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Post by djAdvocate on Sept 7, 2024 11:55:03 GMT -5
do you mind me asking why? I am all about destroying anyone who does harm to the US. I feel these guys are warmongers. and.....again we agree. it is interesting how much overlap we have. we have little disagreement on foreign policy issues. and, candidly, this is my #1 voting issue, typically.
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Post by djAdvocate on Sept 7, 2024 12:01:30 GMT -5
Saw this quote the other day. Says it all about trump 2024 for president cult members: "Idolizing a politician is like believing a stripper actually likes you."Trump and his 'facts' for his cult members. Trump's Claim That Children Received Gender-Affirming Surgeries at School Is FalseThe former U.S. president made the false claim during an August 2024 discussion with the conservative organization Moms for Liberty. Claim: Children have received gender-affirming surgeries inside U.S. schools. Rating: FALSE Former U.S. President Donald Trump made this false claim during an August 2024 event with the conservative organization Moms for Liberty. No evidence exists of schools performing any such surgeries, regardless of the idea of parental permission. Afterward, CNN reported that Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice — who spoke with Trump at the event — said of his remarks, "Are kids getting surgery in school? No they’re not." Justice and her organization also shared by email their concerns about schools facilitating social transitions for children. Rest of article here: Trump's Claim That Children Received Gender-Affirming Surgeries at School Is False During a speech in Michigan, Trump also claimed there are 6 states where you can decide to kill a baby AFTER it is born. I cannot believe his fan base believes all of this totally false garbage that he makes up. my money is on there being 6 states where the unborn can legally kill the mother.
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Post by busymom on Sept 7, 2024 12:09:33 GMT -5
During a speech in Michigan, Trump also claimed there are 6 states where you can decide to kill a baby AFTER it is born. I cannot believe his fan base believes all of this totally false garbage that he makes up. my money is on there being 6 states where the unborn can legally kill the mother. Sadly, it's probably more than that. For a political party that claims to be the "party of life", they don't seem to include the mother in that statement.
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Post by Opti on Sept 7, 2024 13:21:22 GMT -5
DJ, curious on what you think about Nate Silver and the below now that he's left 538. Nate Silver, the celebrity statistician who gained notoriety for his FiveThirtyEight election models, is facing backlash over alleged skewing in his new model.
Silver's now being scrutinized for a potential conflict of interest after joining the crypto-based gambling company Polymarket as an advisor in July, and pushed his model while promoting election betting opportunities.
“Feels like it should be a bigger deal that Nate Silver is employed by Polymarket, a site that allows you to bet on political outcomes, and also runs a “prediction model” that has the ability to directly affect betting behavior,” journalist Brett Meiselas wrote on X.
Silver’s model gives Trump a greater chance of winning than most forecasts, which has earned him fans in MAGA World. Those new boosters include former President Trump, who used Silver's model as evidence that he wasn’t losing as badly as polling averages suggested.www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nate-silver-faces-backlash-for-pro-trump-model-skewing/ar-AA1q8KWE?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=7c73d811f2f24af6b569223a4c8edcaa&ei=49
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Sept 7, 2024 13:27:21 GMT -5
Well, you do know what flies are attracted to.... I've always wondered what that orange make-up he wears was made out of... Cheeto dust?
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Post by Opti on Sept 7, 2024 13:33:22 GMT -5
I hope he is right.
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Post by djAdvocate on Sept 7, 2024 13:41:09 GMT -5
DJ, curious on what you think about Nate Silver and the below now that he's left 538. Nate Silver, the celebrity statistician who gained notoriety for his FiveThirtyEight election models, is facing backlash over alleged skewing in his new model.
Silver's now being scrutinized for a potential conflict of interest after joining the crypto-based gambling company Polymarket as an advisor in July, and pushed his model while promoting election betting opportunities.
“Feels like it should be a bigger deal that Nate Silver is employed by Polymarket, a site that allows you to bet on political outcomes, and also runs a “prediction model” that has the ability to directly affect betting behavior,” journalist Brett Meiselas wrote on X.
Silver’s model gives Trump a greater chance of winning than most forecasts, which has earned him fans in MAGA World. Those new boosters include former President Trump, who used Silver's model as evidence that he wasn’t losing as badly as polling averages suggested.www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nate-silver-faces-backlash-for-pro-trump-model-skewing/ar-AA1q8KWE?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=7c73d811f2f24af6b569223a4c8edcaa&ei=49Silver has always paid attention to the betting markets. and yes, Polymarket has a slight Republican bias. in the end, Silver is a nerd, not a politico. he will go where the data tells him to go. not concerned.
