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

[tx 3 putt 77,459]

1 minute ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Holy shit this is great.
 

 

 

['stache 21,882]

I'd pet her kitty.

[locodos 5,396]

4 hours ago, South Austin said:

For VP? He’s dead, Jim.

He died doing what he loved...

Spoiler

Your mom

 

[Bozo_Casanova 26,570]

 

[jimmyjazz 46,187]

6 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Holy shit this is great.

[locodos 5,396]

2 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

 

Nerd alert

Spoiler

Ever play Civ 6?

 

[tx 3 putt 77,459]

 

[Francisco 2.0 32,430]

 

 

 

[Gil Bang 26,035]

Heh

 

 

[Js1 85,587]

15 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

Kamala should buy one and wear it to a rally 

[tx 3 putt 77,459]

17 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

the grift never ends 

[Js1 85,587]

Curious if the VP pick leaks tonight or if Team Harris really is using CDC and no one on earth except Harris and the VP will know until tomorrow 

[immamac 43,121]

2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Curious if the VP pick leaks tonight or if Team Harris really is using CDC and no one on earth except Harris and the VP will know until tomorrow 

Leaks mean the admin is messy. 

[UncleSonny 6,573]

1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

Lay with dogs and you get fleas ….

 

In consecutive days, an American presidential candidate said he doesn’t like Bruce Springsteen but he likes Vlad Putin. And this shit is going to be close? We are truly lost  

[Js1 85,587]

Just now, immamac said:

Leaks mean the admin is messy. 

It’s politics. You can’t pay these attention whores enough to be quiet. It doesn’t mean messy. People tend to figure things out - they’ll be watching whose houses gets extra security, flights (that’s how Palin got figured out)

[Hank Kingsley 21,056]

To keep momentum and headlines going, I think it would be smart to announce the VP pick tomorrow. Gives the media a chance to introduce the candidate to voters and have a little more excitement heading into their 1st rally in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. 

 

 

 

Edited August 4 by Hank Kingsley

[Gil Bang 26,035]

6 minutes ago, UncleSonny said:

In consecutive days, an American presidential candidate said he doesn’t like Bruce Springsteen but he likes Vlad Putin. And this shit is going to be close? We are truly lost  

quoted for truth

[tx 3 putt 77,459]

12 minutes ago, UncleSonny said:

In consecutive days, an American presidential candidate said he doesn’t like Bruce Springsteen but he likes Vlad Putin. And this shit is going to be close? We are truly lost  

Springsteen was one of the best concerts / shows I’ve ever attended. He was amazing 

Edited August 4 by tx 3 putt

[Beantown Express 2.0 6,559]

1 minute ago, tx 3 putt said:

one of the best concerts / shows I’ve gene too. He was amazing 

Putin?  Didn't know he did concerts. 

[mchookem 16,397]

28 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

Heh

 

 

 

[That Guy 960]

1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Who was the guy who got arrested in his front yard speaking in tongues? It was also the guy who somehow got one of the "water nymphs" friends to come to a happy hour at Oslo either to meet the gang or sort of a date. Either way, she was about as disappointed as you would expect. 

@NorthLoop was this you? 

[Gil Bang 26,035]

13 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Springsteen was one of the best concerts / shows I’ve ever attended. He was amazing 

Same here, but it was "six of" instead of "one of" for me. 

[aggie08 21,538]

You guys have clearly never heard Vladimir lay down a crunchy bass line.

[Pancho 45,020]

3 hours ago, Loch Ness Monster said:

A black guy at the bar last night told me "Yeah Trump is racist but Republicans are better with the economy. Trump cut my taxes and gave me some money during covid. Democrats want to send all my money to Ukraine....Also did you see they let that man beat up a woman in boxing? I can't support Democrats thinking men should beat up women."

 

I’m going to guess this Black guy also tried to rush KA in college too.

