Donald Trump cooked up a "pressure" campaign for a special election that he hoped would reinstate himself as president six whole months after Joe Biden took office, according to details purportedly from famed Watergate reporter Bob Woodward's book. Foreign policy reporter Laura Rozen dropped the...
  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
    85·
    20 days ago

    Shit failed so badly no one backed him lol.

    He’ll sure as shit try it again though.

  • MyOpinion@lemm.ee
    75·
    20 days ago

    I am really hoping the Orange Turd does not get the chance again. But never underestimate the stupidity of my fellow Americans.

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
    63·
    20 days ago

    Who would have guessed the giant man baby would throw a fit yelling “I WANT A DO-OVER!!”

    I can’t fucking believe this guy is going to be the president again…

      • Asafum@feddit.nl
        51·
        20 days ago

        https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/08/28/key-things-to-know-about-us-election-polling-in-2024/

        There’s a lot to unpack in there but the following is the most concerning if you consider Kamalas current polling:

        Even if the trend shown there was reversed Kamala is so damn close in current polls that any similar inaccuracy has her lose every swing state. I just don’t see her winning, but I’m a seriously depressed pessimist so… Here’s to hoping I’m wrong.

        I just had to make a quick edit to laugh at the url that calls this a “short read” lol

        • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
          31·
          20 days ago

          You’re getting downvotes because people disagree with you, but you posted a source and you explained yourself in good faith. That gets an upvote, imo.

          • Asafum@feddit.nl
            4·
            19 days ago

            Much appreciated!

            I’m just a joe schmoe factory worker stressed out about it and trying to make sense of it all. I’m more than happy to have someone who understands it all better than this dumb factory schmuck tell me why I’m reading it wrong lol

          • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
            1·
            18 days ago

            Kamala has bad history. People may deceive themselves they don’t care, but they still do, even those who eat with shit anybody criticizing her, just subconsciously. That subconscious influence on their behavior may affect those undecided around them. Trump is demented, but Kamala having the “lawful-neutral” flavor with some “lawful-evil” undertones makes the difference less notable for Republican voters. Some of the Democrat voters are less likely to go and vote due to having suppressed doubts.

            It doesn’t matter that “people against the establishment” is not the main theme of this election. It’s still an unresolved question. That it’s suppressed just shows the degree of media independence from political corporations (it not existing, that is). Trump is not “people” in this, but he manages to appear neutral between “people” and “the establishment”, while Kamala doesn’t, and her attempts are worse than lack thereof.

            “We are going to throw you some bones and punish some corpos” is not a satisfactory position.

            The cost of Trump winning for this world is too much, so I really hope he doesn’t. But were that not so, one could say that worse is better, Trump winning would mean a political crisis and some reforms in the political system as its consequence, when they clean up the rubble.

        • Furball@sh.itjust.works
          23·
          20 days ago

          There are a lot of reasons to think that it might go the other way this year. In 2016, we had a combination of overconfidence, lack of real enthusiasm, and a general sense of not giving a shit that allowed democrats, who outnumbered Trump supporters, to throw the election. In 2020, polling was completely fucked up by Covid. Democrats had higher margins in pre-election polling but less on Election Day mostly due to the fact that democrats were more cautious about the pandemic, and those who forgot to sign up for mail in voting decided to stay home for safety, and the on the ground get out the vote measures didn’t happen at all on the blue side. This year neither are true, and we saw in polls in 2022 underestimate democrats. Pollsters may have overcorrected for the quiet Trump voters while not accounting for the turnout caused by the scrapping of roe. If you want an example of over correction to account for republicans in polls, look at the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election. I feel like polls are underestimating democrats this time around.

        • orcrist@lemm.ee
          15·
          20 days ago

          Don’t be depressed. You’re reading a statistical analysis of something that was already totally unreliable to begin with. The researchers could have conducted a better poll, that would fix the weak points that they perceive to exist in existing data, but they didn’t. So now we have even more assumptions stacked on top of other assumptions, and it’s really hard to think there’s any kind of reliability to that data.

        • Ranvier@sopuli.xyz
          13·
          19 days ago

          Polling errors are not predictable beforehand. If they were, we wouldn’t have polling errors. In 2022 for instance there was polling error in favor of democrats not against (or at least too much emphasis on polls with errors in Republican favor).

          https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/us/politics/polling-election-2022-red-wave.html

          We can’t know the electorate beforehand, so poll weighting and deciding who is a likely voter is always going to involve some guesswork. So the opposite of what you say is true as well, if there is a small polling error that overstates Trump’s support it would have Kamala sweeping every swing state.

          But the polls show a close election, all we can do is do our best to do things that help her win. Like voting early to make sure our vote gets in no matter what, encouraging people we know to register and vote, volunteering, canvassing, donating, etc.

