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Quixote1818

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January 29, 2024

The Self Balancing Monorail

January 29, 2024

Since Trump seems to be talking about acing his cognitive test at every rally now. Maybe every time he lies

we start blaming it on his cognitive decline? Seriously, he may have been intentionally lying about it being Haley instead of Nancy because we all know Trump just says whatever he wants and his supporters believe him and no once cares he is lying. But if we start attaching cognitive decline to his lies then he's going to get more and more nervous about lying because the cognitive decline stuff gets attached to it and seems to be sticking. He really gets triggered by people thinking he is losing his "amazing" mind. LOL I think this will throw Trump off his game because he is used to just saying absolutely a billion lies and getting away with it. It will be in the back of his mind now if he is about to tell a lie and it may trip him up. Not to mention it seems to actually be getting some traction that we wern't getting before.

This video is what made me think of this:

January 29, 2024

Simon Rosenberg cites these six major issues Trump has this time he didn't have last time

Note that Rosenberg correctly predicted there would be no red wave during the midterms despite the polling.

1. A jury of his peers found he raped a women in a dressing room
2. His family committed decades long financial fraud. Found this by a court of law.
3. The Colorado Supreme Court has found he led an insurrection against the US.
4. He stole America's secrets, lied to the FBI about it and shared these secrets with other people. The single greatest betrayal in American History.
5. He and his family have taken billions of dollars from foreign Governments. Something never seen before by an American President.
6. He ended Roe and brags about it on tape.

He suggests any one of these is enough to sink a candidate and Trump has six!

He also points out he is much more erratic this time, more extreme and not reaching out to independent voters and moderate Republicans.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/132210655

January 29, 2024

There is a popular post on DU suggesting Trump won't make it to the General Election. Let's do a poll

Here is the thread: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218632620

So will Trump's mental decline prevent him from making it to the General Election? I don't have a strong opinion either way. It was such a popular post I was just curious how that idea would poll here on DU.

January 28, 2024

It's interesting looking at which news programs have the most Youtube subscribers. Fox is not #1 on Youtube

I just found this kind of interesting. Fox comes in 3rd on Youtube. (I know they are number one on TV) And when you combine all the more down the middle news channels and Fox and those who lean right. They get crushed by their reach.

Taking out channels that are clearly more on the left and just leaving moderate news sources here is how it breaks down:

Moderate / "straight" news: 49 Million

Fox and right-wing news stations: 14 Million (Fox, OAN, Newsmax)

Left Wing: 12 Million (TYT and MSNBC)

CNN 16 Million

ABC News 15.8 Million

Fox News 11 Million

NBC News 9.6 Million

MSNBC 6.4 Million

CBS News 5.9 Million

TYT 5.7 Million

Newsmax 2.1 Million

One America 1.3 Million

News Nation 1.1 Million

January 28, 2024

No, Tesla Cybertruck Is *Not* Faster Than Porsche (While Towing)

Musk pulled a fast one. He cut the video at the 1/8th mile mark instead of 1/4 mile with is standard in drag racing so the Porsche would have easily over taken the Tesla had the video not cut out. Also, Musk used a sub-par, automatic and very light version Porsche for the video.

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