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

[tx 3 putt 76,880]

Just now, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

"...big, black, boogie, fakin', shakin', shuckin' and jivin' jobs..."

 

little black bootys ???

im hiring !

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3 hours ago, kevwun said:

Yeah half the shows on espn have copied the format of 4 or 5 people talking over each other about whatever topic they have blown completely out of proportion that day.

I could be misremembering, but I'm pretty sure ESPN pioneered that shit, the way MTV popularized 'reality' tv. Fuck 'em both.

[tx 3 putt 76,880]

new twitter theory ….

trump knows he’s going to lose and face many upcoming trials. his lawyers are going to claim he’s mentally incompetent to face trial and use one of many examples …

 

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13 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Well, the conservative in me is going to disagree. I think bargained-for wages and benefits are a better outcome, but giving labor collective bargaining and strike ability is essential to that.  And government needs to be involved to insure that the bigger picture is kept in mind in addition to the narrow interests of the parties to the negotiation.

They aren't mutually exclusive though.

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1 minute ago, wood said:

I could be misremembering, but I'm pretty sure ESPN pioneered that shit, the way MTV popularized 'reality' tv. Fuck 'em both.

 

they changed the world forever ….

 

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23 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

the black jobs !!!!

I like how even Trump realized that he worded that terribly and tried to correct but only made it worse.

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27 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

Sounds great compared to letting that asshole and dotard run shit.  Sign me up for WWIII.

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9 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Wives lie to their husbands about the guys they slept with and their shopping habits among other things so yeah, who they vote for is a pretty small lie. 

There's a yougov poll - 1 in 8 wives say they have in the past lied to their husband about who they voted for or without telling them, and 1 in 10 husbands do the same.  

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41 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

From the Atlantic article:

At the end of June, in the afterglow of a debate performance that would ultimately prompt President Joe Biden to end his campaign for reelection, Donald Trump startled his aides by announcing that he’d come up with a new nickname for his opponent.

“The guy’s a retard. He’s retarded. I think that’s what I’ll start calling him,” Trump declared aboard his campaign plane, en route to a rally that evening, according to three people who heard him make the remarks: “Retarded Joe Biden.”

The staffers present—and, within hours, others who’d heard about the epithet secondhand—pleaded with Trump not to say this publicly. They warned him that it would antagonize the moderate voters who’d been breaking in their direction, while engendering sympathy for a politician who, at that moment, was the subject of widespread ridicule. As Trump demurred, musing that he might debut the nickname at that night’s event, his staffers puzzled over the timing. Biden was on the ropes. Polls showed Trump jumping out to the biggest lead he’d enjoyed in any of his three campaigns for the presidency. Everything was going right for the Republican Party and its nominee. Why would he jeopardize that for the sake of slinging a juvenile insult? (A campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, said the nickname “was never discussed and this is materially false.”)

He turned a mob loose on the Capitol.

He stole and distributed state secrets.

He pressured a foreign leader to help him defame a political opponent.

He is a constant liar.

He is an idiot.

But if he says "retard" it's all over for him.

 

Idiot World

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Kamala now ahead on predictit, 53 vs 52

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1 minute ago, Underdog said:

 

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3 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

He turned a mob loose on the Capitol.

He stole and distributed state secrets.

He pressured a foreign leader to help him defame a political opponent.

He is a constant liar.

He is an idiot.

But if he says "retard" it's all over for him.

 

Idiot World

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2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Like so many of these chicks, she looked eleventy bazillion times better before the work.

[BamaATL 16,593]

Well, now we've done it, all this Chili's talk has done bankrupted TGI Fridays.  

[RDCanecutter 26,404]

2 hours ago, Homercles said:

There’s an episode of MST3k called Boggy Creek 2, filmed in Arkansas probably mid-90’s.  There’s a scene where the protagonists go into some general store and half the riffs sound familiar today:

”it’s the welfare moms sucking us dry”

”liberal!”

”want to contribute to our fund for the war against northern aggression?”

”want this on your klan account?”

Those deplorables have always been there, they just finally had a public figure that ‘made it ok’ to say the quiet parts out loud.  

Those bolded two were said to fuck with the cameraman.

[wildcat09 29,348]

Maybe I missed it, but I'm surprised nobody has posted Melanie Laurent yet:

[TexasHooch 5,122]

51 minutes ago, The Dog said:

 

This just in... Double divorcee and serial adulterer doesn't understand the concept of marital dishonesty.

If there were a way to verify, I'd bet a mortgage payment that Melania votes for Harris.  She'll probably tell him though.

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Just now, TexasHooch said:

This just in... Double divorcee and serial adulterer doesn't understand the concept of marital dishonesty.

If there were a way to verify, I'd bet a mortgage payment that Melania votes for Harris.  She'll probably tell him though.

