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

[Aqua Buddha 14804]

43 minutes ago, Js1 said:

 

That’s sort of a big deal.

[Underdog 29166]

37 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Hollywood spared no expense on that net. 

[Longhorn_Fan68 34103]

2 hours ago, Rex Kramer said:

Weird fantasy. How about we are just indifferent and happy to have him out of our political lives, and the fantasy is Sydney Sweeney?

whoah, we agree on something. marking the date and time

1 hour ago, Mo Horn said:

Go the fuck away

100% this, just go away. in some capacity. I don't care. just get out of our fucking lives you fat sack of diapered shit

[RomaVicta 30565]

 

Bronze-painted! With genuine bronze colored paint! Buy it, you fucking idiots!

[Tuco 5093]

As others said, I hope he’s the nominee in 2028 whether he wins or loses this year.  2032?  Even better.  

Dude, I cannot handle this kind of stress every four years. We are one Wall Street crash away from that semi-sentient turd having the keys to the White House, again. I long for the days that having someone like John McCain in the office is my biggest fear.

[wood 11763]

 

[ChiTownDoc 21345]

6 minutes ago, Tuco said:

Dude, I cannot handle this kind of stress every four years. We are one Wall Street crash away from that semi-sentient turd having the keys to the White House, again. I long for the days that having someone like John McCain in the office is my biggest fear.

I love stress.  If you gave me a billion dollars to go sit on a beach I couldn’t do it.  Of course I would choose a massive heart attack for this asshole, if given the choice… But if there’s a fight to be had, bring it.  

[Js1 87175]

 

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I noticed in the last couple of speeches, they've had Black people in the crowd behind him, but just skimming through the video, they spend most of their time looking down at their phones, only doing anything when people stand up (there's a Black guy behind Trump's left shoulder in a white/gray hoodie who seems to stay out of sight most of the time, but he's also looking at his phone).

 

Did somebody say unions?  That group in the obnoxious shirts behind him were Teamsters, and all of those obnoxious shirts are pulled over other clothes, making me wonder if they just handed them out at the rally

[wood 11763]

6 minutes ago, Js1 said:

 

 

[HenryJames 67326]

[chainsaw 10283]

20 minutes ago, Js1 said:

 

1. It's Darien gap, you fucking moron
2. Like Braz_ga said, that isn't even it

[Gatorubet 30711]

2 hours ago, dcbc said:

Here you go.  

Hawkins v. McGee, 84 N.H. 114, 146 (N.H. 1929).

Edit: my 1L contract professor gave my class 11 Fs and 32 Ds.  

Edited October 4 by Gatorubet

[Born to Run 6601]

31 minutes ago, Tuco said:

Dude, I cannot handle this kind of stress every four years. We are one Wall Street crash away from that semi-sentient turd having the keys to the White House, again. I long for the days that having someone like John McCain in the office is my biggest fear.

Same. The stress sucks. I had the daily worry women and LBGQ friends have over this wretched pustule.

I fear that Trump has shown other politicians that there is no consequence for lying, no limit on the outrageousness of those lies or any real need to have Any substantative position on anything. Say one thing to one group and the exact opposite to another group? No consequences.

At a play last night in Lakeway; old ass lady walks up and tells me how handsome I am and that I look like JD Vance and she hopes I share her political viewpoint. (I do not look like him and my wife was like wtf This shit just creeps into everything all the time.  I can't drive to dinner without seeing "no balls in women's sports" and other bs a dozen times.  It fucking sucks.

[Bozo_Casanova 26846]

4 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Because in 2024 America, particularly for the men who dominate many blue collar ranks, it has become more important to hate the "other," defined as "any and all groups smaller and weaker than yours," than it is to support someone who might actually make things better for everyone.

I think this generation of blue collar workers are weird. Whether or not they are in a union, they are mad about not being able to reach the American dream the middle class could access when the unions were at their peak, but many of them take all the basic things the labor movement got them for granted, which are now at risk.

7 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

That would defy literally every poll that has been taken to date. They’d all have to have been off by orders of magnitude for them to be able to call it early without the million plus mail in ballots. Even if the pollsters are all herding, that seems…pretty fucking unlikely. 
 

Like I’m about to fuck Sydney Sweeney unlikely. 

You will never be physically intimate with Sydney Sweeney. It is very possible that the election will be called by midnight East coast time on Election Day.

 

1) the direction of polling error has tended to be consistent and 

2) pollsters adjust to error based on previous results. 

A 2% miss in favor of Harris is a Harris Landslide. A 2% miss the other way is a comfortably clear Trump electoral win.  Both are very possible.

people also forget that 2024 isn’t 2020. The nature of turnout will be much more conventionally weighted to in-person voting. 

Edited October 4 by Bozo_Casanova

[Born to Run 6601]

32 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

I love stress.  If you gave me a billion dollars to go sit on a beach I couldn’t do it.  Of course I would choose a massive heart attack for this asshole, if given the choice… But if there’s a fight to be had, bring it.  

WTF

I'd be gone tomorrow for a couple million.

[wood 11763]

8 minutes ago, Born to Run said:

WTF

I'd be gone tomorrow for a couple million.

