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The new owner of Twitter is dispensing voting advice now. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589639376186724354 Not really unexpected, but still funny as hell. Frankly, I'm surprised he didn't just spout a Qanon screed instead, given his recent activities.
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Nov 7, 2022 16:48
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Main Paineframe posted:The new owner of Twitter is dispensing voting advice now. Noted sharer of power Elon Musk
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Nov 7, 2022 16:56
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Main Paineframe posted:The new owner of Twitter is dispensing voting advice now. later on under a republican president: "given that true change comes by coordination across chambers, i recommend voting for republican candidate, as the president is republican"
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Nov 7, 2022 16:59
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Main Paineframe posted:The new owner of Twitter is dispensing voting advice now. I feel like a Musk endorsement actually hurts the Republicans at this point lol. Everyone except for Musk's weird fanboys hate him, even the chuds hate him for not giving Trump's account back yet.
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Nov 7, 2022 17:12
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He's 100% going to amplify election day lies from Republicans in the "just asking questions" format.
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Nov 7, 2022 17:35
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Seems like picking 50% as an arbitrary number and then making 3,700 decisions in a week wasn't a smart move. Apropos of absolutely nothing, we're just two days shy of the one year anniversary of Lowtax's suicide after he spitefully spent himself into insolvency in order to screw over his ex-wives and multiple children. Not that I'm implying Elon would do anything as loathsome as run a comedy website.
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Nov 7, 2022 18:03
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Conservative co-worker was poking me about the election to try and rile me up. He told me I'm in an echo chamber after I quoted Republican positions to him. Haha.
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Nov 7, 2022 18:12
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Travic posted:Conservative co-worker was poking me about the election to try and rile me up. He told me I'm in an echo chamber after I quoted Republican positions to him. Haha. Not believing Republicans hold positions they publicly state they believe is a key component of being a Republican voter.
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Nov 7, 2022 18:14
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Push El Burrito posted:Not believing Republicans hold positions they publicly state they believe is a key component of being a Republican voter. Me: Republicans in Congress and on the Supreme Court want to ban gay marriage. Him: No they don't you're in an echo chamber and I feel bad for you. You're absolutely right. Every Republican I've talked to does not actually want to do these things, but they cannot fathom the idea that they are voting for people that do. Travic fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Nov 7, 2022 |
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Nov 7, 2022 18:17
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Travic posted:Me: Republicans in Congress and on the Supreme Court want to ban gay marriage. Or somehow the things they will vote for will magically not hurt people they care about.
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Nov 7, 2022 18:21
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Main Paineframe posted:The new owner of Twitter is dispensing voting advice now. Great, now I'm a member of TWO dead comedy sites? What's next, Peter Thiel buying Steam and deleting all of everyone's games except for 'HATRED' , which will be mandatory, just to rile the libs.
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Nov 7, 2022 18:37
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Eric Cantonese posted:Or somehow the things they will vote for will magically not hurt people they care about. "Well they don't really MEAN those things, they're just saying them to keep the crazies on board; no way they'd actually do them once in office!"
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Nov 7, 2022 18:40
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Sephyr posted:Great, now I'm a member of TWO dead comedy sites? Thiel, like his old friend Elon, only goes after things that hurt his fee fees. Did someone or something nebulously tied to Steam recently say that Peter Thiel was a literal vampire who harvests and imbibes van loads of children and teenagers' blood in order to gain eternal youth? Because the way you get a literal vampirish ghoul like Thiel to come after you is to publicly insult him enough that he dedicates his life to destroying you, like he did to Gawker.
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Nov 7, 2022 18:45
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Captain_Maclaine posted:"Well they don't really MEAN those things, they're just saying them to keep the crazies on board; no way they'd actually do them once in office!" My personal favorite was, "Well I voted for Trump, but I don't want him to ban Muslims. So its not my fault if he does it."
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Nov 7, 2022 18:46
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Captain_Maclaine posted:"Well they don't really MEAN those things, they're just saying them to keep the crazies on board; no way they'd actually do them once in office!" Yeah! https://apps.bostonglobe.com/nation/politics/2019/10/voters-2020-election/michigan/madison-heights/ https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-voter-immigration-family-separation-georgia-20190519-htmlstory.html https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/05/us/undocumented-husband-deported/index.html
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Nov 7, 2022 18:46
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Ghost Leviathan posted:A suspicious amount of emphasis on 'comedy' too, like it's a website dedicated to it.
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Nov 7, 2022 18:50
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Word is trump may announce tonight he's running for prez in 2024.
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Nov 7, 2022 19:57
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Zotix posted:Word is trump may announce tonight he's running for prez in 2024. God, that would be the most stupid and chaotic decision. Wait until early voting is almost entirely done, and then just a few hours before everyone heads to the polls with their minds already made up, turn around and make it All About Trump. Which has never been a positive for Republicans at any point, and is absolutely the last moment spoiler that some would need to swallow hard and vote Dem. I hope he loving does it.
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Nov 7, 2022 20:05
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Zotix posted:Word is trump may announce tonight he's running for prez in 2024. Do you have a source? Politico wrote an article the other day, but said the date was the 14th.
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Nov 7, 2022 20:05
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Zotix posted:Word is trump may announce tonight he's running for prez in 2024. That would be amazing, but doubtful The democrat surge would be very noticeable. It will be soon after the midterms, though. I expect him to declare wednesday. If Garland decides to prosecute, trump can spin it as political retribution.
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Nov 7, 2022 20:17
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It’d be a surge in both parties - Democrats to make sure there’s enough representation to deal with any potential bullshit between now and then, and for Republicans to gain power to ensure that they can pull bullshit for the presidential elections. Plus for Trump, he’s going to get a lot of attention from it and especially if he thinks it might get him off the hook from being indicted.
