Play Nice The NM Devil's Chessboard Thread - Part II

[Val Keating]

This just dropped

 

[The Warlord]

Vance was a bad VP pick as soon as it was announced, and has only gotten worse since.

Who does he appeal to? Who does he help swing? What does he lend to the ticket?

Pence provided elder statesmen legitimacy and stability to the 2020 Trump ticket, and Biden did the same for Obama in 08/12. Harris provided more youthful and diverse energy to the Biden 2020 ticket.

Vance offers absolutely nothing, to anyone. Dumb politics.

Yeah the only rational explanation is he was the pay-off for Silicon Valley cash and on site support.

But you don't give the VP spot just for that, ad you say.

And SV will run away from him as fast as they can when he starts looking like a massive loser aka now.

 

[Chadwiko]

 

[The Warlord]

Putting a money figure on the value of Twitter is silly. It would have more influence than all the major news agencies combined.

Nah man, AFP got the fake Princess Kate photoshop pulled, Twitter can't do that.

 

[The Warlord]

I wonder if we should have a separate thread for the US election?

Yeah good call imo

 

[The Warlord]

Azov Nazi scum doing Azov Nazi scum things.

 

[Val Keating]

Nah man, AFP got the fake Princess Kate photoshop pulled, Twitter can't do that.

Twitter probably didn’t want to. They pull shit all the time. It’s a different beast to msm, social media reach is massive.

 

[The Warlord]

I don’t reckon he bought it to make money as a business, he bought it for influence, the same reason Bezos has the Washington post and other billionaires like Bloomberg have news outlets.

To be fair, Bloomberg made his money from news.

 

[The Warlord]

LOL

 

[The Warlord]

Twitter probably didn’t want to. They pull shit all the time. It’s a different beast to msm, social media reach is massive.

They didn't know it was fake.

 

[The Warlord]

Interesting

 

[Chadwiko]

Yeah the only rational explanation is he was the pay-off for Silicon Valley cash and on site support.

But you don't give the VP spot just for that, ad you say.

And SV will run away from him as fast as they can when he starts looking like a massive loser aka now.

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Tesla earnings report came out today and it was ugly.
Net profit down 45% in the second quarter y/o/y.

 

[big_e]

Yeah the only rational explanation is he was the pay-off for Silicon Valley cash and on site support.

But you don't give the VP spot just for that, ad you say.

And SV will run away from him as fast as they can when he starts looking like a massive loser aka now.

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Cult of personality is his whole thing.

I guess it's harder to say "we were buying influence with the person who was going to win the election, now we're not so sure."

 

[Bojan KantKick]

Propaganda polls straight out of the Goebbels playbook. Poll 5% more Democrats = wow Harris up by 2!

 

[Bojan KantKick]

There's certainly an element of truth to this.

However, both Bloomberg and WaPo either make profits now, or have realistic pathways to profitability.

By buying Twitter at a ridiculously inflated purchase price of 44 billion USD, even if everything went perfectly there was never any realistic chance for Musk to recoup his investment.

And in regards to buying it for 'influence', he's botched that too. Twitter used to be the platform of choice for politicians, celebrities, and genuinely important people. But these types have since abandoned the platform in droves, and advertisers have as well.

Bidens handlers announced he was stepping down from the re-election campaign on X. Seems influential.

 

[Liam Boy]

I genuinely love the "late great Hannibal Lecter" thing. It's so funny and baffling

 

[Liam Boy]

There's certainly an element of truth to this.

However, both Bloomberg and WaPo either make profits now, or have realistic pathways to profitability.

By buying Twitter at a ridiculously inflated purchase price of 44 billion USD, even if everything went perfectly there was never any realistic chance for Musk to recoup his investment.

And in regards to buying it for 'influence', he's botched that too. Twitter used to be the platform of choice for politicians, celebrities, and genuinely important people. But these types have since abandoned the platform in droves, and advertisers have as well.

He also crucially did not want to go through with the purchase and had to be forced by the Delaware court of chancery to actually do it.

 

[Bojan KantKick]

7 quick thoughts on the latest Harris-Trump polling

It may take some time for the race to stabilize.

www.natesilver.net

 

[Chadwiko]

Bidens handlers announced he was stepping down from the re-election campaign on X. Seems influential.

He released a press release.

It was distributed in multiple ways. Twitter was just one of them.

 

[Chadwiko]

Propaganda polls straight out of the Goebbels playbook. Poll 5% more Democrats = wow Harris up by 2!

Yah huh. Goebbels. Right.

 

[The Warlord]

Cult of personality is his whole thing.

I guess it's harder to say "we were buying influence with the person who was going to win the election, now we're not so sure."

This is why Murdoch waits until it is a done deal to formally swing support.

 

[The Warlord]

Propaganda polls straight out of the Goebbels playbook. Poll 5% more Democrats = wow Harris up by 2!

Jeez nah, come on man.

 

[Chadwiko]

Jeez nah, come on man.

The Third Reich under Hitler and Goebbels in the 1930s; early adopters of public opinion polls, apparently!

lol

 

[DesertRoo]

America is going to rip the band aid off again..

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/22/us/sonya-massey-police-shooting/index.html

 

[Dan]

This just dropped

What is this….the sniper version of Pokémon Snap? Put a ****ing bullet in his head or at least stop the event before that guy starts shooting.

Ohhh too late.

The whole thing stinks.