I'm in Mount Dora today, which has a reputation as quite laidback and gay friendly, yet we have cars whizzing past with large Trump flags on them and the usual death cult quota of Trump signs in front yards.
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Mount Dora is 184 feet above sea level, which is high by Florida standards.
We drove home today via Lake County down Highway 27, which has some of Florida's highest points, being situated on the Lake Wales Ridge, but even these max out at 345 feet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...highest_points
Mount Dora is a beautiful place but has a shameful history of moving its black population from downtown to the eastern fringe.
https://www.mountdorabuzz.com/who-kn...f%20the%20land.
The best church I saw on this weekend's trip was this building from 1906 in Gainesville (Mount Pleasant United Methodist, originally a wooden building for freed slaves, rebuilt after a fire):
http://www.explorehistoricalachuacou...hodist-church/
Last November a white Georgia teenager was arrested for planning a knife attack on a historic black church in Gainesville:
https://www.gainesvilletimes.com/new...el-ame-church/Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 06-09-2020, 19:24.
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This and his criticism of the Iraq war during the last election are exactly the kind of things that will get him more support, especially against an old Washington insider like Biden. It's entirely in keeping with the Qanon nonsense too. What on earth were the Democrats thinking when they picked Biden?
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How on earth will it win him more support? Who is going to switch their vote, or go out to vote for Trump, because of this? The only Trumpy people who are in favour of this sort of thing are the very fringe QAnon types who were already all in for him. Left wing peacenik types who've been screaming this for decades are not suddenly going to believe that a Republican government is going to be anti-war, nor that it will forgive Trump's million other abominations.
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Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View PostHow on earth will it win him more support? Who is going to switch their vote, or go out to vote for Trump, because of this? The only Trumpy people who are in favour of this sort of thing are the very fringe QAnon types who were already all in for him. Left wing peacenik types who've been screaming this for decades are not suddenly going to believe that a Republican government is going to be anti-war, nor that it will forgive Trump's million other abominations.
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Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View PostHow on earth will it win him more support? Who is going to switch their vote, or go out to vote for Trump, because of this? The only Trumpy people who are in favour of this sort of thing are the very fringe QAnon types who were already all in for him. Left wing peacenik types who've been screaming this for decades are not suddenly going to believe that a Republican government is going to be anti-war, nor that it will forgive Trump's million other abominations.
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Originally posted by Nefertiti2 View Post
In 2016 Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson received 4,489,233 total votes and 3.27% of the national vote,
So it seems Trump 2016 turned off a significant portion of right wing libertarians. If he hadn't been so horrible he might have won the popular vote as well as the college vote.
The crucial question is, has he done anything over the last four years to make them warm to him?
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I seem to recall Greens hurting HRC in key states was a bigger factor than Libertarians taking Trump votes in 2016. Trump is surely more likely to focus on getting his rabid base out, which might conflict with attracting Libertarians.
Trump is simply venting at Generals whom he perceives to be against him. I don't think he has a coherent policy regarding the military-industrial complex.Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 08-09-2020, 09:50.
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Woodward's new book might be another nail in the Trump coffin, and he has the recordings to prove it when Trump starts denying it. Clips here.
(CNN...cuz it's not paywalled...)
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/polit...rus/index.html
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Originally posted by WOM View PostWoodward's new book might be another nail in the Trump coffin, and he has the recordings to prove it when Trump starts denying it. Clips here.
(CNN...cuz it's not paywalled...)
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/polit...rus/index.html
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