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Nov 7, 2022 20:32
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Class3KillStorm posted:I hope he loving does it. He won't, but still, 
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Nov 7, 2022 20:33
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Do you have a source? Politico wrote an article the other day, but said the date was the 14th. Saw this posted earlier in the Midterms thread. Which is obviously not a confirmation or anything but Swan/Axios ain't nobody. https://mobile.twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1589647876149645312
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Nov 7, 2022 20:36
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Do you have a source? Politico wrote an article the other day, but said the date was the 14th. Fwiw https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1589647876149645312?s=20&t=URDNF2Kge5eH_EaK3K-I7w And the ever trustworthy https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/trumps-2024-presidential-announcement-could-come-tonight
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Nov 7, 2022 20:40
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Push El Burrito posted:Not believing Republicans hold positions they publicly state they believe is a key component of being a Republican voter. Yeah, this is the key for the huge portions of the bloc that votes Republican without being rally-chasing MAGA hat January 6ers, particularly the ones that aren't constantly tuned in to news and politics. They construct a mental image of their chosen Republican candidate as a good person and then just simply refuse to believe any evidence to the contrary, even when that evidence comes directly from the candidate's mouth. "Oh, [x congressman] would never vote to ban abortion for rape cases." I have a Republican-voting relative who would adamantly insist that the Republicans didn't actually want to dismantle the ACA for years because "there's no way they'd just tear down the whole thing and replace it with nothing", and who somehow used the time when it only escaped repeal due to McCain's spite vote as proof that the Republicans didn't actually want it gone.
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Nov 7, 2022 20:46
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Zotix posted:Fwiw Based indeed
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Cpt. Mahatma Gandhi posted:Saw this posted earlier in the Midterms thread. Which is obviously not a confirmation or anything but Swan/Axios ain't nobody. Or it's just a ploy to make people watch his dumb rally, since everyone not in his cult has lost interest otherwise.
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Nov 7, 2022 20:47
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Yea this is probably just to get more than usual amount of people to watch his bullshit rally expecting something. Basically giving him free air time just like what happened in 2015.
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Nov 7, 2022 20:50
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Madkal posted:Yea this is probably just to get more than usual amount of people to watch his bullshit rally expecting something. Basically giving him free air time just like what happened in 2015. Speculation has it that Trump is going to be indicted or charged with something by the DOJ as soon as Wednesday. He still thinks declaring he's running for president again throws up a magical invincibility shield around him and he can't be charged with anything while he's a declared candidate and/or president once again. So that's why he's probably in a hurry to announce it tonight, if he's gonna, because it will be drowned out in noise tomorrow.
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Nov 7, 2022 21:29
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Does declaring it actually mean anything legally? Is there paperwork that he cannot file once indicted?
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Nov 7, 2022 21:35
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superjew posted:Does declaring it actually mean anything legally? Is there paperwork that he cannot file once indicted? Legally not really but the media coverage will change and because the media doesn't want to be biased they are going to go for the Joe Biden is going after Trump how unprecedented is this?! narrative.
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Nov 7, 2022 21:37
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superjew posted:Does declaring it actually mean anything legally? Is there paperwork that he cannot file once indicted? It doesn't mean anything legally, but the DOJ generally has a policy of not touching Presidential candidates (outside of serious slam dunk cases) because it would interfere with the election. That was why it was such a huge deal that the DOJ announced they were re-opening the investigation into Hillary's emails a few days before the election in 2016.
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Nov 7, 2022 21:38
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superjew posted:Does declaring it actually mean anything legally? Is there paperwork that he cannot file once indicted? It lets him screech to his base about political persecution and set that narrative. Everything else is incidental to that.
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Nov 7, 2022 21:38
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Push El Burrito posted:Not believing Republicans hold positions they publicly state they believe is a key component of being a Republican voter. Pretending to not support those positions, more like.
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Nov 7, 2022 21:38
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After 4 years of the opposition saying they can't do this or that to him because he's POTUS, it's hard to blame him for thinking that simply being a declared candidate will result in them all backing off out of terror of looking like they're being political. He's right to think that, imho. I think he's mostly just doing it because he misses the attention though.
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Nov 7, 2022 21:40
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Honestly I'm not even sure he gets back into the race. It's a gently caress ton of work to run for president and he's been back to his life of wealth and leisure for years now. It's going to take a whole lot to really get off the couch, so to speak. Maybe it happens, I think there's a significant chance that he just endlessly teases and decides instead to play kingmaker.
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Nov 7, 2022 22:08
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Solkanar512 posted:Honestly I'm not even sure he gets back into the race. It's a gently caress ton of work to run for president and he's been back to his life of wealth and leisure for years now. It's going to take a whole lot to really get off the couch, so to speak. Maybe it happens, I think there's a significant chance that he just endlessly teases and decides instead to play kingmaker. If he (correctly) sees becoming president as another 4-year break from legal consequences, he'll do it
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Nov 7, 2022 22:10
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I feel like we should subject politicians to MORE legal scrutiny than everyone else, but I suppose politicians would disagree.
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Nov 7, 2022 22:13
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haveblue posted:If he (correctly) sees becoming president as another 4-year break from legal consequences, he'll do it What legal consequences does he need a break from that hundreds of millions of dollars don't solve
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Trump has to run. He's facing potential legal and financial consequences and he probably also has a much better idea of how he can enrich himself in the office and delegate substantive work out now. The only thing that keeps him from running is dying and the guy seems as healthy as any old and stocky rich man can be.
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