Harris Vs Trump 2024 US Presidential election - read the warning in the OP posted 18/09/24

Gish gallop, same approach as the dear leader

In PA the supreme court has ruled that ballots with the 'wrong postmark date' can be thrown out, valid or not. I said valid because even if the ballot arrives by the voting deadline on election day, it can still be tossed, despite the rational conclusion that the ballot is within the deadline. However procedural the ruling is, it is unclear if this will be resolved before election day. In dissent, 3 justices (including the Chief Justice of the court) invoked King's Bench Power and plan to proceed the case ASAP. The court did not yet consider the merits of the case, only the jurisdiction.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/pennsylvania-supreme-court-mail-ballots-incorrect-dates-rcna170819

Dissent

Per Curiam Order

Ha ha ha ha ha - I mean if you’re going to develop a conspiracy theory at least pick the fans of a band or an artist that could credibly be believed - the worst Taylor Swift fans will do to Trump will be to vote for Harris

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13855645/internet-taylor-swift-fans-donald-trump-assassination-attempt.html

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An assassination attempt on a former president and current runner - I’m wondering how this impacts the American psyche in general - I don’t care what Trump “is” or isn’t - I think this latest incident will bring people stronger together and united behind, dare I say it- Trump .

https://youtu.be/8384lBaN3a0?si=2VDwep2vXU9X8z-A

Did you see the two posts from him today?

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I thank the lord he is so profoundly stupid.

There are so so many occasions he could have used certain events for political capital, and he has failed to.

The first, and not so much the second, events presented him with such an opportunity to come across as a leader, rising above the hate and broadcasting a message of unity. It was (amongst other things) a golden opportunity, and yet he did what? Appeared like a thug, and only then ratched up the rhetoric.

And he's done it again today.

An utter idiot.

We aren't immune from that kind of politics and we're certainly seeing more populism and nationalism taking hold with threats against politicians and more and more TDs resigning because they're fed up of getting threatened

Our political system does have a lot of safeguarding built in to prevent a populist like Trump from taking power and even if they did it would severely limit them

This is the major difference between the US and many other countries, their president wields significant power whereas many nations here have much more powerful legislatures which keep the executive in check. It's great for them in an emergency where the president needs extra powers, but it's vastly open to abuse as we've seen

Even in Europe the supposed gain of the far right have fallen flat in many places. Italy is probably the biggest success story and mostly because the brotherhood party veered towards the centre shortly after being elected

In France for example a lot of people say RN won the election with the biggest number of seats, but they didn't secure a majority and have united the opposition against them

In the Netherlands literally no party will work with the far right PVV party so they failed to form a government

In Germany a lot is said about AfD winning recent regional elections, however it's CDU likely to win the next general election with most of the population fed up of the social democrats accomplishing mostly nothing (turns out the only successful Angela Merkel is Angela Merkel)

So while there's no immunity to the far right in any democratic system, in a true multi party government there's always going to be a force driving consensus and compromise at the cost of ideological purity

It's the opposite situation in the US, there's two parties worth talking about and they both have around 50% of the vote. If one side was losing significantly they'd rapidly change policy back towards the centre. Similarly if there was a multi party system you'd see more level headed figures from across the political spectrum come together to form policies rather than the farcical reality TV show it currently is

But, this is the America the rest of the world is stuck with so we all have to sit and watch and hope there's enough functional brain cells there to get Harris across the line

We are one step away here....

I’m not saying you’re wrong because simply I don’t have a clue at this point what his strategy “should” be- all I know is many called him stupid in 2016 and he won 😀

I think he’s well versed in the art of manipulation - but maybe he’s so rooted in that he can’t see himself towards adapting his strategy , especially when it might favour him - certainly there were occasions even recently when he could have issued different responses - can only be a good thing in my view - but with the vote margin he had at least till recently I would never call him stupid .

Current Trump beau, Laura Loomer, was reported to have a deleted tweet which stated that if Kamala got into the White House, it would smell of curry.

The woman is currently eyeing up a potential position in another Trump administration. The only reason there is any pushback on her from anyone else in Trump's orbit is that they're not entirely sure if they have the enough voters who are comfortable with nakedly bigoted language with room for ambiguity.

So you believe that Trump is xenophobic and not racist when he speaks about foreigners, that he mentioned the "birther conspiracy" not in relation to the colour of Obama's skin but because he argued that Obama was not born in the US, in other words an alien that did not have the right to be elected as US president?