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Must win.

1 hour ago, pfife said:

He had it on the sign on the front of his podium during his "speech"

… as the Christians in Grand Rapids cheered.

sick

No more Craig Monroe.

18 hours ago, mtutiger said:

Yikes

Little known fact: the DJT Version Lee Greenwood edition smells like sulfur.

16 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

I think they have to do both, personally. Not an either/or proposition.

Motivating voters is more attainable than changing minds at this point. Do both, but emphasize motivation.

1 hour ago, Tiger337 said:

There is possible context for the bloodbath comment.  It's a common euphemism for perhaps the economy collapsing.  However, if he uses it in the same speech where he is asking people to honor insurrectionists, then the context gets lost. 

We've seem this game before.  Say something outrageous.  The libs get triggered.   MAGAs say that's not what he meant.  libs try to put some nuance into it.  MAGAs laugh at them.  Media normalizes Trump.  libs look silly even though they are right.  We lose this game every time.  

Did you leave out the last step: An actual bloodbath ensues? (Which we will be told is nothing more than tourists, or false flag antifa ops, or...)

We've lost the capacity for outrage. And we might pay the price.

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

Lara Trump, or any Trump for that matter, couldn’t give less of a sht about blasphemy. At least blasphemy about god.

To be clear, I don’t think Lara or anyone in the MAGAverse cares about blasphemy.

25 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Is that a real thing among Christians, or did they make this up? Because if it’s the latter, it’ll become a thing as though Jesus himself said it.

This is sort of a real thing. Jesus didn’t say this. It’s an inference from a number of Bible figures who received endowment from the Lord upon their calling to special tasks. Moses, Isaiah, Peter….

However, it begs the question of what exactly God wants done. It’s an impossible stretch at best, blasphemy at worst, for Lara to infer this is the Lord’s agenda.

17 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

Did he actually say that? Or is that a joke?  How dumb can he be?

When he tells you how dumb he is, believe him.

“I am today suspending my campaign… I will not stop now.” - Ron DeSantis

Putting the “guber” back in all things gubernatorial.

(I know he is saying he will not stop keeping promises. The juxtaposition is really bad speechifying.)

1 hour ago, oblong said:

this is what a caucus looks like:

 

A HyVee bag, no less. Nice touch.

I caucused last night. The Trump "victory" is overdone. I was encouraged by how many spoke up to call out Trump's broken promises, crime, petulance, etc.

Largely it's the gung-ho types who caucus. "Thoughtful" is not an adjective I'd use to describe most attendees.

I went to cast my tiny protest vote. Had to register Republican to do it. I'll un-register next month.

And "election security" is a farce at a caucus. Fraud would be so easy.

2 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

I am fortunate enough to not know who Levin is.  I have a friend who raves about Bongino.  He practically begged me to listen to him.  I clinked on the link and knew he was a huckster within 10 seconds.  

You’ve not heard Mark Levin? I envy our innocence.

Limbaugh was comedy at first. Then George HW Bush invited him to the White House. Rush’s change was palpable and immediate. He took himself seriously, duped by his own scam.

3 hours ago, oblong said:

I don’t think it was nefarious intent. She’s just too stupid to know it’s not how you do it. 

I agree with both takes. Still, running for the country’s highest office, how does the DeSantis campaign not walk that back, and quickly?

I still resent this. So badly handled on so many levels.

18 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

It’s only voter fraud if the other guy does it. GOP rule 563219

 

As a registered voter in the State of Iowa, I resent this.

7 hours ago, chasfh said:

"Too hurtful" to what friend?

With a “friend” like that, Pence needs no enemy.

12 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

I was just looking at the real clear politics polls and they just keep getting more and more positive for Trump.  I know it's  really early, but Biden is looking like a ****ty candidate.  

Biden won as the alternative to Trump, hardly on his own merits. Biden can’t count on that calculus a second time. Too few remember how truly awful Trump’s first term was. Too many are enamored with the strongman Trump persona when contrasted with Biden’s perceived weakness.

2 hours ago, chasfh said:

In MTG's defense, millions of ignorant Americans improperly use reflexive pronouns.

How many know what a reflexive pronoun is?

34 minutes ago, casimir said:

I've been through Sioux City.

And you didn’t say hello?

13 hours ago, MIguy said:

 

This is a non-story. Sioux City and Sioux Falls are constantly confused.

This was the most reasonable part of Trump’s stump speech.

22 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

Trump and MAGA: So Much (for) Winning.
 

14 minutes ago, oblong said:

I don't know where this is being discussed but today I see an airstrike on a hospital in Gaza and seeing multiple tweets saying it's Israel's bomb and others saying it's from Hamas... misinformation is king now and we've reached the consequences of a post Jan 6 fake news world.  Nobody will believe anything that isn't on "their side" and no matter what footage or statements show minds will not be changed.  Such a dangerious time now.  I have no idea what the truth is because I can't study and research... twitter used to be of some use but now it's not reliable.  Everyone is stuck in their bubbles.  Not both sidesing this at all because it really is confusing to me.  The extremes on both sides have it in for Israel, for different reasons I guess, and the middle who support Israel, as I tend to do, are probably guilty of the same.

If Hamas did it, then it's business as usual for them.  If Israel did it then they need to be more careful and just take the L if if the alternative means more civilian casualties.  There's supposed to be rules of war.   You can't take down an entire region, just like we couldn't and shouldn't have after 9/11, even though at the time I suggested just nuking the whole middle east and starting over.  Emotions run high but cooler heads are required by those with actual decision making power.

 

If Israel is responsible for bombing a hospital, that should jeopardize American support. That's war crime-level action.

How much more risky for the POTUS to come to Israel now? If Israel takes credit or gets blame for this bombing, wouldn't POTUS become a sweet target?

4 hours ago, chasfh said:

I am starting to wonder whether the real big picture on the whole shutdown sht is not that they are trying to get Democrats to take the blame for it, but whether they want to destroy America by making citizens throw their hands up at how terrible government is and get them to stop caring and give up on democracy and voting altogether. Then they can scheme other ways to take and keep power, ways that perhaps strike them as a whole lot more interesting and a whole lot more fun.

I can’t believe the GOP is that clever. That cynical and selfish? Yes. But not that smart.

33 minutes ago, chasfh said:

As things stand now, I don’t think he has such a good chance to win. He would have to motivate the many people who left him in disgust to come back to him. Plus, Trump is motivating many millions more people to come out just to vote against him. I don’t think Biden has quite either of those.

Sounds like 2020.

And people said Howard Dean’s scream was weird…

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

He would have dismissed Jesus as a loser.

Evidence strongly suggests he already has.