Kamala vs the Orange Felon - Presidential Race 2024 - Polls, News, Etc...

[Muse]

The trouble is, the general direction-of-travel in the neo-liberal West seems to be the exact opposite - combining being 'soft on crime' with doing nothing to address the causes of it.

I sometimes suspect this is because the elites tend to secretly admire criminals, because they remind them of their own ancestors. Criminal violence is how most of our current ruling elites got where they are, after all.

Most wealthy people today are so because their distant ancestors were more effective criminals than everyone else.

Local bias here in The Bay Area is (in this general election coming up in a couple weeks) to tighten up on enforcement and penalties for crime, in particular smash and grab types but I suppose a lot more. People are sick and tired of it, both business owners and the general public.

 

[Muse]

Who the hell is this?

I hadn't heard of Bautista either. Look him up, 55, former pro wrestler. That video is dynamite. Was linked to a recent ad and the link was to Fox where I had to turn off my ad blocker to watch it (65 seconds). I've done that for lots of sites but for Fox I did something new... after watching it I turned my ad blocker back on. Should I chance to be back at Fox online again (could happen) I want the blocker on... grossssss.

 

[Muse]

Whoa. That's some crazy shit.

It usually works out, but if you are in Florida, not so much.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Trump also backed out of another NBC interview.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1846898464027750478

When can I expect CNN to make daily calls to the former president for sit down interviews since that what they did with harris

 

[Muse]

When can I expect CNN to make daily calls to the former president for sit down interviews since that what they did with harris

Best case scenario: Trump has debilitating stroke 4 days prior to the general. Or, maybe he already had it...

 

[Pens1566]

Former WWE wrestler who transitioned into acting. He's also in Dune (Rabban)

Was also the henchman of a Bond villian in "Spectre".

 

[gothuevos]

Well of course Thiel owns Polymarket...feel like we are sleepwalking into another disaster. Trump is just a distraction. They're setting us all up for election day (and beyond) chaos. Imagine J6, but multiples of them at your local elections office. Intimidation tactics if not outright violence. Votes will be thrown out or simply not be able to be counted in the chaos. Supreme Court steps in, declares Trump winner. US fatally wounded.

Brooks Bros Riot x 1000.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1847291893731975470

 

[hal2kilo]

Well of course Thiel owns Polymarket...feel like we are sleepwalking into another disaster. Trump is just a distraction. They're setting us all up for election day (and beyond) chaos. Imagine J6, but multiples of them at your local elections office. Intimidation tactics if not outright violence. Votes will be thrown out or simply not be able to be counted in the chaos. Supreme Court steps in, declares Trump winner. US fatally wounded.

Brooks Bros Riot x 1000.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1847291893731975470

I think it's been obvious this whole election season that the polls are very PUB tainted.

 

[gothuevos]

I think it's been obvious this whole election season that the polls are very PUB tainted.

No it's much more insidious than that.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Well of course Thiel owns Polymarket...feel like we are sleepwalking into another disaster. Trump is just a distraction. They're setting us all up for election day (and beyond) chaos. Imagine J6, but multiples of them at your local elections office. Intimidation tactics if not outright violence. Votes will be thrown out or simply not be able to be counted in the chaos. Supreme Court steps in, declares Trump winner. US fatally wounded.

Brooks Bros Riot x 1000.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1847291893731975470

As weird as this reality is, I can see the betting markets being used as a reasoning as to how democrats 'stole' the election.

 

[hal2kilo]

No it's much more insidious than that.

Yes, because when he loses, he can say all the polls showed him ahead, to justify his 2nd coup. This is the only 3D chess that Trump knows.

 

[Indus]

Well of course Thiel owns Polymarket...feel like we are sleepwalking into another disaster. Trump is just a distraction. They're setting us all up for election day (and beyond) chaos. Imagine J6, but multiples of them at your local elections office. Intimidation tactics if not outright violence. Votes will be thrown out or simply not be able to be counted in the chaos. Supreme Court steps in, declares Trump winner. US fatally wounded.

Brooks Bros Riot x 1000.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1847291893731975470

Of all your posts.. this is the most reasonable and possibly even insightful!

 

[gothuevos]

As weird as this reality is, I can see the betting markets being used as a reasoning as to how democrats 'stole' the election.

