Trump II's Big Talk And Overt Threats Have A Power Of Their Own

She is married to my brother and she is dense. But they live miles and miles away so I rarely see her. I have thought about getting rid of my facebook account just to avoid her. She is persistent. I would like to say she means well, but I am not so sure if that is true.

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A spineless jellyfish for SOS???

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I agree. Can’t we have photos of something happy or cute? Maybe cats?

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The Dem establishment still doesn’t know how to stop Trump and his wrecking crew from destroying our government. They seem to have expected a by-the-book transition, but of course Trump is not doing that because he doesn’t think any laws apply to him.

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I’m rethinking my comment above with regard to Haiti and deportees. I suppose the Trump administration could come to some agreement with whatever passes for a government in Haiti these days, sending arms and ammo or even a token military presence to impose some order.

In return, Haiti accepts a steady stream of deportee flights. The MAGAts would love seeing most of the deportation plane flights filled with Black people.

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Please TPM - enough of blasting us with the vomit-inducing pictures of the world’s ugliest fascist, plastering gigantic images of the monster on every article!

You successfully figured out how to avoid adding pictures of Harris throughout her campaign, so just use those guidelines.

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You mean the summer camps?

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I wonder about that. Sometimes when a party controls everything is more difficult to escape responsibility. At least politically. Criminally, it is harder to do anything about it. But the Democrats could not stop Trump. Our criminal justice system makes it hard. Unless it is a crooked Congress person and they lock them up right now.

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There’s no law that says you have to be nice to her or have any contact with her

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trump’s deportation goals are unfeasible. 1 million a year would require 2,740 people deported every day. Stephen Miller will switch it up from mass deportations to mass incarceration, and then to mass executions. The GOP will justify this by stating they are dying anyway, when in transit, in prison, or where they are sent.

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And what we are seeing now is the cream of the crap, if you will. Appointees in his first term went steadily downhill after the first round. By the end he was down to the Jeffy Clarks of the world.

Most of his remaining appointees will be even bigger spineless shitheads than Marco Rubio.

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I subscribe to the warning from Maya Angelou: “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

I will expect/be wary of everything Trump threatened to do, including things he backtracked on, until the outcome is moderated for some reason. Now that he has control of all three branches of government with ‘no guardrails’, it’s all possible. In fact, it will be interesting to see what factors actually moderate his cruelest, most evil instincts… or rather, those of his puppeteers. International and business resistance could prevail to limit tariff threats, for instance.

I’ve seen a lot in my lifetime, and tend not to be a worrier or a conspiracy theorist. Worry is a wasted emotion. When the problem is real, make a plan and take action, but until then, I’m not panicking… unnecessarily.

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From The Guardian:

  1. 1. Women voted for the Democratic candidate, but by smaller margins

Women did indeed show up to support Kamala Harris, but in smaller numbers than her Democratic predecessors. While Hillary Clinton won women by 13 points in 2016 and Joe Biden by 15 in 2020, Harris secured them by just 10 points, CNN found.
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2. White women are still voting for the Republican candidate

Although women as a whole have historically voted for Democrats, white women have not. Instead, over the last 72 years, a plurality of white women have voted for the Democratic candidate only twice, in 1964 and 1996. On Tuesday, they once again went for Trump – just as they did in 2016 and 2020. But Harris made inroads with the group; she lost them by only 5 points, according to CNN. (In 2020, they broke for Trump by 11.) More surprisingly, Trump’s lead among white men also shrank, from 23 points in 2020 to 20 in 2024.
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3. Trump did better with young women than he did in 2020

The Trump campaign leaned into targeting young men, as the former president publicly palled around with male YouTubers and podcasters, such as Joe Rogan, who make little space for women. This effort paid off: exit polling indicates that there was a canyon-wide 16-point gender gap between young men and women, which is an increase from 2020. While women between the ages of 18 and 29 preferred Harris 58% to 40%, their male peers chose Trump 56% to 42%. However, compared to his last run, Trump did better with both young men (41% of them voted for him four years ago) and young women (33% in 2020).
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4. Harris suffered significant losses among both Latino women and men

Latino men, in particular, veered hard to the right. In 2016, Clinton won Latino men by 31 points; by 2020, their support for Democrats had cooled somewhat, as Biden won them by 23 points. On Tuesday, Trump won this group handily, by 10 points, according to exit polling performed for the Washington Post and other outlets. Meanwhile, Harris won Latina women by 24 points, a victory that pales in comparison to Clinton’s 44-point lead in 2016.
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5. Black women are the most reliable Democratic voters

Long the Democrats’ most stalwart supporters, Black women are still the backbone of the Democratic party. Harris won them by 85 points – a bigger lead than any other gendered and racial group measured by CNN. Apart from the contest for president, Delaware and Maryland both elected Black women, Lisa Blunt Rochester and Angela Alsobrooks, to the Senate – making the next Senate the first one in which two Black women will simultaneously serve together.

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Well, that is true There is no law that says I can’t walk into the local grocery store wearing a black lives matter t shirt, but I don’t do that either. I have to live with these people. I just try to avoid talking about what idiots they are.

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Glorified messenger boy and that’s it. Rubio sole responsibility will be delivering the bribes, extortion, threats and transactional offers meant to enrich Trump and serve Putin.

He is a clownshow in high-heeled fashion boots and the world will laugh at him but will have to take the threat seriously.

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Is it cultural? It is abortion? Do they like the fact that is concerned that their kind is poisoning the blood of our nation? I think people always think Trump is talking about someone else when he says those things.

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That’s because it’s just as fucked up and hate-driven as the last fiasco. It will fail miserably and ruin thousands of lives, many businesses, depress our entire economy and sow fear across the nation with neighbors spying on neighbors.

Think Muslim ban + kids in cages level of nightmare.

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coming up on 4 year Anniversary of me getting rid of my brother. I don’t miss him at all. Quickly realized he didn’t bring any good to my life, just stress.

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It’s an example of changed meaning for a perfectly good and useful word.

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Kenya military forces are already on the ground in Haiti. I’m not sure how any one country can deal with a cabal of organized gangs.

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