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[krtek a houby]

Looks like Trump could well pull out of the only TV debate with Harris that has been agreed, to me it looks like he's coming up with excuses as it dawns on him that Harris is likely to perform better than him, which could boost her poll leads even further, and is possibly weighing up if the debate will be more damaging compared to appearing weak if he pulls out.

https://archive.ph/wTpl7

He's really terrified of her, isn't he?

 

[cupid_stunt]

He's really terrified of her, isn't he?

Certainly looks that way, although perhaps not totally giving up yet, he certainly seems to be struggling, and this Washington Post article from a couple of days ago seems to confirm it, again worth reading in full.

Trump allies try to energize him as he struggles to adapt to Harris​

The Republican nominee has fixated on Biden’s withdrawal: “It feels like he’s lost his mojo.”

Republican nominee Donald Trump looked cheerful playing golf at his New Jersey club one day earlier this month, then appeared bored in an afternoon news conference and dour during a reception with megadonor Miriam Adelson. He publicly mused about staying home during the Democratic National Convention, letting Vice President Kamala Harris hold the spotlight unchallenged.

Several former aides who have known Trump for years said he always preferred to keep a lighter schedule in August, when his family visited Bedminster and he usually golfed almost every day. But aides did not want a situation where he was watching the convention every night, getting angry, and then just golfing all day and stewing, according to people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private interactions. Trump also had grown annoyed with the news coverage that depicted him as not working as hard as his opponent, one person who talked to him said.

“The stakes for Trump this election are arguably the highest they’ve ever been. His criminal cases don’t go away if he loses. Yet he seems to be phoning it in, running a remarkably low-energy, undisciplined campaign,” said Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former White House spokeswoman who quit after Trump supporters attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. “From spending days off the campaign trail golfing to coming up with frankly weak nicknames like ‘Kamabala,’ it feels like he’s lost his mojo.”

https://archive.ph/yW81k

 

[two sheds]

How come (most of) these aren't federal crimes that could be pursued? I do wonder what Biden's been doing all this time.

Spoiler

The first few on voter registration:

"Texas Is Among The Most Difficult Places To Vote In The U.S. — And That Could Be Softening Its Historic Turnout"​

Texas Is Among The Most Difficult Places To Vote In The U.S. — And That Could Be Softening Its Historic Turnout | Houston Public Media

"Financial Times: The Republicans are elevating voter suppression to an art form"​

The Republicans have lost the popular vote in six of the past seven presidential elections. 1,000 polling places have since closed across the country, with many of them in southern black communities.

The senator also cracked: “There’s a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who maybe we don’t want to vote. Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult, and I think that’s a great idea.”

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The Student Vote Is Surging. So Are Efforts to Suppress It. The share of college students casting ballots doubled from 2014 to 2018. But in Texas and elsewhere, Republicans are erecting roadblocks to the polls.

The Student Vote Is Surging. So Are Efforts to Suppress It. (Published 2019)

This is how efficiently Republicans have gerrymandered Texas congressional districts

This is how efficiently Republicans have gerrymandered Texas congressional districts

Crystal Mason Thought She Had The Right to Vote. Texas Sentenced Her to Five Years in Prison for Trying.

Crystal Mason Thought She Had The Right to Vote. Texas Sentenced Her to Five Years in Prison for Trying.

Texas’s Voter-Registration Laws Are Straight Out of the Jim Crow Playbook

Texas’s Voter-Registration Laws Are Straight Out of the Jim Crow Playbook

 

[quiet guy]

If Trump pulls out of the debate, Harris should still go ahead with it and put up a plate of jelly on the other podium so she can say to the electorate that Trump is a spineles jelly for refusing to debate.

 

[two sheds]

tub of lard is traditional

 

[WouldBe]

tub of lard is traditional

Lard is white, should use an orange jelly.

 

[pesh]

Should replace him with a bucket of KFC

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Should replace him with a bucket of KFC

By KFC you mean vomit, yeah?

 

[WouldBe]

Should replace him with a bucket of KFC

No, KFC is useful.

 

[VivaE]

Or a bowl of cheetos? Same colour, same texture, same nutritional value, likely the same taste.

 

[Skinny Ethel]

Replace him with a rare ginger orangey dog turd in a butter dish covered with an orange see through lid .

 

[cupid_stunt]

Or a bowl of cheetos? Same colour, same texture, same nutritional value, likely the same taste.

I think I'll pass on checking that out.

 

[two sheds]

this is quite entertaining:

Finally, the Democrats Have Found Trump’s Achilles’ Heel: Ridicule Him

Kamala Harris gets it. Yes, we should fear Trump—but we should also mock him mercilessly, because it drives him nuts.

newrepublic.com

 

[cupid_stunt]

this is quite entertaining:

Finally, the Democrats Have Found Trump’s Achilles’ Heel: Ridicule Him

Kamala Harris gets it. Yes, we should fear Trump—but we should also mock him mercilessly, because it drives him nuts.

newrepublic.com

The shift to mocking started with Walz’s “weird” comment, and has snowballed since, I thought it was a good move, and I agree with that author that it clearly gets to Trump, he's not used to ridicule, and I bet it raises his blood pressure every time they take the piss, long may it continue.

