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

[Wax Beer Cup 382]

37 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:

Alright, fuck it. We’re getting Chili’s on Election night. Apparently Chili’s is blowing up. Sales are skyrocketing. I blame this thread. 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/30/food/chilis-earnings/index.html

Tuesday is required hot dish night dammit!  Better get your bag of tots this week before there’s a run like TX temps dipping below 32 for a few hours in the winter! 

Edited October 31 by Wax Beer Cup

[Biff Tannen 45,665]

36 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

chilis is tx3putt approved, pick 3 deal

get some of those margs into the wife, trust me 

 

35 minutes ago, safe sex said:

Chili's FUCKS, I told ya

 

34 minutes ago, mdmost said:

I'm always down for some skillet queso from Chili's. 

[Huckleberry 32,848]

5 minutes ago, pantone159 said:

There was a food trailer on Barton Springs that had a really good Monte Cristo, it was delicious. I don't remember their name though, and they have since moved and possibly closed. They had a good muffalatta also.

[Biff Tannen 45,665]

17 minutes ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

Yankees lose the World Series. The world is turning in the right direction now.  I feel a Harris victory coming next week and a Longhorn football championship for the trifecta.

Don't.  Just don't.  You jinxing motherfucker.

[RDCanecutter 26,381]

4 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

I do that shit with the door handle all the time. But it's usually because I'm drunk or not looking. Not because I'm an ancient racist robot fueled by adderrall.

You have to give yourself time.

[Tuco 5,076]

16 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Goddammit, I haven’t had a monte cristo in probably 25 years.

Me neither.  That may be one of the few reasons why I am still alive.  I think that sandwich was designed by a struggling cardiologist. 

[tx ind 7,006]

All this talk about Chili's and now I want a buffalo chicken ranch sandwich. 

Trump picks the most upstanding people to stump with him.  I'm sure Favre was trying to get some sweet pointers on grifting.

Spoiler

Trump campaigns with Packers legend Brett Favre at rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin

By  EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and THOMAS BEAUMONT5-6 minutes 10/30/2024

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Updated 10:05 PM CDT, October 30, 2024

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Donald Trump showered former NFL star Brett Favre with praise on Wednesday at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where the former Packers quarterback campaigned for the Republican presidential nominee in the final week before Election Day.

“Thank you, Brett. What a great honor. What a great champion,” Trump said shortly after taking the stage at the Resch Center. Describing Favre’s fingers as “like sausages,” he said, “No wonder he could throw the ball.”

“I’m a little upset because I think he got bigger applause than me, and I’m not happy,” the former president went on, joking about the ovation Favre received in a county that Trump narrowly won in 2020.

Trump appeared onstage in a orange safety vest after riding in a garbage truck to draw attention to an offensive comment by President Joe Biden. But he reignited a different controversy by revisiting his promise to “protect the women of our country.”

After complaining about his own staffers tell him it was “inappropriate,” Trump insisted, “I’m gonna do it whether the women like it or not.”

Trump rallied alongside Favre in the critical battleground state with just six days until the election. In a sign of the importance of the state, Trump’s Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, was campaigning simultaneously in overwhelmingly Democratic-voting Madison, roughly a 2 1/2-hour drive away.

Favre, who won three NFL Most Valuable Player awards and a Super Bowl for Green Bay in the 1990s, praised Trump before the former president arrived, telling the crowd, “Much like the Packer organization, Donald Trump and his organization was a winner.”

“The United States of America won with his leadership,” Favre said.

In relying on Favre, Trump is tapping into the state’s deep and loyal support for the Packers and the team’s onetime star quarterback. But Favre also comes with increased baggage after becoming enmeshed in Mississippi’s welfare spending scandal.

Favre, 55, is not facing any criminal charges, but he is among more than three dozen people or groups being sued as the state tries to recover misspent money. Favre has repaid just over $1 million he received in speaking fees funded by the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. Mississippi Auditor Shad White, a Republican, has said Favre never showed up for the speaking engagements. White also said Favre still owes nearly $730,000 in interest.

Mississippi has ranked among the poorest states for decades, but only a fraction of its federal welfare money has been going to families. Instead, the Mississippi Department of Human Services allowed well-connected people to waste tens of millions of welfare dollars from 2016 to 2019, according to White and state and federal prosecutors.

A nonprofit group called the Mississippi Community Education Center made two payments of welfare money to Favre Enterprises, the athlete’s business: $500,000 in December 2017 and $600,000 in June 2018. The TANF money was to go toward a volleyball arena at the University of Southern Mississippi. Favre agreed to lead fundraising efforts for the facility at his alma mater, where his daughter started playing on the volleyball team in 2017.

