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

[Longhorn_Fan68 33872]

2 minutes ago, Constant said:

This feels accurate. Fox News has melted my grandpa’s brain the last 20 years. 

yup. i have one living grandparent  - first generation born in the US from Czechia - and he has voted democratic his whole life. his seemingly meek and innocent wife sure drums up the "immigrants are coming for ours" rhetoric when we get together. FN has broken her brain and she tries to infect my grandfather. thankfully his mind is gone enough he cannot be swayed at this point and he thinks he's still back in his army days. hopefully he still votes his heart and not his FN-by-proxy brain

[Ghost of LL 15531]

6 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

point of order: MN'a new flag is a powerpoint designed abomination

I like it.  And irrespective of what you think of it on its own merits, it's a fuckton better than the previous flag and better than any of the alternative proposals.

[4th&Five 41558]

 

[Captainant 27679]

27 minutes ago, TexEx15 said:

This account digs into stolen valor claims and did a pretty good job of explaining it in a non-partisan way. TLDR: he reached the rank of and served as a Command Sergeant Major. However, he was reduced in rank administratively upon retirement because he did not complete the Sergeant Majors course before retiring. Like everything else the right says, it’s disinformation at best and a flat out lie at worst.

 

 

nevermind that being a Sergeant Major is a pretty serious NCO rank. Those fuckers know EVERYTHING about the unit that they're in and are the interface between command and the men. They're like the COB on a ship.

It's wild to me that someone would step to him on that, SM's do not take bullshit from anyone

[TwiceHorn 31488]

Just now, Captainant said:

nevermind that being a Sergeant Major is a pretty serious NCO rank. Those fuckers know EVERYTHING about the unit that they're in and are the interface between command and the men. They're like the COB on a ship.

It's wild to me that someone would step to him on that, SM's do not take bullshit from anyone

One of the chief critics is a guy named Behrends that allegedly took his place as a SM during the deployment to Iraq, before which Walz resigned to run for Congress.

Apparently, Behrends didn't make CSM either (never got the promotion, much less didn't complete the coursework) and is salty about it.

[Chad Fuck 17684]

34 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Like everything else, good luck with that with Captain  cadet Bone Spurs at the top of the ticket.

fify.

Don't give him any more title than what he earned.

[South Austin 52515]

1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

They're looking to swift boat Walz. 

For those that don't know in 2004, Bush's side attacked John Kerry saying that Kerry exaggerated his Vietnam war record. Even though everyone agreed that Kerry served in a war zone in Vietnam while Bush served by flying jets in SE Texas.

The end result was that some believed that Kerry was a draft dodger (spoiler: he enlisted) and Bush was Rambo.

Maybe I'm not remembering as well, but Kerry was a bit of a pushover on this issue, and was not as strong of a personality as Walz appears to be out of the gate.

Walz just needs to keep dunking on Trump and Vance, pointing out that Lieutenant Bonespurs never served a minute in the military and instead has trashed veterans, that his military service was six times that of Vance (24 years v. 4 years), and that he retired at 41 years of age while Vance got out at 23 serving the bare minimum. 

Shit, even Vance has said that he was "lucky to escape any real fighting," and his time in the military consisted of "working in public affairs, writing about Marines and taking photographs of their work, escorting civilian news reporters and speaking about happenings on base."  Link  I'm sure Walz would be careful not to denigrate those in the military taking on non-combat roles, but he should have no hesitation to compare his service record to Corporal Couchfucker, and stuff him in the corner if he or Trump try that Swift Boat bullshit.

 

Edited August 7 by South Austin

[NAVY 6741]

1 hour ago, HornPhD said:

They lost that game

Which is bullshit because it seemed to be implied that Dottie sort of dropped the ball on purpose when Kitt steamrolled her ass at home plate. 
 

I don’t see the DNC offering sisterly love in a similar manner 

[Chuckie Finster 22694]

 

 

[Texas Flood 1356]

6 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

I like it.  And irrespective of what you think of it on its own merits, it's a fuckton better than the previous flag and better than any of the alternative proposals.

Personally I loved this one but blame the MN MAGA for making a stink about it

 

[yoladu 4094]

20 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

point of order: MN'a new flag is a powerpoint designed abomination

vexillology talk not going away.

[Pato del Muerto 52507]

8 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

 

 

People will come, Ray. 

[Kel Varnsen 8506]

[TexEx15 17537]

 

[jimmyjazz 45963]

24 years in at retirement.  Oh, the shame.  Vance is probably not gonna like how Walz pushes back on this "issue".

