#weird donald

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At least right now, I'd have to say that weird is the favorite for Word of the Year for 2024.

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Trump probably can't win the presidential election without North Carolina. 🤔💡

It would be difficult though not out of the question for Kamala Harris to win without Pennsylvania. But it would be close to impossible for Donald Trump to win without taking North Carolina.

If Trump loses North Carolina, it could be an early night — and curtains for GOP

Democrats hope that momentum determines the presidential winner and even changes the contours of election night. North Carolina polls close early, at 7:30 p.m. Moreover, state law allows processing of mail-in votes well before Election Day, making an early count possible. (Some states, including Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, cannot start processing until Election Day, which could result in delays of several days before a winner is determined.) Should Harris win North Carolina’s 16 electoral votes, Trump’s chances of victory diminish greatly. He would need a virtual sweep of other battleground states (and likely all of the blue-wall states).

A quick reminder that North Carolina was the state which gave Trump his narrowest victory in 2020. It was won in 2008 by Barack Obama. So we're not exactly talking Tennessee or Idaho here.

An early-evening victory in a state Democrats have not won for 16 years would reverberate through the country, potentially depressing GOP turnout in Western states and diminishing the appetite for stunts to refuse certification of results in states such as Arizona and Georgia (which would not be determinative if Harris holds the blue wall and wins North Carolina).

Republicans are more likely to vote on Election Day than Democrats who have adopted early voting in greater numbers than Republicans. So an early call for Harris-Walz in North Carolina on the night of the election would more likely depress Republican votes in the Western US.

One thing which may negatively affect Trump in the state is the awful Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina.

[T]he North Carolina governor’s race might have a “reverse coattails” effect. The Republican nominee, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, is an extremist conspiracy nut, a “fount of social media conspiracy theories and vile proclamations about the LGBT community, Jews, and other minority group,” the Daily Beast noted this year. From Holocaust denial to thundering that “some folks need killing” to his support for an abortion ban from “zero weeks,” he symbolizes everything wrong with today’s MAGA Republican Party. Robinson’s Democratic opponent, Josh Stein, the state attorney general, has opened a 10-point lead. If Democrats tie Robinson (a Trump favorite) to Trump, voters might run from both. At the very least, Republicans could suffer a drop in turnout as disgusted North Carolinians simply stay home.

A better than average turnout of Dems in NC would help flip the state. If you live just over the border in deep red South Carolina or Tennessee then consider doing some volunteer work in North Carolina. It could have an impact which extends far beyond the Tar Heel State.

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Trump is certainly impaired and unfit.

Donald Trump's 'Cognitive Decline' Is Clear: Mary Trump

He's clearly hiding something.

Trump refuses to release medical records as concerns about him being the oldest possible president grow

What happened to all those Republicans who claimed Biden was too old?

Trump says he'd hire a CEO his age. Only a handful of top chief executives are older.

He couldn't even finish a puff piece interview at his own place with a MAGA fanboy.

‘Exhausted’ Trump Can’t Make It Through Interview in His Home

Trump keeps cancelling public appearances. He actually stiffed the NRA.

Trump Abruptly Cancels Two Big Speeches in Sign of How Bad He’s Doing

Remember how Trump went into the first debate in 2020 even though he tested positive for COVID-19?

President best known for lying may have lied about Covid-19 status before first presidential debate in 2020

Trump is a sick puppy – in more ways than one.

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The Phantom Menace.

There should be pushback to anybody telling you that wasting a vote on Jill Stein is a good idea.

If people who foolishly voted for Jill Stein in three states in 2016 had instead voted for Hillary Clinton, Trump would never have been president and Roe v. Wade would still be the law of the land.

Jill Stein is a creature of Putin. She was a nobody in 2015 who somehow sat at Putin's table at anniversary celebrations for RT.

One thing worse than being a dupe is being the dupe of a dupe.

And voting for Jill Stein makes you a loser as well as a dupe. The last time a non-Democrat or non-Republican won the presidency was in 1848. Don't expect that streak to end this year.

The odds of winning the Jackpot prize in the Powerball lottery are 1 : 292,201,338. Those are excellent odds compared to the likelihood of a Jill Stein victory in 2024.

