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

[Sawbonz 28245]

59 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

One of the chief critics is a guy named Behrends that allegedly took his place as a SM during the deployment to Iraq, before which Walz resigned to run for Congress.

Apparently, Behrends didn't make CSM either (never got the promotion, much less didn't complete the coursework) and is salty about it.

It’s pretty common to retire a level below your highest attained rank either due to not completing coursework or deployment to a certain duty or an agreed upon extension to your retirement date, etc. It’s a big deal only in that it affects your retirement benefits package, nothing else

[Aqua Buddha 14809]

 

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13637]

1 hour ago, Chuckie Finster said:

 

 

Griswalds on the left.

[shakahorn 1660]

So regarding the stolen valor comment...or is it stollen valor?  Vance attributes this quote to Walz: "We shouldn't allow weapons that I used in war to be on America's streets."  Then says that Walz never went to war and bailed on his unit just before they were to be deployed.

Only problem is that I can't find any reference to Walz ever saying that.  Shocking I know. 

[Planet Houston 4950]

I have a feeling this is how Dems will feel the morning after the election. A ticket that finally goes on the offensive after the party has been taking it on the chin from the other sides for decades.

 

[NeverMarryAStripper 22321]

42 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

I'm just going to observe that, even assuming that the necklace did cost $62,000, her husband was a fucking partner at DLA Piper.

Yeah--I think he can afford to buy his wife some nice bling.

Isn't that the MAGA model, a white dude supporting his wife financially?

[HenryJames 67465]

The Kamala HQ team is savage. Imagine going to work every day where your job is to make fun of Donald Trump.

[hookem2010 2701]

1 hour ago, Constant said:

This feels accurate. Fox News has melted my grandpa’s brain the last 20 years. 

My dad grew up in rural Minnesota, is incredibly handy, paid his way to technical school and gave us a comfortable and caring upbringing. He is so like Tim Walz in many ways, yet very likely is disgusted by him, for reasons I will make him articulate before this election.

[Js1 87287]

 

 

[tbone_ 14468]

The man is a moron. Anyone in o/g or energy voting for Trump Vance is completely clueless ….
 

What are you going to do to bring down rent prices for my kids?

This is such a stupid fucking question. (Notwithstanding the even stupider fucking answer).

Well I don’t know dipshit. Rents and prices are high because owners care about keeping the value of their real estate up. How about you try to start a trend by selling your house for 2/3rds what it’s worth to help some kid.

Oh, don’t like that idea? You’d rather have the government solve your problem? Fuck you you socialist fuck.

/rant over

[gmr548 16704]

4 hours ago, Loch Ness Monster said:

Lots of policies discussed!

 

 

"Immediately, if not sooner" is really flying under the radar but is an absolute gem of mush-brained Trump lines.

[tx 3 putt 78755]

1 minute ago, tbone_ said:

What are you going to do to bring down rent prices for my kids?

This is such a stupid fucking question. (Notwithstanding the even stupider fucking answer).

Well I don’t know dipshit. Rents and prices are high because owners care about keeping the value of their real estate up. How about you try to start a trend by selling your house for 2/3rds what it’s worth to help some kid.

Oh, don’t like that idea? You’d rather have the government solve your problem? Fuck you you socialist fuck.

/rant over

communism has cheap rent !!!!

 

also, Trump supporters once again showing they’re the dumbest humans to ever walk the earth 

[tx 3 putt 78755]

The grift never ends ….

 

[WelfareBuysMyWeed 5663]

26 minutes ago, shakahorn said:

So regarding the stolen valor comment...or is it stollen valor?  Vance attributes this quote to Walz: "We shouldn't allow weapons that I used in war to be on America's streets."  Then says that Walz never went to war and bailed on his unit just before they were to be deployed.

Only problem is that I can't find any reference to Walz ever saying that.  Shocking I know. 

He actually did say it:

But I don't give a shit. Talk about missing the forest from the trees, the dude's entire point is those guns are used by military in war, not at home.

[Aqua Buddha 14809]

 

[dcbc 14645]

54 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

Somebody should look into that.

But not literally.  You don't want to look into his eyes.  He's got black eyes.  Like a doll's eyes. And when he eats ya, those eyes roll up into his head.  And that's when the screamin' starts . . . I'll never put  on a life jacket again.

