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

[F250 28756]

13 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

Rusty trombone

[tx 3 putt 76762]

i’m ready to vote 

Edited October 7 by tx 3 putt

[Nice Guy Eddie 13488]

The kamala podcast strategy is intriguing and even the Trump team dipped their toe in with an interview with Dave Ramsey. Couple thoughts.

• if this helps Kamala, it could be the death of Sunday morning and cable interviews. Or at least they will be deprioritized.
• these podcasts give the ability to show your human side with a long form format, if you can handle it. 
• I have to wonder if Mark Cubans recent podcast interviews isn’t a coincidence.
• Call her daddy and Stern can both be sex filled talk but the hosts would stay away from that. Call her daddy can gotv with young, college aged women. Maybe stern can break down a few open minded non-college blue collar workers. Hes clear on his support of Dems so his loyal listeners at least tolerate that. Or change the channel

 

[Pancho 44652]

[TwiceHorn 31412]

5 minutes ago, Pancho said:

It's just a resolution, not a law, so it doesn't require anyone to do anything.  It has also just been introduced.  Lunatic legislation like this gets introduced all the time.  See, e.g. Greene, M.T., Boebert, L, and Gosar, P.

So even if passed, it's a fart in the wind.  But it is a pretty clear statement of intention.

[Fudge Nuggets 19169]

It's West Virginia.  Fuck them hillbillies.

[Chuckie Finster 22687]

I’m not a particularly religious person, but if I was, wouldn’t it seem like a pretty strong sign that God has slammed two hurricanes straight into the state where one of the presidential candidates currently lives?

I guess you can just wipe that away by claiming Democrats can control the weather…

[TreatyOak 16276]

9 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

 I want them to believe that no matter what they do, it's rigged against them, and so they should just fucking give up.

Sounds familiar: 

[aggie08 21480]

10 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

I want Harris to blow out Trump and a part of me wants MAGA to believe that it was rigged.  I want them to believe that no matter what they do, it's rigged against them, and so they should just fucking give up.

This is the dream 

"Normal" Republicans finally have to acknowledge what a loser Donald Trump is, and take steps to try to break away from MAGA.

MAGA because disillusioned by the overwhelming power of the deep state and goes back to their shanties to become non-voters (for anyone but Trump) once again. The true believers wage war on the RINOs in the GOP who betrayed their god.

Profit.

[DDD Dad 14311]

On 10/4/2024 at 5:26 PM, Gatorubet said:

Edit: my 1L contract professor gave my class 11 Fs and 32 Ds.  

Dr. D? Ernie ______ (can’t remember his last name).  I had him too. Also drew Captain Hook (“C is a fine grade. It means completely satisfactory”) Professor Quarles. (Go Gata)

[atomheartbevo 89587]

46 minutes ago, TreatyOak said:

Sounds familiar: 

Exactly.  MAGA is going to cry even if Trump lost another 60 lawsuits like he did in 2020, so let them believe it was rigged and that it will always be rigged.  Maybe they will quit showing up and the more moderate Republicans get control of the party and we go back to people like Romney, McCaine, Dole, etc.

[Js1 85222]

15 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

"Normal" Republicans finally have to acknowledge what a loser Donald Trump is, and take steps to try to break away from MAGA.

 

Yes, but, also a nasty civil war between the MAGA true believers and the ones who were just doing it to get elected.  They can recover electorally in the 2030s. 

[atomheartbevo 89587]

46 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Yes, but, also a nasty civil war between the MAGA true believers and the ones who were just doing it to get elected.  They can recover electorally in the 2030s. 

A part of me wonders if they’ll just fade into the woodwork and spend their time on social media and Fox News.  With Trump retreating back to Mar-a-Lago, they won’t be as enthused.   Hell, it was probably hard for them to fill the Pennsylvania rally this weekend.

Edited October 7 by atomheartbevo

[Js1 85222]

Just now, atomheartbevo said:

A part of me wonders if they’ll just fade into the woodwork and spend their time on social media and Fox News.  With Trump reiterating back to Mar-a-Lago, they won’t be as enthused.   Hell, it was probably hard for them to fill the Pennsylvania rally this weekend.