 

[cupid_stunt]

And his bluster about the polls being 'fake' is just that - bluster, the thought that he could well be beaten not just by a woman, but a black woman, must be seriously getting to him, with these two things combined, no wonder he's lost his mojo.

 

[two sheds]

Apparently this is bollocks (please see later comment)

 

[cupid_stunt]

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Well, that's an interesting turn of events.

Court orders platform X to reveal Musk's controversial investors

Specifically, this involves the 8VC Opportunities Fund II. On the fund's website, Denis Aven and Jack Moszkowicza are listed in the staff section—the sons of oligarchs Petr Aven and Vadim Moszkowicza. The former is a Russian billionaire, founder of Alfa Group, described as "one of Putin's main portfolios." The oligarch is subject to sanctions imposed on Russia and Russians due to the outbreak of the war in Ukraine.

Moszkowicza made his fortune in the agricultural industry and belongs to Putin's inner circle, which is why he has also been subjected to Western sanctions.

 

[GarveyLives]

From being The Big Don in 2006...

... to the moment his 2024 presidential campaign suddenly became limp and floppy?​

 

[WouldBe]

Or a bowl of cheetos? Same colour, same texture, same nutritional value, likely the same taste.


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Who did that pumpkin lantern with trump's face on it the other Halloween?

 

[VivaE]

Who did that pumpkin lantern with trump's face on it the other Halloween?

This one's an excellent likeness

 

[JimW]

The estate of Isaac Hayes got the go ahead to sue for three million after Trump ignored request to stop using Hold On, I'm Coming.

 

[cupid_stunt]

The estate of Isaac Hayes got the go ahead to sue for three million after Trump ignored request to stop using Hold On, I'm Coming.

Isaac Hayes Estate Granted Emergency Hearing Over Trump's Unauthorized Song Use

A judge has granted the Isaac Hayes estate an emergency hearing in their $3 million demand against Donald Trump over his use of "Hold On, I’m Coming."

www.rollingstone.com

“The Federal Court has granted our request for an Emergency Hearing to secure injunctive relief,” Hayes III tweeted Saturday. “Donald Trump, the RNC, Trump, Trump for President Inc. 2024, Turning Point and The NRA are required to appear in court September 3rd, 2024 at the Northern U.S. District Federal Court in Atlanta.”

Turned out nice again.

 

[WouldBe]

This one's an excellent likeness

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That would do.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

In fairness, New York's probably seen a lot weirder over the years...

You mean like that time that Trump advocated for the conviction of five black kids who were accused of raping a woman in Central Park. He even paid $85,000 for an ad. They were convicted and then it was found that they were innocent? That kind of weird?

Members of the “Central Park Five”—a group of Black and Latino men wrongly convicted of raping and assaulting a white jogger in New York City in 1989—are speaking during the Democratic National Convention’s fourth night, aligning themselves against former President Donald Trump, who took out harsh newspaper ads against the men when their since-overturned convictions dominated headlines in 1989.

Four members of the Central Park Five are slated to speak at the DNC—Yusef Salaam, Korey Wise, Raymond Santana and Kevin Richardson—following an introduction by Rev. Al Sharpton, who criticized Trump’s treatment of the five men.

Not long after the attack on the jogger in the late 1980s and before the Central Park Five were on trial, Trump took out full-page ads in multiple New York City newspapers calling for the state of New York to bring back the death penalty and to “BRING BACK OUR POLICE”—$85,000 worth of ads that would become the crux of the friction.

MSN

 

[stavros]

If Trump pulls out of the debate, Harris should still go ahead with it and put up a plate of jelly on the other podium so she can say to the electorate that Trump is a spineles jelly for refusing to debate.

C4 did similar on their leaders climate debate in 2019, after Johnson and Farage refused to appear, replacing them with slowly melting ice monoliths.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

You mean like that time that Trump advocated for the conviction of five black kids who were accused of raping a woman in Central Park. He even paid $85,000 for an ad. They were convicted and then it was found that they were innocent? That kind of weird?

MSN

IIRC he wanted them executed. On no stronger evidence than they were black.

 

[petee]

that ad

https://www.nydailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2020/02/13/KHKYURDBBRFUHD6QO3XMGD4TA4.jpg

 

[GarveyLives]

You mean like that time that Trump advocated for the conviction of five black kids who were accused of raping a woman in Central Park. He even paid $85,000 for an ad. They were convicted and then it was found that they were innocent? That kind of weird?

IIRC he wanted them executed. On no stronger evidence than they were black.

The Donald Trump being referred to here:

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[Bahnhof Strasse]

More than 200 Bush, McCain, Romney alums endorse Harris for president, criticize Trump

More than 200 former aides of Bush, McCain and Romney said a second Trump president is \

eu.usatoday.com

 

[Yossarian]

IIRC he wanted them executed. On no stronger evidence than they were black.

I don't think he called for the death penalty two years later, when his mother was mugged by a white teenager and suffered injuries she never recovered from - the attacker was chased down and apprehended by a Black truck driver