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Trump leaves Michigan rallygoers waiting in the cold for hours to tape Joe Rogan podcast

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By JILL COLVIN, MELISSA PEREZ WINDER and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON

Donald Trump ran hours late to a rally in Michigan Friday, causing thousands of his supporters to leave while others huddled in cold weather to await the former president at an outdoor rally in the battleground state.

The Republican presidential nominee was delayed for an interview with Joe Rogan, the nation’s most listened-to podcaster, that stretched to three hours in Austin, Texas. Trump is aggressively courting younger male voters with whom Rogan is widely popular. The interview was released Friday night.

Democrat Kamala Harris was also in Texas Friday for an appearance with superstar Beyoncé in Houston at an event highlighting the conservative state's abortion ban enacted after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Three of the justices who voted to overturn Roe were nominated by Trump.

Minutes before Trump's Michigan rally was scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. Eastern, his spokesman posted on the social media platform X that Trump was just leaving Texas, more than two hours away by air. Trump recorded a video from his plane urging his supporters to stay, noting it was Friday night and promising, “We’re going to have a good time tonight.”

Trump was slated to speak at the Traverse City airport, where temperatures dipped into the low 50s Fahrenheit (above 10 degrees Celsius) after dark.

Attendees who hadn't left bundled up, some covered by blankets, as they waited for him to land. The crowd sounded and looked disengaged as North Dakota Gov Doug Burgum and former Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon tried to kill time onstage. Hats were being thrown to attendees.

Some of those who stuck around took it in stride.

“Well, we rather they were on time,” said Karen Targanski from Bay City, Michigan, a more than two-hour drive away. She added that it was nonetheless “worth the wait.”

Trump drives immigration in Texas speech

With 11 days until the election, Trump and Harris both took a detour battleground states for brief forays into solidly Republican Texas. Neither believes the state is competitive, but they’re using it as a backdrop to drive a message about the issues they hope voters will have front of mind when they cast ballots. For Trump, that’s border security. For Harris, it’s abortion rights.

Appearing in Austin earlier Friday, Trump tried to turn Harris' event into an attack line tied to one of his favorite subjects, immigration.

Hours before Harris' star-studded appearance with Beyoncé, Willie Nelson, Jessica Alba and others, Trump accused the vice president of hanging out with “woke celebrities” but not with the families of people who have been killed by migrants.

Trump's trip to Texas, his second stop in a border state in two days, comes as the former president escalates his already dark and apocalyptic rhetoric against illegal immigration.

“We’re like a garbage can for the rest of the world to dump the people that they don’t want,” Trump told supporters Friday in Austin. Trump has continued to push the unfounded idea that foreign governments actively send criminals to the U.S.

Harris said the remark is “just another example of how he really belittles our country.”

“The president of the United States should be someone who elevates discourse and talks about the best of who we are, and invests in the best of who we are, not someone like Donald Trump, who is constantly demeaning and belittling who the American people are,” Harris told reporters in Houston.

Throughout the campaign, Trump has routinely appeared with grieving relatives of people who were hurt or killed by people living in the country illegally. On Friday, he ceded the microphone to the mother of a 12-year-old Texas girl, Jocelyn Nungaray, whose body was found in June. Prosecutors have charged two Venezuelan men in the U.S. illegally with capital murder.

“She was just being a child, and due to the Biden-Harris policies we have here ... she’s not here anymore,” Alexis Nungaray said.

During a rally Thursday in Arizona, Trump railed against Harris for the Biden administration’s record on the border, which he said had “unleashed” an “army of migrant gangs” that are “waging a campaign of violence and terror against our citizens.”

Trump views immigration as the issue that won him the White House in 2016. He accuses Harris of perpetrating “a wicked betrayal of America” and having “orchestrated the most egregious betrayal that any leader in American history has ever inflicted upon our people,” even though crime is down.

While migrants have been charged with some high-profile crimes that Trump repeatedly highlights, research has shown that immigrants — including those who entered the country illegally — are charged with fewer violent crimes than American citizens.

He has also spread false theories that Democrats are registering immigrants without legal status to vote.

Rogan interview underscores Trump's focus on masculinity

His interview with Rogan, who tapes his podcast in Austin, created another opportunity for the Republican nominee to highlight the hypermasculine tone that has defined much of his 2024 White House bid.

