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

[HOOKEM4 4990]

1 hour ago, Gil Bang said:

who was the dipshit that used to post a lot a few years back...Mr. "Unskew the polls".  Was a school teacher on a Navy ship or some shit?    Anyway, this reminded  me of his dumb ass.  

Just came to me: Swam4Texas

 

 

 

He posted on longhorn (or burnt orange?) fan zone and in a sea of crazies, he stood out. What a psycho.

I have an old desktop with the awesome takes from that board. Swam was amazing in his crazy. I need to fire that thing up. Crazy call back. That was over 20 years ago I dealt with him.

Edited August 4 by HOOKEM4
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[Aqua Buddha 14460]

It’s Nick Saban.

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7 hours ago, gmr548 said:

MAGA is going to linger like a cancer in American politics and society for the rest of my life. The power vacuum post-Trump may cause them to fracture and cede control of the GOP something resembling what we'd historically think of as the establishment or never Trumpers; but the ideas, the hate, the radicalization will all still be out there. At a minimum I expect a long term, low grade outburst of violence if/when MAGA no longer wields the controls of a major political party.

MAGA has already turned on the GOP a bit, between Trump’s rants in Georgia this weekend (I think he hates Kemp and Raffensperger and their wives more than he hates Democrats), Trump ranting on social media about needing to purge the GOP of anybody who doesn’t like him, and things like Greg Abbott trying to purge the Texas House of Republicans who won’t do what he says.

Right now, MAGA (the concept) can’t win without the old-school Republicans, aka the GOP, and the GOP can’t win without MAGA.  With that said, we are reaching a point where MAGA can’t win with them either, but MAGA doesn’t care about anything other than being MAGA and shitting in their hands and putting it on a t-shirt.  The old-school GOP is reaching a point where it can’t win with MAGA,  but it actually cares and would actually tone down the racism and the misogyny and back off on things like trying to stop birth control in order to win.

And I know they are closely intertwined, and I know MAGA came in part from the GOP, but the difference between the two is that the old-school Republicans in the GOP would roll the clock back to pre-Trump policies and platforms if it meant they had a chance at winning every few elections going down the road.  Sure, plenty are racist and homophobic, but they will keep it hidden if it helps them win.  MAGA is all in on openly being shitheads and refusing to compromise, and they can keep the GOP down for many years to come and they won’t care as long as they can apply their purity tests to candidates.

[NorthLoop 14033]

13 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Hopkinshorn maybe?

Yeah that was it. 

[Js1 84938]

1 minute ago, Aqua Buddha said:

It’s Nick Saban.

Could you imagine? “The chair does not recognize that dumbfuck coach from Auburn!”

[Chopper 17038]

Here's a good thread about progressives vs. the extreme rightwing

 

 

[Pancho 44078]

[Js1 84938]

5 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Some of y’all are overthinking this to a point that you don’t want Shapiro to be the automatic front runner, as President Harris’ 2nd term is ending, in 2032. The important time frame is the next 90 days.

Uh I’m focused on 2024. Not 2032 

[Underdog 28370]

There’ll be no 2032 if 2024 goes bad. 

[Hank Kingsley 20559]

8 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Some of y’all are overthinking this to a point that you don’t want Shapiro to be the automatic front runner, as President Harris’ 2nd term is ending, in 2032. The important time frame is the next 90 days.

Um, none of us are thinking about 2028 or 2032. We are strictly thinking of the next 90 days. 

 

[Red Five 40573]

Pretty sure y’all are all saying the same thing.

[Satchel 6908]

1 hour ago, Satchel said:

I mostly agree, although I think they’re more cynical than it appears. They correctly assess the degree to which they can be valuable to non dominants who traffic in race hatred by being willing mouthpieces for their beliefs, while making bank at the same time. As Trump ramps

(Sorry. Got interrupted.) As Trump ramps up the race talk, the price to take smoke from black people increases dramatically. This is probably the best time to be a grifting biscuit because the GOP is paying top dollar. The earlier post that referenced “non dominants” should have read  “dominants” instead. My bad.

[Ted Lange 15957]

29 minutes ago, Chopper said:

Here's a good thread about progressives vs. the extreme rightwing

 

 

 

 

Agree to disagree

[tx 3 putt 75883]

37 minutes ago, Satchel said:

(Sorry. Got interrupted.) As Trump ramps up the race talk, the price to take smoke from black people increases dramatically. This is probably the best time to be a grifting biscuit because the GOP is paying top dollar. The earlier post that referenced “non dominants” should have read  “dominants” instead. My bad.

