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

[RDCanecutter 26,379]

1 minute ago, Sawbonz said:

Yes, becoming an enslaved child laborer also works wonders!

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19,100]

3 hours ago, mdmost said:

I'm having doubts about your commitment to the cause. 

I live in Manhattan (East side). It takes me almost an hour just to go cross town.

3 hours ago, Jive Turkey said:

nah nah nah. fuck that.  if we're all going to Chili's, Penelope is going to Chili's.  it'll be absolutely worth it for Harris ending Trump.  she can clean her palate at Dinner by Heston Blumenthal when she's in London.

In 2020, we celebrated thr Biden win at Le Bernardin. It was excellent.

3 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

I ate there yesterday as well.  Chips and salsa, burger and fries, and 2 beers.  Out for under 20 bucks, and that includes an iced tea to go. 

MD beat me to it.  You're not a team player. 

Meh.

3 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

Fixed

Lol.

3 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

I disagree. Staten Island is exactly where you should go, with drummers drumming and pipers piping. Get your hair done up first in one of those Insane Sicilian Duchess pile-up do's so that you command obedience. Whip Staten Island into shape.

SI doesn't have great transport. 

3 hours ago, Clintonaldo said:

Penelope, stop trying to get out of going to Chili’s. You are going. 

LOL. I might go to Club Cumming for a watch party if I go anywhere at all.

2 hours ago, SizzleChest said:

 

2 hours ago, Hank_Hill said:

Y’all are going to make me island hop to get to a Chilis 

Effectively what I have to do.

2 hours ago, TexasHooch said:

Lol.  She'll take 4 flights, on a whim, to Siberia for a long weekend, but Staten Island and New Jersey are (ahem) a bridge and tunnel too far.

FiFY

2 hours ago, Underdog said:

She's safer in Siberia than those two places. 

This.

2 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I guess you don’t have to be a married woman to fuck up dinner plans 

Lol.

2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

I'm legitimately surprised there isn't one in Times Square. It has all the other middle-America hits.

Rent too expensive probably.

2 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

First, you’re going to have to explain to me why Olive Garden on NYE is a thing. Much less a thing people wild do more than once. You know the breadsticks are always free, right?

This is a fucking thing, and if it’s a blowout you need to get your ass to a Chile’s. Take the day off if necessary,  but get it done. I’m probably going and eating fucking nothing but vodka but I’m going. 

$450 all you can drink party with view of the ball drop that you don't have to wait all day in the cold/wet for. I posted video in the Tell Me About NYC thread. 

2 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

To be fair, I think it’s less about the inconvenience and more about her feeling NJ and Staten Island are so far beneath her they’re not even the earth’s mantle. 

It’s worth it 

As usual, and unsurprisingly, you’re totally fucking wrong. 

It's about inconvenience. As mentioned earlier, it takes me an hour just to go cross town. To go to the closes Chili's from my house (working remotely that day) will be a minimum of 1.5 hours each way. 

2 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

Lol.

2 hours ago, achooloco said:

Forest Hills!

Still fucking far. And per the map, the one I saw is in Long Island.

59 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

I'm starting to think he legit pulls a JoePa and dies a week after losing.

From your mouth to God's ear.

41 minutes ago, The Ace of Aces said:

Ok I read back a few pages. 
 

@PenelopeWitherspoon I think we should do an adventure to the SI Chili’s. We’d cancel out each other’s sore thumbness for being there so we’d be safe. 

Way too fucking far. And with shitty transport. 

29 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

I didn’t go anywhere the day after the 2016 election because I was still way too drunk to drive.

This. I stayed up drinking until at least 4 am.

[Underdog 28,545]

1 minute ago, BamaATL said:

Well, I forgot to mention (because the whole idea is ridiculous to begin with), she want's to be in wine country with a vineyard.

Neither of us drink.  

Sounds like a Meg Ryan/Kevin Kline movie. 

[Hank_Hill 18,791]

I don’t think I’ve seen that many multi quotes. Spekt.

[Clintonaldo 2,572]

21 minutes ago, G650 said:

Fuck it, I will commit to Chilis day drinking Wednesday if this comes to pass

Chilis just picked up a blue chip prospect with this commitment. G650 is a gym rat who is the first one in and the last out of the weight room. A student of the game and a bring’s his lunch pail to work with him type of guy. Decent speed but very cerebral. 

[The Original Greaser Bob 2,820]

2 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

I live in Manhattan (East side). It takes me almost an hour just to go cross town.

Pinche Robert Moses.

[Clintonaldo 2,572]

Chilis doesn’t have a goddamn clue what’s about to happen to them and I am cackling. 

