At least three news outlets were leaked confidential material from inside the Donald Trump campaign, including its report vetting JD Vance as a vice presidential candidate. So far, each has refused to reveal any details about what they received.
Instead, Politico, The New York Times and The Washington Post have written about a potential hack of the campaign and described what they had in broad terms.
One more for we deal in official propaganda and not actual journalism
Geoff Garin, Democratic polling guy who helped lead the Hillary Clinton campaign to lose against a guy it should be impossible to lose to, after concocting a bunch of terrible campaign slogans no one remembers, has quite possibly THE WORST ADVICE EVER AND SHOULD IMMEDIATLEY LOSE HIS JOB.
Wow, what a fucking idiot.
Fascists are cowards, people respect those on the left willing to punch them out. It's mind-boggling that this guy thinks people on the left don't want aggression. We want someone willing to say "Fuck you, I'll beat the shit out of you to protect our ideas" because our ideas are actually about equality. Hell, Harris is doing the bare minimum when she could be going harder.
Maybe they would never need to stop saying “we’re not going back”.
The Republican nominee wasn’t a guy who was already president and is only running again both because of ego & avoiding going to prison.
Much of the Republican Party haven’t spent the last 40 years trying to roll back various rights.
Also LOL at too negative.
Has he seen the shit Vance (& The Republican Party) has said the last 20 years? Shit is both negative and weird.
Like, "we're not going back" is the first good slogan Dems have had in decades, and Kamala stumbled into it by accident and saw it take the crowd by storm on the spot.
ANd "they're weird" is sticking and making R's lose their minds.
We've had 9 years of Trump and old politicians acting like everything is fine. We WANT a fight right now. It's EXACTLY the right message.
I don't like "weird" being a far-right thing b/c I don't think it should be used as an insult (I'm proud of being "weird" in the "not normal" sense). Although seeing them get pissy about it is like seeing the school bully get upset b/c someone hurt his feelings, so there's that.
"We're Not Going Back" is fabulous. Just as good as MAGA. Unfortunately "WNGB" doesn't quite work as well on a hat as "MAGA".
Weird is fine if you've embraced it and like being weird. Al Yankovich obviously comes to mind, that's his entire brand.
But it's awful if you think of yourself as the standard for normal and are being called out for the first time as not-normal.
Anyone that's cool with being weird isn't insulted at all. The people that aren't cool with it are the ones most freaked out about it, and they should be.
It's like when someone is describing truly horrific things that men do, and someone pipes up "Not all men!" Dude, if you're an exception, you already know it doesn't apply to you, there's no reason for you to be offended by it or to provide correction, it's not about you, just let it slide off.
One person's 'weird' is another person's compliment. Conservatives see themselves as normal. Conservatives will slide into full-on fascism because they want everyone to conform to what they view as the norm, so for their conservatism to have them branded as the thing they do not want they are forced to confront warefare that hits them where it hurts.
That's the thing that the Democrats as a so-called left-wing party consistently refuse to do and have only sort of just stumbled into doing this election cycle by accident. If they actually wanted to win they would have been doing this shit and better decades ago.
She/Her
AOC delivered the best convention speech since Obama in 2004.
I've been assuming she'd eventually run after she passed the age 35 barrier. Maybe she's up in 8 years?
Or is two female presidents in a row going to be impossible?
Might be impossible (both female AND minority), might be good for her to get some more experience under her belt before she tries. Also may need to get the hell away from Congress to get her sanity back. Isn't she not running next time already?
@Robby said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:
Or is two female presidents in a row going to be impossible?
Well first we have to get the first in.
@Time-Control-Magician said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:
Well first we have to get the first in.
For my own sanity for the next three months I have to just take it as a given that Trump isn't winning again.
Unless something starts happening that gives me a reason to worry or doubt, we assume for future casting that Harris gets it.
@JulieYBM said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:
That's the thing that the Democrats as a so-called left-wing
So-called doing some Sisyphean heavy lifting here.
And people need to hold their horses on Pelosi Jr, she fooled me once, she can't fool me twice. And she and Bernie showed incredible good politic instincts by tying themselves to the sinking ship right before he called out.
"Wahoo!" —Klonoa
@pariston_hill said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:
@JulieYBM said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:
That's the thing that the Democrats as a so-called left-wing
So-called doing some Sisyphean heavy lifting here.
And people need to hold their horses on Pelosi Jr, she fooled me once, she can't fool me twice. And she and Bernie showed incredible good politic instincts by tying themselves to the sinking ship right before he called out.
God, the being trans on the internet truly has ruined 'Sisphean' as a word for me lol
I agree, though. They're full of shit.
She/Her
@Nitwit said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:
@Robby This is what we call in the industry self-sabotage. This is going to backfire so hard.
Harris has said she's not listening to that particular advice and is following her instinct instead.
@Robby said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:
Unless something starts happening that gives me a reason to worry or doubt, we assume for future casting that Harris gets it.
I’m not looking forward to a potential repeat of 2016 or 2020 either.
@JulieYBM said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:
I agree, though. They're full of shit.
I listened to the speech, I want my 7min back.
Pure left-wing opportunism sparkled with party cheer-leading and emotional appeal, all style and 0 substance. To those that got emotional over that, I really really - can stress really enough -read Debrod.