He doesn’t understand the concept of wives not being honest to their benefactor. 

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5 minutes ago, wood said:

Like so many of these chicks, she looked eleventy bazillion times better before the work.

Neither of those pics show "before the work", just different stages.

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1 minute ago, TexasHooch said:

This just in... Double divorcee and serial adulterer doesn't understand the concept of marital dishonesty.

If there were a way to verify, I'd bet a mortgage payment that Melania votes for Harris.  She'll probably tell him though.

I'd take that bet. She's just as bad as he is and I'm sure feels the same about Kamala as he does. 

[Biff Tannen 45,667]

38 minutes ago, Red Five said:

All good points. I guess my only nitpick is that none of those things will happen.

And are more likely under the Rs

[tx 3 putt 76,880]

the fucking hero we need ….

 

[RDCanecutter 26,404]

2 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

@BrisketexanTL:DR- These fuckers are stuck in the southern plantation mentality. And it sucks and we are fucked.

 

Southern plantations knew how to grow stuff.

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2 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

He doesn’t understand the concept of wives not being honest to their benefactor. 

Hell, he doesn't even understand cause and effect

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Just now, Mo Horn said:

I'd take that bet. She's just as bad as he is and I'm sure feels the same about Kamala as he does. 

Just as bad, yes, but she hates him more then she hates Kamala. Ultimately, I think she just wants to be left the hell alone at this point. She wants no part of 1st lady duties or the white house.  Hell, I think him in prison is her best case scenario.

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6 minutes ago, TexasHooch said:

This just in... Double divorcee and serial adulterer doesn't understand the concept of marital dishonesty.

If there were a way to verify, I'd bet a mortgage payment that Melania votes for Harris.  She'll probably tell him though.

This is the Julia Roberts ad that's making Don's head explode. Love the simplicity. 

 

[mdmost 43,001]

There's a shocking lack of Lea Seydoux in this thread. Blue Is The Warmest Color if you've never seen it, get on it. 

Edited November 2 by mdmost

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37 minutes ago, Nivek said:

Tell my white brother and Puerto Rican SIL they are racist for voting for Trump.   I just call them stupid

Okay. So you say they are "stupid" but not racist.  Then how about enablers of racist mass deportation.  Is that better?

Sorry, but times up for excuses and apologia. Democracy, however imperfect, is at stake. 

For the record, my brother and I hardly ever talk or text (except when UT is stomping OU) anymore.

-- That's because's he's Houston Oil & Gas MAGA bro and I'm not. Says his vote for Trump is all about O&G for America. BS. This makes me very sad.

-- But, I refuse to normalize or sanction those views from any friends/family ... when they look away and ignore the sheer destruction of democracy by Trump-MAGA..

-- In 2016, maybe. Not anymore. 

I simply do not allow MAGA-GQP-Trump supporters in my life ... for the same reason I do not allow Nazis or skinhead punkers.

I am sad about the situation with my brother, but I am overall happier because I am doing the right thing -- to stay sane in an insane world. 

As I posted a couple of days ago: 

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[Js1 85,297]

I can’t wait for the Selzer poll so we can freak out about something new today 

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3 minutes ago, BevoAbyss said:

-- That's because's he's Houston Oil & Gas MAGA bro and I'm not. Says his vote for Trump is all about O&G for America. BS. This makes me very sad.

 

You ever ask him how Trump is going to cut gas prices and energy prices in half?  And how that is good for American o&g?

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16 minutes ago, TexasHooch said:

This just in... Double divorcee and serial adulterer doesn't understand the concept of marital dishonesty.

If there were a way to verify, I'd bet a mortgage payment that Melania votes for Harris.  She'll probably tell him though.

No she won’t. She’s a piece of shit too.

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5 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

You ever ask him how Trump is going to cut gas prices and energy prices in half?  And how that is good for American o&g?

Not sure about ND or Cali or the various other areas, but the crude in Texas is expensive to get out of the ground and to refine. It doesn’t take much of a drop to shut down the whole industry here. Anyone who has been alive in the past half century should understand this. Yet here we are

 

edit other than refining, obviously 

Edited November 2 by Sawbonz

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1 hour ago, gmr548 said:

Green Party voters are highly online and that would have high visibility among her voters, and would certainly move a chunk of them. Many, probably the majority, would ignore it and say she sold out. It would still net Harris votes though.

I dunno. I know one Stein voter and he's an impossibly smug individual addicted to counter-productive quests for perfection.

I keep him around because he's spent money on stuff I sell./GoblinLife

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Old man gooner thread starting early today

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2 hours ago, South Austin said:

What’s the French word for bunk? Cause that’s where I’ll be.

Le lit or la couche.

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18 minutes ago, TexasHooch said:

Neither of those pics show "before the work", just different stages.