Trump has made masculinity a central theme of his campaign, appearing on podcasts targeting young male voters and tapping surrogates who sometimes use crude language.

At a Trump rally Wednesday, former Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson called the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Tim Walz, a “weak man” and compared Trump’s return to the White House to a dad who comes home ready to punish his misbehaved children.

“When Dad gets home, you know what he says?” Carlson asked. “You’ve been a bad girl. You’ve been a bad little girl, and you are getting a vigorous spanking right now.”

Rogan and Trump have a complicated relationship. Rogan had previously said that he declined to host Trump on his podcast before because he did not want to help him.

Earlier this year, Trump criticized Rogan after the podcaster said that then-candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. was the only person running for president who made sense to him. Kennedy has since suspended his bid, endorsed Trump and joined him on the campaign trail.

“It will be interesting to see how loudly Joe Rogan gets BOOED the next time he enters the UFC Ring???” Trump wrote on his social media site in August, referring to Rogan's experience as a commentator for the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

The podcaster is known for his hourslong interviews on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” which is listed as No. 1 in the United States, according to Spotify’s charts. He calls women “chicks” and once laughed as a comedian friend described repeatedly coercing young women comics into sex.

Editor: Story has been updated to report on Trump's delayed arrival in Michigan.

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He is such a hypocrite on immigration. There has never been anyone at that level of government who gets a pass from the media when employing illegal immigrant labor and using shady tactics to circumvent immigration and labor laws. He should be getting charged for the very violations he claims to have policies against.

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Carlson asked. “You’ve been a bad girl. You’ve been a bad little girl, and you are getting a vigorous spanking right now.”

Is Carlson still in Russia? similar to the beliefs of many Trump Republicans he seems to think iRussia a better place to live than the US., Carlson and the other radical extremists that follow him, though Tucker's been shown to be duplicitous, all should shift there, and let US Americans that want the US Constitution to continue, and not have a fascist regime do further damage to the republic via things like the ruling caste, aka the elite establishment's Project 2025.

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research has shown that immigrants — including those who entered the country illegally — are charged with fewer violent crimes than American citizens.

First, what % of violent crimes in the U.S. actually get charged? Second, immigrants should not be committing violent crimes at all as guests of the country getting free support from our tax dollars.

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For world peace & stability, let us pray that this fat old fascist loses.

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Harris supporters don't like the optics or the provable fact she oversaw 10 million plus illegal immigrants in the three and a half years of the Biden administration. Even worse, they brazenly refuse to be held to account and blame others.

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At an event in Las Vegas later in the day, Trump claimed towns had been “invaded and conquered” by violent immigrants, adding: “We have a lot of towns that haven’t yet been infected.” Trump has long echoed tropes about immigration in portraying migrants as disease carriers, dating back to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Who said Trump does not embrace fascist rhetoric?

At a Trump rally Wednesday, former Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson called the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Tim Walz, a “weak man” and compared Trump’s return to the White House to a dad who comes home ready to punish his misbehaved children.

“When Dad gets home, you know what he says?” Carlson asked. “You’ve been a bad girl. You’ve been a bad little girl, and you are getting a vigorous spanking right now.”

And add to that MAGA psycho-sexual fantasies that we really didn't want to hear about.

This appeals to who?

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Harris’s loss will down in history as a lesson not to skip the open primary selection process.

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When Dad gets home, you know what he says?” Carlson asked. “You’ve been a bad girl. You’ve been a bad little girl, and you are getting a vigorous spanking right now.”

This was only half of it. His detailed description of spanking a 15-year old girl was just a bit to detailed and creepy. He really enjoyed himself.

No wonder - he's MAGA.

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The increasingly shrill tone of articles like this is proof that the Left establishment media are in nuclear panic mode now. They're not even pretending to throw a veil of objectivity over dross like this article, and as far as I'm concerned, they're getting funnier by the day. Now it's looking like Trump could get the popular vote as well as the electoral college, neutering the Democrats' message that they're still more popular.

The establishment's candidate is such a poor performer that they can't even risk her going on Rogan's podcast because they know she'll be a blubbering, incomprehensible mess just 10 minutes in, so they make up some transparent excuse about "scheduling conflicts." Trump of course will ramble through his Rogan appearance, but he doesn't care and isn't afraid of people challenging him.

