Politics & Stuff

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Whitney Groenevelt is in an advanced placement federal government and politics class at her Florida high school, and the senior turned 18 in January.

Ahead of her first vote in a presidential election in Broward county, she has been watching “a ton” of politics on television and the internet, and says she is excited to finally be able to take part in a process she has spent years studying.

“I know the way it’s not supposed to work. There’s not supposed to be a convicted felon in office. A convicted felon shouldn’t be able to vote,” she said, referring to Donald Trump’s 34 convictions from his hush money case in May.

Groenevelt said the preservation of democracy was among the two top election issues for her, the other being women’s health and reproductive rights.

Supporting Kamala Harris, she said, was the right thing to do.

“I watched the debate, and I’ve watched a ton of TV coverage from both left and right to try to get a balanced perspective,” she said.

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Ring of steel round the Capitol - so many shops and businesses boarded up and closed - getting ready for the nutters wearing fur and buffalo horns screaming 'Stop the Steal'

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Co-founder of The Uncommitted Movement Says He Voted for Harris

“This is a moment of deep pain and, honestly, frustration,” Abbas Alawieh, a delegate from Michigan and co-founder of the Uncommitted National Movement said. “Members of the Arab-American, Muslim-American community for months have been oscillating between dealing with our grief, dealing with the fact that so many of our family members are there living under the bombs that our US government is sending Benjamin Netanyahu—while also trying to do the politically savvy thing.”

As Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote for Vanity Fair during the DNC, “In February, as President Joe Biden sought to seal the nomination from that party, activists in Michigan rallied registering voters in the state to check ‘uncommitted’ as a protest against the Biden administration’s backing of the war. The campaign garnered 13 percent of the vote and quickly spread to other states. By Democratic Party rules, this entitled the Uncommitted movement to 29 delegates, who are here in Chicago to press their case against what has been labeled, convincingly I might add, a genocide.”

“For me personally, my decision, I see it as it’s gonna be Trump or Harris in the White House,” Alawieh continued on MSNBC today, “and it’s Harris voters, it’s young voters, it’s Black voters, anti-war voters all across our country who are going to be the coalition that hopefully pressures the next administration to break from the policy of sending unconditional weapons and funding to the Israeli military.”

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SEALed With a Tweet

Robert O’Neill is a retired Navy SEAL whose main claim to fame is being part of the infamous SEAL Team 6 that carried out the operation that killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011. If you ask O’Neill, he is the one who actually did the deed.

Now, he’s a motivational speaker and, apparently, prolific social media poster, doing his public service to his country through tweets like his observation on Sunday that “25% of women are diagnosed with mental illness. This is so scary because that means 75% are walking around without treatment…”

A real mensch.

O’Neill has also taken the time to share his political opinions and his, shall we say, novel idea of what a concubine is.

On Sunday, O’Neill reposted a photo of social media content creator Harry Sisson and four other male friends wearing Harris/Walz merch. “We’re Gen Z voters and we all PROUDLY voted for Kamala Harris! Real men support Harris!” Sisson wrote in the original post.

This didn’t sit right with O’Neill, who wrote in response, “You’re not men. You’re boys. If there was no social media, you would be my concubines.”

Setting aside the role social media plays in stopping him from being a concubine, Sisson was also surprised. “So the guy who shot Osama Bin Laden put out this very strange tweet about myself and some friends. Um…” he wrote.

He had a more specific question for O’Neill.

“So you want 5 young ‘boys’ to be your sex slaves…?” he tweeted at him. “That’s pretty f*cking weird.”

O’Neill doubled down in a now-deleted response, saying in part, “I’m telling you exactly what Betas like you will be used for: Sex and food. Mostly food.”

So it’s not that he confused the words “cannibal” and “concubine.” He thinks the two are inextricably linked.

Don’t worry, O’Neill clarified his stance by posting a video of himself speaking into the camera while walking through an airport on Tuesday morning. He dropped a few c-words in addition to “concubine” while talking about Sisson, and, yep, he stands by the “these 20-something-year-old men would be my sex slaves” thing.

“What I meant by that is…yeah, you would be. You don’t know how to fight. You’ll never know how to fight,” he said in part in the video, which he introduced merely with the word “Betas…”

“I basically will do whatever I want with you. That’s all I meant.”

All this, and it wasn’t even noon when he posted the video. Buckle up, everyone, looks like it’s gonna be a long day.

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Don Trump Jr. says he'll 'fly to a non-extradition country' if his father loses

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-jr-extradiction/

Donald Trump Jr. said he would likely "fly to a non-extradition country" if his father loses the 2024 presidential election.

In an election day live video on TikTok, Trump took a question from a follower who wondered what he would do after the race was called.

