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Explains most of jazzfanz and the level of TDS around here.

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Dude, this describes Trump’s methodology in crafting the Big Lie. Began in 2016, when he started his claims that if he did not beat Clinton in 2016, it would be because the election was rigged. And the truism that it’s easier to fool people than convince them they have been fooled certainly applies to the Trump cult. I have nothing against you or other Trump supporters, personally, but what you posted is pretty strong evidence of the MAGA cult’s inability to see the truth of their own situation. As well as historical amnesia. People seldom recognize what is happening, right in front of their eyes, while it is happening. Your quote is describing the situation in which you yourself find yourself. But, without recognizing that is what you are doing. What you describe is the Trump methodology that worked on yourself!
 
His MO is to talk his alternate reality into existance. It’s just total dedication to “repeat a lie often enough”. There was just a news report detailing the opinion of one of his close aids to the effect “he told me just keep repeating”. If I find that, I’ll post it. Is there anyone better at creating alternate realities, “alternate facts”? He succeeded big time with the Big Lie. Ushering in a Post Truth era? How does government even function moving forward when the electorate is split near down the middle on what constitutes…..reality!!


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A big problem for Democrats in 2024 is that they’ve painted Trump as literal evil incarnate.

In response, Trump is going on a ton of long-form podcasts where a lot of independents are watching and listening to Trump speak - many of them for the first time - and are able to form an opinion based on what they see first hand.

This is a stark contrast to how a lot of us have absorbed information in the past, which is whatever Legacy Media has shoved down our throats. It is not secret that Legacy Media, by and large, has a left-leaning bias.

This will - without a doubt - win voters that are unhappy with the system (which is A LOT of people - 19% of the country think Congress is doing a good job, 50% of the country identifies as Independent).

Trump’s entire position since the beginning is being the hammer to whatever we’ve built thus far, which has been very ineffective for many to put it mildly. His ability to be an effective hammer is still an open question.

However, by default, if Kamala doesn’t start doing long-form interviews or podcasts where Independents are able to gauge, first hand, her policy and who she is as a person, she will lose, and likely lose by a lot.

Anecdotally - I have many folks within my circle that I consider to be independent voters. As a whole, my circle leans left. None of them are enthusiastic about Kamala, and all of them have been softer on Trump vs 2020.

This is obviously in stark contrast to many polls, so my very small sample could be totally wrong.

But just like 2016, I think polls are missing a very significant shift in the general public. I think this shift is being driven by many choosing to forgo Legacy Media as their primary source of information, and instead absorbing information from more independent voices.

A lot of these voices, at least from what I’ve noticed, are questioning the system much more often, much more loudly, and much more confidently.

I think how COVID was handled, paired with Government’s heavy-handed approach to silence speech that was challenging the ‘true’ narrative - which by the way is now proven to be unquestionable true (Twitter Files, Zuck’s letter)… which is a literal obstruction of the First Amendment - have many convinced that whatever we’ve got going on now ain’t working.

In short - the whole ‘Trump is an evil dictator’ and ‘Kamala is an evil communist’ rhetoric is shallow and does nothing.

Instead, in depth discussions that reveals the individuals character, paired with policy, will win the day.

Only podcasts can do this, and only one candidate has taken this on.

Let me know what you think.
 

"Donald Trump’s public appearances tend to follow a pattern. The former president will have a message he intends to deliver, and he’ll have a teleprompter to guide his rhetorical path, but the Republican will invariably ramble, sharing weird and random thoughts about all sorts of things.


To hear the GOP candidate tell it, his stream-of-consciousness nonsense only appears to be incoherent.

“You know, I do the weave,” Trump boasted last week. “You know what the weave is? I’ll talk about like nine different things, and they all come back brilliantly together, and it’s like, friends of mine that are, like, English professors, they say, ‘It’s the most brilliant thing I’ve ever seen.’”

For one thing, the idea that the former president hangs out with “like, English professors” is hilarious. For another, there’s no hidden genius in Trump’s rambling. He seems to enjoy sharing bizarre ideas, theories, and the details of conversations that occurred only in his mind. There’s nothing “brilliant” about it.

Elaine Godfrey wrote for The Atlantic this week about one of the GOP candidate’s latest gems.

During a conversation onstage at a Moms for Liberty event last week, Donald Trump said something that made even me — a seasoned visitor to Trump’s theme park of hyperbole — look around in confusion at the people around me in the audience. Said Trump: “The transgender thing is incredible. Think of it; your kid goes to school, and he comes home a few days later with an operation. The school decides what’s going to happen with your child.”
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Not to put too fine a point on this, but Trump’s claim was plainly delusional. The is no epidemic of school-based gender-related surgeries.

But while the rhetoric was certainly ridiculous, it wasn’t altogether surprising.

Trump’s bizarre comments about “the transgender thing” came on the heels of the former president blaming wind power with people eating less bacon.

