Jonathan Posted November 9 Share Posted November 9 (edited) I really wish we were about to put Desantis in the White House. I don't agree with him politically but he's a normal Republican and a damn good politician. I wouldn't fear about America's destruction with him. If he had been the nominee, then we'd been talking 400+ electoral votes. Edited November 9 by Jonathan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sneaky Posted November 9 Share Posted November 9 9 hours ago, Hamza Tufail said: I thank the lineman not the governor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
season1 Posted November 10 Share Posted November 10 (edited) Campaign spending comparison: Full text of post: How is it possible that the @KamalaHarris campaign spent $583 million, nearly $6 million per day, on her campaign staff in her 103-day campaign while @realDonaldTrump’s spending on staff was $10.4 million or $100,970 per day, 1/60th as much (assuming the same 103-day period which should be a highly conservative assumption as the Trump campaign began many months before the Harris campaign). The numbers don’t compute. This smells like fraud and/or corruption. Before the Trump campaign bails out the $20m of unfunded commitments of the Harris campaign, an audit should be done to see where the money went. In any case, I have to believe the donors would want to know where the money went. *** Trump campaign raised 1/3 the amount of funds vs Harris campaign, yet at the end of the campaign, the Trump campaign has cash on hand left, while the Harris campaign is reportedly $20mil in debt. The Trump campaign won while spending 1/4 the amount spent by Harris campaign; money no longer decides elections. Trump staff expenses is 1/60th of the Harris staff (assuming the amounts are for the same 103-day period): Trump staff expenses = $100k/day* Harris staff expenses = $6mil/day! *The staff expenses may be low due to many Trump volunteers all over the country. *** EDIT: Jesse Watters talked about the Harris campaign finances -- If you donated to the Harris campaign fund, you paid for those celebrity endorsements. Edited November 10 by season1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
season1 Posted November 11 Share Posted November 11 Voting demo according to exit polls from AP VoteCast and Fox News Voter Analysis In the previous page, I posted the data for Age/Gender and Race/Gender. Income and Location Education plus Gender *** Trump has the support of the working class and middle class voters Trump gained support in majority of income and education groups; he lost vote share among those earning 6 figures and/or has post grad degrees. Trump gained the most votes among those who didn't go to college, both men and women; his margin of support doubled among non-college men. Though Harris still won the voters earning 25k or less, her vote share decreased by 6 points while Trump's vote share increased by 5 points, resulting in right-ward shift of 11 points. Trump increased his support in all locations Though Harris still won among voters in the urban and suburban areas, she lost vote share in both locations compared to Biden's numbers in 2020. Among suburban voters, Trump cut the deficit by nearly half. Trump extended his lead among rural voters. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
season1 Posted November 11 Share Posted November 11 (edited) Voting demo according to exit polls from AP VoteCast and Fox News Voter Analysis In the previous page, I posted the data for Age/Gender and Race/Gender. Ideology/Party/Religion Trump gained the most support among moderates and independents Trump cut the democrat candidate's lead among Independents by more than half (from 15 points to 7 points); he increased his support among Moderates by 9 points. Trump gained support from all ideology and party groups, except democrats/leaners which remained flat. (Though Harris' vote share among Independents is not shaded, she won that group. I had the conditional format to shade >49% share and her %age didn't meet the condition). Trump gained support from all Religion groups, except Mormons and Muslims Like in 2020, Trump won the Christian groups; he increased his lead among Catholics by 9 points. Trump's support increased among those who do not follow the major religions, or those who have no religion. Despite some Muslim leaders endorsing Trump in MI and MN, Trump's vote share in this group went down, probably due to his vocal support of Israel. Just like the blue shift in UT counties, it seems Trump also lost vote share among Mormons. It could be due to his disagreements with Romney and other UT politicians. *** Issues Comparing the issues for 2024 and 2020, the candidate who got the most support in 2 of the top 3 issues, prevailed. Edited November 11 by season1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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season1 Posted November 12 Share Posted November 12 1 hour ago, Steven_ said: Trump still has not officially announced the Secretary of State nomination, but Rubio is not a bad pick. I can think of a few contenders worse than him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 (edited) Jesus Fuking Christ Edited November 13 by Jonathan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
