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2020 US Presidential Election (aka: The Trump Coronation)

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    #6962
    Chicoso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 122 ✭✭Chicoso


    Trump is pretty much undefeatable

    Once he gets the rally's and the soapboxing going he'll get re-elected


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    #6963
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 29,579 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Chicoso wrote:
    Trump is pretty much undefeatable


    Before corona I was convinced he had in the bag, now, I'm not so sure, I think he's toast. Looks like infections are rapidly rising in parts


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    #6964
    Chicoso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 122 ✭✭Chicoso


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    Before corona I was convinced he had in the bag, now, I'm not so sure, I think he's toast. Looks like infections are rapidly rising in parts

    Will it make a difference though

    Unless it's catastrophic he'll talk it down


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    #6965
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users Posts: 14,375 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    HDMI wrote: »
    Seems this has been going on a long time apparently with similar ad's for both parties. This is from Snopes from last November

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/craigslist-ad-seeks-trump-actors/


    "It’s worth noting that the practice of “astroturfing,” or buying the appearance of grassroots support, is well-documented and not limited to one political party."

    I see the tweet is from George Conway who is definitely no fan of Trump, you would have to wonder what the atmosphere is like at the end of the day in the Conway household. How him and KellyAnne's marriage is surviving is beyond me.

    No, no, no. According to your article, other ads for both parties did not advertise along ethnic lines. This is a sinister new departure.


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    #6966
    duploelabs
    Registered Users Posts: 11,457 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs


    HDMI wrote: »
    As far as I know the only ones paying are major donors to be near and maybe get a handshake. The majority of seats and the standing area are all non paying. For a rally earlier in the year you had to register and then get a reply back by text if you have been offered access, you just print your confirmation out. Although on the day they just let the people in first come first served. For nearly any rally for either party especially getting near a presidential election you would definitely have requests far exceeding capacity.

    Getting a handshake? Ballsy move in Covid times


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    #6967
    Danzy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,857 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    No, no, no. According to your article, other ads for both parties did not advertise along ethnic lines. This is a sinister new departure.

    It's an ad with the validity of a toilet door comment.

    It's not a new departure.


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    #6968
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,470 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Danzy wrote: »
    It's an ad with the validity of a toilet door comment.

    It's not a new departure.

    FAKE NEWS!!


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    #6969
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users Posts: 14,375 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    Danzy wrote: »
    It's an ad with the validity of a toilet door comment.

    It's not a new departure.

    Prove it.


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    #6970
    Quin_Dub
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 15,649 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    apparently they have sold 200,000 tickets for a venue that only only holds 20,000

    They are now saying that 800,000 people registered to attend!

    Friday Morning it was 200k (10X the venue capacity) , later that day they claimed it was 300k and then the following afternoon they announce it was 800k!!

    For reference - The population of Tulsa is ~400k and for the whole of Oklahoma it's ~4M

    So after they announce that they are 10X over subscribed apparently another 600,000 people said "I'd love to get a ticket for that!!" and applied for tickets.

    And yet they are still advertising for Astroturfers....hmmm.


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    #6971
    Danzy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,857 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    FAKE NEWS!!

    Anonymous craigs list ad ad?

    One thing Trump has visibly always had was big rally turnouts.


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    #6972
    Danzy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,857 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    Prove it.

    I could put up an ad for the same in Daunt Square with you as contact point.


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    #6973
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,470 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Danzy wrote: »
    Anonymous craigs list ad ad?

    One thing Trump has visibly always had was big rally turnouts.

    MOMENTUM!


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    #6974
    Danzy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,857 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    MOMENTUM!

    The Labour party street group?

    Even if Trump was only on 20% nation wide , he would still pack out venues, that has never been a problem


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    #6975
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,470 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    not the first time trump has done this

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/donald-trump-campaign-offered-actors-803161


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    #6976
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,470 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Danzy wrote: »
    The Labour party street group?

    Even if Trump was only on 20% nation wide , he would still pack out venues, that has never been a problem

    i'm just trying out posting in a Trump style.


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    #6977
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users Posts: 14,375 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    Danzy wrote: »
    I could put up an ad for the same in Daunt Square with you as contact point.

    Daunt Square?


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    #6978
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    Danzy wrote: »
    Anonymous craigs list ad ad?

    One thing Trump has visibly always had was big rally turnouts.

    Yeah, I heard that he had to have people turned away from his inauguration.


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    #6979
    Danzy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,857 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    i'm just trying out posting in a Trump style.

    Lol fair enough.


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    #6980
    Danzy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,857 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    DrumSteve wrote: »
    Yeah, I heard that he had to have people turned away from his inauguration.

    Didn't hear that, he consistently packs venues though.


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    #6981
    weisses
    Registered Users Posts: 9,483 ✭✭✭weisses


    Danzy wrote: »
    Didn't hear that, he consistently packs venues though.

    Hopefully he does the same now ...nicely packed together.

    Could make a nice dent in numbers of people voting for him in November.


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    #6982
    Danzy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,857 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    weisses wrote: »
    Hopefully he does the same now ...nicely packed together.

    Could make a nice dent in numbers of people voting for him in November.

    Balanced out by the protesters, so maybe no material change.


