I think the suggestion of 48% of Americans being for whatever Trump dishes may be inaccurate. I suspect there are entrenched Democratic and Republican votes that would elect Stalin if he wore their livery. However, there is a comparatively small group that are the true decision makers and I suspect they will be very swayed towards Kamala as a result of her articulate and presidential demeanor tonight.
I think 48 is too high. Probably like ~44%. I know quite a few. It really does come down to education and culture. The scientific method and thinking about stuff academically with evidence is taught and practiced and NOT the inherant way of thinking, and the less important this way of thought is, the more trump is appealing. My mom for example buys lottery tickets. I can tell her that its impossible to win, that theres exactly a 0.000000000000001% chance of winning or whatever but it doesn't register in her mind. She doesn't care. She also likes trump and believes in the haitians eating cats in ohio(shes an asian immigrant btw). It doesn't matter what facts I bring up. It doesn't matter if you can google it and its wrong.
I also know some people from rural Ohio. My friend from there is disabled and is *probably FAS or a crack baby or something. He told me that all of the crackheads were democrats, he has never met a crackhead republican like bruh. I hear his friends talk about politics and its like almost everything they say is straight up wrong. Like you can just google it and its right there. Once more this is a person where nobody in his family went to college, or had any ambitions outside of living in nowheresville and going to jail and getting duis.
The hope comes in the 3rd type of republican, which is a republican that *believes in education, and maybe some of their family had some academic prospects. You know the type. The one that lives in the suburbs, probably has something going for themselves. The "fiscally conservative" type. We forgot that most trump votes come from the same place as biden votes, from the metropolitan areas. Theres hope there.
I live near Portland, Oregon, and listening to Trump supporters around here is laughable, nauseating, but also infuriating. It’s as if they all live in a different world with a Fox News narrator. 98% of these people drive through Portland (but never get out of their cars - people are scary) on the regular BUT ALSO just say Portland is burning, cranes building apartments be damned. It’d be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad.
As an American these days, it’s depressingly easy to spot a Trump supporter. All the code words, actions, and choices are the same.
These debates have become like celebrity roasts in reverse. The most jabs and killer one-liners carries the day. Nobody cares about politics or the facts. Not good TV.
Wonder if Kamala will ever have much voter appeal? Yeah she’ll get lots of votes in November but that’ll be people voting against Trump, not for her. She had zero voter appeal among Democratic voters during the 2020 primaries, dropping out early despite being declared as the “one to beat.” And getting the endorsement of Dick Cheney, the Darth Vader of American politics?
Which reminds me Dick Cheney once called Barack Obama “the worst President in my lifetime.” In response Obama called Cheney the worst President in his lifetime. Good one.
In the post-debate coverage, the universal opinion was that Harris "won" while Trump "lost". But just as the talking heads might have swung into their ritual "but on the other hand" trashing some of Harris' answers, the Taylor Swift endorsement dropped - another win for Harris - so all the media butterflies went flying off to that bright shiney. So it was a win all around!
I think this was a disaster for Trump. The Democrats are already baiting him into a second debate. And they are going to needle him every day until he agrees to a second debate. And then there will be a third debate, because the same will repeat again.
I think the suggestion of 48% of Americans being for whatever Trump dishes may be inaccurate. I suspect there are entrenched Democratic and Republican votes that would elect Stalin if he wore their livery. However, there is a comparatively small group that are the true decision makers and I suspect they will be very swayed towards Kamala as a result of her articulate and presidential demeanor tonight.
I think 48 is too high. Probably like ~44%. I know quite a few. It really does come down to education and culture. The scientific method and thinking about stuff academically with evidence is taught and practiced and NOT the inherant way of thinking, and the less important this way of thought is, the more trump is appealing. My mom for example buys lottery tickets. I can tell her that its impossible to win, that theres exactly a 0.000000000000001% chance of winning or whatever but it doesn't register in her mind. She doesn't care. She also likes trump and believes in the haitians eating cats in ohio(shes an asian immigrant btw). It doesn't matter what facts I bring up. It doesn't matter if you can google it and its wrong.
I also know some people from rural Ohio. My friend from there is disabled and is *probably FAS or a crack baby or something. He told me that all of the crackheads were democrats, he has never met a crackhead republican like bruh. I hear his friends talk about politics and its like almost everything they say is straight up wrong. Like you can just google it and its right there. Once more this is a person where nobody in his family went to college, or had any ambitions outside of living in nowheresville and going to jail and getting duis.
The hope comes in the 3rd type of republican, which is a republican that *believes in education, and maybe some of their family had some academic prospects. You know the type. The one that lives in the suburbs, probably has something going for themselves. The "fiscally conservative" type. We forgot that most trump votes come from the same place as biden votes, from the metropolitan areas. Theres hope there.
I live near Portland, Oregon, and listening to Trump supporters around here is laughable, nauseating, but also infuriating. It’s as if they all live in a different world with a Fox News narrator. 98% of these people drive through Portland (but never get out of their cars - people are scary) on the regular BUT ALSO just say Portland is burning, cranes building apartments be damned. It’d be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad.
As an American these days, it’s depressingly easy to spot a Trump supporter. All the code words, actions, and choices are the same.
These debates have become like celebrity roasts in reverse. The most jabs and killer one-liners carries the day. Nobody cares about politics or the facts. Not good TV.
Wonder if Kamala will ever have much voter appeal? Yeah she’ll get lots of votes in November but that’ll be people voting against Trump, not for her. She had zero voter appeal among Democratic voters during the 2020 primaries, dropping out early despite being declared as the “one to beat.” And getting the endorsement of Dick Cheney, the Darth Vader of American politics?
Which reminds me Dick Cheney once called Barack Obama “the worst President in my lifetime.” In response Obama called Cheney the worst President in his lifetime. Good one.
In the post-debate coverage, the universal opinion was that Harris "won" while Trump "lost". But just as the talking heads might have swung into their ritual "but on the other hand" trashing some of Harris' answers, the Taylor Swift endorsement dropped - another win for Harris - so all the media butterflies went flying off to that bright shiney. So it was a win all around!
I think this was a disaster for Trump. The Democrats are already baiting him into a second debate. And they are going to needle him every day until he agrees to a second debate. And then there will be a third debate, because the same will repeat again.