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

[NorthLoop 13991]

2 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

Same here. My 70-year-old dad does it, it's time to have the Jimmy Carter talk with him for the next election. 

"If you die between the first day of early voting and election day that would suck."

My 78yo dad was here this weekend, and my wife asked him if he had voted yet. "Yeah I went the first day. Who knows if i'll die before election day, and I had to make sure this one counted" 

[troph 24148]

are we there yet?

[Mitch Cumsteen 18459]

I'm not going to make it to tonight. I don't even really follow politics. I don't want to pay attention to this shit but I feel obligated to. Until the last couple of months, I hadn't posted on this board since the last time we kicked that orange asshole to the curb.

I'm seriously thinking about going home and eating a gummy I bought in Seattle that works like a horse tranquilizer, and spend the afternoon trying to feel the side of my face.

[BrickHorn 18098]

4 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

Same here. My 70-year-old dad does it, it's time to have the Jimmy Carter talk with him for the next election. 

"If you die between the first day of early voting and election day that would suck."

My mom is this way. She finds it festive or some shit. Which isn’t the fucking point, but at least she votes (and for the good guys).

[Valmy77 12898]

2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

So, I do hate a significant part of this country for being that stupid/hateful.

I felt like I kind of got it in the past. They were mad at those in charge so they support Trump to fuck shit up.

But after January 6th? And many don't just support him as some kind of middle finger, but tons seem to unironically adore him in a way that is only comparable to Obama's biggest fanatics.

So I have nothing anymore. I do have a hard time thinking they are still my countrymen and women and that's sad.

But I try not to think about it.

[boilerhorn 1276]

20 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Cambria County, PA extends voting until 10pm due to technical issues with machines 

Did not understand the possible significance of this until I looked it up.  Cambria county went to Trump in 2020 68% to 31% (around 26k votes) and 67% to 31% in 2016.  

[heso 2722]

Allegheny County election official says they expect to have all votes counted by midnight, other Pittsburgh suburb counties targeting 11:00.

[CooterBrown 17766]

2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

No shit.  Russia openly supports Trump and wants him to win.

What's interesting is that they purposely picked a former Trump stronghold to disrupt.  

[Brisketexan 103873]

2 minutes ago, troph said:

are we there yet?

[Valmy77 12898]

Just now, heso said:

Allegheny County election official says they expect to have all votes counted by midnight, other Pittsburgh suburb counties targeting 11:00.

Good. Let's just get it over with. I don't ever want to see a repeat of 2020.

[InkaUtexas 25015]

1 minute ago, Huckleberry said:

Unfortunately we were and are that beacon whether we like it or not. Now maybe we didn't earn it but I can assure you there are many more foreigners who are watching to see what our results are today than there are for other nation's elections. The only question, the one we're waiting for the answer to, is "a beacon of what?"

I know. My whatsapp and signal have been going off since midnight. From Kenya to K-stan everyone wants to know what I think is going to happen. There is a major international impact on this election and it is not only Ukraine and the Middle East.

Growing up overseas maybe it is different for me. It was one day every four years the American community got together and looked towards tomorrow. I try to keep that perspective.

[troph 24148]

2 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

I'm not going to make it to tonight. I don't even really follow politics. I don't want to pay attention to this shit but I feel obligated to. Until the last couple of months, I hadn't posted on this board since the last time we kicked that orange asshole to the curb.

I'm seriously thinking about going home and eating a gummy I bought in Seattle that works like a horse tranquilizer, and spend the afternoon trying to feel the side of my face.

I mean I’m kinda doing the same with the real horse tranquilizer ketamine today. 

[Chopper 16960]

A GOOD OMEN!

[chainsaw 9701]

6 minutes ago, mdmost said:

I'm usually a go on Election Day person. Our local polling place is always light. I only early voted this year because my wife wasn't working from home today so we went last Friday. 

But what if you're sick or injured? That's too much of a risk. It will probably never matter for a presidential or statewide race but it could be the difference between someone competent keeping the lights on vs a clown banning books in your child's schools

[Helobious 9441]

Everyone despairing over a Trump victory (which I still believe will happen) try to relax. Know that basic human nature (incompetence, greed, corrruption) will at least partially derail whatever fucked up plans they have for the country. Always happens for the power-crazed and always will. 

