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

[Aqua Buddha 14450]

3 minutes ago, mdmost said:

The Red, 1989, Reputation era Swift fans are now all voting age. It isn't just full of little girls. She's been a thing since 2009. She's not some new phenomenon. Her fans have aged with her. And you know who became Swifties because of their not of voting age daughters? The parents of those kids who shelled out thousands to attend the shows. This isn't your Red State era country Taylor Swift audience. 

 

7 minutes ago, mantis toboggan said:

For clarity

Taylor Swift's fans, also known as "Swifties", are spread across many age groups. According to a 2023 survey, 45% of Swift's US fans are millennials, 25% are baby boomers, and 21% are Gen X, meaning almost half of her fans are likely over 45. However, a 2023 poll by Morning Consult also found that the typical Swiftie is a white millennial woman. Additionally, a survey conducted in October 2023 found that 33% of respondents aged 30 to 44 and more than 10% of respondents aged 65 or older consider themselves Swifties. 

Yeah, Swities are older than you think.  It wasn't teenage girls paying $1K per ticket and traveling around the country to see the concert.

[chainsaw 9784]

14 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-dinner-guest-nick-fuentes-declares-war-on-the-ex-prez

The white supremacist are becoming very concerned that Trump is fucking up the campaign and will lose Bigly.

I’m trying to process what it means when you’re losing the white supremacists.

Fuentes will be bending the knee by 2pm central

[aggie08 21170]

1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:

Why would this make it “over”?  This is what 90% of his cult says too. 

Right? If he calls her the N-word in the middle of a debate, then it's over. But over in the sense that swing states will be 51-46 instead of 49-48. Bitch ain't making a dent.

[TexasHooch 5113]

3 minutes ago, Chopper said:

Shocking but true: In 2023, Florida's state legislature unanimously passed and fuckin' Ron DeSantis signed a free menstrual products bill that, much like MN's legislation, does not specify gender.

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=1000-1099/1006/Sections/1006.064.html

 

Utah did it too, along with more than half the other states in the Union.

Edited August 10 by TexasHooch

[Aqua Buddha 14450]

1 minute ago, aggie08 said:

Right? If he calls her the N-word in the middle of a debate, then it's over. But over in the sense that swing states will be 51-46 instead of 49-48. Bitch ain't making a dent.

To some people, that will be a feature, not a bug.

[Chips O'Toole 1316]

That golf cart video is like a month old and I don't even think he says "bitch", just bad again but with more growling 

[MissingInAction 24694]

5 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

I don't understand the incels.  If you want to meet girls, go to a Harris rally or a Taylor Swift concert.  

Why I joined the theater club in high school. 

[immamac 42336]

I said it last night but it needs to be repeated. If she does some big shit as VP/practice president with Biden in the next month or two including something like being the primary negotiator for the cease fire and hostage release in the Middle East that will seal the fucking deal. 

[Loch Ness Monster 3533]

No Israel talk in this thread!! Or maybe?

[Gatorubet 29915]

2 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

Fuentes will be bending the knee by 2pm central

Quite correct.   My not well-made point was that even his ardent supporters (who have no other candidate to turn to push their white nationalist beliefs) are aware of him being in free-fall.   I was trying to show that our perception that things are going well is not a partisan fever dream - but something that his loathsome supporters feel too, 

[TexasHooch 5113]

3 minutes ago, immamac said:

I said it last night but it needs to be repeated. If she does some big shit as VP/practice president with Biden in the next month or two including something like being the primary negotiator for the cease fire and hostage release in the Middle East that will seal the fucking deal. 

We have a thread for that, jackass!

Edited August 10 by TexasHooch
just kidding. Don't ban me bro

[Gatorubet 29915]

3 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

Why I joined the theater club in high school. 

It’s why I took typing in 1972 when the room full of girls and me were preparing for being a secretary. lol

[Gatorubet 29915]

2 minutes ago, TexasHooch said:

We have a thread for that, jackass!

[Red Five 40571]

Can please for the love of god no one say “it’s over” until sometime around January 21, 2025?

[mdmost 42611]

7 minutes ago, immamac said:

I said it last night but it needs to be repeated. If she does some big shit as VP/practice president with Biden in the next month or two including something like being the primary negotiator for the cease fire and hostage release in the Middle East that will seal the fucking deal. 

