Lonesome Rhodes meets the Stepford Wives

Lonesome Rhodes, “A Face In The Crowd”, 1957

Have we finally seen Trump’s Lonesome Rhodes moment. "we get wise to him―that’s our strength".

"The Lonesome Rhodes express! Going down!" pic.twitter.com/GfpZFj6cDa

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) October 9, 2016

... Lonesome Rhodes at the end of "A Face in the Crowd," Captain Queeg on the stand in "The Caine Mutiny," and now.... https://t.co/gKCv2CQsnU

— Jeff Greenfield (@greenfield64) November 2, 2024

Lonesome Rhodes, “A Face In The Crowd”, 1957

What do you notice about the crowd sizes at Kamala Harris's rally in September and Donald Trump's rally tonight?

They are at the same arena in Greensboro, North Carolina.

What I see: No upper deck seats for Trump's rally, and the lower deck is only filled in a horseshoe shape. pic.twitter.com/T1BtvE2e6L

— Franklin (@franklinisbored) November 3, 2024

Psychological operations were an important element of warfare. Evgeni Messner emphasized the use of maskirovka in order to destabilize command structures and to create ‘fog of war’. The main purpose was to create a manageable form of chaos. While Messner’s publications had been officially banned in the Soviet Union because of his anti-Communistic views, it came as no surprise that his writings enjoyed a considerable revival during the Putin era.

Speaking of trucks & Trump's unfair treatment of working people...

A garbage truck at the VA Trump rally today is advertising a Trump merch store whose owner was recently arrested for sexually assaulting 3 women employees when they asked to be paid. https://t.co/jpgADqzTO8 pic.twitter.com/FWplLbd4ZS

— 𝔅𝔬 𝔊𝔞𝔯𝔡𝔦𝔫𝔢𝔯 (@Bo_Gardiner) November 2, 2024

the people behind Trump are really going through it pic.twitter.com/j2X7EvkQFr

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 2, 2024

“Overall, Harris holds a 20-point lead with women, 56% to 36%, similar to where she was in September. But Trump’s lead with men has shrunk from 27 points in September (59% to 32%) to 14 points today (52% to 38%).”

Is the outlier Iowa Selzer result due to not weighting by education (the theory being that it has too many college-educated voters in it)? Plausible, but looks more to do with the very large Harris margin among college+ voters than composition. If you plug the margins into from… pic.twitter.com/y7BFmbLGC7

— G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) November 3, 2024

Trump: I consider myself to be the father of fertilization pic.twitter.com/M6Ux55gC9y

— Acyn (@Acyn) November 3, 2024

Andy Griffith said that Playing the Role of Lonesome Rhodes in the 1957 movie #AFaceInTheCrowd was Difficult to turn off at Bedtime:

"..You Play an Egomaniac and Paranoid all day, and it's hard to turn it off by Bedtime.."....#TCMParty pic.twitter.com/NxEBvmnEha

— meinnyc (@meinnyc130) November 3, 2024