DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 2, 2024
Does Trump WANT To Lose? I’m starting to think so. Because he’d rather have to reprise the ‘election was stolen’ meme from 2020 than to actually have to do the job. I mean, why else would he go to New Mexico and say stuff like this?:
Former President Donald Trump admitted to a crowd of supporters that he was only there in Albuquerque, New Mexico, because he thought it would improve his image among Hispanic and Latino voters.
“New Mexico, look, don’t make me waste a whole damn half a day here, OK?” Trump told the crowd on Thursday.
“First of all, Hispanics love Trump, they do. True. I like them. They’re smart. They’re a lot smarter than the person running for president on the Democrat side,” he said, once again taking a shot at Vice President Kamala Harris’ abilities.
“So I’m here for one simple reason,” Trump said. “I like you very much, and it’s good for my credentials with the Hispanic or Latino community.”
He continued on, saying, “You know on the East Coast, they like being called Hispanics, you know this? On the West Coast, they like being called Latinos.” Trump said he got in an argument with an adviser over which term to use in Albuquerque, saying he wanted to use Hispanic.
JEE-zus. Let’s look at what we know through the lens of sanity. He’s getting swamped in the early voting in the key swing states. Meaning, like in 2020, he needs a yu-u-u-ge turnout among Trump voters on election day. Instead, he campaigns like he just wants to get the hell out of whatever town he’s in, is literally in low-energy mode, and says stuff that not even the folks cleaning up after the elephants can fully clean up. Not to mention, he performed oral sex on a microphone yesterday. Oh, and he lost in 2020. Contrast that with the frenetic pace of Harris and her supporters, and I just don’t see how he wins.
Don’t Forget What Awaits Trump If He Loses:
“He will be facing serious legal jeopardy if he loses. He knows that,” says Bennett Gershman, a professor of constitutional law at Pace Law School who served for a decade as a New York prosecutor. “It’s probably on his mind every day. He faces four very, very serious cases, in one of which he has already been convicted as a felon. The others are easily convictable.”
The minute it becomes clear that Trump has lost the election, his legal team will be preparing for the fight of a lifetime to keep him out of prison. “This defendant will use every means at his disposal to delay the outcome and complicate the adjudication,” says Martin Horn, a professor of corrections at John Jay College and the executive director of the New York State Sentencing Commission. “Who knows what legal maneuvers are available to him?”
Wonder who’s gonna pay his legal bills if he loses.
Unsolicited Advice For Trump: How To Survive In Club Fed. Don’t know how that’ll contrast with doing time in a New York State cell.
Tucker Carlson Attacked By (Inner?) Demon(s)? So he says, in some bullshit upcoming ‘Christian’ documentary:
Tucker Carlson, the former CNN and Fox News political chat host, has said he was “physically mauled” by a demon a year and a half ago, in an assault that he says left him bleeding and with scars from “claw marks”.
Carlson made the claim while speaking in an upcoming documentary, Christianities? In a preview clip on YouTube, Carlson is asked by John Heers of the non-profit First Things Foundation if he believed that “the presence of evil is kickstarting people to wonder about the good”.
“That’s what happened to me. I had a direct experience with it,” said Carlson.
Asked if he was referring to journalism, Carlson responded: “No, in my bed at night. I got attacked while I was asleep with my wife and four dogs and mauled, physically mauled.”
Ho-kay. Just sounds to me like he’s polishing up his latest scam, but what do I know? BTW, must have missed his Kamala Harris Spanking Fantasy.
These people are all mentally and emotionally deranged.
Misleading Headline And Pathetic Story From News-Journal:
Each small city comes with its own unique charm and sense of community.
While those are important factors in deciding where to call home, the livability of each small city also is a big component, including cost of living, quality of education and health care, the local economy and more.
A recent report from WalletHub ranked the best small cities in the United States in 2024, and three locations familiar to Delawareans made the list.
Sounds great! Until you read the article. There you find out that the only one of the three cities that (technical term ahead) doesn’t totally suck is Newark.
According to the survey, Wilmington and Dover suck.
What do you want to talk about?
NJ has “reporters” who spend their time combing the web for dubious surveys that mention the state or any of its towns and cities. Then they write about the rankings without including any sort of local context or comment.
Imagine what the paper might be if these reporters shut down their laptops for a couple of hours and talked to people in the community about the issues that truly concern them.
They probably spent as little time combing the web as WalletHub did compiling the report, which is just a list a computer spit out once some easily sourced raw data was poured in. Check out the methodology section.
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-small-cities-to-live-in/16581
Shit like this exists because Americans are obsessed with ranking things, even when those things are meaningless. Expect more of it in the future, as AI will be able to churn this out faster than humans can.
Remember how USA Today used to use ‘we’ when referencing the American people?
Come to think of it, do they still do that?
I’m pretty sure at this point every Gannett property just goes after the low-hanging fruit that is public records.
This is why the NJ has devolved into almost exclusively reporting on crimes/accidents, restaurant openings/closings, other easy to compile “listicles” such as restaurant violations and keeping us informed whenever Aubrey Plaza takes a dump.
Aubrey is perfect. She NEVER takes a dump.
Or, if she does, they’re the MOST PERFECT dumps.
Just wanted to set the record straight.
Who will pay his legal bills if the loses? The same fools who have been paying them for the last eight years, around here they tend to drive huge pickups. Agree about Wilmington and Dover, the only real difference is in size, both have some window dressing on hand that tries to hide the suckage. I always remind myself it could much worse, it could be Long Island.
Pretty sure Rudy Giuliani will NOT be paying his legal bills.
Harris up 47-43 in Iowa of all places. High quality poll by Ann Sezer dropped at 7pm.
Prediction was anything better than -5 was good. This is mind boggling!
Seriously. Ann was within 3 points of Trump in 2016, and 2 in 2020 IIRC. We’re definitely going to win the Midwest swing states, and it’ll be glorious to see Ohio closer than expected, with JD Vance doing nothing good for Trump. Heck, maybe Osborn CAN win in Nebraska.
Now the question is, what about Texas and Florida? Is it going to be enough that Allred and Muscarel-Powell can take the Senate? Recent polls haven’t captured the impact of the MSG rally on Latino voters, right?