He will continue to rile them up and keep them engaged - either with 4 years of "I am being persecuted and the 2024 election was stolen from me!" nonsense or by immediately declaring himself a candidate for 2028 the day after his loss in November to avoid his court cases.

He will not go away until he dies.  If he declines to run (ha), he will force every single person who wants to run in 2028 against Harris to come to MAL and kiss the ring and dance for his endorsement.  He holds those MAGAtards hostage and no one is else in the GOP is getting elected in 2028 without them.  And let's be real, he will have them all do their little tap dancing for his endorsement before he just gives it to Don Jr. or something. 

Unless he dies before 2028, I find it hard to believe the GOP will put up much of a fight against Harris in her re-election. It will be 82 year old Trump, doddering around in a soiled diaper and drooling, while the MAGAtards cheer and more women and suburban, college educated people flee the party.  (So not much difference from 2024)

Just remember, if by some chance the GOP does not take the Senate in 2024, 2026 doesn't look great for them - North Carolina, Maine, Alaska, Texas.  GOP would have one target (Georgia). 

[kevwun 15746]

I hope they run Trump out again in 4 years.  He's not going to be able to speak at all by then.

[Thrawn 538]

Yeah, four years is a long time when you are that age. He already at the old man yelling at clouds stage. Hell, he could be running around on a scooter at that point. No way that body can take that weight for much longer.

[Js1 85222]

17 minutes ago, kevwun said:

I hope they run Trump out again in 4 years.  He's not going to be able to speak at all by then.

And the media will never demand his medical records. Remember Hillary’s pneumonia? Oh lord was that a scandal. 

[Bozo_Casanova 26407]

3 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

The kamala podcast strategy is intriguing and even the Trump team dipped their toe in with an interview with Dave Ramsey. Couple thoughts.

• if this helps Kamala, it could be the death of Sunday morning and cable interviews. Or at least they will be deprioritized.
• these podcasts give the ability to show your human side with a long form format, if you can handle it. 
• I have to wonder if Mark Cubans recent podcast interviews isn’t a coincidence.
• Call her daddy and Stern can both be sex filled talk but the hosts would stay away from that. Call her daddy can gotv with young, college aged women. Maybe stern can break down a few open minded non-college blue collar workers. Hes clear on his support of Dems so his loyal listeners at least tolerate that. Or change the channel

 

She needs to do Rogan or Theo Von.  Both are good interviewers, she would do well in both forums. 

[Js1 85222]

1 minute ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

She needs to do Rogan or Theo Von.  Both are good interviewers, she would do well in both forums. 

Walz on Rogan and her on Theo Von?

[HenryJames 65969]

On 9/30/2024 at 9:12 AM, HenryJames said:

Who the fuck is Theo Von?

 

[bluto 4905]

The fact either of them are considered good interviewers is insanity 

[Brisketexan 104915]

35 minutes ago, Js1 said:

He will continue to rile them up and keep them engaged - either with 4 years of "I am being persecuted and the 2024 election was stolen from me!" nonsense or by immediately declaring himself a candidate for 2028 the day after his loss in November to avoid his court cases.

He will not go away until he dies.  If he declines to run (ha), he will force every single person who wants to run in 2028 against Harris to come to MAL and kiss the ring and dance for his endorsement.  He holds those MAGAtards hostage and no one is else in the GOP is getting elected in 2028 without them.  And let's be real, he will have them all do their little tap dancing for his endorsement before he just gives it to Don Jr. or something. 

All of this.  There is no Republican party any more.  None.  Zero.  It is the cult of Trumpism, everything else has been pushed out/destroyed.  Stop believing that there's any "return to sanity" or some shit.  There won't be.  Ever.

[Pato del Muerto 52460]

Yup. If nothing he does will weaken his 45% support, then aging won’t either. 
 

May least it would lay bare the craven thoughtlessness of his support, as they either continue to agree with the completely incoherent mumblings of a man who is completely senile, or explain away what he “means” when he says he tasted his own poop, or that he’s still better than any democrat. 