The party platforms are also shoddy, super focus on abortion and treating anti-trans wave as an alas. I'm not even touching the Middle East one because that thing might as well have been written by John Bolton.
If I don't trust the Dems to protect Palestinians I sure as shit don't trust them to protect trans Americans lol
@Jabra said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:
I always thought US american elections are ridiculous, with people talking to empty chairs (now dogs...), trash-tv celebs getting heavily involved [...]
Like clockwork, sure didn't expect Lil Jon though 
He's reached the point where even the caked layers of makeup can't keep up anymore.
Eewwwwww . . .
So Trump pledge to make the US military the most lethal in the world...that's bad right?
@pariston_hill holy cow a major development
"Wahoo!" —Klonoa
@Nitwit
Yeah you didn't caught the jab.
@pariston_hill said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:
So Trump pledge to make the US military the most lethal in the world...that's bad right?
I guess if you ignore the fact China’s been eating our lunch military prowess wise.
I also thought conservatives care about teenagers?
Where did you ever get that idea?
Thought I was being genuine?
I know they don’t care about kids. Their insistence on associating with child abusers, propagating harmful rhetoric towards LGBTQ people of all ages, doing nothing on gun control every time a school gets shot up, or wanting underage girls to carry a pregnancy to term.
Makes it pretty clear where they stand.
@Time-Control-Magician said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:
I guess if you ignore the fact China’s been eating our lunch military prowess wise.
Oh so we are at the strengthen not abdicate our global leadership hegemony part of the speech. That clears up.
"THEY'RE EATING THE DOGS!"
-Donald Trump
Kamala kicked his ass tonight and he was an insane ranting madman concerned about his own ego only.
Man, it's depressing that this is a statistical tie election.
Sadly, because there are so many hateful and stupid people in America.
This debate was so much better than the last one, even down to the moderation. He got nailed on a number of issues he wouldn't answer, such as on abortion and healthcare. It was so great to watch him get called out thoroughly.
I also loved how the Trump campaign fought so hard to keep the mics muted and the blabbering idiot just interrupted and forced his way anyway. He was completely out of control, and mostly incoherent. He also took all of the bait put out for him. Harris trolled him so hard and he fell for it! It was hilarious.
I only saw the last half hour of the debate. From what I watched Harris smoked Trump. The ABC moderators did an way better job then the ones at CNN during the previous debate.
"Wahoo!" —Klonoa
It's great that he was sort of in control for like the first 3 minutes, and then she made a comment about people leaving his rallies and from then on he was just nuts. So easy to play.
Also, he refused to look in her direction, he only looked at the moderators.
@Nitwit said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:
Putin wants her to win
Putin does not in fact, want her to win.
That was a misdirection, because the fact that Trump is in his pocket, and that Russia is helping interfere with the elections has been pretty common knowledge since 2016, so he has to deflect a tiny bit. That's what he has to say around the election, and then a few months later be clear that he preferred Trump. Same thing happened with Clinton and Biden. He gave one sound byte where he said he preferred the other person so the quote could be there, and then made his actual preference clear dozens of other times.
Or he was just making a joke because everyone in the room knows this already, and it's a ludicrous thing for him to say.
simps the hardest for Israel.
Every US leader since Israel was founded has been behind it 100%. There's no changing that. Best we can get is "we need a two-state solution"
@Johnny-B-Decent said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:
Sadly, because there are so many hateful and stupid people in America.
Damn near lost my shit reading a poll showing people actually think Trump is a moderate.
So yes people are stupid or just spouting bullshit to rope in stupid people.
"Would you veto a national abortion ban"
"well it wouldn't come to that"
also throwing JD Vance under the bus, lmao
JD Vance has been under that bus long enough to owe rent
Asked if he had a plan for the repeal and replace of the ACA that he's blustered about for almost a decade now: "I have a concept of a plan." Weak, flaky, and weird. The bluster totally deflated.
Also everyone is jumping on the "EATING DOGS!" crazy weird rant, and it was probably the biggest spectacle of him going off the rails, but he also at one point claimed something along the lines of Harris wanted to send all the illegal immigrants to prison and give them gender reassignment surgery. Like his dementia has reached the point that it's fusing his insane talking points together, mixing "schools are giving our children operations" with "illegal immigrants bad!" into whatever the hell that was.
@MetaMario said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:
also throwing JD Vance under the bus, lmao
Guess he got tired of all those unintentional veiled attacks Vance made at his expense. Which Vance did again.
Also very telling that when pressed multiple times about Jan 6, he still just dodges the question, saying it was Nancy Pelosi's fault(?)
If Kamala Harris were to win, what would her American agenda be on day one? Would it include world peace, an end to world hunger, or alien disclosure? I don't want to see a World War 3 in my lifetime.
"Wahoo!" —Klonoa
@Nitwit
Foreign Politics agenda are bound to be the same as the current administration where she's VP.
Given the Middle East policies doc released at the convention, might be even more hawkish.
Another Trump assassination attempt. Apparently.
No shots fired, but a guy had a gun with a scope and was waiting outside the fence for Trump to golf on through. Trump was 300-500 yards away when suspect was arrested,
Apparently he was well hidden and would have had a good shot within a few minutes, only got caught because SS spotted the gun barrel poking through the fence.
He is a white republican that voted for Trump in 2016.
Now Trump is into love hotels with dogs? Oh no….. 
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