November 4, 2024
Trump is down to his last 4 rallies.
The delightful subjectivity of money in politics.
Funny that she has never said a word about Soros, who has cumulatively put a hundred times more money into elections than I have 🤔
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 4, 2024
If I can figure out 🚀science with SpaceX and 🧠surgery with Neuralink, then maybe I can figure out politics too 🤷♂️ https://t.co/cW9sKHGgs3
"If what you're selling is let's get back to normal, be normal. We know Trump isn't normal, but if you lose this election..."
"I'm a sign guy. I notice signs...."
“Don Lemon left this interview practically in tears 😠— he tried talking to a Pennsylvania resident and got a major reality check. Turns out, in Pennsylvania, it’s Trump signs 10 to 1 over Kamala 😂” pic.twitter.com/0VwTTMw2Bn
— 1776 (@TheWakeninq) November 3, 2024
My curiosity about the term "permission structure" pays off.
[This ad] employs this device of the disillusioned Trump voter as a stand-in for the viewer. It's a permission structure for the small sliver of undecided voters who might have voted for Trump before to say: It's okay, there are other people just like you, other people who don't think that Donald Trump is good anymore....
Here is a Harris supporting celebrity saying he is disillusioned with what she Harris has said. It's the same permission structure for Harris. You have a white lady saying: You know what? Maybe I can actually vote for Kamala Harris.
"Permission structure" was used as if it's a standard term, so I wanted to get up to speed.
I can see that Obama used it back in 2013, but I'm interested in its repeated use in the last few days. I'm seeing it first in Ms. Magazine, on November 1: "New Ad Creates ‘Permission Structure’ for Men to Support Harris":
"NBC is giving former President Donald Trump’s campaign free commercial time in response to Vice President Kamala Harris' appearance on Saturday Night Live..."
"Quincy Delight Jones Jr. was born on the South Side of Chicago on March 14, 1933, to Quincy Sr. — a carpenter who worked for local gangsters..."
From "Quincy Jones, Giant of American Music, Dies at 91/As a producer, he made the best-selling album of all time, Michael Jackson’s 'Thriller.' He was also a prolific arranger and composer of film music" (NYT).
November 3, 2024
"I also think it’s important to acknowledge that, as much as I detest Trump the man, there are sides of the MAGA movement that deserve respect."
Said Bret Stephens, in "A Second Trump Term? Three Conservative Columnists Unpack What Could Happen" (NYT). The other 2 columnists are Ross Douthat and David French.
"Japan stole our Halloween magic that tracks cause it died here about 10 years ago."
From a Reddit post asking what millennials did (supposedly) that ruined Halloween.
Yeah, I can imagine it. I didn't tell anyone. And I don't even have a bad relationship.
Trump: "Can you imagine a wife not telling a husband who she's voting for? Did you ever hear anything like that? Even if you had a horrible -- if you had a bad relationship, you're gonna tell your husband." pic.twitter.com/gd5of817VY
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 2, 2024
Pointing my fingers... pointing my fingers... at you....
November 2, 2024
People seem to think this squirrel story is going to get Trump elected.
On Wednesday, Peanut, and Fred the racoon [sic], were seized by the Department of Environmental Conservation after multiple anonymous complaints about wild animals living in the Longo house.... In a statement to The Post on Wednesday, the DEC said that they were responding to complaints of a rabies vector species that was in the home, namely, Fred the raccoon.
I don't know what happened to Fred. I guess he wasn't Instagram-famous. But the killing of Peanut is becoming a bigger election-adjacent animal story that the dogs and cats that were or were not eaten in Springfield. Elon is seeing to that...
Ron Paul would be happy to talk to Elon Musk.
I'd be happy to talk with you about it, Elon. https://t.co/tjG6O5CpIj
— Ron Paul (@RonPaul) November 1, 2024