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

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19100]

3 hours ago, Schulz2.0 said:

You have to confirm with a mobile number…fuck that.

[Satchel 6912]

Trump is getting ready to use the tried and true Mafia trick of pretending to be crazier than he really is. As it becomes clearer that he will lose the election and go to jail, he will appear increasingly unmoored to reality. Look for him to come to a rally in robe and slippers and talk even more insanely than he currently doing. He wants to be judged too mentally and physically infirmed to serve a prison term. 

[Baboontyme 2809]

On the topic of having a conversation with a rational Trump person, I did in ~ 2019. I used to have a group of 8 friends that were all really tight, knew each other since HS at minimum and most of us back to grade school. Trump broke us up. Probably my fault because I'm stubborn. I'm not sure the other anti Trump people are as hard headed about it as I am. 

Anyway 3 guys. One guy is a single issue Catholic from an ethnic background that always voted pro life and adopted Trump as his hero because he's a huge troll. One guy has become a q/conspiracy guy. And then the rational, likeable smart guy.

He's a dentist that co owns his own practice. He told us in 2017 he had voted for him but would never do so again. By the time 2019 came around, he had changed his mind. His answer was something along the lines of the Dems want to tax small businesses 10,000 a year. I lost a ton of respect for him in that moment and he felt it. He and I have been friendly but not the same since that moment. It sucks. 

The other two guys I do everything in my power to avoid.

Dentist and Q guy grew up as country club kids.

[Sawbonz 27514]

56 minutes ago, speed817 said:

Bet she fucks hard....

[Bozo_Casanova 26407]

7 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

Got an inkling of this back in 2020.  I had this young, attractive Asian pedicurist that I frequented at a salon on the edge of my neighborhood.  She was attending UNT and working her way through college.  She and I always joked around a lot about various stupid shit and she seemed pretty liberal in her views but we never discussed politics.  She was essentially my pedicurist for two years.  Hell, we even exchanged cheap little Christmas presents for a couple of years.

One day about a month before the election, out of the blue she asked me who I was voting for POTUS.  I responded by saying something along the lines of "anyone but the orange baboon".  She looked at me like I'd called her mother a whore.  We cordially argued over him for a few minutes and thought we'd left it at that.  The next time I went to schedule an appointment with her I was told she wasn't available.  We never spoke again.  Was crazy as hell.  The nice owner told me she was maga as hell. 

Oh well. 

Dear Penthouse,

I got an inkling of this back in 2020.  I had this young, attractive Asian pedicurist that I frequented at a salon on the edge of my neighborhood…

[atomheartbevo 89589]

4 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Imagine you are a non-black person invited to the classic "black people barbecue."

There are a shitload of people who would be intimidate and freaked out about that.  And I mean more than the "well, I'm going to something I'm not entirely culturally familiar with."  I mean, flipped out thinking "no way will I go to that."  Other folks -- and I'd venture to guess most people on this board -- might have some nervousness about going to something that isn't the scene/cultural dynamic they're most used to, but they'd also think "but I bet the grub is going to be tasty as shit and it will be a DAMNED good time."

Apply that to an invitation to a quinceañera, a bar mitzvah, dinner at a mostly white country club, etc., for someone who is not a member of the dominant cultural group there.  A lot of people will freak out.  A lot of other people will be excited to try something different and have a good time with new people.  I'm betting that if you did an experiment where you rated people on their level of discomfort/willingness to attend such events, and then asked about their political preferences, there would be a healthy correlation to political preferences as well (not 100%, but a solid correlation).

A sane person, when invited to an event where they are not a member of the dominant cultural group there, should be thinking “out of the dozens or hundreds of people, there has to be at least one person here who wants to experiment with somebody new and put a notch on their bedpost and fuck me”.

[Hornius Emeritus 12447]

3 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

You have to confirm with a mobile number…fuck that.

Send the number of your worst enemy.

[atomheartbevo 89589]

2 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

What I’m digging about New Zealand the most is the unabashed embrace of cultural diversity displayed everywhere in every circumstance.  Here, it’s not even a thing to think about.  Everywhere people of different races and backgrounds are dating, chatting, working together just happy as they can be.  

