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

[Francisco 2.0 32,393]

4 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

you have to give the orange jackass credit for dropping his plan to tackle the debt issue ….

 

 

Sorta like that time when he was attempting to buy the Bills, and he needed to show he had more in assets, so he just conveniently had a "brand value" line added to a financial letter:

 

[Js1 85,336]

Suffolk - Michigan

Harris 48, Trump 45(with rounding)

Elon University - North Carolina 

Harris 46, Trump 45 

Stein 49, Robinson 35

[chainsaw 9,868]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-withdraws-support-gop-pulls-funding-from-black-nazi-mark-robinson

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Trump Withdraws Support, GOP Pulls Funding From ‘Black Nazi’ Mark Robinson

 

WHISTLE FOR IT!

The GOP is distancing itself from its controversial nominee for North Carolina governor.

 

[Snake Diggity 4,624]

6 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

you have to give the orange jackass credit for dropping his plan to tackle the debt issue ….

 

His real answer there was “who knows about anything”.  Thats really the only part that he said that he actually believes.

He’s pretty much revealed that he doesn’t understand in the slightest what cryptocurrency actually is and thinks it’s a scam.  Luckily for him the idiots who are passionate about it will give support to literally anyone who just says the word “crypto” over and over, even if that person has no fucking clue what they’re talking about.

[DigglerontheHoof 21,199]

2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

Sorta like that time when he was attempting to buy the Bills, and he needed to show he had more in assets, so he just conveniently had a "brand value" line added to a financial letter:

 

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11,669]

5 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

He’s pretty much revealed that he doesn’t understand in the slightest what cryptocurrency actually is and thinks it’s a scam.

Sounds like he understands it pretty well. 

[The Hot Dog Buffet 1,291]

9 hours ago, 27-25 said:

40 out of 40?  Of course it's a lie.  Sure your mileage may vary from survey to survey.  And US News has its issues.  But they has us at #12 out of 89.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/rankings/well-developed-public-education-system

Can we improve a lot?  Absolutely.  But coloring the US as dead last in some manner just represents the millionth time DOTARD has used hyperbole as a solid fact.

Also, the countries that are better than us all spend more on education than we do.

[Js1 85,336]

6 hours ago, quigley said:

Overall was less optimistic, but that's is personality too. Only wanted to think about blue wall. Feels good about MI, WI, NE-2.

He literally said "fucking PA."

I get it.

Most surprising to be is that the Pod Save America bros are optimistic about Harris' chances in November.  That's a turn from the summer.

[BrickHorn 18,234]

1 hour ago, Snake Diggity said:

He’s pretty much revealed that he doesn’t understand in the slightest what cryptocurrency actually is and thinks it’s a scam.

Sounds like he understands exactly what it is, tbh.

Edit: h/t to @BehoId, The Underminer! for beating me to the punch.

Edited September 24 by BrickHorn

[Guadaloopy 10,970]

1 hour ago, Snake Diggity said:

His real answer there was “who knows about anything”.  Thats really the only part that he said that he actually believes.

He’s pretty much revealed that he doesn’t understand in the slightest what cryptocurrency actually is and thinks it’s a scam.  Luckily for him the idiots who are passionate about it will give support to literally anyone who just says the word “crypto” over and over, even if that person has no fucking clue what they’re talking about.

 

1 hour ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

Sounds like he understands it pretty well. 

 

24 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

Sounds like he understands exactly what it is, tbh.

Edit: h/t to @BehoId, The Underminer! for beating me to the punch.

“Me know that not real money!”

[BrickHorn 18,234]

Just now, Guadaloopy said:

 

 

“Me know that not real money!”

How’s your robotaxi business working out?

[Guadaloopy 10,970]

3 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

How’s your robotaxi business working out?

Great!  Takes me everywhere I want to go. 

[South Austin 52,503]

My daughter turned 18 in August, and she just registered to vote a few days before I fly her to Oregon to move her into her freshman dorm.  She's going to vote absentee from college, and she knows that her vote in Texas won't mean much.  But she wants to contribute to what we hope is a popular vote pile on, and she said she'd regret not voting, no matter the outcome. 