This is going to be an interesting and entertaining week or two ahead.

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Who really cares about Donald?

He'll be washed down the drain, humiliated and VP Harris will be the next POTUS!

I mean, just look at it:

while VP Harris has another rally with thousands attending Donald sits down for yet another instigatng podcast.

While VP Harris does her utmost to unite - Donald does the best he can to divide!

While VP Harris stands for freedom and democracy, Donald praises dictators like Kim, Putain, and Orban.

Always the same: who to you want to be the next POTUS? A convicted felon, cheater, divider, military insulting draft dodger?

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expulsions and apprehensions at the border are 4-5 times more now than under trump.

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/10/27/multimedia/2023-10-12-ambriefing-border-encounters-index/2023-10-12-ambriefing-border-encounters-index-facebookJumbo.png

if citizens came even close to the crime rate of illegals, the country would be a paradise. it’s the crime rate of citizens making the u.s. a garbage can.

https://i.insider.com/58b715d7ae21f965038b4652?width=1200

trump quotes: "I will get rid of the 'communist' 'vermin'," "I will take care of the 'threat from within'," "Migrants are 'poisoning the blood of our country'", and "'One people, one family, one glorious nation."

Hitler quotes: "I will get rid of the 'communist' 'vermin'," "I will take care of the 'enemy within'," "Jews and migrants are poisoning Aryan blood," and "One people, one realm, one leader."

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The increasingly shrill tone of articles like this is proof that the Left establishment media are in nuclear panic mode now. They're not even pretending to throw a veil of objectivity over dross like this article, and as far as I'm concerned, they're getting funnier by the day. Now it's looking like Trump could get the popular vote as well as the electoral college, neutering the Democrats' message that they're still more popular.

Back on the "flooding the zone" strategy, I see.

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Is Carlson still in Russia? similar to the beliefs of many Trump Republicans he seems to think iRussia a better place to live than the US.,

In some aspects

Carlson and the other radical extremists that follow him,

Extremist, you mean by being a common sense American first patriot?

though Tucker's been shown to be duplicitous, all should shift there, and let US Americans that want the US Constitution to continue, and not have a fascist regime do further damage to the republic via things like the ruling caste, aka the elite establishment's Project 2025.

Not sure what you’re talking about, not sure why liberals continue to talk about something that hasn’t happened and would never happen. You guys are upsetting yourselves, relax.

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Always the same: who to you want to be the next POTUS? A convicted felon, cheater, divider, military insulting draft dodger?

It would appear that a disturbing number of people do indeed want that.

Even if we factor out the chaos agents (like the ones who post here, with the above-mentioned "flooding the zone" tricks), there are clearly a sizeable number of people whose vote is going to be based on rage, grievance, fear, and other such republican fuel.

Question is, are there enough people on the other side to outvote them?

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Some dudeToday  08:15 am JST

The increasingly shrill tone of articles like this is proof that the Left establishment media are in nuclear panic mode now. They're not even pretending to throw a veil of objectivity over dross like this article, and as far as I'm concerned, they're getting funnier by the day. Now it's looking like Trump could get the popular vote as well as the electoral college, neutering the Democrats' message that they're still more popular.

Back on the "flooding the zone" strategy, I see.

Strategy? Nah, just observation. As you said yesterday, neither you nor I are going to influence this contest. But there's nothing wrong with pointing out what's happening. Some people will agree, some will deny reality and disagree. No skin off my nose.

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Will try again and stay on topic. Thanks always moderators.

“The president of the United States should be someone who elevates discourse and talks about the best of who we are, and invests in the best of who we are, not someone like Donald Trump, who is constantly demeaning and belittling who the American people are,” Harris told reporters in Houston.

Just reading these pieces is proof of confirmation bias, where the brain can only see what it believes backs up its own version of reality, we all suffer from it at one level or another by nature, but this sort of article is next level and at this stage, plain as day deliberate bias. 

Pity that journalists have now decided it’s perfectly fine to print this sort of stuff. Do they actually believe themselves to be swaying peoples opinions? I’d suggest the effect maybe quite the opposite. 