Imagine, actually being happy instead of focusing on hating differences 

What’s it like to fuck a hobbit?  Or at least somebody cosplaying as one?

Not asking for a friend.

[DigglerontheHoof 21142]

3 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Dear Penthouse,

I got an inkling of this back in 2020.  I had this young, attractive Asian pedicurist that I frequented at a salon on the edge of my neighborhood…

[Bozo_Casanova 26407]

4 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Wanted to call that out because I think you're on to something, and you're on to the different ways different people/worldviews react.

Imagine you are a non-black person invited to the classic "black people barbecue."

There are a shitload of people who would be intimidate and freaked out about that.  And I mean more than the "well, I'm going to something I'm not entirely culturally familiar with."  I mean, flipped out thinking "no way will I go to that."  Other folks -- and I'd venture to guess most people on this board -- might have some nervousness about going to something that isn't the scene/cultural dynamic they're most used to, but they'd also think "but I bet the grub is going to be tasty as shit and it will be a DAMNED good time."

Appy that to an invitation to a quinceañera, a bar mitzvah, dinner at a mostly white country club, etc., for someone who is not a member of the dominant cultural group there.  A lot of people will freak out.  A lot of other people will be excited to try something different and have a good time with new people.  I'm betting that if you did an experiment where you rated people on their level of discomfort/willingness to attend such events, and then asked about their political preferences, there would be a healthy correlation to political preferences as well (not 100%, but a solid correlation).

The hell of it is, over my life, I've seen many of those "Trumpy" types (who aren't comfortable being surrounded by people of other races) end up at such events....and they end up having a fucking blast as their fear/resistance breaks down.  Meaning that we are heavily divided by and told to fear people by people who are selling lies, and want us at each other's throats.  At the end of the day, almost all of us would end up happy as hell after spending a day at a barbecue with people of a different race/subculture, if the people who stoke the fear and hate machines would just shut the fuck up.

Which is why I want Donald Trump to die, ASAP, so badly.  The moment he chokes on a Big Mac will be the greatest day ever.

All I know is that every time I’ve been the only white guy someplace where food was served, I ate well. 

[MissingInAction 24973]

33 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

You know, it's been a long while since I boned a big ol' gal; but I'm thinking... naaaah.  But I would hang out with her.

With her attitude you know she's gonna rock your fucking world.

[atomheartbevo 89589]

9 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

It’s too hot and people are getting heat exhaustion. SO LETS DANCE!!!

Imagine if one of those people were dying, and the last image they have is Trump doing jazz hands.

They would deserve it.

[Brisketexan 104923]

All I know is that every time I’ve been the only white guy someplace where food was served, I ate well. 

Facts.

[scottsins 1965]

He/she should get out more.  Travis County DA has “Bad Cop Database” tattooed on his left bicep.  

Sure. And when a cop gets fired for shit and then applies in a new jurisdiction, they OFTEN fail to do any due diligence, or a TCOLE check, even a simple Open Records Request that any dipshit on this message board can do. They get a new job, commit more violations, etc., rinse and repeat.

[SizzleChest 8282]

3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

I have "Fuck off, fascists" saved as a quick copy-and-paste reply for these.  Most of the Trumpy ones auto-read it as an unsubscribe.  Tells you how frequently they get that response.

[Pato del Muerto 52461]

4 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Imagine if one of those people were dying, and the last image they have is Trump doing jazz hands.

They would deserve it.

The crowd would think they gesticulations were a dance move and follow along

 

[texasdago 7554]

I am so frustrated. Tonight. One of my good friends admitted to me that he's going to be voting Trump. He said he knows he's evil but won't vote Kamala. This is a guy who is very smart, received his master's degree overseas. Speaks three languages. Worldly, travels, intelligent and thoughtful and he's voting Trump. I'm telling you it just makes me sad and very very disappointed. He's still my friend but I'm really disappointed.

[Degenerate Gardner 4085]

13 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

 

Here we have Trump’s stream of consciousness. Unsurprising at this point, he’s playing the hits on autopilot. Rudderless and exhausted. I hope his madness will be publicized and antagonized. The next three weeks will be hell on him, inshallah.

