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02:09
@Jolenealaska 🙄
She worked for Bush.
Too.
That I knew
He actually had a few good lines pointing out just how crazy Trump was behaving. Definitely disappointing
Of course he would be endorsing toxic masculinity. Were we thinking otherwise?
This man has no ideology. Last time he was supporting Bernie.
@Jolenealaska This was all nonsense all along.
A whole lot of low information voter types follow charisma and think that everybody he's agreeing with because they're charismatic are saying the same thing. One of my last attempts to rehabilitate a trump voter loved Trump because he makes him feel just like JFK did.
02:17
Wow. As I said, they live in a different reality conjured up by these morons.
02:29
This is highly relevant to understand the appeal of MAGA in light of toxic masculinity:
> [O]ur notions of gender are much more complex and nuanced now. We are not limited to binaries: men vs. women, straight vs. gay, masculine vs. feminine. In fact, one of the driving forces behind right-wing populism and authoritarianism is that it’s a reaction to the breakdown of these binaries and the social changes that have resulted.
> Many people want simple solutions from what they believe were simpler times. For a certain percentage of white men, supporting MAGA — on an emotional level — means supporting a return to "traditional" values and social norms, where the world made sense because straight white men were firmly in charge.
> It’s important to see MAGA as more than a political phenomenon. MAGA is also a social movement that gives people a sense of meaning and purpose and a powerful feeling of camaraderie and community. Many men who are drawn to Trumpworld feel validated and supported as if they still matter in an era of feminist-inspired social change. In fact, if you listen to the rhetoric on the right, they’re being called to save the country!
> For white evangelical Christians, there’s the added appeal that they’re fulfilling a Biblical mandate to reassert their authority — especially in the family. Trump might be a deeply flawed person, but he’s the blunt instrument that’s going to return them to lost glory.
> This notion of a "crisis in masculinity" is a recurring theme in American history. It turns up almost every time there's a major shift in the economy or a powerful women’s movement that challenges traditional patriarchal power. These developments unsettle traditional ideas about gender and power — and millions of men find themselves searching for some sort of stable identity as men
> Unfortunately, right-wing voices in media and politics continue to push them to respond by doubling down on traditional expressions of masculinity — which is tragic because some aspects of traditional masculinity — like the idea that “real men” can’t acknowledge vulnerability and just have to “suck it up” — have contributed to many of their problems in the first place!
> Trump rose to political power because he correctly intuited that people would respond to the image he had created of himself as a tough guy businessman who was a counterpuncher; when he was hit, he’d hit back harder. That’s the way he channeled the many resentments of white men — and many of the white women adjacent to them as well.
> MAGA people and other followers see something very different. They see an antihero who’s sticking it to the smug elites. Or they see a heroic tough guy who’s standing up for them, who responded to an assassination attempt with a cry of ‘fight, fight, fight!”
03:23
> On a Nov. 1 radio interview on far-right Christian preacher Jesse Lee Peterson’s The Fallen State, White, who also said he believes women “have become too mouthy,” declared that marrying “an educated woman, statistically, would probably not be a good idea.”
> “Do you agree with that?” Peterson, who has called women’s suffrage “one of the greatest mistakes America made,” asked.
> “That educated women don’t make for good wives and mothers? You mean in the traditional sense, like educated in school?” Royce said in response.
> “Yeah because, you know, if you go to the church, then that’s a form of education as well,” he said.

Peterson then went further by saying of women who attend church: “You shouldn’t marry one of those, either.” But White didn’t go along with that.
03:51
> The Blue Wall governors are rallying for Harris in Pennsylvania. From the stage set at the iconic “Rocky Steps” at the Philadelphia Museum of the Arts, Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro invoked the city’s legacy as the birthplace of American democracy.

“248 years ago, it was here in Philly just down the street that we declared our independence from a king, and hear me on this. We are not going back to a king in this country,” Shapiro said in a rousing speech.

