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I'm just telling you what I think the voting public is going to see in Joe and the democrats - and overall it isn't good. This is the exact same way I was posting what was wrong with Hillary and the DNC way back before the 2016 election.
You can post and post and post and post arguments against me all day long to ... try and make yourself right ... or change my mind ... or whatever it is you're trying to do here.
But nothing you post here is going to change anything out there. So instead of trying to make this about me (which is pretty pointless), how about you try to understand the world out there, and why the odds and polls are the way they are. And nearly everywhere I look at the moment the betting odds are neck and neck.
Now, I am not going to make any predictions, just like I didn't last time (though I did personally assume Hillary was going to win).
But if everything you post is right and Donald is abysmal and has done everything wrong since before day 1 and is in congress with the devil; and Joe walks on water and will fix all our problems and smell good too; then you need some kind of explanation for what all those people out there might be thinking that accounts for why the odds are the way they are.
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Kiki's bottom line is vote for Trump. It was her bottom line in 2016 and it is her bottom line now. Her approach is to lie about the other candidate. To make shit up about how that person will run the country if elected. Her assertions are outlandish and never matches the governing style of the person she is demeaning. Her approach doesn't matter at all. Trumps fuck ups and incompetence is all that matters. Kiki's deflecting away from that by trashing the other candidate is typical. She is, a Trumpet...
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Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.
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Quote:On August 27, 2019, President Donald Trump held a 41.3 percent approval rating. One year later, Trump is at 42.2 percent approval.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I'm just telling you what I think the voting public is going to see in Joe and the democrats - and overall it isn't good. This is the exact same way I was posting what was wrong with Hillary and the DNC way back before the 2016 election.
You can post and post and post and post arguments against me all day long to ... try and make yourself right ... or change my mind ... or whatever it is you're trying to do here.
But nothing you post here is going to change anything out there. So instead of trying to make this about me (which is pretty pointless), how about you try to understand the world out there, and why the odds and polls are the way they are. And nearly everywhere I look at the moment the betting odds are neck and neck.
Now, I am not going to make any predictions, just like I didn't last time (though I did personally assume Hillary was going to win).
But if everything you post is right and Donald is abysmal and has done everything wrong since before day 1 and is in congress with the devil; and Joe walks on water and will fix all our problems and smell good too; then you need some kind of explanation for what all those people out there might be thinking that accounts for why the odds are the way they are.
If you had told me, a year ago, that a pandemic virus would overrun the country, that 200,000 Americans would die and case numbers would dwarf Europe, that the economy would go into deep freeze and the federal government prove utterly feckless, I would’ve thought that’s the kind of systemic shock that could crack into public opinion. I’m not saying I would’ve predicted Trump falling to 20 percent, but I would’ve predicted movement.
The stability unnerves me because it undermines the basic theory of responsive democracy. If our political divisions cut so deep that even 200,000 deaths and 10.2 percent unemployment and a president musing about bleach injections can’t shake us, then what can? And if the answer is nothing, then that means the crucial form of accountability in American politics has collapsed.
But still: Forty-two percent of Americans look at Trump and believe he’s doing a good job, or at least a good enough one. And nothing they’ve seen over the past year has shaken that view.
More about explaining the eerie stability of Trump’s approval rating at
www.vox.com/2020/9/2/21409364/trump-approval-rating-2020-election-vote
rs-coronavirus-convention-polls
Let’s step away from politics for a second. I’ve told Texans that if they can afford to pay Annual Percentage Rate of 1012.00% they can afford to save before they need $100, but they don’t save. Instead, they go to Lone Star Cash. www.lscash.com
I’ve told Texans to not bypass interlocks or they will get electrocuted, but they go right on bypassing and, eventually, get killed.
1kiki, do you really and truly think: "you need some kind of explanation for what all those people out there might be thinking that accounts for why the odds are the way they are." The explanation is simple: the same brain making political decisions is the brain screwing up the rest of their lives. Why would their politics on election day make more sense than the routine decisions they make the rest of year?
There is podcast "What the Iraq disaster can teach us about Trump" explaining why the GOP does not govern competently. https://www.vox.com/2020/9/2/21417224/why-did-america-invade-iraq-the-
ezra-klein-show-to-start-a-war-bush-trump-administration
The guy being interviewed, Robert Draper, has a book out called "To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq". Get it for free at mirrors https://libgen.unblockit.top/search.php?req=Robert+Draper
Or you can listen to the podcast and get plenty of insight on psychological reasons why the GOP makes bad decisions when it is in control. Ordinary voter
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CORRECTION:
August 27, 2019, Trump had 43.2% approval on the aggregate.