 

Defining ineffable are the collective thoughts of audience members. I would pay good money to John Malckovich into one of those brains temporarily. The things they reconcile and ignore defy sanity.

 

[Mo Horn 8812]

1 minute ago, texasdago said:

I am so frustrated. Tonight. One of my good friends admitted to me that he's going to be voting Trump. He said he knows he's evil but won't vote Kamala. This is a guy who is very smart, received his master's degree overseas. Speaks three languages. Worldly, travels, intelligent and thoughtful and he's voting Trump. I'm telling you it just makes me sad and very very disappointed. He's still my friend but I'm really disappointed.

You're a better man than I. I have no desire to be friends with anyone who supports dotard. 

[Js1 85223]

3 minutes ago, Mo Horn said:

You're a better man than I. I have no desire to be friends with anyone who supports dotard. 

This. Would be quickly untangling myself from that friendship 

[TexEx15 17504]

8 minutes ago, texasdago said:

I am so frustrated. Tonight. One of my good friends admitted to me that he's going to be voting Trump. He said he knows he's evil but won't vote Kamala. This is a guy who is very smart, received his master's degree overseas. Speaks three languages. Worldly, travels, intelligent and thoughtful and he's voting Trump. I'm telling you it just makes me sad and very very disappointed. He's still my friend but I'm really disappointed.

Did he explain why?

[Js1 85223]

We live in a timeline where Dick Cheney endorsed a Democrat, a Kennedy endorsed a Republican and David Duke endorsed Jill Stein

wtf is happening 

[Surly Bevo 24899]

Just now, TexEx15 said:

Did he explain why?

 

9 minutes ago, texasdago said:

I am so frustrated. Tonight. One of my good friends admitted to me that he's going to be voting Trump. He said he knows he's evil but won't vote Kamala. This is a guy who is very smart, received his master's degree overseas. Speaks three languages. Worldly, travels, intelligent and thoughtful and he's voting Trump. I'm telling you it just makes me sad and very very disappointed. He's still my friend but I'm really disappointed.

He's evil himself.....

I would dump the shit out of that friend Dago.  Somebody who will tell you they KNOW something is evil, but I'm getting on the train (he could just sit it out) is not a good person. 

[SizzleChest 8282]

12 minutes ago, Mo Horn said:

You're a better man than I. I have no desire to be friends with anyone who supports dotard. 

If your friendships can't survive shit like that, maybe they're all really just acquaintances.  Giving in to political tribalism to the extent of abandoning strong, lifelong relationships just seems completely stupid to me.  People get fucked up and lost.  It happens.

Edited October 16 by SizzleChest

[Brisketexan 104923]

He's evil himself.....
I would dump the shit out of that friend Dago.  Somebody who will tell you they KNOW something is evil, but I'm getting on the train (he could just sit it out) is not a good person. 

This.
Dump him. He’s a bad person. These things are beyond negotiation or discussion. Enough. Good and decent people have an obligation to draw that line.

[Brisketexan 104923]

If your friendships can't survive shit like that, maybe they're all really just acquaintances.  Giving in to political tribalism to the extent of abandoning strong, lifelong relationships just seems completely stupid to me.

Wrong. Voting for Trump is more than a simple political matter. This is not a difference of opinion on whether the new highway should be free or tolled. It’s a statement of whether you’re a decent human or not. Enough. It is time.

[Js1 85223]

2 minutes ago, SizzleChest said:

Giving in to political tribalism to the extent of abandoning strong, lifelong relationships just seems completely stupid

“No it’s cool bro, I get that you support the systematic murder of the Jewish people. We can still hang out and have some beers!” 

Yeah that doesn’t track with me 

[Huckleberry 32830]

2 minutes ago, SizzleChest said:

If your friendships can't survive shit like that, maybe they're all really just acquaintances.  Giving in to political tribalism to the extent of abandoning strong, lifelong relationships just seems completely stupid to me.  People get fucked up and lost.  It happens.

Supporting and voting for Donald Trump literally endangers many of my friends and even some family. It's not political tribalism to cut ties with someone who will vote to have my friends and family attacked and potentially deported.