The Mississippi Community Education Center director, Nancy New, pleaded guilty in April 2022 to charges of misspending welfare money, as did her son Zachary New, who helped run the nonprofit. They await sentencing and have agreed to testify against others.

 

[Gil Bang 25,915]

 

 

[Hank Kingsley 20,905]

I…love her?

[RDCanecutter 26,381]

2 hours ago, Pancho said:

I’m so tired of them interrupting her rallies for a ceasefire. It’s so fucking stupid. 

And they don’t interrupt turnip’s rally when he would be worse off for them. 

they’ve give no fucking valid reason why they keep interrupting her’s but not his.

They don't want their asses kicked by rednecks.

[DixonHur 11,292]

37 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Fuck you, I loved em both. And…for you Houston types, also loved Jojo’s, we frequented the Braeswood location. Excellent monte cristo there as well.

Goddammit, I haven’t had a monte cristo in probably 25 years.

Bennigan's had too much flare.

"Hey buttons, why don't you shut your yapper and just give me my food"

Plus, we wouldn't have Rudy's without Chili's, so double win in my book.

Edited October 31 by DixonHur

[wood 11,225]

22 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Don't.  Just don't.  You jinxing motherfucker.

No worries. The Helobious reverse jinx is undefeated.

[Chopper 17,230]

1 hour ago, Jive Turkey said:

Alright, fuck it. We’re getting Chili’s on Election night. Apparently Chili’s is blowing up. Sales are skyrocketing. I blame this thread. 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/30/food/chilis-earnings/index.html

Reminds me a little of this https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/ai-angus-steakhouse-reddit-london-b2638158.html 

Angus Steakhouse controversy proves that we can’t sleepwalk into a world controlled by AI ... People proclaiming that it’s ‘the BEST steakhouse in London’ are playing Google for a fool and winning. Hats off to them, says Helen Coffey – it illustrates the danger of our impending descent into a dystopian world where human experience is replaced by bots and algorithms

 

[Chopper 17,230]

Edited October 31 by Chopper

[InkaUtexas 25,861]

Can we get back to the hot chick or election discussion vs. chili's vs. bennigans or when was the last time Brisket had a minor coronary over a sandwich?

Oh, and more dachshund vs. mountain lions is fine.

[NorthLoop 14,181]

calm down bro, it's Wednesday

[Jersey Man10 3,528]

I hate this fucker

[RDCanecutter 26,381]

4 minutes ago, Chopper said:

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/29/gender-gap-early-voting-00186155Women account for roughly 55 percent of the early vote, while men are around 45 percent, according to a POLITICO analysis of early vote data in several key states.

Will be interesting if that also holds for states nobody's paying attention to.

[wood 11,225]

LOL. This guy is good ...

"Harris claims that Trump will enter the Oval Office with an enemies list while she will enter with a to-do list. But Trump also has a to-do list, and the first item on that list just happens to be ‘make an enemies list.’ I’m sure he will add more items to the list if he thinks of any."

 

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[DixonHur 11,292]

Just now, Jersey Man10 said:

I hate this fucker

Isn't that the same guy who ...checks notes ... yesterday said we need not be so sensitive when someone at his boss's rally called Puerto Ricans garbage?

[InkaUtexas 25,861]

1 minute ago, DixonHur said:

Isn't that the same guy who ...checks notes ... yesterday said we need not be so sensitive when someone at his boss's rally called Puerto Ricans garbage?

No, this is the guy who fucks couches.

[RabidM 2,666]

Biden needs to take the week off if he cares about the country.  We can't afford any unforced errors. 

[tx 3 putt 76,870]

8 minutes ago, Jersey Man10 said:

I hate this fucker

 

[TexasEd 8,066]

Someone earlier said this thread has everything, Aubrey Plaza, Chilis, Dachshunds, Garbage Trucks, Spay Tans, getting drunk and geezers.

Just needs momma, prison and trains

[Chopper 17,230]

the other side

 

Birmingham. 

[6th Street 6,390]

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/there-is-concern-at-the-trump-campaign-veteran-gop-strategist-says-internal-polling-is-giving-them-pause/

[Hmbre97 6,305]

 

[atomheartbevo 89,626]

4 minutes ago, TexasEd said:

Someone earlier said this thread has everything, Aubrey Plaza, Chilis, Dachshunds, Garbage Trucks, Spay Tans, getting drunk and geezers.

Just needs momma, prison and trains

And Hall and Oates.