Man, I hope there are a lot more like her in November.

Edited September 24 by South Austin

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13,585]

How do we do it?

Volume.

[Ted Lange 16,085]

I was curious what exactly was in the 2024 GOP platform, regarding how they would address immigration.

https://prod-static.gop.com/media/RNC2024-Platform.pdf

 

 

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11,669]

A daily conversation:

"I'm thinking we should migrate."

"But to where, sweetie?"

"To a country we hate."

"Not the US then. They have rules against that."

[locodos 5,387]

4 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

I was curious what exactly was in the 2024 GOP platform, regarding how they would address immigration.

https://prod-static.gop.com/media/RNC2024-Platform.pdf

 

 

Extreme Vetting you say?

[bolverk 29,672]

4 minutes ago, South Austin said:

My daughter turned 18 in August, and she just registered to vote a few days before I fly her to Oregon to move her into her freshman dorm.  She's going to vote absentee from college, and she knows that her vote in Texas won't mean much.  But she wants to contribute to what we hope is a popular vote pile on, and she said she'd regret not voting, not matter the outcome. 

Man, I hope there are a lot more like her in November.

It's the same with my daughter going to school in New York. She's still a student and intentionally registered in Texas to ensure her vote counts here. Besides, she may yet come back when she graduates but, honestly, she flip-flops a lot on that decision for good reason.

[Ted Lange 16,085]

1 minute ago, locodos said:

Extreme Vetting you say?

[Pancho 44,803]

👀

 

 

[C-Man 27,227]

9 minutes ago, bolverk said:

It's the same with my daughter going to school in New York. She's still a student and intentionally registered in Texas to ensure her vote counts here. Besides, she may yet come back when she graduates but, honestly, she flip-flops a lot on that decision for good reason.

 

18 minutes ago, South Austin said:

My daughter turned 18 in August, and she just registered to vote a few days before I fly her to Oregon to move her into her freshman dorm.  She's going to vote absentee from college, and she knows that her vote in Texas won't mean much.  But she wants to contribute to what we hope is a popular vote pile on, and she said she'd regret not voting, no matter the outcome. 

Man, I hope there are a lot more like her in November.

My daughter is a freshman at Ole Miss. She's registered to vote absentee/mail-in ballot and will cast her first vote for Kamala Harris. That's pretty cool that gets to be her first vote for POTUS. Mine was for Bush 1. Meh. At any rate, her vote won't really matter in Mississippi or in Texas but she's doing it anyways.

[Snake Diggity 4,624]

1 minute ago, Pancho said:

👀

 

 

The overall odds may not have shifted that dramatically, but Harris’ ceiling sure has been raised.  Biden’s best case scenario was winning the blue wall by enough to have the election called on election night and not having to wait on AZ or GA.  Harris’ best case includes winning every Atlantic coast state outside of SC, and potentially having this thing put to bed before the sun sets in Austin.

[aggie08 21,504]

5 minutes ago, Pancho said:

👀

 

 

I still do not believe the Florida is in play.

[TexasEd 8,067]

16 hours ago, A-Tex Devil said:

He still doesn’t know how tariffs work. 

• Tariffs - They won't raise taxes on Americans, trust me I'm in Business
• Medicine/ healthcare - Horse paste, shine light on the inside of the body, inject bleach, post term abortions
• Crypto - We'll write 35 Trillion on a little piece of paper and pay off the debt (Maybe he knows how crypto works)
• Mexico - will pay for the wall but they're not making any cars
• War - would not have started if I was in charge, those dictators love me
• Oil - Drill baby drill, companies will lose money on every barrel but they'll make up for it in volume
• Inflation - Will drop interest rates on credit cards and that will help people with inflation (Only if he means on existing debt but people will lose credit or maybe he's trying the student loan forgiveness plan but for people with 20K in debt from buying Trump branded junk)

Edited September 24 by TexasEd

[Js1 85,336]

3 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

I still do not believe the Florida is in play.

Same. 

[hookem2010 2,624]

So if North Carolina goes blue, what is the most likely next state to be called that would clinch it? 

