The GOP’s flip-flopping on Trump gets exposed in a crushing new ad.
This sounds better than the US system. Wider range of perspectives. Or does that not really translate in reality?
@Thebeezneez It’s possibly better than the confusing Electoral College system you have in the US…
Generally the major parties have to allow concessions to get the greens or the independent parties to get their voting preferences’… Similar to what RFK Jr. has done with Trump…
The biggest difference is the compulsory voting… The Government doesn’t have to get disinterested citizens to come out and vote like in the States… $50 fine for not voting seems to do the trick…
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The deluded Cult of Kamala is now blindly worshipping a vacuous, policy-free and utterly inept leader
It doesn’t really matter what the biased media says… At some point she will have to debate Trump on live television… Then there will be no more hiding, her policies or lack thereof will be exposed… And every voter will be faced with the knowledge that voting for her will be voting for the continuation of the social and economic ruin of America…
Some people are not able to understand these consequences and will vote for her anyway, but many middle Americans just can’t afford anymore economic pressure and will either vote for Trump or not vote at all…
Apparently… Off prompter she can’t string two sentences together… So The Trump debates should be as one sided as the Trump / Biden debate… It’ll be another eye opener for the undecided…
Kamala Harris has literally only one thing going for her… She’s not Trump…
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This guy has some serious mental issues and should have gotten help over 50 years ago.
Trump’s behavior is getting more bizarre each day
Trump turns to Truth Social to share sexual jokes and calls for ‘military tribunals’
Just this week, he’s reposted messages calling for his political opponents to be jailed, calling for a return of “public military tribunals” for people like former President Barack Obama, as well as making a graphic sexual joke about Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrat Hillary Clinton, his opponent in 2016. The repost of the sexual joke now appears to have been removed from Trump’s profile.
But you’d only see that if you’re a user of Truth Social. On other more mainstream platforms like X and TikTok, Trump has maintained a more even tone, one seemingly designed for consumption by a much wider swath of American voters.
Truth Social has long been a safe space for Trump allies and acolytes, a place they’re free to lean into unfounded claims of election fraud and a search for revenge, with the distinct possibility those messages could be seen and reposted — or “retruthed" — by Trump himself. But it has a far more limited reach than the major platforms, leaving things largely out of sight and mind for the vast majority of Americans.
On Truth Social, Trump has been able to feed the frenzy of fans who post more extreme conspiracy theories and calls to action, while maintaining a far more manicured presence on larger platforms like X.
Trump takes sexist Harris attacks to ‘whole other level’ on Truth Social
Slurred words
Mixed-up names
Racist taunts
Personal attacks
Incessant whining
Pathological liar
Criminal behavior
A malignant narcissist
Trump supporters fake electors’ scheme
Sickening behavior playing out for the world to see.
This guy 
Trump says he had ‘every right’ to interfere in election.
Former President Trump in an interview broadcast late Sunday argued he had “every right” to interfere with the 2020 election while repeating his claim the criminal election interference cases against him are politically motivated.
“It’s so crazy, that my poll numbers go up. Whoever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election, where you have every right to do it, you get indicted, and your poll numbers go up. When people get indicted your pull numbers go down,” Trump said in an interview on Fox News’s “Life, Liberty and Levin.”
Having been absent a while, there is no way I wanted to read through the thousands of posts, so if this has been discussed, I apologize. I was thinking about the consequences of the world markets, this is after all a site for traders. And I do not mean the immediate reactions of the market if one or the other candidate wins. I am talking about the long-term implications of the financial markets. If Dum-Dum wins the election, and acts on what he has stated, being a dictator for one day. I am worried about two things here: I am not sure Dimwit knows how long a day is, and with his casual idea of saying and doing, and doubling back if a meme on Twitter tells him to, a day becomes a year very quickly. Add to this that he has secured absolute immunity of acts done as President, there is absolutely nothing stopping him.
Back to the markets, Russia, North Korea, Iran and Belarus are not world financial centers. I believe for a reason. The US is today the center of most of financial operations, how substantial is this if the home base of free markets is ran by an irrational maniac with daddy issues and a love for authoritarian and totalitarian government? It will be a global meltdown, and the US becomes Russia. Or North Korea. Not saying this will definitely happen if Dum-Dum wins, but if he acts based on his irrational, baby-intrepid flash ideas, lean on the most outrageous human beings he calls his close friends, all founded in Project 2025, there will be some rough times ahead. I’m thinking short everything Western and/or civilized, and long the rubel, NK won, renminbi and I suppose Gold? We know Num-Nuts likes gold.