More in your face proof that 90% of the established media, celebrities, corporate interests, powerful people with secrets that they want kept secret are all lined up behind the Harris campaign. The blob mob I’m gunna call them. There’s desperation in the wind.

Yet, despite all of it ; the demonizing, the lawfare, the outlandish claims about Trump being Hitler or a demigod, he remains completely comfortable in his own skin, works a crowd, is personable, funny and stays full of conviction. He has the touch and the blob can’t stand that. He is also uncontrollable , a big no no. 

The podcaster is known for his hourslong interviews on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” which is listed as No. 1 in the United States, according to Spotify’s charts. He calls women “chicks” and once laughed as a comedian friend described repeatedly coercing young women comics into sex.

on the topic.

Nice final attempt to delegitimize the most influential podcaster in the world too. Marvelous stuff

Rogan won’t baby him either, and nor does he need to be.

Wonder if THIS comment will survive the moderators. Is that not the whole appeal of the JT news page. The free flowing sharing of opinions and comments? Free speech baby! 

I disagree with what you say, but I’ll fight to the death for your right to say it. Let it be please and have a wonderful weekend.

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Strategy? Nah, just observation. As you said yesterday, neither you nor I are going to influence this contest. But there's nothing wrong with pointing out what's happening. Some people will agree, some will deny reality and disagree. No skin off my nose.

"Observation" implies looking at something with a relatively unbiased eye. Hence "objectivity", of which there is none in your post. The hectoring, even hysterical, use of language ("nuclear panic mode"), suggests that you are desperate for Trump to win.

Which makes me even doubt your claim to not be American.

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Trump and Texas, there cannot be such an underdeveloped, medieval, racist, backward and pathetic combination..

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And of course, none of our MAGA-friends here are offended by that - no surprise...

Yeah mate, the not easily offended class. A solid sense of humor.

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Trump visits Texas to tape Joe Rogan's podcast and to criticize Harris on immigration

Sounds like a winning strategy 10 days out.

Harris will be avoiding Rogan to attend a Beyoncé event. In Texas, not a swing state.

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Always the same: who to you want to be the next POTUS? A convicted felon, cheater, divider, military insulting draft dodger?

Yes!

It would appear that a disturbing number of people do indeed want that.

Over a woman that’s inarticulate, and doesn’t know the issues, let alone talk and can’t answer basic questions about politics, yes, all day long.

Even if we factor out the chaos agents (like the ones who post here, with the above-mentioned "flooding the zone" tricks), there are clearly a sizeable number of people whose vote is going to be based on rage, grievance, fear, and other such republican fuel.

With valid reason

Question is, are there enough people on the other side to outvote them?

Not legally

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Question is, are there enough people on the other side to outvote them?

there were- for Joe Biden.

oops.

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Trump and Texas, there cannot be such an underdeveloped, medieval, racist, backward and pathetic combination..

And yet, great food, freedom, lots of land, no state taxes and the second amendment, great trade-off

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Strategy? Nah, just observation. As you said yesterday, neither you nor I are going to influence this contest. But there's nothing wrong with pointing out what's happening.

I don’t think outsiders really know what is really happening.

Some people will agree, some will deny reality and disagree. No skin off my nose.

Yes

"Observation" implies looking at something with a relatively unbiased eye. Hence "objectivity", of which there is none in your post.

When outsiders say that, I need to yawn

The hectoring, even hysterical, use of language ("nuclear panic mode"), suggests that you are desperate for Trump to win.

Seems like more than half of the country wants that now, even CNN are more receptive to than the norm.

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Harris will be avoiding Rogan

I think the phrase is "not wasting her time with".

Why would she go on the podcast of the ultimate DudeBro?

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Trump visits Texas to tape Joe Rogan's podcast and to criticize Harris on immigration

Sounds like a winning strategy 10 days out.

Harris will be avoiding Rogan to attend a Beyoncé event. In Texas, not a swing state.

Trump goes on Joe Rogan...

"Mr President, let's talk about the border"....

"Not now Joe, the music just came on - gotta dance"....(spastic dancing)....

One hour later....

"Mr President, I'm afraid our time is over - too bad we didn't get to discuss anything"...

"It's all right Joe, I'm going to lose anyway so let's just get down and get jiggy with it"...

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Always the same: who to you want to be the next POTUS? A convicted felon, cheater, divider, military insulting draft dodger?

