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[-] [email protected] 214 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Newsweek: we're such shit journalists that we don't know what overhauls means and probably meant to use "overtakes".

(Just to be clear, this wasn't a copy error on the poster - the article title is literally that)

[-] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago

I was imagining her giving him a combination makeover and tune-up 😆

[-] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

Slap a little eyeliner on him just like his boy Vance.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

I had to look it up, but using overhaul with the meaning of overtake is apparently valid. It sounds odd to me, and I've never actually heard it used that way, but Merriam-Webster validates it.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Oh weird, I even asked around with some of my linguistically minded coworkers and nobody was familiar with that expression. I wonder if there's a region where it's a more common usage.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I'd believe that overhauls in this sense means that they have completely restructured/breathed new life to their campaign and thus gained favorability

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

They have since overhauled the headline.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Ha! They did mean "Overtakes"!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

That and they could have directly said she's ahead by 9 points amongst independents.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Think less like a person trying to get your point across in a clear manner, and more like a person trying to generate clicks for money.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I thought maybe she fired Trump and Vance.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago
[-] [email protected] 114 points 10 months ago

I'm still concerned Trump is going to win.

[-] [email protected] 74 points 10 months ago

That is a valid concern. We need to work hard for the next 90+ days to prevent that.

He is a cornered animal and will fight more the closer we get to November.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[-] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

Social Security income shouldn't be taxed, period. But billionaires should cover the difference, not other working Americans.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I would be all for not taxing Social Security, and using taxes on the rich to pay for it.

I mean why are we giving them money to just take it away. It's a Ronald Reagan thing, so that's why it benefits the rich and kicks the poor.

So, let's fix it! Great idea!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[-] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

Yes, we all should be. Make sure to vote.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

It seems like there have been a lot of hints that he's scheming to win in spite of the popular vote, through electoral vote and certification shenanigans, maybe an attempt to just make the situation muddy enough in enough different ways that it goes to his stacked Supreme Court in a manner partially reminiscent of the bullshit that installed GW Bush in 2000.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

The country should have taken up arms in 2000 when a Repub SCOTUS illegally decided the election for the Repub candidate.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Possibly, but regardless vote. Force them to make that move and show their hand. Don't just hand it to them.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's a completely valid fear even if the predicted outcome was a landslide - the potential damage to our political stability is immense if he wins election. (He also might actively accelerate climate change and break a bunch of shit arguably more important than the American state).

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

(He also might actively accelerate climate change and break a bunch of shit arguably more important than the American state).

Might? Also don't forget the impact on the geopolitical balance of power a Trump presidency would mean, especially at this precarious moment in time.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

The race was 60/40 Trump and now it's 50/50. It won't get to more than 60/40 Harris ever. Either candidate winning is an extremely realistic scenario.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Because the US has a fucked up system where a small state vote is worth more than a vote from a populous state.

It should be a simple popular vote and that's it. Kill the electoral college and hopefully the Overton window will go left when no Republican president is elected for a few cycles.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I think the Dems know that, but we need a real majority and we haven't had that since... Clinton? Obama had blue dog democrats and Biden had his two senators holding him up. We also are more willing to than ever to go with simple majority, too, which helps.

It would really turn the tide though, no way Dems aren't considering it if we can get enough votes.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

This is the energy I'm going to hold onto.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

He'll claim he won regardless of the actual results.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Me too, there’s a real danger of electoral votes rigging and election results not being certified in an expected manner or timeline

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/investigation-finds-dozens-of-election-deniers-now-hold-positions-overseeing-2024-vote/ar-BB1qPEru

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Sure, but there's still absolutely a threat that people just don't vote for Harris. We need to actually win the election before we worry about anything after it going wrong. Assume the votes actually matter, and prepare for them not to. Don't assume they won't matter and not vote because that makes it so they don't even have to cheat and be exposed.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Wow. Rasmussen is down to a Trump +5. He's in trouble.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

For those that are curious their final polling for 2020 had Trump+1 but the actual popular vote Biden had 9% more votes than Trump.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Yeah, Rasmussen always leans heavily Republican.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

cool cool cool. When does she keelhaul him?

[-] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago

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