 

There’s something about Black people like this, both male and female (although mostly Black males). I did some research during grad school about Blacks, identity, and in-groups/out-groups. This came from a class discussion about gender, sexuality, and culture so there was a connection. Anywho, the argumentation from that class discussion spurned the argument I was going to make in a paper of why Black male athletes play sports for PWIs when some of those PWIs (namely the university of Mississippi) have such a terrible past and terrible fans when it comes to Blacks. (I ended up writing this paper, but from a different lens)

The above connects to some recent research about Blacks and cultural acceptance and how some Blacks who aren’t culturally accepted by other Blacks for whatever reason tend to go to the extreme opposite of the spectrum in order to find acceptance. That acceptance for that “in-group” comes with a disdain for other Blacks because of who they are culturally and what they believe in culturally. So it’s ultimately the Black person going to the extreme opposite in order to find acceptance/an in-group and that in-group/accepting group just happens to stand for all of the things that go against that Black person—but because that Black person feels accepted, they end up believing those things under the guise of “I’m not one of them.” (Candiace Owens, Byron Donalds, Wesley Hunt, etc.) So these people know the in-group they are apart of goes against their interest and hates them based on their skin tone, but they are willing to be used as the token for that group because that’s the group that accepted them and didn’t make fun of them like other Blacks did at one point. This goes in line with that guy saying “I know he’s racist, but…” It’s clear he listens to radical right wing media and has radical Republican friends just based on the other talking points he brought up.

TLDR: some Blacks on the radical right are over on that side because that side accepted them when Blacks didn’t at some point in their life. It borders on a trauma response. 

[Js1 85,587]

5 minutes ago, Pancho said:

TLDR: some Blacks on the radical right are over on that side because that side accepted them when Blacks didn’t at some point in their life. It borders on a trauma response. 

I mean, I assume they’re a lot like Clarence. They’re married to a white man/woman so they see themselves as white now/interacting in white spaces only and you usually end up politically identifying with your social circle  

And the rest are grifting 

[Js1 85,587]

Elon’s PAC scam to harvest personal information disguised as registering to vote is under investigation by the state of Michigan 

[RDCanecutter 26,475]

34 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Springsteen was one of the best concerts / shows I’ve ever attended. He was amazing 

The one time I saw him, he played for about 3 hours then did a 45-minute encore that in itself was better than most other concerts I've seen.

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20,496]

1 hour ago, Js1 said:

Kamala should buy one and wear it to a rally 

 But put an asterisk at the bottom and then on the back have an asterisk and the words "except on September 10, 2024 on ABC."

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,523]

Springsteen is good but he ain’t no Kid Rock.

Speaking of trash performers, why hasn’t Ted Nugent been more prominent this go round with the GOP? Did he adopt a new, young girlfriend again or something else wrong with him?

[Underdog 28,776]

9 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Springsteen is good but he ain’t no Kid Rock.

Speaking of trash performers, why hasn’t Ted Nugent been more prominent this go round with the GOP? Did he adopt a new, young girlfriend again or something else wrong with him?

Not enough chili cook-offs, apparently. 

[Ted Lange 16,144]

2 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Not enough underage chili cook-offs, apparently. 

FIFY

[Brisketexan 105,383]

Harris/Crunch would be delicious.

Oh…so you support people shredding the roof of their mouth till it’s bloody? Asshole. Gonna make me vote for RFK’s brainworm!

A black guy at the bar last night told me "Yeah Trump is racist but Republicans are better with the economy. Trump cut my taxes and gave me some money during covid. Democrats want to send all my money to Ukraine....Also did you see they let that man beat up a woman in boxing? I can't support Democrats thinking men should beat up women."

Yeah…so, I understand why so many of yall are trying to find a way to rationalize reaching out to and connecting with Trump voters. They are family members, they’ve been friends. It’s hard.
But by now, after nearly 10 years of this shit…it’s over. They’re trash people. All of them. Yes, all of them. They know. They know he’s horrible. They know he wants to be an authoritarian dictator and end democracy. They know that he sides with our enemies (Putin etc) over our allies. They know he’s pointlessly cruel. They know he’s misogynist. They know he’s racist - yes, even the idiot black and Hispanic voters who support him know. They are trash. They are poison. They cannot be saved and brought back into the fold - can one or two, here and there, see the light? Sure…but it’s a statistically insignificant number. Give up on them, and do what any body does with diseased parts: isolate them, encapsulate them, and kick them out to the extent possible.
Fuck your asshole uncle. Don’t avoid him at thanksgiving: exclude him from thanksgiving. Cut him out of your life. He deserves it. And you deserve better than to waste another second of your life trying to convince a total piece of shit not to be a total piece of shit.
I’m done with them. And you should be too.

[Willfully Horn 8,050]

2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I’m done with them. And you should be too.

Yep.

[HOOKEM4 5,044]

5 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

None of them were going to vote Trump.  They weren't going to vote.  I'm telling you, a 20-year-old kid, no matter how high their IQ, they just don't process everything like people with less tread on the tires.

