What's True Pussycat? - Trump Thread #134

[Spandauer]

Non-fake, stable genius thanks to @Crucible for the new thread title.

Seniors' special today.*
They’re eating the dogs!
They’re eating the cats!
They’re eating the pets!...
So do you want fries with that cat? (*Apologies to non-MAGA seniors)

In other news, the swing states continue to be too close to call and it looks like it's going to be a nail-biting, buttock-clenching, hand-wringing 50 days to the election. (or thereabouts)
Increase your anxiety with this handy countdown 😭
https://days.to/until/election-day-in-us

Previous thread here:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5134172-its-not-over-until-the-cat-lady-sings-trump-thread-133

Accusations are admissions for Trump and many Trumpies. Have been since before 2016, even.

They can't stop themselves coming out with whatever's in their minds. (They just project onto others, of course.)

I had noticed that he tends to accuse other people of what he has just said or done himself, yes. That's one of the classic indicators of an unsound mind, isn't it?

Or someone trying to pollute search engines ...

Will NYC Mayor, Eric Adams’ indictment have any sway on voters?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/upshot/trump-electoral-college-harris.html

This could be good news.

The thing that complicates the electoral college even more is that Nebraska allocates it’s EC votes based on individual district results rather than on a statewide basis, so if the EC comes to a tie it’s all down to how many districts you take in Nebraska! I think I’ve got that right anyway!

On the basis of why the vote is still so close, I think there’s also an element of uncertainty around the voters who have turned 18 since 2020. A lot of the polls focus on registered voters and many you g people are not currently registered to vote - individual state registration deadlines seem to vary throughout October, with some as late as 21st.

On TRIP US they talked about the numbers of new voters that are now eligible to vote since 2020 and also the number of older voters that have died since 2020, but I can’t for the life of me remember what they were 🤣

Last night on Americast they talked about younger voters with young men more likely to vote Trump than Harris, but only 30% of young women supporting the orange toddler. There are a lot of disenfranchised young white men in the US and Trump is going all out to get them onboard, so I don’t know what the democrats can do to try and pull them back in.

In other news, New York is looking a right mess!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cglkeyjzez2o

An episode of Deep State Radio yesterday spoke about the recent moves in Nebraska to try and change the way electoral college votes are allocated. Essentially that move is now dead in the water but still very interesting - in essence they wanted to change it to benefit the Republicans in the event of a tie. Think it was the Daily Blast episode entitled “Trump’s Hail Mary Plan to Change Nebraska’s Rules Just Fell Apart”.

Ironically we have the GOP Governor of Nebraska to thank. Seems some of them are still capable of doing the right thing.

Sarah Longwell was practically giddy about Harris's economy speech yesterday. Her take was that Harris needs to be out there giving that same speech over and over because it's going to be really effective with the voters she needs.

Adding - they also seemed to think the Mark Cuban endorsement has the potential to make a big impact.

Rudy Giuliani has been officially disbarred in Washington, D.C.

He had been suspended since his disciplinary proceedings last year.

He's 80; he ought to have retired anyway.

Lawyers going on when they are gaga until they actually drop down dead is a mistake as far as I am concerned; even bishops have a retirement age younger than than that, though I know that popes don't (I think one recentish one went on until he was 93).

I've actually known a few brilliant lawyers who were still going strong at 80, but for the most part, I agree. I certainly wouldn't want to put my future in the hands of most 80 year old lawyers. Giuliani however, should have been sent to the glue factory about 40 years ago.

One of my favourite Rudy fun facts:

A 1997 article by The New York Times, uncovered by PolitiFact in 2007, stated that he married Regina Peruggi, on October 26, 1968; she and Giuilani's father were first cousins. The pair annulled their marriage in 1983 before Giuliani became United States attorney for Southern District of New York, the Times reported separately. Giuliani said the marriage was annulled because they didn't get a dispensation from the Catholic Church needed to marry as second cousins, once removed. The couple did not have any children.

Plus, don't read the details of Noelle Dunphy's suit against him unless you're looking for a weight loss aid. Takes your appetite right away.

He's holding his leaving do in a sex shop car park, so I hear ...

Hahaha that was one of the highlights of the Trump campaign to dispute election result, Four seasons, wrong Four Seasons, not the hotel but a landscaping company on an industrial estate
I think the Co did pretty well out of it because they had t-shirts and baseball caps made with something funny on it, good on them

I am totally on board with any company making money out of Donald Trump looking like an asshole.

You can follow them

https://x.com/therealfstl1992

This is bringing back memories of the funny part, before it all turned hellish. Does anyone else remember the voter fraud hotline the Trump people set up?People were calling with completely outlandish feats of electoral fraud and recording them - some of them were comic genius.

Nebraska Governor is a former Democrat ....

So Starmer has met Trump in NY. Poor sod having to put himself through this, for the sake of international relations.
He tried to schedule a meeting with Harris as well but diaries clashed

Trump:
Trump said of Starmer: “I am going to see him in about an hour so I have to be nice. I actually think he is very nice. He ran a great race, he did very well. It’s very early but he is popular. It’s very early but I will send your regards.”
Asked about Nigel Farage, the Reform leader, Trump said: “I think Nigel is great, I’ve known him for a long time. He had a great election too, picked up a lot of seats, more seats than he was allowed to have actually. They acknowledged that he won but for some reason you have a strange system over there, you might win them but you don’t get them. Nigel is a fantastic person.”

Twat.

He's meeting Zelensky this morning.
(I wonder if Zelensky will wear a rubber band around his wrist to snap as a distraction when he really wants to smack Trump around the head?)

Trump said he looks forward to seeing Zelensky and reiterated that he thinks he can help strike a deal between Putin and Zelensky “quite quickly.”

A reporter asked what that would look like.

“I don’t want to tell you what that looks like,” Trump said.

I don’t want to tell you what that looks like,” Trump said

Course you don't 🤣😅

As I understand it, all these attempts by Republicans to remove/disqualify voters is done to obstruct potential Democratic voters - especially the various challenges to mail-in voting which is known to be taken up by a bigger percentage of Dems. But they must be removing their own voters as well to some extent - collateral damage?

thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4901476-north-carolina-purges-747k-voters/

This is what happened in the UK, as admitted by our very own Jacob Rees Mogg.

Enforcing the "need" for voterID simply meant a lot of older, naturally conservative types who don't have passports and driving licences (coz why would they ?) couldn't vote either.

If only a passport was accepted as ID in the US, it would produce a very interesting demographic.

He's meeting Zelensky this morning.
(I wonder if Zelensky will wear a rubber band around his wrist to snap as a distraction when he really wants to smack Trump around the head?)