[wildcat09 28735]

Just now, Helobious said:

Everyone despairing over a Trump victory (which I still believe will happen) try to relax. Know that basic human nature (incompetence, greed, corrruption) will at least partially derail whatever fucked up plans they have for the country. Always happens for the power-crazed and always will. 

Fuck you, say the line you coward.

[Celery Man 20711]

Just now, Chopper said:

A GOOD OMEN!

 

[heso 2722]

Just now, boilerhorn said:

Did not understand the possible significance of this until I looked it up.  Cambria county went to Trump in 2020 68% to 31% (around 26k votes) and 67% to 31% in 2016.  

It’s also one of the PA counties that have swung from solidly blue to solidly red in the last 20 years. Apparently it’s been long enough that the people of Johnstown forgot what happens when you trust billionaire robber barons to care if they put your life in danger. 

[locodos 5298]

1 hour ago, G650 said:

Riva Aquarama. Single sexiest boat ever made.

Listen I'm not hating on the Riva, but this thing has dead sexy lines.  Also rarer than hens teeth.   Maybe I've been watching too much miami vice?  

[Valmy77 12898]

Just now, Helobious said:

Everyone despairing over a Trump victory (which I still believe will happen) try to relax. Know that basic human nature (incompetence, greed, corrruption) will at least partially derail whatever fucked up plans they have for the country. Always happens for the power-crazed and always will. 

I am well aware that almost everything Trump promised will not happen, especially anything even remotely unpopular.

The point to me is merely that he is still supported after he tried to commit treason.

[DixonHur 10893]

5 minutes ago, troph said:

are we there yet?

Yes

[Baboontyme 2792]

5 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

I'm not going to make it to tonight. I don't even really follow politics. I don't want to pay attention to this shit but I feel obligated to. Until the last couple of months, I hadn't posted on this board since the last time we kicked that orange asshole to the curb.

I'm seriously thinking about going home and eating a gummy I bought in Seattle that works like a horse tranquilizer, and spend the afternoon trying to feel the side of my face.

This is an underrated coping mechanism. Unfortunately I have to pick my daughter up from dance at 7. But then it's gummy time. I may even make a bonfire in the solo and just stare at it all night. 

[South Austin 51801]

6 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

This.  Totally this for me.

I have felt like I want to puke all day so far, and it will only get worse.

I love my country.  I love it so much it hurts. It has given my family opportunity for generations.  It has been a place that is and always has been wildly imperfect yet, somehow, has found a way to improve over time.  As they say, "reformed, but always reforming."  We are a good country, and we have tried over time to become a great one.  It is a process, but one that - for most of my life - I believed we continued to move towards.  Yes, with failures, yes, with missteps, but overall heading in the right historical direction.

The past 15+ years have caused me to doubt that (Obama's election revealed how awful a huge swath of our country and fellow citizens are, and it has only gotten MUCH worse).  

I truly don't know who "we the people" are anymore.  I don't believe, like I once did, that we can and will find ways to be better.

I want to hope that we will.  But hope, in these times, is a precursor to disappointment.  And we've had a cascade of disappointments, shocking ones.  To my dying day, I will never forget those moments on January 6th when, driving through nowhere W. Texas, I heard them announce that the insurrectionists had broken through and were inside the Capitol.  As our phones started blowing up from friends all over the world asking us "WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING?"

I want to believe that we can be the nation I knew and believed in most of my life.  But I also know that we are the nation that had January 6th, and might have another one of those.

This feeling is like being in crisis with someone you deeply love.  Will she go off the deep end, turning her back on all the things that made her good, and leading you to the inevitable conclusion of "she's gone....this relationship isn't worth saving?"  Or will she find her way to reaffirm the best of who she is and can be, so you think "there she is....the person I love is still there?"  I feel like I would if I was sitting in my living room, waiting for her answer.  And yeah, I wanna puke.

I love her.  And she's been breaking my fucking heart.

I have maybe one or two toes out on the ledge with Brisket.  I have a lot of nervous energy today, and am drinking more coffee later in the morning than I usually do.  But it's nervous optimism, and not a sense of dread.  Still, this is 'murica.

