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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Probably nothing worth really reporting on I bet. They know better than to put their incriminating shit in an email.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That assumes some level of competence. That is not a bet I would take.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I'm familiar. But I don't think that Trump's campaign is particularly competent or well managed. The Heritage Foundation is another matter. If Trump was well managed, he wouldn't have Vance as a VP nominee, given that Vance was (is) underwater in his own state.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, I think it’s the opposite…..

Which part of trumps agenda is hidden? I mean he puts it ALL on display and his supporters don’t give a fuck.

I would bet that there’s nothing there because everyone already knows, and people have already decided whether they give a shit or not

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Trump's popularity decline appears to have coincided in part with awareness of Project 2025. A small number of low-information voters may have liked Trump, but not really paid attention to what he stands for, and are now seeing it. So to that end, making everything public might help move even more voters.

In all seriousness, I've worked with people that supported Trump and genuinely had no idea where he stood on a lot of things. Like, I worked with a black man that genuinely believed that Trump was the least-racist president ever.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just visited Graceland, the number of black folks that wanted to vote for trump was terrifying.

They had some really valid complaints about the Democrats, but they had no idea of what trump was, they just knew that the democrats weren’t solving their problems.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

And I agree - there are a lot of valid problems with Dems. But it all gets so much worse with Republicans.

I don't like voting for the lesser of two evils, but the only practical way out of this mess is to work at the grass-roots level to get better candidates.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Was there any incriminating shit in Hillary's mails?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah, which is exact why Trump sent her to prison as he promised!

Actually, the DNC email hack was pretty back for democrats. Not cause of anything incriminating, but for proving to the Bernie fans that the DNC really was working against him. This led to many of them not voting, boycott voting, or switching to Trump’s side.