Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

The latest polling has Trump ahead by 5 points in Florida. Now, it’s just one poll, and I would heavily caution that Trump is going to stay the favorite to win there - especially now that registered Republicans significantly outnumber Democrats and Trump’s approval rating is steady at 50%. Even so, it’s an erosion in his lead, so it might be worth keeping an eye on the trends as election day approaches.

Of course, I’m far more interested in what happens in Texas this year. Flipping Texas blue has been the car Democratic dogs have been chasing for decades.

The abortion and pot ballot measures in Florida are the wildcards. If they end up being big pulls for liberal voters, that could tip the scales.

Caveat, registered Republicans now outnumber registered dems there by 500k.

Caveat to the caveat, Gen Y, Z, and Alpha are significantly less likely than X and boomers to actually register with a party even if they intend to vote for that party consistently.

@BlitztheDragon
A blue Texas.

What all Republicans fear more than a blue Florida.

Honestly, if you mean to genuinely fix the colossal mess that is the USA, you need EVERY state to turn blue.

The Harris campaign is now broadcasting clips from the leaked Project 2025 vids.

Thank God. The most Biden could manage was a stuttering “Go look it up”. No, you tell me what it is, don’t tell me do your work for you!

Incidentally the training vids are like 14 hours long in total. I’ve been picking at them here and there since it was linked, but sheesh.

@Dustcan
Is there a link for that? I want to see this for myself.

@Background Pony #D717
We’ve Got Project 2025’s Secret Training Videos - ProPublica

[BP linked them earlier.](@Background Pony #10F6)

@Dustcan
I wanna see the clips she’s broadcasting.

FSB suggests murdering pro Ukrainian bloggers
Considering many of these bloggers like Artur Rehi live in NATO countries, that’d be a good way for those sorry bastards to finally have Article 5 declared on them.

Hunter Biden’s lawyer is now arguing that his case should get tossed for the same reasons that Trump’s stolen document case was. The judge presiding over his case is calling it bunk and should continue.

So win-win either way. Either it continues and we have another judge admit Cannon/Thomas is full of it, or it gets tossed and the “Law and Order” crowd just opened the doors for letting plenty of obvious wrongdoers to get off/conviction appealed on a technicality.

Malicious Compliance strikes again.

@Angrybrony speaking of weird, how strange it’s become “the most effective insult” particularly against the up and coming techbro demo. I don’t get it, “weird” used to be a good thing, it meant you weren’t some apolitical ostriching pro-lib normie! Ron Paul, Ron Unz, Lew Rockwell, all definitely weird funny old guys! And all the better to point out political corruption for it! What are these Ys/Millenials that became active after 9/11 yapping about? If someone called me weird and I was campaigning, I would be like “You mean like Paul Reuben? Yeah, he’s a really cool guy! Weirdness is great, isn’t it? Now let’s see about getting everyone a pony, shall we? 😎”

Or maybe they prefer the other Paul, Mr Zaloom!!! Even his name is weird and cool, ZALOOOOM!!!

Isn’t the weirdest thing of all that these modern technocrats want to be more dull and boring than their Pentecostal grandparents, and even actively stifle their creativity to force it that way? 🤔 I thought Thiel and Mercer and etc becoming open, active supporters would actually change the party for the better, but instead it’s become more repressed and sexless than ever before! Whatever happened to these nerds wanting to build cyberpunk megacities where everyone can put frickin layzor beems on their arms, abandoning the weakness of the flesh and chroming the fuck up? I miss my pre-AI science obsessed tech nerds, now their new obsession is just data MAKE BIG NUMBER GO BIGGER PLS😔
I blame shitty idle games like Cookie/Hero Clicker for ruining modern techbro mentality.

@Niggoslav_Krawczyk
It’s effective because they’re fascists, and fascists want people to believe they’re normal and their fucked up ideals should be adopted as the uniform (hue) standard.

Some of them believe it, some of them don’t but realize it’s an effective attack.

Trump is calling for another presser tomorrow, because the last one went so well.

I imagine on the docket is how massive his crowdsizes are, how Harris uses AI to fake it, how he ~literally~ broke the internet when Musk publicly sucked him off for an hour, and some random rants about Walz being Xi’s cockholder or something else equally inane.

Poor Donold doesn’t realize he’s become a laughing stock and people just tune in for entertainment.

No idea what you are aiming at with all this, but if you’re wondering why calling rightwingers “weird” is so effective, I think this post I came across on Tumblr sums it up nicely.

Hey Look Trump had a little something in NC but he’s still a weird old man.

Isolated Incident No. Googolplex

From a purely ruthless “win the war” standpoint, it makes perfect sense. You’re not exactly trying to protect these people, and given a chance any given one of them could easily turn into one of the militants you’re hunting down, so why not use them as expendable booby-trap bait?

From a human standpoint … that’s pretty damn twisted, bro.

One telling clip used was “If you were convicted of a crime you will not be serving in the federal government. Crimes such as fraud, embezzlement and tax evasion show a lack of moral character.”

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As I said, we live in the Onion timeline.

CNN is making hay with a new New York Times/Siena poll. Now, outlier polls are absolutely a thing, snapshot in time, the only one that matters is on election day. With that disclaimer out of the way, if this is to be believed, Kamala Harris is breaking into the last voting group you’d expect: White voters without a college degree, aka Trump’s base.

In May, the poll found Trump had a commanding lead of 25 points over Biden with these voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Their August poll, however, has shown that lead has shrunk to 14 points over Harris - a pretty significant swing.

Further, they found that Trump’s lead in being the more trustworthy candidate in handling the economy among this voting bloc has shrunk from 36 points in May to 24 points in August.

It’ll need to be replicated a few times over before we can call it a trend of course, but methinks we shouldn’t sleep on this either.

@Niggoslav_Krawczyk
Yeah, it does seem like something of a twist. Almost as if we’ve started turning their own hostility to non-conformism on them… which seems to be working a bit, but we should perhaps be careful about the long-term effects.

@Kazapsky
I’m pretty sure it’s a war crime… but at some point in for the penny in for the pound, I guess.

@BlitztheDragon
I will never understand the median american voter

@Latecomer
It’s pretty explicitly against the Geneva conventions

Detaining civilians to use them as cannon fodder is so obviously illegal there’s no way Israel didn’t know what they were doing when they did it

Like it’s not even using them human shields, it’s basically using them as disposable slave labour for combing through places the IDF are too pussy to go through(unarmed Palestinian civilians though? Perfectly fine)

@Dustcan
And yet they want a convicted felon who did those things to be president.

It is absolutely a war crime. But the laws and customs of war, like any other system of rules/laws/whathaveyou, only matter so long as they’re enforced.

@lonewolf
I guess we gotta donate more. You can even get a patch with a rainbow flamenco mouse.

@Kazapsky
Or GOP could come to their senses and realize that opposition to things like fixing healthcare or fighting climate change is costing them votes. Blind contrarianism and rabid rhetoric can only get you so far.