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All the left has to do to prevent the rise of the right is ensure that its citizens are treated well and have access to a good quality of life
Something impossible for them to do
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I don't get the Puerto Rico thing at all. It was one joke in a set where they could've picked any joke to blow up into "a thing." But they picked the one about a territory that cannot vote. The Puerto Ricans in the US? Know it's a funny, true joke, and that's why they left. The ones making a big deal about it? Braindead leftists that already hate trump, or celebrities that are part of the machine.
Where's the outrage over blacks carving watermelons, Jews being stingy, Democrats talking like fags? Puerto Rico, really? It must have been the easiest to clip. And I guess it's working.
Where's the outrage over blacks carving watermelons, Jews being stingy, Democrats talking like fags? Puerto Rico, really? It must have been the easiest to clip. And I guess it's working.
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The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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Trump used a sapphire crystal or something to redirect all the TDS to Kill Tony guy. Everyone will be completely fine on election day with trump winning as long as he makes that racist jerk pay!
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Wouldn't it be funny if just as many people tuned in only to see how bad it goes?
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Welcome to the final, pre-election edition of Whitepill Weekday, with your host, Diana Moon Glampers.
So Jeff Bezos has noticed that people don't trust the media, and he's decided the WaPo won't endorse a candidate. Whoop dee doo. What still hasn't changed is that the media moves in absolute lockstep when they are ordered to by the Democrats.
We all saw, when Kamala was un-democratically elevated to the position of Democratic nominee, how the mainstream media seemed to all do a 180 on a woman they'd previously slammed. Suddenly everyone was "coconut-pilled." We saw "brat." We saw the use of "weird." The media has been the ultimate NPC, uncritically repeating each new bite-size phrase the Democratic apparatus thought would work best that week.
This week, the Harris/Walz campaign has done something absolutely batshit, and it really shows how desperate they've become. They've taken themselves completely out of the news media. Oh, sure, Kamala's still campaigning and repeating the stump speech...but because it's the same canned speech, no one's airing clips. The media is under orders to make her nearly invisible and simply focus on Trump.
Enter the rally.
Before Trump's MSG rally even took place, the mainstream media had already decided it was a Nazi rally. The NYT had a whole story on how MSG had held any political events in the past (including the famous "happy birthday, Mr. President" Marilyn Monroe/JFK moment, and big FDR speeches), but they only used photos of the Nazi rally and kept a big ominous shadow over the whole piece.
The Harris/Walz campaign had pre-determined that something during this rally would become the "See? See? WE TOLD YOU they were Nazis!" moment that they could use for the dwindling time remaining in the campaign. They already knew they'd pick something, they just didn't know what.
Except...Trump didn't really say anything they could latch onto. You know he didn't, because if he had, that would have been the topic of conversation on everyone's lips. Instead, they attacked...the insult comic. About his Puerto Rican joke. Suddenly it's "hey did you know there are totally all these Puerto Ricans in Pennsylvania, a swing state?" and "Latinos mad at Trump" headlines.
I can never tell how much of Trump is instinct and how much is calculation, but there was a stroke of mad genius in having Trump refrain from saying anything particularly racially insensitive during a moment when the entire media was ready to strike back at the "Nazi" rally. But knowing full well they would pounce, he put a comedian up to say some outrageous things that would attract all the attention, and kept the insults to a demographic that votes incredibly solidly D every time.
For days now, the media has been running on this MSG Puerto Rico joke. They're all out of ideas, because they haven't been allowed to cover the hecklers and consistent problems at Kamala's campaign stops. They haven't been allowed to say anything about the poll trends, only that they're statistically tied. They haven't been allowed to ask any questions of Kamala about the accusations against her husband (that he hits women and had an affair with the nanny).
All they've said about Kamala, for the last week, has been that she will deliver her "closing argument" (a reference to her time as a prosecutor) at the Ellipse in DC, the site of Trump's Jan. 6 speech. But even the site she's chosen makes it obvious that her entire argument will be "Orange Hitler." Note that yet again, the entire media has uncritically adopted the language of the Harris campaign ("closing argument").
According to USA Today...