Edited October 7 by Pato del Muerto

[Red Five 40776]

How crazy is it that the last time Donald freaking Trump wasn't the republican nominee for president, was 2012. Mack Brown was still coaching here, FFS. For two more seasons. That's how long they've hitched their wagon to this insane evil conman. 

[Js1 85222]

13 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

All of this.  There is no Republican party any more.  None.  Zero.  It is the cult of Trumpism, everything else has been pushed out/destroyed.  Stop believing that there's any "return to sanity" or some shit.  There won't be.  Ever.

Oh there will be.

Once he dies.  And hateful bigots live entirely too long.  My grandma made it to 94 on pure spite and basically becoming mummified in Phoenix for half her life. 

Strom Thurmond lived to be almost 101 

[C-Man 27172]

Legendary Texas Republican makes shocking Harris-Trump prediction about ‘afraid’ GOP voters

https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/10/legendary-texas-republican-makes-shocking-harris-trump-prediction-about-afraid-gop-voters.html

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Former Tarrant County Judge Glenn Whitley — a life-long member of the Republican Party who served from 2007 to 2022 — has been one of Texas’ most prominent Republicans.

And as the November elections approach, he sounded a warning: He is voting for Vice President Kamala Harris over former president Donald Trump, and while he’s announcing his break with the party publicly, he believes many Republicans will vote for Harris in secret.

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“There are a lot, I think,” Whitley said. “They’re afraid to come out, because when they do, they get ridiculed and they get bullied and they get belittled. And so a lot of people who have been staunch Republicans and still are staunch Republicans, are afraid to stand up and be confrontational with some of the leaders that we have right now.

“It’s going to be close, but I truly believe that that a lot of Republicans are going to go into that booth and say, ‘I can’t support the insurrection.’ ... I have talked with a number of people who I believe will do that, and they may not openly come out and say, ‘I’m voting for Harris,’ or they may just not vote.”

When it comes to Trump, there are a lot of reasons for Republicans to reject him, but also good reasons to vote for Harris, Whitley said. While Trump holds a four-point lead in the latest Texas polls, Harris is leading in most battleground states, but many polls are within the margin of error.

“Trump has constantly belittled and, you know, bullied people,” Whitley said. “He’s disrespected our military and our vets, he was convicted of paying hush money to a porn star. And then the thing that broke the camel’s back for me was the insurrection on Jan. 6.

“And so that’s the reason I wouldn’t vote for Trump, but the reason that I will support and vote for Harris is the fact that I do believe she wants to lift people up.”

Whitley said he believes that Harris will govern with an open mind, just as she changed her position on fracking by learning more about it. Harris also has said she would include at least one Republican in her cabinet. Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, who has endorsed Cheney, could be considered.

Whitley — who also said he also was rejecting Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and voting for Democrat and former NFL player Colin Allred — believes Trump still will win Texas, but said disenfranchised GOP voters might help swing other battleground states to Harris.

Whitley added that he’s concerned about Republicans again trying to steal the presidential election, and the election lies Trump, MAGA and elected GOP officials are likely to spread.

“I am concerned about the rhetoric we’re going to hear leading all the way up to the election,” he said. “And just as importantly, the days after the election.”

 

[SimonBolivar 10957]

3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

It's just a resolution, not a law, so it doesn't require anyone to do anything.  It has also just been introduced.  Lunatic legislation like this gets introduced all the time.  See, e.g. Greene, M.T., Boebert, L, and Gosar, P.

So even if passed, it's a fart in the wind.  But it is a pretty clear statement of intention.

No no no, let them cook.

 

President Harris should recognize that West Virginia doesn't recognize her or the authority of the United States. Pull federal funding and BUILD THE WALL.

Edited October 7 by SimonBolivar

[Aqua Buddha 14580]

4 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

The kamala podcast strategy is intriguing and even the Trump team dipped their toe in with an interview with Dave Ramsey. Couple thoughts.