[quigley 1,558]

1 hour ago, BamaATL said:

Sadly, I can't join in the Wednesday Chili's celebration.  I have a colonoscopy Thursday, and I don't think that would be appreciated.  However, less than one mile from where I am having the procedure there is, you guessed it, a Chili's.  I have already had my wife to commit to this for lunch Thursday.  

She is baffled as to why I would request this.  

Drink enough margaritas and you won't need the prep.

[BamaATL 16,593]

1 minute ago, quigley said:

Drink enough margaritas and you won't need the prep.

Well, if I had half of one Presidente, they wouldn't need to anesthetize me either, win win!

[RDCanecutter 26,379]

1 minute ago, BamaATL said:

Well, I forgot to mention (because the whole idea is ridiculous to begin with), she want's to be in wine country with a vineyard.

Neither of us drink.  

Alsace. Yeah, it's white wine but since y'all don't drink, no harm.

Plus, lots of country folk in Alsace (no muthuhfuckuhs I'm not talkin about Strasbourg and your fancy friends there who speak great French I'm talkin country folk) speak Alsatian (think: Cajun German) as their first language, so their French is slower and choppier, exactly like an Anglophone American learning French. So you're halfway there.

Plus mucho beer everywhere, mountains to hike on, and tarte flambée. Goot Got Yawl.

[Stilicho 1,397]

37 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

Spain.

Never been there, but I kinda like the music. 

[Pancho 44,698]

 

[Js1 85,271]

SoCal, sponsored by Red Eagle, rushed out a Trump +7 Iowa poll

The damage control is amazing. They know Selzer doesn’t miss 

[The Dog 44,019]

1 minute ago, Pancho said:

 

Queen Ann just pulled their pants down.

[Red Five 40,828]

Steve Kornacki said earlier that Trump's retrospective approval rating is 48%. This country is so stupid.

[Pancho 44,698]

My conference starts Tuesday in LA. I’ll be in Burbank. There’s no Chili’s close whatsoever.

[The Dog 44,019]

 

[tx 3 putt 76,868]

1 hour ago, Okie State said:

This thread is moving faster than a game thread. I can't keep up.

[Yev Kassem 1,031]

Coincidentally, I just got this email promoting a new dessert. This would be sublime after 3 margaritas, a Big Smasher and a couple bowls of chips and salsa 

 

[Woland 732]

Well, I forgot to mention (because the whole idea is ridiculous to begin with), she want's to be in wine country with a vineyard.
Neither of us drink.  

Just across the border is Geneva where even the girl in the the kiosk who sold my exchange-student daughter a matcha spoke English. Your wife just needs to snag a job in Geneva. We stayed in Choulex where there were plenty of orchards. I don’t have a picture of the exchange student (now 28 yo) handy, but she does have an Only Fans page.

[RDCanecutter 26,379]

2 minutes ago, Pancho said:

My conference starts Tuesday in LA. I’ll be in Burbank. There’s no Chili’s close whatsoever.

Chili John's of California. Bet it's a Chili's knock-off and you can still damage your stomach there.

2018 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91506

[HenryJames 66,035]

3 minutes ago, Pancho said:

My conference starts Tuesday in LA. I’ll be in Burbank. There’s no Chili’s close whatsoever.

 

[Royalfan5 2,353]

4 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

Alsace. Yeah, it's white wine but since y'all don't drink, no harm.

Plus, lots of country folk in Alsace (no muthuhfuckuhs I'm not talkin about Strasbourg and your fancy friends there who speak great French I'm talkin country folk) speak Alsatian (think: Cajun German) as their first language, so their French is slower and choppier, exactly like an Anglophone American learning French. So you're halfway there.

Plus mucho beer everywhere, mountains to hike on, and tarte flambée. Goot Got Yawl.

I wonder if I still got any relation floating around Alsace after my Great-Great Grandfather decided Nebraska seemed like a better idea that hanging around after 1871. 

[Yev Kassem 1,031]

1 minute ago, HenryJames said:

 

The election will be called well before he gets to that part of town. 

[RDCanecutter 26,379]

Just now, Royalfan5 said:

I wonder if I still got any relation floating around Alsace after my Great-Great Grandfather decided Nebraska seemed like a better idea that hanging around after 1871. 

Probably half of em are your 4 cousins on multiple sides. Bringez le banjo.

[Js1 85,271]

Debbie Dingell on MSNBC and is very positive about Michigan. She was one of the first sounding the alarms about Michigan in 16

[GopherRock 1,765]

26 minutes ago, NAVY said:

Kamala win = Chilis

What does the Surly brain trust propose for a Cruz loss? 

 

[Gatorubet 30,185]

1 hour ago, RDCanecutter said:

I have 3 Birmingham-area Chili's to choose from. All are in paved-over hellscapes. Help me choose.

