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US Politics | OT 4 | Don't Complain, DO SOMETHING
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This was probably shared already but of course the Fox News Trump all-women Town Hall was packed with Republican women who all support Trump. As reported by CNN:
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Fox News did not disclose its all-women town hall with Trump was packed with his supporters | CNN Business
Fox News hosted an all-women town hall with former President Donald Trump, billed as an opportunity for female voters to ask the Republican candidate questions that matter to them.
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I don't know what will happen at this point. But if Trump wins, I'm not blaming Kamala and her campaign. I can't really see anything they could be doing differently to run a better campaign (apart from a clean break with Biden on Gaza). This isn't Hilary's 2016 campaign; Harris and her campaign are putting in the work and making what appear to be the correct moves, like this Fox News interview.
I just got home from work and saw there was an event I was missing so I quickly ran to youtube and clicked a random stream
Oh, so it's just some right wing podcaster's thing. Well I guess that means more sense than that being on the actual TV station. I guess
I hear ya; the youtube algorithms are too kind to these grifters.
Simon is one of the best he continues to explain what the energy and polling is doing in the moment
Great video as usual big takeaway they are blown away by how great the early democratic vote in Michigan has been with the data they have
View: https://youtu.be/T2R3DV5zODI?si=RQYWV9i86i34zFWC
Great video as usual big takeaway they are blown away by how great the early democratic vote in Michigan has been with the data they have
View: https://youtu.be/T2R3DV5zODI?si=RQYWV9i86i34zFWC
Yea, A.I. can never capture her face for some reason. It always just looks like some generic dark skinned woman.
At some point he's going to start swaying at a rally. I dunno what you do then.
Not surprising, but Donald's PA "Let's not do any more questions. Let's just listen to music" townhall had GOP operatives asking the questions.
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Busted! Former Republican Candidates Posed As Constituents at Trump's PA Town Hall
Trump's Pennsylvania town hall was fake and staged, a MeidasTouch analysis finds.
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100%. If he were a normal candidate his team would be begging him to do one. I wouldn't be surprised if we see him less and less in the next few weeks - however in that situation they'd risk Harris hogging all the spotlight and coverage. I'm sure they're racking their brains on how to curate his public appearances to best minimize damage and maximize headlines.
I think this might be viewed as worse. These were questions from voters, not journalists.
AI generated shit is frequently a reflection of the white supremacist structures it was created under. Techbro engineers and whatever prompts people put in leads to this kind of shit.
Yea, they're caught between a rock and a hard place. Every time he opens his mouth is a disaster for the campaign, but if you hide him it just lets Kamala hog the spotlight. They can try hiding him and hope people start to forget the craziness, but it's a big risk.There's no easy answer for them.
We also get split screen shots of the voters legit looking displeased with him lol like a face shot of a guy asking him wtf was up with j6 and looking like "really?"
Jesus Christ. I am rabidly anti-gun but would have easily and immediately been able to come up with a better pro-gun response to that question just through the osmosis of decades of bullshit Republican talking points.
This guy doesn't even have to play the game yet is a high chance of winning it.
I'm not an expert on AI, but you'd think it'd be able to work off of the thousands of pictures of her online to create an accurate likeness.
'What would you say to parents who have had their children murdered by people with assault rifles and shit that no individual person will ever need?'
'We need them for entertainment.'
'We need them for entertainment.'
There are like 5-6 things that even pro 2A folks support. There is broad support among most Americans in regards to gun control
How is it a disaster? He's gonna get at least 49% of the votes. Dude can seemingly say and do whatever he wants, he doesn't lose votes.
His enablers and handlers deserve the hellish prison they've made for themselves by propping up this moron for the past 9 years lol. Can you just imagine for a moment the meetings the campaign heads have when Trump isn't in the room? They most definitely have to come up with strategies for how to explain things to Trump. Madness.
This was before the interview. Podcast guys nailed it
View: https://youtube.com/shorts/feadsl48ALI?si=lESr_Ln5TdzSTzrz
View: https://youtube.com/shorts/feadsl48ALI?si=lESr_Ln5TdzSTzrz
Currently teaching renewable and nonrenewable energy sources, climate change, pollution, and sustainability in my 6th grade Earth Science class and… Trump's responses are 100% the kind of thing I constantly read while grading assignments composed by 11 year olds. And this is a candidate for President.
IFeelLikeI'mTakingCrazyPills.gif 😂
Dude has never received 49 percent of the votes, even in his golden age of power
I was thinking similarly. Reminds me of how Kinect couldn't recognize Black people worth a damn at launch.
Yeah it's basically 50/50 right now and I give all the credit to Kamala and her team for giving the dems at least a fighting shot. I think she needed a clearer, more audacious plan right from the outset. Made a few errors such as her housing plan. But she/team can be very proud even if Trump wins.
He lost the last election and he's on track to lose this one too, I'd call that a disaster for him and his campaign. Especially since it'd likely be a very winnable race for any other Republican.
Trump being at like 49% in so many supposedly reputable polls is one big tell pollsters are taking no chances in underestimating him. He's being pushed. Maybe still not overcorrected by a lot, but he's being overcorrected.
If Kamala doesn't win, I don't think the race was ever winnable. They've run a tight campaign against the worst candidate and campaign in modern history. Not perfect, but the delta between the two is enormous, and if that isn't enough to win I don't think anything is.
You would have to train a model on pictures of black people to get accurate generated images of black people.
Guess what Silicon Valley doesn't do?
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygh7AbJu69U
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This week’s Economist/YouGov poll covers the latest on the election, what people expect about the election's fairness and its aftermath, perceptions of JD Vance, where voters have found out about candidates, hurricanes' impact, and watching baseball.
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Disgusting but he literally admitted it's impossible to take the guns away. Guess they can't say Harris wants that anymore.
View: https://x.com/jason_kint/status/1846759418458788147
This whole clip (the second one specifically) is great, but I love the woman's reaction at 2:00.
Because he was just reciting talking points, not actually thinking about a response.
LOL.
I think people saying Kamala performs best with adversarial situations said it best. She's a prosecutor.
I say one-up this. Do a Town Hall on Fox, all white male Trump supporters. Whatever you can do to make every occasion that Trump wimps out of an "unfriendly" interview look even more cowardly than before. Show the entire country she's got the ovaries to face any challenge without fear while Trump's overcooked eggs continue shriveling into his safe space.
Assuming it was her turn.
Completely agree.
It's going to be pretty cathartic if she indeed blows him out of the water, but also a moment of stark realization that the polling industry + our collective 2016 PTSD are responsible for months of perpetual nightmarish anxiety. It'd hopefully be a time for reflection on how we should be more scrupulously processing the moment-to-moment feedback that comes with the ends of these now bonkers four-year election cycles.
If we're being honest nothing will at this point.
If Harris takes this race, she earns it. There will be no October surprise that will sink him.