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


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  On 7/16/2024 at 1:31 AM, immamac said:

No you wouldn't have. You'd have at least told him to go fuck himself at a minimum. 

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I'da talked to him and asked for shit. Ambassadorship to the Zapatistas holed up inside a building at the UNAM. An authentic solid gold Trump statue paperweight. A nice new van with (peel-off) MAGA stickers. Secret lair inside Yellowstone.

Lemons, lemonade.

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  On 7/16/2024 at 2:03 AM, t_eight said:

Has there been - in the last 50 years - a President or Vice President with a beard or facial hair?

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How about 1933?

Charles Curtis was the last mustachioed vice president in 1933 during his time under Herbert Hoover.

The last veep to sport a beard as hefty as Vance’s was Charles Fairbanks, who was Teddy Roosevelt’s second-in-command from 1905 through 1909.

https://nypost.com/2024/07/15/us-news/jd-vance-would-become-first-vp-with-facial-hair-in-nearly-century/#:~:text=Charles Curtis was the last,command from 1905 through 1909.

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It's funny that people think switching candidates won't immediately lead to Republican legislatures trying to boot the Republican candidate off of the ballots.  It's so obviously predictable and all y'all are falling for it.  Wasn't one state trying to remove Biden from the ballot because of the timing of the DMC?  If a new candidate is announced, they won't certify shit.

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  On 7/16/2024 at 2:37 AM, texasdago said:

It's funny that people think switching candidates won't immediately lead to Republican legislatures trying to boot the Republican candidate off of the ballots.  It's so obviously predictable and all y'all are falling for it.  Wasn't one state trying to remove Biden from the ballot because of the timing of the DMC?  If a new candidate is announced, they won't certify shit.

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Cool. Let's fight that battle later with a candidate that has >0.5% chance of winning.

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  On 7/16/2024 at 3:03 AM, Mo Horn said:

Local news just showed Trump's introduction of Vance as his running mate. There was no bandage on his ear. But at the convention tonight a big white one. Lol. 

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Reminds me of the time I sprained my wrist during a football game. It swelled up and hurt like a mother fucker. I was holding it in a way after the game that triggered our linebacker coach.

He made the pussy hand sign and asked me if I knew what it meant, then said it's a pussy. "Quit acting like a pussy looking for sympathy. Be a man."

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Trump missed a grifting opportunity there. Put a MAGA logo on that ear bandage and sell them for $20.  25mm Americans would buy them by the end of week.  Most would buy one for each ear since they don’t listen well anyway.  

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  On 7/16/2024 at 3:03 AM, Mo Horn said:

Local news just showed Trump's introduction of Vance as his running mate. There was no bandage on his ear. But at the convention tonight a big white one. Lol. 

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I'm not a doctor, and I certainly ain't a conspiracist. That said, blowing up the image to 500% and then using the standard MS Snipping Tool, it's hard to tell if there's even a blemish on that ear. Maybe they applied a shit-ton of bronzer to it. But if a bullet passed through or grazed that ear, would you be able to tell it from this photograph?

Of course, I don't doubt that he was shot at. Nor do I doubt that it was maybe nicked, and the bullet got really, really close to his actual cranium. His life was in serious danger, and he could've been murdered if not for his deal-with-the-devil luck, but does anyone see anything in that photo that would indicate that a bullet "pierced the upper part of [his] right ear?" At most, it looks a little bruised, but this blurry photo and my shitty eyes don't see a "piercing."

 

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One other point. I didn't watch the RNC television show, nor do I know the context in which this photograph was taken. Was Vance standing on something? Because I always got the impression he was a pretty short guy, and Google lists him as 5'7".

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  On 7/16/2024 at 3:03 AM, Mo Horn said:

Local news just showed Trump's introduction of Vance as his running mate. There was no bandage on his ear. But at the convention tonight a big white one. Lol. 

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When I was maybe 19 I had some minor surgery around my jaw and sideburn. Naturally, they shaved off that one sideburn, and there were some stitches, but I coulda walked around with it uncovered. But my 19-year-old vanity was stricken, so, on my own, I constructed a gauze covering for it all and taped it over my long-gone sideburn.