[David Dennison 18824]

3 minutes ago, SizzleChest said:

If your friendships can't survive shit like that, maybe they're all really just acquaintances.  Giving in to political tribalism to the extent of abandoning strong, lifelong relationships just seems completely stupid to me.

Would this sentiment have applied in Germany in, oh, let's say, the 1930s?

[SizzleChest 8282]

1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

Wrong. Voting for Trump is more than a simple political matter. This is not a difference of opinion on whether the new highway should be free or tolled. It’s a statement of whether you’re a decent human or not. Enough. It is time.

 

1 minute ago, Js1 said:

“No it’s cool bro, I get that you support the systematic murder of the Jewish people. We can still hang out and have some beers!” 

Yeah that doesn’t track with me 

Happy for you that it's all so clear and simple.  

['stache 21786]

I play pickup baseball with a guy I know supports Trump, but I only know because of a few Facebook posts, never talks about it and has only posted a couple of times. That’s about as close as I can get. Have some others I know but they are acquaintances or professional connections and they don’t talk much about it either. I honestly don’t see where or how I’d come across a loudmouth maga fuck in my in any foreseeable setting. I just don’t operate at all in those spaces.

[Fudge Nuggets 19169]

30 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

With her attitude you know she's gonna rock your fucking world.

Damn right.

[SizzleChest 8282]

5 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

Supporting and voting for Donald Trump literally endangers many of my friends and even some family. It's not political tribalism to cut ties with someone who will vote to have my friends and family attacked and potentially deported.

I keep trying to convince them otherwise.  It's started to resonate.  If I had abandoned it and them, would that have happened?  Fuck no.  And these are people who were not lifelong Republicans.  They were susceptible because of social media and some temporary life failures.  Not calling them victims, but there are some explanations for this shit.

Edited October 16 by SizzleChest

[Pato del Muerto 52461]

16 minutes ago, TexEx15 said:

Did he explain why?

Did you hit him with a “whatza matta you?” and accompanying gesture of course?

Edited October 16 by Pato del Muerto

[Pancho 44654]

27 minutes ago, texasdago said:

I am so frustrated. Tonight. One of my good friends admitted to me that he's going to be voting Trump. He said he knows he's evil but won't vote Kamala. This is a guy who is very smart, received his master's degree overseas. Speaks three languages. Worldly, travels, intelligent and thoughtful and he's voting Trump. I'm telling you it just makes me sad and very very disappointed. He's still my friend but I'm really disappointed.

A smart person would ask him why because there’s no justifiable reason.

[SizzleChest 8282]

3 minutes ago, Pancho said:

A smart person would ask him why because there’s no justifiable reason.

Absolutely.  A caring friend would ask.  And ask.  And ask.  Hold them accountable for their opinion.  Push them.  Challenge them.  "Oh, you are voting for Trump?  Then why don't you have a t-shirt.  Or a sign,  Or a flag.  What are you hiding from?"

Edited October 16 by SizzleChest

[SubliminalHorn 6769]

14 minutes ago, SizzleChest said:

 

Happy for you that it's all so clear and simple.  

It’s pretty fucking clear and simple. You vote against my family, I lose respect for you. I can’t be close with someone I don’t respect. 

[SizzleChest 8282]

1 minute ago, SubliminalHorn said:

It’s pretty fucking clear and simple. You vote against my family, I lose respect for you. I can’t be close with someone I don’t respect. 

And that's fine for you.  It's not as easy for others.

[ChiTownDoc 21118]

2 hours ago, Js1 said:

6% of 2020 in one day

 

Am I allowed to complement Georgia this week?

[Gatorubet 30177]

4 minutes ago, SizzleChest said:

If your friendships can't survive shit like that, maybe they're all really just acquaintances.  Giving in to political tribalism to the extent of abandoning strong, lifelong relationships just seems completely stupid to me.  People get fucked up and lost.  It happens.

Could you explain how (and when) these broken, proudly ignorant, hate-filled  bigots will have an epiphany and get un-fucked up and un-lost?

“Yeah, so you want to send the military against political opponents of your candidate and revoke the FCC license of any news that questions him? Interesting.  Man, the Horns look good this year. “

 I launch those old friends and tell them why.  

