ChiGoose

I’d never heard of this Tony Hinchcliffe guy before but based on his speech, I have to assume he’s a Dem plant intent on helping out the Harris campaign…

So you must agree with every claim about Trump, right? Who needs evidence when feels are all you require?

When I saw the claim that ABC had given questions to Harris before the debate, I thought it could be possible. It wouldn’t be the first time there were some shenanigans around debates. So I looked at the claims, I checked out the affidavit. I saw some comment about Disney Media Networks being defunct, so I looked into that and confirmed that it was disbanded years ago. At that point, I thought it was pretty clear that this was a hoax. So you have no evidence other than conjecture and your tacit acknowledgment that she performed well. Which is why you’re moving the goalposts away from the whistleblower story. But honestly, what question at the debate was not predictable? Where was the “gotcha” she needed to be prepared for that any campaign adviser wouldn’t have been able to predict and prepare for?

That sound you hear is Big Blitz moving the goal posts at the speed of light because he got caught falling for an obvious lie.

White Dude Pretending to Be Black Insurrectionist. Weird. Local Rochester weirdo pretends to be a black guy, thousands of gullible MAGA fall for it. "Last month, the account posted what Black Insurrectionist claimed was an affidavit from an ABC News employee, alleging Harris was given questions in advance of the network’s debate with Trump — which ABC News vigorously disputed. Trump approved, though, declaring, “I love the person.” More recently, Black Insurrectionist posted a baseless claim alleging inappropriate behavior between Walz and a student decades ago, a falsehood that U.S. intelligence officials said sprang from a Russian disinformation campaign." *** "The Black Insurrectionist account is linked directly to Jason G. Palmer, who has his own questionable backstory, starting with the fact that he isn’t Black, according to an Associated Press review of public records, open source data and interviews with a half-dozen people who interacted closely with Palmer over the past two decades. The records and personal accounts offer a portrait of an individual who has repeatedly been accused of defrauding business partners and lenders, has struggled with drug addiction and whose home was raided by the FBI over a decade ago. He also owes more than $6.7 million dollars in back taxes to the state of New York. “He’s far from African American,” said Kathleen Albano, who said her deceased husband was involved in a failed business venture with Palmer." *** " The suggestion that Palmer was involved with an account that spread falsehoods about the upcoming election was not a surprise to those who have had business and personal dealings with Palmer over the past two decades. “He owes me a ton of money,” said Albano, whose late husband had a business relationship with Palmer. “He has a way of roping people in. I always had his number. I knew exactly who he was. But unfortunately my husband got caught up in a lot of those dealings.” Albano said Palmer purchased a Webster, New York, home from her and her husband but failed to make payments. She said Palmer talked her husband into a investment venture to recoup the money, which also ended poorly. “None of it materialized ever,” Albano said." *** "In the mid-2000s, Palmer embarked on a real estate venture, buying up commercial properties in downtown Rochester. It ended with a string of lawsuits from creditors and former business partners, seeking tens of millions of dollars in unpaid loans and assets. Palmer blamed his troubles with the venture, in part, on an opioid addiction he had at the time. Some former business partners alleged Palmer tried to seize control of buildings using documents with their signatures forged, according to court records. In a 2020 case in Oneida County, New York, a forensic specialist conducted a detailed analysis of a document signing over an apartment complex to a company in which Palmer held a stake. The specialist concluded that “the evidence indicates that the signatures and the notary seal” were produced “by way of cut and paste or digital manipulation.” *** "Maureen Bass, a bankruptcy attorney in Rochester, said she wasn’t surprised by Palmer’s connection to an X account spreading conspiracy theories. Bass represented Wells Fargo in a commercial foreclosure case against Palmer and recalled that he once sent her old firm a lengthy email “manifesto” that accused local government officials of conspiring against him. “It was rambling. He had been a victim of the ‘Axis of Evil.’ Politicians had done things to him, and had taken his assets,” Bass said. “So this doesn’t surprise me.”"

Yep. For someone with no history in PA, I have a weird number of people close to me connected to Latrobe / Greensburg. Ironically, the couple whose wedding we were there for now live in… Butler

Yep, was there for a wedding about a decade ago. My then-finance (now wife) and I were both in the wedding party. The Springhill Suites was pretty nice. They even had some of Arnie’s golf memorabilia in the lobby. The ladies had to get up super early to get their hair and makeup done by the West Virginia border. The dudes met up at the hotel lobby around noon. Gave me some time to head out and recharge the AC in my car in the morning. There was also an air show later that weekend so it was hard to catch a nap with planes buzzing the airfield next door during practice.

As someone who once stayed at the Arnold Palmer Springhill Suites on Arnold Palmer Drive across the road from the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport down the way from Arnold Palmer Cadillac, this was certainly a new Arnold Palmer experience for me.

Tommy Eyerolls always knows when to trot out his talking points. Can’t risk the information bubble popping

Wow, COVID really broke a lot of your brains, huh? Anything to deflect from the US's terrible response and resulting disproportionate share of deaths. Just strawmen arguments and anything to protect Dear Leader's reputation. Anyway, to get back on topic: Do not read anything into early turnout numbers. You don't know if increased early turnout is indicative of more people voting or people who would normally vote on election day just voting earlier instead.

Well, hopefully nobody voting for Trump expects to receive social security

Trump is president: all COVID deaths and response failures are the fault of everyone except the president. Biden is president: all COVID deaths are the president's fault. The buck stops literally anywhere other than Dear Leader, it seems.

It's amazing how easily so many people forgot what life was like during COVID in 2020 as Trump mismanaged the response and a 9/11 worth of people were dying every couple of days.

Can you think of anything happening in 2020 that would have motivated people to vote?

The population of the United States increased by about 40,000,000 people between 2008 and 2020... "Yeah, Grover Cleveland got 4.9 million votes, but Rutherford B. Hayes got 4 million votes... when James G. Blain got 4.8 million."

What happens to the price of food if you reduce the supply of food by 25-40% but keep the supply of money the same?

If the cost of producing the goods (wages) increases, what happens to the price of the goods?

This is false. Demand outstripping supply increases prices without any changes in the money supply. Creating labor shortages across multiple sectors will reduce supply in those industries. Barring a coincidental equal decrease in demand, prices for those goods and services will rise.

In actuality, it would just drive up prices, increasing inflation. Just like the massive tariffs on all imports MAGA does know it’s voting for massive inflation, right? Poor Irv listing out the people who make him feel dumb, making him sad. What a mess

25-40% of farm laborers 19% of building maintenance and grounds crew 17% of construction workers 12% of food prep/service workers $10.6 billion in tax revenues I wonder how that would affect the economy…

(Citation needed)

But that would be disagreeing with Dear Leader. It is forbidden