 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23355]

These religious right freaks and their messianic devotion to the Israeli Government is some of the grossest shit I’ve seen in politics. 

Edited August 5 by Hugo Stiglitz

[Horn Dog 9523]

2 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

It’s frustrating that people continue to believe that because it’s simply not true. Was the guy too young to remember where the economy was when Obama took office and how much better it was when he left? Despite Trump’s lies, the economy did better in Obama’s last three years than it did in Trump’s first three. Trump got a lot of mileage out of lying about the economy both before and after he took office. When he took office he immediately claimed credit for the strong economy he received from Obama.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-takes-credit-for-strong-january-jobs-numbers/

Did you bother pointing out to him that the Biden economy is really strong?

https://thehill.com/business/4715951-world-bank-impressive-us-economy-is-powering-the-world/

 

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[Bozo_Casanova 26123]

Got this from the internet 

[Pancho 44078]

 

[Js1 84938]

 

[Pancho 44078]

[Bullneck 18902]

Just saw a Harris ad with the slogan "Let the Future Begin."  I don't watch too much TV so maybe it's been out there for a while and I just missed it.

Here it is:

 

Edited August 5 by Bullneck

[jimmyjazz 45361]

[Chopper 17038]

1 hour ago, Pancho said:

 

Yesterday someone said the whyte folk were digitally inserted.

[Pancho 44078]

[Chopper 17038]

[tx 3 putt 75883]

not sure who this falls on, but a Dem higher up needs to sit down fetterman / far left / the squad and read them the riot act. this isn't about being to close to the center and further left, it's about beating trump. this is a fight for the future of this country. trump 2025 is all laid for all to see, he's going to gut this country and leave a shell of what once stood. 

save the infighting for after the election win 

[Fastbreak 3932]

I've watched about 80 hours of the Olympics so far and have yet to see a Trump ad. Harris has an ad every 45 minutes/1 hour. That is pretty interesting.

[linux 1597]

59 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

not sure who this falls on, but a Dem higher up needs to sit down fetterman / far left / the squad and read them the riot act. this isn't about being to close to the center and further left, it's about beating trump. this is a fight for the future of this country. trump 2025 is all laid for all to see, he's going to gut this country and leave a shell of what once stood. 

save the infighting for after the election win 

Yeah good luck with that all anti trump voices are not rational, they want their guy to win in the giga tent party. Or 10% sits this one out, enough for the orange clown to win.

We already went through with this last month.

[Thatguy 8301]

7 hours ago, Pancho said:

 

I’m going to guess this Black guy also tried to rush KA in college too.

 

There’s something about Black people like this, both male and female (although mostly Black males). I did some research during grad school about Blacks, identity, and in-groups/out-groups. This came from a class discussion about gender, sexuality, and culture so there was a connection. Anywho, the argumentation from that class discussion spurned the argument I was going to make in a paper of why Black male athletes play sports for PWIs when some of those PWIs (namely the university of Mississippi) have such a terrible past and terrible fans when it comes to Blacks. (I ended up writing this paper, but from a different lens)

The above connects to some recent research about Blacks and cultural acceptance and how some Blacks who aren’t culturally accepted by other Blacks for whatever reason tend to go to the extreme opposite of the spectrum in order to find acceptance. That acceptance for that “in-group” comes with a disdain for other Blacks because of who they are culturally and what they believe in culturally. So it’s ultimately the Black person going to the extreme opposite in order to find acceptance/an in-group and that in-group/accepting group just happens to stand for all of the things that go against that Black person—but because that Black person feels accepted, they end up believing those things under the guise of “I’m not one of them.” (Candiace Owens, Byron Donalds, Wesley Hunt, etc.) So these people know the in-group they are apart of goes against their interest and hates them based on their skin tone, but they are willing to be used as the token for that group because that’s the group that accepted them and didn’t make fun of them like other Blacks did at one point. This goes in line with that guy saying “I know he’s racist, but…” It’s clear he listens to radical right wing media and has radical Republican friends just based on the other talking points he brought up.

TLDR: some Blacks on the radical right are over on that side because that side accepted them when Blacks didn’t at some point in their life. It borders on a trauma response. 

Self loathing Blacks. Gotta love em.