[Goredho 17,406]

2 hours ago, chainsaw said:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-withdraws-support-gop-pulls-funding-from-black-nazi-mark-robinson

 

Only Mark Robinson did nazi this coming.

2 minutes ago, Pancho said:

👀

 

 

Take it for what it's worth, but I have an in-law in Florida that drives a cyber truck and voted for Trump the first time around that assures me the state is very much in play.  He lives in an area and travels in circles that are affluent, traditionally conservative and were very strongly for Trump in 2016.  He said there was a trickle away in 2020 (when he "defected").  He now calls people leaving the Trump voter fold "a flood."  He says that most of the people who he knows that Trump is losing today aren't going to vote D, but they aren't going to vote R either.  He only fears some crazy October surprise that brings them back to being motivated to vote against the Dems.

That'll be $9.95.

[Born to Run 6,569]

14 hours ago, pacman said:

Those images are from an Etsy shop, but I am sure she sent that cease and desist herself lol

 

We actually owe Trump a huge thank you. It used to be difficult to tell which suburban white women were crazy and which weren't.

We always keyed in on the eyes but it was hard to tell.

Now, Trump has made it easy as can be to identify the crazies and fewer of our tires have been slashed and cars keyed because of it.

Good point.  The crazy lady that has put up 40 4x8 custom Maga signs throughout Lakeway might be a little off.

The lady with the single Harris sign down the street is a much safer bet.

['stache 21,815]

As of this morning 5 Harris-Walz signs on my street. According to trumps logic, he's gonna lose Oklahoma bigly, lol.

[YChang 3,444]

Hey, put those Texas Dem dollars to good use in PA, Georgia, etc

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/09/23/douglas-emhoff-san-antonio-fundraiser/

[Js1 85,336]

5 minutes ago, hookem2010 said:

So if North Carolina goes blue, what is the most likely next state to be called that would clinch it? 

It would take a combo of states - MI + WI + one of PA/GA/NV/AZ

If NC, MI, WI all get called for Harris and Jon Ralston says Harris will win NV in his pre-Election Day prediction post, then you can take that to the bank. 

[Sawbonz 27,561]

25 minutes ago, Pancho said:

👀

 

 

It can’t not be in play with abortion on the ballot 

[Upgrayedd 5,812]

46 minutes ago, South Austin said:

My daughter turned 18 in August, and she just registered to vote a few days before I fly her to Oregon to move her into her freshman dorm.  She's going to vote absentee from college, and she knows that her vote in Texas won't mean much.  But she wants to contribute to what we hope is a popular vote pile on, and she said she'd regret not voting, not matter the outcome. 

Man, I hope there are a lot more like her in November.

 

36 minutes ago, bolverk said:

It's the same with my daughter going to school in New York. She's still a student and intentionally registered in Texas to ensure her vote counts here. Besides, she may yet come back when she graduates but, honestly, she flip-flops a lot on that decision for good reason.

 

26 minutes ago, C-Man said:

 

My daughter is a freshman at Ole Miss. She's registered to vote absentee/mail-in ballot and will cast her first vote for Kamala Harris. That's pretty cool that gets to be her first vote for POTUS. Mine was for Bush 1. Meh. At any rate, her vote won't really matter in Mississippi or in Texas but she's doing it anyways.

Pics?

[Brisketexan 105,139]

2 hours ago, Snake Diggity said:

His real answer there was “who knows about anything”.  Thats really the only part that he said that he actually believes.

He’s pretty much revealed that he doesn’t understand in the slightest what cryptocurrency actually is and thinks it’s a scam.  Luckily for him the idiots who are passionate about it will give support to literally anyone who just says the word “crypto” over and over, even if that person has no fucking clue what they’re talking about.

 

2 hours ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

Sounds like he understands it pretty well. 

Yep.

Honestly, I can't think of two people/groups who deserve each other more: Trump and crypto bros.  They are a match made in grifting heaven.

[Doc Sam Beckett 5,793]

7 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

It can’t not be in play with abortion on the ballot 

Agreed, even with the sloppy double negative 

[Goredho 17,406]

6 minutes ago, Upgrayedd said:

 

 

Pics?

