Votes are anonymous. You can tell who voted, but not what they voted for. It’s crucial for the fairness of elections that a vote cannot be definitively connected to the individual who cast it; if you could, you could coerce or retaliate.

And all of the things you mention are the trust OP is talking about. You were a trusted person in that situation. The process increases and validates trust.

who has been caught cheating on 66% of his wives

FTFY.

It’s a fairly common expression in English, too, with much the same meaning. I don’t know what sort of rock these people are living under.

I remember using the second definition in elementary school in the early 90s, before cell phones were on common use, long before they flipped open, and even before they had extendable antennas. I suppose they might have been a cordless landline, but I always assumed it was a corded phone. The “call me” message, then, wasn’t about being able to see someone but not hear them except in very specific circumstances; instead, it was implied to mean “call me later.” It could be used as a way of flirting, or it could be more platonic. I suppose it could also be used in a business setting, though I wasn’t really old enough to know.

There are no such things as facts that come from outside of their leaders mouth.

Except when he says stuff that they don’t like, in which case they say “oh, he didn’t really mean it.”

Some of them do. Most of them believe, despite his own statements to the contrary, that he’d never do such a thing.

Fun fact: that was the original idea behind VLC! You could connect to video (and audio) streams. Hence, “VideoLAN.”

Also Taylor Swift. What a world we live in.

There are plenty of kids who just turned 18 this year. They were 9 when Trump began his first campaign, and certainly don’t remember any political reality before it.

I don’t think enough of them will be voting for lols this time to matter, but it’s worth noting that every electorate for every election is distinct.

Saved you a click: they shared the video of him nodding off but added a lullaby.

I’m kinda thinking we maybe try trickle-up for a few years.

I usually go with the last three. The mnemonic, “xcq, link stays blue” helps.

No, you can’t. You can pretend to, but I can pretend to trade things with anyone without paying any money. The only thing stored on the Blockchain is a URL to an image which everyone just agrees to pretend that you own; if that server goes down, you have nothing.

No, when beanie babies were new you could play with them. When basketball cards were new you could trade them with your friends. They had inherent value first, and then they gained speculative value on the secondary market. Trump’s grift has no inherent value now or ever.

Do you honestly think that, on the off chance that the Trump family sells out of these things, they won’t immediately mint more? It’s “limited” in the same way Marvel movies are limited.

It’s not going to make a difference with conservatives

It’s not going to make a difference with MAGAs. Nothing will. But the hold-their-nose Republicans are already starting to question whether or not everything they have been told about her is true, and casting further doubt on that could be enough to get them to leave the “President” line on the ballot blank. Seeing her responses, unfiltered by a pundit, could absolutely start that questioning. It could even start dominoes falling in their head that end up with a party affiliation shift in 2028 or 2032.

and it’s not going to make a difference with her own base.

As you can see in this very thread, her excellent performance is definitely infusing more enthusiasm into her base. There’s already a huge enthusiasm gap between the two candidates, and she’s running up the score. That makes a measurable difference.

Probably not for independents either.

Actually—

The biggest win is probably that she can say she did it, and Trump is too afraid to do the same.

—I think this right here actually helps her with independents quite a bit. The ones I’ve talked to value discourse so much that hearing she’s willing to engage with the other side like this might make them take notice.

For now. And Google super mega promises to never rug pull that one.

You know how Trump supporters are like, “he says what we’re all thinking!”?

The future first gentleman actually does.

Cool. Glad we agree on that, at least. Cheers!

“Believe women” doesn’t mean “use the trauma of abused women as a costume to lend legitimacy to your baseless attacks,” pal.