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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,045 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    I see Marjorie Taylor Greene is telling people to drink raw milk.

    We are two degrees away from asking people to drink the Koolaid folks!

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,911 ✭✭✭political analyst


    https://news.sky.com/story/the-world-podcast-richard-engel-and-yalda-hakim-discuss-how-the-new-us-president-will-handle-war-in-middle-east-13230481

    Richard Engel thinks that a rise in the price of oil after an Israeli attack on Iran's oil industry would held Trump. But why would Biden and Harris be blamed for something that is beyond their control?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,549 ✭✭✭Raoul Duke III


    US inflation numbers are out. Good news.

    That's two good sets of numbers - last weeks jobs report and this. Q3 earning season kicking off too which will tell us about the health of America's corporates.

    Generally though, these are all good numbers for Harris.



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,742 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    But why would Biden and Harris be blamed for something that is beyond their control?

    That's never stopped the GOP and Trump before…why would it now?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭Economics101


    Sure, the price of oil is way outside Biden's control. But that would not deter the MAGA crowd. No matter what the issue, just blame the party in power, never mind the evidence, or the context or anything else (even the weather).

    That's the MAGA way: politics for low-information fools.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,725 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Except it was a category 5. The wind speeds slowing as the eye approached landfall doesn't mean cities didn't see category 5 wind speeds nor does it mean it didn't drop torrential rains nor does it mean the storm got any smaller in scale. Before the storm even approached 'landfall' it has a huge tail blasting Florida as it arrived.

    St. Petersburg experienced a 500-year flood event. In Volusia county, on the opposite coast to the storm they saw 12 inches or more of rain (3X more rain than Ireland averages in a peak rainfall month).

    Also, here's a satellite video (in the link) of the wall of lightning that swept across the lower half of the state last night:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1g089ms/hurricane_miltons_lightning_wall/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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    At one point as many as 50 tornadoes were being tracked at a time

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    At least 28 foot waves were recorded.

    Initial damage estimates for Milton are $175 Billion.

    And still leaving the east coast of Florida stronger than forecasts projected, it's still now a category 1 hurricane. 3 Million Floridians are still without power. Several of my sister's coworkers died last night. I really don't understand the reason to downplay the severity of the storm here. It was bad. Should the government have said "shur it'll be grand?"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,434 ✭✭✭eeepaulo


    I agree with most of that but when i say they arent capturing the voters correctly i dont mean the margin of error in polls for a single state, it could move all the states, this graphic makes it a bit clearer

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    In 2020 biden was 8.4 points up on 4th november, the actual result was 4.5 points, states that were safe democrat went to lean and lean went to tilt, and he fliped 2. It was a clear trend that happened before and also for obama.

    Because of the lead biden had it didnt affect the result, Harris only has 3 points, a lot of clever people will have been looking at the figures and trying to correct for it the last 4 years, thiings like covid migration to red states, hispanics in texas / florida turning to the right etc, but f*** me we could end up with the imbecile again



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,549 ✭✭✭Raoul Duke III


    Actually the US government can use the strategic reserve to manipulate the market in their favour. So this might be one area of policy where criticism is somewhat justified.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,725 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Good time to remember that under Trump, the cost of US crude underwent inversion, and was being bought for negative dollars at one point. That's how little of a handle he had on it. He also went to the Saudi's begging them for more oil.

    If the criticism is justified then Trump has a lot of criticism to be blamed for and Biden has a lot of credit to be given for keeping it so relatively stable esp. after major global upset following the Russian 3 day special operation. I'm not sure Trump has proven to be someone you want asleep at the wheel of the energy sector.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,006 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    I said it wasn't Cat 5 as that what the news this morning on the wireless were reporting at 9am. I didn't go and verify the claim. Nor did I downplay the severity of it. I just pointed out that both Trump and Biden said it would be bad. I was highlighting to the poster who I quoted laughing at Biden for saying it and not having the same opinion of Trump is a bit silly



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,457 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Democracy loses if Trump wins. He has told us clearly several times.

    So if the Democratic candidate has to water down their values in order to win the election I think the vast majority of "progressives" will understand and accept it.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 41,660 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Reasonable criticisms are always in good faith. The problem here is that most of the negative comments about Harris come from people who have been shilling for Trump for several years as if he's perfect.

    You've posted a few in this post. Nobody thinks Harris is perfect or even all that good but the choice that faces America is between her and a would-be tyrant, by his own admission. That's a pretty easy choice for most people.

    I don't think most Americans want real change. I struggle to fathom it but they seem content, if not happy to keep their dysfunctional healthcare system and the abomination that is the two-party system with the electoral college. As someone who would call himself liberal, the Democrats aren't remotely liberal. They're the UK Tory party with liberal, socialist and environmentalist wings taped to them. The Republicans, well, that one is obvious.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,742 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    Something you clearly saw in the statements in recent days from the various Arab-American groups that have been pushing back on Biden/Harris and their handling of Gaza/Lebanon.

