One of my relatives is a huge trump fan. When he sends me messages I get a guage on what’s hot in maga world. Recently it has been transgender talk. Framed as child abuse. Pediatric mutilation he calls it. Aghast at the concept of puberty blockers.

Burnwinter might have to disagree with you on that Burnsy. I've heard a lot on the former, but not really anything on the second part. What is this "clear, public reasoning" you speak of? Never heard of the stuff.

Also, I'm fairly liberal in my views, but I think generally the public aren't to be trusted. Morons, the lot of them.

    Aid to several communities impacted by Hurricane Helene was temporarily paused in parts of North Carolina over the weekend due to reports of threats against Federal Emergency Management Agency responders, amid a backdrop of misinformation about responses to recent storms.

    Some FEMA teams helping disaster survivors apply for assistance in rural North Carolina are currently working at secure disaster recovery centers in counties where federal workers are receiving threats, a FEMA spokesperson told CNN on Monday.

    “For the safety of our dedicated staff and the disaster survivors we are helping, FEMA has made some operational adjustments,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “Disaster Recovery Centers will continue to be open as scheduled, survivors continue to register for assistance, and we continue to help the people of North Carolina with their recovery.”

    On Saturday, FEMA workers had to halt their work in Rutherford County due to reports that National Guard troops saw “armed militia” threatening the workers, according to the Washington Post, which cited an email to federal agencies helping with the response, verified by unnamed federal officials. It’s not clear if the threat was credible.

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/14/us/fema-helene-north-carolina-reported-threats/index.html

    47% of the country is on board for this. i dont want to be here anymore.

    Supposedly Kamala is going on Fox News and Joe Rogan, internally they must be really worried if she is taking risks like that.

      it would be funny if she did rogan before trump. the entire spectrum of online right wing grifters have been gradually colonising that podcast ever since he relocated to Texas, and have been endlessly lobbying to get trump on there. I remember him saying a few years back he wasn't interested in having him on and had turned down a couple of requests from his team, but he has gone off the deep end with musk lately. can't imagine him having kamala on and not trump

      I thought Trump recently said he would be going on?

      What does she mean by "Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe"? Saw Obama the other day saying more black men need to come out for her, am guessing this is in reference to the tweet below. Am guessing this is an area where they think they can claw back support

        lol. The crypto thing is weird. Black men are disproportionately investing in crypto because they feel disenfranchised. The Democrats need to focus on the core issues of why they (like a lot of other demographics) feel left out and left behind. This is an insane party at times

          i think the 'losing black men' narrative will turn out to be just that, a narrative. there is an element of red pill types online who are chirping alot, but represent a demogrpahic that historically don't actually turn out at the polls. most of the top pollsters have her support among black voters at the same level as Bidens 2020 numbers, around 87%.

            Gazza M i think the 'losing black men' narrative will turn out to be just that, a narrative. there is an element of red pill types online who are chirping alot, but represent a demogrpahic that historically don't actually turn out at the polls. most of the top pollsters have her support among black voters at the same level as Bidens 2020 numbers, around 87%.

            Your probably right but this tweet by her campaign and Obama specifically mentioning it indicates they think they need to solidify this demographic. Maybe internally their polling has worried them?

            Claudius lol. The crypto thing is weird. Black men are disproportionately investing in crypto because they feel disenfranchised. The Democrats need to focus on the core issues of why they (like a lot of other demographics) feel left out and left behind. This is an insane party at times

            That statement comes across as quite patronising I thought, why do black men need to be reassured their investments are safe there? Like you say really weird statement.

                One thing about US elections nowadays is that the polling numbers can be way off the mark. Must admit at this distance I have no gut feeling whatsoever about the "real" sentiments of turnout and preference.

                  Burnwinter i dont think polling is inherently bad, i think people just do not understand the basics of polling, and more specifically, probability and things like margin of error. a poll that has a margin of error of 5% that shows trump +1 could be anything from trump +6 to harris +4. thats a really broad range of outcomes. too many people only look at the top line number and dont understand the specifics. polling also is not really "scientific" when the core of your sample is derived from people answering a phone call from an unknown number in the year 2024

                      mdgoonah41 Sure people are illiterate concerning estimation, but I think polling is also generally less accurate since the advent of the internet and especially social media. Sentiment is more volatile and less uniform than it was once.

                        Actually (at least in the US) sentiment has hardened. 49% of the vote will be democratic. 45% of the vote will be republican. So pollsters are trying to figure out what that remaining 6% will do. And these people are not "centrists." They're low information, low engagement, low probability voters. Who don't answer the phone and who don't tell the truth. But everyone else's mind was made up a long time ago.

                          RowJimmy agree with this. people are only undecided in the sense that they havent decided whether or not they are actually going to vote.

                            Obsessively trying to understand how my country can be about to reelect a sociopath whose fascism is only tempered by his short attention span.
                            I read a lot of "how to understand the polling" stuff. I like Nate Cohn in the NYT. It's not my field, and my technical abilities in statistics are weak. But I think I've developed a better sense than most people of the fact that a 60% probability only differs from a coin flip if you get to repeat the exercise fifty times.

                              hoegan just ends up agreeing with his guests.