Jump to content

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

bolverk

By bolverk
in Cloak Room

 Share

Recommended Posts

henrygandorf

henrygandorf 28582

Posted
Posted
1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

This is a good example of the twitter misinformation machine, and why embeds should be turned off in the CR. 

There are zero media reports out there that identify this individual as a republican. That appears to be totally manufactured nonsense. The situation in AZ was a man lighting a regular USPS drop box on fire, not a ballot drop box. Every article I have seen shares quotes from the investigating officers that report that the fire was not politically motivated, was not targeting the election, and the perp was an individual well known to the local police that wanted to do something to get himself arrested. 

man, it's like you can't even go around lighting mailboxes on fire without it being 'political'.

sad.

  • Haha 5
Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • Replies 50.2k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

  • Js1

    3553

  • Pancho

    1097

  • tx 3 putt

    1074

  • Red Five

    935

Popular Days

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Popular Posts

Chult86
Chult86

I don't post all that often, though don't mistake that for not enjoying this board's discourse, OUsucks/Texags point and laughs, and quality original content on a frequent basis. I haven't felt t

Frank The Tank
Frank The Tank

I’m a thread lurker and really only jump in for some sarcasm here and there. But, as an attempt at sincerity and to help get things back on track, here we go: I was generally raised as a republic

Francisco 2.0
Francisco 2.0

Posted Images

Brisketexan

Brisketexan 103007

Posted
Posted
18 minutes ago, Royalfan5 said:

Sure but those kids are going need a few years til they have the required strength to work in the plants. 

Of course.

That's what the pre-deportation "internment camps" will be for - to bridge that gap till the new wave of babies turns 9-10 (prime working age).  See, first we round up the dirty browns (illegals, immigrants, citizens, it don't make a shit).  Then, we decree that they have each cost the country $1 million, and they first need to work off their debt, THEN we'll deport them.  And we will provide them a handy-dandy way to work off their debt: work in all the meat plants, construction jobs, etc. that they were already doing, except now, their wages are paid directly to the US Government (via PO Box that just happens to be near Mar A Lago).  And those workers, working off their debt, will be available only to a limited number of enterprises that meet the "sufficiently MAGA" criteria, which are 1) declare unwavering obedience to Trump and 2) send/funnel lots of money to Trump.

Voila: crisis averted, Trump enriched, Trump donors enriched, dark people functionally enslaved.  Gosh almighty, it just makes ya tingly to think about it!

  • Hook 'Em 1
  • Haha 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
locodos

locodos 5079

Posted
Posted
Just now, David Dennison said:

I'm talking about mass deportation.

My inner evil asshole would laugh and laugh at those idiots trashing the economy by deporting immigrants... straight up destroying agriculture, meat packing, service industry, construction, etc...  "How could this have happened?!!1!, Who could have seen this coming?"  

Who indeed

Link to comment
Share on other sites
SydneyCarton

SydneyCarton 47055

Posted
Posted
1 hour ago, The Dog said:

What the fuck?

 

What, what the fuck? Explain it to me like I'm Helobiou's golden retriever.

27 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/focus/20241024-argentina-plunged-into-recession-as-milei-s-government-imposes-drastic-budget-cuts

 

Elon's been saying this for awhile. Argentina would have to feel the pain, but would end up in a better place. As if they haven't been feeling the pain for fucking years. 

  • Hook 'Em 4
  • Haha 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
David Dennison

David Dennison 17595

Posted
Posted
Just now, locodos said:

My inner evil asshole would laugh and laugh at those idiots trashing the economy by deporting immigrants... straight up destroying agriculture, meat packing, service industry, construction, etc...  "How could this have happened?!!1!, Who could have seen this coming?"  

Who indeed

It's a cynical load of bullshit to get votes.

Always has been.

The economy would grind to a halt and go into reverse if they tried anything close to what they promise.