[Pancho 44832]

[mdmost 43004]

Wait, wait. I'm confused. Is Vance trying to act like he was in actual combat when he was a military journalist? Isn't that stolen valor?

[Jersey Man10 3535]

[WelfareBuysMyWeed 5388]

14 minutes ago, NAVY said:

Which is bullshit because it seemed to be implied that Dottie sort of dropped the ball on purpose when Kitt steamrolled her ass at home plate.

I think you read the sequence of events in the movie backwards, although the framing makes it seem like that's the implication. The movie opens with Dottie telling her boy that it's important for his brother to win every once in a while, which seems to foreshadow the end and indicates she dropped it on purpose. But that scene is actually in the "present," and chronologically takes place long after she dropped the ball. In the past, when the movie is set, Dottie *never* lets Kit win, at anything, her entire life. And Kit was actually a pretty impressive person in her own right, and should have had lots of accolades, except that she was constantly overshadowed. And going into that final at bat, she indicates she fully is ready to do it again. But when Kit actually pulls it off, and wins the game, Dottie sees how much it means to Kit, and realizes the importance of putting competition aside when your family. It wasn't until she saw Kit get a moment in the sun that she realizes she was destroying their relationship.

It's actually backwards: Her dropping the ball set in her mind that letting your sibling win every once and a while is a good thing, not the other way around.

[Pato del Muerto 52507]

8 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Wait, wait. I'm confused. Is Vance trying to act like he was in actual combat when he was a military journalist? Isn't that stolen valor?

Edited August 7 by Pato del Muerto
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[Foosters 17858]

6 minutes ago, TexEx15 said:

 

I've done stump speeches in Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook, and by gum it put them on the map

[Dbeasy 15052]

2 hours ago, immamac said:

I am fine with yarn if it worked for people I figured it was more widespread since there were other complaints. I've contacted them but never heard anything. 

A bunch doesn’t appear on mobile. Not sure if it’s yarn or something else. 

[Haphap 741]

 

[Js1 85353]

4 minutes ago, Jersey Man10 said:

Wow they have nothing at all

[WelfareBuysMyWeed 5388]

2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Wow they have nothing at all

the fucking gall of them to get the vapors over her fucking necklace, then end the same fucking email begging maamaw and paapaw for $5 for the """"""""""""billionaire"""""""""" pissbaby.

[mdmost 43004]

Man, I swore the Right told us they abhor class warfare and that's a tool of the Left. Trump lives in a fucking country club. 

[TexEx15 17537]

 

[South Austin 52515]

13 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Wait, wait. I'm confused. Is Vance trying to act like he was in actual combat when he was a military journalist? Isn't that stolen valor?

I think he was technically a correspondent.  Probably something like Lieutenant Steven Hauk.

[mdmost 43004]

And I will say to Jewish voters just like I would say to the pro-Palestine set...it's not about you, you narcissistic fucks. It's about fucking beating them because if they win, you will suffer. Everything you care about will suffer. 

[BrickHorn 18237]

1 hour ago, Hank Kingsley said:

 

“I visited Meemaw once and now I’m a hillbilly!”

[G650 14263]

2 minutes ago, South Austin said:

I think he was technically a correspondent.  Probably something like Lieutenant Steven Hauk.

In his heart, he knows he's funny

[NAVY 6741]

15 minutes ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

I think you read the sequence of events in the movie backwards, although the framing makes it seem like that's the implication. The movie opens with Dottie telling her boy that it's important for his brother to win every once in a while, which seems to foreshadow the end and indicates she dropped it on purpose. But that scene is actually in the "present," and chronologically takes place long after she dropped the ball. In the past, when the movie is set, Dottie *never* lets Kit win, at anything, her entire life. And Kit was actually a pretty impressive person in her own right, and should have had lots of accolades, except that she was constantly overshadowed. And going into that final at bat, she indicates she fully is ready to do it again. But when Kit actually pulls it off, and wins the game, Dottie sees how much it means to Kit, and realizes the importance of putting competition aside when your family. It wasn't until she saw Kit get a moment in the sun that she realizes she was destroying their relationship.

It's actually backwards: Her dropping the ball set in her mind that letting your sibling win every once and a while is a good thing, not the other way around.

