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

[WelfareBuysMyWeed 5663]

6 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Fuck no. You don’t pay Trump’s bills. If anything you go to the towns where he owes money and hold your own events. Then you pay your own obligations and say you did it to help the community out because Trump is a deadbeat. Let the “king of debt” stay in debt. 

Plus trump ran on his supposed ability to get Mexico to pay for "the wall," he'd absolutely pounce on the opportunity that he got Kamala to pay his bills for him, and quite a few people would eat it up.

A much, much, MUCH better plan? Have the campaign bankroll a lawsuit against him from one of these towns over the unpaid fees. Put Kamala being a prosecutor and in favor of justice on display.

Edited August 8 by WelfareBuysMyWeed

[TwiceHorn 32104]

8 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

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.

Or, and I thought I heard this "those weapons of war that I carried and war is the only place those weapons are at."

[Loch Ness Monster 3533]

Trump has given up? He's cooked and he knows it.

Having lived through many cycles, never seen the Dem enthusiasm so high. LFG!

[mdmost 44110]

Trying to sue your way back into the White House doesn't work if you get your ass blown out in most of the states. He's also slipping in the polls so he can't pull his bullshit of how "I was winning in the polls, how could I be losing at the ballot box without rigged elections". Kamala and Walz need to bring the pain so he'll drop out like the craven cunt he is. He doesn't want to suffer the indignity of a black....err Indian woman kicking his ass. I think he's so upset that getting shot at didn't hand him the White House. He really thought he was destined to win after that. Then people remembered just how much of a piece of shit he really is. 

Trump really needs that judge in New York to put him in jail in early September. That's his only remaining play to both save face, drop out, or get some sympathy points. 

Edited August 8 by mdmost

[Brisketexan 107008]

Fuck no. You don’t pay Trump’s bills. If anything you go to the towns where he owes money and hold your own events. Then you pay your own obligations and say you did it to help the community out because Trump is a deadbeat. Let the “king of debt” stay in debt. 

No. This is what you do. You make an agreement with the locale: I’ll pay the amount he owes you. In exchange, you assign your claim against his campaign to me.
Then, Kamala gets to sue Trump and his campaign for being a deadbeat. Including conducting discovery.

[shakahorn 1660]

1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

No. This is what you do. You make an agreement with the locale: I’ll pay the amount he owes you. In exchange, you assign your claim against his campaign to me.
Then, Kamala gets to sue Trump and his campaign for being a deadbeat. Including conducting discovery.

For once, one of you lawyers actually contributed something useful

[Js1 87281]

Coach Walz needs to school these idiots

 

[SimonBolivar 11067]

40 minutes ago, OU Sucks said:

That dude's head shape is wild. I seriously thought it was some mocking photoshop of someone else at first.

 

That's Tor Johnson's slow grandson

 

[tx ind 7060]

43 minutes ago, OU Sucks said:

That dude's head shape is wild. I seriously thought it was some mocking photoshop of someone else at first.

 

[cactusflinthead 27628]

 

[cactusflinthead 27628]

 

Edited August 8 by cactusflinthead

[WelfareBuysMyWeed 5663]

22 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Trying to sue your way back into the White House doesn't work if you get your ass blown out in most of the states.

None of these will come to trial and have a verdict in 90 days. The trial will not happen before the lawsuits happen. All that would occur is a bunch of news stories about Kamala trying to help some scammed towns get justice.

[HenryJames 67464]

[Bozo_Casanova 26905]

30 minutes ago, Loch Ness Monster said:

Trump has given up? He's cooked and he knows it.

Having lived through many cycles, never seen the Dem enthusiasm so high. LFG!

He's not. But, if/when he thinks he is, things will get weird.

(we have not yet seen weird)

[WhatTheBuck 28940]

23 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Coach Walz needs to school these idiots

 

[WelfareBuysMyWeed 5663]

6 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

 

[Sawbonz 28243]

1 hour ago, Pancho said:

That was her Black side as my momma used that tone many time on a young Pancho 

 

 

I was just thinking anyone who doubts she is black never had a black woman teach any of their high school classes. I got that tone many a time (also a few well aimed chalkboard erasers I had to duck)

[mdmost 44110]

I'm sure the can't win progressives will cry like the little bitches they are about her shutting down the protestors. Frankly, they can get fucked. The person you're protesting can help make things a lot better for Gaza if you'd shut the fuck up and get out of the way. 