“Big Gretch is calling on you to get out and vote,” Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer told voters in a speech from Detroit, Mic
04:32
> Two days before the United States announces its presidential election results, a quiet Tamil Nadu village is observing the run-up with subdued interest. Thulasendrapuram, known as Kamala Harris’s ancestral village, lacks the grandeur seen during her previous campaigns — yet there is a subtle curiosity about her potential win.
05:01
> “It is TERMINALLY ONLINE to think that the fate of a squirrel microcelebrity would turn even a single vote, much less swing the election, as thousands of far-right influencers now seem to believe,” Emerson T. Brooking, director of strategy and a senior resident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, posted. But he’ll be eating his words when write-ins of “Peanut” win by a landslide. An Instagram-famous squirrel posthumously elected president? Now that’s unprecedented.
06:23
> The FiveThirtyEight founder ran 80,000 simulations of the upcoming election: In them, Harris won just over 50% of the time. Trump won just under 50%. And the simulations found an exact Electoral College tie 270 of those times.
> The election was stolen due to voter fraud
Noncitizens are voting in large numbers
Votes were added/subtracted due to the "hacking" of machines
Changing vote totals prove cheating occurred
Partisan election officials skew vote tallies
There were more votes than registered voters
Trump is still rambling at his Michigan rally.
> As the clock ticked past 1am in Grand Rapids, the crowd at this final Trump rally began to thin. He’s been talking for over an hour now.
07:00
It's almost 2 am. Trump's family (sans Ivanka, Melania) members are speaking now.
> [Lara Trump] says “we send a loud and clear message” to “the mainstream media” and “the swamp” among other people “that it is we who get to choose the president”.

She says it has been “a very special night for our family”, adding “it has been my honour to be a part of this family, to be out speaking on behalf of a man whom I love … who is going to save this country and is going to save the world.”
> Trump appears to be winding up and is talking about his “favourite word: tariff!” and repeats his threat to put “large scale” tariffs on goods coming from Mexico and Canada if they don’t prevent fentanyl made by China coming into the US.

He then makes even more imflammatory comments about immigration claiming, without any evidence that “Crime is plummeting all over the world” because they’re sending their “criminals”, “mental patients”, “prison populations” and others to the US.

He also talks again about putting a missile shield around the US.
🤯
07:20
> And as the clock approaches 2.10am in Michigan, Trump has finally ended his final rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan
08:16
@User1865345 How should we interpret this?
08:48
> The six residents of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, have made their votes for president of the United States known. And it turns out they are just as hopelessly divided as the rest of the country.
> In 2020, Joe Biden received five voters to Trump’s zero and in 2016, Hillary Clinton beat Trump four to two (with Gary Johnson and Mitt Romney each getting one vote). The last time the tiny township–which was memorably fictionalized as “Hartsfield’s Landing” on an episode of The West Wing–tied was in 2012 when Barack Obama and Romney each got five votes.
09:12
@User1865345 Note that Obama won the 2012 elections in a landslide
09:23
I think you can't infer anything from this. It's too small. It never has a pattern.
It doesn't represent the demographic of America, in fact. Just a symbolism.
 
1 hour later…
10:40
did... Did the guy who shot Bin Laden just say he wants boy sex slaves?
Dude is pretty controversial. But he openly supports Trump.
As for Osama's shooter claim:
> According to The Intercept's interview of a former SEAL Team 6 member, when O'Neill arrived at the terrorist leader, bin Laden was already "bleeding out on the floor, possibly already dead, after being shot in the chest and leg by the lead assaulter on the raid."
> According to another SEAL, O'Neill merely walked over to the immobile al-Qaeda leader and shot him twice in the head. The Intercept said that both O'Neill's and Bissonnette's accountings of the mission "contain multiple self-serving falsehoods."
- Wikipedia
> On November 3, 2024, O'Neill faced widespread ridicule and criticism on social media after tweeting, "You’re not men. You’re boys. If there were no social media, you would be my concubines", and then shortly after "I wanted to re-post this for the communists who missed it", in response to a group of young men who had shared their vote for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.[
@Nzall my god. He tweeted more:
> I wanted to re-post this for the communists who missed it…
> Oh, Puddin!! You’re so sweet…
> Some users online made an effort to have a community note added to the tweet. As noted in a screenshot, the word O’Neill may have been looking for is “catamite” — an ancient Greek term that refers to a young boy involved in a relationship with an older man.
@User1865345 Obviously, he will. That's part of his master plan: declare victory early when the Red Mirage is still active and large overwhelmingly Democratic counties are still being counted, and do lawsuits etc to stop the count
Exactly.
A reminder: you're going to see A LOT of ratfucking regarding the election: Trump declaring victory while votes are still being counted, MAGA "poll watchers" attempting to interfere with the vote counting, MAGA election officials attempting to ignore their legal duties and not certifying votes, MAGA lawyers filing lawsuits to break stuff, etc
Of course. This is the master plan of MAGA.
> Four swing states – Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – have absentee ballot procedures that can require days to conclude. But if Harris has decisively won the other swing states, it is enough to declare her the victor. Any other result will take time.
Polls in some East Coast states started opening at 6 a.m. ET. The early openers include some locations in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, New Hampshire and Virginia.
11:48
@Nzall in other words, 2020 all over again
@Memor-X already they have started suing.
13:29
> President Joe Biden’s name won’t appear on the ballot Tuesday, but the stakes are high for the 81-year-old president and his legacy as he waits to see whether the country will send his predecessor or chosen successor to the White House next year.
15:33
> I’ve spoken with seven voters so far, and five of them said they voted for Donald Trump.

