Trump at Nat’l Assoc. of Black Journalists (NABJ)

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Calheel said:
His base is nowhere close to that. Probably at 35% absolute max.

The problem is that there are a lot of Heelyeahs out there who hate Ds and will vote for anyone with the magic R next to their name over any D. Some of those people may just stay home, but enough will vote for Trump to get him to at least 46%.

It is important to keep in mind that Trump voter does not automatically equal MAGA. In many cases, they are just virulently anti-D as a circumstance of birth and culture.
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Honestly at this point I'm not sure that's any different than being MAGA
 
nycfan said:
Yeah, I was much more in your lane taking the bar. Had a 6-figure job lined up in BigLaw in NYC and staring down huge loan payments, I was scared shitless that somehow the bar would prove I was an impostor somehow.
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My approach was different. I blew off studying for the bar. In fairness, I was having a very hard summer for a number of reasons. But I went to the first bar prep class, revolted against the mindlessness, and tried to get myself situated in NYC after my clerkship in DC. Time passed.

I was thirsty for a relationship because I was lonely and had recently been dumped by a woman who I thought I might marry. I was buying a house in Westchester County so I could take the train to Midtown while she was in driving distance of her residencies in the Bronx and in Westchester County. After much searching, we found a place, but there was some radon in the basement; I managed to convince the sellers that they had to pay for remediation, but my gf -- a physician! -- said she didn't want to live in a "sick house." After some argument, she broke it off. I scrambled to find something different because there was no way in hell I was going to live by myself in a big house in the burbs. I found a place in Park Slope, but it was new construction and it wasn't ready yet. So I was subletting.

Anyway, I spent a lot of time doing internet dating. Internet dating is a pretty bad experience for someone with emotional troubles, though it's better than the alternative of pure loneliness. Being ghosted is incredibly demoralizing. Sending emails into the ether and hoping for a reply is demoralizing. But again, at least it's hope. I was not in a position where I could really socialize in a normal fashion.

So I dawdled and got distracted and three days before the bar exam, I realized, "oh shit, the bar exam is in three days." I hit the Bar Bri books. I focused on the multistate section first, because I remembered a lot of that from 1L and it was a big part of the test score. For the NY section of the exam, I was strategic. No way I was going to try to learn procedure -- I just blew that off. I focused on the topics that would be easier, less expansive, and overall easier to learn in a couple of hours.

I passed, but barely. I could have failed. I'm pretty sure that I could take ALL the cognitive tests in the world SIMULTANEOUSLY and score better on all of them than Trump would score on any single one.
 
PBOHEEL said:
So you are for socialized medicine?

Interesting.

In all honesty… not to pick a fight… I’m almost certain most of the posters on this site support Socialism but are afraid to admit it.

Enjoyed the talks today.

I’ll leave you guys to your daily GOP bashing!

Enjoy!
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Since nations with socialized medicine have measurably better health outcomes than we do in the US, shouldn't pretty much everyone be in favor of socialized medicine?

There are clearly services better delivered by government than the private sector...roads, police, fire, military....why should Healthcare be sacrosanct and immune from a rational comparison of outcomes?
 
05C40 said:
Not to be "that guy" but, long before yesterday, to anyone with two working neurons to rub together, yesterday was not a surprise. Yeah, yeah, grandpa looked liked he was about to drop trous, dig into his Depends, and start throwing poop into the audience. But here's the deal, to the MAGA faithful, yesterday's performance was a feature, not a flaw.
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Very true, but he didn't gain any votes yesterday. He lost them. Minority votes, women's votes, independents' votes, some moderate R's votes, etc. He'll always have a non-zero chance at winning the EC even if only the most rabid of his base shows out. But yesterday was a very bad day for him, no matter what he Truths about it later.
 
superrific said:
Anyway, I spent a lot of time doing internet dating. Internet dating is a pretty bad experience for someone with emotional troubles, though it's better than the alternative of pure loneliness. Being ghosted is incredibly demoralizing. Sending emails into the ether and hoping for a reply is demoralizing. But again, at least it's hope. I was not in a position where I could really socialize in a normal fashion.
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This is getting really off topic but kind of topical for me because my girlfriend and I were watching a video where they discussed how Internet dating is causing a lot of depression among young men. The idea is that women get so many messages that many only respond to the top 5-10%. (I think that is more true for the younger generation.) That has the following effects:

1. Most men don’t get a lot of traction if any. That destroys their self esteem.
2. That top 5% of men are often players because the situation allows them to be so.
3. Women have a horrible experience because they are dealing with creeps and players.

