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

Indeed.
Its one of the reasons names get re used because the 'storm' was eminently forgettable.
On the other hand the really memorable names get retired after their famous date.
Camille, Katrina, Maria, Floyd, Helene etc

New York Times/Siena poll (one of the highly rated ones)

Harris 49%
Trump 46%
Was 47-47 last month

9% of registered Republicans planning to vote for Harris, up from 5% last month.

It's going to be close, but a little optimism.

Our ballots arrived this morning and I'm feeling ridiculously excited about it.

Thanks for this. I noticed yesterday that the Polymarkets site was reporting an upswing in Trump’s chances. I do wonder if it’s Elon flooding the betting markets with his $$

Polymarkets is owned by Peter Theil.
Nuff said.

Indeed! I didn't know that.

And they now count Nate Silver as an employee

Eh ? Nate Silver works for and runs 538 not Polymarkets

As well as. "Nate Silver Joins Polymarket Ahead of 2024 Election, As Trading Volume Tops $400M" and "Polymarket, the world's largest prediction market, welcomes statistician and FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver who will join the company's advisory board."

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nate-silver-joins-polymarket-ahead-of-2024-election-as-trading-volume-tops-400m-302198424.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/polymarket-hires-nate-silver-taking-154956290.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAN26TmtX6XgtHauUO8SUOlBDJ7OGUS2V3ZNEbsQgUvUkQ2rycR2xrd5w2of_2DQqTwwU_QyQuCgMm1gH0Png60ZJVGKmMtSAe1Ex-HRrYvfmOpqMkd5wQw0irb_Oshf9-jtW3WrvBhxeRQAhNUTDbTHRzNog59qEUil4ASZo_v1G

He has joined the Advisory board.
Not the same thing at all as being their employee.
He's an advisor.

No, he's been hired as an advisor as opposed to sitting on the board, so while not an employee, more akin to a consultant. He's earning a paycheck from them. He's no longer with 538.

He has his own site
https://x.com/NateSilver538/status/1843627710532522489

Yes, he has a substack, and still has 538 in his handle, but he left 538 in 2023 (I think sometime in early summer) amid a bunch of ABC/Disney layoffs and shakeups.

Now who do we believe...?

Trump campaign unleashes insults at Woodward after report that former president kept in touch with Putin.

Amid reports that Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book would reveal that Donald Trump called Putin as many as seven times after leaving office and secretly sent him Covid-19 testing machines during the pandemic in 2020, the former president’s campaign has issued a flurry of personal attacks against the veteran investigative journalist.

In a statement, the campaign’s communications director Steven Cheung also said Woodward’s reporting was false:
None of these made up stories by Bob Woodward are true and are the work of a truly demented and deranged man who suffers from a debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Woodward is an angry, little man and is clearly upset because President Trump is successfully suing him because of the unauthorized publishing of recordings he made previously. President Trump gave him absolutely no access for this trash book that either belongs in the bargain bin of the fiction section of a discount bookstore or used as toilet tissue. Woodward is a total sleazebag who has lost it mentally, and he’s slow, lethargic, incompetent and overall a boring person with no personality.
(The Guardian)

Fixed it...
Woodward Trump is a total sleazebag who has lost it mentally, and he’s slow, lethargic, incompetent and overall a boring person with no personality.

Speaking of Bob Woodward, I don't know if this will resonate with anyone, but we rewatched this recently (with our kids who are too young to have the foggiest about Watergate) and all thought it was absolutely hilarious

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144168/

I'm always amused by MAGAs doing out the Trump Derangement Syndrome insult.
I think of it as a diagnosis of Trump's failing brainm

Trump's Derangement rather than anyone else's, certainly.

Has anyone seen the 60 minutes Harris interview? Just wondering how it might affect the voting….

For those of us in the UK

https://www.channel4.com/press/news/channel-4-announces-groundbreaking-international-lineup-first-overnight-us-election

Presenters include The News Agents’ Emily Maitlis and Krishnan Guru-Murthy

Jeremy Vine to provide infographics and analysis from London data hub

Exclusive studio guests include Stormy Daniels and Boris Johnson

Worth paying for a vpn to avoid Boris

Definitely

There's no way I'm watching Boris fecking Johnson on US Election night. (They'll be recruiting Nigel double-fecking Farage next) JFC!

Nigel "I'm scared to go to Clacton" Farage

TRIP are doing their own US Election livestream on YouTube. Alastair, Rory and The Mooch, plus Marina Hyde and Dominic Sandbrook, so I will probably tune in there until I inevitably nod off!

https://deadline.com/2024/09/the-rest-is-politics-us-election-youtube-special-campbell-stewart-scaramucci-1236090335/

Surely Nige will have jetted off stateside to support his orange bestie?