[Brisketexan 103873]

Just now, InkaUtexas said:

I know. My whatsapp and signal have been going off since midnight. From Kenya to K-stan everyone wants to know what I think is going to happen. There is a major international impact on this election and it is not only Ukraine and the Middle East.

Growing up overseas maybe it is different for me. It was one day every four years the American community got together and looked towards tomorrow. I try to keep that perspective.

Yeah, same here.  Much of our chat is in German (which pisses me off, because I have to translate it on google).  Some clips -- and even if you don't speak German, you can get the gist:

Ich bin so krass nervös

Ich glaube nicht dass ich heute nacht schlafen werde…

I am wearing blue today. Ehrlich gesagt fühle ich mich ein bisschen blöd, dass ich noch ein bisschen Hoffnung habe

The whole fucking world is watching to see if we flip the boat over or not.  It's fucking maddening.

[TheStoicPaisano 9903]

4 minutes ago, Helobious said:

Everyone despairing over a Trump victory (which I still believe will happen) try to relax. Know that basic human nature (incompetence, greed, corrruption) will at least partially derail whatever fucked up plans they have for the country. Always happens for the power-crazed and always will. 

OK cool, I’ll remember that from six feet under after the ACA gets scrapped (three preexisting conditions that are not a result of food/alcohol, nicotine).

Edited 8 hours ago by TheStoicPaisano

[InkaUtexas 25015]

JFC, CNN interviewed a young female voted. She was asked if Trump said anything that offended her. "Well, ya know, you cannot be offended by everything. I watch Family guy and they make fun of everyone, you have to laugh."

OK @Brisketexan make some room on the ledge. This mentality cancelled out a vote.

[Goredho 17229]

4 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

I'm seriously thinking about going home and eating a gummy I bought in Seattle that works like a horse tranquilizer, and spend the afternoon trying to feel the side of my face.

Well, you could do that.  Or you could go to Chili's early and get a head start on a Chris Farley death bender of chili cheese fries and mexican martinis.  Take the gummy with you as a coup de grace should Trump win.

I wish I could tell you it will be painless.

[David Dennison 17845]

4 minutes ago, Helobious said:

Everyone despairing over a Trump victory (which I still believe will happen) try to relax. Know that basic human nature (incompetence, greed, corrruption) will at least partially derail whatever fucked up plans they have for the country. Always happens for the power-crazed and always will. 

Remind me again, how many people died in World War II?

[BrazilHorn 6571]

Just now, InkaUtexas said:

JFC, CNN interviewed a young female voted. She was asked if Trump said anything that offended her. "Well, ya know, you cannot be offended by everything. I watch Family guy and they make fun of everyone, you have to laugh."

OK @Brisketexan make some room on the ledge. This mentality cancelled out a vote.

Went and grabbed coffee at “Milk & Cookies” off 38th and there was a college aged girl wearing a Trump hat. Just crazy to me. 

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13489]

19 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Page 11111!

Five blocks down from The Beast!

 

[Mdhorn 5850]

1 hour ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

Of course, these guys couldn't have an ulterior motive to try and influence the market.  No way.  Fuck them.

They want an unregulated stock market, where they can make a bunch of money quick and then leave it to the public to bail out their mess…and then repeat. 

[Foosters 17679]

6 minutes ago, Helobious said:

Everyone despairing over a Trump victory (which I still believe will happen) try to relax. Know that basic human nature (incompetence, greed, corrruption) will at least partially derail whatever fucked up plans they have for the country. Always happens for the power-crazed and always will. 

giving you the benefit of the doubt that you're not a troll, just to ask why you so often speak in absolutes? That's what children ages 5-8 do. Its really your position that power-crazed despots are not able to inflict the harm they desire? Would you like me to send you a dozen examples just from the last 100 years?

 

[Bozo_Casanova 26107]

10 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

I'm not going to make it to tonight. I don't even really follow politics. I don't want to pay attention to this shit but I feel obligated to. Until the last couple of months, I hadn't posted on this board since the last time we kicked that orange asshole to the curb.

I'm seriously thinking about going home and eating a gummy I bought in Seattle that works like a horse tranquilizer, and spend the afternoon trying to feel the side of my face.

We're going to see THEY LIVE at Alamo at 6pm, then taking the dogs for a long walk, then we'll decide whether or not to turn on the TV. 