Yep. Mrs. Wood (no [pics) and I retired for far less, combined, and we're doing great. Give me a couple million, and we'll live like royalty.

Knock on wood. (I can just knock on my head when I say that, so I got that goin' for me, which is nice)

Edited October 4 by wood

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4 minutes ago, Born to Run said:

WTF

I'd be gone tomorrow for a couple million.

 

['stache 22131]

7 minutes ago, Born to Run said:

WTF

I'd be gone tomorrow for a couple million.

[Born to Run 6601]

15 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

I think this generation of blue collar workers are weird. Whether or not they are in a union, they are mad about not being able to reach the American dream the middle class could access when the unions were at their peak, but many of them take all the basic things the labor movement got them for granted, which are now at risk.

 

My brother in law is a union plumber in CA.  He's made as much 150k a year and oftentimes he gets paid to sleep in his car for hours. Raising four kids on his income and his daughter just started at UCSB. He can't wait to move to TX or FL to flee the liberal policies of CA.  He'd do fine in Austin, but good luck elsewhere.

Locally a lot of blue collar guys are Maga because of media consumption- fox, talk radio, Joe Rogan.  For vast majority it's guns and just being anti PC. Not a lot of thought goes into it. Even Mexicans.

[Js1 87175]

 

[wood 11763]

BTW, the IAFF non-endorsement was determined by a 1.2% margin in a vote of the IAFF Executive Board (again, not the membership). 1.2% works out to something like 40 to 39.  FML. 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/03/election-fire-union-trump-harris 

Edited October 4 by wood

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Musk is going to be at Trump's PA rally.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-attend-trump-rally-pennsylvania-site-july-assassination-attempt-2024-10-04/

No idea who is pushing this, but it's getting some traction in the media - Trump's refusal to release his health records.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ar-AA1rE80d

[Ghost of LL 15698]

20 minutes ago, Js1 said:

 

Just popped into my head for some reason.

[chainsaw 10283]

The bullet was not close enough to his ear to do any damage (if it had been close enough, the damage would have been much greater). The best explanation I've seen is that the bleeding was caused by his fingernail.

https://www.threads.net/@clancy123457/post/C93DY0exr_3

[SydneyCarton 49477]

2 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

In the '70s, it was a big deal if your tuition bill topped $100. If you had a good summer job, you could pay for the year. If you worked oil rigs or something like that, you could live like a god. I returned to graduate in the mid 80s and it was still less than maybe $400? 

My beloved had daughters graduating high school in the first few years of this century. I was dumbfounded and furious when I heard about what had happened to college costs. Guaranteed loans for banks who face no risk. No reason other than decency and an understanding of public university education to keep the colleges from raising fees in tacit collusion.

I'm glad to be a Longhorn, but I can't exactly say that I love the University. Money grubbing cunts.

That’s not a UT thing. It’s a state of Texas thing. 

[G650 14437]

1 hour ago, Born to Run said:

WTF

I'd be gone tomorrow for a couple million.

Ive said that many times, but yet here I am still working. Its harder to walk away than one thinks, but I can see that day happening more clearly every passing minute. One of my buddies and I were joking on a jobsite today actually if someone came up with the right offer we would hand over the keys to our companies tomorrow.

[SydneyCarton 49477]

58 minutes ago, Born to Run said:

My brother in law is a union plumber in CA.  He's made as much 150k a year and oftentimes he gets paid to sleep in his car for hours. Raising four kids on his income and his daughter just started at UCSB. He can't wait to move to TX or FL to flee the liberal policies of CA.  He'd do fine in Austin, but good luck elsewhere.

Locally a lot of blue collar guys are Maga because of media consumption- fox, talk radio, Joe Rogan.  For vast majority it's guns and just being anti PC. Not a lot of thought goes into it. Even Mexicans.

What does he say when you point out he only makes that kind of money because he’s in CA?

[Chuckie Finster 23039]

38 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

The bullet was not close enough to his ear to do any damage (if it had been close enough, the damage would have been much greater). The best explanation I've seen is that the bleeding was caused by his fingernail.

https://www.threads.net/@clancy123457/post/C93DY0exr_3

I saw a pretty convincing video that showed him hitting his ear on the holster of one of the SS agents when they ducked down, which could have caused the bleeding.  Honestly seems plausible as hell when you rewatch the footage.

Edited October 4 by Chuckie Finster

[Biff Tannen 46161]

4 hours ago, wood said:

Your experience with actual firefighters must be very limited then.

One of my hiking buddies is a retired LA County firefighter and one of the best people I’ve ever met.
 

I also lived across the street from the firehouse on 30th street for 6 years and they were always super nice and helpful.  

I also toured around with Guy Forsyth for a few years in my 20s and his sister was a firefighter and we used to play one of their annual events and they were all great.
 

Mucho respect to firefighters from me. 

[chainsaw 10283]

1 minute ago, Chuckie Finster said:

I saw a pretty convincing video that showed him hitting his ear on the holster of one of the SS agents when they ducked down, which could have caused the bleeding.  Honestly seems plausible as hell, when you rewatch the footage.