It looked stupid. It was stupid. Almost like his ear-patch

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  On 7/15/2024 at 11:24 PM, Rex Kramer said:

Well I hope. I think any civil war would be short lived (intra-term) and Trump’s old age gives me comfort it won’t last long. There’s nobody as charismatic AND crazy as he is in his family or his camp. JD Vance isn’t that guy. He’s an opportunist who is gonna blow his political wad on this dalliance with Trump anyway. 

If Crooks had been successful Saturday, I think it would’ve hastened civil war. But it also would’ve brought us together more quickly. SS incompetence almost hastened this whole thing. Unless the rhetoric calms the fuck down, which with Project ‘25 it won’t, we’re heading there. 

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My concern is that Trump is simply the key master that will help the truly evil goons take control of American Democracy. He gets in and SCOTUS will be fucked for the remainder of my life. These guys are not gonna let go once they nab power. It ain’t their style. After the events of the past week, I anticipate Trump living quite a bit longer than we’d all expect (or hope).

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  On 7/16/2024 at 3:03 AM, Mo Horn said:

Local news just showed Trump's introduction of Vance as his running mate. There was no bandage on his ear. But at the convention tonight a big white one. Lol. 

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Did he actually introduce him on camera and this was a still from that? If not, no telling when that pic was taken. It could also be them Photoshopped together, which explains how 5-7 Vance seems as tall as 6-3 (lol) Trump in his lifts.

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  On 7/16/2024 at 5:38 AM, C-Man said:

Did he actually introduce him on camera and this was a still from that? If not, no telling when that pic was taken. It could also be them Photoshopped together, which explains how 5-7 Vance seems as tall as 6-3 (lol) Trump in his lifts.

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Yeah, I dunno. Maybe he was standing on a milk crate for that shot. Again, I didn't watch the show and only judging by that single photo.

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  On 7/16/2024 at 5:44 AM, bolverk said:

Yeah, I dunno. Maybe he was standing on a milk crate for that shot. Again, I didn't watch the show and only judging by that single photo.

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Was there any kind of announcement ceremony anyway? It seemed like all of a sudden the news came out early this afternoon. I couldn’t bring myself to even turn on the GOP convention so I have no idea of Vance was on stage tonight.

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  On 7/16/2024 at 5:30 AM, Vegas64 said:

Can you please copy/paste? I only got the first two or three paragraphs and it was getting good...

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I might've given you the wrong link with several tabs open.

Here's the original piece. It's not nearly as long as I had remembered it, but I assume it gives a good flavor of his central thesis before he revealed himself to be a complete cynical fraud regarding folks working in or growing up in economically depressed towns.

I grew up in a small town in the Permian Basin during the Oil Bust of the '80s, so when I first read this, it resonated with me even though I'm far more on the Left as I'd seen families and lives fall apart during that regional economic depression.

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  On 7/16/2024 at 5:46 AM, C-Man said:

Was there any kind of announcement ceremony anyway? It seemed like all of a sudden the news came out early this afternoon. I couldn’t bring myself to even turn on the GOP convention so I have no idea of Vance was on stage tonight.

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I'm in the same boat since I didn't watch a bit of it. I was just going off of the photo that I quoted. I just knew Vance was a little short (NOT THAT SHORT!!!) but when I saw that he appeared taller than Trump in that photo, it felt way off.

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  On 7/16/2024 at 3:03 AM, Mo Horn said:

Local news just showed Trump's introduction of Vance as his running mate. There was no bandage on his ear. But at the convention tonight a big white one. Lol. 

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Don’t get trolled by trolls. That photo was from a campaign event in Dayton, Ohio, November 7, 2022.

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/11/07/at-election-eve-rally-with-ohio-republicans-trump-sets-nov-15-for-very-big-announcement/

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  On 7/16/2024 at 7:06 AM, tx 3 putt said:

 

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Huh. If I were to tell you that linking or posting commentary from a particular website enables, emboldens, or enriches its owner with whom you fundamentally disagree, would you stop? I mean, driving traffic to a site owned by a South African white supremacist certainly is a choice.

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  On 7/16/2024 at 1:53 PM, linux said:
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Just like the headlines post debate of no Biden dip after the debate. 

People are so fucking checked out it's unreal. One of the candidates had an assassination attempt and the unengaged are still like yeah fuck that I'm not voting I don't want to get shot. 

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