I know this response is late but I had something happen this week that reminded me about my 18yr old self. My grandma game me a book when I was 14 or so that was basically propaganda about how oppressed the confederacy was and how they weren't that bad. It caused me to have a fucked up view of the world until I sought out more information. I had to actively look for it. If I wasn't proactive, I could have lived in my ignorance forever. It is easy to do so.

I was taking care of my mom after she had surgery and while at her house I saw the book. I cracked it and read a few pages and realized how crazy it is now. Hell, the cover is a confederate flag. 

Kids are 100% a product of their environment and even at 20 do not have a solid grasp on anything. Hell, I am over 40 and still struggle to reconcile everything. 

 

 

[Satchel 6,949]

7 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 

I’m going to guess this Black guy also tried to rush KA in college too.

 

There’s something about Black people like this, both male and female (although mostly Black males). I did some research during grad school about Blacks, identity, and in-groups/out-groups. This came from a class discussion about gender, sexuality, and culture so there was a connection. Anywho, the argumentation from that class discussion spurned the argument I was going to make in a paper of why Black male athletes play sports for PWIs when some of those PWIs (namely the university of Mississippi) have such a terrible past and terrible fans when it comes to Blacks. (I ended up writing this paper, but from a different lens)

The above connects to some recent research about Blacks and cultural acceptance and how some Blacks who aren’t culturally accepted by other Blacks for whatever reason tend to go to the extreme opposite of the spectrum in order to find acceptance. That acceptance for that “in-group” comes with a disdain for other Blacks because of who they are culturally and what they believe in culturally. So it’s ultimately the Black person going to the extreme opposite in order to find acceptance/an in-group and that in-group/accepting group just happens to stand for all of the things that go against that Black person—but because that Black person feels accepted, they end up believing those things under the guise of “I’m not one of them.” (Candiace Owens, Byron Donalds, Wesley Hunt, etc.) So these people know the in-group they are apart of goes against their interest and hates them based on their skin tone, but they are willing to be used as the token for that group because that’s the group that accepted them and didn’t make fun of them like other Blacks did at one point. This goes in line with that guy saying “I know he’s racist, but…” It’s clear he listens to radical right wing media and has radical Republican friends just based on the other talking points he brought up.

TLDR: some Blacks on the radical right are over on that side because that side accepted them when Blacks didn’t at some point in their life. It borders on a trauma response. 

I mostly agree, although I think they’re more cynical than it appears. They correctly assess the degree to which they can be valuable to non dominants who traffic in race hatred by being willing mouthpieces for their beliefs, while making bank at the same time. As Trump ramps

[RomaVicta 30,027]

They will only see what they are looking for. I agree with @Brisketexan & @Willfully Horn. Discourse is dead. Persuasion is useless. All you can expect from the cultists will be condescension or betrayal. 

It occurs to me as I see some of the above discussion about Black voters who choose Trump. Often it's wondered how they can so blindly vote against their own interest. Everybody who is not rich and voting for Trump is voting against their own interests. 

If it's only a single digit percentage of Black men voting Trump, they're beating the fuck out of the white man vote.

[The Dog 44,152]

 

[Horn Dog 9,936]

4 hours ago, Loch Ness Monster said:

A black guy at the bar last night told me "Yeah Trump is racist but Republicans are better with the economy. 

You know who else did pretty good running the economy at the time?  Slave owners. Black unemployment was also zero.

Edited August 4 by Horn Dog

[NorthLoop 14,249]

1 hour ago, That Guy said:

@NorthLoop was this you? 

No. Can't remember that guy's handle. He was the one who knocked over some dude's motorcycle while Loko'd up.

[Gil Bang 26,035]

who was the dipshit that used to post a lot a few years back...Mr. "Unskew the polls".  Was a school teacher on a Navy ship or some shit?    Anyway, this reminded  me of his dumb ass.  

Just came to me: Swam4Texas

 

 

 

[Covri 6,253]

2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

[Underdog 28,776]

2 hours ago, Js1 said:

Kamala should buy one and wear it to a rally 

Or drape it over the empty podium. 

[T-shirt Sip 2,107]

On 8/2/2024 at 2:59 PM, ROFL BOX said:

 

I don’t think he’d fuck a black couch. Brown maybe but definitely not a black one. 

[WhatTheBuck 28,801]

4 hours ago, Loch Ness Monster said:

A black guy at the bar last night told me "Yeah Trump is racist but Republicans are better with the economy.