[Mole 4326]

Early voting profiling check in from semi rural Georgia.

I encountered 4 other voter this morning: a grizzled, beaten down white gut with a confederate flag for his front license plate, a 40-something Black women dressed for some office job, and a FBC-looking couple decked out in UGA gear.

Extrapolating this data to the entire state…

[Fudge Nuggets 19169]

8 minutes ago, SizzleChest said:

It's not as easy for others.

It should be. 

[SizzleChest 8282]

3 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

Could you explain how (and when) these broken, proudly ignorant, hate-filled  bigots will have an epiphany and get un-fucked up and un-lost?

I don't know, man.  I know them and have been very close for 30 years.  I just try to unfuck them.  That's all.  If it works, it's a win.

[aggie08 21481]

30 minutes ago, SizzleChest said:

 

Happy for you that it's all so clear and simple.  

I have plenty of Trump-voting friends/family/co-workers. Most hide behind some combination of economy/taxes/guns, and make a point to remain willfully ignorant to all the other shit Trump and those who empower him do and say. I think it's dumb, naive, selfish, and dangerous, but I have no desire to ever try to talk, let alone convince people of, politics in person. They keep it mostly to themselves and are largely the same people that they were a decade ago. It is what it is.

However, a good chunk of the Trump voters that I know have become completely broken and oblivious to social cues and polite conversation. They'll find any and every opportunity to workshop the latest conspiracy theories on their "audience", make trans jokes, and casually slip in various hateful/bigoted/misogynistic/xenophobic shit. They're a chore to be around, and I don't want my kids anywhere near them.

Where not obliged by mandatory family get togethers, I've unapologetically jettisoned that group into the fucking sun.

Edited October 16 by aggie08

[cactusflinthead 27597]

We've got posters that voted for Dotard the first time but not again. One way or the other they changed their minds. It does happen.

[F250 28757]

14 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Am I allowed to complement Georgia this week?

[atomheartbevo 89589]

43 minutes ago, Js1 said:

We live in a timeline where Dick Cheney endorsed a Democrat, a Kennedy endorsed a Republican and David Duke endorsed Jill Stein

wtf is happening 

[henrygandorf 29187]

53 minutes ago, texasdago said:

I am so frustrated. Tonight. One of my good friends admitted to me that he's going to be voting Trump. He said he knows he's evil but won't vote Kamala. This is a guy who is very smart, received his master's degree overseas. Speaks three languages. Worldly, travels, intelligent and thoughtful and he's voting Trump. I'm telling you it just makes me sad and very very disappointed. He's still my friend but I'm really disappointed.

giving him the benefit of the doubt, it should at least make you very suspicious of where he's getting his news.

assuming facebook?

[Baboontyme 2809]

12 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

I have plenty of Trump-voting friends/family/co-workers. Most hide behind some combination of economy/taxes/guns, and make a point to remain willfully ignorant to all the other shit Trump and those who empower him do and say. I think it's dumb, naive, selfish, and dangerous, but I have no desire to ever try to talk, let alone convince people of, politics in person. They keep it mostly to themselves and are largely the same people that they were a decade ago. It is what it is.

However, a good chunk of the Trump voters that I know have become completely broken and oblivious to social cues and polite conversation. They'll find any and every opportunity to workshop the latest conspiracy theories on their "audience", make trans jokes, and casually slip in various hateful/bigoted/misogynistic/xenophobic shit. They're a chore to be around, and I don't want my kids anywhere near them.

Where not obliged by mandatory family get togethers, I've unapologetically jettisoned that group into the fucking sun.

Man no offense at all but I'm glad I don't have to deal with that. I don't think I have the temperament to put up with it. 

Edited October 16 by Baboontyme
Sounded like an asshole

[texas08 1599]

1 hour ago, texasdago said:

I am so frustrated. Tonight. One of my good friends admitted to me that he's going to be voting Trump. He said he knows he's evil but won't vote Kamala. This is a guy who is very smart, received his master's degree overseas. Speaks three languages. Worldly, travels, intelligent and thoughtful and he's voting Trump. I'm telling you it just makes me sad and very very disappointed. He's still my friend but I'm really disappointed.

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