  • Hook 'Em 4
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Valmy77

Valmy77 12491

Posted
Posted
Just now, SydneyCarton said:

Elon's been saying this for awhile. Argentina would have to feel the pain, but would end up in a better place. As if they haven't been feeling the pain for fucking years. 

It will be hell on earth but it will line up to my ideology better, thus a better place.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Valmy77

Valmy77 12491

Posted
Posted
1 minute ago, David Dennison said:

It's a cynical load of bullshit to get votes.

Always has been.

The economy would grind to a halt and go into reverse if they tried anything close to what they promise.

Well that is the thing. They won't do shit. Especially not with Trump in charge. You would need somebody insane and fanatically ideological to actually do this plan. Trump is many things but his ideology is Trump, not nativist anarcho-capitalism.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
locodos

locodos 5079

Posted
Posted
2 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

Well that is the thing. They won't do shit. Especially not with Trump in charge. You would need somebody insane and fanatically ideological to actually do this plan. Trump is many things but his ideology is Trump, not nativist anarcho-capitalism.

*cough*Stephen Miller*cough*

  • Hook 'Em 2
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
SydneyCarton

SydneyCarton 47055

Posted
Posted
4 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

It will be hell on earth but it will line up to my ideology better, thus a better place.

You know, I'd love to be in a system where we only spend what we have. But he'd be cutting social security, medicare/medicaid, obamacare, education. Every single social safety net and program that improves us as people. And there's no guarantee they would ever return even if we got debt to zero. We have to cut ourselves out of debt, but we hvae to tax ourselves out of debt too. 

  • Hook 'Em 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Valmy77

Valmy77 12491

Posted
Posted
1 minute ago, SydneyCarton said:

You know, I'd love to be in a system where we only spend what we have. But he'd be cutting social security, medicare/medicaid, obamacare, education. Every single social safety net and program that improves us as people. And there's no guarantee they would ever return even if we got debt to zero. We have to cut ourselves out of debt, but we hvae to tax ourselves out of debt too. 

Sure I would to. And we were in that system before Republicans massively started slashing taxes. And they will do so again once in power. No amount of cuts will fix it.

  • Hook 'Em 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites
mchookem

mchookem 15408

Posted
Posted
45 minutes ago, Chopper said:

Mildly interesting: Trump had an affair (that hasn't been reported on yet) before he was President and paid for the woman's abortion. The woman is a Black public figure from Texas, Tamron Hall. NBC had the information before the 2016 election but killed the story. https://www.interestingmysteries.com/p/the-rumor

 

see?? he's not racist!

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Serak The Preparer

Serak The Preparer 3407

Posted
Posted (edited)

  

2 hours ago, Js1 said:

Oh look they caught the guy who was setting fire to ballot collection boxes in AZ

I thought it was ANTIFA????

 

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

 

This is a good example of the twitter misinformation machine, and why embeds should be turned off in the CR. 

There are zero media reports out there that identify this individual as a republican. That appears to be totally manufactured nonsense. The situation in AZ was a man lighting a regular USPS drop box on fire, not a ballot drop box. Every article I have seen shares quotes from the investigating officers that report that the fire was not politically motivated, was not targeting the election, and the perp was an individual well known to the local police that wanted to do something to get himself arrested. 

But here we are. 

 

Here is an article directly related to this incident:

https://www.azfamily.com/2024/10/24/usps-blue-collection-box-damaged-by-fire-overnight-phoenix/

Here is the police statement:

https://www.phoenix.gov/policesite/MediaAdvisories/Arson 3900 N 7th Ave.pdf

Here is another from a prior run in with police:

https://www.abc15.com/news/crime/pd-duct-taped-suspect-held-for-glendale-police-after-attacking-surprise-officer

 

Replying only because I suspect a significant number of posters have Ana on ignore, just an important reminder that it's not just @tx 3 putt who posts semi-random tweets that may or may not be bullshit. Always good to be a little suspicious about news we want to see.