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace gave us Jar Jar Binks. Vladimir Putin gave us Jill Jill Stinks and ultimately Dozy Donny.

The ONLY way to defeat Donald Trump is to vote for Kamala Harris. Voting for Jill Stein or not voting at all would be tantamount to support for Trump.

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Donald Trump keeps going out of his way to prove his mental and intellectual unfitness for the nation's highest office.

Dancing Donald Trump Is Clearly in a Steep Decline

Imagine the volcanic eruption of the MAGA world and its media vassals if Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, or Barack Obama had publicly tuned out of reality in public for 38 minutes.

Republicans trying to save their skins are pretending not to notice Trump's obvious decline.

And it's not just Trump zoning out on music in Pennsylvania.

Somebody acting like this would not be welcome in your house – never mind the White House.

Another public appearance confirms that Trump is an unstable mess

There are just 20 days until Election Day. Ask the apolitical and undecided people you know whether you want somebody like this with his finger on the nuclear button.

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To assist the perplexed, here are some facts about Kamala Harris.

She is NOT an adjudicated sex offender.

She's been convicted of 34 fewer felonies than her GOP opponent.

She never had a phony bone spur.

She is not a pawn of foreign autocrats.

She has never been impeached or recalled.

She isn't threatening to be a dictator.

She has always been faithful to her oath of office.

People who are claiming that they "don't know enough" about Kamala tend to be closet Trumpsters who are desperately trying to dredge up some socially acceptable excuse to justify voting for Weird Donald. Call out such people if you hear them saying that around others.

We know plenty about Donald Trump. And it's mostly repulsive and un-American.

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The media double standard which overlooks Trump's deteriorating mental state. (from PBS Washington Week - 8/30/24)

JEFFREY GOLDBERG (host and editor of The Atlantic): Here's the thing. I'll make this observation. I'll own it. If Kamala Harris went from bacon to wind in her interview with Dana Bash, she would, this morning, not be -- the next morning, she would not be the nominee of the Democratic Party. That would have been a very, very strange -- people would have been like, what is going on? Do we just have an absurdly low standard now for the things that Donald Trump says and does? DOMENICO MONTANARO (panelist and senior political correspondent at NPR): I think that there is definitely a double standard, and I think part of it is how each side's voters interpret their candidate. And someone like Donald Trump, Republicans have had the opportunity for years to say this is not the guy we want. Instead, they've continued to get behind him. In every primary that Donald Trump weighs in on, he wins, and then the general election a lot of those candidates tend to lose. I think that from reporter's standpoint, we do have to be careful about how we -- what level we hold both of them to. When I fact-checked Donald Trump's hour press conference, he told 162 lies and distortions within that time period, 2.5 a minute, compared to Kamala Harris' DNC acceptance speech, where she had 12 statements that I found were contextually misleading or needed more.

Here's the entire episode.

The media has mostly shrugged off Weird Donald's unhinged rantings as Trump being Trump while holding Democrats to a higher standard.

We need to be more vocal about the double standard. When Trump has another crazed rant about sharks, windmills, electric batteries, and bacon which gets brushed off by a media provider, ask that provider: What would you be saying if a prominent Democrat conducted a similar unhinged rant?

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« [F]rom the very first exchange she maintained the initiative, kept Trump on the defensive the entire time and simply dominated him. I don’t see any way to contest that basic verdict.

She set a tone at the very start when she walked right into his space to shake his hand and made him almost pull back into himself in response. She was in charge and never stopped being in charge. »

— Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo (TPM) on Kamala Harris's debate victory over Trump.

Even Fox News knows it's impossible to deny that Trump did badly in the debate. Sad!

Even Fox News Acknowledges Reality: Trump Blew the Debate

One problem for Republicans is that Trump just doesn't know how to act presidential.

He's trapped himself in the shtick of being a reality-averse populist reality show performer who thinks that making up increasingly outrageous lies will always work for him.

And even if Trump wanted to change, he can't because he's too narcissistic and lazy to put in the effort. He fires associates when his flaws trip him up but the firings do him no good because his flaws remain.