Israel has no reason to help her win the election. Bibi is that big of an asshole because he knows she's not going to play ball like Biden did. 

[tx 3 putt 75851]

 

[Tuco 5076]

1 hour ago, Js1 said:

I want 2008 level. With AZ and GA blue and then a surprise, like FL or Texas barely flips but just enough, like Indiana did. All the incumbent Senate Dems win and one of Allred or DMP gets dragged across the finish line (whichever flips)

MAGA dies when enough Republicans decide it's dead.  At some point, non-MAGA Republicans need to take over the party, despite losing MAGAts.  If they lose badly enough, then the damage from keeping MAGA will prove to be more than the damage from rejecting MAGA.  That is my hope, one that seemed impossible a month ago.   

[Tuco 5076]

4 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Israel has no reason to help her win the election. Bibi is that big of an asshole because he knows she's not going to play ball like Biden did. 

They have an interest in having a good relationship with the next President.  Right now, that is increasingly looking like Harris. 

[Red Five 40571]

Trump: “I’m doing great with white males. White males are going through the roof.”

Jon Lovett: “Sometimes they’re even on the roof.”

[TexEx15 17398]

 

[Hank Kingsley 20545]

Need him on Fox ASAP saying this 

 

[tx 3 putt 75851]

 

 

[Gatorubet 29915]

“Just like Jesus would have….!”

[immamac 42336]

19 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Israel has no reason to help her win the election. Bibi is that big of an asshole because he knows she's not going to play ball like Biden did. 

This has nothing to do with that - it's why I didn't call out any specifics but gave a generic example. It has more to do with doing shit the president would be expected to do and getting it across the finish line so close to the election. 

It shows capability, continuity and strength. 

[MrBig 5220]

1 hour ago, aggie08 said:

Yeah, no thanks. I have no issue whatsoever with high schools being supplied with tampons (because I'm not a sociopath), but probably not a great idea to lean into an old white guy helping teenage girls with their flows.

The tampon issue is fucking dumb. MAGA is clutching their pearls at the sight of feminine products in the men’s room, but they fail to see the utility tampons provide men in times of need.

Don Jr would benefit from shoving a tampon up his bloody nose after getting punched in the face or snorting an 8 ball off a toilet seat.

[Chopper 17038]

41 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

I don't understand the incels.  If you want to meet girls, go to a Harris rally or a Taylor Swift concert.  

Seriously. The incels love the dudes (Fat Don and Putin) with more personal protection than all but two people on the planet. Yet those two rarely come out of their bunkers.

In contrast here's the Swifties after learning that Isis was planning a terror event in Vienna.

 

Edited August 10 by Chopper

[Blotto 23349]

6 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

 

His brain is a puddle of diarrhea at this point. When he vaporlocked there, I was wondering if they were gonna need to usher him away a la mcconnell. He managed to reboot the system, but that was a bit weird, as people say. 

[Brian Fantana 6650]

31 minutes ago, immamac said:

I said it last night but it needs to be repeated. If she does some big shit as VP/practice president with Biden in the next month or two including something like being the primary negotiator for the cease fire and hostage release in the Middle East that will seal the fucking deal. 

It would be really easy to do but I have severe doubts about that happening. Not because she's not capable, mind you. I agree that showing something will seal the deal for her, it doesn't necessarily have to include a ceasefire but it would be nice and obviously very helpful for her.

Either way I'll be the happiest I've been pullling the lever since Obama's 2nd term.

[Bozo_Casanova 26122]

44 minutes ago, mdmost said:

You can just feel the cheeseburger grease pouring out of those sweat glands. 

Can you blame him?

[immamac 42336]

12 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

It would be really easy to do but I have severe doubts about that happening. Not because she's not capable, mind you. I agree that showing something will seal the deal for her, it doesn't necessarily have to include a ceasefire but it would be nice and obviously very helpful for her.

Either way I'll be the happiest I've been pullling the lever since Obama's 2nd term.

Yeah I just used an example she called out at her own rally as something she is promising she's doing if she delivers campaign promises because she's already elected things are gonna go boom. 

[G650 13743]

I'm in the Newark airport right now, and there's a surprising amount of Harris 2024 shirts for sale here

['stache 21725]

Keep pressing the Willie Brown story. Make him admit he can’t tell Black people appart.

