• danc4498@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      No, he just made even more headlines. The more headlines he makes, the more votes he gets.

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        20 days ago

        This user doesn’t deserve the down votes.

        They’re not saying that Trump should get more votes because of his trash headlines and behavior, they’re just calling out because it’s just what happens with that fascist.

        Democrats should, unfortunately, do the same kind of massive attention seeking to resonate with those of his base that aren’t completely set on just being evil. It makes the candidate look active, engaged, decisive, and not passive on any matter, no matter how small.

        Anyone who pays attention to Trump knows he has no substance with what he says, but because he’s always front and center of every little issue (or at least that’s how he’s got the media optics playing for him), it makes him seem very present and on top of things. Think of it like being a useless office worker, but you always walk around looking angry and in a hurry so people assume you’re busy and working hard.

        Like it or not, there is huge value in that in this whole dumb popularity contest.

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          20 days ago

          This is a good summary. I don’t know if people thought I was in support of Trump with my comment. But it is very frustrating seeing so many Trump headlines and no Harris headlines.

          I’m happy to see “Harris bashes Trump for shitty comment” stories. But all I’m seeing is “Trump makes shitty comment”. Like he’s the only candidate.

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        21 days ago

        Is that the thinking? Like a child in the back of class, desperate for attention and confused about why other people don’t want to just be obnoxiously loud.

        No, folks don’t see any headline and think “that’s how I will vote.” This is the mental ability of an infant who just got object permanence.

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          21 days ago

          You remember 2016? This is exactly how that year went. All these headlines while Trump’s polling numbers are completely unaffected. It’s 2016 all over again.

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            20 days ago

            Sorry… you think 2016 happened because people heard Trump’s name more than Clinton’s a few days before the election?

            Please do show some evidence to back that up.

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            As I have said to others, please show evidence that Trump won in 2016 because people heard his name more than Clinton’s a few days before the election.

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              You just made up a straw man. Did someone say Trump won because of this? All they said was any publicity seems to be good publicity for this shit bag.

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                19 days ago

                I’m not sure what else “the more headlines he gets, the more votes he gets” is supposed to mean other than Trump will win again because of this.

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                  That’s concerning. It means you are so biased against the conversation you can’t see a simple difference of opinion as anything but a total counterpoint to your position.

                  More votes. That’s it. Maybe one more, maybe a few thousand. Not winning, not running away with anything. Just a few more votes.

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          I wish you were right. Unfortunately, there are a bunch of idiot voters out there who just fill in the box next to the name they hear more.

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            I would like some evidence to support this please. Especially this close to an election.

            I can tell you from personal experience that it sure as fuck didn’t work for Meg Whitman.

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                I could see it working for two candidates people have never heard of. Beyond that, I doubt it.

                To go back to Meg Whitman, she totally inundated California. Every other radio and TV ad was about her. There were posters every place the campaign could think to stick them whether or not it was legal. By election day, everyone was so sick of her that she did not even come close.

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      If I dare bring a version of a reddit trend here: Trump is a little piss baby.

      Obligatory: Greg Abbot is a little piss baby.

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      Seriously. He was not even close to being worth that much before the interview.

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      it must be how much he thinks he’ll “lose” if not able to run his grift and scam from 1600 penn ave for four more years and/or when his social network stock craters when he loses.

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        You’ll be able to tell the exact size of his bribe by how much he makes selling the worthless DJT shares he owns now that the Saudis and Russia have pumped it up.

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      Reminds me of the headline regarding Russia fining Google $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 or whatever crazy amount.

      Shitty dictators think alike 💡

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    He cites a Texas law banning “deceptive acts in the conduct of business”. To be fair, that is his backyard LOL.

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    The version that aired during the “60 Minutes” program on Oct. 6 did not include what the lawsuit calls a “word salad” response from Harris about the Biden administration’s influence on Israel’s conduct of the war.

    Well, Trump is the leading authority in the field of word salad.

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    “The version that aired during the ‘60 Minutes’ program on Oct. 6 did not include what the lawsuit calls a ‘word salad’ response from Harris about the Biden administration’s influence on Israel’s conduct of the war.”

    I’d imagine Kamala’s worst word salad is better than Trump’s most eloquent statement.

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    "The complaint, filed in federal court in the Northern District of Texas, alleges the network aired two different responses from Harris responding to a question about the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

    The version that aired during the “60 Minutes” program on Oct. 6 did not include what the lawsuit calls a “word salad” response from Harris about the Biden administration’s influence on Israel’s conduct of the war."

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    The suit demanded a jury trial and about $10 billion in damages

    Taking notes from Pootin, I see.

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    Setting aside Trump himself, I really hope that this sort of stuff doesn’t become normalized in political campaigning.