2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.

[Surly Bevo 24,908]

INCOMING!
 
 
 
 

Shit like this is where the “if liberals are so fucking smart how come they lose so god damn always” line comes from.

We get it. You like chess. You’re really good at chess. You love to play chess.

You can’t fucking play chess with somebody who thinks the way you win the game is to just flip the fucking board over.

[Chad Fuck 17,682]

I'm not seeing how term limits are a solution to the SCOTUS problem we're currently facing. It will still be a crap shoot about who is in office when the term is up, and the electoral college is still problematic because only republicans can win the office without the popular vote. Not to mention that confirmation lies with the Senate, which is also unfairly gives small red states way too much power. I think it's also a legitimate concern that the amendment could never, ever, in a million years pass the states. It would be another line of attack in 2028 that Biden/Kamala/Dems "lied" by not implementing term limits for SCOTUS-remember, most voters are morons and don't see the nuance of putting it out there vs. getting it passed, and have no understanding about the limits of presidential powers (a problem that has driven me crazy for decades when it comes to presidential campaigns). I think it would be far more feasible and effective to add seats to the court, because that can be done if you win Congress and doesn't require an amendment to the constitution. It's also very much justified after Moscow Mitch literally stole a pick from Obama. 

Why not both?

[Jive Turkey 12,598]

20 minutes ago, Disco Strangler said:

One of the weirdest of the weirdos.

this was my introduction to DeSantis.  weird AF:

 

[immamac 42,850]

29 minutes ago, TexEx15 said:

Excellent thread.

 

I represent 800K people in Congress from Southwest Ohio. They’re hardworking and kind, and they care about their families, neighbors, and communities. But I also represent JD Vance... 🧵

Right now, Mr. Vance is running one of the cruelest, most chaotic, and downright *weirdest* campaigns for Vice President we've ever seen.

And because Mr. Vance claims SW Ohio as his own, I want to clarify that he couldn't be more different from the *normal* people who actually live here.

Mr. Vance and I live just a few miles away from one another. We both grew up in Butler County. But my values - and the values of the people I represent - couldn't be further apart from his.

His views and beliefs don't represent Southwest Ohio. So let's take a look at Mr. Vance...

Mr. Vance makes fun of single women, calling them a "bunch of childless cat ladies with miserable lives."

Mr. Vance has called for a "federal response" to women travelling across state lines to get an abortion. Just last month, Mr. Vance voted *against* protecting the right to access IVF treatment.

Mr. Vance thinks people should have to stay in violent marriages and not get divorced. He thinks some people should get more votes in elections than others, depending on whether they can have children.

Mr. Vance is intricately involved in Project 2025 - going so far as to write the forward for the Heritage Foundation President's new book coming out soon.

This is the Project 2025 that will: - Implement abortion surveillance - Ban Muslims - End the ACA - Declare heterosexual couples superior - Eliminate the EPA - Dismantle union protections - Cancel free & reduced school lunches - Cut Social Security (Just to name a few)

Mr. Vance and I both got elected to Congress in 2022. In our congressional district, which is purple, we won by more than 5 points. Mr. Vance lost our district by nearly 9 points.

We support an economy that works for working people, not billionaires and big corporations. We support women and will fight to restore reproductive freedom. We believe in our democracy and want to protect voters and the integrity of our elections.

We believe in pragmatic, bipartisan leadership - not chaos or cruelty.

Southwest Ohio doesn't like this guy, so take it from the folks who know him best. Mr. Vance is just weird - there's no other way to say it. This isn't a guy we want anywhere near the White House.

[Loch Ness Monster 3,533]

 

 

[immamac 42,850]

Just now, Loch Ness Monster said:

 

 

holy shit they are so bad at the internet.

[Chad Fuck 17,682]

Holy shit

I’m rooting for John Bolton?

Craziest of timelines.

[wildcat09 29,354]

22 minutes ago, 'stache said:

Yup, this is what I'm talking about, completely missing the point. It's not a "war on weird," it's pointing out a very particular form of weird that is truly bizarre and creepy as fuck. Pretty much everyone gets the context, but I knew there would be something like this from the far left. I noticed their already mixing it in with words like "bizarre" and "creepy" which I think is the right way to keep it at the forefront, because it appears to be working.

Man, I can pretty much guarantee you a twitter bluecheck account isn't far left. That's just some guy looking to stir shit up for attention.

[TwiceHorn 31,472]

49 minutes ago, TexEx15 said:

No words.

 

Lmao, that's fucking fantastic.  

[Hank Kingsley 20,941]

Coach Walz talking a little ball at Vikings training camp last year.  (sorry, won't embed. got to click on the link below) 

 

[jimmyjazz 45,957]

53 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

That’s said, I wouldn’t put it past the Dems to straight up fumble the ball somehow on this Hail Mary they seem to have caught.