Edited by Serak The Preparer
  • Hook 'Em 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Longhorn94

Longhorn94 2400

Posted
Posted (edited)
22 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

You know, I'd love to be in a system where we only spend what we have. But he'd be cutting social security, medicare/medicaid, obamacare, education. Every single social safety net and program that improves us as people. And there's no guarantee they would ever return even if we got debt to zero. We have to cut ourselves out of debt, but we hvae to tax ourselves out of debt too. 

its never been about reducing the debt. its about saying that to trick the masses but really its all about tax cuts. that's all its ever been about. they will burn down everything we are as a country for tax cuts for themselves and they don't care because FUCK YOU, I GOT MINE. 

That is the last 50 years of Republican Party. That's it. That's the entire purpose and meaning.

Edited by Longhorn94
  • Hook 'Em 5
  • Rage+1 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites
SydneyCarton

SydneyCarton 47055

Posted
Posted
2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I long ago stopped gatekeeping on the ledge.  Whoever wants to join us can do so.  Bring snacks, though.  

 

Just now, Pescado_Rojo said:

Just like every place else in Austin, it's getting too fucking crowded.

This week, I feel like I've bypasses the ledge and just tied a rope arund my wasit to an ugly trump looking gargoyle and I'm just swinging around, waiting for that ugly fuck to topple and crush me or for the rope to just break. 

  • Hook 'Em 1
  • Haha 1
  • Fuck Around and Find Out 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
SimonBolivar

SimonBolivar 10645

Posted
Posted
2 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Just like every place else in Austin, it's getting too fucking crowded.

Can we meet at China Family on Airport? It isn't crowded and it can sometimes smell like a toilet, but damn if that Chongqing Spicy Chicken isn't the fucking bomb. I guess we better eat it up now though before they're purged. 

  • Hook 'Em 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • Popular Post
MidTexHorn

MidTexHorn 768

Posted
  • Popular Post
Posted
4 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

You’d be surprised how many people truly check out on politics until the 2-4 months before an election when they can’t avoid it because of advertising, social media, and mainstream news coverage.  There’s also a shitload of people who got invested in 2020 and then checked out, thinking Trump was finished.

In our friends’ case, they’ve got three kids under the age of 12, including a toddler, their weekends are devoted to soccer, baseball, scouts, and church. They don’t sit around on message board.

My sister is a middle school counselor who is totally checked out from politics except for two months before the presidential election typically. Then she becomes completely radicalized and can’t wait to vote. She’s an angry white lesbian Trump hater voting for Kamala and she has convinced her military retiree African American wife to bail on the Republicans she’s always voted for. That’s a paragraph I never would have predicted I’d write. Weird world. 

  • Hook 'Em 6
  • Like 1
  • Haha 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites
bluto

bluto 4797

Posted
Posted
1 minute ago, butthurt said:

Doesn't Texas have a bunch of foster kids without a foster home? I'm sure hot wheels would gladly sacrifice them.

Whatever the number is almost assured to grow given Abbott kneecapping the judge overseeing the shitty system 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
MidTexHorn

MidTexHorn 768

Posted
Posted
4 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

So did we ever decide if Kamala Harris should go on Joe Rogan's podcast?

Don’t give a fuck. I wouldn’t bail on any other plans to do so if I was her. Itnwould be a nice to have and she’d kick ass but I don’t think it would move the needle much with that group. 

  • Hook 'Em 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Bozo_Casanova

Bozo_Casanova 25462

Posted
Posted
1 hour ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

Yeah, locking down Puerto Rico's imaginary electoral votes is a step below huge.

 

Username checks out. 
A couple of things - first, the Puerto Rican paper is really more of an indicator of sentiment then a driver of behavior. Second, and far more importantly however, 2/3 of all "Puerto Ricans" actually reside in the mainland US, including about 6% of the population in Florida and nearly 4% of the population of Pennsylvania.

  • Hook 'Em 5
Link to comment
Share on other sites
 Share
Go to topic listing


Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... 🤫995🤫 ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business and Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Subscribe!... Donate!... Advertise... COOKIE MONSTER!

×
×
  • Create New...