TropicalDingdong

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 27 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Wake me up when they actually melt.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I just want you to know how much I appreciate you continuously putting on the kind of behavior I'm trying to describe on display. Its going to make an easily accessible record for future generations to develop an understanding both why and how the Democratic party, their voices in media, and their sycophants in forums and on social media sacrificed the project of western Democracy for a self-serving circle jerk to avoid personal accountability for the obvious and inevitable consequences of their actions.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

It’s not toxicity to make an observation on forces that drove voters to not vote for harris.

To the first point I made. There is 0 evidence for this what-so-ever. This is just something you are making up to support a narrative. You have not even the suggestion of evidence to back this statement up.

The toxicity is a culture looking for punching bags rather than showing real introspection. Third parties were utterly irrelevant, and most of the "conversation" around them, were deeply toxic Blue-Maggots blaming them in advance for Harris's yet-to-be-failed election. I mean, its the definition of the thread we're in. Its what the comic is about.

Its literally absurdist. Everything you've said, the comic, the entire cult that you are a part of: its in direct opposition to all of the evidence we have.

And thats why I'm making these points, not because I expect to convince you, but because its important to put your, now obviously detached from reality, toxic approach to rhetoric, on display.

The blaming of third parties, or anti-war voters, or Muslims, or whichever punching down group you want to single out, on behalf of a Democratic party so severely detached from its own base, is the definition of Blue-MAGA behavior, and it lost the Democrats the 2024 election. Its all on tape. We've got it on record. Blue MAGA was told what the consequences of their rhetoric would be while they were doing it, so they can't pretend to be naive to the consequences we all now have to experience because of their stupendous arrogance.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -5 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

Yes we heard you the first 3 times. Its the voters fault. The Democrats are merely victims, completely maladroit at managing their own fate.

You aren't making different any new points or clarification, just repeating the same, tired tropes that just handed the US democracy over to fascism. And we get it, you are incapable of expanding your understanding beyond the initial assumptions you made. No need to repeat yourself any longer.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -3 points 18 hours ago

I think your point is well made, and this thread is demonstrative of the entire point I was making to PugJesus.

PugJesus is the definition of incurious when it comes to understanding why their rhetorical approach failed.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

You could adjust the alpha to population density.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 11 points 18 hours ago (11 children)

This is all just the same toxic projection that I've been pointing out in this thread.

You want to blame third parties but there is basically 0, practically negative evidence for it.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

I’m really sorry if you’re having a bad day,

Why did that lead you to respond in such an angry manner?

I think you need to take a breath and check to see if you've made any correct assumptions whatsoever in this conversation. The tone of my response couldn't be more sanguine.

 

After raising more than $1 billion, the Kamala Harris campaign is expected to end up with millions of dollars of debt once it’s done paying vendor invoices. The debt will likely get passed along to the Democratic National Committee and could burden the party as it works to rebuild after its catastrophic election season.

President-elect Donald Trump is already scoring political points over the Democrats’ debt issues. Over the weekend, Trump wrote on Truth Social, “Whatever we can do to help them during this difficult period, I would strongly recommend we, as a Party and for the sake of desperately needed UNITY, do. We have a lot of money left over in that our biggest asset in the campaign was ‘Earned Media,’ and that doesn’t cost very much.”

You’ve probably heard already about some of the Harris campaign’s most outlandish splurges, like the $1 million it paid to the media company of surrogate Oprah Winfrey, or running ads on the Las Vegas Sphere, or spending six figures to build a set for the “Call Her Daddy” podcast while declining to appear for free on the Joe Rogan podcast.

 
 

 
 

This is a strong signal that Harris may over-perform polling.

 

Across battlegrounds, there is a 10-point gender gap in early voting so far, according to a POLITICO analysis.

 

Buckle up and brace for impact.

 

To win, Harris should talk more about working-class needs and less about Trump

Dustin Guastella

Our polling shows that the best way to defeat Trump is offer a compelling economic platform that puts working families first Tue 22 Oct 2024 06.00 EDT Last modified on Tue 22 Oct 2024 17.13 EDT 252

The 2024 campaign has entered the final stretch and, as polls tighten, it seems Kamala Harris plans to lean into attacking Donald Trump as a threat to democracy.

Over the past week the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, the Washington Post, the New York Times and even the conservative National Review have all reported or commented on the messaging pivot. In a newly unveiled official campaign ad, a disembodied voice warns gravely that a second Trump term “would be worse. There would be no one to stop his worst instincts. No guard rails.” At a recent rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, Harris reminded her supporters of Project 2025, the “detailed and dangerous plan” that she believes an “increasingly unstable and unhinged” Trump will follow to cement “unchecked power”. She sounded the alarm about the dire threat Trump poses to “your fundamental freedoms” and how in his second term he would be “essentially immune” from oversight.

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I think this will be readable to non-members? I'm at least going to repost the first bit, and if people can't access, I'll copy pasta the whole thing.

Trump’s running a Billboard Lawyer campaign

I’m sure you’ve seen those big billboards for plaintiffs’ attorneys: for whatever reason, there are usually lots of them out near the airport. They usually look something like this:

These billboards are not advertising that the attorney is a nice guy. Because you don’t want a nice guy. You’re not trying to win a popularity context. You’re trying to win a lawsuit. You want someone aggressive. Hit back! Get the Gorilla, whatever that means. In fact, you probably expect the plaintiff’s attorney to be a little bit of an asshole. But he’s your asshole. He’s on your side.

You know who this reminds me of?

 

Posting this because its happening live. 300k viewers. Currently a tornado outbreak in the evacuation zones for Milton.

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