Yes!

It would appear that a disturbing number of people do indeed want that.

Over a woman that’s inarticulate, and doesn’t know the issues, let alone talk and can’t answer basic questions about politics, yes, all day long.

Well, we can't accuse you of being unambiguous. You just openly admitted that you think that the highest office in the USA, and possibly the most influential office in the world in terms of global influence, should go to a "convicted felon, cheater, divider, military insulting draft dodger". Just because you're scared of the idea of a woman running things.

I thought people in Texas were supposed to be tough.

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the ultimate DudeBro?

to get the DudeBro vote after clearly explaining how her policies benefit them and all Americans.

oh wait….they don’t and she couldn’t explain those if they did.

need more than the cat lady vote. RCP has muh popular vote as “tied”. That’s a Trump landslide in electoral college. At this Hillary and Biden were up 6 and 8.

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to get the DudeBro vote after clearly explaining how her policies benefit them and all Americans.

She'd have to dumb it down to a first grader level if she wants the kind of people who listen to Joe Rogan to understand. I think she'd be better off talking to people who would actually be able to listen to what she's saying.

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Some dudeToday  08:40 am JST

Strategy? Nah, just observation. As you said yesterday, neither you nor I are going to influence this contest. But there's nothing wrong with pointing out what's happening. Some people will agree, some will deny reality and disagree. No skin off my nose.

"Observation" implies looking at something with a relatively unbiased eye. Hence "objectivity", of which there is none in your post. The hectoring, even hysterical, use of language ("nuclear panic mode"), suggests that you are desperate for Trump to win.

Which makes me even doubt your claim to not be American.

If I were American, I'd happily proclaim it. It just happens that I'm Australian. But sure, for all his faults I'd much prefer for Trump to win and I'm not ashamed of admitting it. He's not perfect, but he's about the only viable prospect right now for slowing down the West's decline to a manageable rate so that we can start to fix some of the myriad problems we're facing, and clean out the troublemakers. A Harris presidency offers no such opportunities and will only hasten the decline. She just offers more of the same. Do you really want that?

And with Trump as president, this will give voters in other countries more courage to ditch the globalists and left-wingers ruining other countries like Canada, Australia, EU members, and eventually the UK when the next elections come around.

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Carlson asked. “You’ve been a bad girl. You’ve been a bad little girl, and you are getting a vigorous spanking right now.”

These are some weird people.

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She just offers more of the same. Do you really want that?

If you mean that would I rather "the west" (as you rather nebulously put it) become more like, say, Russia, North Korea, etc., then I'd probably say no.

If "the same" refers to the policies of Joe Biden (as our friends here regularly accuse her of simply continuing with his policies), then given that Biden turned around the reputation of the US as an international joke under Trump and sent the stock market to the highest it's ever been recorded at, then I could see an argument being made for maintaining that.

However, I suspect that we're coming from too different an angle to see things the same way. You're obviously down on "the west" to the point that you'd rather see dictatorial-type strongmen running everything everywhere; I don't think that would be very smart.

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Besides going into hiding in the last weeks of the election, here is another sure "tell" that Trump knows he's going to lose.

"Donald Trump and his allies have suggested for months that the 2024 election will be “stolen,” much like they did in the 2020 cycle, prepping unfounded claims ahead of time that the election will be undermined by “noncitizen” voters, overseas ballot programs, and mail-in voting.

But on Friday, Trump officially called it, writing a “cease and desist” on Truth Social that effectively announced the Republican presidential nominee already believes that the November election is rigged—mere days into early voting.

“CEASE & DESIST: I, together with many Attorneys and Legal Scholars, am watching the Sanctity of the 2024 Presidential Election very closely because I know, better than most, the rampant Cheating and Skullduggery that has taken place by the Democrats in the 2020 Presidential Election,” Trump posted. “It was a Disgrace to our Nation!”

https://newrepublic.com/post/187578/donald-trump-first-call-election-fraud-conspiracies

A clear admission that he's going to lose and do a replay of 2020.

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Talking down to conservatives not a great strategy.

I'm not so sure about that - Trump has called his supporters the great unwashed, basement dwellers, and fat pigs, and they all seem to love it.