 

When I was growing up I remember looking around and the community was so broken. I remember being so angry that we didn't pick ourselves up by the boot straps. Then I did the required reading and starting seeing how there were obstacles intentionally placed at every turn and it all started to make sense to me. I read about the run on black owned anything as soon as the Union soldiers cleared out during reconstruction. I read about Debt Peonage. Jim Crowe. Racial Covenants in property deeds. Redlining. Nixon's War on Drugs. Reagan's War on Drugs. Mass Incarceration. Now when I drive through poor areas I see the highways cutting through. I see the lack of corporate investing. I see how even though they are in the same county, the tax dollars find a way to clean the trash on the side of the road in some neighborhoods over others.

What I don't understand is any educated black person who did the required reading, shrugged, and went on to grifting for a check. How can you hop in front of a camera and embarrass your entire family and heritage like that? Even if you actually believed the things you said, you know damn well why you are being propped up. It's okay to believe but don't let people use you against your own people to say the things they can't say about your community. It doesn't bother them to log onto twitter and see a snippet of you saying something posted by some hillbilly saying, " see...he is one of the good ones".

 

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20328]

I said awhile back that I wouldn't be surprised to see some sort of black swan event before the election if it looked like Biden/Harris might win.

A stock market meltdown would qualify as such an event. 

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20328]

6 hours ago, Chopper said:

Here's a good thread about progressives vs. the extreme rightwing

 

 

I just read Posobiec's WIKI.  It's just about the worst thing I've read in years.  What a complete maladjusted asshole. 

[MrX 701]

9 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

I just read Posobiec's WIKI.  It's just about the worst thing I've read in years.  What a complete maladjusted asshole. 

I don’t know. Have you read Laura Loomer’s?

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13 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

One of my wife’s friends from HS is absolutely convinced there are anywhere from 3 to 5 Biden body doubles that make all his public appearances. Like believes down to the bone the govt can

a) find 3-5 dudes in their 70s to 80s that look and sound enough Biden to fool millions of people 

b) keep that fact a secret in this day and age

How do you have any type of meaningful discussion with someone like that?

This is some Qanon shit, and I do mean it's literally Qanon - they've talked a lot about body doubles and swapping out politicians and who is really in the WH.

If she's into Qanon, then she believes that Oprah Winfrey and Tom Hanks and other Hollywood celebrities are trafficking children and harvesting their adrenochrome to stay young (don't ask me what it is, it's some bullshit fluid they fixated on, and Oprah and Tom look their ages).

So ask her if she's seen Tom Hanks lately and mention he's got a new movie coming out, and that he seems to have lost a few pounds and that there's something different about him, maybe some plastic surgery, or maybe a new diet.   Ask her if she's ever seen a Hollywood star pull off looking younger like he did, and send her these pics - mention the first one is from last year

And that the next two are from a movie he worked on this year.

If she loses her mind, run with it.

[TwiceHorn 30989]

18 hours ago, gmr548 said:

MAGA is going to linger like a cancer in American politics and society for the rest of my life. The power vacuum post-Trump may cause them to fracture and cede control of the GOP something resembling what we'd historically think of as the establishment or never Trumpers; but the ideas, the hate, the radicalization will all still be out there. At a minimum I expect a long term, low grade outburst of violence if/when MAGA no longer wields the controls of a major political party.

Brian Kemp is still a guy that signed a 6-week abortion ban. Most Trump antagonistic Republicans are still with the party for a specific reason. Higher profile officials like Kemp can just win on personal brand. Maybe it'll happen with no name state legislators or something but I think "former Trump-era Republican" would be pretty damning in a Democratic primary in all but the most purple of districts.

Don't know what he has or hasn't said on the prisoners, but he absolutely congratulated Putin. I believe the angle he was taking was sarcastically congratulating Putin for getting the better of Biden; you know, since bringing those folks home was such a low value achievement and all.

This is probably true.  But the worst form of the cancer that will linger is the P2025, christofascist authoritarianism.  But they won't be able to hide the latter behind the dumbass appeal of Trump and MAGA.  They'll actually have to try to sell it on its merits.

Both ends of it are going to be ineffectual, as far as winning the national election.

We're gonna have our hands full for a while in Texas, though.

[Thatguy 8301]

5 hours ago, Thatguy said:

Self loathing Blacks. Gotta love em.

