It needs to be repeated.
Not voting or voting Third Party, is a vote for the Orange Menace. Period. Point blank.
You pretending that it’s not, does not make it so.
From The New York Times:
Allies of Donald J. Trump are discussing ways to elevate third-party candidates in battleground states to divert votes away from President Biden, along with other covert tactics to diminish Democratic votes.
They plan to promote the independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a “champion for choice” to give voters for whom abortion is a top issue — and who also don’t like Mr. Biden — another option on the ballot, according to one person who is involved in the effort and who, like several others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the plans.
Trump allies also plan to amplify the progressive environmental records of Mr. Kennedy and the expected Green Party candidate, Jill Stein, in key states — contrasting their policies against the record-high oil production under Mr. Biden that has disappointed some climate activists.
A third parallel effort in Michigan is meant to diminish Democratic turnout in November by amplifying Muslim voters’ concerns about Mr. Biden’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza. Trump allies are discussing running ads in Dearborn, Mich., and other parts of the state with large Muslim populations that would thank Mr. Biden for standing with Israel, according to three people familiar with the effort, which is expected to be led by an outside group unaffiliated with the Trump campaign.
Whatever the mechanism, the Trump team’s view is simple and is backed by public and private polling: The more candidates in the race, the better for Mr. Trump. Mr. Biden’s team agrees. And in a race that could be decided by tens of thousands of votes — as the last two presidential elections have been — even small shifts in the share of votes could change the result.
“There is no question that in a close presidential race, independent or minor party candidates can have a disproportionately large impact,” said Roger Stone, who is Mr. Trump’s longest-serving political adviser and who has worked on third-party campaigns, including advising Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party’s nominee in 2012.
Republican donors are pouring funds into Mr. Kennedy’s independent bid for the presidency. He has raised substantially more from donors who previously supported Mr. Trump than he has from those who backed Mr. Biden. Some are big names in Republican politics who have so far given relatively small amounts, including $3,300 last August from Elizabeth Uihlein, whose family is among the G.O.P.’s biggest contributors. In the multicandidate race, Mr. Trump led by a single percentage point; Mr. Biden led Mr. Trump by three percentage points in a hypothetical head-to-head race.
“The path to victory here is clearly maximizing the reach of these left-wing alternatives,” said Stephen K. Bannon, the former White House chief strategist who also served as Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman in 2016.
“No Republican knows that oil production under Biden is higher than ever. But Jill Stein’s people do,” added Mr. Bannon. “Stein is furious about the oil drilling. The college kids are furious about it. The more exposure these guys get, the better it is for us.”
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For months, the Trump team has been privately polling various iterations of third-party tickets in battleground states. It has concluded that candidates floated for the Green Party and No Labels, which recently abandoned its effort to field a presidential candidate, pulled substantially more votes from Mr. Biden than from Mr. Trump.A person briefed on other polling by Trump allies said that while it varies by state, Mr. Kennedy also pulls more votes from Mr. Biden than from Mr. Trump. The person cited as an example the Trump team’s recent private polling of voters in Arizona. Mr. Trump loses Hispanic voters by a close margin in a head-to-head contest against Mr. Biden there, but he wins Hispanic voters on the full ballot in Arizona — an indication that third-party candidates draw more heavily from Mr. Biden’s core constituencies than from Mr. Trump’s.
So, clown around if you want.
But, it’s the same as it was in 2016.
Couldn’t be scared into voting for Hillary because of the Court.
How did that turn out for you?
We now have a 6-3 right wing court, and the right-wing hacks placed all throughout the Judiciary, because of you clowns from 2016.
Nobody has any patience for the same phucking foolishness in 2024.
Am I wrong, or have all of these states failed to expand Medicaid?
chris evans (@notcapnamerica) posted at 7:01 PM on Mon, Apr 22, 2024:
According to the Cecil G. Sheps Center, the states with the most rural hospital closures from Jan 2010 to April 2023 were:
TX: 28 hospital closures
TN: 16 hospital closures
OK: 10 hospital closures
GA: 8 hospital closures
AL: 7 hospital closures
MO: 7 hospital closures
(https://x.com/notcapnamerica/status/1782560327831294064?t=-FUA2HROhxgxZQImotV21w&s=03)
BREAKING: The FTC just banned non-compete agreements.
The Federal Trade Commission has issued a final rule making it illegal for bosses to make workers sign noncompetes in any scenario, and voiding nearly all existing noncompetes.
This is a game changer for American workers.
ElectionsAddict (@ElectionsAddict) posted at 11:04 PM on Mon, Apr 22, 2024:
Republicans spent millions of dollars, hundreds of hours on conservative tv/radio promoting RFK Jr to their audience, convincing themselves the anti-vax, conspiratorial candidate would be spoiler that would sink Biden to help elect Trump. Too late they’ve realized their mistake. https://t.co/ajk4xwg4TU
(https://x.com/ElectionsAddict/status/1782621660899897449?t=4JV7IwSGw_AtlN2tYj38Pg&s=03)
Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) posted at 11:17 PM on Mon, Apr 22, 2024:
“I don’t like guilt by association, but if I was participating in a protest and I was trying to do it peacefully and my ‘ceasefire now’ protests became a ‘bomb Tel Aviv’ protest, maybe I would leave. Or if we were holding up the Palestinian flag and all of a sudden people started screaming pro hamas things, maybe I would leave. But that’s not what happened.” Rep. @JaredEMoskowitz tells me after visiting Columbia U.
https://t.co/i2rTFXnqf4
(https://x.com/abbydphillip/status/1782624689224827108?t=ZqEkW_T30keVSBYdpaPBIg&s=03)
Renee (@PettyLupone) posted at 11:51 AM on Tue, Apr 23, 2024:
Welp. Pecker leaked.