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Post by djAdvocate on Sept 7, 2024 13:42:17 GMT -5
this is a VERY interesting video. the first half is based on tribalism, the second half on issues. warning: it is an hour long. but it is REALLY good. it is not dry at all. it is insightful and entertaining, imo:
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Post by djAdvocate on Sept 7, 2024 13:55:11 GMT -5
turns out she is one HELL of a public speaker! so, this is much shorter, and covers many of the same subjects, and is even MORE entertaining. scgal- i would be VERY interested to hear your opinion on this video. i thought of you quite a bit when she was describing Trump voters. it is not at all unsympathetic.
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 7, 2024 15:47:30 GMT -5
What had Trump accomplished as an elected official prior to 2016? And I guess even repo-con women will denigrate Harris even though she had successful accomplishments as a prosecutor and AG of a very large state. Of course she IS Black. She is a total failure. Trumps accomplishments just Google it
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Post by Opti on Sept 7, 2024 17:01:19 GMT -5
Video on FOX by Jon Stewart. Highlights some of their programming of viewers. I liked this from the comments: imagine calling a refrigerator an extravagance
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Post by djAdvocate on Sept 7, 2024 19:23:04 GMT -5
false. the polls said she would win the popular vote by 3.3%. she won by 2.3%, the polling was more accurate in 2016 than 2012. and only the NYT thought she would win easily. Nate Silver said she had something like a 55% chance of winning. Right now Nate Silver is giving Harris a 55% chance of winning, so I am a bit concerned. projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/you SHOULD BE concerned. this is a close race. and yes, to answer a question that some of you are probably asking, Harris is leading by almost exactly what the polls showed for Clinton on Election Eve, 2016.
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Post by resolution on Sept 7, 2024 19:29:47 GMT -5
I drove a few hours down the PA Turnpike yesterday and today on a trip to Pittsburg. It was interesting all along the rural areas of the Turnpike there were "Trump 2024, Make America Great Again" billboards, but once I was in Pittsburg there were "Vote and Save Democracy" billboards. Hopefully they will get out the vote in Pittsburg and save us from ourselves.
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Post by dondubble on Sept 7, 2024 19:50:02 GMT -5
I drove a few hours down the PA Turnpike yesterday and today on a trip to Pittsburg. It was interesting all along the rural areas of the Turnpike there were "Trump 2024, Make America Great Again" billboards, but once I was in Pittsburg there were "Vote and Save Democracy" billboards. Hopefully they will get out the vote in Pittsburg and save us from ourselves. Numerous drives in the last two months to our lake place in rural eastern Pierce Co. Washington. We bought 4 years ago right at this time. Then the drive was through Trump signs, flags, billboards and many for the feckless R gov candidate. A real gauntlet. This year…nothing. Where did they all go? Does it mean anything?
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Post by djAdvocate on Sept 7, 2024 21:09:59 GMT -5
no, it means something. and it is mollifying.
you guys know me. i am an obsessive pollwatcher. until the polls start to tell me what your lawnsigns are telling you two, i am NOT going to believe it. but i am not pessimistic.
there may be a sense among some Democrats that they can glide to victory on a strand of Kamala's raven hair. it is not going to be that way. we have to WORK to keep our republic. we have to show that we care.
it might be better that it stays close for a while, just for that reason. scraping by is not ok in this election. we need to crush Trump. that means winning all of the states that they are calling swing states right now, and a couple that they are NOT calling swing states right now.
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Post by happyhoix on Sept 7, 2024 21:32:40 GMT -5
Well Trump is trying his hardest to try to get rid of Harris. He must be petrified of running against her, so he’s grasping at straws. He wants to introduce a law that requires VPs to publicly state when the president is no longer competent to tun the country. If he can get that passed (quickly) and then get congress to act on it, in his mind, I guess, he thinks he can get Harris fired from her VP job, and then I guess he thinks he can easily beat a disgraced ex-VP, or she’ll have to withdraw from the race and Trump will easily beat Walz. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/09/07/politics/trump-modify-25th-amendment-harris-bidenI think it’s ironic that a guy who always insists on signed confidentiality agreements with employees, and who is now planning on firing a bunch of federal employees so he can replace them all with devotedly loyal minions who would never betray him, is insisting the 25th Amendment needs to be amended to ensure future VPs legally must rat out their presidents. Wonder how he would feel if Vance felt obligated to turn on him, in case he gets elected and Trump continues his mental decline.
