It's not for the attendees. There are plenty of people who do not read news regularly and have not heard about it. This is the kind of action that spreads on social media and reaches some of those people
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And to clarify this is a literal projected image
They also said more than that and doubled down on the racism
“These Latinos, they love making babies, too. Just know that they do,” Hinchcliffe said, setting up his joke: “There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They c-- inside, just like they did to our country.”
Hinchcliffe also told a joke about one of his Black “buddies” and how they “carved watermelons” together.
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Americans are increasingly concerned about Donald Trump’s age and fitness for office
(today.yougov.com)
I respect the joke, but I simultaneously also respect whoever downvoted the comment nearly instantly :)
Plus then it's a nice tie in to Walz's coaching background for that group
The thing I've found that helps the best with anxiety for me is getting involved and volunteering. It helps move the margin a little and makes me at least feel like I'm at least taking action to help. Easiest place to start is with a casual reminder to any dem-leaning friends, family, etc. to make sure they get out and vote
Then there's plenty of online and in person volunteering thing out there too. Here's one site that lists a some of the opportunities around you both in person and online
Note: Gerrymandering doesn't impact state wide races like senate and presidential. Only district based things like house seats
California is far more blue than texas is red. California votes around D+20 statewide, Texas is more like R+5 ish
From the article
A Trump voter in Pennsylvania tells Rolling Stone that he had his girlfriend sign the petition and list him as a referrer. “If it were anyone other than Elon Musk doing this I wouldn’t trust it,” he says. But he is frustrated at receiving no confirmation message or further communication from the Super PAC since then. “Part of me thinks it’s B.S. just to rally up votes,” he admits, in which case he plans to “have a field day slandering [Musk], and Trump might just lose my vote.”
Are you sure? Becasuse that was probably me on this same account. On a different post on the exact same topic, I made a comment clarifying the same thing
Edit: searching for "at least $15" across lemmy on my instance only has my own comments come up
He said he wanted his military generals to look like Hitler's
In their book, The Divider: Trump in the White House, Peter Baker and Susan Glasser reported that Trump asked John Kelly, his chief of staff at the time, “Why can’t you be like the German generals?”
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According to Baker and Glasser, Kelly explained to Trump that German generals “tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off.” This correction did not move Trump to reconsider his view: “No, no, no, they were totally loyal to him,” the president responded.
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This week, I asked Kelly about their exchange. He told me that when Trump raised the subject of “German generals,” Kelly responded by asking, “‘Do you mean Bismarck’s generals?’” He went on: “I mean, I knew he didn’t know who Bismarck was, or about the Franco-Prussian War. I said, ‘Do you mean the kaiser’s generals? Surely you can’t mean Hitler’s generals? And he said, ‘Yeah, yeah, Hitler’s generals.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-military-generals-hitler/680327/
Think the title autofil wasn't about to get the title right, should read
Former Trump official agrees with John Kelly: Trump ‘does not operate by the rule of law’
Instead of
just a moment
Puerto Ricans also move. Plenty in swing states + places with competitive down-ballot races. Republicans are already trying to back track on this, they think it hurts them
Peurto Ricans by state
EDIT: also worth mentioning that he also said other racists remarks too