This trial is such a waste of time. trump is guilty as sin. And he absolutely knows that he is.
And if he did this in 2016, just imagine the mess he’s concocting right now when he’s more desperate than he’s ever been in his life. https://t.co/NdF4eVA4D8
(https://x.com/PettyLupone/status/1782814575471259682?t=efnHcB8b9Cl6wS6H87mhng&s=03)
Fly Sistah (@Fly_Sistah) posted at 6:50 AM on Tue, Apr 23, 2024:
Trump needs to take a plea, but it would kill him politically. There is no way around Trump’s signature on the checks, the tape conspiring to pay off Karen McDougal, David Pecker confirming & Allen Weisselberg wrote down details to hide the Stormy reimbursement to Michael Cohen. https://t.co/fNtDXbJB2r
(https://x.com/Fly_Sistah/status/1782738736276533408?t=LqIxOPk_199VA8Vh77UTBg&s=03)
Nikema Williams (@NikemaWilliams) posted at 0:13 PM on Mon, Apr 22, 2024:
Disagree with me.
Call me out.
Insult me, including calling me a “cunt”.
But saying I should take a Boeing 737 on my next flight home, was a veiled way of wishing for my death. It’s not ok. We should not normalize this in political discourse.
(https://x.com/NikemaWilliams/status/1782457755074261436?t=KbHHKuGIB1H6EpBahnjFBw&s=03)
Magdi Jacobs (@magi_jay) posted at 9:42 AM on Mon, Apr 22, 2024:
I 100% agree. Antisemitism has always existed as an organic force, but there are absolutely foreign actors exacerbating extant tensions. How the hell did American leftist activists get their hands on the Khazar hypothesis, for example?
(https://x.com/magi_jay/status/1782419686010806495?t=tUbeqdnScTx2Z2VFhvCsJw&s=03)
Audacious but Anxious (@anxioudacity) posted at 9:40 AM on Mon, Apr 22, 2024:
I can’t help but note that the ratcheting up of tensions and rhetoric here comes on the eve of Trump’s first criminal trial. Almost like how the DNC emails dropped right after the access Hollywood tape.
Someone is putting chum in the water and the left is falling for it.
(https://x.com/anxioudacity/status/1782419319059591630?t=OhKoQcjqBg_ZAZ8pl-_gLA&s=03)
Candidly Tiff (@tify330) posted at 8:40 AM on Tue, Apr 23, 2024:
There would have been another Senatorial debate tonight but David Trone refused to participate. I need voters to remember this. https://t.co/UDuRWrVxXe
(https://x.com/tify330/status/1782766523708244395?t=Wj6JGehUdODkgV1fCq_7jA&s=03)
Oh well
chris evans (@notcapnamerica) posted at 6:26 PM on Mon, Apr 22, 2024:
Hispanic restaurant owner Richard Gonzmart is a Republican who voted for DeSantis. Now he’s panicking because DeSantis’ new immigration law forced him to fire 19 members of his staff and pay a $500k fine because they are undocumented.
https://t.co/Qm0wB6nsxW
(https://x.com/notcapnamerica/status/1782551472070095116?t=YBg0c0GWrQr5V2KPkTW-rw&s=03)
David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) posted at 2:58 PM on Fri, Apr 19, 2024:
An excellent piece from @AlexBWard on how this week “Biden may have deftly navigated one of the most precarious crises of his tenure.”
https://t.co/jsWgp9gKNz via @politico
(https://x.com/djrothkopf/status/1781412132967383442?t=TXdTWlKHEHaLh1hruuTvYg&s=03)
The protests on college campuses are spreading. From the outside looking in, it seems to be a double track of protests.
There is the smaller protests about Palestine.
And, then, there is the larger protest about the first amendment rights of the Palestine protestors. That larger group at Columbia wasn’t there about Palestine. They were outraged at the heavy handed response from the Administration. They felt their fellow students were done wrong.
Along with the faculty actually walking out and joining the students.
This has spun completely out of control for Columbia ‘s President.
Miranda (@DoomScroling) posted at 1:12 PM on Mon, Apr 22, 2024:
In a WIN for protecting people who travel for reproductive care, the Biden administration has issued a new rule which states that Drs cannot give medical records of patients to law enforcement of other states.
In other words, if someone from TX travels to CO for an abortion, Drs in CO will not be permitted to give TX law enforcement that patient’s medical records.
This is a rule change intended to protect patients who travel to states where abortions are legal to have an abortion as several gop lawmakers & AGs have stated they want to prosecute women who travel for care.
https://t.co/6qEZ9xvT0i
(https://x.com/DoomScroling/status/1782472627761598615?t=mWUcryySfxdaDWXHkZiUNw&s=03)
I can’t help but think that the Administration of Columbia has completely fumbled this situation. What was a few annoying students, maybe 100, tops….has now mushroomed. I know I saw at least a 1,000 protesting not for Palestine, but, what happened to the students. When shyt spins out of control like that….just not a good look.
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