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There’s no doubt that a fragile man who gets offended if you don’t support him could be a dangerous man, But the reality is that he could be America’s next president, so Americans must adjust accordingly, for better or worse, regardless of whom is in office.
Trump says ‘I hate Taylor Swift’ after pop star endorses Harris.
Days after Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris for president, the Republican presidential nominee expressed his distaste for the mega pop star — in all caps.
“I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Sunday.
After the debate between Harris and Trump had wrapped on Tuesday night, Swift threw her support behind the Democratic vice president.
“She fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them,” Swift wrote to her more than 280 million followers on Instagram. “I think she is a steady-handed, gifted leader and I believe we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos.”
Trump says he hates Taylor Swift after pop star endorses VP Harris : NPR
Interesting read by Allianz on the US economy should DJT win reelection.
Highlights - https://www.allianz.com/en/economic_research/insights/publications/specials_fmo/2024_03_13_USA-Trump.html
Download the full report - 33 pages. Bed time reading, plenty of charts and images.
2024-03-13-Trump_Report-AZ.pdf (2.2 MB)
The focus being on him implementing the polices he’s been discussing on the campaign trail. Tax cuts, tariffs, repealing regulation, etc. The thinking is, inflation may rear its ugly head once again, and rates may need to go up., if all goes per plan.
I imagine, however, that reality will be a bit more muted once campaigning ceases and DFT has to make actual decision that will impact his legacy. I do see a term focused more on retribution and payback on his enemies than a focus on economic growth and prosperity. But that will undoubtedly depend on who is in his cabinet and who is making economic and fiscal policy decision on his behalf.
Focus will be on the domestic with little regard to long term impact of failing international relationships and trade deals - this is something I worry about. The US’s future in NATO could also be on the chopping block, which the markets would absolutely respond to. A more powerful Russia and weakening support from the US will have the UK and Europe looking elsewhere. China and the south China sea could become the next flash point, or Taiwan, as the US will look focus more on China as the bogey man than Russia.
Interesting times ahead.
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Honestly I would doubt the whole US nation if they do not choose trump! I mean what else would someone want from a president that trump doest have?!
You can’t make this sht up
After spending billions on shelter for non-citizens,
NYC Starts Paying Migrants $4,000 Each… To Leave
NYC has a controversial new plan to help families move out of its shelter system, and it involves paying $4000 of their moving related expenses. Although this program isn’t yet open to single adult asylum seekers, it is also limited to only families who have federal work permission… the very thing many economists said people needed to leave the shelters on their own, which hasn’t been happening as fast as NYC would like.
The only way to stop this madness is to vote Democrats out of office, sickening ideology.
California Dems want to give noncitizens unemployment. Will Gavin Newsom let them?
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is weighing whether to give undocumented immigrants unemployment benefits — just weeks after vetoing another politically explosive proposal to help noncitizens buy homes.
The Democratic governor is facing continued pressure from his own party to deliver progressive priorities just as GOP leaders are saying a President Kamala Harris would let liberals run amok in Washington the way they do in California. But the termed-out Newsom is also trying to cement his legacy and appease critics who say he’s overly focused on national politics at the expense of local governance.
Spokespeople for the governor would only say the measure “will be evaluated on its merits” by the Sept. 30 deadline to sign state legislation, though his finance department opposed an earlier version of the bill citing funding concerns. Newsom has repeatedly warned lawmakers in the Democratic-dominated Legislature not to “virtue signal” in an election year.
“Is it veto bait? Sure,” said Andrew Acosta, a Democratic consultant, adding that cost would also be a legitimate reason to kill the bill.
“This governor’s done quite a bit on the immigration side and has been pretty vocal about trying to make California a sanctuary for folks,” Acosta said. “I don’t know if this bill is going to be the be-all and end-all or somehow used against him, that he’s now anti-immigrant.”
“Some of these things sound good, but there is a cost associated with them, and we’re in a massive budget deficit,” Acosta said.
California Dems want to give noncitizens unemployment. Will Gavin Newsom let them?
Stupid is as Stupid Does.
The history of this guy criticizing something or someone is the history of him doing the exact same thing over and over again
Of course, his base agrees with him while conveniently ignoring the fact that Trump has done the same thing.
Trump ignores the First Amendment and says those who criticize the Supreme Court should be tossed in jail
Under the First Amendment, people have the right to complain about government officials and decisions.
