Trump calls for an investigation into pollster Ann Selzer

[highplainsdem]

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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar

Trump calls for an investigation into Ann Selzer

[elleng]

1. FFS!!!

and p.s., she's closing her business.

[highplainsdem]

2. Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Welcome to the authoritarian weaponization of the state and waste of taxpayer $ on vanity crusades:

Anyone whose work seems to criticize the leader or produce results that he does not like must be investigated.

Link to tweet

[Emile]

3. Caused great distrust & uncertainty that his fix was found out.

[Scrivener7]

4. He's going to "call for" a lot of things. Because he is senile and doesn't track his own words.

He's going to mouth-spew a lot of things. Because he always has.

Unless he takes some action toward whatever it is, I don't think we should pay even a little bit of attention to it. He wants us to be horrified. He wants us to be overwhelmed and feel helpless.

Don't play.

[highplainsdem]

9. I'm not feeling overwhelmed and helpless. His threats should be reported and remembered. This was

a very deliberate threat, not senile meandering. He wants even pollsters afraid of him. Remember, he remained obsessed by polls, by his approval rating, throughout his last term. He wants pollsters reporting that people love him.

[Scrivener7]

10. But what would it be like for him if he spewed that out and no one took any notice?

As I say, if he acts on something, by all means we should be all over it.

But his random brain noise? I just don't think so.

[highplainsdem]

11. What he says isn't going to be ignored. And pretending on DU he didn't say it, when it's being discussed

on much larger sites by people often quoted here, makes no sense.

A lot of the people who voted him said they didn't agree with much of what he said, but didn't take it seriously. You're suggesting Democrats make that easier for them.

[Scrivener7]

12. No, really I'm not. We'll have to agree to disagree.

[Dennis Donovan]

5. MeidasTouch‬: This is what fascism looks like, folks. Things are going to get very, very ugly. Fast.

‪MeidasTouch‬ ‪
@meidastouch.bsky.social‬
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Don’t think we are ready to pollute this place with screenshots of Trump’s posts just yet, but he just wrote that Ann Selzer, who has said she is retiring from polling, should be investigated for “election fraud” for releasing her Iowa poll showing Kamala Harris in the lead.

MeidasTouch
‪@meidastouch.bsky.social‬
This is what fascism looks like, folks.

Things are going to get very, very ugly. Fast.
November 17, 2024 at 6:19 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/meidastouch.bsky.social/post/3lb6k6npss22r

[luvallpeeps]

7. I wonder if she'd retiring on account of him.

Freaking menace!

[haele]

19. Why? Ya, I know it's intimidation.

But logically, there's no reason for any of these investigations he's calling for as most of the "crimes" he's claiming don't rise to the level of actual crimes. Not even libel or slander.

Haele

[bucolic_frolic]

6. So Trump will release the J6 criminals while prosecuting the innocent

for doing their job and calling them as they see them. I mean if we reach the point where professionals in any profession are not safe from political prosecution, we will get timid, frightened professionals who can't do their job.

[jls4561]

8. Next week: Trump calls for the investigation of fractions, decimal places.

What’s wrong with whole numbers? They were good enough for our forefathers until scientists like that Commie Ben Franklin got involved! Long haired hippie!

If nothing is done, this could lead to the metric system. Lotsa 10s! Think what this could do to fine Americans like Marjorie Taylor Greene! No one is quite sure how many toes she has, but you can be almost damn sure it’s not a multiple of ten! Think how confused she’d be counting her Cross Fit flops!

If there is one thing I promise to protect the people of America from, it’s math! You know, I had an uncle at MIT, and he always told me, “Donnie, whatever you do, stay away from mathematics.” So I vow to protect the flower of ‘Murcan womanhood from the danger of addition, subtraction, division. Elon and I have decided multiplication is OK. Just don’t use that math to figure days since your last period, or miles to the nearest state line.

[0rganism]

13. Wow, this effectively murders the polling profession if it holds up

The best pollsters can get outliers, that's just how statistics work. The underlying math itself predicts the probability of outliers based on sample size.

So henceforth, any polls must show overwhelming support for TSF or be considered actionable by his pet DOJ, just one of many casualties associated with the death of democracy.

[lapfog_1]

14. Fact #1 for election fraud -- what if "she got Iowa right"

so we need to charge her with some sort of crime.

[Tribetime]

15. It was OK when she was the outlier in his favor in 2016 and 2020

[Prairie Gates]

16. Seems like he's protesting too much on this one, gotta say

[SomedayKindaLove]

17. Trump should pay for a Iowa recount

Just to make extra sure she was wrong

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

18. Can't find a salve for your massive butthurt Donny?

[Etherealoc1]

20. Yes, let's have investigations

State by state let's see what will be uncovered.