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Post by djAdvocate on Sept 7, 2024 22:40:03 GMT -5
Well Trump is trying his hardest to try to get rid of Harris. He must be petrified of running against her, so he’s grasping at straws. He wants to introduce a law that requires VPs to publicly state when the president is no longer competent to tun the country. If he can get that passed (quickly) and then get congress to act on it, in his mind, I guess, he thinks he can get Harris fired from her VP job, and then I guess he thinks he can easily beat a disgraced ex-VP, or she’ll have to withdraw from the race and Trump will easily beat Walz. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/09/07/politics/trump-modify-25th-amendment-harris-bidenI think it’s ironic that a guy who always insists on signed confidentiality agreements with employees, and who is now planning on firing a bunch of federal employees so he can replace them all with devotedly loyal minions who would never betray him, is insisting the 25th Amendment needs to be amended to ensure future VPs legally must rat out their presidents. Wonder how he would feel if Vance felt obligated to turn on him, in case he gets elected and Trump continues his mental decline. i don't see how he gets from A to B. let's say that law was in place. she would not declare him incompetent. he would go for a series of tests, or he COULD resign. either way, there is no way it impacts Harris. except perhaps to make her the incumbent. which would be 100% to her advantage. he is not the sharpest tool in the shed, is he?
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Post by tallguy on Sept 7, 2024 22:45:40 GMT -5
Well Trump is trying his hardest to try to get rid of Harris. He must be petrified of running against her, so he’s grasping at straws. He wants to introduce a law that requires VPs to publicly state when the president is no longer competent to tun the country. If he can get that passed (quickly) and then get congress to act on it, in his mind, I guess, he thinks he can get Harris fired from her VP job, and then I guess he thinks he can easily beat a disgraced ex-VP, or she’ll have to withdraw from the race and Trump will easily beat Walz. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/09/07/politics/trump-modify-25th-amendment-harris-bidenI think it’s ironic that a guy who always insists on signed confidentiality agreements with employees, and who is now planning on firing a bunch of federal employees so he can replace them all with devotedly loyal minions who would never betray him, is insisting the 25th Amendment needs to be amended to ensure future VPs legally must rat out their presidents. Wonder how he would feel if Vance felt obligated to turn on him, in case he gets elected and Trump continues his mental decline. i don't see how he gets from A to B. let's say that law was in place. she would not declare him incompetent. he would go for a series of tests, or he COULD resign. either way, there is no way it impacts Harris. except perhaps to make her the incumbent. which would be 100% to her advantage. he is not the sharpest tool in the shed, is he? No, just a tool.
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Post by Opti on Sept 7, 2024 23:31:22 GMT -5
Well Trump is trying his hardest to try to get rid of Harris. He must be petrified of running against her, so he’s grasping at straws. He wants to introduce a law that requires VPs to publicly state when the president is no longer competent to tun the country. If he can get that passed (quickly) and then get congress to act on it, in his mind, I guess, he thinks he can get Harris fired from her VP job, and then I guess he thinks he can easily beat a disgraced ex-VP, or she’ll have to withdraw from the race and Trump will easily beat Walz. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/09/07/politics/trump-modify-25th-amendment-harris-bidenI think it’s ironic that a guy who always insists on signed confidentiality agreements with employees, and who is now planning on firing a bunch of federal employees so he can replace them all with devotedly loyal minions who would never betray him, is insisting the 25th Amendment needs to be amended to ensure future VPs legally must rat out their presidents. Wonder how he would feel if Vance felt obligated to turn on him, in case he gets elected and Trump continues his mental decline. This is crazy. All because he doesn't want to run against Harris? He doesn't get to choose the Democratic candidate for President. He needs to get over the fact his plan either worked too well or failed at the wrong time.
