USA Election 2024

[Eric]

Trump giving a press conference - the greatest hits - “our country is crap, crime is out of control, they want open borders, we’re close to world war, Russia would not have attacked Ukraine, inflation wouldn’t exist, we’re not respected, nobody has ever seen anything like it, we’re leading substantially in the polls”

On and on, no structure, freestyling the same garbage off the top of his head with lots of useless adjectives. The same stuff he said in 2020, our country should be over by now if he was correct last time.

*Trump is weak and scared. He said “They said Biden couldn’t win and I’m not sure if that’s true, I don’t know.” Then said “but I’m not complaining.”

He’s scared as hell and it shows.

Staying on message is the best option he has, even if it falls flat.

Kamala also really needs to do a press conference soon, the more accessible she makes herself the more she will appear to be for the people.

 

[rdrr]

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Trump giving a press conference - the greatest hits - “our country is crap, crime is out of control, they want open borders, we’re close to world war, Russia would not have attacked Ukraine, inflation wouldn’t exist, we’re not respected, nobody has ever seen anything like it, we’re leading substantially in the polls”

On and on, no structure, freestyling the same garbage off the top of his head with lots of useless adjectives. The same stuff he said in 2020, our country should be over by now if he was correct last time.

*Trump is weak and scared. He said “They said Biden couldn’t win and I’m not sure if that’s true, I don’t know.” Then said “but I’m not complaining.”

He’s scared as hell and it shows.

When he went on and on about Kamala being the Border Czar I just tuned out.

 

[GermanSuplex]

He’s flailing. But, he’s just repeating the same garbage that for whatever reason appeals to some folks. Praising dictators, lying, saying the last election had a “peaceful transfer”, “you don’t win South Carolina and Alabama and lose Georgia”…

Total nonsense. With only one conservative seemingly posting here, I’ll never get an answer as to how people take this crap seriously.

You can’t hear the questions, but you can tell when he’s asked a serious one by his reactions… “what a stupid question” usually means he’s been asked a fair and decent question.

 

[Roller]

And now he says he's agreed to several debates with Harris. OK, bring it on, but not in front of a biased (or any) audience, and not with moderators who work for a "news" organization that reached an almost $800 million settlement for lying about the 2020 election.

 

[rdrr]

He’s flailing. But, he’s just repeating the same garbage that for whatever reason appeals to some folks. Praising dictators, lying, saying the last election had a “peaceful transfer”, “you don’t win South Carolina and Alabama and lose Georgia”…

Total nonsense. With only one conservative seemingly posting here, I’ll never get an answer as to how people take this crap seriously.

You can’t hear the questions, but you can tell when he’s asked a serious one by his reactions… “what a stupid question” usually means he’s been asked a fair and decent question.

Hopefully there will be an article with the questions asked.

 

[dada_dave]

Conservative Never Trumper on the press conference:

 

[Edd]

Total nonsense. With only one conservative seemingly posting here, I’ll never get an answer as to how people take this crap seriously.

Where are those conservatives who have an honest online dialogue? I’d love to have these conversations but we’ve got nothing here.

 

[GermanSuplex]

This gasbag has been bragging and lying nonstop for an hour.

This isn’t a press conference, it’s a nervous man blowing himself in front of a crowd. I’ve missed the last 20 or 30 minutes even though I’ve had it on in the background. Sometimes, less is more.

 

[Eric]

This gasbag has been bragging and lying nonstop for an hour.

This isn’t a press conference, it’s a nervous man blowing himself in front of a crowd. I’ve missed the last 20 or 30 minutes even though I’ve had it on in the background. Sometimes, less is more.

Just started watching and wow, he's no better than Biden with his confusion and nonsensical statements. He's struggling to get sentences coherently strung together and failing bad while trying to riff, these aren't prepared remarks. I don't see how this helps him.

 

[Roller]

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Whenever one of the purported fake news channels airs one of Trump’s speeches I think it should include a live updating Harris fundraising graphic with little spikes whenever he plays his greatest hits.

 

[GermanSuplex]

House GOP will move to impeach him and call him a “serial criminal and China-owned operative” when it’s revealed he once won $20 in a poker game with friends and didn’t report it on his taxes.

Harris running mate Gov. Tim Walz owns no stocks, bonds or real estate, disclosure shows

Walz’s salary as governor of Minnesota is $127,629. He was eligible for a raise last year to $149,550, but he chose not to accept it, according to the state.

Harris running mate Gov. Tim Walz owns no stocks, bonds or real estate, disclosure shows

Walz’s modest financial profile stands in stark contrast to that of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Renzatic]

Walz’s salary as governor of Minnesota is $127,629. He was eligible for a raise last year to $149,550, but he chose not to accept it, according to the state.

So he's a poor everyman? Hell, that just means he'll be totally open for corruption!

TRUMP 2024!

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

House GOP will move to impeach him and call him a “serial criminal and China-owned operative” when it’s revealed he once won $20 in a poker game with friends and didn’t report it on his taxes.

Harris running mate Gov. Tim Walz owns no stocks, bonds or real estate, disclosure shows

Walz’s salary as governor of Minnesota is $127,629. He was eligible for a raise last year to $149,550, but he chose not to accept it, according to the state.