 

Edited July 29 by jimmyjazz

[TwiceHorn 31,472]

21 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

I’m rooting for John Bolton?

Craziest of timelines.

To be fair, Bolton has been pretty consistently anti-Trump.

[Captainant 27,669]

2 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

To be fair, Bolton has been pretty consistently anti-Trump.

Except for when he was the NSA in his administration lol

[Red Five 40,859]

To be fair, Bolton has been pretty consistently anti-Trump.

When you’ve lost John Bolton, Mike Pence, and Dick Cheney.

[Tuco 5,076]

When you’ve lost John Bolton, Mike Pence, and Dick Cheney.

… you don’t bother looking for them.

[Thrawn 538]

15 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

lol, 2 factor authentication has broken the brains of so many people. 

🤦‍♂️ Don't get me started.

I run a large team of software developers, and you wouldn't believe what issues some of our very bright (if not a bit older) developers have with this. It is fucking embarrassing sometimes.

[shakahorn 1,645]

13 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Coach Walz talking a little ball at Vikings training camp last year.  (sorry, won't embed. got to click on the link below) 

 

Good stuff. Obv very knowledgeable about football and follows the game. Only negative...he speaks highly of Trev Alberts

Love this line: "You live with yourself. You do the best you can, you prepare the best you can, you listen and surround yourself with good folks. You try the best to execute and then you take responsibility when something goes wrong."

[Caver60 395]

 

Funny that W, of all people, understood it early on.

[Blotto 23,512]

13 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Except for when he was the NSA in his administration lol

Yeah, he's just being a bitch because he got neutered by Trump and now no one in the GQP gives a single shit about what John Bolton thinks about anything. He's on the outside. 

Edited July 29 by Blotto

[Chad Fuck 17,682]

One of the weirdest of the weirdos.

He is very, very weird.

But I don’t think making fun of laughing is the direction we want to go right now.

[ChiTownDoc 21,154]

1 hour ago, Pancho said:

Radical republicans are paying rappers to promote the “Kamala isn’t black” narrative and to not vote for her.

The problem is these are the shittiest of shit rappers and they are getting massacred by everyone regardless of race in the replies.

They’re so bad at everything. It’s truly mind boggling.  

[mdmost 43,001]

I love that everyone has a recording device now so it's harder for him to say stupid shit like this and get away with it. 

From Drudge Report:

https://yeshivaworlds3.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/29084438/WhatsApp-Video-2024-07-28-at-11.40.21-PM.mp4?_=6

Edited July 29 by mdmost

[TwiceHorn 31,472]

10 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Except for when he was the NSA in his administration lol

Which seems to be exactly why he is anti-Trump, like many former Trump appointees.

I'll take it.

[Ted Lange 16,085]

 

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2024/07/29/mesa-mayor-republican-vote-kamala-harris/74583703007/

 

[texasdago 7,573]

[mdmost 43,001]

Oh and here we go again. 

https://freebeacon.com/democrats/an-inspiration-to-me-always-meet-kamala-harriss-radical-pastor/

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,512]

Makes sense that being called weird is upsetting many republicans. Any group can be triggered and act like a snowflake, and republican men can easily fall into that trap. I know lifetime Bud Light drinkers, who are also Republican voters, who stopped drinking it because Kid Rock told them that it made them aligned with the transgender community.

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,512]

1 hour ago, Pancho said:

Radical republicans are paying rappers to promote the “Kamala isn’t black” narrative and to not vote for her.

The problem is these are the shittiest of shit rappers and they are getting massacred by everyone regardless of race in the replies.

Republicans have always been horrible about getting any entertainer to help with their messaging. Almost always it's a has-been or never-was that needs the money. They obviously get some known names but it usually decades after they were relevant. They even struggle to get current country stars to show up for them, even though you know some of them support the GOP.

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11,669]

1 hour ago, Incredulity said:

That's a great gotcha line, but the truth of the matter is DOL compounded by many varied state regulations/restrictions on teenage work(specifically 16-18) are overwrought.   

if you were trying to reinforce the 'we're quite weird' meme, feeling compelled to defend 16 old's right to work with ammonia is a good start.

[Incredulity 11,674]

2 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

if you were trying to reinforce the 'we're quite weird' meme, feeling compelled to defend 16 old's right to work with ammonia is a good start.

There are certainly things that need to be prohibited.  Throwing used cardboard into a safety interlocked carboard bailer and pushing the green start button is on the opposite end of the spectrum for example.  

[cactusflinthead 27,598]

22 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

He is very, very weird.

But I don’t think making fun of laughing is the direction we want to go right now.

