In that clip, isn't Trump saying that she's a war hawk and she should go to the front lines as a soldier herself to fight those wars? That's how I interpreted it.
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In that clip, isn't Trump saying that she's a war hawk and she should go to the front lines as a soldier herself to fight those wars? That's how I interpreted it.
As did I.
He described a two way range.
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Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes on Friday said her office is investigating whether former President Donald Trump's remarks about former Wyoming Liz Cheney having "guns trained on her face" broke the law.
"I have already asked my criminal division chief to start looking at that statement, analyzing it for whether it qualifies as a death threat under Arizona's laws," Mayes said to NBC affiliate 12NEWS.
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Photographer talks about Trump's use of bronzer on his face.
Photographer explains why Trump’s use of bronzer gets worse with stress
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She explained that for years, she’d thought that Trump’s changing tan colour was a choice made primarily for TV audiences.
“But lately, I feel like something more psychological is happening,” she continued. “When Trump took office in 2017, he was significantly less orange... but as his term wore on, more bronzer was applied.
“The more stressed... the more makeup. And then when out of office, the makeup would only reappear for the cameras. But it was mostly toned down. Then something interesting happened. After Trump’s debate with Biden in June 2024, the makeup all but disappears.
“When Trump was up in the polls, and a victory was all but certain, the bronzer was gone.”
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She then shared a very recent picture of the former president looking distinctly darker.
“Believe me when I tell you we’ve never seen him like this,” she said. “Also, it appears he’s doing his hands now?”
She also noted that the “mask” of makeup tends to get “darker towards the end of his presidential campaigns”
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However, for Elsie the issue is not a laughing matter as she asked followers to stop DM’ing her about how “silly” he looks.
“I don’t think he looks silly, I think he looks trapped,” she said. “He is acting just like we do when we are a) insulated b) insecure c) surrounded by pictures of ourselves”.
In that clip, isn't Trump saying that she's a war hawk and she should go to the front lines as a soldier herself to fight those wars? That's how I interpreted it.
Yeah. This is as silly as the furor over Joe Biden calling the Trump supporting comedian garbage and the MAGA snowflakes melting
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WASHINGTON (AP) — White House press officials altered the official transcript of a call in which#President Joe Biden#appeared to take a swipe at supporters of#Donald Trump, drawing objections from the federal workers who document such remarks for posterity, according to two U.S. government officials and an internal email obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.
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Biden, according to a transcript prepared by the official White House stenographers, told the Latino group on a Tuesday evening video call, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”
The transcript released by the White House press office, however, rendered the quote with an apostrophe, reading “supporter’s” rather than “supporters,” which aides said pointed to Biden criticizing Hinchcliffe, not the millions of Americans who are supporting Trump for president.
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The change was made after the press office “conferred with the president,” according to an internal email from the head of the stenographers’ office that was obtained by The AP. The authenticity of the email was confirmed by two government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.
The supervisor, in the email, called the press office’s handling of the matter “a breach of protocol and spoliation of transcript integrity between the Stenography and Press Offices.”
“If there is a difference in interpretation, the Press Office may choose to withhold the transcript but cannot edit it independently,” the supervisor wrote, adding, “Our Stenography Office transcript — released to our distro, which includes the National Archives — is now different than the version edited and released to the public by Press Office staff.”
“If there is a difference in interpretation, the Press Office may choose to withhold the transcript but cannot edit it independently,” the supervisor wrote, adding, “Our Stenography Office transcript — released to our distro, which includes the National Archives — is now different than the version edited and released to the public by Press Office staff.”
Can the Stenography Office version be edited now, or is it too late? Because they were the ones who screwed up in the first place. Biden clearly said supporter's not supporters; it's not even disputable.
You've never heard anyone complain about first past the post in Canada? Really?
I have. Usually NDP supporters frustrated that their vote share doesn’t translate into an equivalent share of seats.
I’m talking about the bare statement that I’ve seen hundreds of times in recent years: The U.S. system is ridiculous and undemocratic if the winner of the popular vote for president does not win the presidency. This isn’t couched in sophisticated analysis of the electoral college. Winner of popular vote not winning U.S. election = undemocratic and stupid. That’s the sentiment.
I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve seen the same complaint raised about the result of the last Canadian federal election. And I don’t think it’s because of subtle distinctions in electoral systems. It’s because people only complain about the electoral system when their team loses.
With the current demographics and political alignment of the U.S., the Republicans are systematically advantaged. But the electoral college and senate aren’t going to change. I can’t think of any historical examples of smaller constituencies in federal states willingly ceding power in the interests of fairness.
