I think the trump administration is approaching a critical mass of stupidity. It will likely go critical in the next big media event . . .
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Trump has a tiny window to do this. … & it is a 99% certainly that his fat ass would get stuck trying to crawl through said window.
12 days … but the last 3 are worthless
So … 9 days ? And what sort of charges will spring forth fully formed with no actual investigation … hell you don’t even have enough time to proof read the Russian translation to correct for telling syntax errors!
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“Trump wants a public announcement of a federal probe into Biden and his son, Hunter, that could damage the Democrat similar to how then-FBI Director James Comey had announced a renewed investigation into 2016 Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails”
Doesn’t a sequel have to try just a little harder to recycle the same old bullshit the second time around?
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I don’t either, but I’m pretty sure they’re mostly meant to spread via social media. They put it out there and people put it on their Facebook feeds and so forth, and people they know see it. TV ad time is insanely expensive, but social media are essentially free. (Our attention is the product for sale there.) Rick Wilson could probably have put that video together himself with a stock-footage subscription and a phone call to Tom Bodett asking him for a favor.
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Ultimately, the most effective anti-Trump ad of all is Trump.
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Do it Donald …
Might just be the final straw that gets the only living Republican president to step up and say
DON’T VOTE FOR TRUMP - HE IS A CRIMINAL
VOTE FOR JOE BIDEN
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Go right ahead, Current Occupant; try it. You know Black folk have a song for everything, right?
Try Jesus
Not me
'Cause I throw hands
Try Jesus
Please don’t try me
Because I fight
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It’s a good ad, well put together and well argued as most of their ads are. The only thing I’d question is where the narrator says “We made a mistake.” The Pod Save America guys, who do this for a living themselves, pointed out recently that people are resistant to the idea they made a mistake, but more receptive to being told Trump let them down. And you notice the Biden campaign has consistently made exactly that point. They’re not saying what were you thinking, you fools, how could you possibly have been so stupid? They’re putting the onus on Trump himself. It’s not what his voters deserve, maybe, but common sense about human nature tells you that’s what’s likely to be more effective.
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You suggest they won’t.
It was long ago reported that one of the reasons Comey publicly announced the “new” - but not really - Hillary emails 11 days prior to Election Day 2016 was because the rogue group of New York FBI office agents forced his hand. He felt it would be worse to have word leaked, particularly since he’d foolishly committed to Rep(tillian) Dunes at an earlier testimony that he’d bring any new information to them.
Point being - this hopeful article aside - more (false) shit will hit the fan, likely on Friday. They want to spoil as many early votes as possible for the weekend. Just like they did with Hillary.
The Trump regime will not die without a fight.
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I think they may be running them on TV in targeted areas. I was just reading this Politico description of being inside the campaign, and it suggests that Trump saw an ad on TV first thing one morning that I think was a Project Lincoln ad about how Trump called the military losers and suckers:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/22/two-weeks-inside-trump-campaign-431134
There are almost identical PL ads aimed at Pennsylvania and Iowa, which seem like something that would be broadcast locally rather than counting on residents of those states to find the ads on YouTube. Ditto one aimed at Mississippi supporting Mike Espy for Senate. They’ve got one that has both English and Spanish versions that compare Trump to Castro. That would probably be most effective in Florida.
ETA: I had the scenario a little wrong. He saw the ad the previous day, so that might well have been on TV in DC, and we already know they do run the ads there for his “enjoyment.”
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LIKE A (mob) BOSS!!!
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Help little people? Nope. Not him. Which pulled the rug out from under the feet of all his voters who after he took over the WH, said give him a chance. All they got then and now was his daily reality show script.
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His man…
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That’s a good point. Rural folks don’t like the idea that uppity urban dwellers look down on them and think they’re stupid. That’s why I questioned the heavy accent.
I’ve seen interviews with people in rural areas where they’ll admit they made a mistake voting for Trump without being prompted, but they won’t want to hear it from someone else.
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Interesting. This ad is aimed at rural men and their at least adolescent sons. The last one was all about girls and what they see, and this one is all men. If I were any good at regional accents, I’m sure the speech pattern here could be tied to a specific area of the country - the midwest somewhere? Personally, my dad wore a suit and tie to work (and a spiffy hat - it was the 50s) and probably never saw a field of wheat in his life. He did vote Republican. Good ad though.
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Not to mention the enormous numbers of votes that have already been officially cast.
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Trump is demanding a public announcement of an investigation targeting his opponent? If only there were some mechanism that could have been used to remove someone who does such things! Why, oh why, didn’t the founders think of a method for removing rogue executives? How could this ever have been stopped?
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I knew a guy, a Republican, active in public life here, a nice guy, not stupid, almost certainly not a racist or hateful in any way. He’d just always been a Republican. And once, early on, amid the Facebook vituperations against Trump in the early days, this fellow asked that we give him a chance. He said exactly that. And it was sad, because I knew it wasn’t going to work out. Always wondered what he’s saying these days.
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Cry wolf too often and it won’t matter if they finally find a truth to tell.
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TV is his metier. Coming up with fresh ideas for the second season is always harder.