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Cult leaders love to make their followers grovel. Moscow Mitch has only himself to blame.

After canvassing yesterday decided to not watch any news rest of the day. Take a little time off. So I relaxed with streaming a couple of soothing movies.
Silence of the Lambs
The Godfather
 
PCmor7 said:
The first thing I thought of when I read this is what does it say about Americans when so many of them tie their identity to someone like that ... and it's not like he hides it very well.
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From his book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, published in 1995, Carl Sagan wrote:

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
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"Especially a kind of celebration of ignorance,” aptly describes the people who believe they know more than experts they distrust because they did their own “research.” These are often insecure, intellectually lazy individuals who easily fall for the most inane conspiracies in an attempt to seem edgy. Add fear, hate, and pettiness to the mix, and you have people molded in the image of Donald Trump.
 
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Reports CEOs breaking to Trump. Business wants stability. They know Trump is unstable and his policies are terrible for economy but in close election hedging their bets. If Trump wins he will take vengeance on those who opposed him. If Harris wins, she will be pragmatic, not vindictive. So they won't be harmed.
 
Former FEC Lawyer on Big Money, Citizens United & Elon Musk's Illegal Moves to Help Trump

 
"Not a 'Joke.' It's Fascism": Trump Says He Wouldn't Mind Journalists Getting Shot

The Republican nominee also said during the same rally in Pennsylvania that he "shouldn't have left" the White House after losing the 2020 election.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-shoot-reporters

Not that I care what Trump has to say. He knows exactly who he is marketing his rhetoric to, and that it will hit the news media. That is all Trump cares about.
 
Elon Musk lawyer says $1 mln voter giveaway winners are not random

PHILADELPHIA, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's pro-Trump group does not choose the winners of its $1 million-a-day giveaway to registered voters at random, but instead picks people who would be good spokespeople for its agenda, a lawyer for the billionaire said on Monday.

Musk lawyer Chris Gober was trying to persuade a Pennsylvania judge that the giveaway was not an "illegal lottery," as Philadelphia district attorney Lawrence Krasner alleged in a lawsuit seeking to block the contest ahead of Tuesday's U.S. presidential election.

"There is no prize to be won, instead recipients must fulfill contractual obligations to serve as a spokesperson for the PAC," Gober said in the hearing before Judge Angelo Foglietta, referring to Musk's political action committee, known as America PAC.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-weighs-challenge-elon-musks-1-million-voter-giveaway-2024-11-04/
 
Back during '08 campaign, there was a line about 'No Drama Obama'. Meaning mostly that his campaign ran smoothly and was not error-prone.
Seems to me that we've now got No Dramala Kamala. Remains to be seen whether the outcome is the same, but there has been a notable lack of drama.

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