So the Democrats are faced with the same challenge as Canada’s Conservatives - focus on winning in the contested regions that matter electorally, rather than running up the numbers in places where they’re already popular. Do politics. Don’t whine about the system - get better at using it.
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If this day gets you riled up, you obviously aren't numb to the disappointment yet to be a real fan.
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I missed any coverage on this if it was talked about here.
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In a nutshell, the firms allege that Polymarket has played host to illegal trading activity, which may have artificially inflated some of the platform’s numbers, thereby misleading investors. Wash trading is the act of falsely creating the illusion of high activity by simultaneously buying and selling a financial entity. It is a form of market manipulation and can be harmful to investors.
As the Presidential election has drawn closer, Polymarket has dominated news cycles by forecasting victory odds for Trump that have gone as high as 67%. But if the wash trading accusations are true, it could severely compromise the reliability of the platform. And since Polymarket requires users to deposit crypto in order to place bets, this development could also undermine public trust in crypto markets.
With the current demographics and political alignment of the U.S., the Republicans are systematically advantaged. But the electoral college and senate aren’t going to change. I can’t think of any historical examples of smaller constituencies in federal states willingly ceding power in the interests of fairness.
So the Democrats are faced with the same challenge as Canada’s Conservatives - focus on winning in the contested regions that matter electorally, rather than running up the numbers in places where they’re already popular. Do politics. Don’t whine about the system - get better at using it.
I think you're wrong about that it isn't going to eventually change. 209 of the 270 electoral votes needed have signed onto the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact with another 50 pending. They are committing to giving all electoral votes from those states to the candidate who wins the popular vote.
And how on earth can there be "public trust" in crypto markets? It's made up currency specifically for criminals. Like, no kidding you shouldn't trust it...
In that clip, isn't Trump saying that she's a war hawk and she should go to the front lines as a soldier herself to fight those wars? That's how I interpreted it.
You and I will read it as we see. Trump supporters will read it quite differently.
Can the Stenography Office version be edited now, or is it too late? Because they were the ones who screwed up in the first place. Biden clearly said supporter's not supporters; it's not even disputable.
I'm not sure how you can distinguish supporters and supporter's by listening to the words spoken. It is obviously up for debate but it clearly sounded like Biden was speaking in the context of Trump and as such the statement would be about Trump's supporters being garbage and Trump's demonization of Latinos being garbage. Biden was not speaking about his supporter's comments (the comedian who was speaking.) it just so happens that it can easily be twisted that way to do damage control and the WH is rolling with that.
...people only complain about the electoral system when their team loses.
This sounds like an argument, but it isn't really, it's just a how literally everything has always worked, it has no information value whatsoever.
People only complain about cars breaking down when it happens to them, doesn't mean they don't otherwise think that cars should be reliable. People complain about computers crashing when a computer crash affecrs them, doesn't mean they don't care about it otherwise. Etc.
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I'm not sure how you can distinguish supporters and supporter's by listening to the words spoken. It is obviously up for debate but it clearly sounded like Biden was speaking in the context of Trump and as such the statement would be about Trump's supporters being garbage and Trump's demonization of Latinos being garbage. Biden was not speaking about his supporter's comments (the comedian who was speaking.) it just so happens that it can easily be twisted that way to do damage control and the WH is rolling with that.
This is an obnoxious lie.
Joe did not call anyone garbage. There is no "twisting" for "damage control". The only thing that happened here is Trump supporters lying about what was said, in an attempt to damage Harris' campaign.
Biden himself insists that he did not call anyone garbage, and was only talking about the comments that were spewed by that comedian. Biden knows what he said better than you or anyone else knows. To suggest otherwise is... very obnoxious and quite frankly arrogant.
I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve seen the same complaint raised about the result of the last Canadian federal election. And I don’t think it’s because of subtle distinctions in electoral systems. It’s because people only complain about the electoral system when their team loses.
This doesn't become true by repeating it over and over. People aren't complaining because their team lost. People are complaining because these systems have obvious flaws. They let the minority rule over the majority. They allow one person's vote to count more than someone else's based on where the person lives. And they draw no distinction between barely winning a state vs dominating a state.
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With the current demographics and political alignment of the U.S., the Republicans are systematically advantaged. But the electoral college and senate aren’t going to change. I can’t think of any historical examples of smaller constituencies in federal states willingly ceding power in the interests of fairness.
Yeah well, Kim Jong Un isn't willing to give up his power either. Doesn't make that system of governance legitimate.
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So the Democrats are faced with the same challenge as Canada’s Conservatives - focus on winning in the contested regions that matter electorally, rather than running up the numbers in places where they’re already popular. Do politics. Don’t whine about the system - get better at using it.
This isn't some game. This is real life governance that has real world consequences.
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