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

[Ghost of LL 15255]

15 hours ago, Chopper said:

 

Well Ava Braun aka Maggie Haberman certainly tries.

What actually happened:

Q: Many are telling you to stop with the personal attacks against Kamala Harris...

Trump: I’m angry at her. I don’t have respect for her. She attacks me. She called me weird. She called JD weird. He’s not weird!

 

wiki:

2 days ago

Of the many things I am looking forward to being rid of when Kamala Harris beats Donald Trump, somewhere on the list is the phrase "Trump World."

[Goredho 17181]

9 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Nobody’s offended. It’s theater. 

Theater and a market viability test of a new outrage to sell to voters on the right to get them energized.  The old ones are not so effective anymore.

[MissingInAction 24432]

CNN is following the Fox News formula now, and it's sickening.

[cactusflinthead 27245]

2 teaspoons of chili powder? 

These people have no sense of humor AT ALL.

She deserves a replay.

Midwestern Mom cooks the hotdish in question.

 

[Red Five 40455]

“Imagine if Trump said….”

Oh yes, let’s all try to imagine a world where Trump said something hateful and awful.

[Chooky 13278]

22 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

The thing about this latest fake outrage, to me, is that it makes no fucking sense.

First, I'm not offended, because I'm a white guy and I like tons of spicy fucking shit. Second, when she says mayonnaise or tuna...she's listing bland things. How does that have anything to do with race? He is the one who volunteers White Guy Tacos. So I guess the white guy can't make fun of himself now? It literally makes no sense from any fucking angle. 

White trash victimization has been the staple of Trump's populist nonsense.  That currency is getting less valuable daily.  It's far too early to tell, but it feels like even Trump's own supporters are beginning to get bored with this trope.  Eight years of Trump complaining and whining finally seems to be losing steam.

[jimmyjazz 45212]

Well, I'm as white as a white dude gets, and I love me some ground beef + chili powder + shredded iceberg lettuce + shredded cheddar in a crispy corn taco shell as much as the next guy.  I do know it isn't al pastor, though. 

Why can't I love my gringo tacos?  Why are they persecuting me?  We can't catch a break in this society.

 

Edited August 16 by jimmyjazz

[Pato del Muerto 52117]

Put some cumin in there at least, my guy. 

Edited August 16 by Pato del Muerto

[WhatTheBuck 28620]

Still funny. Not racist.

 

[Native Horn 3465]

3 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Put some cumin in there at least, my guy. 

That second "in" is key.

[Nice Guy Eddie 13318]

1 hour ago, Okie State said:

Why am I not at all surprised people would take offense to Walz joking about white people not liking spice? Snowflakes indeed.

 

1 hour ago, 'stache said:

It’s because they are completely humorless. People of all different races and ethnic groups make fun of their own stereotypes including white people with a sense of humor. It’s called self deprecating humor. The mocking of Kamala laughing and pointing out that we’ve never seen Trump or Vance or any of the sycophants utter a genuine chuckle revealed that aspect of their personalities. Their souls are truly wretched. 

Yep. It's the same people that whisper a complaint at work on why they're not allowed to create a white employee group. For many (all?) of them, it boils down to the fact that they're not allowed to say the n-word. Perhaps some would actually never say it. They just want the right to say it without repercussions or being criticized. 

and for the record, a taco with unseasoned ground beef and cheese, sounds horrible. Hopefully its 80/20 ground beef and not too lean.

Edited August 16 by Nice Guy Eddie

[jimmyjazz 45212]

10 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Put some cumin in there at least, my guy. 

Me?  It's in the chili powder.  Gringo, baby.

[Pato del Muerto 52117]

5 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

and for the record, a taco with unseasoned ground beef and cheese, sounds horrible. Hopefully its 80/20 ground beef and not too lean.

It’s a modified hamberder 

[Chopper 16696]

29 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Why can their white guy make jokes about white people when our white guy can’t make jokes about black people? That’s racist!

Yep. It's another version of why can't WE say the N word???

[Tuco 5056]

Well, I'm as white as a white dude gets, and I love me some ground beef + chili powder + shredded iceberg lettuce + shredded cheddar in a crispy corn taco shell as much as the next guy.  I do know it isn't al pastor, though. 
Why can't I love my gringo tacos?  Why are they persecuting me?  We can't catch a break in this society.
 