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What “kind of” people would this be? Most popular podcast in the USA by the way. Trump does podcasts that get millions and 10s of millions of views.

kamala most watched one was the vulgar one she did, only like half a million repressed women.

now she gotta pay Beyoncé millions to sing “Freedom” in front of a few people already voting for her.

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“Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot.”

— Iain Banks

There's an own-goal if ever I've seen one.

The only way one can empathise with socialism is to think like an idiot. I mean, how many people do you have to kill in the last century for it to be considered a bad idea? more than 100 million?

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Oh suddenly you don’t enjoy the “popular” vote? lol

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To summarize, a direct question to the left:

who is going to win the election?

Answering as an outside spectator, not as "the left", I think Harris will, but not by a lot, and we will see a repeat of Election By Litigation as Trump (with help from Musk and other inordinately rich people and/or the Supreme Court) will do everything he possibly can to try and overturn it. The result of that, cannot be predicted.

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Backwards and maybe that is an Aussie thing. MAGA is an example , maybe the pinnacle, of the dumbing down and anti-intellectualism that has run rampant in discourse. 

I think it’s actually an improvement

Time to turn it around. 

That is the plan

“Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot.”

The Dem machine in a nutshell

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Trump goes on Joe Rogan...

uh huh. You do realize that unlike Kamala he is actually doing the interview and we can watch it?

so your made up scenario isn’t needed at all.

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Oh suddenly you don’t enjoy the “popular” vote? lol

Love it. If the election were decided by the popular vote, Trump would never have been president in the first place and the cult formerly known as the GOP would never win another national election.

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Harris will be avoiding Rogan

Great for Trump, extraordinarily dumb for her.

I think the phrase is "not wasting her time with".

She’s struggling with Blacks, Latinos and Catholics and she wants to not go on the largest Podcast in nation???? Tell you what, going to Texas is a waste of time.

Why would she go on the podcast of the ultimate DudeBro?

11 million listeners per episode, again, per episode. Outreach.

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than joe rogan has so much so-called influence is frightening.

joe rogan won’t challenge trump on any of his lies. he’s always been fascinated with conspiracies and nutcases talking about aliens.

he’ll just fawn and “woah” his way through it.

”jamie, pull up that video with harris being eaten by a bear…”

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Tell you what, going to Texas is a waste of time.

Never a truer word spoken. I note that you didn't specify "for Harris", but presented it as a general statement of fact.

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Let's see if Rogan asks Trump why he quashed the bipartisan border bill. Not sure if he will have the guts to ask.

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and the cult formerly known as the GOP would never win another national election.

ouch. Really gonna hurt want. Trump wins the popular vote too.

then you won’t have a thing to whine about.

then we can expand the Supreme Court by 5 like the left is demanding. Ouch.

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Never a truer word spoken. I note that you didn't specify "for Harris", but presented it as a general statement of fact.

Of course I meant, Harris

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Let's see if Rogan asks Trump why he quashed the bipartisan border bill. Not sure if he will have the guts to ask.

Oh, I hope he does and will do so proudly why he pushed to kill that disastrous bill.

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She'd have to dumb it down to a first grader level if she wants the kind of people who listen to Joe Rogan to understand

A bit unfair.

Joe Rogan does seem to attract the bro/conspiracy theory/alternative media crowd but I have come across serious people who watch it.

I read his audience trends young.

You can see why.

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Of course I meant, Harris

Or any woman who may need an abortion after being sexually assaulted, for instance.

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repeat of Election By Litigation

the Democrats are already litigating to keep non citizen voters on the voting roll. They have 70 lawsuits “ready to go” and “teams in place”.

Pennsylvania and Colorado already caught attempts at voter fraud. Guarantee when Dems lose they claim fraud.

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The result of that, cannot be predicted.

We shall see.

Yeah, that's sort of what "cannot be predicted" means. Linguistics not your strong point, I see.

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And one more former Trump official joins the stampede that say he is unhinged and dangerous.

"With less than two weeks until Election Day, former Trump allies are sounding the alarm that Donald Trump isn’t the same man they knew.

Speaking with Kaitlan Collins on CNN’s The Source Thursday night, former Trump White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews agreed that the Republican presidential nominee had become “unstable” and no longer resembled the man who captured the nation’s attention when he descended a golden escalator at Trump Tower in 2015.