[WelfareBuysMyWeed 5663]

2 minutes ago, dcbc said:

But not literally.  You don't want to look into his eyes.  He's got black eyes.  Like a doll's eyes. And when he eats ya, those eyes roll up into his head.  And that's when the screamin' starts . . . I'll never put  on a life jacket again.

 

[mdmost 44110]

It's all so hilarious, this double standard the right is putting out. Vance can say Trump is an opioid and be the death of the party yet that's not held against him. Walz makes one false statement that was more about being military ready for war and it's parsed to death as a means to say he "stole valor". Walz point was military weapons of war have no place in our society other than with the military to fight wars. This shouldn't be that hard of a concept when those weapons are tearing schoolchildren apart and making police so fearful that they will stand outside a school rather than risk going up against one. 

[jimmyjazz 47325]

4 minutes ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

He actually did say it:

But I don't give a shit. Talk about missing the forest from the trees, the dude's entire point is those guns are used by military in war, not at home.

Depends on the punctuation.  He's speaking quickly.  He could have said "And we can make sure that those weapons of war that I carried, in war is the only place that those weapons are at."

It's not clear that he claimed he carried weapons in war.

[Loch Ness Monster 3533]

MAGA is so fucked. Two mile long line to get into today's Kamala rally.

 

 

[jimmyjazz 47325]

Trump and "drill baby drill" as the solution to record energy prices . . . when the current price of oil is below where it was during at least 25% of the Trump administration.  (Pardon the MS Paint cartoon lines.)

[WelfareBuysMyWeed 5663]

1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

He could have said "And we can make sure that those weapons of war that I carried, in war is the only place that those weapons are at."

is he fucking yoda? Nobody talks like that, that's not a real sentence structure. He just misspoke, it's no big deal. Don't take the bait, listen to his point instead of quibbling on whether or not he said he carried it in war.

[Js1 87287]

Marquette: Harris +1 with likely voters (was Biden +2 before the debate) in H2H and Harris +2 with everyone included

For Wisconsin

Edited August 7 by Js1

[SydneyCarton 49534]

1 hour ago, Pancho said:

THose numbers can't be true, because if they are true, to me that would mean she's going to get 330 electoral votes. 

[chainsaw 10308]

I read he served alongside NATO troops and the people he deployed with were responsible for providing support in connection with some conflicts. I don't think he ever claimed to have taken enemy fire or been in the theater of battle, but I believe him when he says he used guns while deployed.

[South Austin 53265]

52 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

The man is a moron. Anyone in o/g or energy voting for Trump Vance is completely clueless ….

 

The Obama presidency + the advent of social media exposed just how dumb a sizeable population of America is.  Each year it seems to get more and more pronounced, and more and more depressing.

[WelfareBuysMyWeed 5663]

1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

Trump and "drill baby drill" as the solution to record energy prices . . . when the current price of oil is below where it was during at least 25% of the Trump administration.  (Pardon the MS Paint cartoon lines.)

you know, just once I'd like to see someone from, like, Midland Texas be like "what the fuck do you mean the price of oil is going to go down??" How do MAGA losers in the oil industry square away when Trump talks about lowering the price at the pump? Also, during lockdown, weren't a lot of oil chuds pissed because gas was too cheap??

[SydneyCarton 49534]

1 hour ago, Jersey Man10 said:

My favorite part of this, a 60k necklace that Vance lists as "costing more than 2 months salary."

Completely fucking out of touch with most Americans. 

[jimmyjazz 47325]

3 minutes ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

is he fucking yoda? Nobody talks like that, that's not a real sentence structure. He just misspoke, it's no big deal. Don't take the bait, listen to his point instead of quibbling on whether or not he said he carried it in war.

People garble clauses and sentence structure all the time.  I'm not taking any fucking bait.  We all get his over-arching point, Dad.

[BurntOrange&White 42010]

57 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

The man is a moron. Anyone in o/g or energy voting for Trump Vance is completely clueless ….

 

Yeah get those oil prices down so refineries shut down and the drill baby drill crowd gets laid off because they won't be drilling baby drilling.

[Chad Fuck 18166]

3 minutes ago, South Austin said:

The Obama presidency + the advent of social media exposed just how dumb a sizeable population of America is.  Each year it seems to get more and more pronounced, and more and more depressing.

School vouchers!!! Warble garble!!!!

That'll solve it!

[South Austin 53265]

4 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

THose numbers can't be true, because if they are true, to me that would mean she's going to get 330 electoral votes. 