It’s not like al pastor is spicy. Nor is a typical taco. That may be why Kamala was surprised. Generally, the only thing spicy about a taco is if you put a hot sauce on it. At least that’s been my middle aged, white, midwestern guy experience.

[jimmyjazz 45212]

1 minute ago, Tuco said:

It’s not like al pastor is spicy. Nor is a typical taco. That may be why Kamala was surprised. Generally, the only thing spicy about a taco is if you put a hot sauce on it. At least that’s been my middle aged, white, midwestern guy experience.

User name almost checks out.

[WBT 20280]

4 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

 

Lulz, taco shells!  

We had a hot blonde intern from ksu.  When out at our normal texmex place for  lunch she asked if some combo plate came with hard or soft shells.  After a 5 second blank stare, I figured out what she was talking about.

[Red Five 40455]

I cannot believe we’re even talking about this. Like this cannot be real life.

Something this stupid shouldn’t be given oxygen. This is a non-non-non story.

[The Original Greaser Bob 2736]

You guys talking about tacos?  Don't you think that's some information I would like to know?

[Chopper 16696]

I get not being excited about or wanting to support a $25k subsidy to assist first time home buyers, but the other side is actively pushing policies that would make buying a home much more difficult than it is today.

 

[aggie08 20488]

Just now, Red Five said:

I cannot believe we’re even talking about this. Like this cannot be real life.

Something this stupid shouldn’t be given oxygen. This is a non-non-non story.

It is at least nice to know that Kamala gets to be black when it's time to get offended over white people stereotypes.

[Aqua Buddha 14260]

36 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

2 teaspoons of chili powder? 

These people have no sense of humor AT ALL.

She deserves a replay.

Midwestern Mom cooks the hotdish in question.

 

Might be a hot take but.....

Would

She's also an opera singer......

[Chopper 16696]

TBT. Only a glob of sour cream in that shiit.

[TexasEd 8030]

9 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

I don't.  I doubt there is anybody who didn't vote for him in 2020, who is now thinking "you know what?  That's my guy!"  I also think the Trump of 2020 would be doing a lot more over the span of two weeks than a Mar-a-Lago presser, a Bedminster presser, and a "rally" at a 2,700 seat theater, especially as his competition is lapping him.

Partly because:

All great points, and it feeds into him just rambling on without a point.  I feel like in the run-up to 2016 and 2020, yeah, he would get off topic and babble/ramble a bit but he seemed to be working the crowd more, and he always seemed to have that reality TV star knack of having a point or two or three that he was trying to make.  He may take a while to get to the point, but he eventually came back to it, and got the applause and the laughs at the right moments.

I sometimes think the people who believe he's thrown in the towel and is just grifting are right.  He is not acting like somebody who wants to actually win.  He can talk a lot, but I can talk about how I'm going to win the lottery or go out with Sela Ward on a date, but if I don't actually go out and buy a ticket or figure out how to get the restraining order dropped, it's not going to happen.

Now he's the political equivalent of an elderly person driving around, blowing through stop signs and traffic lights, oblivious to what's going on around him.

He wants to win but his psychosis is too advanced to pull off the charming idiot routine anymore, we just get the bloated, vengeful idiot and that sells to a much smaller crowd than the charming idiot.

[jimmyjazz 45212]

I can't tell old real from old fake (or new real from new fake) -- please tell me Trump actually tweeted that?

[Red Five 40455]

“I love Hispanics”. JFC

[G650 13335]

10 minutes ago, Chopper said:

I get not being excited about or wanting to support a $25k subsidy to assist first time home buyers, but the other side is actively pushing policies that would make buying a home much more difficult than it is today.

 

Wait, what. Who in their right mind would think this is a good idea? I mean where does the impulse for this even come from?

[MissingInAction 24432]

28 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Me?  It's in the chili powder.  Gringo, baby.

I'm white AF, and this offends me.

[Enchubben 5495]

Straight white devil here, not offended by the taco comments at all. I’m going to assume that’s probably the case with like 98% of my demographic. The clip was dorky as hell, but I’m not sure how someone would be offended by that. He has shitty tastebuds, much like the rest of the midwest and northern region of the continent, so what?