"If we win, you know, I'll probably be fairly busy on transition," he said, referring to the president-elect's transition team. "I want to make sure we, you know, stop some of these, the scumbags from last time, the people who are, you know, they know better, and we're going to take what the duly elected president of the United States wants to do, and we're just going to not do that because we know better, even though we're unelected bureaucrats that haven't accomplished anything."

"So we're going to make sure those guys don't get into government to create a path for the guys like in Elon [Musk] and Ron Paul and Tulsi [Gabbard] and, you know, and they, like, to do what they do best," he continued. "So we got to keep those guys out of those power positions."

ALSO READ: 'Bloodbath': Inside the MAGA playbook for mayhem after Election Day

Trump also addressed what he would do if his father lost the election.

"If we don't win, then I'll probably, you know, the way the Democrats function, I'm going to have to fly to a non-extradition country and just, you know, take up shop there so I don't end up in the gulags with Elon and everyone else, but only partially kidding about that, frankly," he said. "And if you've been watching the other side, you realize that is probably only partially kidding."

"So, you know, one way or the other, we'll either be busy or relaxed or in hiding."

Watch the video below from TikTok.

https://rumble.com/v5m8m84-don-jr.-says-he-will-fly-to-a-non-extradition-country-if-trump-loses.html

Edited November 5, 2024 by Vesper

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Interesting 'US Decides' Election special Ch 4 in UK

Stormy Daniels, Boris Johnson, Michael Cohen, Martin Luther King 3rd....

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Michael Cohens parents threatened and targetted by SWAT Teams...

Stormy Daniels is saying her husband said on TV that Trump when on trial should be convicted. She then said all her social media posts were deleted and her husbands words were changed to 'If Trump wins the election we will leave the USA'. 

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First actual voting report:

With 60 per cent reported Harris is up 7 points over Biden in 2020 and 13 points up over Clinton in 2016 in Hamilton County IN, a non-swing state county (but a bellwether nonetheless because it is so similar to many other crucial counties in other actual swing states)..

She is actually ahead of Trump by 1.5 per cent.

Edited November 5, 2024 by Vesper

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4 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Michael Cohens parents threatened and targetted by SWAT Teams...

Stormy Daniels is saying her husband said on TV that Trump when on trial should be convicted. She then said all her social media posts were deleted and her husbands words were changed to 'If Trump wins the election we will leave the USA'. 

One of the biggest gaslighting ops overall in US politics is the hatewashing, violence-washing of RW poltical violence comapared to LW political violence.

90 plus per cent comes from the RW, yet the mainstream press, the corporate press, far too often makes it seems like it is both sides who are somewhat equally to blame, and the RW media staggeringly lies and says it is almost all from the LW, that the RW is basically pure as the driven snow, and the only RW violence comes from false flags, or from mentally insane people who are not really RW.

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not good for Harris in terms of FL (granted it is more and more Red every year) trends (FL is no chance anyway for Harris, but this is really not going well THERE for her)

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On an existential point, regardless of Dem/Rep - another four years of a fat old rich white bloke is fucking soooo boring.

Walking on, waving to an imaginary friend, wearing red tie, white shirt a huge fucking coat with a wife that hates his guts.

Standing at a podium, talking absolute bollocks. Really ? another four years of watching an insane fool embarrass himself, the US and subsequently the World. ? So boring and damaging like bad sex. Lets have Kamala instead, cant be worse

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Trump wins Georgia.

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1 minute ago, Vesper said:

not good for Harris in terms of FL (granted it is more and more Red every year) trends (FL is no chance anyway for Harris, but this is really not going well THERE for her)

now

let me go deeper

Florida's RW surge the last 10 plus years is being mostly driven by RWers moving there from the cold Northern US

so even though FL becomaes more and more RW

those RWers LEAVING the northern batteground states hurts the Republicans up there

and thus may well help Harris in terms of the overall electoral College map

that analysis is called national Electoral College strategic efficiency quotient

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No results from battleground states so far.
But what is the swing ?

Edited November 6, 2024 by cosmicway

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5 minutes ago, cosmicway said:

Trump wins Georgia.

FAR too early to call that

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13 minutes ago, cosmicway said:

Trump wins Georgia.

I live here. You know something we dont?😉

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Are they not measuring swings ?

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2 minutes ago, cosmicway said:

No results from battleground states so far.
But what is the swing ?

different poll closing times in different states

yet you are already making predictions

I posted all the poll closing times earlier BTW

and so far the 'swing' is in Harris's favour (BUT FAR TOO EARLY to draw ANY conclusions)

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1 minute ago, Sir Mikel OBE said:

I live here. You know something we dont?😉

they do not know anything substantive atm

it is all far too early (and actually Harris is running ahead ATM of Biden 2020 and Clinton 2016 in key GA areas, granted that is absolutely subject to change)