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Post by happyhoix on Sept 8, 2024 7:25:06 GMT -5
I drove a few hours down the PA Turnpike yesterday and today on a trip to Pittsburg. It was interesting all along the rural areas of the Turnpike there were "Trump 2024, Make America Great Again" billboards, but once I was in Pittsburg there were "Vote and Save Democracy" billboards. Hopefully they will get out the vote in Pittsburg and save us from ourselves. Numerous drives in the last two months to our lake place in rural eastern Pierce Co. Washington. We bought 4 years ago right at this time. Then the drive was through Trump signs, flags, billboards and many for the feckless R gov candidate. A real gauntlet. This year…nothing. Where did they all go? Does it mean anything? In my bright red north Georgia county there are still Trump signs but I think slightly fewer. Only two MTG signs. However, I’ve seen zero Harris signs, but I think most Harris supporters are afraid to post her signs or put a sticker on our cars - we have a pugnacious brand of far right patriots around here. I’m interested to see the final vote totals - we reliably go 80% Republican. Curious if that holds this year.
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Post by Opti on Sept 8, 2024 7:42:49 GMT -5
Last election my downstairs neighbor did have a Biden sign in her window. This year so far nothing. One of my neighbors earlier in the year cautioned being quiet as some people in our complex you wouldn't expect are pro Trumpers. Trump definitely made inroads into the legal immigrant community by lying about what immigrants receive when they are put into the process of becoming legal immigrants. They actually believe the lies that these people are just given houses and money. I think part of the settlement process is finding them jobs and housing that can be paid for by the jobs they start out in. I think they need to become self-supporting within six months which is far different from what anti-immigrant fantasies Trump is selling them. The two I have talked to back then were true believers. It would be nice if someone would advertise the actual facts on this in areas like mine, so Trump gets fewer votes based on the numerous lies he has told.
I don't know if I'd ever get a sign one way or the other given where I live. I may be in NJ, but my town tends to vote red overall.
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trump will probably start playing it at his rallies and claim his DIL is singing about him. Lara Trump's newest song is bad. Don't blame Auto-Tune.Auto-Tune has become shorthand for suggesting a person cannot sing. But Auto-Tune is an easy target — and the wrong one here. When I was a kid in the 1990s, Mariah Carey released one of the most popular songs from her catalog, “Hero.” As a tiny aspiring “Star Search” contestant, I brought it into my first day of voice lessons, hoping to learn to sing it. Carey’s vocal performance was something from another plane, an impossibly impassioned, subtle, powerful and skilled rendering of impeccably arced melody, with perfectly melodramatic and inspiring lyrics. This week, Lara Trump, Republican National Committee co-chair and daughter-in-law to former President Donald Trump, released a song also called “Hero.” Suffice it to say, the song was received quite differently than Carey’s masterpiece. Criticism swirled instantly, including, notably, of Trump’s technical skill (or lack thereof, to hear critics tell it) and apparent heavy reliance on Auto-Tune. Carey’s hit, released in 1993, came out during the twilight of analog recording. By the turn of the millennium, most things in the popular music world would be recorded “in the box,” using digital environments as a home for mixing, editing and generating a wide range of sonic effects. One of the most revolutionary additions to vocal production was the software Auto-Tune, which was released by the company Antares Audio Technologies in 1997, and quickly became an industry standard tool and a household name. Critiques of Lara Trump’s song have foregrounded Auto-Tune because it has become shorthand for suggesting a person cannot sing. To be sure, Auto-Tune does some very heavy lifting in Trump’s vocals. But Auto-Tune is also an easy target, and I think the wrong one here. The software has enabled plenty of unfortunate and silly (and delightful) performances in the zeitgeist — but it has also enabled exciting musical experimentation. In short, Auto-Tune cannot be summarized as one thing. What people are bristling at in Trump’s effort, I think, is that it exposes both Auto-Tune and her larger political project as a gimmick, or what cultural theorist Sianne Ngai describes in her book “Theory of the Gimmick” as “overrated devices that strike us as working too little (labor saving tricks) but also as working too hard (strained efforts to get our attention).” Rest of article here: Lara Trump's newest song is bad. Don't blame Auto-Tune.