Seems like a bunch of journo idiots trying to find something to be angry about. Newsflash idiots, Kamala is floating price controls and $25k+ handouts to homebuyers; that’s something to be upset about.  

[Jive Turkey 12435]

I think we all need to make hot dishes on Election Night and post pics.  We can start a separate thread or include those in the Election Night results thread.

[Royalfan5 2285]

37 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

 

Yep. It's the same people that whisper a complaint at work on why they're not allowed to create a white employee group. For many (all?) of them, it boils down to the fact that they're not allowed to say the n-word. Perhaps some would actually never say it. They just want the right to say it without repercussions or being criticized. 

and for the record, a taco with unseasoned ground beef and cheese, sounds horrible. Hopefully its 80/20 ground beef and not too lean.

The thing with tacos up here is that they are primarily a sour cream delivery device. People just struggle to admit that. 

[cactusflinthead 27245]

19 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Might be a hot take but.....

Would

She's also an opera singer......

Oh yeah. That one of her in singing in the canyon is pretty amazing.

[Pato del Muerto 52117]

8 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:

I think we all need to make hot dishes on Election Night and post pics.  We can start a separate thread or include those in the Election Night results thread.

I’m down, but I think using recipe for this would be cheating. Pick some stuff to put in the dish, bake it, and see how it goes. 
 

But don’t pick spam. Jfc. 

Edited August 16 by Pato del Muerto

[thepop 4391]

Some good polls for Trump lately, although small margins. Can't get complacent.

 

 

[Bullneck 18781]

 

 

[Scheiss Meister 8321]

10 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:

I think we all need to make hot dishes on Election Night and post pics.  We can start a separate thread or include those in the Election Night results thread.

Does anyone have a recipe for jerk chicken tikka marsala hot dish?  Let's cover all the bases here.

[Bullneck 18781]

 

 

[Bozo_Casanova 25910]

2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

ETA:  Scraping around, this seems to be pretty much pandering and some mush-mouthed stuff about using the antitrust laws against alleged gougers. 

Thats why I called it hand-waving earlier. 

[Pancho 43020]

 

[Pato del Muerto 52117]

2% of Pennsylvania are LEANING Trump?  

[Pato del Muerto 52117]

2 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 

She’s taking the stage to do what?

[Dahobbs 17255]

5 minutes ago, thepop said:

Some good polls for Trump lately, although small margins. Can't get complacent.

 

 

Still moving the right direction:

 

Quote

Last month, Trump led Harris 51% to 45% in Pennsylvania among very likely voters, his support dropping two points this month to 49%, and Harris’ support increasing three points, from 45% to 48%.

Some additional information on the methodology:

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Methodology

The Emerson College Polling/RealClearPennsylvania survey was conducted August 13-14, 2024. The sample of likely Pennsylvania voters, n=1,000, has a credibility interval, similar to a poll’s margin of error (MOE), of +/- 3 percentage points. The data sets were weighted by gender, education, race, age, party registration, and region based on 2024 likely voter modeling. Turnout modeling is based on U.S. Census parameters, and voter registration data. 

It is important to remember that subsets based on demographics, such as gender, age, education, and race/ethnicity, carry with them higher credibility intervals, as the sample size is reduced. Survey results should be understood within the poll’s range of scores, and with a confidence interval of 95% a poll will fall outside the range of scores 1 in 20 times. 

Data was collected by contacting cell phones via MMS-to-web text, landlines via Interactive Voice Response (IVR) (both lists provided by Aristotle), and an online panel of voters provided by CINT. The survey was offered in English. 

All questions asked in this survey with exact wording, along with full results, demographics, and cross tabulations can be found under Full Results. This survey was sponsored by RealClearPennsylvania.

 

 

[Born to Run 6364]

26 minutes ago, Red Five said:

“I love Hispanics”. JFC

Randall's still has a Hispanic food aisle; and to keep things on topic, it's mostly stuff to make white people tacos

[C-Man 26757]

[RomaVicta 29590]

11 hours ago, troph said:

I did my own post mortem on why Trump was appealing after the 2020 election, he lost but he still made it way too close given his presidency. There’s all sorts of political reasons, but putting the gravity of the situation aside, his stump speeches were more of a standup routine than anything else. Now I didn’t find it funny but his crowds laughed more than they cheered. Of course there’s the propaganda, classic blame an exterior threat, the guy isn’t one dimensional but his ability to make his people laugh was a huge component that was never really noticed by MSM for sure but I’m not sure really anyone dove into it. 
 

now he’s older, he’s flustered, he’s not a novel candidate, more are done with him and he’s lost it. But the whole shark and batteries in a boat thing was just another stand up routine attempt, the problem is he’s losing his mind too so he’s not nearly as good at it as he was.