• if this helps Kamala, it could be the death of Sunday morning and cable interviews. Or at least they will be deprioritized.
• these podcasts give the ability to show your human side with a long form format, if you can handle it. 
• I have to wonder if Mark Cubans recent podcast interviews isn’t a coincidence.
• Call her daddy and Stern can both be sex filled talk but the hosts would stay away from that. Call her daddy can gotv with young, college aged women. Maybe stern can break down a few open minded non-college blue collar workers. Hes clear on his support of Dems so his loyal listeners at least tolerate that. Or change the channel

 

The Call Her Daddy episode was solid.  More of a conversation than anything.  I like how Cooper (the host) framed it.  She said that the topics were going to be relating to women and young people and if you want to hear about economics, fracking, etc. she's probably not the right one to be talking about that.

[chainsaw 9841]

12 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

No no no, let them cook.

 

President Harris should recognize that West Virginia doesn't recognize her or the authority of the United States. Pull federal funding and BUILD THE WALL.

I'm glad most of the mainstream media has finally backed off on trying to "understand" or humanize trump supporters. 2016-2018 was like non-stop visits to diners full of opioid addicts and social security recipients.

It's time to jettison these people. Give them the freedom they think they want.

[Js1 85222]

 

[MissingInAction 24970]

You can't unsee it.

 

[aggie08 21480]

3 minutes ago, Js1 said:

 

Man, the loudest free speech people sure do hate when other people are allowed to see what they say.

[SimonBolivar 10957]

Just now, MissingInAction said:

You can't unsee it.

 

He's going for gasps

[Francisco 2.0 32379]

Well, duh.

 

https://popular.info/p/trump-held-a-contest-to-join-him

Trump held a contest to join him on stage at his rally in Butler. Was it a scam?
 

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In a series of fundraising appeals, Trump offered his supporters a chance to appear with him on stage during an October 5 rally when he returned to the site of his attempted assassination, Butler, Pennsylvania. These solicitations were sent to the Trump campaign email list, which reportedly includes tens of millions of people. 

"I’d love to bring you up on stage for my Butler rally!" was the subject line of a September 2 fundraising email from Trump. "Can we take a picture together during my rally in Butler, Pennsylvania?" Trump asks in the body of the text. 

 

 

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Trump sent emails promoting the contest on September 10 ("I want YOU right there by my side when we make history again"), September 28 ("I’ll be hand-selecting my VIP guest for this historic rally in just 72 hours, so if you want to be considered, please chip in $5 or more right away"), and October 1 ("[T]he crowd is going to LOVE YOU when you're introduced as my VIP guest). 

Trump held his rally in Butler on Saturday, and the only person he introduced on stage was Elon Musk. 

 

Spoiler

There was no sign of a contest winner at any time during Trump's lengthy appearance at the rally — from the moment Trump took the stage to when he left almost two hours later. 

It's possible, of course, that a winner was selected and met Trump privately. But that was not the prize that was promised in Trump's emails. 

Was it all a scam? The Trump campaign seems sensitive to this criticism. The bottom of Trump's October 1 email promoting the Butler contest invites supporters to "MEET OUR PREVIOUS CONTEST WINNERS." It includes a photo of Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and two supporters at the Miami Grand Prix held in May. 

But there could not have been a contest to meet Trump at the Miami Grand Prix because, according to USA Today, the race organizers "did not disclose before the race if Trump would attend for security reasons." A database of Trump's fundraising appeals contains no mention of the Miami event.

The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment. 

 

Trump's dubious contests during the 2020 campaign — and beyond

During the 2020 election cycle, Popular Information identified 21 contests to share a meal with Trump at various locations. The tactic was cribbed from former president Barack Obama's election strategy; Obama held a series of contests for "Dinner with Barack." Each meal with Obama generated extensive media coverage, with detailed information about the attendees. There was no information, however, about any of the winners of Trump's contests. Nor did any winners post pictures of their meal with Trump on social media. 

One contest promoted a meal with Trump in Chicago on October 23, 2019. Popular Information contacted the pool reporter traveling with Trump that day, the Washington Post's Anne Gearan, and asked if she had heard anything about Trump's meal with a contest winner. She had not and put in an inquiry with the campaign. The campaign never responded. 

Popular Information's report was picked up by Vanity Fair and other national publications. Soon thereafter, the Trump campaign began promoting an article from the right-wing Daily Caller that supposedly debunked Popular Information's reporting. 