Edited August 8 by mdmost

[Chewbacca 7830]

Wanna bet?

Yeah, that's not happening. I would love if it did, but it's not.

[WelfareBuysMyWeed 5663]

3 minutes ago, mdmost said:

I'm sure the can't win progressives will cry like the little bitches they are about her shutting down the protestors. Frankly, they can get fucked. The person you're protesting can help make things a lot better for Gaza if you'd shut the fuck up and get out of the way. 

Not to mention shes actually one of the only people in the entire government actually calling for people to listen to palestinians. She *agrees* with the protestors. More likely, those people were republican plants, tbh.

[Sawbonz 28243]

40 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Coach Walz needs to school these idiots

 

[Blotto 24044]

41 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Coach Walz needs to school these idiots

 

75 million fucking morons

[cactusflinthead 27628]

I think it's been posted, but it could stand being repeated.

Harris is also now winning independents, something Biden was not doing. Harris is up 9 points with independents (53%-44%). She was down 14 points with them last month. And in early July, Trump was beating Biden by 4 points with the group.

Harris has also improved with white voters overall. Harris has gone from 40% with white voters overall to 46% in this survey, which is closer to where Biden was, and that’s very high for a Democrat. In fact, no Democrat has scored that high with white voters in a presidential election since Jimmy Carter in 1976. Biden got 41% in 2020, Barack Obama in 2008 won 43%.

That improvement is mostly because of college-educated white women. White voters without degrees, a core Trump base group, are heavily in Trump’s favor and their margin is unchanged. Two-thirds of college-educated white women, though, are now in Harris’ camp, which would be far higher than the percentage that sided with Biden in 2020.

 

[Firemans4Horn 18533]

10 minutes ago, mdmost said:

I'm sure the can't win progressives will cry like the little bitches they are about her shutting down the protestors. Frankly, they can get fucked. The person you're protesting can help make things a lot better for Gaza if you'd shut the fuck up and get out of the way. 

 

I voted 3rd party!!!

 

[Blotto 24044]

15 minutes ago, mdmost said:

I'm sure the can't win progressives will cry like the little bitches they are about her shutting down the protestors. Frankly, they can get fucked. The person you're protesting can help make things a lot better for Gaza if you'd shut the fuck up and get out of the way. 

She handled it like a champ. Everyone but those dipshits knows the score. They can fucking figure it out.

[Pancho 46370]

[Chuckie Finster 23095]

18 minutes ago, mdmost said:

I'm sure the can't win progressives will cry like the little bitches they are about her shutting down the protestors. Frankly, they can get fucked. The person you're protesting can help make things a lot better for Gaza if you'd shut the fuck up and get out of the way. 

Also, she FUCKING MET WITH THEM before the rally and they still protested.  Goddamn morons.

[WelfareBuysMyWeed 5663]

My dad is a veteran and never saw combat. He was an aircraft mechanic in the airforce, worked on all sorts of planes in vietnam. Fuck JD Vance if he thinks my dad wasn't a real vet because he didn't go to live combat.

edit: suffice to say, my dad thinks JD Vance is a fucking idiot and is 100% aboard Team Kamala.

Edited August 8 by WelfareBuysMyWeed

[WBT 20997]

12 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

 

I voted 3rd party!!!

 

 

['stache 22146]

4 minutes ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

My dad is a veteran and never saw combat. He was an aircraft mechanic in the airforce, worked on all sorts of planes in vietnam. Fuck JD Vance if he thinks my dad wasn't a real vet because he didn't go to live combat.

My dad fixed airplane radio equipment in Germany for the Air Force in the mid-60's. He's pretty damn proud of his service, as am I.

Edited August 8 by 'stache

[WelfareBuysMyWeed 5663]

Just now, 'stache said:

My dad fixed airplane radio equipment in Germany in the mid-60's. He's pretty damn proud of his service, as am I.