season1 Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 (edited) There are many names floating around in the media about Trump's admin picks; here's a list of officially announced names as of 11/12/24: WH Chief of Staff - Susie Wiles (Trump campaign co-chair) WH Counsel - William Joseph McGinley (former WH Cabinet Secretary) Border Czar - Tom Homan (former ICE Director) National Security Advisor - Mike Waltz (FL congressman, Army Special Forces Veteran) CIA Director - John Ratcliffe (former Director of National Intellegence) DHS Secretary - Kristi Noem (SD Governor) Secretary of Defense - Pete Hegseth (Decorated Army Combat Veteran) EPA Administrator - Lee Zeldin (former NY congressman) UN Ambassador - Elise Stefanik (NY congresswoman, House Republican Conference Chair) Ambassador to Israel - Mike Huckabee (former AR Governor) Special Envoy to the Middle East - Steve n C. Witkoff (Business leader and philantrophist) Limited appointment: Dept of Govt Efficiency (DOGE) - Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy "Their work will conclude no later than July 4, 2026." (7/4/2026 is America's 250th birthday) Edited November 13 by season1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
season1 Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 "Threat to bureaucracy" The rest of Musk's post: We will also have a leaderboard for most insanely dumb spending of your tax dollars. This will be both extremely tragic and extremely entertaining. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voice Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 we did it joe… 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
season1 Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 (edited) 3 hours ago, Voice said: we did it joe… Back in September... I don't think that MAGA hat gesture is an endorsement of Trump, but it was funny. Edited November 13 by season1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
season1 Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 (edited) 19 hours ago, season1 said: There are many names floating around in the media about Trump's admin picks; here's a list of officially announced names as of 11/12/24: WH Chief of Staff - Susie Wiles (Trump campaign co-chair) WH Counsel - William Joseph McGinley (former WH Cabinet Secretary) Border Czar - Tom Homan (former ICE Director) National Security Advisor - Mike Waltz (FL congressman, Army Special Forces Veteran) CIA Director - John Ratcliffe (former Director of National Intellegence) DHS Secretary - Kristi Noem (SD Governor) Secretary of Defense - Pete Hegseth (Decorated Army Combat Veteran) EPA Administrator - Lee Zeldin (former NY congressman) UN Ambassador - Elise Stefanik (NY congresswoman, House Republican Conference Chair) Ambassador to Israel - Mike Huckabee (former AR Governor) Special Envoy to the Middle East - Steve n C. Witkoff (Business leader and philantrophist) Limited appointment: Dept of Govt Efficiency (DOGE) - Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy "Their work will conclude no later than July 4, 2026." (7/4/2026 is America's 250th birthday) Trump announced more appointments today (11/13/24): Secretary of State - Marco Rubio (FL Senator) Director of National Intelligence - Tulsi Gabbard (Former Democrat HI Congresswoman, National Guard Veteran) Attorney General - Matt Gaetz (FL Congressman) WH Senior Staff: Dan Scavino - Asst to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller - Asst to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy; Homeland Security Advisor James Blair - Asst to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative, Political and Public Affairs Taylor Budowich - Asst to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications and Personnel Edited November 14 by season1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeamAudra Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 Matt Gaetz???? WTF??? Trump is going for the full reality TV effect this time. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bswanson Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 (edited) so someone who has been accused of being with underage girls is AG. Also a Fox news host who barley served for SOD, does the SD Gov. know anything about Homeland Security? Edited November 14 by bswanson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
season1 Posted November 14 Share Posted November 14 (edited) Pete Hegseth is a combat veteran who served in the military for 20 years, was deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, earned TWO bronze stars, among other awards, and graduated from Princeton and Harvard. He is also a bestselling author. The rest of the post: “Does anyone have confidence in the current leadership of the Pentagon? And the way the defense situation has been operating for the last several years? I mean, from the Afghanistan pullout, which was an extreme debacle for which no one was held accountable. We've had spy balloons flying over the United States. We built a $300 million pier as a public relations stunt, which wound up killing an American service member. "I hear all the criticism of him is that he's not the expected Washington pick. And I'm just saying to you that the American people just voted against the expected Washington pick." "He's got 20 years in service. Afghanistan, Iraq. Two bronze stars. Princeton, Harvard. Yeah, he's on TV, but so are the rest of us." *** EDIT: A few days ago, Pete Hegseth was interviewed by Shawn Ryan -- Full Interview Full text of post: NEW: Newly appointed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on reforming US military leadership: Anyone "involved in the woke sh*t has got to go...you have to reestablish that trust by putting in no-nonsense warfighters in those positions who aren't going to cater to the socially correct garbage." FULL REMARKS: HEGSETH: There's a chance to course correct it, but, it would take the new a new Trump administration going after it really hard. RYAN: How would they correct it? Well, first of all, you got a fire. HEGSETH: "You've got to fire the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and obviously, to bring in a new Secretary of Defense, but any General that was involved, General, Admiral, whatever that was involved in any of the DEI woke sh*t has got to go." "Either