“You take a look at bacon and some of these products,” he told a Wisconsin audience last week. “Some people don’t eat bacon anymore. And we are going to get the energy prices down. When we get energy down — you know, this was caused by their horrible energy — wind, they want wind all over the place. But when it doesn’t blow, we have a little problem.”

As my MSNBC colleague Ja’han Jones responded, “I don’t know how you can even fact-check a tangent like that.”

This rhetoric followed Trump speaking — more than once — about his fear of sharks, which apparently had something to do with electric boat batteries. It led author Steven King to note, “This is like listening to your senile uncle at the dinner table after he has that third drink.”

The larger question is whether Trump is actually getting worse.

My MSNBC colleague Zeeshan Aleem presented a persuasive answer this week: “Trump has been embedded in the public consciousness as a rule-breaker for so long that it can be easily to forget how far he is from fulfilling the basic requirement of a politician to speak clearly. Trump’s speeches seem to be growing more discursive and difficult to comprehend by the day.”

The New York Times’ Jamelle Bouie made a related case, arguing that the Republican presidential hopeful is unable “not just to speak truthfully about a topic, but speak coherently about any topic. ... Trump hasn’t just deteriorated, he’s clearly cognitively impaired, and it is bizarre to me that this isn’t just a major story.”

For much of the year, there was a spirited public conversation, fueled by intense media interest, about whether President Joe Biden was too old and addled to do the job. Perhaps it’s time to renew that conversation, turning attention to the incumbent’s immediate predecessor and would-be successor?

As MSNBC’s Chris Hayes summarized last week, “It is a little weird that ‘age concerns’ have disappeared as a constant focus of campaign reporting and discussion even though the GOP nominee would be the oldest man ever sworn in to the office and is very obviously sharply declining before our eyes.”
 
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"Donald Trump’s public appearances tend to follow a pattern. The former president will have a message he intends to deliver, and he’ll have a teleprompter to guide his rhetorical path, but the Republican will invariably ramble, sharing weird and random thoughts about all sorts of things.


To hear the GOP candidate tell it, his stream-of-consciousness nonsense only appears to be incoherent.

“You know, I do the weave,” Trump boasted last week. “You know what the weave is? I’ll talk about like nine different things, and they all come back brilliantly together, and it’s like, friends of mine that are, like, English professors, they say, ‘It’s the most brilliant thing I’ve ever seen.’”

For one thing, the idea that the former president hangs out with “like, English professors” is hilarious. For another, there’s no hidden genius in Trump’s rambling. He seems to enjoy sharing bizarre ideas, theories, and the details of conversations that occurred only in his mind. There’s nothing “brilliant” about it.

Elaine Godfrey wrote for The Atlantic this week about one of the GOP candidate’s latest gems.


Not to put too fine a point on this, but Trump’s claim was plainly delusional. The is no epidemic of school-based gender-related surgeries.

But while the rhetoric was certainly ridiculous, it wasn’t altogether surprising.

Trump’s bizarre comments about “the transgender thing” came on the heels of the former president blaming wind power with people eating less bacon.

“You take a look at bacon and some of these products,” he told a Wisconsin audience last week. “Some people don’t eat bacon anymore. And we are going to get the energy prices down. When we get energy down — you know, this was caused by their horrible energy — wind, they want wind all over the place. But when it doesn’t blow, we have a little problem.”

As my MSNBC colleague Ja’han Jones responded, “I don’t know how you can even fact-check a tangent like that.”

This rhetoric followed Trump speaking — more than once — about his fear of sharks, which apparently had something to do with electric boat batteries. It led author Steven King to note, “This is like listening to your senile uncle at the dinner table after he has that third drink.”

The larger question is whether Trump is actually getting worse.

My MSNBC colleague Zeeshan Aleem presented a persuasive answer this week: “Trump has been embedded in the public consciousness as a rule-breaker for so long that it can be easily to forget how far he is from fulfilling the basic requirement of a politician to speak clearly. Trump’s speeches seem to be growing more discursive and difficult to comprehend by the day.”

The New York Times’ Jamelle Bouie made a related case, arguing that the Republican presidential hopeful is unable “not just to speak truthfully about a topic, but speak coherently about any topic. ... Trump hasn’t just deteriorated, he’s clearly cognitively impaired, and it is bizarre to me that this isn’t just a major story.”

For much of the year, there was a spirited public conversation, fueled by intense media interest, about whether President Joe Biden was too old and addled to do the job. Perhaps it’s time to renew that conversation, turning attention to the incumbent’s immediate predecessor and would-be successor?

As MSNBC’s Chris Hayes summarized last week, “It is a little weird that ‘age concerns’ have disappeared as a constant focus of campaign reporting and discussion even though the GOP nominee would be the oldest man ever sworn in to the office and is very obviously sharply declining before our eyes.”
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It's funny that people eating less bacon is alarming to trump. Oh no, Americans might be choosing to eat healthier!? Gasp!
What's next, Americans are going to eat less donuts and cupcakes? The horror!