But the Daily Caller article only addressed one contest for a meal. Joanna Kamis "won" a breakfast with Trump in New York City on September 26. She did attend a breakfast in New York City on that day but Trump did not attend. Instead, Kamis was "able to mingle with the likes of Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Elizabeth Pipko." In other words, that contest was a fraud. (Later, Kamis took a photograph with Trump.)

There is still no information about any of the other "winners" of the contests for meals with Trump during his 2020 campaign. The fact that the Trump campaign put the Daily Caller in contact with Kamis and no other contributors raises serious questions about whether anyone else won.

The Trump campaign did not comply with requests to release the names of the winners of its 2020 campaign contests — from both Popular Information and the New York Times — even in cases where disclosure was required by state law. 

Trump's political operation continued to promote contests for meals with Trump beyond the 2022 election cycle. In March 2022, the Washington Post reported that Trump's leadership PAC, Save America, "sent at least 15 emails in recent weeks offering small-dollar donors the chance to win a coveted prize if they gave money: dinner with Trump in New Orleans last Saturday." 

But, the Washington Post reported, "no such winner was flown to New Orleans last weekend, according to four people familiar with the matter." Instead, Trump met with "a handful of Republican Party donors who gave large checks, taking pictures with some of the party’s most well-heeled members and speaking to a larger group of donors who each gave tens of thousands of dollars." A Trump campaign spokesman said that "due to an administrative error in this individual circumstance, the contest winner was not properly notified for last weekend’s event in New Orleans."

The Washington Post also "asked Save America to provide winners for other contests it has held, which included meeting the president at a rally in South Carolina this weekend, meeting Trump at his palatial Florida club last year, playing golf with Trump and Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker in Palm Beach, or receiving commemorative memorabilia — such as a football signed by Trump and Walker, a College Football Hall of Famer." Save America "declined to comment."

 

[royiv 9193]

15 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

He is the sole avowed trumper, of whom I am aware, on this site. 

You must not read the football board. Lots of Trumpers over there. 

[cactusflinthead 27597]

I used to give Jennifer Rubin a ration of shit every time she was an apologist for Romney. I gotta give her props now.

 

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11669]

20 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

the only person he introduced on stage was Elon Musk. 

the richest person in the world also is very lucky at name draws.

[Pancho 44652]

Yup

 

[4th&Five 41499]

 

[Js1 85222]

11 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

I used to give Jennifer Rubin a ration of shit every time she was an apologist for Romney. I gotta give her props now.

 

This is the most racist campaign since 68 George Wallace.

[Longhorn_Fan68 33857]

8 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

 

I love how every governor from every affected state has publicly said this is bullshit and to please stop and yet he continues. he's the ultimate "I'm going to do the opposite of what you tell me to do" asshole. just plunging himself more and more out of favor. fucking dildo

[Red Five 40776]

2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

This is the most racist campaign since 68 George Wallace.

As he gets more desperate, he may take that final step and just say "We need to get the brown people out". 

[Js1 85222]

Just now, Red Five said:

As he gets more desperate, he may take that final step and just say "We need to get the brown people out". 

I’m just waiting for his Univision town hall this week when he says he’s going to deport anyone brown, except the Cubans, because no one loves Donald Trump like the Cubans who vote for him 

[C-Man 27172]

2 minutes ago, Red Five said:

As he gets more desperate, he may take that final step and just say "We need to get the brown people out". 

With a 'hard' R

[WhatTheBuck 28764]

3 hours ago, Chuckie Finster said:

I’m not a particularly religious person, but if I was, wouldn’t it seem like a pretty strong sign that God has slammed two hurricanes straight into the state where one of the presidential candidates currently lives?

I guess you can just wipe that away by claiming Democrats can control the weather…

Apparently the Democrats are more powerful than God. We should probably vote for them. Wouldn’t want to piss them off. 

[dcbc 14453]

2 minutes ago, C-Man said:

With a 'hard' R

bRown?

[Js1 85222]

3 minutes ago, dcbc said:

bRown?

Immergrants.

[C-Man 27172]

4 minutes ago, dcbc said:

bRown?

[Pancho 44652]

I hate how turnip says “Black”

 

bLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAACk

[TheStoicPaisano 9919]