He ate Ohio

He’s better at some times and not others, though. He wasn’t this bad at the debates.

He kept saying that Biden must be in drugs to stay awake, it makes me wonder what kind of amphetamines Trump is taking.

He should have walked away

Oppression and autocracy that she partially enabled by thinking she could phone in her victory. She should just go away. Nobody wants to hear from her anymore.

Well, there was no physical torture in that Congressional hearing, but that might only have been because of the cameras.

The Restauraunt at the End of the Country

When I heard he said “hide your head in a bag” my mind immediately went to those awful photos from Abu Ghraib. Sure enough, Wikipedia has that one picture front and center on its page about the prisoner abuse:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse

It wouldn’t surprise me if that what this poor excuse for a human had in mind, too.

Um, ackshually, as the elected sheriff, I bet that oath he swore doesn’t have the word “citizens” in it at all, and he’s supposed to be protecting all the humans in his county, whether or not they are citizens.

He responded to an anti-democratic conspiracy with a sternly worded letter. Are we sure he’s not a closet Democrat?

I’ve already accepted the fact that Kamala Harris will never be President of Lemmy

I will laugh so hard if they go through all this trouble to ratfuck GA, only to see Dems take NC (or even FL) and make GA meaningless.

But there isn’t a single election, there are 51 separate elections, whose results are combined in a way which gives Republicans an advantage. I will continue to maintain the election will be close until Harris starts to pull even in states like Florida and Texas. Even if she doesn’t win those, if those states are closer to even that’s an indication that Harris ought to win all the toss-up states.

But unless that happens, I will assume that the election is a toss-up. And not just the election itself, but also the post-gane show of certification.

Most states (maybe even all of them by now) offer a non-driver ID, which has just as much validity as ID as a drivers license, but isn’t valid for driving.

All that ID does is prove residence, though, it doesn’t prove citizenship. Most first-time applicants will also have to submit a birth certificate or other document proving citizenship. The USA has no other national document that proves citizenship. This service is for passport renewals, presumably the first time you apply for a passport you will still need to show up in person, with your documents.

You know how Donald Trump likes to use aliases to talk to the media? Well, it turns out “Lil’ Pump” is Melania’s pet name for her husband, so he just went with it.

He didn’t call the Europeans “backwoods countries”. He called those other places that. He specifically says that European countries should be more like us, for all the white right reasons…

From the article:

Why does Hezbollah use pagers?

Hezbollah has relied heavily on pagers as a low-tech means of communications to try to evade location-tracking by Israel.

NYT says this switch to pagers has been recent, after the Oct 7 attacks last year, when Hezbollah suspected that Israel was spying on the cell network, and using it to locate targets for strikes. So all these pagers got distributed to Hezbollah-affiliated people in short order . This system doesn’t use commercial networks, and has been called a “closed” network by the NYT.

If all that is true, then that means anyone with one of these closed-network pagers got it from being involved with Hezbollah in the first place.

It was, until the mods got rid of it

(Nvm, it is still there, I forgot I blocked the loser)

NYT has a link up which it claims has been verified. It is a video of someone at a market who had one of these in their messenger bag. The video shows a decent size explosion, which blew a big hole in the bag and knocked the guy to the ground.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09/17/world/israel-hamas-war-news/44771255-fd1d-5028-8228-aff0ca5b8139

I doubt you could make an explosion that big with a AA battery. They must have planted the stuff in some massive supply chain hack.

Trump may have a hard ceiling of “likely voters”, but my fear is that there are a lot of unlikely/“low information” voters that are backing Trump.

They are simply not paying attention to anything but their paycheck, which is not rising as fast as prices are. They remember all the chaos of the Trump Presidency, but also remember when they could afford rent.

The same thing happened in 2020. I keep reminding people that 12 million more people voted for Trump in 2020 than 2016. Those people looked at all the chaos of the Trump Presidency and said “Yup! We need more of that”, after not caring 4 years prior.

Polls don’t matter, votes do. And thanks to the EC, votes in certain zip codes are more impactful than others. Harris not only needs to get good turnout, but get good turnout in the right zip codes to win this.