[DigglerontheHoof 21,199]

18 minutes ago, 'stache said:

As of this morning 5 Harris-Walz signs on my street. According to trumps logic, he's gonna lose Oklahoma bigly, lol.

As far as I've seen, I have the only Harris/Walz sign in my neighborhood, but there are a lot fewer Trump signs compared to 2020.

[LCHorn 2,620]

41 minutes ago, Pancho said:

👀

 

 

 

36 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

I still do not believe the Florida is in play.

I remember when the Hillary Clinton campaign was thinking it could add in a few battleground states, too.  
 

That said, she needs to be spend her money somewhere and it appears no one wants to bank it and use it discreetly to take over the Texas Democratic Party.  

[royiv 9,317]

Just now, LCHorn said:

 

I remember when the Hillary Clinton campaign was thinking it could add in a few battleground states, too.  
 

That said, she needs to be spend her money somewhere and it appears no one wants to bank it and use it discreetly to take over the Texas Democratic Party.  

The luxury of having so much more money than your opponent is that you can take a flyer on a couple of states. Florida probably a good high risk/high reward state with an unpopular Rick Scott and abortion on the ballot plus add in a large Haitian community that should be pissed off at Trump and Vance right now.

[locodos 5,387]

Just now, royiv said:

The luxury of having so much more money than your opponent is that you can take a flyer on a couple of states. 

This is what I think.  She has a huge financial advantage.  Good to see she's using it.

[bolverk 29,672]

21 minutes ago, Upgrayedd said:

 

 

Pics?

 

[TexasEd 8,067]

3 hours ago, chainsaw said:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-withdraws-support-gop-pulls-funding-from-black-nazi-mark-robinson

 

 

[Js1 85,336]

Just now, locodos said:

This is what I think.  She has a huge financial advantage.  Good to see she's using it.

FL, with abortion and weed on the ballot, is more enticing than Texas.  A little money could get both the ballot items across 60% and get DMP against Scott.  Money is fine, but don't waste time physically in the state when you need to keep going in all the 7 swing states.

It's quite clear she's not dropping money into Texas because there's nothing giving them a real reason - Allred is not running alongside her, he's trying to run independent of her, and there's no competitive House races.  You can't drop money into MT or OH and nationalize those races, Brown and Tester don't want that.  There's way more than enough money for Gallego, Slotkin, Baldwin and Casey.

If I was Harris, I'd drop some money into FL and drop some into NY/CA for House races.  Go ahead and throw a little at Alsobrooks, though she's pulling away now as Maryland is reverting to it's blue status. 

[Brisketexan 105,139]

4 minutes ago, royiv said:

The luxury of having so much more money than your opponent is that you can take a flyer on a couple of states. Florida probably a good high risk/high reward state with an unpopular Rick Scott and abortion on the ballot plus add in a large Haitian community that should be pissed off at Trump and Vance right now.

 

3 minutes ago, locodos said:

This is what I think.  She has a huge financial advantage.  Good to see she's using it.

Yep.  And there's a solid strategic weapon in making your opponent waste some of his precious resources playing defense somewhere where 1) he shouldn't have to otherwise, but 2) he has to play it safe because he's toast if he loses it.

If Florida or Texas go blue in this environment, Trump is absolute toast.  So make him defend his "capital city" so to speak.  Every dollar Trump has to spend in Florida is a dollar he can't spend in AZ or NC etc.

[atomheartbevo 89,666]

27 minutes ago, Upgrayedd said:

Pics?

[C-Man 27,227]

18 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

As far as I've seen, I have the only Harris/Walz sign in my neighborhood, but there are a lot fewer Trump signs compared to 2020.

Signs are starting to appear in our Bluffview (the poor side) neighborhood. Harris/Walz signs outnumber Trump's by a slight number. Our across-the-street neighbor put up Harris/Walz and Colin Allred signs yesterday. He's a big executive at AT&T. I think he waited until after they hosted a huge TCU-SMU watch party (their daughter graduated from TCU) because they've probably got a large number of MAGA friends that might not have liked the signs!