A bigger reversal you never did see. Literally going to the place where your opponent gave a controversial speech that you've been unable to get over for years (followed by his supporters being jailed as political prisoners) to talk about how Trump is Hitler...that's the party that's "delivering for the American people," and the Republicans are the ones steeped in grievances and retribution?
Well, no one ever said reporters weren't chumps.
Here's the pattern I've seen with Kamala speeches/rallies, though, and it's one to watch for in this final week of campaigning and coverage. The media plays up Kamala's speeches before she gives them...and then says absolutely nothing about the speech in the aftermath. You can see this in the coverage of the infamous Beyonce rally, where the headlines were about Beyonce, not Harris. Every speech she's given is covered afterward by reporters basically saying "she appeared."
Since they're mouthing the party line on everything, it's hard to believe this is the press bravely standing up against the DNC. What's actually going on here? It seems like Kamala's campaign may want this kind of non-coverage. They want people knowing she's visiting all these swing states, but not what was said or anything about policy.
Speaking of policy, after all this time, Kamala's still flailing for some. It's interesting that if you do a Google News search for strings like "Kamala Harris rally" you'll get a huge majority of results that are from the very recent past (this is an intended bias for Google News searches, since it's news). Search for "Kamala Harris policy" and you mostly get stuff from two weeks to a month ago, usually referencing the policy page on her website being released. This isn't just an issue with the search algorithm: "Trump policy" brings up almost exclusively stories from the last 72 hours.
Kamala Harris is the ultimate empty suit. All the headlines about her right now are about how she will deliver this big speech, but when she delivers her "closing argument," you'll likely see that the headlines are about something other than the content of that speech. There is a zero percent chance the headlines will be about anything relating to policy actions, even though the main thrust of her speech is that the Democrats are (hold your laughter, please) the "get things done" party.
Americans don't like empty suits from California telling them what to do. Men don't like her telling them how to be a man. There she was, sitting with Gretchen Whitmer, two rapidly aging gals talking about how to get men to love them. Neither of them had a man there to talk to, of course. These are people who want to sit at a bar and talk about the voters as hypothetical little building blocks of coalitions, instead of sitting with the people and listening to them.
You can see this in every place Kamala stops to try to introduce herself to the little people...she's uncomfortable, and when other people are speaking, she is not actively listening and responding. She's just waiting for her turn to speak her sound bite. Her answer wouldn't be changed in the slightest by anything any of these people say to her. We call her supporters NPCs sometimes, but Harris clearly views them that way, too. If she could, she'd skip all the cutscenes and the dumb NPC dialogue where real Americans try to converse with her, and go right to the part where she's making speeches.
Well, not everyone's cut out for campaigning. In a few weeks, she'll be cussing out her staff for mislabeling her moving boxes for the long journey back to California, sad but also secretly relieved that it's all over.
One more week until destiny.
Keep your eyes on the prize, and just a reminder for those of you who plan to vote on Election Day: familiarize yourself with your downballot candidates as well! Don't just mindlessly fill it out for Republicans (many of these are RINOs anyway) or leave parts blank. There is more information on local races available now than at any time in history. Vote for your school board. Vote for dog catcher. Whatever's on that ballot, mark it as an informed citizen, not just a party flak.
That about wraps it up for your whitepill updates from your handicapper general. I've so enjoyed coming here and sharing these nuggets of optimism with all of you. It's been an incredible campaign season (the most memorable in my lifetime) and perhaps the real winners are the friends we made along the way. Get to the polls, and God bless America.
So Jeff Bezos has noticed that people don't trust the media, and he's decided the WaPo won't endorse a candidate. Whoop dee doo. What still hasn't changed is that the media moves in absolute lockstep when they are ordered to by the Democrats.
We all saw, when Kamala was un-democratically elevated to the position of Democratic nominee, how the mainstream media seemed to all do a 180 on a woman they'd previously slammed. Suddenly everyone was "coconut-pilled." We saw "brat." We saw the use of "weird." The media has been the ultimate NPC, uncritically repeating each new bite-size phrase the Democratic apparatus thought would work best that week.