From closest to farthest:

1. Homewood, "Wildwood Centre", which is no longer wild, wooded, and never was a "centre". I was last inside this one maybe 15 years ago and ordered at the bar where they didn't try to give me that sticky flashing touch-screen. Homewood is mildly blue but who knows what will drag into a Wildwood Centre Chili's.

2. Fultondale, Northside of Birmingham in the Forever 1978 suburbs. The Chili's is perched out over I-65 and will no doubt be full of people from Florida or northern states fleeing homicidal post-election mobs. Years ago at a nearby shopping center my suspiciously ethnic wife felt that she was receiving glares from the Pinkfolk. West Virginia starts about ten miles north of this one.

3. Trussville, Northeast of town, at the bottom end of a massive parking lot of a mall and across the street from a graveyard. An odd burb that went from "country village" to "let's park our money here" inside of 20 years. I went to an art show there a couple years ago and it's a place where you can tell they want art, but at the same time they're kinda pissed off about it. Many of the men look like Barney Rubble.

Wildwood Center grew up in the town, we never knew what it was called.

Some said it was a mall. Some said it was a strip. I never gave it much thought.

 

[Royalfan5 2,353]

1 minute ago, RDCanecutter said:

Probably half of em are your 4 cousins on multiple sides. Bringez le banjo.

They’re more likely to be in the same place than the Jewish or East Prussian relation would be too. 

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13,570]

33 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

My wife is now convinced we can buy a chateau and run a b&b.  We have no experience in hospitality at all.  

 

[Gil Bang 25,907]

8 minutes ago, Pancho said:

My conference starts Tuesday in LA. I’ll be in Burbank. There’s no Chili’s close whatsoever.

Encino is 14 miles away.  That's close for L.A.

Just now, GopherRock said:

 

Little known fact:  a young Glen Campbell toured with The Champs. 

[Fred Garvin 21]

My wife (no pics) and I get Chili's takeout about twice a week so this thread hits close to home

[MissingInAction 25,005]

So 45th and Lamar for Austin?

[Pancho 44,698]

 

[MissingInAction 25,005]

3 minutes ago, Fred Garvin said:

My wife (no pics) and I get Chili's takeout about twice a week so this thread hits close to home

Twice a week?

Thanks for not posting pics.

Edited November 4 by MissingInAction

[HenryJames 66,035]

3 minutes ago, Fred Garvin said:

My wife (no pics) and I get Chili's takeout about twice a week so this thread hits close to home

Give us a rundown of the menu.

[cmontexas 3,270]

16 minutes ago, Pancho said:

My conference starts Tuesday in LA. I’ll be in Burbank. There’s no Chili’s close whatsoever.

Encino bruh in John Wayne's old backyard

[Fred Garvin 21]

2 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

Give us a rundown of the menu.

Not what it used to be, but we like the Santa fe salet

[StassneyHorn 6,573]

1 hour ago, Firemans4Horn said:

I went to CiCi’s pizza the day after the election in 2016. It was as bad as I felt. 

Clearly you didn't have the chicken noodle soup

 

[Fudge Nuggets 19,187]

42 minutes ago, NAVY said:

Easily fixed: Watch all the episodes of Fawlty Towers. 

Meh.

[bolverk 29,652]

Whatever the outcome is on Tuesday, I'll be in no shape on Wednesday to drive 45 minutes over to Midland for Chili's.

Is anybody else out here in the wastelands willing to give me a ride?

[HenryJames 66,035]

3 minutes ago, cmontexas said:

Encino bruh in John Wayne's old backyard

[TexEx15 17,509]

 

[Fudge Nuggets 19,187]

40 minutes ago, SizzleChest said:

Party in Cancun, duh.

That one's going to have to be delayed a few weeks so I can recover from a Harris win.  I want to be in top form for both celebrations.

[TheStoicPaisano 9,922]

13 minutes ago, GopherRock said:

 

I will always visualize this scene whenever I hear Tequila.

 

[quigley 1,558]

22 minutes ago, Pancho said:

My conference starts Tuesday in LA. I’ll be in Burbank. There’s no Chili’s close whatsoever.

I call bullshit. SoCal has plenty o chilis

[Shut up Lou Holtz 2,026]

Craving chilis now. I think the closest to me is the bee caves location. 

[HenryJames 66,035]

1 minute ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

I will always visualize this scene whenever I hear Tequila.

 

[quigley 1,558]

21 minutes ago, Yev Kassem said:

Coincidentally, I just got this email promoting a new dessert. This would be sublime after 3 margaritas, a Big Smasher and a couple bowls of chips and salsa 

 

does that pie have chicken pox?

[Hank Kingsley 20,904]

Do Chili's still put chocolate sprinkles on their chocolate shakes? That was the bomb 35 years ago.