• Evil_Shrubbery
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    Tooto chicken debate!

    It’s a cock-fighting-like event but more civilised where chickens debate each other, they each have little tables & get prep time.
    The winner gets a bucket of mealworms. The loser gets the same, bcs chickens are good girls.

    Too-to (“Tutu”) was the legendary supreme chicken debate champion that a set of debate rules is now named after, in her honour.

    (TIL when I searched for a pic there is a chicken tutu market)

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      I’m just trying to imagine the person who drives through town, sees that sign, and makes up their mind on who to vote for based on that message.

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        Everyones mind is made up. At this point it’s just about turn out. If you can make a candidate look more Pathetic right before voting, the enthusiasm to support them by actually doing something that requires a little effort dwindles.

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          At this point it’s just about turn out.

          Does this actually boost turnout? Its not particularly functional. You’d maybe think signs about checking your registration and money to help people get to the polls more easily would be a better investment. Does it juice enthusiasm? Is someone seeing this and deciding to vote who otherwise wouldn’t?

          If you can make a candidate look more Pathetic right before voting

          That appears to be the pitch. Heckling Trump will somehow depress his base of support, rather than riling them up. People will see these signs and feel something other than contempt for the folks putting the banners up and it will become a reminder to show up to the polls.

          Is that worth more than money kicked to a campaign office to GOTV the old fashioned way? Idk. Feels more like a campaign staffer is being cheeky and wasting campaign resources on a vanity project to me.

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            I mostly agree with you. But maybe it would have an impact on Trump himself. Either by motivating him to debate, where he might say more stupid shit which could potentially turn off voters who might be leaning Trump but are still iffy. Or again the impact on Trump when these pics go viral on Twitter, even if it doesn’t motivate him to debate, it could still get to him to where he brings this up at rallies and again says some stupid shit which makes him look bad to tenuous voters.

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    I wish the dems would let this go. They’re going to get him to agree to debate and then Kamala is going to make some minor flub that the press will run wild with despite Trump constantly speaking in word salad. The last thing you want is a “Howard Dean scream” this late in the campaign cycle. Just let Tim Walz mop up the floor with Vance in October, and then let us all vote.

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      Hell no. Play to win. As soon as you start playing to “not lose”, you’ll lose.

      I love the confidence of this and let’s not pretend she won’t smack him harder the second time. She’s a former prosecutor and she’s also not 800 years old.

      He’s scared, weak, and fragile. Call him out on it.

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      No, this is exactly where they can hurt him.

      Trump and his followers believe that they represent the silent majority that still has “real” values - like honor, strength and misogyny.

      Calling them out as weird and cowards attacks exactly these values. It turns their own self image against them.

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        Trump and his followers believe that they represent the silent majority

        So does Harris and her Democrats. That’s the whole “But we won the popular vote!” defense, every time a Democrat gets ratfvcked out of a few hundred votes in a swing state on election day.

        The bitter truth is that, with over half of the population unwilling or unable to vote, these candidates are at best representing a plurality.

        Calling them out as weird and cowards attacks exactly these values.

        As elections go, the common denominator between the two candidates appears to be their refusal to endorse their own party’s policies. Trump keeps backing away from Project 2025 and insisting it has nothing to do with his campaign. Harris is falling over herself to get away from the Genocide Joe name tag and to distance herself from the litany of undelivered platform of promises - from gun control to M4A to higher education relief to a Green New Deal - that they can never rally enough votes in their own caucus to pass.

        The battlefront is entirely what the other person is going to do if they get into office. Kamala promises not to sign a bill banning abortion. Trump promises not to sign a bill that legalizes immigration. Both promise not to sign a bill that will increase your taxes or cut your benefits. But that’s it. It’s all defense, no offense.

        The best either candidate seems willing to promise is that nothing will get done.

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      The last debate hurt his polling numbers measurably. The press can say whatever they want. Doesn’t make it true

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    I love it. But I’d love more signs pointing out how much he hates veterans. That’s something I’d donate to.

    And that he hates unions, in areas of high union population

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      I want more about how he’s the only president to advocate for a complete gun ban.

      I can’t believe Harris’s campaign isn’t pressing harder on that point.

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      Republican Voters Against Trump have been running veteran billboards for a while. The DNC has been running billboards calling him and anti-union scab.

      I think the chicken angle hits a bit different though, a lot of people write off everything trump says as just talk, and many attacks seem to get ignored as slander, but the fact he’s unwilling to debate is a plain and uncontested fact, one that makes him look weak.

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    But didn’t he say he won? While rattling off bingo numbers that seemed to have no correlation with the Polish?

    Edit: Oh, god. I’ve gone for too many jokes at once. Maybe it’s time I have a kid so I can relish in their disappointment of such situations.

    Edit Edit: Wow. I’m really pessimistic today.

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    This is the level of our national discourse. And yeah the republicans started it and are worse in many ways. And maybe this sign is fake and just meant as a funny joke. But Jesus Christ we’re killing ourselves.

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      The billboards like this are oftentimes from Republicans that are anti-MAGA, this one however is some guy that was a low level cabinet member of Clinton who decided to create his own PAC (Mad Dog PAC).

      It isn’t the DNC putting these up, it’s basically people that just want to troll Trump, and when Trump stops running I’m sure most of these groups will move on to other things.

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        The dude is a grifter. He spread so much fake shit about mueller investigation along with that crazy chick louise mensch

        Just google ‘Louise Mensch Claude Taylor’ you’ll see the bs

        E: Lmao the downvotes, I guess you idiots like fake news if it’s from the left.