This week, the Harris/Walz campaign has done something absolutely batshit, and it really shows how desperate they've become. They've taken themselves completely out of the news media. Oh, sure, Kamala's still campaigning and repeating the stump speech...but because it's the same canned speech, no one's airing clips. The media is under orders to make her nearly invisible and simply focus on Trump.
Enter the rally.
Before Trump's MSG rally even took place, the mainstream media had already decided it was a Nazi rally. The NYT had a whole story on how MSG had held any political events in the past (including the famous "happy birthday, Mr. President" Marilyn Monroe/JFK moment, and big FDR speeches), but they only used photos of the Nazi rally and kept a big ominous shadow over the whole piece.
The Harris/Walz campaign had pre-determined that something during this rally would become the "See? See? WE TOLD YOU they were Nazis!" moment that they could use for the dwindling time remaining in the campaign. They already knew they'd pick something, they just didn't know what.
Except...Trump didn't really say anything they could latch onto. You know he didn't, because if he had, that would have been the topic of conversation on everyone's lips. Instead, they attacked...the insult comic. About his Puerto Rican joke. Suddenly it's "hey did you know there are totally all these Puerto Ricans in Pennsylvania, a swing state?" and "Latinos mad at Trump" headlines.
I can never tell how much of Trump is instinct and how much is calculation, but there was a stroke of mad genius in having Trump refrain from saying anything particularly racially insensitive during a moment when the entire media was ready to strike back at the "Nazi" rally. But knowing full well they would pounce, he put a comedian up to say some outrageous things that would attract all the attention, and kept the insults to a demographic that votes incredibly solidly D every time.
For days now, the media has been running on this MSG Puerto Rico joke. They're all out of ideas, because they haven't been allowed to cover the hecklers and consistent problems at Kamala's campaign stops. They haven't been allowed to say anything about the poll trends, only that they're statistically tied. They haven't been allowed to ask any questions of Kamala about the accusations against her husband (that he hits women and had an affair with the nanny).
All they've said about Kamala, for the last week, has been that she will deliver her "closing argument" (a reference to her time as a prosecutor) at the Ellipse in DC, the site of Trump's Jan. 6 speech. But even the site she's chosen makes it obvious that her entire argument will be "Orange Hitler." Note that yet again, the entire media has uncritically adopted the language of the Harris campaign ("closing argument").
According to USA Today...
A bigger reversal you never did see. Literally going to the place where your opponent gave a controversial speech that you've been unable to get over for years (followed by his supporters being jailed as political prisoners) to talk about how Trump is Hitler...that's the party that's "delivering for the American people," and the Republicans are the ones steeped in grievances and retribution?
Well, no one ever said reporters weren't chumps.
Here's the pattern I've seen with Kamala speeches/rallies, though, and it's one to watch for in this final week of campaigning and coverage. The media plays up Kamala's speeches before she gives them...and then says absolutely nothing about the speech in the aftermath. You can see this in the coverage of the infamous Beyonce rally, where the headlines were about Beyonce, not Harris. Every speech she's given is covered afterward by reporters basically saying "she appeared."
Since they're mouthing the party line on everything, it's hard to believe this is the press bravely standing up against the DNC. What's actually going on here? It seems like Kamala's campaign may want this kind of non-coverage. They want people knowing she's visiting all these swing states, but not what was said or anything about policy.
Speaking of policy, after all this time, Kamala's still flailing for some. It's interesting that if you do a Google News search for strings like "Kamala Harris rally" you'll get a huge majority of results that are from the very recent past (this is an intended bias for Google News searches, since it's news). Search for "Kamala Harris policy" and you mostly get stuff from two weeks to a month ago, usually referencing the policy page on her website being released. This isn't just an issue with the search algorithm: "Trump policy" brings up almost exclusively stories from the last 72 hours.
Kamala Harris is the ultimate empty suit. All the headlines about her right now are about how she will deliver this big speech, but when she delivers her "closing argument," you'll likely see that the headlines are about something other than the content of that speech. There is a zero percent chance the headlines will be about anything relating to policy actions, even though the main thrust of her speech is that the Democrats are (hold your laughter, please) the "get things done" party.