It’s frustrating that people continue to believe that because it’s simply not true. Was the guy too young to remember where the economy was when Obama took office and how much better it was when he left? Despite Trump’s lies, the economy did better in Obama’s last three years than it did in Trump’s first three. Trump got a lot of mileage out of lying about the economy both before and after he took office. When he took office he immediately claimed credit for the strong economy he received from Obama.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-takes-credit-for-strong-january-jobs-numbers/

Did you bother pointing out to him that the Biden economy is really strong?

https://thehill.com/business/4715951-world-bank-impressive-us-economy-is-powering-the-world/

[Underdog 28,776]

Or show him video of Trump even saying the economy is better under Democrats. 

[MrBig 5,443]

1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

Yeah…so, I understand why so many of yall are trying to find a way to rationalize reaching out to and connecting with Trump voters. They are family members, they’ve been friends. It’s hard.
But by now, after nearly 10 years of this shit…it’s over. They’re trash people. All of them. Yes, all of them. They know. They know he’s horrible. They know he wants to be an authoritarian dictator and end democracy. They know that he sides with our enemies (Putin etc) over our allies. They know he’s pointlessly cruel. They know he’s misogynist. They know he’s racist - yes, even the idiot black and Hispanic voters who support him know. They are trash. They are poison. They cannot be saved and brought back into the fold - can one or two, here and there, see the light?

Do Trump voters know Trump is a bad person though? MAGA believes MAGA talking points because there is not someone convincing enough on the other side to make them think otherwise. Not all Trump voters are MAGA, and I believe these non-MAGA types of people can be persuaded to vote against Trump if the right message can be delivered. 

This is why I am pushing so hard for a guy like Tim Walz because I think he can connect with voters who vote Trump but aren’t MAGA fanatics because he comes across as a regular guy we all know. 

I know some people have a hard time believing it’s true, but some Trump voters can be swayed to the other side with right type of messaging. I’m not talking about the MAGA voters who are flat earther die hard Trump cock riders, I’m talking about regular people who vote for Trump because they are influenced by their families or churches or workplaces that lean heavy into the Republican Party like military and police officers. 

All some people need is a regular dude who just tells them hey, Trump is a bad dude and he’s not helping this country come together to help us solve our problems. You may disagree with us, but vote for us so we can work together to fix what’s wrong instead of voting for Trump who has absolutely no plan for anything. All they hear is that Trump is an existential threat to our Democracy and should be stopped. The existential threat to democracy argument is not going to sway these people to vote against Trump even if ruining democracy is the strongest argument that can be presented. 

Cutting Trump voters off entirely is a great way to remove negativity from our lives, but it does little for bringing people together to solve our problems. The best hope we have is to fine tune our messaging with candidates like Walz to help people understand how voting against Trump is in their best interest without doing it in a forceful or dishonest way.

[atomheartbevo 89,810]

8 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

“Make being a huge piece of shit socially unacceptable again.” Second…the right is going to have to figure out a way to define itself that doesn’t involve - and numerically require - open appeals to hate, authoritarianism, and shittiness. Right now, they can’t win elections WITHOUT the “giant piece of shit” vote. If we can get them to a place where the next thing becomes true (they can’t win elections WITH the “giant piece of shit” vote), then we’ll be at an interesting place.
I’m not holding out hope that we can get there anytime soon. They are all-in on this, and they’ll be there for decades to come.

Just ask them that if radical Marxist socialist  atheist Muslim libtards are so terrible, why didn’t they leave the country in 1992, 1996, or 2008, 2012, or 2020.  Remind them that they can still move out of the country and that the great defender of Christian whites, Vladimir Putin, will happily take them in.  

Tell them right now that George Soros is going to make sure Kamala wins in November, and they should GTFO now while they are still free and not locked up in reeducation camps.

[atomheartbevo 89,810]

6 hours ago, Surly Bevo said:

It's like that with anything.  Not every Penn State fan is into diddling kids. They were just so into Penn State they couldn't separate themselves from that identity that had been built for them.

[Bozo_Casanova 26,570]

1 hour ago, NorthLoop said:

No. Can't remember that guy's handle. He was the one who knocked over some dude's motorcycle while Loko'd up.

Hopkinshorn maybe?

[Mo Horn 8,855]

22 minutes ago, Js1 said:

hmmmm

 

If he is indeed the pick, I'm guessing the Harris campaign would not have let him post that