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

Well he changed to Republican, the point remains though the only president to have been born and raised in California, in fact the West Coast at all was Nixon.

If Trump wins it's up to Kamala to certify the results, like it was Pence's job. That's gotta sting a little, considering she's the one running against Trump. I wonder will she contest the results…

Unlikely, as she is a serious politician.

She would also attend the new president's inauguration, as she is not a spoiled child.

Also unlikely she will tweet out calling Tim Walz a coward.

Or indeed rile up a mob and get them to attack the capitol.

"Democrats seem a bit salty about it because it wasn't them that thought of it.

If Kamala did it they'd be over the moon. Yes, it's just a stunt but it's outside the box thinking that gets noticed.

That's an awful lot of assumptions on your part in an effort to prove a point.

Can't speak for others but I'd prefer a campaign that doesn't have to rely on "stunts". Unfortunately that's where political discourse has been dragged down to; Trump running away from actual debates to pretend to work at McDonalds and be a garbage man, and not doing interviews where he might be asked tough questions and instead sit with Theo Von and Joe Rogan.

The constitution is effectively unamendable through normal channels so in order to drive change the only way to do it is a Supreme Court judgement.

This isn't true. Article V. And I mean, we nearly had the Equal Rights Amendment passed, but there was a deadline baked into the amendment language to ratify, which was a choice.

Stacking of the courts is certainly an issue but not an insurmountable one. The means by which to remove them exist and if Democrats had enough control of Congress I feel they would have already for instance, impeached Clarence Thomas. As for the court itself, they can keep writing themselves into corners with some of their clearly partisan rulings lately but it will eventually come to a head.

The other side are half the population

Also a popular misconception but no, they aren't. About 1 in 4 Americans are Republicans. Gerrymandering, and strategic control over 'land' like North and South Dakota etc. merely give them a very outsized level of control in Congress. 31% are Democrats and 40+ % are Independents.

The US has been deadlocked politically before, I don't think it means the experiment was a failure before.

This is what I do not understand about Trump supporters. Wanting to upset the establishment, I get. Wanting someone who “tells it like it is”, I get. Wanting someone who cuts through all the bullshit that politicians usually come out with, when living standards have been declining for decades, I get.

Hell, someone giving secret racists a chance to embrace their worst instincts, I get.

What I don’t get is how people can respect a man who is so thin-skinned, pathetically obsessed with his enemies, and self-pitying. I thought Americans pride themselves on getting on with things. Trump is so laughably infantile and pitiful, I don’t know how they overlook that aspect of his character, again and again, I really don’t.

And yet, here we are again.

I was being more specific, not just that it was something of a photo op \ stunt but that Trump specifically looked ridiculous in executing this particular one - and that because that was on the campaign trail, it is fair game for comment.

A hotel threatening something and someone tore down a poster = Dictatorship

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Exemplifying the MAGA problem with women, there was yet another polling incident, this time in Orangeburg, SC.

A Trumper tried to vote with a political hat on and was refused by election workers (all women), because of course he was: it's against the law in edit: many states, to solicit within a polling place.

So how does he respond? By physically attacking the election workers, calling at least one of them a "f*cking b*tch!"

https://www.mediaite.com/news/you-fking-bitch-trump-fan-caught-on-tape-starting-fight-with-poll-workers-over-his-trump-hat/

POLL WORKER: You’re not gonna be able to–.

(CROSSTALK)

TRUMP FAN: You **** bitch!

CAMERA PERSON: Oh wow!

(CROSSTALK)

Sir, listen, don’t cuss at me–.

TRUMP FAN: This is my motherfuckin’ right right here!

POLL WORKER: (INAUDIBLE).

TRUMP FAN: A’ight then shut the hell up and let me vote!

POLL WORKER: We ain’t got nothing else to say! We cannot serve you! We’re gonna move on.

TRUMP FAN: (THROWS HAT) There it is right there!

POLL WORKER: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

TRUMP FAN: (GABS POLL WORKER’S HANDS – SHE RECOILS).

POLL WORKER: Don’t do that!

CAMERA PERSON: My God. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.

(TRUMP FAN ADVANCES — POLL WORKERS RESTRAIN TRUMP FAN).

POLL WORKER: TAKE HIM OUTSIDE!

He really brought this on himself. It's not uncommon for people to inadvertently go to vote with improper attire - heck I've done it, in 2016 I was told I couldn't wear a Bernie Sanders pin when I voted in the primary. But also I was a f*cking adult about it and took off the button, I didn't accost election workers and shout this is muh rights and scream obscenities at them. There's even a viral image going around this week of a MAGA voting woman who chose to take her shirt off and vote in her undergarments instead of go home and change when she was told she couldn't vote while breaking the law against political attire - not the choice I would have made, but to her credit, she didn't assault election workers just enforcing election law.

SLED says it's investigating. Apparently they haven't found the man yet to arrest him.

This comes at a poor time for the Trump campaign: Nikki Haley was just making the case the other night that the MSG rally was turning off women because of how overly male/machismo/bro-culture it was, including some really weird moments like Tucker Carlson calling for Daddy to come home and spank people etc.; it's not a good look that his supporters are engaged in violent misogyny. Just yesterday an 18 year old male was arrested after he waved a machete at 2 women showing support for Harris.