The 2024 Circus

[Ben]

Apparently with DeSantis out, they're going to gaslight Trump being the one with dementia, not Biden.

https://twitchy.com/dougp/2024/01/22/projection-alert-dems-media-pivot-to-sounding-alarm-about-trumps-mental-state-n2392023

[Ben]

And NH will go to Trump. Looks like it will be single digits, and Haley will continue on.

I read that many dems in NH changed their party affiliation to vote Haley so Trump couldn't win. I wonder how much they had to do with Trump's single digit lead?

I guess it's a free country, but I don't know that I like that dem strategy. They're doing it here in Idaho as well to try and get milquetoast Rs in state and Congressional slots. I'm not aware of R voters doing the same thing. It's a bit too much like election manipulation to suit me.

[cordex]

Pretty much the same as Rush Limbaugh’s Operation Chaos, isn’t it?

[Ben]

Pretty much the same as Rush Limbaugh’s Operation Chaos, isn’t it?

Not familiar. I will need to google.

Edit: Googled. Yes it is. Slightly different reasons, but it appears to be a similar strategy. I don't like it.

[Regolith]

And NH will go to Trump. Looks like it will be single digits, and Haley will continue on.

I read that many dems in NH changed their party affiliation to vote Haley so Trump couldn't win. I wonder how much they had to do with Trump's single digit lead?

I guess it's a free country, but I don't know that I like that dem strategy. They're doing it here in Idaho as well to try and get milquetoast Rs in state and Congressional slots. I'm not aware of R voters doing the same thing. It's a bit too much like election manipulation to suit me.

Heard earlier that NH has an open primary, so they probably didn't even have to change party affiliation.

[Perd Hapley]

Voting in the other party's primary isn't new.

[dogmush]

And NH will go to Trump. Looks like it will be single digits, and Haley will continue on.
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So we're just calling elections for Trump before the 3:30 AM ballot drop?  You'd think we'd have learned. 

[Ben]

So we're just calling elections for Trump before the 3:30 AM ballot drop?  You'd think we'd have learned. 

 

[Ben]

I haven't seen it, but on the newz this morning (conservative program) they're rightly (if true) digging on Trump because he apparently went twitter teenager for his New Hampshire victory speech. That's annoying to me as his post Iowa speech was very presidential, IMO. I was hoping that he had learned his lesson about the mean girl stuff.

[Hawkmoon]

I haven't seen it, but on the newz this morning (conservative program) they're rightly (if true) digging on Trump because he apparently went twitter teenager for his New Hampshire victory speech. That's annoying to me as his post Iowa speech was very presidential, IMO. I was hoping that he had learned his lesson about the mean girl stuff.

Seriously? You silly person.

[Northwoods]

I haven't seen it, but on the newz this morning (conservative program) they're rightly (if true) digging on Trump because he apparently went twitter teenager for his New Hampshire victory speech. That's annoying to me as his post Iowa speech was very presidential, IMO. I was hoping that he had learned his lesson about the mean girl stuff.

When he gets sand in his vagina ...

[Ben]

Tangent, but in a "Dodged a bullet" kinda way:

https://youtu.be/w40xEhhDAHo

https://twitchy.com/dougp/2024/01/24/hillary-clinton-goes-for-the-oscar-in-most-bitter-failed-presidential-candidate-ever-category-n2392115

[Jim147]

They had to change to no party and I saw cnn say it was 70% of the votes she got.

[Ben]

Seriously? You silly person.

I do foolishly keep hoping. Again, he's not my #1 pick, but if he's gonna be the nominee, I don't understand how his team, if not him, can see how many more votes he'd get if he would knock that off. He already has the cheerleaders who think that crap is funny in his court, and they'll vote for him no matter what, but it's not enough.

I wouldn't mind voting for the "post-Iowa" Trump, but mean girl Trump is gonna make me hold my nose as I vote for his policies and wish he could keep his big mouth shut.

[Hawkmoon]

I do foolishly keep hoping. Again, he's not my #1 pick, but if he's gonna be the nominee, I don't understand how his team, if not him, can see how many more votes he'd get if he would knock that off. He already has the cheerleaders who think that crap is funny in his court, and they'll vote for him no matter what, but it's not enough.

I wouldn't mind voting for the "post-Iowa" Trump, but mean girl Trump is gonna make me hold my nose as I vote for his policies and wish he could keep his big mouth shut.

I couldn't have said it better.

[Northwoods]

I do foolishly keep hoping. Again, he's not my #1 pick, but if he's gonna be the nominee, I don't understand how his team, if not him, can see how many more votes he'd get if he would knock that off. He already has the cheerleaders who think that crap is funny in his court, and they'll vote for him no matter what, but it's not enough.

I wouldn't mind voting for the "post-Iowa" Trump, but mean girl Trump is gonna make me hold my nose as I vote for his policies and wish he could keep his big mouth shut.

That was supposed to be the appeal of DeSantis.  But then he ran the campaign the uniparty wanted him to run instead of one that would, you know, work.

[Perd Hapley]

That was supposed to be the appeal of DeSantis.  But then he ran the campaign the uniparty wanted him to run instead of one that would, you know, work.

I don't know if we can blame the uniparty, but if that's what happened, were they trying to sabotage DeSantis or are they just incompetent?

[cordex]

That was supposed to be the appeal of DeSantis.  But then he ran the campaign the uniparty wanted him to run instead of one that would, you know, work.

What campaign would have worked for DeSantis?

[dogmush]

What campaign would have worked for DeSantis?

DeSantis '28, probably.

[Northwoods]

... were they trying to sabotage DeSantis or are they just incompetent?

Hard to tell the difference.

[Northwoods]

What campaign would have worked for DeSantis?

The strategy of Vivek would have been hard to beat.

[cordex]

The strategy of Vivek would have been hard to beat.

The strategy of Vivek was beaten, even by DeSantis.

[Northwoods]

The strategy of Vivek was beaten, even by DeSantis.

Vivek was beaten, mostly because he was an unknown, and was a Trump facsimile.  With the real Trump still there the motivation vote Vivek wasn't very strong.  But the campaign strategy of Vivek with the personality and positions of DeSantis would have played much better for DeSantis.

[Pb]

Well, I'm guessing Trump getting 99% of the media attention, plus the Democrats persecuting him over BS, plus his savvy use of populist propaganda won it for him.

Too bad he isn't a decent human being or a very competent leader.  I am disappointed at the GOP for eating up his dreck.

[Ben]

Probably as good a place as any to post this. There's no deep state. That's just a bunch of nonsense. But here's some feds getting together prior to the 2020 elections to talk about subverting the government to keep Trump out.

https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/01/25/weaver-thread-feds-trump-n2392134

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