Also, you Chilis fans, you may run things now, but Steak & Ale and Bennigan's are making a comeback.

https://www.dallasnews.com/food/restaurant-news/2024/05/09/is-steak-ale-dead-dallas-resurgence/

 

 

[Chopper 17,230]

[atomheartbevo 89,626]

1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

 

[mchookem 16,321]

2 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

this guy needed lead therapy to center mass until he dropped and was no longer a threat …

 

he doesn't seem fond of black women. 

 

the next 4 years are gonna be tough for him. he may need some counseling. 

[mchookem 16,321]

1 hour ago, Hank Kingsley said:

huh. i always imagined @PenelopeWitherspoon much younger. 

[Jhawkmvp 1,489]

1 hour ago, Chopper said:

Damn. After being criticized for decades about not being politically active, Michael Jordan let it all hang. I guess Republicans stopped buying sneakers.

[flatdawgs 1,277]

2 hours ago, Chopper said:

Not interesting in so far that the Seattle Times endorsed Harris, but it should be noted that the Blethen family (owners of the paper; Frank wrote this endorsement) are by no means liberal/progressive; they're just not MAGA. The Times has forever been a bulwark of old-school conservative white suburbanism in this area, and the Blethen family has trailed behind the continued leftward movement of the suburbs here (except Alaska, which is Seattle's conservative suburb, heh - IYKYK).

I did like the "Hell, yes!" headline, however. Good to see them take a firm stance in their endorsement. 

[Thatguy 8,678]

4 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

No, this is the guy who fucks couches.

Yeah I saw him at Ethan Allen the other day......for what it's worth don't google "man humping couch" when trying to find an entertaining gif for your JD Vance joke. Gross!

[Underdog 28,565]

4 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

Can we get back to the hot chick or election discussion vs. chili's vs. bennigans or when was the last time Brisket had a minor coronary over a sandwich?

Oh, and more dachshund vs. mountain lions is fine.

I can’t go for that… 

[SydneyCarton 48,054]

9 hours ago, Js1 said:

I am not infallible but I also am not gonna live my life like a big defeatist baby. We need less Briskets in the world 

I saw we make him move back to Texas. 

[DigglerontheHoof 21,176]

5 hours ago, mchookem said:

he doesn't seem fond of black women. 

 

the next 4 years are gonna be tough for him. he may need some counseling to get his ass kicked by more black women. 

fify

[Francisco 2.0 32,386]

 

 

 

[quigley 1,559]

8 hours ago, DixonHur said:

Any other early voters who are just over it?

This has been the most stressful election in my life, because nothing makes sense.  This should be a no-brainer, blowout election, but the pundits keep saying it's a toss-up which my brain just can't process.  Frankly, I'm just exhausted by the whole thing and Tuesday can't get here fast enough.

No matter the ultimate outcome, I just want to get it over with. 

An important reason Harris needs to win in a blowout is that it will YET AGAIN demonstrate that the polling industry knows shit about fuck.

We, the American populous, red/blue/pink/white/black/brown/green, need to make this election the last that we are slaves to Quinnipac, Monmouth, Siena, or any other D2 school with a poli-sci polling department (SEC! SEC!).

[cactusflinthead 27,598]

20 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

 

[quigley 1,559]

7 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

 

Cartoon Movement is amazing.

[UTGrad98 2,271]

48 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

Powerful 

[HenryJames 66,038]

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241030022780/en/Freedom-To-Watch-PAC-Reaches-Over-5-Million-Young-Male-Voters-Through-Innovative-Digital-Campaign-on-Adult-Websites

 

[DigglerontheHoof 21,176]

7 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241030022780/en/Freedom-To-Watch-PAC-Reaches-Over-5-Million-Young-Male-Voters-Through-Innovative-Digital-Campaign-on-Adult-Websites

 

Incels might not give a shit about women's rights but they won't put up spank-bank repression. 

[SubliminalHorn 6,786]

9 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

Incels might not give a shit about women's rights but they won't put up spank-bank repression. 

I always hit skip after 5 seconds, I got things to do!

[NAVY 6,740]

6 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

And Hall and Oates.

Also, you Chilis fans, you may run things now, but Steak & Ale and Bennigan's are making a comeback.

https://www.dallasnews.com/food/restaurant-news/2024/05/09/is-steak-ale-dead-dallas-resurgence/

 

 

… and this chair, that’s all this thread needs 

[TexEx15 17,509]

 

[BurntOrange&White 39,930]

8 hours ago, David Dennison said:

Not gonna lie, I'm intrigued by the Buffalo Wild Wings Pick 6.

BWW is dog shit.

[locodos 5,387]

3 minutes ago, NAVY said:

… and this chair, that’s all this thread needs 

same energy