Donald Trump’s latest unhinged, anti-Harris conspiracy theory: They are coming for the cows.
It is about time. Running between OKC and Altus, every trip was once filled with paranoia. It was those damn cows, huddled in the corners of their plots along the highway, heads down. They were scheming, had to be. As we drove by they would raise their heads, giving us side eye as we passed. Then they would go back to their deep discussions. We had no idea what they were talking about, but we felt in our bones, they held malice for the human species. It was a relief to make the return to OKC, get on that plane and head home. For a moment the danger felt distant.
The whole thing takes the idea of throwing red meat to your base
This week there were comments and charts posted about the phenomena known as polymarkets. Not being very bright I needed an explanation. This article came in handy.
Polymarket works by letting people use crypto currencies to bet anonymously on world events. Like any conventional betting system, the more money goes into one outcome, the higher the percentage the site will predict of that outcome happening—meaning that putting huge amounts of money into gambling on a Trump victory will push up the site’s percentage chance of a Republican win on election day.
What Lindsey left unsaid, is that if the R’s take the Senate they can still shape the court for the next generation by blocking progressive Dem nominees and only supporting “centrist” ones who are hard right in sheep’s clothing.
And he’s next in line to run that project as chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee. He’s been itching for revenge, ever since Dems gave poor Kavanaugh such a hard time in his confirmation hearing.
Two senate campaigns are interesting to me. In Arizona, Gallego consistently outpolls Lake by “a lot” to use Trump’s phrase, but Harris and Trump are tied in a dead heat. Meaning that there are Gallego-Trump voters. In North Dakota, you don’t have much polling, but Trump is supposedly crushing it with a lead of more than 25%. At the same, time you have Katrina Christiansen, who believes there are a lot of Christiansen-Trump voters. Again, really be interesting to see the final vote numbers. It seems like a person needs have very little information to get into such a liminal state that such choices make sense, just smatterings of political or economic info.
NEW: Kamala Harris has won the support of 60 percent of undecided voters who chose who they would vote for in the past month, compared to only 36 percent who opted for Trump, according to the latest Emerson College polling.
This a very skewed representation of the general public, i.e., lots of techbro libertarians. It would be similar to forming a betting market comprised of real estate developers.
