Raptorpat

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/12/us/politics/harris-debate-donations.html

I'd reply that the wholesale changes (short of burning it all down) can only happen from the bottom up. There are obvious limitations but I think that'd be the best way to start.

happy solo birthday i guess

happy birthday @SwimOdin, @InsaneFox, and @UwPp crazy how it took three triplets to get one functional colon between you all

The think the base answer is simply teaching civics in grade school and deliberately incorporating registering to vote and ongoing election discussions into high school civics. Anything else that parties do to organize/activate the youth is on top. The problem is that schools/teachers will be accused of indoctrinating kids to vote one way or another regardless of where the schools are.

I sincerely wonder whether he realizes it went bad or whether he genuinely believes his yesmen and snap newsmax polls

the problem with young voters is that it's literally a new crop of voters every election cycle, last cycle's young voters aren't this cycle's young voters. so the lesson needs to be taught every single go around.

this tweet has the best angled video i've seen though i'm having trouble hearing the audio with no headset. he and suspenders are just crossing the metaphorical aisle via goofing off - surely no one will deliberately misinterpret it by using the still out of context.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/putin-pals-bamboozled-as-complete-fool-kamala-harris-creams-our-donald

Kamala campaign just trolling now. They pinned this to their tweeter and it's literally just an upload of the entire debate

swiftie update

apparently a horrible rabbit hole

also, most importantly:

you know what else is a weird thing to say?

I think primary debates are about swaying, but general election debates are more about justifying voting to your designated base

Donald Trump showed up in the spin room, it's possible my reaction was underselling how bad he did.

the swifties have been activated

The Harris campaign thinks it was a win, they want a round 2

I think she met the bar in introducing herself and setting up bait for Trump. Very adequate. He struggled to the extent that he kept losing his stride due to real-time fact checking on the most plainly obvious stuff, and also falling for the bait. I don't think it will move the needle much, but will probably if anything lock in slim Harris leads in the bulk of the swing states and isolate the race into those couple of swing states (PA/NC/GA). That being said, some of the stupid shit he said could go viral so who knows.

happy birthday @Still Me! your gift is to show us cat pics