        • Furbag@lemmy.world
          10·
          20 days ago

          Polls are not so much a prediction of the future as they are a snapshot in time and indicative of a candidate’s current momentum.

          But you’re right. It’s deeply shocking that this race is even close. If the DNC ever tried to run a candidate as bad as Trump, I’d just stay fucking home or vote 3rd party as a throwaway vote. I hope some Republicans with any shred of dignity or a functioning moral compass do the same on election day. We need real patriots to come together across ideological gaps and reject fascism full stop.

          • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
            6·
            19 days ago

            Right, and that’s why some of these Republicans coming out for Harris is considered good, but all some of us see is a rightward shift so now they want to stay home.

            The non fascist side of Lemmy is so fractured and fickle that you can’t talk to the dog owners without upsetting the cat owners, and by talking to either of those, the vegans are pissed.

            And I don’t know how to even approach fixing it for this election. RCV would help on the future though.

          • AA5B@lemmy.world
            4·
            19 days ago

            You’d better beIieve that if Republicans were a bastion of sanity and Democrats nominated someone batshit, that I’d vote Republican (or green, idk)

      • ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world
        3·
        20 days ago

        Because he Dems get complacent (Hillary 2016), the indies effectively sit it out until their entitlement gets fulfilled, and the magas are pretty much locked in for their orange fuhrer.

        • MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world
          2·
          19 days ago

          It is 8 years later and it still pisses me off with how badly they fucked up by coronating her as the nominee. Literally anyone else…

  • RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world
    45·
    20 days ago

    At least we finally understand where that rumor was coming from. You’d think when August came and went without Trump becoming President that would have been an obvious flaw with all the Q stuff.

  • someguy3@lemmy.world
    44·
    20 days ago

    The newest reported revelation involves Trump and a former GOP lawmaker, Mo Brooks.

    According to Rozen, “In June 2021, Six months into Biden’s term, Trump pressured Mo Brooks to call for a special election to reinstate Trump as president, according to Woodward’s new book.”

    “Brooks refused, leading to their split,” Rozen added on X Sunday.

  • stringere@sh.itjust.works
    26·
    20 days ago

    Please stop linking Bob-waits-for-an-election-to-publish-fucking-Woodward related shit. Too little too late for it.

    I’m glad this asshole didn’t have a book deal for Watergate or we’d have found out about that during the election cycle after Nixon cheated.

    Fuck you, Bob.

    • just_another_person@lemmy.worldOP
      38·
      20 days ago

      If anything, with Trump, it’s better closer to the election. It doesn’t give people time to get comfortable with it and wash it away in their brains, and their campaign can only embarrass themselves by trying to yell “fake news” when the proof gets revealed like the COVID tests for Putin shit.

      You know who needs to be compelled to fucking release the tapes? The guy who has the audio and video of Trump ranting on his stupid show and throwing around every kind of racial epithet he can muster. That fucker needs to post that stuff NOW.

      Edit: had to find a more recent update on it, and this is all I could find: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/donald-trump-apprentice-n-word-tape-how-to-find.html

    • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      18 days ago

      Please stop linking Bob-waits-for-an-election-to-publish-fucking-Woodward related shit. Too little too late for it.

      To be fair, it’s not just Woodward. There are plenty of Trump’s former employees, associates, and friends who coincidentally only had bad things to say about Trump when they had a book that they had to promote. We possibly could have saved years of misery and maybe even succesfully removed Trump from office if even a few of these people had (a) spoken up sooner, and (b) didn’t have a financial stake in what they’re saying. One of the reasons that these revelations have had little to no real impact (or in some cases, actually boosted Trump’s popularity) is because people believe that they’re simply making the stories up to promote their book And given that 95% of these revelations come out right around the time someone has a new book to promote, I can’t blame them.

      Don’t just blame Woodward. Blame all of them.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    19 days ago

    I so hate the fact that I have to worry about any “demand” that this asshole might make or has made. What a fucked up world we live in.

  • _bcron_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    20 days ago

    It’d be kind of sad to see how delusional he is if I didn’t know he’s a gigantic asshole

    • Masterbaexunn@lemmy.world
      2·
      18 days ago

      He definitely wouldn’t notice for a while… Do you remember how long him or his team went without a press briefing??? Lmao what a bitch

  • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
    8·
    19 days ago

    I seem to vaguely recall this b.s. Like if I was just a bit more of an idiot I’d be calling for a special election to install me as president, too. But it’s just not my jam.

    " "According to Rozen, “In June 2021, Six months into Biden’s term, Trump pressured Mo Brooks to call for a special election to reinstate Trump as president, according to Woodward’s new book.”

    “Brooks refused, leading to their split,” Rozen added on X Sunday."