My dad went from oldest of 14 pulled from school at grade 6 to go work as a janitor to help feed the family, to architect, entirely on his own. Never even finished highschool, he joined the airforce to get his GED. Later put himself through night school while doing construction for 15 years while simultaneously raising a family. My dad is still the single best source of car knowledge -- my blind spot -- that I know, because he rebuilt engines in Nam. He also forbade any of his kids from joining the military, he said he had served so nobody else in the family needed to.

I'm damn proud of his record and what he did with his chance, but my dad also thinks that making such a big deal about serving and "stolen valor" is stupid. He said it was just a job, not an identity.

[Irwin F Fletcher 3555]

7 hours ago, locodos said:

Still better than what JD Vance would do to them

This! This is why this site will be the GOAT of the internet. Funny fucking assholes everywhere.

 

 

Dibs on the band name "Funny Fucking Assholes"

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20950]

 

 

 

[Pancho 46370]

Twitter lightly buzzing about theil and Elmo getting trunp to drop out because they want Vance to replace him. Also that the trunp fam is about to run the biggest crypto scam on their cult members after don’s tweet today. 

[Firemans4Horn 18533]

5 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

 

 

 

 

[Pancho 46370]

So they got to meet with Harris yet interrupted the rally anyway?

 

[Mez2 4048]

52 minutes ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

My dad is a veteran and never saw combat. He was an aircraft mechanic in the airforce, worked on all sorts of planes in vietnam. Fuck JD Vance if he thinks my dad wasn't a real vet because he didn't go to live combat.

edit: suffice to say, my dad thinks JD Vance is a fucking idiot and is 100% aboard Team Kamala.

You're not my brother, are you? 

[TeeDubya 3362]

1 hour ago, Js1 said:

Coach Walz needs to school these idiots

 

All those Minnesota Packers fans.  They're going to be surprised.

[Gil Bang 26249]

1 hour ago, Sawbonz said:

I was just thinking anyone who doubts she is black never had a black woman teach any of their high school classes. I got that tone many a time (also a few well aimed chalkboard erasers I had to duck)

Reminds me of "The Wire", where Police Major Bunny Colvin is speaking at the assembly and getting heckled, and the black woman comes in and the kids all go "oh shit".   "Walter, I  know your mother...she didn't raise any CLOWNS, did she?"   Kid shitting his pants "no ma'am". 

[Firemans4Horn 18533]

3 minutes ago, TeeDubya said:

All those Minnesota Packers fans.  They're going to be surprised.

Walz worked in some NFC north talk into his speech in Detroit tonight. 

[WelfareBuysMyWeed 5663]

1 hour ago, Sawbonz said:

I was just thinking anyone who doubts she is black never had a black woman teach any of their high school classes. I got that tone many a time (also a few well aimed chalkboard erasers I had to duck)

The only time I ever got detention in highschool was from my black History teacher because I kept wearing my UT ball cap to class every day. She gave me a couple of warnings, then one day I came in and got exactly that tone. She was a very close family friend that we had known since well before I was in school, so it felt exactly like a mom's tone.

[Gil Bang 26249]

58 minutes ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

My dad is a veteran and never saw combat. He was an aircraft mechanic in the airforce, worked on all sorts of planes in vietnam. Fuck JD Vance if he thinks my dad wasn't a real vet because he didn't go to live combat.

edit: suffice to say, my dad thinks JD Vance is a fucking idiot and is 100% aboard Team Kamala.

My Son was infantry (now a pilot) and saw a lot of combat.  

My GF's son was an Air Force mechanic, never deployed, had/has a bit of a beer belly worked 8 hours a day and went home.   I respect his service too.  Everybody's got a job to do.  My kid can't fly a combat mission if somebody doesn't fuel his Apache, and...wash the fucking windshield.    If you served honorably, you served honorably.   

We don't need everybody to be Audie Murphy. 

Dave Grohl was working (too) hard on an already good song. Somebody said to him (Rick Rubin?) "hey Dave, every song doesn't have to be "Imagine"

2 minutes ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

The only time I ever got detention in highschool was from my black History teacher because I kept wearing my UT ball cap to class every day. She gave me a couple of warnings, then one day I came in and got exactly that tone. She was a very close family friend that we had known since well before I was in school, so it felt exactly like a mom's tone.

I was gonna ask if she was aggy, then I remembered that she was black. 