I stand corrected

[Js1 85353]

5 minutes ago, TexEx15 said:

 

Get over it. It’s not anti semitic because they didn’t pick a Jew. They didn’t pick Pete, was it anti gay? They didn’t pick Whitmer, anti-women? Didn’t pick Beshear, age discrimination? Didn’t pick Pritzker, anti-rich or anti-fat?

Edited August 7 by Js1

[South Austin 52515]

16 minutes ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

I think you read the sequence of events in the movie backwards, although the framing makes it seem like that's the implication. The movie opens with Dottie telling her boy that it's important for his brother to win every once in a while, which seems to foreshadow the end and indicates she dropped it on purpose. But that scene is actually in the "present," and chronologically takes place long after she dropped the ball. In the past, when the movie is set, Dottie *never* lets Kit win, at anything, her entire life. And Kit was actually a pretty impressive person in her own right, and should have had lots of accolades, except that she was constantly overshadowed. And going into that final at bat, she indicates she fully is ready to do it again. But when Kit actually pulls it off, and wins the game, Dottie sees how much it means to Kit, and realizes the importance of putting competition aside when your family. It wasn't until she saw Kit get a moment in the sun that she realizes she was destroying their relationship.

It's actually backwards: Her dropping the ball set in her mind that letting your sibling win every once and a while is a good thing, not the other way around.

Surly used to be my playground.

[Ghost of LL 15531]

15 minutes ago, Jersey Man10 said:

I'm just going to observe that, even assuming that the necklace did cost $62,000, her husband was a fucking partner at DLA Piper.

Yeah--I think he can afford to buy his wife some nice bling.

[Longhorn_Fan68 33872]

Just now, Js1 said:

Get over it. It’s not anti semitic because they didn’t pick a Jew. They didn’t pick Pete, was it anti gay? They didn’t pick Whitmer, anti-women? Didn’t pick Beshear, age discrimination?

don't give the issue any air. they are looking for something, anything, to stick and it just isn't.

[WelfareBuysMyWeed 5388]

You know what probably pisses off a lot of jewish voters? Hanging around literal neo nazis like Nick Fuentes. Say, I wonder which of the candidates did just that.

[South Austin 52515]

Just now, Ghost of LL said:

I'm just going to observe that, even assuming that the necklace did cost $62,000, her husband was a fucking partner at DLA Piper.

Yeah--I think he can afford to buy his wife some nice bling.

I'm guessing it would take all of 10 minutes to find photos of Usha Vance wearing a Cartier neckless or Oscar De La Renta dress.  Or JD sitting on a Louis Vuitton Bombaca Sofa.  Link

[locodos 5387]

Flag nerds... enjoy

 

[Gil Bang 25961]

I'll bet JD uses very expensive eyeliner...more expensive than the average woman could afford.    Somebody should look into that.

[MonkeyDoughnut 10253]

7 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

I'm just going to observe that, even assuming that the necklace did cost $62,000, her husband was a fucking partner at DLA Piper.

Yeah--I think he can afford to buy his wife some nice bling.

Also one place that being a 'childless cat lady' makes quite the difference on the personal finance front

[mdmost 43004]

 

[Homercles 10206]

The whole military thing pisses me off to the core, especially to enlisted.  Soldiers, airmen and sailors get put into a position of need all the time before they get a chance to check all the required boxes.  And I’m not strictly taking battlefield promotions or commissions.

Some of those positions have a required rank that goes along with it.  Are they going to start calling out 3 and 4 star generals?  On paper most them are supposed to revert to Brigadier/Major Generals upon leaving the office that brings the extra stars with it.  

Fuck all the way off with things you don’t understand, especially to an enlisted man with over 20 years.  

[Pancho 44832]

[4th&Five 41558]

 

[27-25 2047]

2 minutes ago, Pancho said:

So is this the "real" Kamala Harris?  I too, am confused.

[Fudge Nuggets 19195]

13 hours ago, Pimphand said:

Is there a bigger coward than @Mo Horn?

I thought @aggie08 was the kneepad ringleader.

Imagine wanting either one of these scrubs on your team..... 

god you’re fucking weird. Go away. 

[tx 3 putt 76980]

28 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Wow they have nothing at all

Russian bots using their old scripts 

they ran the same scam with First Lady of Ukraine having an ‘expensive’ purse 

[mdmost 43004]

2 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

 

Unlike Nate, Vance is not going to be redeemable. 

[tx 3 putt 76980]

The man is a moron. Anyone in o/g or energy voting for Trump Vance is completely clueless ….