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"Former President Donald Trump and much of the GOP have staked their 2024 electoral hopes on convincing voters that Democrats are willfully allowing violent criminals to roam the streets.

In doing that, they’ve frequently deployed the racist “Willie Horton strategy” — in essence, cherry-picking stories of gruesome crimes, particularly crimes committed by immigrants — to suggest Dems don’t care about keeping Americans safe.

Getting voters to believe this, coming from Trump of all people, was always going to require that they ignore the irony. On Jan. 6, 2021, Trump stoked violence against fellow Americans, and he’s promised to free the people involved if elected. He’s not a credible voice when it comes to crime.

On Tuesday’s episode of The ReidOut, Joy spoke with Judd Legum, the reporter who broke a story on Jaime Davidson, a convicted cop-killer and drug dealer whose sentence Trump commuted on the last day of his term. Davidson, who was convicted of murder for coordinating the fatal, armed robbery of a New York undercover officer in 1990, was released by Trump, but convicted of domestic abuse earlier this year and handed a three-month sentence in July. (He's appealing the conviction.)

Legum’s report explains the peculiar circumstances surrounding Davidson’s release:

Trump’s commutation of Davidson’s life sentence was controversial at the time because of the severity of Davidson’s offense and the atypical process that led to his release. Requests for pardons and commutations usually are handled through the Office of the Pardon Attorney. Davidson had sought the commutation of his life sentence through official channels in 2013 and 2017 and was denied both times. In the waning days of Trump’s presidency, Davidson eschewed the Office of the Pardon Attorney and sought relief directly from Trump. Davidson’s attorney Betty Schein, had deep connections to the Trump White House. Schein and her husband, Alan Futerfas, represented people associated with the Trump Organization, including Donald Trump Jr.
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Davidson’s release also got support from Alice Johnson, a formerly incarcerated woman whose sentence Trump commuted after Kim Kardashian drew the Trump White House’s attention to her case.

Another person granted clemency under Trump now stands accused of a violent crime.

Jonathan Braun, a convicted drug kingpin and violent loan shark, was also released via last-minute commutation by Trump in 2021. Braun was arrested last month and is facing charges in New York over claims he assaulted his wife and father-in-law on various occasions in July and August. He pleaded not guilty and his attorney told CNBC he’d address the claims in court.

As The New York Times reported, the circumstances around Trump’s commutation of Braun were “troubling.” The move came after Braun’s family made inroads with the Trump family through their connections to Charles Kushner, the father of Trump’s son-in-law, Jared. And the commutation reportedly disrupted a major federal probe into predatory lending that Braun was expected to assist. According to the Times' reporting, the younger Kushner played a “major role in the less structured vetting process” that led to Braun’s commutation.

The commutation announcement for Braun ironically mentions his plans to support the wife he’s now accused of assaulting.

Trump's administration circumvented the normal processes to release people that are known to be violent, only for them to commit violent crimes — allegedly, in Braun’s case — yet again. This provides a window into how Trump could abuse the commutation process in the future. But unlike when such claims are lobbed at liberals, I don’t expect these stories to get wall-to-wall coverage in conservative media.

In fact, Trump’s campaign gave a rather milquetoast statement in response to Legum’s reporting, “President Trump believes anyone convicted of a crime should spend time behind bars.”

For a variety of reasons, it's an wholly unbelievable claim."
 
First, major party candidate in half a century to lose the popular vote twice.

With the longest government shutdown in history, (doing that while his own party controlled both chambers of Congress).

First President in history to lose jobs in his first term. And cause the largest single-day point drop in the history of the Dow.

First President in history to increase the national debt by nearly $7.8 trillion. A sum translating to $23,500 in new debt per person across the country!

First President in history to maintain a debt-to-GDP ratio over 100% for his entire term. With the highest annual budget deficit, adding the most amount to the national debt in a single term.

First President in history to serve a full term and increase the deficit every year he was in office. Trump spent almost an "entire year" of his 4-year presidency playing golf! 91 days in 2017, 75 days in 2018, 84 days in 2019 & 57 days in 2020 (100% FACT CHECKED, TRUTH)!

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Well, guess I look forward to Mr. Shapiro telling us why this is fake news(?)

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Indictment: Russian propagandists used Tennessee content company to push disinformation

Two Russian nationals working for a Kremlin-run media outlet are accused of funneling $10 million to the Tennessee company.
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Right-wing influencers were duped to work for covert Russian influence operation, US says

The accusations mark the third straight presidential election in which U.S. authorities have unveiled politically charged details about the Kremlin’s attempted interference in U.S. politics.
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Maybe we should just look the other way, and not be concerned?
 
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