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    #6983
    notobtuse
    Registered Users Posts: 5,424 ✭✭✭notobtuse


    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    There's an actual fascist in the Oval Office and you're presumably moaning about some protestors.

    As Brian? says, the Democrats have plenty of big money backers. Someone on the American right who's content with Trump's divisive politics voicing concerns about the left starting a civil war are just completely hollow IMO.
    Some protestors????? I've no problem whatsoever with peaceful protests. Peaceful protests aren't tearing the country apart.

    And it’s not people on the Right partaking in violent protests that result in bodily harm, mayhem and destruction of property that often devastates minority small business owners and poor distressed areas.

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



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    #6984
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users Posts: 14,375 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    Danzy wrote: »
    Didn't hear that, he consistently packs venues though.

    He does in fairness. In February, at a rally in New Hampshire, he claimed there were "40 to 50,000 people" at his rally. The venue has a capacity for 12,000 people. Good packing indeed.


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    #6985
    duploelabs
    Registered Users Posts: 11,457 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs


    notobtuse wrote: »
    Some protestors????? I've no problem whatsoever with peaceful protests. Peaceful protests aren't tearing the country apart.

    And it’s not people on the Right partaking in violent protests that result in bodily harm, mayhem and destruction of property that often devastates minority small business owners and poor distressed areas.
    Yeah, they just drive their cars into the peaceful protesters causing significant bodily harm


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    #6986
    duploelabs
    Registered Users Posts: 11,457 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs


    notobtuse wrote: »
    Some protestors????? I've no problem whatsoever with peaceful protests. Peaceful protests aren't tearing the country apart.

    And it’s not people on the Right partaking in violent protests that result in bodily harm, mayhem and destruction of property that often devastates minority small business owners and poor distressed areas.
    Yeah, they just drive their cars into the peaceful protesters causing significant bodily harm


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    #6987
    notobtuse
    Registered Users Posts: 5,424 ✭✭✭notobtuse


    duploelabs wrote: »
    Yeah, they just drive their cars into the peaceful protesters causing significant bodily harm
    Was that where protestors where throwing rocks, bottles and explosives at people? And please show me where was it reported the individual was from the Right?

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



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    #6988
    amdublin
    Registered Users Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    Interesting reading, if you google Fox News Polls Trump Biden.

    Yep, Trump is definitely in trouble.

    Just over 4 months to go. Roll on Nov 3


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    #6989
    frag420
    Registered Users Posts: 6,158 ✭✭✭frag420


    Now this could be interesting....

    The Daily Beast revealed on Monday that Mary Trump, the daughter of Donald Trump’s late brother Fred Trump Jr, will release Too Much and Never Enough with Simon & Schuster on 11 August.

    The timing, a few weeks before this year’s Republican National Convention, means any revelations could be particularly damaging for the president. The book is expected to lay out how she was a primary source for the New York Times’ Pulitzer-winning investigation into Donald Trump’s “dubious tax schemes” during the 1990s and will share “harrowing and salacious” stories about the US president.

    It will also showcase conversations between Mary Trump and Donald Trump’s sister, retired federal judge Maryanne Trump Barry, in which Trump Barry shares “intimate and damning thoughts” about her brother, claimed the website.


    No doubt his family are lefty libtards out to blacken his name!!

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...d-never-enough


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    #6990
    notobtuse
    Registered Users Posts: 5,424 ✭✭✭notobtuse


    amdublin wrote: »
    Interesting reading, if you google Fox News Polls Trump Biden.

    Yep, Trump is definitely in trouble.

    Just over 4 months to go. Roll on Nov 3
    It’s a long way off until the election. Trump is now just getting into campaign mode. There is no denying democrats are experiencing a fractured party. The results from the democrat PA primary two weeks ago prove it. Pennsylvania (20 electoral votes) is a key state democrats desperately need to win as the state surprisingly went with Trump in 2016. But two weeks ago in the primary Bernie Sanders received 18.0% percent of the vote and Tulsi Gabbard received 3.2% of the vote, and both candidates dropped out of the race months prior.

    Democrats and their media handmaidens don’t want to talk about this, and who can blame them? Why draw attention to the biggest elephant in the room that will potentially sink their chances. This elections it will be... “It's The Enthusiasm Stupid!” and the democrats just don’t have it.

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



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    #6991
    notobtuse
    Registered Users Posts: 5,424 ✭✭✭notobtuse


    frag420 wrote: »
    Now this could be interesting....

    The Daily Beast revealed on Monday that Mary Trump, the daughter of Donald Trump’s late brother Fred Trump Jr, will release Too Much and Never Enough with Simon & Schuster on 11 August.

    The timing, a few weeks before this year’s Republican National Convention, means any revelations could be particularly damaging for the president. The book is expected to lay out how she was a primary source for the New York Times’ Pulitzer-winning investigation into Donald Trump’s “dubious tax schemes” during the 1990s and will share “harrowing and salacious” stories about the US president.

    It will also showcase conversations between Mary Trump and Donald Trump’s sister, retired federal judge Maryanne Trump Barry, in which Trump Barry shares “intimate and damning thoughts” about her brother, claimed the website.


    No doubt his family are lefty libtards out to blacken his name!!

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...d-never-enough
    Well, there it is. Game over. Version 127 of 'This revelation is sure to sink Donald Trump.'

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



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