aquascoot wrote on Jul 27
th, 2024 at 11:34am:
Mattyfisk wrote on Jul 27
th, 2024 at 11:17am:
aquascoot wrote on Jul 27
th, 2024 at 10:31am:
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Jul 26
th, 2024 at 9:54pm:
Trump $1.20 ... Harris $4.25 ......
i got 12's a few weeks back
i might have a bit of the $4.25
i was certain the cadaver could not beat trump but harris would have to be a total smack up to lose to trump
i could beat trump
trump is great if you like chaos and wildness and living on the edge
but most people just want safety and the mediocre life
trump does not vibe with that at all
he would have got more votes running a "make america boring again" campaign
most people could never understand the paradigms trump operates at
but a silly gossipy useless woman who stands for nothing ...people can relate to that. thats the emotional set point of most of the electorate
might double up on harris
You do that, dear. The big fella vibes on danger like cutting funds to Ukraine and giving Vlad Eastern Europe. He vibes on telling Taiwan to "pay up", or he'll let Xi take them too, followed by the South China Sea. He vibes on teasing Europe he'Il tell Vlad to invade any country that doesn't "pay it's bill" to NATO too.
Every NATO country is now meeting agreed military spending targets, so why he'd threaten to reneg on the world's most important military treaty is anybody's guess. He probably just likes Vlad.
Vlad and Xi love danger too. The big fella tells them both to go for it. Trump, Vlad, Xi, three devil-may-care, big-swinging adrenaline junkies.
Vlad, you'll recall, is the guy you call a meanie for killing kids. Despicable stuff, you said. Trump too. The big fella can't be trusted, you said, he's a danger to us all. We need a stable guy, somebody predictable, reliable, competent and in command.
Who? We said.
You had to think for a bit. Oh I know, you said. The "noble Ron". They love him on Sky. He has such great policies. No, you said, forget the big fella, he's way to dangerous, we need Ron D.
What happened next?
your talking nonsense again
most netflix watching fat americans wouldnt even know who this vlad you are referring to is?
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you really dont have the common touch
I was in the US last month, dear. I even went to din dins with Republicans.
They scoffed at Trump for the very reasons you've mentioned - way too unpredictable and reckless. Sure they'll vote for him, but they all preferred other Republican candidates.
And this was in Florida. They thought Ron D was a douche, by the way.
Strangely, Americans know who Vlad is, and unlike Tucker, don't sing his praises. Americans do
not want to become a dictatorship like Russia.
In some places, this may be different. I didn't visit the more redneck South, where every family has a military veteran and a cache of guns. What may or may not surprise you, however, is what a minority this group is in the US.
African-American and Latino Americans fill the suburbs of the big cities. We're talking mile after mile of Spanish-speaking businesses, families, schools and churches. In Union City, New Jersey, for example, a Colombian neighbourhood merges into Dominican, Cuban, Mexican and Jamaican neighbourhoods, on and on as if forever. They vote along ethnic and religious lines. Their churches are centres of political advocacy.
It was the same in all the cities I visited to varying degrees, with different ethnic communities. Asian, Caribbean, South American, African and even old European communities speaking Polish, German and Russian. At its core, America is a nation of immigrants.
The Miami Jews I dined with work and form relationships with people from similarly diverse populations. Intermarriage is common. I noticed that while the Americans I met were fascinated with the outside world, they rarely, if ever, traveled to see it. Americans tend to see
America as the world. They're strangely insular for such a diverse group of people.
The Fox News view you have of America is corporatised and sanitized. While it may be the most dominant fake news network in America, it presents an alternate universe. This, of course, is the purpose of propaganda. If you read and listened to the Nazi media of the 1930s, you'd think ordinary Germans were ever so keen to spill their blood for glory of the fatherland, twenty years after the horrors of WWI.
If you consume the fake news you view today, you get a similar form of cognitive dissonance. You can only hold the views it presents by denying reality. Ultimately, this form of propaganda is just lies.
So, we'll ask again: ever get the feeling you've been
ploughed?