I've said it before...if anyone knew me years ago and saw me posting about politics, they wouldn't recognize it as me. Never discussed politics. Didn't care about politics. Always thought politics was all just a game.
I've learned so much about politics, government, and elections from you guys. So many issues came up and when I asked questions, you never once demeaned me or called me stupid for not knowing about something. I've had so many chances to learn and independently investigate various topics and search for primary sources, trying to get a grasp...and found it fascinating. Whole different world than anything I'd ever studied or moved in before.
But it turns out I was right all along. Politics IS a giant game. It disgusts me.
As I mentioned in previous posts, I shut off all incoming from political related youtube channels a while back. I scan the news headlines just to stay in touch with the election, but almost never read the articles within. So, I know a lot of what's going on. Probably not everything. The truth is that this time leading up to the election has taken me back to the Trump presidency. By that I mean his dominating the 24 hour news cycle, never knowing basically hour to hour what crap stirring thing he was going to do or say next to offend or incite, and essentially feeling on edge for his whole term as President. If there's one thing he's really good at, it's keeping people on the hook. Of course, Covid didn't help. Jan 6th forget it. Refusal to participate in a transfer of power in order to properly preparation and apprise the incoming Biden administration, please. Where I come from this is what petty ass sore losers do and if the fate and well being of the country weren't at stake, I couldn't have possibly cared less about it.
But he was and it was, and he did, and I found that last refusal and failure to do what is right and best for an outgoing President to do, both irresponsible and reprehensible. A grown man who held the highest seat of power in the US (and the world if we're getting technical) basically folding his arms and sticking his tongue out at the next guy coming into that same seat of power.
I mean, come ON! Who does that, right?
I just saw this on CNN. Opened the article this time. Assuming it's true because it's directly quoted. Didn't check the primary source (broadcast interview) because I hear FOX news in my house every stinking day of my life and I can't tolerate it. Good thing I haven't been able to hear properly out of my right ear for over 2 months now. It helps muffle the sound of it. Will get that checked out eventually here. It's on the low end of the list.
Look at this new round of BS.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/01/politics ... index.htmlTrump says ‘war hawk’ Liz Cheney should be fired upon in escalation of violent rhetoric against his opponents
Donald Trump said former Rep. Liz Cheney is a “war hawk” who should be fired upon, as he raged against one of his most prominent intra-party critics while campaigning Thursday night in Arizona.
“She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK?” the former president said at a campaign event in Glendale with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. “Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face.”
Trump also hurled insults at Cheney, once the third-ranking Republican in House leadership, calling her “very dumb,” a “stupid person” and “the moron.”
Trump’s suggestion that Cheney be fired upon represents an escalation of the violent language he has used to target his political foes. And it comes days before an election in which the former president — who never accepted his 2020 loss — has already undermined public confidence. In recent weeks, he has also suggested a military crackdown on political opponents he has described as “the enemy within.”
Cheney is perhaps the most vocal Republican critic of Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and his role in his supporters’ January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol. She played a leading role on the House select committee that investigated the attack, and later was ousted from her deep-red Wyoming House seat by a Trump-backed primary opponent in 2022.
In recent weeks, Cheney has campaigned alongside Vice President Kamala Harris, urging Republicans to set aside party differences to back the Democrat and reject a candidate she says poses a threat to democracy.
Trump said Thursday he was surprised former Vice President Dick Cheney also endorsed Harris, because he had pardoned Cheney’s former chief of staff Scooter Libby, who was convicted of perjury in 2007.
“I don’t blame him for sticking with his daughter, but his daughter’s a very dumb individual — very dumb,” Trump said.
Trump said Cheney is a “stupid person” and claimed that when the Wyoming Republican was in House Republican leadership, “she always wanted to go to war with people.”
“You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building, saying … ‘Let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy,’” he said.
Trump’s use of violent language dates back to his first presidential campaign, in 2015 and 2016, when he suggested a heckler deserved to be “roughed up” and said he’d like to punch another in the face.
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper wrote in his memoir that while in office, Trump raised the idea of shooting protesters who took to the streets around the White House after the killing of George Floyd in 2020.
“Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?” Trump asked, according to Esper.
He began his bid for the 2024 Republican nomination by telling the Conservative Political Action Conference gathering, “I am your retribution.” Days later, he said at a rally in Waco, Texas, that the 2024 election would be “the final battle.”
And throughout his campaign, he has described those convicted for their actions during the Capitol riot as “hostages.”
Harris has pointed to Trump’s actions and rhetoric — including in a speech she delivered this week from the Ellipse in Washington, the same site where Trump delivered his January 6, 2021, speech — as she tries to court independents and moderate Republicans.
“Donald Trump intends to use the United States military against American citizens who simply disagree with him. People he calls ‘the enemy from within.’ This is not a candidate for president who is thinking about how to make your life better,” Harris said in her Tuesday night remarks. “This is someone who is unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance, and out for unchecked power.”
This story has been updated with additional details.
Yeah I know all the stuff he's been putting out but guys, this is some next level screwed up BS.
This is coming from a two-bit hustler who couldn't hold his own in a street fight if he tried. "Let's"? He can't even legally OWN a gun. The man couldn't keep a freaking casino together. He can't keep himself together. Nope. He's firing up his base for violence. Why? Because any election he loses must be rigged. Guns trained on her FACE? Do you get how overtly narc that is?
What happens if he wins? It's suddenly not rigged? He wins and poof the rigged crap goes away by Easter or something?
What the blue blazes hell is wrong with us? I'll tell you what--it's HIM. This guy is ratcheting up stress levels all over the country, all over the world, and it's happening to us in our in real life and here on the board. Not only are we stressed about the election but also about what happens next. SEE that? He's got us all (or at least me) on the same hook he had us on during his term as President. Only this time it's reaching fever pitch. The man can pump out crap faster than we can absorb it. I'll give him that.
Pretty sure HE'S at fever pitch worried about whether or not he'll dodge jail time. He's projecting that crap on us.
And it's working. This is him winning.
Anyway...if anyone replies here I probably won't reply to it right away. My intention was to get this stuff out of my gut and just express myself. This is just too damn much. It was too damn much the first time around. I'm going to continue my own campaign of taking a step back. I've gotten pretty good at tuning it all out.
Whatever is going to happen is going to happen without my attention. I refuse to let him steal my peace of mind or the solitude that energizes me so basically this guy can find his supply without me feeding him.
Okay I'm done. Whatever I said is whatever I said. Fin.
ETA: Apparently not Fin...
My Electoral College Prediction Map | Lichtman Live #85
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etYKflo-J18
"I have not changed my prediction. It doesn't sway with the ephemeral events of the campaign." ~ Lichtman
Fin for real.