Their immediate next-door neighbor put up a Trump sign last week. She's a high-volume residential real estate agent/broker with Compass or Allie Beth or Briggs -- can't remember which -- who ran for public office this spring and lost in runoff. Their sign was right near the street and I think it was "disturbed" so they moved it closer to the house.

My next door neighbors are mid/late 30's child-less couple who make a ton of money at AT&T. They're awesome and hard-core Dems. In a matter of a week, my wife has gone from "no way we're putting a political yard sign out front" to actually entertaining our next door neighbors and us both putting them out so our street will lean heavy Harris in public support. We'll see how that goes -- probably going to order signs for next door neighbors and us so we have them on hand in case Mrs C-Man orders the "code blue."

[The Dog 44,051]

14 hours ago, Tuco said:

Well, that's cool and all, but how much money did he make for speaking? I'm not talking donations; how much did he add to his personal income? 

CNN

 

I think we just peeled back the curtain on how they are skimming the GOP coffers. Good bet that Trump is doing the same - paying himself for speaking at his "rallies" and calling them "speaking engagements."

13 hours ago, Pancho said:

I choose to believe what Debbie Mucarsel-Powell said just now on the msnbc. I’m going to think positively.

 

 

10 hours ago, BamaATL said:

I don't think on the Presidential side it is at all, but I think we got a real chance and knocking off Rick Scott.  

This. She just wants Kamala down there to help her against Scott.

1 hour ago, Pancho said:

👀

 

 

 

13 minutes ago, royiv said:

The luxury of having so much more money than your opponent is that you can take a flyer on a couple of states. Florida probably a good high risk/high reward state with an unpopular Rick Scott and abortion on the ballot plus add in a large Haitian community that should be pissed off at Trump and Vance right now.

IMHO this is also about making Trump spend money in Florida - which is supposed to be a "Safe R" state for this cycle. 

[LCHorn 2,620]

3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

And there's a solid strategic weapon in making your opponent waste some of his precious resources playing defense somewhere

#1, I don’t think more money helps Trump anyway.  His cake is baked (you said it on another post and I’ve read it elsewhere-his ceiling is his floor).  
 

#2, the Trump campaign is comparatively small with fewer satellite offices; they pretty have to spend their money on traditional and digital advertising because they aren’t set up to pivot elsewhere.  
 

I’m sure this is over-reading into it, but I’d presume there’s some realistic reasons to spend in Florida (defend abortion rights) and maybe subordinate but also satisfying reasons (Mar-A-Lago tv’s running pro-Dem ads, maybe trying to shape now what a post-DeSantis Florida looks like).  

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,512]

1 hour ago, Ted Lange said:

I was curious what exactly was in the 2024 GOP platform, regarding how they would address immigration.

https://prod-static.gop.com/media/RNC2024-Platform.pdf

 

 

This is a reminder that when you hear someone call Kamala a Marxist, sincerely ask them to define a Marxist because you don't understand what it means. It will make them look and feel stupid. Most likely they will reply with communist or socialist. I would wrap up that conversation in that the Red Scare was proven to be fake in the 50s.

 

[Foosters 17,856]

53 minutes ago, Goredho said:

Only Mark Robinson did nazi this coming.

Take it for what it's worth, but I have an in-law in Florida that drives a cyber truck and voted for Trump the first time around that assures me the state is very much in play.  He lives in an area and travels in circles that are affluent, traditionally conservative and were very strongly for Trump in 2016.  He said there was a trickle away in 2020 (when he "defected").  He now calls people leaving the Trump voter fold "a flood."  He says that most of the people who he knows that Trump is losing today aren't going to vote D, but they aren't going to vote R either.  He only fears some crazy October surprise that brings them back to being motivated to vote against the Dems.

That'll be $9.95.

I had a similar conversation with my dad. White man, 70's, O&G background. He recounted 3 conversations he had in the past several weeks with 3 of his oldest friends - all who voted for Trump in both 16 and 20. All 3 are sitting this one out, including the one guy who had previously told him he'd "die before he ever voted for a Democrat." Hilariously, they all told him that they now realize that they have to excise Trumpism from the GOP. LOL, good luck.