you're in for war fighting and that's it. That's the only litmus test we care about. You got to get DEI and CRT out of military academies. You're not training young officers to be baptized in this type of thinking. And then, you know, whatever the standards, whatever the combat standards were, say, and, I don't know, 1995, let's just make those the standards. And as far as recruiting to hire the guy that, you know, did Top Gun Maverick and create some real ads that motivate people to want to serve." "And there's lots of other ways in which you could identify who gets promoted and what. But there's an ethos change, I mean, there's a reason we're not, people don't want to serve because they don't trust that their senior leaders are going to have their best interest in mind in combat." "I know there were mistakes made on our tours all over the place. But I, at least for the most part, had a sense that my senior leaders were committed to the completion of the mission for the right reasons, and maybe there were strategic differences and all that other stuff. And it wasn't always perfect, but now that trust is broken. And you have to reestablish that trust by by putting in no nonsense warfighters in those positions who aren't going to cater to the socially correct garbage." The remarks were made in an episode of The Shawn Ryan Show released November 7. Edited November 14 by season1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bswanson Posted November 14 Share Posted November 14 ^ but he also said women shouldnt serve. if a woman is qualified she should be able too, dont you agree 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted November 14 Share Posted November 14 On 11/9/2024 at 4:32 PM, Hamza Tufail said: I was watching a DeSantis speech at a FL uni. There were two things that intrigued me the most. 1. When he was running in the primary, he said all the time that he's paid down 25% of the state's total debt. This time, he said he's paid down upto 36%. That's big. 2. He's happy that reps won the election. However, he doesn't feel strong about reps delivering on most things. He pointed that reps always say they're gonna control spending, borrowing, and printing of money, but they always fail to do so. Inflation started because of both reps and dems in the congress. But he hopes, it's not the case this time. He has to decide if it is worth running for POTUS in 2028, or if he wants to appoint himself to the Senate to replace Rubio and give his successor a head start in the 2026 FL Governor's race. In both cases, since Florida has become a solid red state, the GOP should hold all the offices. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeamAudra Posted November 14 Share Posted November 14 I will say this. If DeSantis appoints Lara Trump to that Senate seat, I will be done with him. I sincerely doubt she is his first, second, or third choice. I’m sure Trump is pressuring behind the scenes, and that may be the reason for appointing Rubio in the first place. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Posted November 14 Share Posted November 14 1 hour ago, TeamAudra said: I will say this. If DeSantis appoints Lara Trump to that Senate seat, I will be done with him. I sincerely doubt she is his first, second, or third choice. I’m sure Trump is pressuring behind the scenes, and that may be the reason for appointing Rubio in the first place. Picture this...Lara is Senator then she runs for POTUS in 28 and continues the Trump regime. Think it's not possible? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jonathan Posted November 14 Share Posted November 14 1 hour ago, Craig said: He has to decide if it is worth running for POTUS in 2028, or if he wants to appoint himself to the Senate to replace Rubio and give his successor a head start in the 2026 FL Governor's race. In both cases, since Florida has become a solid red state, the GOP should hold all the offices. Desantis going to the Senate now could even help him more to his 2028 chance if he wants its because it just adds another credential to his resume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
season1 Posted November 14 Share Posted November 14 It's official: President-elect Donald J Trump announced Robert F Kennedy Jr will be the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Full text of the post: I am thrilled to announce Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health. The Safety and Health of all Americans is the most important role of any Administration, and HHS will play a big role in helping ensure that everybody will be protected from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, and food additives that have contributed to the overwhelming Health Crisis in this Country. Mr. Kennedy will restore these Agencies to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to end the Chronic Disease epidemic, and to Make America Great and Healthy Again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercfan3 Posted November 14 Share Posted November 14 (edited) Trumps cabinet picks are wild a lunatic for health and human services an SO and human trafficker for AG a Fox News analyst for chief of security a Russian asset for National Intelligence An evangelical seeking the rapture for ambassador to Israel its like he wanted to make the worst but funniest picks to see what he could get through. and then Little Marco for SoS who is a normal and reasonable Republican choice; so tbh I fully expect him to be fired by March. Edited November 14 by mercfan3 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Posted November 14 Share Posted November 14 I'm not worried about the mid terms because we will all be dead by then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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