I guarantee if an intrepid reporter had Trump's attention and asked him to give the name of the attendee who died, he would not remember the name of Corey Comperatore.

[Red Five 41716]

A real quote from Trump: "FEMA has no money because the Biden/Harris administration gave it all to illegal immigrants, a large percentage of which are murderers."

[Dbeasy 15583]

6 minutes ago, Red Five said:

A real quote from Trump: "FEMA has no money because the Biden/Harris administration gave it all to illegal immigrants, a large percentage of which are murderers."

That has been the main Fox News story all day. Sigh. 

[Js1 87175]

8 minutes ago, Red Five said:

A real quote from Trump: "FEMA has no money because the Biden/Harris administration gave it all to illegal immigrants, a large percentage of which are murderers."

[wood 11763]

31 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

One of my hiking buddies is a retired LA County firefighter and one of the best people I’ve ever met.
 

I also lived across the street from the firehouse on 30th street for 6 years and they were always super nice and helpful.  

I also toured around with Guy Forsyth for a few years in my 20s and his sister was a firefighter and we used to play one of their annual events and they were all great.
 

Mucho respect to firefighters from me. 

Gracias senor! Yeah, Station 3. I worked there a few times in my career, filling in for minimum staffing needs.

[Red Five 41716]

5 minutes ago, Js1 said:

He is telling unbelievable, staggering, very dangerous lies every day. Meanwhile, Politico is super concerned about Tim Walz misremembering the summer month he visited China in 1988. 

[Horndog 2295]

2 hours ago, Js1 said:

 

The key word is "apparently."

[WBT 20969]

1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

1) the direction of polling error has tended to be consistent and 

2) pollsters adjust to error based on previous results. 

It's weird how much people refuse to believe #2 based on 2 previous elections,  one of which was during a pandemic that fucked everything up

[AnTiM 1695]

2 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

whoah, we agree on something. marking the date and time

100% this, just go away. in some capacity. I don't care. just get out of our fucking lives you fat sack of diapered shit

He's just pissed off because he wasn't able to steal the billion without being caught.

[TexEx15 17937]

Infuriating 

[RomaVicta 30565]

1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

That’s not a UT thing. It’s a state of Texas thing. 

It figures.

[Bookman 4758]

38 minutes ago, Red Five said:

A real quote from Trump: "FEMA has no money because the Biden/Harris administration gave it all to illegal immigrants, a large percentage of which are murderers."

Next on Fox News: How murdering illegal immigrants use FEMA money to increase the cost of living and cause all your problems. 

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Vance gave a speech in Georgia.  Let's look at the size and makeup of the crowd.

People are bored already early in, and they keep moving the camera side-to-side to make it look like the audience is bigly

 

They panned over to the left a bit, not sure why as the "MAGA BLACK" lady was in the shot before and now she's not really in it.

Pretty sure those people "filming" with their phones are actually texting because you could see that it looked like they were holding them up like that while still texting.

So how big was that crowd? Fox Now above won't show you, but The Hill will. This was just minutes before Vance came out.

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Unless you watch these rallies, you really can't see how bored most of the people behind Vance or Trump are, except for what looks like coached cheers and certain people will hold up their signs on cue, like they are aggy.

[chainsaw 10283]

They're there because they feel like they have to be, but they're bored.

In other words, it's church.

[Chuckie Finster 23039]

Vance gave a speech in Georgia.  Let's look at the size and makeup of the crowd.
People are bored already early in, and they keep moving the camera side-to-side to make it look like the audience is bigly

 
They panned over to the left a bit, not sure why as the "MAGA BLACK" lady was in the shot before and now she's not really in it.
Pretty sure those people "filming" with their phones are actually texting because you could see that it looked like they were holding them up like that while still texting.

So how big was that crowd? Fox Now above won't show you, but The Hill will. This was just minutes before Vance came out.

Okay but for real, what’s the deal with the chyrons on these pics?

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1 minute ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Okay but for real, what’s the deal with the chyrons on these pics?

[austingirl 2194]

 

8 hours ago, Rex Kramer said:

Not sure he’d incite a riot. They’re in different categories. I abhor Cruz. Our daughters go to the same camp so I’m exposed to him for a day every summer. He’s very aloof and is basically a fat dork. One of his daughters got booted from the camp a few years ago because she’s fucked up. I give Cruz credit for not making a big stink about it, or pulling his other daughter from camp. I fully expected him to do both. 

Eh, he shouldn't get credit for acting like a normal human person.

1 hour ago, G650 said:

Ive said that many times, but yet here I am still working. Its harder to walk away than one thinks, but I can see that day happening more clearly every passing minute. One of my buddies and I were joking on a jobsite today actually if someone came up with the right offer we would hand over the keys to our companies tomorrow.

Nice humblebrag.

[Slacks 7052]

22 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

They're there because they feel like they have to be, but they're bored.

In other words, it's church.

My son just felt that.

[tx 3 putt 78673]

3 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

 

Bronze-painted! With genuine bronze colored paint! Buy it, you fucking idiots!

 

10000% staged