zeke5123a
10mo ago
Immigrant from third world barbecuing cats is true. Immigrants from third world causing all sorts of problems due to incompatible cultures is obviously true (and the cat thing is merely an extreme example).
zeke5123a
10mo ago
Look at the democrat ticket. Two mid wits. Very unimpressive people who are kind of dumb. Maybe even knuckleheads.
zeke5123a
10mo ago
Well the cat thing seems to be directionally true even though it isn’t technically true.
zeke5123a
10mo ago
It is ironic that you compare Clinton and Trump whilst making it seem like what Trump did was on par or worse. It seems clear that what Hillary was trying to do was get around FOIA (ie oversight). Clinton was by far worse.
zeke5123a
10mo ago
The water main story radicalized me. The media stated it was debunked merely because a government election official said shortly thereafter it wasn’t true. Didn’t offer evidence. Just ipse dixit. And that was apparently enough despite numerous real time accounts that differed. Of all people, Mollie Hemingway had an excellent take down of it.
zeke5123a
10mo ago
I would add that the problem is the government data is controlled by the people who benefit from positive data. It isn’t totally fake but there are fudge factors and it isn’t entirely clear if they are 1) being fudged and 2) if so the size of the fudging.
For example food inflation was in the mid twenties over the Biden admin. Industry group calculated it around 35%. Maybe the industry group is wrong or maybe the government is wrong. But the industry group seemingly fits my experience a bit more.
zeke5123a
10mo ago
He is blaming Trump for the misdeeds executed by the IC cabal that were targeted against Trump. Of course it is a disingenuous post and you shouldn’t be modding me but the other poster who clearly is posting in bad faith.
zeke5123a
10mo ago
There are some RW presses. But now you add in Google. Google puts a thumb on the scales by promoting traditional old news that are clearly LW (eg NYT, NBC, WaPo) whilst not promoting RW.
So the monopoly that Google has really puts a stranglehold on info sharing. Thank god for Elon Musk at least.
zeke5123a
10mo ago
But isn’t the problem “the IC was willing to lie to try to influence the election for one candidate and if they were willing to break that norm why would they simply stop there instead of changing votes.”
And for that I don’t have a convincing argument that THAT would be a bridge too far. Now that’s not proof they did something but when they know by and large they won’t be caught because of institutional advantages — why not cheat?
Further it seems the latest in Georgia shows that the dominion machines are far from safe (I don’t understand why we need machines instead of simply paper ballots).
zeke5123a
10mo ago
He is the poster who when it was pointed out to him the job numbers were fake didn’t believe it.
zeke5123a
10mo ago
Here’s some ideas:
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Stop having your intel buddies publish what they knew was fake stories to help sway an election.
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Stop having your intel buddies try to prebunk real stories so that social media after pressure from your elected friends take down true stories.
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Stop trying to make it easier to have non citizens vote.
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Stop engaging in absurd one sided political lawfare.
The list can go on but democrats do so many things that undermine a free and fair election and then are surprised that they would directly do what they are indirectly trying to accomplish.
zeke5123a
10mo ago
I agree. It wasn’t even close. Because the democrat effort was longer, more impactful, and more insidious.
zeke5123a
10mo ago
zeke5123a
10mo ago
Polls are of course also subject to buses (including weighting voting population).
zeke5123a
10mo ago
The one thing I would add is why did Harris and her team put her in this setting why they know she is “turrible” in these settings?
My guess is internals might not be as positive as external polling so they were hoping to shore up a criticism but it didn’t go well.
zeke5123a
10mo ago
I’m not sure how much a 60 Minutes interview matters. I guess it does slightly on the margins and if you believe the polls this race is just on the margins.
zeke5123a
10mo ago
Didn’t she fail the first time?
She is also 60.
100 might be too low but she clearly is lower than 115 IQ.
zeke5123a
10mo ago
The same thing happened with the Dana Bash CNN interview. They clearly left a lot on the cutting room floor. She is a midwit. Basic 100 IQ person who through a combination of social striving, whoring, and being the right skin tone and gender at the right moment has ascended to almost be president. Sad state of affairs.
zeke5123a
10mo ago
I’m not saying they are forced to choose between these two items. But the idea that “it’s only 100b” leads to wasting American money on nonsense like Ukraine aid. 100b adds up. And it adds up fast.
I would prefer we spend less overall (including on welfare). But if I’m cutting I’m starting first with foreign aid and then moving from there.
And yes, we could in theory tax more. But why would I want the government to tax me more to give money to fucking Gaza or Ukraine? The concept is offensive.
So if we aren’t going tax more the. We need to spend less. We aren’t doing that.
No you intimated that what Trump did was worse than what he said he’d lock Hillary up for. Yet what Hillary did was worse so there need not be hypocrisy.
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