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I live in Iowa. There are a few people who might be called "streamlined new-type" people. They won't be participating in the Republican caucuses, though, since they're all Democrats.

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I'm so excited-- I'd never even considered this strategy of Ramaswamy's -- getting just a few voters, instead of a lot of voters, which is so fuddy-duddy.

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So he's not running TV ads, and DeSatin isn't running any either. You know Christie ain't got no money to buy TV so that leaves Nikki to bore people in Iowa during time outs in the NFL playoffs and college basketball games, and wrestling meets.

*snort* I almost said Tim Scott 😆

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Pro- and anti-Nikki ads run back to back on NFL games here in Iowa.

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Condolences

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I saw a Vivek Ramaswamy For President bumper sticker in the back window of a soccer-momish-looking SUV. Of course, I'm in Ohio, so it might very well have been Vivek himself.

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There was one banner for a Vivek rally scheduled for just before Christmas at an Indian grocer in Bettendorf. Only sign I've seen of any support for him. By contrast, in 2020, there were dozens of Tulsi Gabbard signs, some of which were still up in 2022.

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Conceptually, I have a homicidal hatred for all people that behave the way this clown behaves. His constantly open face hole spews prodigious amounts of bullshit and poison into the environment and should be regulated as a hazardous waste site

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So, he will suspend his campaign and endorse TFG right before the Iowa caucuses, be there, will be wild.

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"My campaign is happy! My campaign wants to go for a walk! "

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"My campaign is happy! My campaign wants to go for a walk! "

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Mail, email, door to door, phone calls - ground-breaking campaign tactics that work great, if you're running for city council of Magaville, FL.

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He should outfit a really nice railroad car, attach it to the back of a train, and convince the RR company to stop in each town the train passes through so he can give a speech from the back of the car.

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Let me guess. January 15 is when he finally admits his entire campaign is a sham and his only purpose in running was to be Trump’s surrogate in the debates he was too chicken shit to show up for himself.

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Eleventy-dimension chess, man. That Trump's a stable genius.

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Can't wait! I hope to be one of the few voters-- few but special!-- who'll get him into the White House. Who wants to owe their success to hordes of regular people? I'll try to put in a good word for you. Of course he doesn't like to meet people.

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By "addressable advertising" does he mean those glossy color ads that go from my mailbox to the trashcan? Because those are really effective.

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I don't even stop to look at who sends them.

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Next he'll be saying, "We're going all in on Iowa."

And then it'll be, "We're depending on our army of volunteer door knockers."

And after that, it'll be some other euphemism for "we're running out of money" -- if he's around long enough to come up with one.

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How come successful billionaire businessmen are always the first ones to run out of money?

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They're unwilling to ride a bus?

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He has nice hair.

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"Mark my words: Big surprise coming on Jan 15. Shock the world. [American flag emoji]

Wow, a big surprise on January"

He's going to end this country's long national nightmare and drop out of the race?

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He's not wrong that TV ads are going the way of the dodo. Just think of everyone you know who proudly proclaimed "I don't

watch TV!" but knew every episode of Game of Thrones because they watched it on their phones. His problem is that he is personally less popular than Season 8.

Seriously, he is not going to get old White people who sit in front of the tube and his douchebro base doesn't couch out - they go mobile...but so do the young people we need to activate on our side. Joe's team has been pretty agile on social media but we have to keep our game up in this linked in new world.

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One thing I found encouraging was that, the day after the midterms, the White House hired John Fetterman's social media director.

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He is about as logically consistent as season 8 was as well

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Considering where the last book left off, I'm assuming a lot happens they weren't able to put on the screen that makes the ending makes sense.

But don't let George know I said that. He goes ballistic if you even mention the last book. Like Harlan Ellison and Dangerous Visions 3.

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I have slightly more respect for him than I do the other grifters (especially Haley) because he is what it says on the tin, a techbro scumbag.

And of course they are great at self-aggrandizing lying.

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