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


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59 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

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.

It’s pretty common to retire a level below your highest attained rank either due to not completing coursework or deployment to a certain duty or an agreed upon extension to your retirement date, etc. It’s a big deal only in that it affects your retirement benefits package, nothing else

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So regarding the stolen valor comment...or is it stollen valor?  Vance attributes this quote to Walz: "We shouldn't allow weapons that I used in war to be on America's streets."  Then says that Walz never went to war and bailed on his unit just before they were to be deployed.

Only problem is that I can't find any reference to Walz ever saying that.  Shocking I know. 

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42 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.

Isn't that the MAGA model, a white dude supporting his wife financially?

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4 hours ago, Loch Ness Monster said:

Lots of policies discussed!

 

 

"Immediately, if not sooner" is really flying under the radar but is an absolute gem of mush-brained Trump lines.

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1 minute ago, tbone_ said:


What are you going to do to bring down rent prices for my kids?

This is such a stupid fucking question. (Notwithstanding the even stupider fucking answer).

Well I don’t know dipshit. Rents and prices are high because owners care about keeping the value of their real estate up. How about you try to start a trend by selling your house for 2/3rds what it’s worth to help some kid.

Oh, don’t like that idea? You’d rather have the government solve your problem? Fuck you you socialist fuck.

/rant over


communism has cheap rent !!!!

 

also, Trump supporters once again showing they’re the dumbest humans to ever walk the earth 

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54 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

Somebody should look into that.

But not literally.  You don't want to look into his eyes.  He's got black eyes.  Like a doll's eyes. And when he eats ya, those eyes roll up into his head.  And that's when the screamin' starts . . . I'll never put  on a life jacket again.

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2 minutes ago, dcbc said:

But not literally.  You don't want to look into his eyes.  He's got black eyes.  Like a doll's eyes. And when he eats ya, those eyes roll up into his head.  And that's when the screamin' starts . . . I'll never put  on a life jacket again.

 

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It's all so hilarious, this double standard the right is putting out. Vance can say Trump is an opioid and be the death of the party yet that's not held against him. Walz makes one false statement that was more about being military ready for war and it's parsed to death as a means to say he "stole valor". Walz point was military weapons of war have no place in our society other than with the military to fight wars. This shouldn't be that hard of a concept when those weapons are tearing schoolchildren apart and making police so fearful that they will stand outside a school rather than risk going up against one. 

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Trump and "drill baby drill" as the solution to record energy prices . . . when the current price of oil is below where it was during at least 25% of the Trump administration.  (Pardon the MS Paint cartoon lines.)

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1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

He could have said "And we can make sure that those weapons of war that I carried, in war is the only place that those weapons are at."

is he fucking yoda? Nobody talks like that, that's not a real sentence structure. He just misspoke, it's no big deal. Don't take the bait, listen to his point instead of quibbling on whether or not he said he carried it in war.

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Marquette: Harris +1 with likely voters (was Biden +2 before the debate) in H2H and Harris +2 with everyone included

For Wisconsin

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I read he served alongside NATO troops and the people he deployed with were responsible for providing support in connection with some conflicts. I don't think he ever claimed to have taken enemy fire or been in the theater of battle, but I believe him when he says he used guns while deployed.

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52 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

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

 

The Obama presidency + the advent of social media exposed just how dumb a sizeable population of America is.  Each year it seems to get more and more pronounced, and more and more depressing.

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1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

Trump and "drill baby drill" as the solution to record energy prices . . . when the current price of oil is below where it was during at least 25% of the Trump administration.  (Pardon the MS Paint cartoon lines.)

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you know, just once I'd like to see someone from, like, Midland Texas be like "what the fuck do you mean the price of oil is going to go down??" How do MAGA losers in the oil industry square away when Trump talks about lowering the price at the pump? Also, during lockdown, weren't a lot of oil chuds pissed because gas was too cheap??

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3 minutes ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

is he fucking yoda? Nobody talks like that, that's not a real sentence structure. He just misspoke, it's no big deal. Don't take the bait, listen to his point instead of quibbling on whether or not he said he carried it in war.

People garble clauses and sentence structure all the time.  I'm not taking any fucking bait.  We all get his over-arching point, Dad.

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57 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

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

 

Yeah get those oil prices down so refineries shut down and the drill baby drill crowd gets laid off because they won't be drilling baby drilling.

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3 minutes ago, South Austin said:

The Obama presidency + the advent of social media exposed just how dumb a sizeable population of America is.  Each year it seems to get more and more pronounced, and more and more depressing.

School vouchers!!! Warble garble!!!!

That'll solve it!

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1 hour 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 this is pretty rich coming from a guy who worked as a VC for Peter Thiel and is estimated to have a net worth of at least $10M.

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Would a necklace like that ever really depreciate in a "normal" economy?  I guess its value could fluctuate with the spot price of gold.  I doubt it would ever take a 20% hit like the average Volvo probably does once a new owner drives off the lot.

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14 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

THose numbers can't be true, because if they are true, to me that would mean she's going to get 330 electoral votes. 

yeah, I immediately discounted that tweet as garbage. No way she is leading baby  boomers  55-44. That's trumps sweet spot. 

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1 hour ago, Aqua Buddha said:

 

I am on day two of a road trip through west Texas. I have seen one current vintage* Trump sign in 600 miles, at a house in Balmorhea. I also saw a Harris sign in Marfa. 

 

* I also saw a Trump Pence sign at an abandoned trailer park with “Pence” painted over and some flags in front of a pretty best looking flag store in Ft Davis, but they looked like they had been up for several years. 
 

Anything could happen, but the campaign infrastructure and grass roots energy  just aren’t there right now. 

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1 minute ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

I am on day two of a road trip through west Texas. I have seen one current vintage* Trump sign in 600 miles, at a house in Balmorhea. I also saw a Harris sign in Marfa. 

 

* I also saw a Trump Pence sign at an abandoned trailer park with “Pence” painted over and some flags in front of a pretty best looking flag store in Ft Davis, but they looked like they had been up for several years. 
 

Anything could happen, but the campaign infrastructure and grass roots energy  just aren’t there right now. 

I noticed it when the Monday after Thomas Crooks tried his best nobody at the office seemed to give as much of a shit as one would think

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29 minutes ago, Loch Ness Monster said:

MAGA is so fucked. Two mile long line to get into today's Kamala rally.

 

 

Taylor Swift bumping over the P.A. A Beyoncé song as the campaign anthem. Meanwhile, Trump has Ted Nugent and Kid Rock. 

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29 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

My favorite part of this, a 60k necklace that Vance lists as "costing more than 2 months salary."

Completely fucking out of touch with most Americans. 

I’m sure you were able to glean that he meant the VP salary specifically, but if your point was that much of his audience would not do so then I agree. 

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35 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

My favorite part of this, a 60k necklace that Vance lists as "costing more than 2 months salary."

Not that it matters, but “two months salary” is pretty famously the rule of thumb for heirloom piece jewelry. 

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What is the Republican strategy at this point? Trump has essentially stopped campaigning at this point and they’ve got JV Vance out doing campaign speeches in the parking lot of a police precinct with more media than voters present. Meanwhile, Harris Walz is the hottest ticket of the summer. The complete flip of momentum is like nothing I’ve ever seen before. It’s like aggy going up big on UCLA and then choking it away when it matters.

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