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trump will probably start playing it at his rallies and claim his DIL is singing about him. Lara Trump's newest song is bad. Don't blame Auto-Tune.Auto-Tune has become shorthand for suggesting a person cannot sing. But Auto-Tune is an easy target — and the wrong one here. When I was a kid in the 1990s, Mariah Carey released one of the most popular songs from her catalog, “Hero.” As a tiny aspiring “Star Search” contestant, I brought it into my first day of voice lessons, hoping to learn to sing it. Carey’s vocal performance was something from another plane, an impossibly impassioned, subtle, powerful and skilled rendering of impeccably arced melody, with perfectly melodramatic and inspiring lyrics. This week, Lara Trump, Republican National Committee co-chair and daughter-in-law to former President Donald Trump, released a song also called “Hero.” Suffice it to say, the song was received quite differently than Carey’s masterpiece. Criticism swirled instantly, including, notably, of Trump’s technical skill (or lack thereof, to hear critics tell it) and apparent heavy reliance on Auto-Tune. Carey’s hit, released in 1993, came out during the twilight of analog recording. By the turn of the millennium, most things in the popular music world would be recorded “in the box,” using digital environments as a home for mixing, editing and generating a wide range of sonic effects. One of the most revolutionary additions to vocal production was the software Auto-Tune, which was released by the company Antares Audio Technologies in 1997, and quickly became an industry standard tool and a household name. Critiques of Lara Trump’s song have foregrounded Auto-Tune because it has become shorthand for suggesting a person cannot sing. To be sure, Auto-Tune does some very heavy lifting in Trump’s vocals. But Auto-Tune is also an easy target, and I think the wrong one here. The software has enabled plenty of unfortunate and silly (and delightful) performances in the zeitgeist — but it has also enabled exciting musical experimentation. In short, Auto-Tune cannot be summarized as one thing. What people are bristling at in Trump’s effort, I think, is that it exposes both Auto-Tune and her larger political project as a gimmick, or what cultural theorist Sianne Ngai describes in her book “Theory of the Gimmick” as “overrated devices that strike us as working too little (labor saving tricks) but also as working too hard (strained efforts to get our attention).” Rest of article here: Lara Trump's newest song is bad. Don't blame Auto-Tune.Shouldn’t she be busy somewhere making sure every penny sent to the RNC gets diverted into paying Daddy Trump’s legal expenses? Maybe she’s guarding against an election loss and subsequent unemployment by trying to gin up a singing career she can fall back on in case Daddy Trump loses, has to go to jail and spends the family fortune on legal expenses and judgements.
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trump will probably start playing it at his rallies and claim his DIL is singing about him. Lara Trump's newest song is bad. Don't blame Auto-Tune.Auto-Tune has become shorthand for suggesting a person cannot sing. But Auto-Tune is an easy target — and the wrong one here. When I was a kid in the 1990s, Mariah Carey released one of the most popular songs from her catalog, “Hero.” As a tiny aspiring “Star Search” contestant, I brought it into my first day of voice lessons, hoping to learn to sing it. Carey’s vocal performance was something from another plane, an impossibly impassioned, subtle, powerful and skilled rendering of impeccably arced melody, with perfectly melodramatic and inspiring lyrics. This week, Lara Trump, Republican National Committee co-chair and daughter-in-law to former President Donald Trump, released a song also called “Hero.” Suffice it to say, the song was received quite differently than Carey’s masterpiece. Criticism swirled instantly, including, notably, of Trump’s technical skill (or lack thereof, to hear critics tell it) and apparent heavy reliance on Auto-Tune. Carey’s hit, released in 1993, came out during the twilight of analog recording. By the turn of the millennium, most things in the popular music world would be recorded “in the box,” using digital environments as a home for mixing, editing and generating a wide range of sonic effects. One of the most revolutionary additions to vocal production was the software Auto-Tune, which was released by the company Antares Audio Technologies in 1997, and quickly became an industry standard tool and a household name. Critiques of Lara Trump’s song have foregrounded Auto-Tune because it has become shorthand for suggesting a person cannot sing. To be sure, Auto-Tune does some very heavy lifting in Trump’s vocals. But Auto-Tune is also an easy target, and I think the wrong one here. The software has enabled plenty of unfortunate and silly (and delightful) performances in the zeitgeist — but it has also enabled exciting musical experimentation. In short, Auto-Tune cannot be summarized as one thing. What people are bristling at in Trump’s effort, I think, is that it exposes both Auto-Tune and her larger political project as a gimmick, or what cultural theorist Sianne Ngai describes in her book “Theory of the Gimmick” as “overrated devices that strike us as working too little (labor saving tricks) but also as working too hard (strained efforts to get our attention).” Rest of article here: Lara Trump's newest song is bad. Don't blame Auto-Tune.Shouldn’t she be busy somewhere making sure every penny sent to the RNC gets diverted into paying Daddy Trump’s legal expenses? Maybe she’s guarding against an election loss and subsequent unemployment by trying to gin up a singing career she can fall back on in case Daddy Trump loses, has to go to jail and spends the family fortune on legal expenses and judgements. Morning national news today stated trump said he probably would not do well at the upcoming debate with Harris because the debate guidelines and format are unfair to him. Fucking loser.