[TexEx15 17398]

This needs to be shared everywhere.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/08/truth-about-trumps-press-conference/679425/

[immamac 42336]

2 minutes ago, TexEx15 said:

This needs to be shared everywhere.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/08/truth-about-trumps-press-conference/679425/

Maybe they would if it wasn't paywalled. 

[NAVY 6735]

40 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

“Just like Jesus would have….!”

Yeah, well, Jesús was sort of attached to some wood 

[Gatorubet 29915]

[tx 3 putt 75851]

[Brian Fantana 6650]

6 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

[MrBig 5220]

1 hour ago, Aqua Buddha said:

 

Yeah, Swities are older than you think.  It wasn't teenage girls paying $1K per ticket and traveling around the country to see the concert.

Odds on Taylor Swift endorsing Kamala? I know this is an unpopular opinion but I don’t think she will openly support the ticket if it hurts her economic bottom line.

My MAGA sister and her kids are huge Swifties, but they also love Trump more and would probably start burning all her merchandise if she supported Harris. But knowing them, they’d probably just re-buy all the shit they torched after the election is over so it would theoretically still put more money in Taylor’s pocket. 

['stache 21725]

4 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

[aggie08 21170]

12 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

I worry about your algorithms.

[hornmpa96 2596]

2 hours ago, aggie08 said:

Yeah, no thanks. I have no issue whatsoever with high schools being supplied with tampons (because I'm not a sociopath), but probably not a great idea to lean into an old white guy helping teenage girls with their flows.

[chainsaw 9784]

2 minutes ago, MrBig said:

Odds on Taylor Swift endorsing Kamala? I know this is an unpopular opinion but I don’t think she will openly support the ticket if it hurts her economic bottom line.

My MAGA sister and her kids are huge Swifties, but they also love Trump more and would probably start burning all her merchandise if she supported Harris. But knowing them, they’d probably just re-buy all the shit they torched after the election is over so it would theoretically still put more money in Taylor’s pocket. 

Swift has had more than enough money to live off interest and investments for over a decade. The only people who need the royalties to keep coming in are the hangers-on, and while I don't think she would want to jeopardize their livelihood I also think she would receive enough of a boost to offset whatever losers try to "cancel" her.

[Mittens 8100]

4 minutes ago, MrBig said:

Odds on Taylor Swift endorsing Kamala? I know this is an unpopular opinion but I don’t think she will openly support the ticket if it hurts her economic bottom line.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/taylor-swift-endorses-joe-biden-president-n1242483

[Surly Bevo 24665]

The issue for Swift isn't money....it's safety.

[Ted Lange 15951]

1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

 

 

So this happened while somebody was getting medical attention in the crowd.   There is SO much real ammo to go after Trump with, yet people tweet shit like that.   Infuriating 

Musk incentivizes shit like this too.   Maddening 

[cactusflinthead 27586]

25 minutes ago, immamac said:

Maybe they would if it wasn't paywalled. 

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/08/truth-about-trumps-press-conference/679425/?gift=1JKSkiJ6Tnuz0--mzR5H8e9mDPQTPbvBxLE_yp1g4Xc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

I got you 

[Mittens 8100]

 

[Constant 6686]

1 minute ago, Surly Bevo said:

The issue for Swift isn't money....it's safety.

This. I consider myself amongst the Swifties. I grew up with her music and have been a fan for a long time. I’m 36 and flew to Mexico with my wife last August to see her. 
 

In her documentary ‘Miss Americana’ she discusses with her team coming out publicly against a hometown Republican and Trump. Here’s a clip:

I 100% believe she will come out publicly against Trump and support Harris. Her timing is her own and it will be calculated for many reasons, but most of all her safety. 

[mdmost 42611]

Yeah Swift had a fight with her "team" in 2018 when she came out against Marsha Blackburn. Her dad brought up the Republicans buy sneakers line from Jordan and that he was more worried about her safety given how psychotic MAGA are. She still overruled them and supported the other candidate and encouraged her fans to register to vote. Then she released You Need To Calm Down to show her support for the LGBTQ+ community. 

I gleaned all this from the Ms. Americana documentary we watched with our oldest daughter on Netflix. I feel she'll endorse Kamala when she gets back to the States from her European tour at the end of the month. She's said before that she wants to be standing on the right side of history.