The 2024 election politics

on the sports media site OutKick, Trump said he would consider tax exemptions for firefighters, police officers, military personnel and veterans.

DJT 2024 it is!

There are NO fiscal conservatives this cycle. Time to buy GLD, BTC etc…

Don’t have a subscription to Nate Silver’s site. Anybody can share Nate’s current electoral college prediction?

No, but you can get his occasional updates publicly via his twitter or substack:

https://x.com/NateSilver538

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Meanwhile in other election news,

  • Bill Gates endorses Harris, so if you ever really loved Microsoft or their products, she’s your gal. Also, he’s got $50M of your subscription money in her campaign pocket now:
  • Jamie Dimon, the excellent manager and well respected CEO of JP Morgan, is trying to be shamed into endorsing Harris by the NYT saying publicly that won’t endorse anyone (for good business reasons), but he really likes Harris.
  • Trump will be on Joe Rogan, recording this Friday and airing sometime thereafter.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/10/22/2024-elections-live-coverage-updates-analysis/trump-joe-rogan-podcast-00184894

  • Meanwhile, Trump doing Trump things, like working at McDonalds in a slightly more realistic way than Harris claimed to have (but that she probably just made up). Here’s the funny takes on it:
  • And foolish takes on Trump attending a Steelers game

  • Lastly, our Democracy appears to need a lot more Election Integrity, since a majority of voters for both parties expect the other side to cheat and steal the election.

Although I suppose you could interpret that as both sides expect the Democrats to cheat and steal the election (or the R’s, although everyone seems to agree their cheating ground game is far less good).

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LOL. He says lots of things, then says the opposite, then says he never said it.

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I hear ya. Sometimes in the same paragraph he’ll say two opposite things. Mail in ballots are stupid…blah blah blah… Make sure you mail in your ballots!

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DJT and Steelers. Perfect match made in heaven…

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Dude! It’s not too late, but it’s late. :slight_smile:

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I’m shocked, shocked, to … you know the rest of the of the story, along with Paul Harvey … :slight_smile:

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The British have never liked our Freedoms, and lately they’re collaborating with Democrats to suppress free speech here via “Hate Speech” rules. Mostly recently, with Elon’s outspoken support for Trump and the constitution, they’ve added “Kill Twitter” to their to-do list.

The Starmer/Labour Together formula for regaining power in the U.K. relied heavily on CCDH’s aggressive efforts to deplatform rivals on the Left and Right by lobbing accusations of bigotry, misinformation, and other misdeeds.

In the U.S., a now-defunct CCDH offshoot called Stop Funding Fake News led multiple successful boycotts of media figures across the spectrum, from Zero Hedge during the BLM riots to The Federalist. The formula often involved collaborating with a mainstream media outlet to level an accusation of bigotry, followed by a pressure campaign against advertisers to shut off revenue to the target.

you might remember them from making up shit about covid so the Biden regime would have an excuse to ban any critical thought on social media. all lies of course, as was proven years later.

“There’s about 12 people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms,” Psaki claimed, citing the CCDH’s work. Three years later the truth finally caught up with Ahmed’s misinformation. In recent months, Forbes , The Independent , and The Guardian have all issued corrections to articles on CCDH’s 2021 report noting that Facebook investigated CCDH’s allegations and found them baseless and without proven methodology.

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But never in quite the word salad soliloquy that is Willie_c__m_Kamala. However, she’s still working on it. Her goal is to achieve polk salad status. Like all of her non-personal/sexual goals, it ain’t gonna happen.

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The stock market is bullish on Trump’s chances in the election

Trump Media & Technology Group stock (DJT) extended gains on Wednesday, rising over 4% as investors bet on former President Donald Trump’s improved odds of winning the November election in less than two weeks.

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Meanwhile overall mkt is way down today, treasuries up. I’m surprised since DJT could be good for the market with his pump-up schemes.

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How much is “way down” in your opinion for one day? In mine it’s 3% or more. Anything less is just a normal day.

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I hear ya. Garden variety corrections are the price you pay. I like buy and hold dividend stocks so I should have bought utilities this year

Back to the topic: Harris wins?

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Kamala got a couple of non-endorsements from left wing papers, both the LA Times and WA Post declined to endorse a presidential candidate this year. Surely not since the candidates aren’t presidential, although that would have been more understandable.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/10/25/2024-elections-live-coverage-updates-analysis/washington-post-endorsements-2024-00185545

WashPo - the last Republican they endorsed was Eisenhower, so you know which way they lean, and this certainly caused a predictable amount of whining among the younger woke staff.

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In VA it’s too close to the election to take many non-citizens off the voting rolls, despite having verified the non-citizenship status of 1000+ such cases. The Harris Department of Illegal Voters, er Justice, won the first round with appeal in progress.

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The judge, Patricia Giles, is a Biden nominee.

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I recall a time when we didn’t know a judge’s party. We need non-political judicial appointments again.

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