So as I understand it, overarching priorities of Trump supporters are:

1. ending sex trafficking
2. stop making the poor poorer and
3. fighting election fraud

So they're excited about a guy who:

1. By his own admission/bragging, had a 15 year long friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
2. Passed the largest corporate tax cut in history, and plans to eliminate income tax which is paid at a higher rate by high income individuals, replacing it with tariffs that fall disproportionately on the poor.
3. Made numerous fraudulent claims and tried to submit a fraudulent slate of electors after the last election in an attempt to subvert the will of the voters.

Wired headphones. I like that they just plug into whatever without syncing, are cheap, light, and last basically forever. Of course I need a dongle for the vast majority of modern phones, but I a have a sturdy solid dongle and other than the annoyance of having to carry it with me (and using the word "dongle" to describe it) it works quite nicely. A wire clip is also a necessity.

The Democratic nominee had an advantage of 19 to 29 points over her Republican rival, according to tallies by ABC News-Ipsos, New York Times-Siena College and CNN.

The lead is larger than the one Hillary Clinton had over Donald Trump in the run-up to the 2016 election when polls showed the Democratic nominee leading with 8 to 16 points.

Joe Biden had a greater margin in late 2020 polls when Democrats embraced mail voting, while Trump attacked it and persuaded his supporters not to do it.

Ok, so basically Democrats always have an advantage in early voting and it's hard to know what to make of this. It's pretty much exactly what you'd expect given that 2016 was before Trump heavily politicized early and mail-in voting and 2020 was during the pandemic when Democrats were less likely to want to go to crowded polling places because of the whole believing Covid exists thing.

This doesn't bode well for my typewriting monkey startup

People are saying it's the dogs, but given that it's Tucker Carlson I think it's far more likely that he's just flat out lying.

I know Vader choked the life out of the last person who questioned him, but I haven't seen Leia do enough challenging media interviews.

True but if Tesla keeps acting like they're on the verge of an unsupervised, steering wheel-free system...this is more evidence that they're not. I doubt we'll see a cybercab with no controls for the next 10 years if the current tech is still ignoring large, highly predictable objects in the road.

Because of slavery, basically. The US couldn't have a directly-elected president at founding because that would mean slaveholding states would get less power per person actually living there, unless they wanted to let slaves vote which of course they wouldn't. So 3/5ths compromise, electoral college, yadda yadda yadda, and 250 years later power still is filtered through the states. So now that that's the case, giving any new people voting rights would change the power balance between the ~~slaveholders~~ right and ~~abolitionists~~ left. So as a result, places like PR that have an abnormal amount of ~~minorities~~ Democratic voters tend to be unable to get Congress to grant them voting rights.

Asked if they viewed Republican candidates’ use of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric in their campaigns as “sad and shameful,” 41% of Republicans and 58% of independent voters agreed. That compares to 38% of Republicans and 25% of independents who do not think it’s “shameful.”

What happened to sad? What did you do with sad???

Ok I know you have a lot of reasons for not voting Kamala, but I just gotta push back every time you say I'm eating up false stories, because most of what you said just doesn't support that at all.

I think you should consider that maybe I have good reason for my beliefs. Let me spell it out:

1. The claim is that 2 anonymous people in the room, plus notes taken at the time, include the outburst.
2. This claim is made by Jeffrey Goldberg, a reporter with a decades long career unblemished by journalistic fraud.
3. No one - not the family, not Meadows or anyone else associated with Trump - denies that the bill was sent to the white house, but not paid by Trump.
4. No one has offered an alternative explanation as to why Trump did not pay the bill.

I think those are some good reasons to believe the story. I also get how people want to believe the family on an emotional level - what happened to them sucks and they have every right to feel whatever they want about Trump. As do you. But I will stand by the fact that on a rational level, it makes far more sense to believe this actually happened as reported.

You say that I'm stupid, let's assume you're correct. Explain to me like I'm Forrest Gump how the slain woman's sister would know that the President didn't call her sister a "fucking Mexican" in a private meeting.

Because from the original article, it's clear that the family did send a bill to Trump, and never received a penny in return, and this was verified with the same family lawyer who released the sister's statement. And no article I've read says the sister claims the bill was paid, a pretty damning omission. How would the reporter even know about that bill if the story was made up?

I doubt it's any more than a social media rumor like the kinds that frequently spread on X.