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Trump demanded that Republicans shut down the government unless the continuing resolution contained a measure requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. It is already illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections, and the measure was widely seen as an attempt to suppress voting. Trump was unable to command Republican loyalty on this issue as he did earlier this year when he insisted Republicans kill the bipartisan border bill.

That recognition of his slipping power might have been behind his hastily announced press conference this afternoon at Trump Tower in New York, a press conference best described as the September 10 presidential debate 2.0.

Trump reiterated his vision of the United States as a hellscape. He insisted that the nation’s booming economy is actually hemorrhaging jobs, that the FBI statistics showing crime falling are all lies, and that inflation, which has fallen close enough to the target of 2% that the Fed recently began to lower interest rates, is at an all-time high.

Trump reserved his greatest rage for the ABC debate moderators who, he complained, fact-checked him after agreeing not to—“I want an apology,” he said—and for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. To her he attributed what he insists is a flood of undocumented immigrants drowning states in a welter of crime, although we know immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than native born Americans. He recounted in some detail a number of horrific rapes he claimed were committed by immigrants. He did so apparently with no self-consciousness about his own liability for sexual assault that the presiding judge said would commonly be understood as rape, although his focus on rape could have been an attempt to push back on the the recent spate of ads by conservative lawyer George Conway’s Anti-Psychopath PAC featuring woman who claim Trump sexually assaulted them.

Are these signs of obvious desperation the beginning of the end for trump?

In 2004 a senior advisor to President George W. Bush famously told journalist Ron Suskind that people like Suskind lived in “the reality-based community.” They believed people could find solutions to problems through careful study of discernible reality. But, the aide continued, Suskind’s worldview was obsolete. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” the aide said. “We are an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality— judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

We are in a moment when the reality-based community is challenging the ability of the MAGA Republicans to create their own reality.

Central to the worldview of MAGA Republicans is that Democrats are socialists who have destroyed the American economy. Trump calls Harris a “radical-left. Marxist, communist, fascist” and insists the economy is failing.

In Pittsburgh Harris laid out her plan for an “opportunity economy.” She explained that she would lower costs by cutting taxes for the middle class, cutting the red tape that stops housing construction, take on corporate landlords who are hiking rental prices, work with builders and developers to construct 3 million new homes and rentals, help first-time homebuyers with $25,000 down payment assistance, enact a federal ban on corporate price gouging on groceries, invest in innovation by raising the deduction for startup businesses to $50,000, and provide low- or no-interest loans to small businesses that want to expand. "Kamala Harris, Reagan Democrat!” conservative pundit Bill Kristol said after her speech

For his part, Trump has promised an across-the-board tariff of 10% to 20% that billionaire Mark Cuban on the Fox News Channel called “insane” and Quin Hillyer of the Washington Examiner warned would "wreck the economy"

The Daily News, certainly not a liberal outlet, posted this:

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Sky News, owned by the Murdoch family, is also a conservative outlet:

news.sky.com/.../us-election-springfield-woman-who-started-pet-eating-claims-says-she-is-not-racist-13214409

I heard an interesting bit of research and asked a question to the GaG folks to see if they'd heard it, and what they thought about it. Question had some good responses and seemed to be fine. I got back on GaG and got this message.

"Your Question has been removed for spamming or trolling.
If you include links or personal information for the sole purpose of advertisement, solicitation, or attempting trolling, your post will be removed. Posts that solicit members in any fashion are considered Spam (this would include asking for contact or other personal information).

Question Title: Administering Testosterone To Liberal Males Makes Them Conservative?"

There's quite clearly nothing about this that is spamming or trolling by any definition of those words. I presume someone was offended by this and reported it for that reason. Is there any appeals process or am I just screwed?

We had freakin Repubs at our conference for godsake. Lol

Just FYI I openly admit that Trump lost last night’s debate and I say that as a moderate conservative.

I also believe it was the most disgustingly biased moderated debate in American history that doesn’t mean I won’t admit Trump put on poor performance. He got (understandably) frustrated and let his ego get the better of him. He let Kamala get under his skin. He’s no stranger to hostile environments either. All he needed to do was respond with “well why didn’t you do that as VP Kamala?” when she gave her bs promises. But he didn’t respond like that until the very end of the debate. He should of done that from the start.

I am also very suspicious about how Kamala never seemed surprised by any question that was asked of her. I watched her primary 2020 debates. I also remember her VP debate with Mike Pence. That was the most comfortable she ever looked in a debate. Ever.

Sure the questions were mostly anti-Trump (the one loaded question asking Trump about Kamala’s race made me want to vomit). She also had the moderators debating Trump for her. But considering how disgustingly obvious it was that ABC was anti-Trump would I be a conspiracy theorist to believe she was likely leaked the debate questions in advance? For now I would like to pretend she wasn’t, but if there is any shred of verified evidence is released about this later I will quickly change my mind

Anyway I predict that the Harris campaign will take that win and run with it. They will do all they can to keep Kamala out of future debates. They will also continue to keep her away from any interview where she will unexpectedly get asked a tough question.