Hi my previous post to Brookie sort of answers to this,
I don’t disagree that the ads were effective. I think that’s the problem with them. They grab some clips, propagandise them, stoke a culture war and hope people don’t stop to think “what will the Republican Party actually do to improve the situation”.
As for the % points changing due to the ad, how does that work? Is it based on a poll of sorts? If so, I think it’s fair to say polls are generally unreliable as a quantitative data source. Eg. They are typically great at capturing some overall trends, but to extrapolate that to the entire population / voting base the requirement is that there be no response bias (which is borderline impossible without a national mandatory poll).
As for the situation - I think it is in bad faith (or perhaps revisionist) to suggest the election was predominantly based on “woke” ideas. Four years on from Covid prices had stayed up (global phenomena) and naturally people start to think any change is a good change. I understand why people think that way. Immigration also dominated headlines and political messaging. But really it boiled down to Trump fear mongering about the economy, immigrants, woke and the democrats doing the same about Trump. Republicans mentioned little policy, Democrats only partially touched on theirs and that was that. It was fairly representative of the trends in US politics / media in general over the years. More interest in headlines and drama than political policy
I don't really want to get involved with this ,and I will know doubt regret it and stir up a few, but anyways ,,,
I don't think Trumps victory came down to Kamal caring for They Them and Trump caring for You, as brilliant a slogan and message as that was. Nor was it about the immigrants eating the cats and dawgs
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I think Kamala didn't do herself any favours with picking a weirdo like Walz to run with her ,she would have been better to pick the "gay " guy she dumped because she didn't think people would go for a gay person ,and so she picked Walz. That in itself is a great reason to doubt her ability to think at all and her decision making abilities in general
In addition the left in the govt in the US have persecuted Trump relentlessly (rightly or wrongly depending on your point of view) since he first decided to run in the 2016 campaign and then after he lost the 2020 election they kept at it with inspiration from J6th ,and then they turned it up a notch when he went for 2024.
I think a lot of the American public saw thru that and called it for it was --political persecution .
Something that happens in various counties in the world where political opponents are got rid of or disappeared.
Secondly the word felon is liberally used by the left when describing Trump when in fact the felony's were tant amount to book keeping errors, which is why they never left NY state as charges. Again the US public could see this over reach
Lastly the US exit form Afghanistan was peak US weakness on display ,and Americans were embarrassed at the images and the what 80B of kit left there
It was no coincidence that the likes of Xi and Putin all then rose to the occasion amping up the aggression and their campaigns to the point where we are now.
So imo the US public and the free world for that matter were pretty happy to see the back of Biden Harris ,Walz and the weak left in general and say hello to someone (with all his faults, baggage, self promoting, narcissism, egotism, sometimes quixotic behaviour, unpredictability ,volatility etc ) ,who said he would put America first, make the worlds agitators think twice and dare I say it make America great again. On that account the US citizens will make the final call.
But from where I sit I feel a lot safer that Trump is in office than what I would have with Kamala and Walz (god help us)
So 12 months in he is doing his best to bring an end to the Ukraine War (the success of which is still dubious to date ) and the middle east conflict .But whatever the success you cant say he is not trying his best to end both of those conflicts. He also claims to have finished off a few other wars.
His stealth bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities was just enough to let the likes of Iran and others know that you poke the US and its high tech military kit and personnel at your peril .
It was a bit like when Iran bombed the Al Asad US base in early 2020 killing some US personnel ,and for a moment the world wondered if it was the the beginning of WW3 ,when Trump then sent a surgical strike into an Iranian airbase killing know one but completely levelling the complex, after which he was reported to have said words to the effect "that's what I have done with 30 seconds notice ,your move Iran" .Despite claims to the contrary that Trump is a danger to the world ,so far he has proven imo to be an earnest peacemaker and cool headed tactician.
Although the jury is possibly still out on that with Putin.
His speech to the UN last night was typical Trump, scheduled to talk for 15 minutes he spoke for an hour + and called out the UN for the weak farce it is and all the weak western nations that have helped skittle the cease fire deals with Hamas with their faux recognition of a Palestine state and ,absolutely prosecuted the fallacy and scam that is climate change and the renewable energy hoax
with bullseye accuracy delivered in that highly entertaining Trump style .(which I must admit I like seeing being sent up by the various Trump impersonators on IG etc )
Anyways go Trump and Go Manly
