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

[ChiTownDoc 21,216]

12 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

WTF?   

 

Yo VEEP isn’t a Dem?

[Tuco 5,084]

On 8/13/2024 at 5:12 PM, Loch Ness Monster said:

Love how Kamala HQ just trolls MAGA and Trump all day every day. Seems like a fun job.

From this CNN article: 

The group that runs the @KamalaHQ TikTok is very young. Run by Parker Butler, 24, with Lauren Kapp, 25, the five-person Gen Z team has been given training and ground rules — and then “empowered to cook online. ”The team “consists of a lot of young people who just get the internet instinctually,” Butler said in a Friday interview with CNN.

So, Parker and Lauren would have been 16 and 17 when Trump was sworn in.  And, now, to save the planet, they have to troll his ass on a daily basis.  I bet they love their jobs. 

 

 

9 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

To give you a serious response - somebody at a fairly high level in his campaign, with some sway, is doing something along those lines..

1. He's not doing a bunch of campaign rallies, even though this is a time that he should be - Harris and Walz look positively energetic while he looks like a frail old man. Some have speculated that he's got some health issues, but I think somebody close to him realizes the more campaign rallies he does, the more chances there are of him continuing to say stupid shit and drive moderates away.

2. They are still doing ad buys, even bumping them up in some states.

3. They are trying to get free publicity by having Vance follow Harris/Walz - i.e. the reporters are already at their rallies, so have Couchfucker setup shop nearby and get some media attention.

Compared to 2020, his campaign feels like it's in maintenance mode - doing just enough to keep the MAGA core active and sending him money, but they are being extremely frugal with their spending (he should be able to fill out 5,0000 or 10,000 seat arenas, but they are going with cheaper, smaller venues).

He's terrified of empty seats.  He is only going to play venues that he knows he can fill.  The optics of empty seats, compared to Kamala's crowds, are something he can't risk.  

[thepop 4,409]

 

[Art Vandelay 1,712]

1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

You could have posted this at any time from 2016 on and no one would know when you were referring to.

ETA:  God dammit, this is what just kills me.  These people have literally been a clown car of incompetency and dipshittery from day 1, which was almost 8 god damn years ago, and yet we are still sitting here worrying about them regaining power.  70+ million of our fellow VOTERS (let's not even talk about overall citizens) are so god damn fucking stupid that we are still concerned that we might have to deal with this band of grifting, lying, chucklefucks again.  I mean WHAT THE FUCK?!?!

Having to coexist with a family of Trumpists in a red state, I often feel like I am going insane. And it's in those moments I thank sweet baby Jesus for you assholes and this fucking board. If it weren't for Surly, I think I might lose my goddamn mind.

Edited August 15 by Art Vandelay

[ChiTownDoc 21,216]

Easily, most energy since Obama.  I actually blew way more money than I wanted but obviously for a good cause.  Also, the camraderie is priceless.  Imagine growing up in Africa or India and being poor by even those standards and today you stand proud on the richest country in earths history.  Insane.  

Edited August 15 by ChiTownDoc
Dad’s POV

[Willfully Horn 8,087]

3 hours ago, Old Freak Nasty said:

This.  A billion times this.

I believe America will be better off with women in places requiring strong, ethical leadership.  Especially in national level political elected positions.  Progress is far too slow, but if we can stave off this GQP fever, I have hope that a tsunami will hit soon enough.

[G650 14,301]

2 hours ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Did a match up to a million. Some OU and UT track guys.  Dad’s bday. Maxed the million so 1 on me.  LFG.  #kamala

 

[Thatguy 9,032]

10 hours ago, Red Five said:

Imagine hearing that and not being clued in that he is a moron conman.

"This stock market is up! It's because of me! No wait it's down. That's because of Biden. Or Harris. Or both. Wait it's back up, because of me!" 

I literally have had this come across social media from MAGA people I know. Along with AI. Tim Walz puts tampons in boys bathrooms. MAGA will literally believe everything coming out this mans mouth, and regurgitate it. No fact checking. No common sense. No logic.

[Hank_Hill 18,994]

3 hours ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Did a match up to a million. Some OU and UT track guys.  Dad’s bday. Maxed the million so 1 on me.  LFG.  #kamala

Your fathers bday party may have resulted in $2mil generated for a campaign but I woke up this Monday morning with 13 different venmo requests from various friends from a friends bachelor party this weekend. Including multiple of single digit nature. My squads built different 😤

Edited August 15 by Hank_Hill

[Thatguy 9,032]

7 hours ago, Js1 said:

Oh

 

This girl chewing people up in the comments. Enjoy your brown babies.....🤣😂

 

 

 

 

[Thatguy 9,032]

6 hours ago, WBT said:

he should start booking doubleheaders with the midget rasslin'

Same crowd so.....