“That’s been my warning to Republican voters out there,” Matthews told Collins. “This isn’t the same man that I worked for. I think that something in him broke in the 2020 election. He was unable to accept that loss and he started to unravel.”

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Surrrrre. 

Like they say, every accusation is a confession.

Look, you don’t live in the states, you’re not even American, it really doesn’t matter if you believe it or not because it doesn’t impact you either way. But for conversational purposes we can chat, that’s always ok, that’s as far as it goes.

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The podcaster is known for his hourslong interviews on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” which is listed as No. 1 in the United States, according to Spotify’s charts. He calls women “chicks” and once laughed as a comedian friend described repeatedly coercing young women comics into sex.

People who are not familiar with Rogan are apt to be affected by these taken out of context statements and immediately view Rogan in a unilaterally negative way. Media so manipulative as usual.

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Certain newspapers refuse to endorse Kamala, CNN and others are tired of her bs, and “ Trump and Harris tied for popular vote in latest poll … “ (meaning that, if reflected in the electoral college, we could be looking at a landslide victory for Trump) and she (the most incompetent presidential candidate in US history) still has the support of practically half the country (and in many cases, the people who vote for her are fully aware that her presidency would be a total failure)—“ … orange man is bad “, lmao.

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The Virginia judge must be related to Kamala with this nonsense word salad to justify putting nom citizens back on the voting rolls:

“And while Giles concurred it is "undoubtedly in the public interest for ineligible voters to be removed," she noted it is also in the public interest "for states to comply with federal law particularly the right to vote."

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and she (the most incompetent presidential candidate in US history

Oh wait! A bit hysterical. I haven’t read half of the material ever written on presidential candidates, but just in my lifetime I’ve seen worse. Romney would be one.

She’s certainly no Bill Clinton or Obama but she is up against a man in very severe mental decline who didn’t start from a high bar to begin with.

Not great options.

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She’s certainly no Bill Clinton or Obama but she is up against a man in very severe mental decline who didn’t start from a high bar to begin with. 

Quite the opposite actually

Not great options.

Not for the Democrats, this is true

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Straight up Rogan is not stupid.

I respect comedians and their skill, he came out and supported Sanders and Yang.

He has a lot lot of MAGA in his audience but I am interested to see how he handles this.

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He calls women “chicks” and once laughed as a comedian friend described repeatedly coercing young women comics into sex. “—

Another ridiculous attempt by the media to discredit anything or anyone that helps Trump—in this case, will help Trump reach an even larger number people who are willing to vote for him. This is the same as saying “ Joe Rogan is not a perfect human being “—ridiculous.

We’re like a garbage can for the rest of the world to dump the people that they don’t want,” Trump told supporters Friday in Austin. —Accurate.

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I respect comedians and their skill, he came out and supported Sanders and Yang

Straight up Rogan is not stupid

He doesn’t come across as stupid from what I’ve seen ( not much to be honest ).

He certainly knows what sells and how to cultivate an audience - his followers get very uncomfortable with criticism of him. His numbers are very impressive.

Clearly knows the business he is in.

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dagonToday  10:43 am JST

Straight up Rogan is not stupid.

I respect comedians and their skill, he came out and supported Sanders and Yang.

He has a lot lot of MAGA in his audience but I am interested to see how he handles this.

And he's smart enough to change his mind when he sees the evidence for doing so.

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Disinformation, or do you have an actual source?

Check the lawsuits being filed

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Totally swapped out the article again??!

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Above 10 degrees Celcius is not “out in the cold”.

Lame. Anything to criticize Trump. If his supporters can’t wait 2 hours for him to get there after doing Rogan, they can go home.

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He certainly knows what sells and how to cultivate an audience - his followers get very uncomfortable with criticism of him. His numbers are very impressive.

Clearly knows the business he is in.

He reaches all demographics, he’s like Larry King, but not as boring

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BlacklabelToday  11:16 am JST

Totally swapped out the article again??!

The Democrat team have been getting walloped in the comments, so they had to change the subject. Quick! Try to find something anti-Trump!

It's sad and funny at the same time.

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The Democrat team have been getting walloped in the comments

?

Are they crying liberal tears into their soy lattes?

Reminds me of elementary school.

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