A friend is telling me Trump may be winning but like
fuck
November the eigth ain’t even here yet
It’s about the polls and here’s the issue
Trump has supporters who will vote for him no matter what he does. Trump himself has said he could shoot someone in the middle of a crowded street and still have supporters.
So those supporters LOVE Trump and will show up no matter what happens. Then you have others who don’t like either candidate, but we’re thinking they couldn’t support Trump a week ago because of the sexual assault scandals.
As time passed those people began to care less about the scandal. Every time Trump manages to go a week without a new scandal everyone forgets about the last one and the old supporters will always be there either way.
Hillary doesn’t have hard core supporters who love her and are super excited. Hillary’s supporters are more ‘she’s the best we’ve got’. Also, liberal/progressive voters tend to be more idealistic so they don’t like voting ‘no matter what?’
So a conservative might say ‘I’m not a racist myself, and I don’t like the KKK, but the fact the KKK endorses Trump won’t stop me from voting for him’.
A progressive might say ‘Hillary Clinton has said and done problematic things, so even though voting for her is essential to protect the rights of oppressed groups I’d feel better if I didn’t vote for a problematic person so I’m staying home.’
Trump knows this. That’s why his campaign strategy has been to make Hillary look bad to people won’t vote for him. Targeting black voters with Facebook content about things from the 90s (Trump’s policies and Supreme Court would do harm now and Hillary would be better, but the focus is on her not being good enough).
Then unlike Trump, scandals don’t happen and then go away after a week. Hillary’s emails have been an issue since 2015 and no one wants to move on. They just keep hammering it, and any new development reaffirms the line that something really bad must have happened.
So Hillary goes from being 5 points ahead to one point behind. This isn’t because Trump got more popular, he has the same white voters he’s always had but Clinton has lost support among the ‘lesser of two evils crowd’.
The Republicans who didn’t really want to support Trump are more willing to show up and vote to stop Hillary Clinton. The progressives are more likely to stay home or vote 3rd party because they don’t want to support “the system” or someone they feel isn’t perfect.
Basically Trump is winning in the polls, and it’s not because more people are voting for him. It’s because more people won’t for Hillary Clinton to stop Trump.
The choices are ‘Good’ vs ‘Terrible’ And people are saying, I’m not voting unless we get to pick something great. Except the the election isn’t ‘no one wins, let’s change the system and have a do-over’ if people don’t show up to vote, the person with the most votes win and you can bet the racists are showing up.
The reason to talk about this now, rather than next week, is so that maybe we can change things before it’s too late by encouraging people to vote.
If you dn’t go out and vote hillary (yes hillary because voting third party just splits the vote like in the 2000 election) I will personally never forgive you.
I’m telling people who can vote, that you should vote Hillary Clinton. I haaaaaaate Hillary Clinton. And I live in Massachusetts where I’m 99% sure everybody is already voting Clinton. But I’m voting for Clinton because while I know she’s pretty blatantly corrupt, she’s got a team of people behind her who aren’t, and actually do want to help the country.
So vote for Hillary Clinton if you agree with her policies. She’s not a good person, but there are people supporting her who are. And I’d deal with one lousy President for 4 years than a lunatic.
So do this for me. VOTE HILLARY.
I kinda like my home and I don’t want to have to flee the country. And my brother lives in the south, so he’d have further to flee than I would and I don’t want to inconvenience him.
where’s the interview w/ andy samberg where the interviewer asks about why there’s no jokes made around holt being gay and andy’s face twitches like “don’t do it.” and the interviewer goes on like “we live in such a weird PC culture though!” and andy laughs so uncomfortably i need it for science
His eyes in that last frame say, “I have lost any respect for you I might have had and I do not like you.”
I was thinking about this last night and Brooklyn Nine-Nine does have lots of jokes about Holt being gay. It’s just that they are not at his expense. The jokes aren’t LOL look at the gay guy calling everyone ‘girlfriend,’ caring about his
appearance a lot and acting stereotypical ‘gay.’
There was Holt not waiting for the priest to finish speaking before saying, “I do,” at his wedding because he’s scared that the law finally allowing him to marry the man he loves will be rescinded.
There’s the time Holt and Jake manage to break out of prison because a cop is homophobic and the joke is; look at how small minded this cop is rather than LOL gay people!
Holt talked about an old partner and said something, “He wasn’t racist but he was homophobic. He was a good partner.” The joke is that he had a partner who only disliked one part about him that he couldn’t change and had no control over and that was a win.
The there are lots of jokes about Holt being gay but they are about how messed up the world is in its treatment and view of gay man rather than have Holt be stereotypical gay.