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Shouldn’t she be busy somewhere making sure every penny sent to the RNC gets diverted into paying Daddy Trump’s legal expenses? Maybe she’s guarding against an election loss and subsequent unemployment by trying to gin up a singing career she can fall back on in case Daddy Trump loses, has to go to jail and spends the family fortune on legal expenses and judgements. Morning national news today stated trump said he probably would not do well at the upcoming debate with Harris because the debate guidelines and format are unfair to him. Fucking loser. I saw him crowing the other day because he was able to insist that no one could stand on boxes for the debate. Meaning he’ll be taller than Harris. Like that will matter much. Men usually are taller than women. He’s losing his mind over this debate. I would not be surprised if he bails at the very last minute.
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Post by djAdvocate on Sept 8, 2024 11:18:50 GMT -5
trump will probably start playing it at his rallies and claim his DIL is singing about him. Lara Trump's newest song is bad. Don't blame Auto-Tune.Auto-Tune has become shorthand for suggesting a person cannot sing. But Auto-Tune is an easy target — and the wrong one here. When I was a kid in the 1990s, Mariah Carey released one of the most popular songs from her catalog, “Hero.” As a tiny aspiring “Star Search” contestant, I brought it into my first day of voice lessons, hoping to learn to sing it. Carey’s vocal performance was something from another plane, an impossibly impassioned, subtle, powerful and skilled rendering of impeccably arced melody, with perfectly melodramatic and inspiring lyrics. This week, Lara Trump, Republican National Committee co-chair and daughter-in-law to former President Donald Trump, released a song also called “Hero.” Suffice it to say, the song was received quite differently than Carey’s masterpiece. Criticism swirled instantly, including, notably, of Trump’s technical skill (or lack thereof, to hear critics tell it) and apparent heavy reliance on Auto-Tune. Carey’s hit, released in 1993, came out during the twilight of analog recording. By the turn of the millennium, most things in the popular music world would be recorded “in the box,” using digital environments as a home for mixing, editing and generating a wide range of sonic effects. One of the most revolutionary additions to vocal production was the software Auto-Tune, which was released by the company Antares Audio Technologies in 1997, and quickly became an industry standard tool and a household name. Critiques of Lara Trump’s song have foregrounded Auto-Tune because it has become shorthand for suggesting a person cannot sing. To be sure, Auto-Tune does some very heavy lifting in Trump’s vocals. But Auto-Tune is also an easy target, and I think the wrong one here. The software has enabled plenty of unfortunate and silly (and delightful) performances in the zeitgeist — but it has also enabled exciting musical experimentation. In short, Auto-Tune cannot be summarized as one thing. What people are bristling at in Trump’s effort, I think, is that it exposes both Auto-Tune and her larger political project as a gimmick, or what cultural theorist Sianne Ngai describes in her book “Theory of the Gimmick” as “overrated devices that strike us as working too little (labor saving tricks) but also as working too hard (strained efforts to get our attention).” Rest of article here: Lara Trump's newest song is bad. Don't blame Auto-Tune.she should stay in her lane. if she can find it.
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Post by happyhoix on Sept 8, 2024 11:33:20 GMT -5
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Post by djAdvocate on Sept 8, 2024 11:46:45 GMT -5
i see. so he is going to say that Democrats cheated, and that is why he lost the debate?
got it.
this, from the guy who cheats at everything.
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 8, 2024 11:50:38 GMT -5
Morning national news today stated trump said he probably would not do well at the upcoming debate with Harris because the debate guidelines and format are unfair to him. Fucking loser. I saw him crowing the other day because he was able to insist that no one could stand on boxes for the debate. Meaning he’ll be taller than Harris. Like that will matter much. Men usually are taller than women. He’s losing his mind over this debate. I would not be surprised if he bails at the very last minute. Is it trump or DeSantis who it is said they wear lifts in their shoes to appear taller?
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 8, 2024 11:52:33 GMT -5
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