This, plus the polls. And whatever local chaos they can drum up. It's going to be a disaster.

 

[outriding]

No.

He has been in some good movies other than that. Glass onion dune. Blade runner 2049

 

[MrSquished]

This, plus the polls. And whatever local chaos they can drum up. It's going to be a disaster.

Are you admitting Kamala is likely to win?

 

[outriding]

Best case scenario: Trump has debilitating stroke 4 days prior to the general. Or, maybe he already had it...

I want to know he lost fully aware of it and I want him to be aware that he is going to jail. Let him rot in jail for a few years then have a stroke

 

[Dave_5k]

I think trying to compare almost anything to the 2020 election is a bad idea because of how weird a year it was.

2024 will be similarly unique for Florida and North Carolina - and possibly far more unpredictable for those states, with the hurricane impacts. While mostly red counties were impacted in North Carolina, by far the largest population center critically impacted (Asheville) was deep blue, net by population perhaps fairly even impact.

Also those of lesser wealth will be immensely harder impacted in trying to get back to normal - and remotely arranging voting will be pretty low on their priority lists right now. All of those various impacts impossible to predict, for the hundreds of thousands directly impacted in NC alone (perhaps 5% or so of total voters in the state disrupted by the hurricane)

 

[Dave_5k]

When can I expect CNN to make daily calls to the former president for sit down interviews since that what they did with harris

Daily *public* calls on live TV, while airing opinion sections that he is getting too old, mentally slowing down or unstable, and avoiding all non-sycophant press (to cross combine their 24-7 coverage of Biden and Harris earlier this year for weeks, they should do this for at least a few weeks on Trump given his is every bit as real)

 

[Indus]

Are you admitting Kamala is likely to win?

She likely won't because if Biden is weak sauce.. no matter what the electorate says.. SCOTUS and MAGA are hell bent on fascism!

Repeat of 2000 scotus decision.. you will take our selection and like it!

That's my only worry really now besides the dem migrant haters.. but that seems to be limited to NY.

 

[BoomerD]

We have developed technology that allows us to stack dwellings vertically.

Whoa. That's some crazy shit.

Right? I mean…who the fuck wants to live that close to other people?

 

[sdifox]

They kind of turn into flaming death pits.

Only if you allow builders to use highly flammable material to cover the building and not enforce fire codes.

 

[gothuevos]

Are you admitting Kamala is likely to win?

Honestly I have no idea at this point.

 

[gothuevos]

It has begun.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1847330914960883731

 

[pmv]

This is a common complaint and misses the forest for the trees. People say this in NYC all the time too. The reason is because building is banned in so many areas that the few areas where building is not banned see huge amounts of development.

It's the market desperately attempting to meet demand in the face of supply bans but it's not enough. We need to lift the bans everywhere.

The UK is renowned as an incredibly difficult place to build anything, not just housing. It's part of what's strangling your economy - it's impossible to make new things.

It is absolutely not more expensive to live in an apartment than a detached house. Imagine if they replaced the London skyline with detached houses. Would they be more expensive or less expensive to live in? I'm sure we agree detached houses would be more expensive.

On any given piece of land it is always cheaper to have apartments than detached houses. There is no exception to this I have ever seen.

Yet it doesn't work out that way. I don't know why, maybe it's because of the freehold/leasehold system. I mean, look at all the flat-dwellers stuck in flats worth less than their mortgage, paying a huge slice of their income for extra fire-protection because of the cladding scandal (I thank God that was something I was spared).

It costs more to _buy_ a standalone house, but once you own it you aren't stuck having to pay service charges in perpetuity, to avoid the thing falling down or going up in flames (or just because the freeholder wants to make more money out of you and finds new things to charge you for every year).

The big problem with all the council blocks was simply that they were built with little allowance for the cost of maintaining them. Hence councils mostly didn't bother, because they couldn't afford it, and they became undesirable places to live in. Once privatised and sold off to people with high-incomes many of those places became quite desirable, but only for those who could afford to pay those high maintenence costs.

I mean, one would _think_ high blocks would be cheaper, because you fit more dwellings on the same bit of land, but in practice they always seem to turn out to be very expensive to maintain.

 

[Indus]

Can anyone make sense of this?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1847336402914095227