[Thatguy 9,032]

4 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

You could have posted this at any time from 2016 on and no one would know when you were referring to.

ETA:  God dammit, this is what just kills me.  These people have literally been a clown car of incompetency and dipshittery from day 1, which was almost 8 god damn years ago, and yet we are still sitting here worrying about them regaining power.  70+ million of our fellow VOTERS (let's not even talk about overall citizens) are so god damn fucking stupid that we are still concerned that we might have to deal with this band of grifting, lying, chucklefucks again.  I mean WHAT THE FUCK?!?!

You seem confused. Let me help. There are a lot of fucking racists in this country. They are everywhere and have been pretending to hide behind the GOP policies but because Trump has no policies they are just running around trying to find something, anything to hide behind. This grasping on to anything is rightly seen by us as weird, stupid, and nonsensical. You just need to make peace with the fact that a large chunk of this country doesn't want other demographics to infringe upon what they have, and as long as a certain party is dog-whistling against that they will always vote for them. You think these southern, suburban, white women don't want women's rights? . Let their Susan get pregnant and they will be the first one sneaking over the border to get an abortion. More importantly, they don't want little Susan bringing home a Tyrone or Edgar.

It's always been and will always be about keeping other people where they belong, and the sooner you accept that's what it is about, the better your mental health will be. Every election cycle, for as long as we've been alive, there has been fear-mongering about some type of brown people. It's the reason Canadians could cross the border with a simple ID but no Mexicans are allowed. It's the reason that in 2024 Mississippi, the southern state with the highest population of black people, is STILL the poorest state in the union. I know, it's hard to accept that our friends and family are racists. It's even harder when some of your friends and family hate their own race.

I actually know you already know this, but it helps to get a reminder every once and awhile to hit the reset button. Just remember, these idiots truly want to be democrats, but we stole the party from them by allowing ethnic people equal rights. So they are forced to vote against their own interests for the protection of their schools, neighborhoods, and daughters' vaginas. 

[ChiTownDoc 21,216]

1 hour ago, Hank_Hill said:

Your fathers bday party may have resulted in $2mil generated for a campaign but I woke up this Monday morning with 13 different venmo requests from various friends from a friends bachelor party this weekend. Including multiple of single digit nature. My squads built different 😤

Haha, well a lot of these amazing people are techs in CNA school making $15 an hr but we guarantee a lot more after finishing…Trust me,  this was NOT an upper crust party lol.  
Again, $5 to $100 etc, a LOT of dough raised.  A beautiful thing.  

[Chad Fuck 17,839]

Someone explain this one to me …..
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He makes money from generating fear?

[Post Oak 20,327]

7 hours ago, Pancho said:

 

Did they donate money or their first born daughter?

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11,669]

7 hours ago, TexEx15 said:

 

My biggest beef with Dotard.  He’s made voting for one side so repugnant that you have to vote for the other side regardless of policy.  Now we’ve gotta act excited about price controls. 

[Js1 85,744]

 

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[SubliminalHorn 6,824]

7 hours ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Did a match up to a million. Some OU and UT track guys.  Dad’s bday. Maxed the million so 1 on me.  LFG.  #kamala

Ya know, for a goddamned sooner, you’re alright in my book 

[BurntOrange&White 40,435]

A +1 in a Fox poll is quite bad for Trump, yeah?

[Hank Kingsley 21,083]

7 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

A +1 in a Fox poll is quite bad for Trump, yeah?

Fox polls are generally good and non-partisan. Crazy, I know. 

[BurntOrange&White 40,435]

Just now, Hank Kingsley said:

Fox polls are generally good and non-partisan. Crazy, I know. 

[SydneyCarton 48,296]

1 hour ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

My biggest beef with Dotard.  He’s made voting for one side so repugnant that you have to vote for the other side regardless of policy.  Now we’ve gotta act excited about price controls. 

Uh, I’m pretty fucking excited about price controls. 

[mdmost 43,294]

8 hours ago, TexEx15 said:

 

Well damn, she's really going to alienate the people who enjoy being price gouged, just to own the libs. 

[Pancho 45,428]

 

[Pato del Muerto 52,853]

More like price increase controls. 

[Firemans4Horn 18,302]

12 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 

 

[Post Oak 20,327]

27 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 

 

[Js1 85,744]

That Emerson +4 poll has Harris +2, Trump -10, Walz even, Vance -10

That puts the 538 favorability averages at:

Harris 44/48
Trump 43/52
Walz 37/32
Vance 33/42

[Biff Tannen 45,763]

1 minute ago, Js1 said:

That Emerson +4 poll has Harris +2, Trump -10, Walz even, Vance -10

That puts the 538 favorability averages at:

Harris 44/48
Trump 43/52
Walz 37/32
Vance 33/42

Explain to me like I'm 5 the difference between polls and favorability polls.  And why I should care.