Americans don't like empty suits from California telling them what to do. Men don't like her telling them how to be a man. There she was, sitting with Gretchen Whitmer, two rapidly aging gals talking about how to get men to love them. Neither of them had a man there to talk to, of course. These are people who want to sit at a bar and talk about the voters as hypothetical little building blocks of coalitions, instead of sitting with the people and listening to them.
You can see this in every place Kamala stops to try to introduce herself to the little people...she's uncomfortable, and when other people are speaking, she is not actively listening and responding. She's just waiting for her turn to speak her sound bite. Her answer wouldn't be changed in the slightest by anything any of these people say to her. We call her supporters NPCs sometimes, but Harris clearly views them that way, too. If she could, she'd skip all the cutscenes and the dumb NPC dialogue where real Americans try to converse with her, and go right to the part where she's making speeches.
Well, not everyone's cut out for campaigning. In a few weeks, she'll be cussing out her staff for mislabeling her moving boxes for the long journey back to California, sad but also secretly relieved that it's all over.
One more week until destiny.
Keep your eyes on the prize, and just a reminder for those of you who plan to vote on Election Day: familiarize yourself with your downballot candidates as well! Don't just mindlessly fill it out for Republicans (many of these are RINOs anyway) or leave parts blank. There is more information on local races available now than at any time in history. Vote for your school board. Vote for dog catcher. Whatever's on that ballot, mark it as an informed citizen, not just a party flak.
That about wraps it up for your whitepill updates from your handicapper general. I've so enjoyed coming here and sharing these nuggets of optimism with all of you. It's been an incredible campaign season (the most memorable in my lifetime) and perhaps the real winners are the friends we made along the way. Get to the polls, and God bless America.
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Honestly the watermelon joke was worse. I guess Puerto Rico thing is making rounds because the joke is so DIRECT. Or latino loves making anchor babies.
It was just super offensive and they latched onto the lamest joke.
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I think it's because it's different and unique and because Trump is surging with Latinos and Hispanics
If they latched onto a joke about black people the general population wouldn't care because it's cliche, but no one talks about Puerto Ricans
They're trying to make it so if you mention Puerto Rico you think Trump
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A lot of Trump's viewership was likely the same thing.
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Last minute desperation.
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Bannon was released from prison this morning, Jinbe has returned:
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I think that Joe Rogan wants to see if Kamala Harris can behave like a normal human being, and show that to the world. He famously said of his podcast with Alex Jones that he wanted the world to see Alex the way that he sees him, which is a guy who is fun to hang out with and talk to. Joe deserves credit for not compromising on his conversational style of podcast and Harris is a complete and utter fool if she does not do this podcast.
My guess is that she has consultants for analysts representing PR firms backed by unmarried cat-lady law firms telling her that going on Joe Rogan is a bad idea because Rogan is an evil no-see-um.
This is why most people would watch, but there is always a chance that Harris shows up and actually behaves like a normal person and not some autistic lizard in a human suit.
I honestly forgot about that attack line. A few weeks really is a few decades in political lifespan, eh?
Thank you for your excellent whitepill writeups as always, Diana. You are the hero we deserve.
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For the sake of argument, I see this as less of a conspiracy and more... Google just sucks.
They are doing so many hidden operations between me clicking "search" and them showing the answer, that the results are a garbled mess. Over two years ago I noticed that if you type "Nintendo" into YouTube search, most of the time their channel is buried on page two while every gaming channel gets promoted above the primary source.
This method of prioritization is why you can't look things up anymore. And then to top it off the results are also inconsistent... but inconsistently bad.
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Trump set to deliver remarks shortly. Probably a brief apology for that one comedian making fun of job-stealing, murderous, super saiyan-loving wetbacks.
https://www.youtube.com/live/SzCXNgwgw0w
(I have no idea how to link a livestream.)
https://www.youtube.com/live/SzCXNgwgw0w
(I have no idea how to link a livestream.)
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There was a nazi rally in the same in 1939. So they want to spit out as a gotcha moment of historical irony or something
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Link, archive, screenshot, file it with NARA, and get it registered as a UNESCO Heritage Site or you will be threadbanned.
This is a good-natured joke.
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It should be noted that these votes from people registered with political parties not how people actually voted, so it shows that among the voters in Michigan for example 48% of them are democrats, not that they voted democrat.
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