You missed one

[TexEx15 17,529]

 

[Firemans4Horn 18,050]

11 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

if you were trying to reinforce the 'we're quite weird' meme, feeling compelled to defend 16 old's right to work with ammonia is a good start.

get rid of the illegals and make it legal for 12 year old AMERICANS to pick avocados for $6 an hour cash. 
 

Probably Project 2025

[Pancho 44,804]

Radical republicans 

 

['stache 21,815]

It's probably been mentioned before, but this is fucking bizarre as fuck, beyond the obvious part, but that he specifically mentions as her value being a mom, consistent with Project 2025 in which a woman's worth is solely to pump out children and serve her husband. It's beyond weird, its gross as fuck.

[Js1 85,338]

Kamala gets the endorsement of several Arizona border town mayors (https://apnews.com/article/kamala-harris-border-endorsements-arizona-efee13f3415d42d952363ad364258af7) and Mesa's Republican mayor (https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2024/07/29/mesa-mayor-republican-vote-kamala-harris/74583703007/?)

[NWBuck 8,567]

2 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Radical republicans 

 

 

[Captainant 27,669]

22 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

There are certainly things that need to be prohibited.  Throwing used cardboard into a safety interlocked carboard bailer and pushing the green start button is on the opposite end of the spectrum for example.  

"the children yearn for the warehouses" - Incredulity, probably

[Longhorn_Fan68 33,871]

10 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Radical republicans 

 

no problem. Biden can just officially tell them to certify. you know, like SCOTUS wants

[WhatTheBuck 28,781]

1 hour ago, royiv said:

At least in the state of Texas, every ballot has the signature of the Presiding Judge of that polling location on it. It’s either hand signed by the PJ or stamped. Source: me, who is an election worker in Harris County.

Yeah, look into the situation wherever you’re voting. (Better yet, volunteer to be a poll worker!) It’s impossible to say where 3 putt’s FW:FW:FW:FW:FW:FW anonymous tweet came from.

In Ohio most ballots are cast electronically. There will be a blank ballot card that is printed up at the voting kiosk and then fed into a ballot reader to tabulate the votes. Voters may request a paper ballot that they can mark up by hand if they choose. Those are fed into the ballot reader as well. A provisional voter must fill out a paper ballot and we mark those with a big “X” in the upper left corner to prevent them from being read by the machine. Those votes are processed by hand because they need to be verified first whether they’re legal or not.

Here, nobody writes anything on your blank ballot card when you’re checking in. Nobody checks your party affiliation, either, and since the coming election isn’t a primary, no one will have a reason to request either a Republican or a Democratic ballot. 

[Red Five 40,859]

12 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Radical republicans 

 

Eight years ago: "We should give Donald Trump a chance to be president. What's the worst that could happen." 

[wildcat09 29,354]

13 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Radical republicans 

 

Does anyone have any faith that Merrick Garland is on top of this shit?

[aggie08 21,504]

15 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Radical republicans 

 

I hope there's a full team dedicated to making sure that Marc E. Elias is tan, rested, and ready come November. There's a decent argument that he's the most important person in the country this year.

[David Dennison 18,860]

I guess y'all don't remember the Democratic response after the last election.

[Red Five 40,859]

Just now, David Dennison said:

I guess y'all don't remember the Democratic response after the last election.

Yeah, but hopefully this is new democratic party that is willing to fight for little things like democracy. But no doubt Garland's plan would be to seriously start looking into this in 2026.

[Brisketexan 105,142]

45 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Oh and here we go again. 

https://freebeacon.com/democrats/an-inspiration-to-me-always-meet-kamala-harriss-radical-pastor/

I mean, we could write some pieces like that on Trump's pastor.  He's the most Christian president we've ever had, a darling of the evangelical Christians who want to bring White Jesus's dominion to these United States.  So, let's see what Devout Christian Donald Trump's long-time pastor has to say....

[David Dennison 18,860]

4 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Yeah, but hopefully this is new democratic party that is willing to fight for little things like democracy. But no doubt Garland's plan would be to seriously start looking into this in 2026.

They did that last time. Remember?

[Longhorn_Fan68 33,871]

Just now, David Dennison said:

They did that last time. Remember?

what are you referring to specifically? you keep putting out generalities and making people guess and it's fucking annoying. please say what you mean. thank you.

[aggie08 21,504]

1 minute ago, David Dennison said:

They did that last time. Remember?

Yeah, lawyers crushed it and saved our asses. I'm surprised they ever stopped letting us know about it. 

But I'm sure they're already logging 18 hour days gearing up for this shit.

[David Dennison 18,860]

Just now, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

what are you referring to specifically? you keep putting out generalities and making people guess and it's fucking annoying. please say what you mean. thank you.

They successfully rebutted the challenges to the 2020 election. I have no reason to think they won't do the same thing in 2024.