Donald Trump scolded those who critique the Supreme Court at a rally on Monday, saying people should be jailed for “the way they talk about our judges and our justices” – despite the First Amendment allowing people to criticize the government.
The former president, who has invoked his First Amendment right to launch a bevy of attacks against federal and state judges, suggested it should be “illegal” to rebuke judicial decisions or try and advocate in favor of a certain decision.
“It should be illegal, what happens,” Trump told a crowd in Pennslyvania. “You know, you have these guys like playing the ref, like the great Bobby Knight. These people should be put in jail the way they talk about our judges and our justices, trying to get them to sway their vote, sway their decision.”
The former president was referring to the backlash the Supreme Court received after overturning Roe v. Wade in June 2022. He called the court “very brave” for making a decision that “everybody wanted” – an unfounded claim.
Trump himself has been safeguarded by this rule when during his New York criminal trial, Trump called Justice Juan Merchan “highly conflicted.” When a gag order was placed on him, Trump violated it at least 10 times and then utilized his allies to launch more attacks against the judge.
In his federal election interference trial, the former president claimed District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan was “highly partisan” and “VERY BIASED & UNFAIR” because she warned him not to make inflammatory statements about the case.
Trump has also criticized federal appeals courts, he once called the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals “a complete & total disaster” with a “horrible reputation” and claimed the judges were “making our Country unsafe.”
I will vote and let the chips fall where they may, willing to accept the result, whatever it may be.
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Hi @SmallPaul, I’m not US Citizen. But I pay attention closely.
The result will effect my next trading strategy. I respect to whoever win. I only have to anticipate the result and react fast to adjust my trading plan 
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There is a strong possibility we have a repeat of 2016.
Voters in the US don’t directly elect the president. Sometimes that can undermine the popular will.
American voters don’t choose their president directly through the popular vote. When they cast their ballot, they are technically voting for a slate of electors who will then vote for president and vice president on a specific day in December.
In two of the last six U.S. presidential elections, candidates have lost the nationwide popular vote but won the presidency. This includes former President Donald Trump, who lost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016 by nearly 2.9 million but still won enough votes in the Electoral College to become president.
This often sounds crazy to people who live in democracies in the rest of the world. The U.S. is the only country to have a system where voters select a body of electors with the sole function of choosing the president. In most other democracies, the president is directly elected through the popular will of the voters.
Voters in the US don't directly elect the president. Sometimes that can undermine the popular will
In FiveThirtyEight’s simulations of 1,000 possible outcomes, Trump wins in just more than 500 of them, a bit ahead of Harris. Pollster Nate Silver has Trump just ahead in likelihood of winning, still in line with other models.
It would be a slam dunk if Trump won the popular vote and the electoral college.
Biden voters are flocking to Donald Trump and it’s because of the economy
Polling in key swing states shows the Republican presidential candidate is winning the battle for the switchers.
In the final two weeks of the presidential election campaign, both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are laser focussed on two groups of voters.
The first is an increasingly small number of undecided Americans, who are torn between the two candidates and considering whether to vote at all on Nov 5.
But the second group, the switchers, is much larger. They are voters who can be persuaded to disavow their choice in 2020, and back the other side.
Polling in the key swing states, conducted by Redfield & Wilton Strategies for The Telegraph, shows Trump is winning the battle for the switchers.
His success is starkly represented in the data. In all seven battlegrounds, there are more voters who backed Joe Biden in 2020 now supporting Trump than there are Trump voters switching to Ms Harris.
Biden voters are flocking to Donald Trump and it’s because of the economy
2016 will be repeated, there will be no female president.
Donald Trump’s odds of winning the White House are now higher than they were before he debated Joe Biden
Polymarket states that as of about noon Tuesday, Trump has a 70 percent chance of winning North Carolina, a 62 percent chance of winning Pennsylvania, a 60 percent chance of winning Michigan, a 57 percent chance of winning Wisconsin, a 71 percent chance of winning Georgia, a 74 percent chance of winning Arizona, and a 63 percent chance of winning Nevada.
In FiveThirtyEight’s election simulations, Trump wins 51 times out of 100 to Harris’s 49. This is despite Harris being 1.9 percent ahead in the average of national polls, with neither candidate reaching the 50 percent mark.
“There is a less than 1-in-100 chance of no Electoral College winner,” according to the site.
But because of the Electoral College, Trump could win the election while losing the popular vote, much like he did in 2016.
Interesting article on why Trump’s Polymarkets performance isn’t being manipulated, for those thinking it could be whales doing what whales do.
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