2024 Election - Thread #1

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Trump says "whether the women like it or not, I'm going to protect them" at Wisconsin rally. Spoken like a man in the protection business. From him, it sounds like a threat. I'm trying to imagine what I would feel like if it a politician I liked on an issue I supported... I think in the very least it would get a "For fucks sake, stop opening your mouth," and a resolution to try to find a better candidate. Here it just sounds like fascist machismo.

Trump Media Is Now Worth More Than Elon Musk’s X After Stock Rallies to New Highs -- Note it crashed the next day, and Trump lost a billion in his net worth. Honestly every aspect of this story is weird, and every time I think about highlighting something, it turns into something else weird, like a kaleidoscope of weirdness.

Here's a pair of stories that seem a little contradictory, assuming you think the candidate is on the ballot to try to win: RFK Jr. will stay on the ballot in Michigan and Wisconsin after the Supreme Court declined to intervene and Supreme Court rebuffs RFK Jr. bid to get on New York presidential ballot. Both happened after Kennedy suspended his campaign, but he wants on the ballot in some states and off the ballot in others. It's almost like the whole campaign was a false flag all along?

'Trump rally comic likening Puerto Rico to "island of garbage" draws backlash'

these Latinos, they love making babies," adding: "They do. There's no pulling out. They don't do that. They come inside. Just like they did to our country.

The campaign disavowed the "jokes", but one has to wonder how it got that far. Did no one vet anything in advance?

In three-hour Joe Rogan interview, Trump reveals 'biggest mistake'. As I mentioned up-thread, the "mistake" was hiring other people. But other fun parts of the interview:

“I said, ‘Vladimir, you're not going in,’” he told Rogan, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I used to talk to him all the time.

I lost by, like, I didn’t lose.

There’s no reason not to think that Mars and all these planets don’t have life.

"I was never one that could, like, run on a treadmill. When passing a physical, they asked me to run on a treadmill and then they make it steeper and steeper and steeper and the doctors said, it was at Walter Reed [hospital], they said: 'It’s unbelievable!' I’m telling you, I felt I could have gone all day.”

But he said treadmills are “really boring” so he prefers to stay healthy by playing golf.

More than 250,000 Washington Post readers cancel subscriptions in revolt over non-endorsement. Only a few thousand quit the Los Angeles Times for the same reason, though. But of course, this is a de facto endorsement:

The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times and all these papers. They’re not endorsing anybody. You know what they’re really saying? Because they only endorse Democrats. They’re saying this Democrat’s no good. They’re no good. And they think I’m doing a great job.

Trump says US is ‘like a garbage can for the world’ as he rails against illegal immigration. I still remember when Republicans called the U.S. a "shining city on a hill". Now we're a metaphorical garbage can. Or a simile-ish garbage can, he used "like".

Trump held a rally today at Albuquerque's airport. He's not allowed to hold a rally inside the city of Albuquerque, because he owes the city nearly half a million dollars for the rally he held there in 2019 and hasn't paid anything yet.