[jimmyjazz 47325]

Just for reference, the US is drilling baby drilling like never before under Joe Biden:

[WelfareBuysMyWeed 5663]

1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

People garble clauses and sentence structure all the time.  I'm not taking any fucking bait.  We all get his over-arching point, Dad.

Shut the fuck up, son.

[G650 14451]

2 minutes ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

Shut the fuck up, son.

V.I. Lenin. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!

[DDD Dad 14663]

1 hour ago, Ghost of LL said:

I'm just going to observe that, even assuming that the necklace did cost $62,000, her husband was a fucking partner at DLA Piper.

Yeah--I think he can afford to buy his wife some nice bling.

Also this is pretty rich coming from a guy who worked as a VC for Peter Thiel and is estimated to have a net worth of at least $10M.

[jimmyjazz 47325]

Would a necklace like that ever really depreciate in a "normal" economy?  I guess its value could fluctuate with the spot price of gold.  I doubt it would ever take a 20% hit like the average Volvo probably does once a new owner drives off the lot.

[chainsaw 10308]

I am the walrus.

[Blotto 24044]

14 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

THose numbers can't be true, because if they are true, to me that would mean she's going to get 330 electoral votes. 

yeah, I immediately discounted that tweet as garbage. No way she is leading baby  boomers  55-44. That's trumps sweet spot. 

[Bozo_Casanova 26909]

1 hour ago, Aqua Buddha said:

 

I am on day two of a road trip through west Texas. I have seen one current vintage* Trump sign in 600 miles, at a house in Balmorhea. I also saw a Harris sign in Marfa. 

 

* I also saw a Trump Pence sign at an abandoned trailer park with “Pence” painted over and some flags in front of a pretty best looking flag store in Ft Davis, but they looked like they had been up for several years. 
 

Anything could happen, but the campaign infrastructure and grass roots energy  just aren’t there right now. 

[The Hot Dog Buffet 1314]

51 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

Isn't that the MAGA model, a white dude supporting his wife financially?

The better assumption is that the necklace was loaned to her for the photograph.

[South Austin 53265]

6 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

I am the walrus.

I could be the walrus, I'd still have to bum rides off people.

[chainsaw 10308]

1 minute ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

I am on day two of a road trip through west Texas. I have seen one current vintage* Trump sign in 600 miles, at a house in Balmorhea. I also saw a Harris sign in Marfa. 

 

* I also saw a Trump Pence sign at an abandoned trailer park with “Pence” painted over and some flags in front of a pretty best looking flag store in Ft Davis, but they looked like they had been up for several years. 
 

Anything could happen, but the campaign infrastructure and grass roots energy  just aren’t there right now. 

I noticed it when the Monday after Thomas Crooks tried his best nobody at the office seemed to give as much of a shit as one would think

[royiv 9887]

29 minutes ago, Loch Ness Monster said:

MAGA is so fucked. Two mile long line to get into today's Kamala rally.

 

 

Taylor Swift bumping over the P.A. A Beyoncé song as the campaign anthem. Meanwhile, Trump has Ted Nugent and Kid Rock. 

[Blotto 24044]

Check out the insane energy at JD's next stop.....gonna be lit

[Pato del Muerto 53595]

29 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

My favorite part of this, a 60k necklace that Vance lists as "costing more than 2 months salary."

Completely fucking out of touch with most Americans. 

I’m sure you were able to glean that he meant the VP salary specifically, but if your point was that much of his audience would not do so then I agree. 

[cactusflinthead 27628]

 

[Bozo_Casanova 26909]

35 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

My favorite part of this, a 60k necklace that Vance lists as "costing more than 2 months salary."

Not that it matters, but “two months salary” is pretty famously the rule of thumb for heirloom piece jewelry. 

Edited August 7 by Bozo_Casanova

[royiv 9887]

What is the Republican strategy at this point? Trump has essentially stopped campaigning at this point and they’ve got JV Vance out doing campaign speeches in the parking lot of a police precinct with more media than voters present. Meanwhile, Harris Walz is the hottest ticket of the summer. The complete flip of momentum is like nothing I’ve ever seen before. It’s like aggy going up big on UCLA and then choking it away when it matters.

[TexLonghorn 5737]

Ted Nugent, Kid Rock, and this guy, who unfortunately had his singing career before autotune:

Edited August 7 by TexLonghorn
Fair warning: If you listen to this song, you will never want to hear it again