“He’s strong. When you look at him he’s a strong person. I mean he takes action on what he does. The way he speaks, everything about him. I feel like he’s gonna stand up for our country and make it strong again,” said Stephen Super, a first time voter.
☠️☠️
16:06
> Jessica Mendoza, 35, voted for Trump. “I have two kids and I really just want to see a change for them and a better future,” she said “We’re also Christians so we voted with our morals as well.”
Wow
@User1865345 I'll never understand how anyone can look at Trump and think "Yes, this man represents Christian values"
Absolutely bizarre. But that's the successful brainwashing by televangelist leaders.
@User1865345 A better future? Like what kind of future do you see for them? Dying because of an ectopic pregnancy that can't be aborted? Struggling to pay for groceries that are 50% more expensive because of tariffs? Global thermonuclear war?
> His wife, Beverly Turner, 51, had a more robust way of explaining her vote. “Trump can take his Project 2025 and shove it all the way up his ass.”
To counteract the Trump doom and gloom
18:14
@User1865345 I thought that was illegal, which might explain why it's been deleted
 
2 hours later…
20:33
> Ann Selzer might be right about Iowa after all. It’s now tied going into election day. Women are outvoting men by 10%.
If this continues through today till the end, Kamala Harris will win Iowa.
Huge if true. Trump won Iowa with 8% margin in 2020. If Iowa flips because of women voters, who knows what other states might end up flipping
20:45
It did go for Obama in both of his terms
and it was 10%/8% in 2016/2020 for Trump
21:03
@Nzall abortion could flip it.
@Wipqozn I thought Onion was making things up.
@User1865345 You mean like 2022?
@JoeW I was referring to the pollster who said it was the abortion ban which prompted more women to support Kamala.
> The poll shows that women — particularly those who are older or are politically independent — are driving the late shift toward Harris.
@User1865345 Yep, and just as it prompted more people to vote democrat in the 2022 midterm elections. Not sure why it is shocking that it is happening in 2024 when it happened just two years ago in 2022.
I grew up in Iowa and my family still lives there. Dad and I talked quite a while yesterday about that poll. He's a highly intelligent (BS in physics from Caltech), politically aware lawyer in Des Moines.
His best friend was the Democratic candidate for Governor of Iowa in 2018.
21:18
@JoeW probably because the presidential elections didn't have the knack to replicate that way.
@Jolenealaska wow.
He's not believing the poll.
I had actually kind of forgotten about that but I didn't name drop it for that reason. Just pointing out that my dad runs with Democratic circles and he's not buying the poll.
@Jolenealaska hm.
> Whitney Groenevelt is in an advanced placement federal government and politics class at her Florida high school, and the senior turned 18 in January.

Ahead of her first vote in a presidential election in Broward county, she has been watching “a ton” of politics on television and the internet, and says she is excited to finally be able to take part in a process she has spent years studying.

“I know the way it’s not supposed to work. There’s not supposed to be a convicted felon in office. A convicted felon shouldn’t be able to vote,” she said, referring to Donald Trump’s 34 convictions fr
> Groenevelt, 18, said the preservation of democracy was among the two top election issues for her, the other being women’s health and reproductive rights.

Supporting Kamala Harris, she said, was the right thing to do.

“I watched the debate, and I’ve watched a ton of TV coverage from both left and right to try to get a balanced perspective,” she said.
- excerpt from Guardian
@Jolenealaska tell him about Allan Lichtman.
I just edited the mention of my Dad's friend's gubernatorial run because I'm having a brain fart on his name so I looked up the 2020 race and that's not him. I hope I'm not losing my mind.
21:44
Oh good, I'm not losing my mind. At least not on this issue today. I just called my stepmom and it was 2018 that Fred Hubbell their dear friend ran for governor of Iowa. Possibly other years too, I'm not sure.
So you know how Russia has deployed North Koreans to their illegal war of aggression against Ukraine? Those North Koreans have discovered the wonders of a free and open internet and have been gorging themselves on pornography
Wonder what they are going to tell their comrades when they return home
23:13
And this is why I repeatedly woke up reeking of cold sweat last night:
23:33
If you're doom scrolling anyway, you might as well leave a comment telling people to get off their ass if they haven't already voted and to call (833) 336-8683 if they need a ride
I just called that number (Democratic voter assistance hotline) and got a human being right away who can hook up anyone with a ride

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