Excellent. My early observations about him in the GOP debates was that he was the only onstage actually talking to people rather than reciting shit. He got off some good lines. I never thought he'd get the nomination, but I could see his appeal. This was before the shit about the wall and the other absurd promises. 

 

9 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

I don't.  I doubt there is anybody who didn't vote for him in 2020, who is now thinking "you know what?  That's my guy!"  I also think the Trump of 2020 would be doing a lot more over the span of two weeks than a Mar-a-Lago presser, a Bedminster presser, and a "rally" at a 2,700 seat theater, especially as his competition is lapping him.

Partly because:

All great points, and it feeds into him just rambling on without a point.  I feel like in the run-up to 2016 and 2020, yeah, he would get off topic and babble/ramble a bit but he seemed to be working the crowd more, and he always seemed to have that reality TV star knack of having a point or two or three that he was trying to make.  He may take a while to get to the point, but he eventually came back to it, and got the applause and the laughs at the right moments.

I sometimes think the people who believe he's thrown in the towel and is just grifting are right.  He is not acting like somebody who wants to actually win.  He can talk a lot, but I can talk about how I'm going to win the lottery or go out with Sela Ward on a date, but if I don't actually go out and buy a ticket or figure out how to get the restraining order dropped, it's not going to happen.

Now he's the political equivalent of an elderly person driving around, blowing through stop signs and traffic lights, oblivious to what's going on around him.

Also excellent. He's an old gasbag that doesn't realize the funny stories he's told a hundred times are now suffered through rather than laughed at. Evidently, Lenny Bruce's act became him reading about the legal persecution he was experiencing instead of entertainment. He lost his audience.

 

4 hours ago, Post Oak said:

We eat a shit ton of tacos in my family and we call those Gringo Tacos. Definitely have more spice than Tim's. They aren't my favorite that we make but there is something nostalgic about it for me.  

There are few things more boring on this site than people pontificating about the perfect way to cook or eat something. Gotta have two burn points per square inch and two cups of jalepenos to be a real taco.

In this case, it's not only boring, but it's adding deadweight to a thread already moving at a torrid pace.

I become a scorn. 

 

1 hour ago, Chopper said:

The racists are still very angry and offended about a joke.

Meanwhile:

 

I'm guessing this is like the flyers put on East Side businesses here years ago telling people they would have to leave to make room for gentrification. Too many people took it literally and missed a solid point being made with absurdity. I doubt this sign is from Trump followers but actually ridicules their racist, violent, stupid hatred.

[YChang 3394]

14 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said:

Does anyone have a recipe for jerk chicken tikka marsala hot dish?  Let's cover all the bases here.

I like that... go with the most flavorful version of a hot dish possible. I could totally see myself trying to concoct a Indian-Chinese version, with lots and lots of pork and paneer in it. 

Edited August 16 by YChang

[Pancho 43020]

Wow I’m shocked 

 

[chainsaw 9668]

2 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

That will produce even more unhinged and emotional outbursts from the guy.    

I hope it produces more than just that

[Brisketexan 103657]

I think we all need to make hot dishes on Election Night and post pics.  We can start a separate thread or include those in the Election Night results thread.

Fucking IN. This is a great idea. I will continue to post recipes from my cookbook (again, a gift from my half brother). We can all pick one and make it, and report the results.

I’m down, but I think using recipe for this would be cheating. Pick some stuff to put in the dish, bake it, and see how it goes. 
 
But don’t pick spam. Jfc. 

Pick whatever you want. There’s a place for spam. Shit, that’s a real flavor bomb to folks from Minnesota.

[Brisketexan 103657]

I hope it produces more than just that

Again…the day of his death will be the most celebrated event of my lifetime. My wife and I were just talking about whiskey and the varieties in my cabinet. I have 1/3 of a bottle of Pappy. I will be drinking from that bottle the day that fucking bastard dies. If I find out he died in pain and agony, I’ll drink the whole thing.