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Vice President Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump 2024

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭thatsdaft


    Thanks just catching up on events of last week Trump year



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,054 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    Shapiro back in to odds on, seems to be a lot of fluctuation in the market. If the announcement is due late afternoon our time, you'd think the news will leak fairly soon…



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,053 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    I'll say it again. She met with the people on her shortlist in person on Sunday. I'm not sure how reading what the bookies are saying indicates anything as we all know as much as each other.

    Your guess is as good as mine I suppose.

    I'm still hoping for Mark Kelly.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,333 ✭✭✭✭briany


    Musk's just bitter that he's got all the money in the world but still no-one genuinely likes him. Billionaire billy no-mates.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,811 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    Surely at least 1 of his 8 children genuinely likes him? There has to be a small chance…



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,020 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs


    Plus he thinks he's smarter than everyone else when he clearly isn't



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,841 ✭✭✭Rawr


    With the wierd names he keeps giving them? Very small chance his kids like him…



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,053 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    That is blatantly untrue. I like him a lot! He is so smart and handsome. And he has a great sense of humour!

    Only joking. He's a pr1ck.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    I'm not even sure he's bitter nobody likes him: I think he's just the largest, most grotesque example of what happens when men (and it's always men in this case) get sucked into depending on parasocial relationships for their emotional equilibrium. If you can call it that.

    Don't mistake that for sympathy mind you - the man is a cúnt, with cúnty opinions, who tarnished his own reputation - but I think Musk's behaviour smells of that kind of sweaty desperation seen across the internet by lonely men.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,566 ✭✭✭techdiver


    Musk never sat well with me going back years. Like what exactly has he done apart from being lucky and taking over businesses? People think he started all these companies and is some sort of Steve Jobs type (who I also think was another leech of the backs of real geniuses). You have these types in the tech industry who achieve cult like following from other nerds (I'm a software engineer and card carrying nerd BTW so not using that in a derogatory sense).

    Tech CEOs often exhibit the worst traits of your typical psychopath CEOs. The only way to become that successful is to be a complete piece of **** in my opinion.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,119 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    More polls showing for Harris

    https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/



  • Posts: 832 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    sex is only bad when it's a woman doing it (consensually), when it's a pig faced whore fcuking rapist its👌

    I know this because I'm a woman



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,053 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    Steve Wozniak was the real tech genius behind Apples success, today he is worth around 140 million dollars. Steve Jobs was maybe a genius in the business arena, which is why he was worth 10 billion at the time of his death. As you say, there is a common thread among successful tech CEO's which involves them often betraying their close and longest friends. I'm sure we've all seen The Social Network. If you've not seen it yet I recommend the movie Blackberry, which is a Canadian low budget movie but shows the rise and fall of Research in Motion/Blackberry, which has a similar theme.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,113 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    Its a massive problem for Trump. He was flying high. Biden was far too old and the debate performance nailed that down.

    then the assassination attempt and Trumps response, including that amazing picture.

    Was that as good as it could get for Trump? Has he hit his ceiling?

    What can he do now to win back the support he is losing?

    Harris, or IMO more accurately, Biden stepping aside has given many hope for a new future. Not because of Harris in particular. There was a large cohort that felt neither Trump or Biden was suitable, but Trump had started to pick up their support.

    Will Trumps usual line of complaint and whinging win these back?

    So Trump is faced, IMO, with no only a new opponent but having to actually come up with an entirely new message.

    JD Vance is not going to help in that.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,054 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,119 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Indeed. A spanner in the works could be circumstance though - if a major war breaks out in the Middle East and gas prices soar, then Kamala will be "blamed" for it, Trump would ride off that, likewise any major downturns in the economy, SM crashes or anything.

    If it's plain sailing until November, barring anything dramatic happening, or any major gaffs from the Dem side, then indeed I'd be hopeful.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,333 ✭✭✭✭briany


    Now, if there's anyone within the MAGA movement who could be called as weird as Trump and as desperate for relevance as Elon Musk is, that man could be Roger Stone, seen below, looking like what happens when The Penguin and Dr Strangelove have a child but withhold all real affection throughout it's childhood.