 

When I was growing up I remember looking around and the community was so broken. I remember being so angry that we didn't pick ourselves up by the boot straps. Then I did the required reading and starting seeing how there were obstacles intentionally placed at every turn and it all started to make sense to me. I read about the run on black owned anything as soon as the Union soldiers cleared out during reconstruction. I read about Debt Peonage. Jim Crowe. Racial Covenants in property deeds. Redlining. Nixon's War on Drugs. Reagan's War on Drugs. Mass Incarceration. Now when I drive through poor areas I see the highways cutting through. I see the lack of corporate investing. I see how even though they are in the same county, the tax dollars find a way to clean the trash on the side of the road in some neighborhoods over others.

What I don't understand is any educated black person who did the required reading, shrugged, and went on to grifting for a check. How can you hop in front of a camera and embarrass your entire family and heritage like that? Even if you actually believed the things you said, you know damn well why you are being propped up. It's okay to believe but don't let people use you against your own people to say the things they can't say about your community. It doesn't bother them to log onto twitter and see a snippet of you saying something posted by some hillbilly saying, " see...he is one of the good ones".

 

and before BrothaHorn points it out I see the irony of being on here and people saying "this guy gets it!". Lol.

[Js1 84938]

 

[randomhorn 1557]

But Trump loves Goya and Goya loves Trump

[Bozo_Casanova 26123]

8 hours ago, Fastbreak said:

I've watched about 80 hours of the Olympics so far and have yet to see a Trump ad. Harris has an ad every 45 minutes/1 hour. That is pretty interesting.

She running commercials in Texas. When is the last time a Democrat presidential candidate did that?

[Pimphand 5537]

Pretty funny global market circuit breakers triggering which is a direct result of the runaway lunacy of the shitbag democrats and y'all are still over here in the corner stroking your flaccid micropeens about the dumbest presidential candidate to ever run.

Enjoy the CBDC, UBI, and social credit prison your stupidity help construct as they strip all your financial assets away.

Hopefully next time you get reincarnated you won't be so gullible.

[locodos 5326]

2 minutes ago, Pimphand said:

Pretty funny global market circuit breakers triggering which is a direct result of the runaway lunacy of the shitbag democrats and y'all are still over here in the corner stroking your flaccid micropeens about the dumbest presidential candidate to ever run.

Enjoy the CBDC, UBI, and social credit prison your stupidity help construct as they strip all your financial assets away.

Hopefully next time you get reincarnated you won't be so gullible.

Let it all out little guy, it's gonna be ok

[Chuckie Finster 22565]

Pretty funny global market circuit breakers triggering which is a direct result of the runaway lunacy of the shitbag democrats and y'all are still over here in the corner stroking your flaccid micropeens about the dumbest presidential candidate to ever run.
Enjoy the CBDC, UBI, and social credit prison your stupidity help construct as they strip all your financial assets away.

Hopefully next time you get reincarnated you won't be so gullible.

“Everything bad that happens anywhere on the planet is the direct result of the local political party I oppose.”

ALSO

“Y’all need to stop being so gullible.”

[Captainant 27234]

5 minutes ago, Pimphand said:

Pretty funny global market circuit breakers triggering which is a direct result of the runaway lunacy of the shitbag democrats and y'all are still over here in the corner stroking your flaccid micropeens about the dumbest presidential candidate to ever run.

Enjoy the CBDC, UBI, and social credit prison your stupidity help construct as they strip all your financial assets away.

Hopefully next time you get reincarnated you won't be so gullible.

Swam, is that you?

What an absolute gem of a high quality post 

[theaveragejon 974]

Sir, this is a Wendy’s. 

[Willfully Horn 7911]

9 minutes ago, Pimphand said:

Pretty funny global market circuit breakers triggering which is a direct result of the runaway lunacy of the shitbag democrats and y'all are still over here in the corner stroking your flaccid micropeens about the dumbest presidential candidate to ever run.

Enjoy the CBDC, UBI, and social credit prison your stupidity help construct as they strip all your financial assets away.

Hopefully next time you get reincarnated you won't be so gullible.

This far out, the polls mean nothing, and you have your voting suppression and whispers about refusing to certify elections to keep your mind busy. Stay on task, soldier.

[jimmyjazz 45361]

Don't take the bait.

[G650 13792]

I wish those fuckers would get UBI done

[Mdhorn 5863]

Dble Post

Edited August 5 by Mdhorn

[Mdhorn 5863]

23 minutes ago, locodos said:

Let it all out little guy, it's gonna be ok

Some really weird angry, sexual energy going on in that former post. 

[aggie08 21223]

13 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Don't take the bait.

Oh, it's not bait. Dude's a sociopath.