August 27, 2020, Trump had 44.0% approval on the aggregate.
And I love to break it to you once again, these numbers are in no way reflective of reality. Something that I just can't prove until Trump annihilates Biden on election day.
The Legacy Media is much more to blame for any of this than Trump ever possibly could. Trump is the symptom. Marxist brainwashing in colleges over the last several decades is the disease.
Every major problem we have in this country today is brought about by socialists in our country or China.
Trump wins EASY in November.
Vox is a pox.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Trump's popularity is charted against the previous 12 Presidents at the bottom of this page:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
CORRECTION:
August 27, 2019, Trump had 43.2% approval on the aggregate.
August 27, 2020, Trump had 44.0% approval on the aggregate.
And I love to break it to you once again, these numbers are in no way reflective of reality. Something that I just can't prove until Trump annihilates Biden on election day.
The Legacy Media is much more to blame for any of this than Trump ever possibly could. Trump is the symptom. Marxist brainwashing in colleges over the last several decades is the disease.
Every major problem we have in this country today is brought about by socialists in our country or China.
Trump wins EASY in November.
Vox is a pox.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
Those previous Presidents' popularity changes very strongly as things go wrong in the nation, but not so with Trump because about 42% of Americans don't know wrong from right. You can easily see that blindness to wrongness in their daily lives, if you pay attention to their antics, but they can't see themselves. The Bible described this blindness: https://biblehub.com/luke/6-42.htm
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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One thing I’ve learned about Trump and about the country is that Trump has always exploited honor systems. He’s always looked for places where people obey the law not because they have to but because it’s seen as the right thing to do. They don’t want to go against social convention, and so they follow the rules—but when you break the law, it’s not like a cop steps out from behind a pillar and arrests you. He takes advantage of that. When he finds a place where there’s an honor system, he exploits it. He does what the honor system doesn’t expect. And he often gets a huge advantage out of that. He did that in his business often. He did it at his charity—he didn’t follow charity rules, and he took advantage of the fact that the charity system takes a long time to catch up with you if you do that.
And what we’ve found is that the presidency is an honor system. On purpose, we did not write a lot of laws that govern the presidency because that’s supposed to be held by a person of honor who will follow honor systems about not mixing government and private business, not mixing government and politics. And Trump has again taken advantage of that. There’s so many cases in which he said, I know it says I can’t do this or other people haven’t done this, but I’m going to do it. Try and stop me. I’ll see you in two years. What we’ve seen in all these court cases is that that worked. And also that Trump’s opponents, the Democrats in Congress and people in law enforcement, didn’t understand whom they were dealing with. Often they sort of seemed to expect that Trump would follow the honor systems, even when his whole life had shown that he would not.
Trump’s approach only works for a while, and sometimes that’s enough. I mean, think about how well it worked for him in 2016: It got him elected president. But eventually it comes down on him. That happened with the Trump Foundation. It happened with Trump University. Eventually the system stirs to life and comes after him. So he and the whole Trump organization could be in that position next year if Trump loses. He will finally have the honor system catch up to him, the kids and Trump. If he’s reelected, though, he may get a protection from it that will last long enough to effectively be permanent.
More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/trump-organization-legal-t
roubles-investigations.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Aussies know what's up.
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump's popularity is charted against the previous 12 Presidents at the bottom of this page:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
CORRECTION:
August 27, 2019, Trump had 43.2% approval on the aggregate.
August 27, 2020, Trump had 44.0% approval on the aggregate.
And I love to break it to you once again, these numbers are in no way reflective of reality. Something that I just can't prove until Trump annihilates Biden on election day.
The Legacy Media is much more to blame for any of this than Trump ever possibly could. Trump is the symptom. Marxist brainwashing in colleges over the last several decades is the disease.
Every major problem we have in this country today is brought about by socialists in our country or China.
Trump wins EASY in November.
Vox is a pox.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
Those previous Presidents' popularity changes very strongly as things go wrong in the nation, but not so with Trump because about 42% of Americans don't know wrong from right. You can easily see that blindness to wrongness in their daily lives, if you pay attention to their antics, but they can't see themselves. The Bible described this blindness: https://biblehub.com/luke/6-42.htm
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Fuck you.
And don't talk to me about "moral superiority" when you make a post like this, worm.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Everyone here is your superior, in every way, not just morally.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Fuck you.
And don't talk to me about "moral superiority" when you make a post like this, worm.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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