The whole thing was televised, you can have a listen for yourself if you want https://youtu.be/bDZgox580B0?t=7447

That’s not the alternative to proving it being false, that’s the alternative to it being knowingly false. You have to show all four of these things for US defamation

To prove prima facie defamation, a plaintiff must show four things: 1) a false statement purporting to be fact; 2) publication or communication of that statement to a third person; 3) fault amounting to at least negligence; and 4) damages, or some harm caused to the reputation of the person or entity who is the subject of the statement.

It’s the 3rd fault one that is the knowingly false or reckless disregard for the truth

As a result, a defamation plaintiff in an American court must prove that the allegedly defamatory statement is false and that the defendant was at fault for publishing it. “Fault,” in the case of a government official or a “public figure,” means that the defendant published the defamatory statement with “actual malice” – which means that he knew it was false or at least recklessly disregarded whether it was true or false

https://www.carter-ruck.com/law-guides/defamation-and-privacy-law-in-united-states/

Maybe for other countries, but this was filed in the US where that’s not the case at all. You need it to not only show it’s false, but that the person making a false statement knew it was false be or acted with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not

The CNN report was pretty damning and with how extensively they laid out the evidence that tied Robinson was to it, it’d likely be extremely difficult to show 1) that it was false or 2) that they acted recklessly when they were pretty through

EDIT: and to clarify the “person making a false statement knew it was false be or acted with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not” is the standard for finding fault with the person making defamation when the actual malice is used (which is the case for government officials or public figures)

Polls averages don’t capture turnout all that well. They kind of have to make assumptions about it to weight things. If they’re off about it, election results csn end up being rather different

But what we can look at is voter enthusiasm polling which is down for trump. In 2020, polling suggested there was a voter enthusiasm gap favoring trump. Today it’s flipped

The race is still far far closer than it should be but these things don’t necessarily have zero effect either

Right like at least be more subtle and funny in your insults you know. Meanwhile Harris saying “hope he’s okay” has so much better landing

https://xcancel.com/kamalaharris/status/1846049221369024700?s=46&t=ybtfi8Urdi-1ZG9fTxJdzg

Small percentages changes in turnout can still affect close elections like this. Things like this can absolutely affect dampen trump turnout or boost it on the opposite side

Uh it’d be weirdest DJ set if you ask me. Have a listen to the last 30 minutes of it

https://youtu.be/bDZgox580B0?t=7447

That’s actually not the full quote. The full quote show he was not talking about any of those issues at all. He was concerned with the allies being “liberal” and “communist”

It dawned on me today… The bad guys won in WWII. There were no “good guys” in that war. The controlling interests had a jump ball. If you look closely, you see the link between liberalism and communism in the Allied forces. Remember what Gen. Patton said and why they capped him.

https://xcancel.com/Highway_30/status/1596353423464611841

She co-sponsored a bill to fully legalize it in 2018. Behind closed doors she was advocating for legalizing it as VP, but Biden doesn’t support full legalization so it would’ve been a bad look for him if his VP was publicly going against him when he was still running

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Vote out house republicans

Shh don’t interrupt him when he’s accidentally campaigning for harris here

Trump has already turned it down now

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyejk91d2qo

Here’s a good wiki article that lists a lot of them out. It’s surprisingly frequent that thousands to occasionally millions burned alive in the US. (Also lists it for other countries too which are a bit better but still way more common than it should be)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_fire

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More so helps motivate people to vote who otherwise migh not have done so

As a reminder to others, here’s some of the fun other things he’s said: “He’s not a war hero, He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured” and “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers” among much much more

Note that the congressional maps don’t impact senate and presidential races* - only house and local races

See a lot of people claim it as a reason for apathy, but it’s worth remembering there’s still a lot of potentially winnable fights even in gerrymandered districts

* maine and nebraska are exceptions for presidential races due to splitting some of their electoral votes

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I also think some of them were so into their far right-wing media bubble that they thought people secretly like all their policies (they don’t)

Plus the media overall has historically not been great at really talking about Republican’s horrifying plans like this in the past. Barely mentioning that kind of stuff if at all. They were also banking on that continuing, and to be fair, it almost certainly would’ve if not for the democratic party starting to talk about it way more