    They are still not at all happy with Biden/Harris on this issue and rightly so , but equally they understand that a Trump admin would be orders of magnitude worse , not just for the Middle-East but for lots and lots of other areas of daily life.

    So they are advocating voting for Harris on that basis- which is the correct pragmatic choice.

    Hopefully many more will make the same decision.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭Economics101


    I think that the use of the US strategic reserve is more to iron out sudden crisis—driven shortages rather than any more fundamental type of intervention. And even then the global oil price crash in the 2020 Covid outbreak and the spike in early 2022 (Putin;s war on Ukraine) are fairly dramatic and quite possibly beyond any one country's power to iron out.

    That said, if Gas prices had really gone wild after recent Israeli-Iran events MAGA would have blamed BIden (and ignored Netanyhu). Such is the MAGA universe.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,585 ✭✭✭McFly85


    Yep, hopefully there will be a time to critique Harris and her policies when she has her own presidential thread.

    For now, as this thread is specifically about her vs Trump, it feels like the wrong place to specifically criticise her policies or backtracking without taking into account her opponent. And there is no subject or policy that you could reasonably argue that Trump would be better on.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,457 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Nobody thinks Harris is perfect or even all that good but the choice that faces America is between her and a would-be tyrant, by his own admission

    Harris as president will be more than adequate. Good even, relative to what has come before her.

    To be honest I don't remember any election anywhere, where 2 candidates are being judged on such widely different standards.

    There is definitely a sprinkling of misogyny involved in that.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,033 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    That's not going to kill you in fairness, I drank it until I left home at 17/18. My Gran lived until 96 and she drank it every day.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,045 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    According to the FDA...

    "Raw milk can carry dangerous germs such as Salmonella, E. coli, Listeria, Campylobacter, and others that cause foodborne illness, often called “food poisoning.”"

    Yeah, so maybe the fact that she, who thinks Democrats control the weather, isn't the best person to take science advice from.

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,587 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,138 ✭✭✭mun1


    and you turned out fine , yes sir , totally fine 😆



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,264 ✭✭✭crusd


    I find it bizarre that Trump has any fans at all. So the fact that he does makes you think is there anything they wouldn't believe or say or have an issue with



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    Believing that there is a weather control machine and that the democrats used it to cause hurricanes to influence the election isn't going to kill you either.

    But it's a ridiculous belief that should indicate that a person is not rational or that they should not be in a position of power.

    At this stage I'm wondering if Greene came out as a flat earther, we'd start hearing "well how do we really know the shape of the Earth"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,637 ✭✭✭Rawr


    Oh FFS. So we’ve gone from a chunk of MAGA being anti-vax to some of them starting to follow the herd and ignore the work of old Louis Pasteur. I guess killing off potential bacteria in the milk is the work of the devil or some such nonsense.

    If you want to have a gaggle of MAGA voters praying to the Porcelain Gods on voting day instead of getting out there…I’m not going to stop them…but hopefully they’ll learn their lesson before they manage to poison their kids.

    Raw Milk can be ok if you trust the source and can get it directly from a dairy farm. But the danger is still there, and that’s why the mass produced milk we get in the shops is always pasteurised.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,045 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Well, Marge isn't right in the head for many reasons, one of which is her adoration of 45. Here she is grabbing him by the...

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    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,863 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    Putting female sanitary products in male toilets is not and never will be normal.
    Vance showed him up for the blithering idiot that he is. It’s no wonder Harris picked tampon Tim as it speaks to her woeful decision making and inclination towards safe space group think. She needed her follow looney tune comfort blankie instead of someone competent who’d have helped her ticket instead of making it even worse

    warned and forum ban increased to 4 days

    Post edited by Beasty on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,587 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    And back to your infatuation with trans people, weird.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,585 ✭✭✭McFly85


    It’s the most bizarre thing to be angry about - a sanitary product in a bathroom. I genuinely can’t get my head around the idea that some people devote significant time of their day being outraged by it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,045 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Indeed.

    And fascination with periods too. Very Project 2025...

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,911 ✭✭✭political analyst


    It might have something to do with that gender-ID stuff that some Democrats are obsessed with.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,045 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    So we are constantly being told Trump *won't* be a dictator, despite saying he will be, despite him trying to overturn a free and fair election, despite him worshipping other dictators, despite him saying he will go after his enemies should he regain power.

    Here he is, saying that he should be able to control news broadcasters, just because HE doesn't like what is being said.

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    So... Are we all agreed he fits squarely within the "dictator" definition?

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



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