[WelfareBuysMyWeed 5663]

5 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

My Son was infantry (now a pilot) and saw a lot of combat.  

My GF's son was an Air Force mechanic, never deployed, had/has a bit of a beer belly worked 8 hours a day and went home.   I respect his service too.  Everybody's got a job to do.  My kid can't fly a combat mission if somebody doesn't fuel his Apache, and...wash the fucking windshield.    If you served honorably, you served honorably.   

We don't need everybody to be Audie Murphy. 

Dave Grohl was working (too) hard on an already good song. Somebody said to him (Rick Rubin?) "hey Dave, every song doesn't have to be "Imagine"

I was gonna ask if she was aggy, then I remembered that she was black. 

100000000% not: https://highschool.utexas.edu/instructor/gwendolyn-cash

That's actually why I felt so comfortable walking into her class with a ball cap, I thought she'd be cool since I was all jazzed up about getting accepted into Texas, lol.

Edited August 8 by WelfareBuysMyWeed

[gmr548 16704]

8 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

I need to rewatch Veep.

6 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

I think it's a lot simpler than that.  He's scared.

And I actually don't really blame him for that.  Less than a month ago, he came within a few inches of having his head blown off.  I don't think it's particularly surprising if that was in his brain when thinking about whether to do another rally.

He only does the rallies for fun, anyway.  I'm not saying that there isn't a campaign benefit associated with a candidate's rally, but that's not why he does them.  He does them because he thinks they're fun.  But worrying about getting shot in the fucking head isn't very fun.  And if they're not fun anymore, then he's not going to do them.

I heard this via some in the weeds election podcast at some point in the last couple months, so no link, but evidently there is some research that indicates that outside of specific circumstances - mainly, holding rallies in competitive/purple areas - there actually isn't much polling/electoral performance impact.

But in general I agree with you. MAGA is melting down. Rallies are far from glorious at this point and Trump has had a lot more time to sit around think about the attempt on his life than when he had to turn right around into the convention.

[Firemans4Horn 18533]

8 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

My Son was infantry (now a pilot) and saw a lot of combat.  

My GF's son was an Air Force mechanic, never deployed, had/has a bit of a beer belly worked 8 hours a day and went home.   I respect his service too.  Everybody's got a job to do.  My kid can't fly a combat mission if somebody doesn't fuel his Apache, and...wash the fucking windshield.    If you served honorably, you served honorably.   

We don't need everybody to be Audie Murphy. 

Dave Grohl was working (too) hard on an already good song. Somebody said to him (Rick Rubin?) "hey Dave, every song doesn't have to be "Imagine"

I was gonna ask if she was aggy, then I remembered that she was black. 

I visited my brother on the flight line ( USAF captain rank at the time) and he introduced me to his Chief Master Sergeant; we all knew who had the utmost respect of everyone in that squadron. Thankfully my brother is the most humble person you will ever meet and raised up those leaders on his team but that NCO ran the show. 

[Radical Larry 28826]

I thought about rewatching Veep, but I’ll wait until the real life version ends. 

[Old Freak Nasty 821]

2 hours ago, 'stache said:

And they still question whether she's Black? Look at that face, even I know that look, and I'm Hispanic. 

You guys haven't seen enough faces of disappointed Indian mothers when report cards come home.

[Gil Bang 26249]

4 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

I visited my brother on the flight line ( USAF captain rank at the time) and he introduced me to his Chief Master Sergeant; we all knew who had the utmost respect of everyone in that squadron. Thankfully my brother is the most humble person you will ever meet and raised up those leaders on his team but that NCO ran the show. 

When this Russia/Ukraine shit started, there was a long parade of Generals and Admirals on TV, all saying the same thing: Russia has shit for NCO's, and NCO's are what drives an army.

[Gil Bang 26249]

4 minutes ago, Radical Larry said:

I thought about rewatching Veep, but I’ll wait until the real life version ends. 

Veep is so good, and so well-written, that it's absolutely exhausting to watch. You can't laugh at a line, because you'll miss two more laughs. 

[WelfareBuysMyWeed 5663]

6 minutes ago, Old Freak Nasty said:

You guys haven't seen enough faces of disappointed Indian mothers when report cards come home.

That's cause all my indian friends were straight-A kids who became doctors, haha.