew what he had to do - and they are all in the bag already.

Harris is doing really well speaking to the moderate voter, but there might not enough of them.  I really, really hope that what increasingly feels like his election to lose mobilises more moderate non-voters somewhere.


 
Posted : 28/10/2024 10:51 am
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Rogan knows exactly what he’s doing in order to stay top of the podcast tree.

I think it's more nuanced than that. Rogan knows how to make guests feel comfortable and get a decent conversation out of them, which is why he's top of the podcast tree in the first place. You don't do it from any kind of adversarial stance.

He does however, have a penchant for conspiracy theories and overly simplistic narratives that explain things in black and white, which is exactly Trump's brand.

The psychology in that means they can talk like buddies for hours on topics they are both enthused by. I wouldn't surprised if Trump's advisors gave him a list of discussion points to go in with that they know Rogan buys into.

There'll be other factors too, but on the whole, I find it depressing how normalised Trump's behaviour has become, and the idea that 'the left' is controlling the media and acting unfairly against him, to me is frightening. The only thing acting against Trump are moral standards.


 
Posted : 28/10/2024 10:55 am
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You don’t do it from any kind of adversarial stance.

Entirely depends who he chooses to interview though. Having a conversation with Brian Cox, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Alex Honnald or Adam Sandler is fine, those people aren't grifting. You're failing if you take that same approach with people who's whole shtick is their controversy. - Jordan Peterson, Alex Jones Andrew Tate and so on. If you're going to have these chancers on your program (although Christ knows why you'd entertain the idea) then at least use to opportunity to push back otherwise Alex Jones is just gong to come on and lie to your face, while you nod along looking stupid.


 
Posted : 28/10/2024 11:12 am
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Rogan has had some interesting guests on over the years, and he had a bit of the "Louis Theroux" technique where he just makes the guest comfortable and lets them speak. But due to his propensity for conspiracy theories and promoting toxic masculinity, even just cherry picking an episode with an interesting guest leads to my youtube feed filling up with shiiite and spending days or weeks just clicking on not interested or "don't recommend channel" to clean it up.

Youtubes algorithm is largely responsible, and I can see how people can be sucked into that online world because of it, but he is part of that toxic ecosystem so it isn't all on youtube.


 
Posted : 28/10/2024 11:31 am
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With jokes about African Americans carving watermelons instead of pumpkins, Puerto ricans living on a trash island, latinos being unable to stop breeding, a deranged rant about Palestinians by Giuliani and a guy chanting America for Americans only
Also Musk being deeply weird

Just for clarity - the 'jokes' were sadly not delivered by Trump himself - but by comedian who has previous & they have obviously distanced themselves. Although I am fairly sure the act would've been rehearsed & approved by the Trump campaign.

During a stand-up set in May 2021, Hinchcliffe was videotaped insulting Peng Dang, an Asian American comedian who had introduced Hinchcliffe after performing the previous set at Vulcan Gas Company in Austin. Hinchcliffe said Dang was a "filthy little **** **", followed with a series of Asian stereotypes in a mock Chinese accent, and lashed out at audience members who laughed at Dang's jokes, branding them as "race traitors". 


 
Posted : 28/10/2024 12:54 pm
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Here’s what America could look like if the people behind Project 2025 get Trump in place to enable their plans. A Christian Nationalist dictatorship with the military being used to back them up against any perceived ‘threat’ from anyone who isn’t a staunch MAGA Supporter, the EPA defunded, and much more.

https://www.propublica.org/article/video-donald-trump-russ-vought-center-renewing-america-maga?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=ProPublica/magazine/All+Stories


 
Posted : 28/10/2024 1:19 pm
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Do you reckon that's it from Taylor Swift, or have they saved her up for a last week impetus blast?


 
Posted : 28/10/2024 3:30 pm
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Not sure she would change much now

but dems really need to turn out the vote or Trump will walk it

I predict a Trump dead cat to distract from the puerto rican stuff


 
Posted : 28/10/2024 3:45 pm
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I read that her asking people to register got 450000 young people to register. Obviously not all  will be Harris voters but it shows what sort of influence she has.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/taylor-swift-voter-registration-harris-endorsement-b2612021.htm


 
Posted : 28/10/2024 3:59 pm
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I predict a Trump dead cat to distract from the puerto rican stuff

I think you're getting Haitians and Puerto Ricans mixed up 🙂


 
Posted : 28/10/2024 4:19 pm
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