Harris running mate Gov. Tim Walz owns no stocks, bonds or real estate, disclosure shows

Walz’s modest financial profile stands in stark contrast to that of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

www.nbcnews.com

I’m going to use some JD Vance logic on this one. How can you trust anybody to make good America first business decisions when they don’t stand to make massive personal gains from those decisions? Short of that your only prime motivator is satan.

 

[fooferdoggie]

 

[Yoused]

Meanwhile, in cult world, JD Vance is also promoting Kamala Harris..

That may actually have to do with this:

JD Vance briskly marched up to Air Force 2, Kamala Harris’ plane, planning to give political reporters a show as he confronted the vice president uninvited on Wednesday. His power-play dreams, like most of his chaotic veep run, were immediately thwarted once he realized Harris was not present.

“I just wanted to check out my future plane,” Vance told campaign reporters gathered on the tarmac in Wisconsin. He didn’t get the chance to face Harris but said that he “wanted to go say hello to the vice president and ask her why does she refuse to answer questions.”​

It is unfortunate that she was not one the plane, because it would have been delightful to see how Secret Service would have handled him.

 

[GermanSuplex]

Trump basically campaigned for the Harris/Walz ticket today. I copied and pasted most of it because it’s a press release, not content lifted from the link’s page.

Harris/Walz campaign press release:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-press-conference-mar-a-lago-updates.html#tldr-the-harris-campaign-doesnt-think-this-guy-is-on-the-level

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 8, 2024

Donald Trump's Very Good, Very Normal Press Conference

Split Screen: Joy and Freedom us. Whatever the Hell That Was

Donald Trump took a break from taking a break to put on some pants and host a press conference public meltdown.

We have a lot to say about it. Here are some initial thoughts - with more to come.

He hasn't campaigned all week. He isn't going to a single swing state this week. But he sure is mad Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are getting big crowds across the battlegrounds.

The facts were hard to track and harder to find in Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago meltdown this afternoon.

He lied. He attacked the media. He made excuses for why he's off the campaign trail.

We're here to help because his staff clearly isn’t.
But first, an important reminder on the question Donald didn't answer: how he will vote on the Florida abortion referendum. (He has been ducking this question since April.)

We worked to pin down reality so Donald Trump, bless his heart, doesn't have to.

Here are the facts:

We had 12,000 and 15,000 people in Wisconsin and Michigan yesterday, respectively (Not 2,000.)

The ABC debate is September 10th. Not the 25th.

People have spoken to bigger crowds than Donald Trump. (Obama, Clinton, literally anyone at Lollapalooza, Coachella, the World Cup...)

January 6th was decidedly nothing like MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech. And Trump did not get a bigger crowd than Martin Luther King Jr. on that historic day.

There was famously not a "peaceful transfer" of power after the 2020 election, which Donald Trump fought to overturn. (Famously.)

Five police officers died because of January 6th.

Donald Trump said he was off the trail this week because of the Democratic convention.
(That convention is not happening this week.)

Trump said they have commercials at a level no one else does. (He is being drastically outspent on the airwaves.)

Governor Josh Shapiro is actually a great guy.

Project 2025 author Tom Homan, the "father" of Trump's cruel child separation policy, is not a person to praise.

Jewish people should not "have their head examined" for not supporting him. (That's actually antisemitic.)

Trump said he was not complaining. He in fact very much was.

Trump does not know the difference between asylum seekers and an insane asylum.

Donald Trump does not "cherish" the Constitution.

Abortion is not "less of an issue" for voters. It is not "subdued." It is not a "small issue" for voters, despite how much Donald Trump wants it to be.

Donald Trump did not answer the abortion question "very well in the debate."

Everybody did not want Roe v. Wade overturned.

The American people do not support states banning abortion.

After-birth abortion does not exist.

Minnesota and Virginia are not the same.

Donald Trump doesn't know what progressive means.

Kamala Harris does not want to take away everyone's guns. Tim Walz is a gun owner.

Vice President Harris does not support an arms embargo on Israel.

Donald Trump could not remember Tim Walz's name.

Donald Trump's tax cuts are not the biggest in history.

We don't know what "the transgender became such a big thing" is supposed to mean.

Donald Trump will cut Social Security - just like he proposed every_year he was in office.

Government was not weaponized against Trump and Steve Bannon.

Mail ballots are secure.

We agree - Elon IS a different kind of guy.

There are no polls that say Donald Trump is going to win in a landslide.

The MAGA base is not 75% of the country.

 

[Roller]

That may actually have to do with this:

JD Vance briskly marched up to Air Force 2, Kamala Harris’ plane, planning to give political reporters a show as he confronted the vice president uninvited on Wednesday. His power-play dreams, like most of his chaotic veep run, were immediately thwarted once he realized Harris was not present.​

​

“I just wanted to check out my future plane,” Vance told campaign reporters gathered on the tarmac in Wisconsin. He didn’t get the chance to face Harris but said that he “wanted to go say hello to the vice president and ask her why does she refuse to answer questions.”​

It is unfortunate that she was not one the plane, because it would have been delightful to see how Secret Service would have handled him.

They both have Secret Service protection (for what that's worth given the lapse at the Trump rally). So maybe it would have come down to a pitched battle between the two teams of agents.

 

[fooferdoggie]

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]