OK, well then she looked better with less work than she did with more. The more work they get done, the worse they typically look. It's so sad.

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3 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

Not sure about ND or Cali or the various other areas, but the crude in Texas is expensive to get out of the ground and to refine. It doesn’t take much of a drop to shut down the whole industry here. Anyone who has been alive in the past half century should understand this. Yet here we are

 

edit other than refining, obviously 

Exactly. Hence the boom and bust nature of the industry in Texas. 

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[Underdog 28,585]

23 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

Maybe I missed it, but I'm surprised nobody has posted Melanie Laurent yet:

Holey Moley! 

[Biff Tannen 45,667]

13 minutes ago, Js1 said:

I can’t wait for the Selzer poll so we can freak out about something new today 

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9 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

an impossibly smug individual addicted to counter-productive quests for perfection

New motto for myself?

6 minutes ago, wood said:

OK, well then she looked better with less work than she did with more. The more work they get done, the worse they typically look. It's so sad.

In her case, I disagree.  She was a goblin before. 

[locodos 5,387]

14 hours ago, F250 said:

Oh okay.

I was married to a full Irish woman for over twenty years so I am fully prepared to explain the Irish-American experience to my kids. Lulz no, I don't understand it but I just teach my kids to be proud and embrace their heritage that I don't really understand.

 

So ...

 

Ever been blackout drunk tho?

 

Well the boy voted on Wednesday...  just heard about it today.  He said the line was 30mins long.  He voted on campus, all college kids in his line...  Doesn't matter cause' Floriduh

13 hours ago, wood said:

Yeah that happened in late August, but I hadn't seen it 'til now. Like I said before, the IAFF leadership are pussies, but we in the membership know wtf is up. So got damn proud of my IAFF sisters and brothers ... from Boston.

Oldie but a goodie... from 8 months ago

13 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

They have crazy people in France too.

It's all the ennui, drives them nuts!

Edited November 2 by locodos

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Yeah ennui is their ouvre. 

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2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

LOL that's his best smile? He looks like someone just kicked him in the nuts.

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2 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Yeah ennui is their ouvre. 

 

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13 minutes ago, The Dog said:

 

I'm starting to come around to realizing this dude may be the only sane person in this whole field. 

 

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4 hours ago, Kyrie Eleison said:

in the 25 yrs I’ve known bozo, he’s never once wavered on this insight.  and as someone who grew up in solidly blue, union heavy, labor Democrat stronghold, i bear witness to that constituency being left behind over the last few decades by the current iteration of the Democratic Party.   fucking hell, i never dreamed of the day that Jefferson county would turn red for myriad reasons, yet here we are.  

all because the historical party advocates and protectors of labor simply walked away.  

so yeah…bozo was prophetically spot on then as well as now. 

They never walked away on issues important to them - like protecting unions, making sure the richest among us get fairly taxed, protecting your rights when you’re injured due to the negligence of others or big Pharma, protecting your right to medical care as much as possible under whatever system was going on. 

What the Democrats did NOT do is preserve the world that those people loved:  the Democrats did not preserve the soft racism and misogyny and homophobic tendencies of America collar white workers.  The Republicans pandered to them with Willie Horton, the flag-burning “crisis”, and then the Muslim crisis with Sharia law going to take over bum-fuck Alabama, and then the gay marriage crisis… and now they are going to steal your children and change their sexual orientation crisis.

The problem is not that the Democrats did not protect things that were the most important to those people - the problem is the Republicans told those people that how you live your life and the protections you had were no longer important because someone, somewhere, might burn a flag…. Or some trans person might be in the bathroom stall next to you.  Or they are attacking Jesus and Christianity when they say happy holidays. Or Michelle Obama wants your fat kids to eat more vegetables, which is obviously a demonic attempt to control your children.   

The problem is that those uneducated people listened to fucking Rush Limbaugh on Fox News for 30 years. None of that was on the Democrats and I think the percentage of blame in a comparative fault ‘why that happened’ is less on Democrats than you think.

Democrats lost those people in the culture wars, not because they weren’t focused on the main issues that in a more educated populous would have them thanking the Democrats.   I used to blame the Democrats for their messaging, which was a valid criticism, but now I realize we have a country of uneducated idiots so completely incapable of understanding how those issues affect them that we have to hope that half of us can prevent the other from blowing up the country.  

The Republicans built an alternate universe through their unceasing, false media efforts these last three decades.    That was also not the Democrats fault.  What Democrats failed to realize, and this is on them, is that there would come a time when actual facts and truth were completely irrelevant in the political system.

And here we are

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3 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

daddy trump was banging picture perfect 14 yo’s by the private jet load and she was being held to that standard 

poor girl had no choice but to go plastic, early and often to stay in her father’s favor 

there’s no way in hell that trump is left alone with any of the granddaughters