[texas08 1,599]

I wonder when the Harris/Walz cammo hats will start being seen in the wild…

[Js1 85,744]

1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:

Explain to me like I'm 5 the difference between polls and favorability polls.  And why I should care.

If people don't like you, it's hard to get them to vote for you outside of your base.  If over 50% of voters don't like Trump, it's pretty hard for him to get a majority of the vote. 

He usually hovers around 43-45 favorability, which is typically where his polling hovers (44-46%). 

[The Original Greaser Bob 2,853]

3 minutes ago, texas08 said:

I wonder when the Harris/Walz cammo hats will start being seen in the wild…

They are camo, dumbshit.  They can't be seen.

[Biff Tannen 45,763]

14 minutes ago, Js1 said:

That Emerson +4 poll has Harris +2, Trump -10, Walz even, Vance -10

That puts the 538 favorability averages at:

Harris 44/48
Trump 43/52
Walz 37/32
Vance 33/42

 

9 minutes ago, Js1 said:

If people don't like you, it's hard to get them to vote for you outside of your base.  If over 50% of voters don't like Trump, it's pretty hard for him to get a majority of the vote. 

He usually hovers around 43-45 favorability, which is typically where his polling hovers (44-46%). 

So by this logic, Walz should be running for POTUS?

[tx ind 7,014]

Would it be too much to ask for Kamala or Walz to show up to their debate and put an orange, a mushroom, and a little toy couch on the podium and not say a word about it?

[Pancho 45,428]

They are trying to make turnip feel better lol

 

[Huckleberry 33,519]

1 hour ago, Pancho said:

 

Look at the second and third pictures. The black kid they hired was hiding his face with the sign and then he's gone. I assume they kicked him out for not acting convincingly enough.

[HenryJames 66,275]

1 hour ago, Pancho said:

 

It's like the 2016 inauguration. So much money just disappeared.

[Brandywine 1,320]

1 hour ago, Pancho said:

 

You know they had zero people there, looks like AI to me. Did they not learn anything from the Four Seasons fiasco? 

Edited August 15 by Brandywine

[Pato del Muerto 52,853]

13 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

It's like the 2016 inauguration. So much money just disappeared.

How robust is that library fund by now?

[WhatTheBuck 28,825]

21 minutes ago, tx ind said:

Would it be too much to ask for Kamala or Walz to show up to their debate and put an orange, a mushroom, and a little toy couch on the podium and not say a word about it?

Props aren’t allowed. I’d rather see Stormy Daniels and E. Jean Carroll seated in the front row of the audience. I don’t know if Karen McDougal could be persuaded. She actually liked the guy. 

[The Dog 44,180]

24 minutes ago, Pancho said:

They are trying to make turnip feel better lol

 

holy shit 7.5 MOE? that's not even worthy of discussion or even using for the average.

[Js1 85,744]

We’ve never had or needed 2 VP debates before  

 

[tx ind 7,014]

12 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

How robust is that library fund by now?

They’re working on it, will be on the Trump U campus 

[Biff Tannen 45,763]

15 minutes ago, Js1 said:

We’ve never had or needed 2 VP debates before  

 

I don't think he understands the offer.

['stache 21,900]

47 minutes ago, Pancho said:

They are trying to make turnip feel better lol

 

Do pollsters have to say who they are? I can imagine plenty of people hearing “we’re polling for Fox News” and hanging the fuck up while others would be happy to speak with them and skew the poll.

[Chuckie Finster 22,759]

11 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

I don't think he understands the offer.

He definitely understands and knows that there will never be two VP debates.  He's just trying to score cheap points when the second one doesn't happen.

[Tuco 5,084]

27 minutes ago, The Dog said:

holy shit 7.5 MOE? that's not even worthy of discussion or even using for the average.

I am pretty sure that is just for the "independent" split.  The FoxNews poll had 1100 RV, which is pretty typical of polls, at least ones that do frequent polling.  

[Red Five 41,066]

Can they do anything normal? Even debate schedules get all Dotarded up. 

"Kamala has agreed to debate me on Fox News, taking place at Mar-a-lago!"

"No I haven't. It's on CNN as scheduled."

"(ok)"

[Pam Cummings 9,696]

9 hours ago, Art Vandelay said:

Having to coexist with a family of Trumpists in a red state, I often feel like I am going insane. And it's in those moments I thank sweet baby Jesus for you assholes and this fucking board. If it weren't for Surly, I think I might lose my goddamn mind.

Unless the internet goes away, those people aren't coming back. It fucking sucks.