The whole ecosystem is broken.

When I was single I had better experiences
In bars and I am a very shy person who has never approached a women with romantic intentions unless she showed clear signs of interest first.
 
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I’d like to thank Donald Trump for making it abundantly clear that people of diverse backgrounds can relate to a broader group of people than those of very homogenous backgrounds and that multiracial people should be proud of all of their heritage. I’ve always personally struggled how to frame myself racially and ethnically when it has come up (I’m biologically white and Puerto Rican with significant Cuban heritage culturally from my dad’s stepfather who raised him). Thanks Trump for pointing out that people in America these days don’t fit into neat little boxes where they come from and that our leadership should reflect the broad diversity of our society.
 
WaynetheDrain said:
"Not to pick a fight."

Proceeds to call the entire board socialists.

Grow up, dude.
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Indeed. And yet so many conservatives who posted in this style on the old ZZLP (and apparently now here) claim that they just don't understand why other posters get so frustrated and rude with them and don't take their thoughts or postings seriously. This entire exchange with PBO is like Exhibit A for why so many people keep saying that posters like this are trolls and not serious posters. And with that I'll shut up and return to reading the thread.
 
Wheels81 said:
Trump simply can’t process how someone can celebrate all sides of their heritage.

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Apparently in MAGAland you can only be Indian-American or African-American, but not both. When in fact increasing numbers of Americans are mixed race and manage to celebrate both sides of their heritage all the time. It's also flat-out hypocritical to slam Harris for this when the great J.D. Vance is married to an Indian-American woman and their kids have mixed heritage. Is J.D. just raising them as white?
 
Mulberry Heel said:
Apparently in MAGAland you can only be Indian-American or African-American, but not both. When in fact increasing numbers of Americans are mixed race and manage to celebrate both sides of their heritage all the time. It's also flat-out hypocritical to slam Harris for this when the great J.D. Vance is married to an Indian-American woman and their kids have mixed heritage. Is J.D. just raising them as white?
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Most likely, yes.
 
Of course the typical Trump self own of being a moron overshadows everything. But did Harris actually participate via zoom at some point?

I've heard nothing of her remarks, comments, or answers to questions. Maybe the event is still going on.
 
I’m very curious about the debates.

We all know Trump is a child, so even if his camp is saying no debates, he won’t be able to resist the bait when the narrative is he’s scared. But then I can’t imagine a debate with Harris turning out much better than yesterday against a career prosecutor who is 10x sharper than him.
 
CallMeTyler said:
Did you even read the shared article? It specifically refutes the argument you're attempting to make. You want to have an honest discussion, then actually focus on the merits of the case. Stop trying to obfuscate the topic by bringing unrelated strawmen.

The conviction was clear, the evidence that drove that conviction was clear, and it was a unanimous verdict by a jury, not some partial judge.

Since you don't care to actually read, here's the quoted text for your consumption:

“The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape,’ ” Kaplan wrote. He added: “Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.”

Kaplan said New York’s legal definition of “rape” is “far narrower” than the word is understood in “common modern parlance.”

The former requires forcible, unconsented-to penetration with one’s penis. But he said that the conduct the jury effectively found Trump liable for — forced digital penetration — meets a more common definition of rape. He cited definitions offered by the American Psychological Association and the Justice Department, which in 2012 expanded its definition of rape to include penetration “with any body part or object.”
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The NY definition of rape is very narrow. When Congress talks about how many rape cases there are in the military those numbers include the exact conduct Donald Trump was found to have done by a jury of his peers.
 
He was found guilty of forcing his fingers into a woman's vagina against her will. That is a fact. Those that want to enable him and excuse that behavior can call it whatever they want. That is on them. End of discussion and there is nothing to argue about.

Don't feed the dishonest enabling cultist trolls. Let's stick to the topics.
 
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