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    A deeply, deeply strange man whose life's ambition appears to be….. um, well, if you ever saw the Twilight Zone episode 'Terror at 20,000 Feet' - imagine that the airplane is Washington DC…. Stone would like to be the gremlin on the wing. I would say he's more like what would have happened if Jimmy Savile had been born in the States and opted for a slightly less sensible haircut. Sees himself as a master manipulator, but is really just a fringe figure of politics whose best days are far behind him. The anger in him is something else. In the latest documentary about him, 'A Storm Foretold' when it gets to just after Jan 6th, where he's getting phone calls about potential prosecutions, he's literally snarling while he speaks. It's creepy as hell.

    He's attempting to smile in the photo above, btw. I know that isn't clear.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,948 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    Harris is enjoying a honeymoon period, that will soon wear off and then things will settle down a bit.

    She cant keep hiding away from the public, that will be Democrat strategy though, the less opportunities for her to mess up the better.

    It worked for Biden in 2020, he was hidden away in the basement.

    Trump is making a complete mess of his campaign, he is his own worst enemy, he needs to tone is back and appeal to moderates, Independednts but as I have reitierated for many years Im not sure he will be able to do this.

    He is just too stubborn, too arrogant and too ignorant.

    However, there are still 3 months to go to the election, a long time.

    Whilst the MSM is doing its best to shill for Harris, there is many a slip twixt cup and lip.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 617 ✭✭✭Stanley 1


    Kelsey is still going strong @ 69, as are Frasier repeats.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,333 ✭✭✭✭briany


    @Leroy42

    Its a massive problem for Trump. He was flying high.

    I don't know if he was really flying high because it's easy to feel that way when the heels of the competition are scraping off the ground.

    In actuality, put anyone halfway exciting against him and he suddenly looks like a much different proposition. He's a weak candidate, partly due to his highly polarising nature. It's only been for the Democrats' insistence on putting up even weaker candidates against him that has kept him afloat.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,047 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    Harris is out campaigning non stop from what I can see. And there's pretty much no question that she's more mentally competent than Trump. Meanwhile Trump is the guy who is actively backing out of debates...



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,333 ✭✭✭✭briany


    Again, the 'MSM' is not a monolith, as you know, but the acronym is always a fun one to tick off if playing 'crap buzzword bingo'. Fox News, last time I checked, is rather pro-Trump and have a huge market/audience share. If that's not enough for American audiences, they have the smaller networks of Newsmaxx and One America News. In addition to that, you have syndicated conservative talk radio shows as well. Plenty of shilling done for Trump on all of that.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,333 ✭✭✭✭briany


    It makes Trump look bad (or worse, even) and he doesn't even realise it. Because the only thing which has changed about the debate is that he now has to take on Harris instead of Biden, wanting a change of network and venue indicates that he's scared and wants the most agreeable terms possible for a matchup. He can't say that he wants more time to prepare for a different opponent because the Fox date is earlier than the ABC one.

    #trumpisacoward indeed.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,414 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Harris is out campaigning.

    Trump is the one being kept away, lest he say something even stupider in his speeches than going on about electric boats and Hannibal Lecter.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,948 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    This is a pretty good article on her avoidance of the media.

    But she hasn’t endured an extended interaction with the press since before the June 27 debate that doomed Biden’s candidacy. The last time was on June 24 on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” hardly a challenging venue for a Democrat.

    Less consequential but more outrageous is the press’ collective complicity in Harris’ strategy. The vice president’s campaign has wisely flip-flopped on many of the fatally left-wing positions she took during her ill-fated first presidential campaign — against fracking, in favor of Medicare for all, sympathetic to calls to cut funding to police departments and so on. But the press shouldn’t let her get away with it so easily.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭rolling boh


    The prospects look OK for Harris but as has being said the middle east and maybe more to the point the economy has plenty of time left to cause her problems .It's pretty hard to find real independent analysis of how things are going and likely to pan out .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Jesus do all of your talking points come from places like Fox News?



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