[Da Fino 2676]

2 hours ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

Who was the absolutely unhinged guy that started spaz posting in 2020 before the good news started rolling in? I think T Tom was already gone by then

passiveaggressivecoach?

[SimonBolivar 10807]

Just now, Bozo_Casanova said:

We're going to see THEY LIVE at Alamo at 6pm, then taking the dogs for a long walk, then we'll decide whether or not to turn on the TV. 

I'm the exact opposite. I have to watch the play by play or I'd be going mad.

[chainsaw 9701]

Avoid CNN and all horserace purveyors. They know how to find dumber-than-rocks voters and to elicit ragebait from them. Just accept that 30-40 percent of all people are completely and irredeemably stupid, and as stupid as they are, they are even more selfish and heartless than they are stupid. Accept that, move on, and try not to fixate on it.

[The Dog 43614]

6 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

JFC, CNN interviewed a young female voted. She was asked if Trump said anything that offended her. "Well, ya know, you cannot be offended by everything. I watch Family guy and they make fun of everyone, you have to laugh."

OK @Brisketexan make some room on the ledge. This mentality cancelled out a vote.

and she voted for a party who have actual members publicly saying they want to take away her right to vote. 

just insane.

[NIUHuskies 504]

https://x.com/RepWeinstein/status/1853432243902886020?t=3iGtiUJxQ4sSCVgM-GUNcw&s=19

[Blotto 23317]

11 minutes ago, Helobious said:

Everyone despairing over a Trump victory (which I still believe will happen) try to relax. Know that basic human nature (incompetence, greed, corrruption) will at least partially derail whatever fucked up plans they have for the country. Always happens for the power-crazed and always will. 

Jesus you're a fucking idiot. 

[Pancho 43484]

Fulton County seeking a court order to get the sites that got the Russian bomb threats to stay open longer 

[texasdago 7540]

13 minutes ago, Helobious said:

Everyone despairing over a Trump victory (which I still believe will happen) try to relax. Know that basic human nature (incompetence, greed, corrruption) will at least partially derail whatever fucked up plans they have for the country. Always happens for the power-crazed and always will. 

[SubliminalHorn 6433]

30 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

Someone call in a bomb threat to JS's gym.

Let him get his ass worked, he’s earned it

[jimmyjazz 45256]

17 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

My mom is this way. She finds it festive or some shit. Which isn’t the fucking point, but at least she votes (and for the good guys).

I don't think it matters.  Sure, there is the very small chance one won't be able to vote on election day (death, illness, car trouble, alien invasions, etc.).  Just vote.

[South Austin 51801]

My own anecdote:  My former friend who turned full MAGA posted on Facebook calling a Trump win, carrying all of his 2020 states plus AZ and GA, and probably PA.  Senate will bet 53 Republicans.  All of his comments are enthusiastically falling in line.

[troph 24148]

around 9pm it'll start to get good. embrace the entertainment value and enjoy. if the resident subject of Ted Cruz's anti trans ads can be optimistic you nutless, hairless cats can be too.

 

[South Austin 51801]

1 minute ago, troph said:

 

I like tits.

[SeattleHorn 97]

I filled out my ballot last night and let my 11yo daughter bubble in the big one. I'm still nervous as hell but I think it's going to be a good memory for her when it's all over.

 

 

[NorthLoop 13991]

2 minutes ago, South Austin said:

My own anecdote:  My former friend who turned full MAGA posted on Facebook calling a Trump win, carrying all of his 2020 states plus AZ and GA, and probably PA.  Senate will bet 53 Republicans.  All of his comments are enthusiastically falling in line.

You're fb friends with helo? 

[Underdog 28315]

45 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

There’s a lot of optimism on this thread.  I wish I felt it too.  I just have this constant nightmare that it’s not happening.  I really hope I’m wrong.

Bitch, please!  You think Freddie was scared when he approached the plate bottom of the 10th in Game 1 ?  Nah. Homeboy knew he got this and now so does Kamala. 

[shakahorn 1616]

Which one of you is the dentist in Houston with the combover on CNN?  Says he's a republican who voted for Harris because Jan 6, economy is just fine - his net worth has gone up the past 4 years, and he has 4 daughters.