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

[Gatorubet 30,720]

4 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

damn she has a GREAT ass !!!!!!

[TeeDubya 3,362]

2 hours ago, Stilicho said:

Yeah. They’re coming off the fucking rails. Just waste your career for TFG?
 

In Biloxi?!

Career?  He’s a chain-smoking, barely paid loser who never climbed past market 190.  At least some people fail upward.  He just languished in a shithole market. 

[henrygandorf 29,227]

1 hour ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

that was the word of the day on his dictionary app and he told that story just so he could use it in a sentence and cross it off his list for day

yesterday was “skullduggery”. 

[henrygandorf 29,227]

they don’t get people. 

[Chopper 17,432]

2 hours ago, Zonahorn said:

That's a great line. Should be used again and again and again.

[mdmost 44,056]

4 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

damn she has a GREAT ass !!!!!!

[F250 29,201]

3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

It’s slow going, and people are split between BluSky, Mastodon, and Threads.  And Threads/Mega are dragging their feet in a few key features - embedding is now possible but it relies upon third parties to update their software, but they are still refusing to do DMs (telling people to pop back into Instagram for that). They are also sticking to only one hashtag which is annoying.

I like the discussions in threads - because of no advertising, there’s fewer bots and lots of people just talking.

What's interesting about Threads is that it's a carry over thirst trap from Instagram but much more localized. I'm not saying it's like shooting fish in a barrel but it's like shooting fish in a barrel.

[tx 3 putt 78,693]

1 minute ago, F250 said:

What's interesting about Threads is that it's a carry over thirst trap from Instagram but much more localized. I'm not saying it's like shooting fish in a barrel but it's like shooting fish in a barrel.

[Gatorubet 30,720]

17 minutes ago, TeeDubya said:

Career?  He’s a chain-smoking, barely paid loser who never climbed past market 190.  At least some people fail upward.  He just languished in a shithole market. 

[Chopper 17,432]

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/bezos-kills-washington-post-endorsement-guardrails-falling

[F250 29,201]

Just now, tx 3 putt said:

So with Threads you can easily filter with ATX and SATX and the algorithm doesn't feed you dudes. Jumping into the DM's is easy peasy.

[gmr548 16,701]

11 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

This and the LA Times is nothing more than owners preemptively protecting themselves if DJT wins.  It is a sign that our Constitution and social contract are at grave risk. 

 

10 hours ago, Chuckie Finster said:

 

FWIW, doesn't seem like you say this kind of shit if you think you're about to win.

 

10 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

Elon Musk - Twitter, Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink $250B

Jeff Bezos- Washington Post, Amazon, AWS $211B

Mark Zuckerberg- Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp $200B

Sergey Brin - Google  (Alphabet) YouTube $131B

Micheal Bloomberg - Bloomberg News $106B

Bill Gates - Microsoft, $106B

Rupert Murdoch - FoxNews, WSJ $22B

 

These seven combined are worth over a trillion dollars and collectively control most of the public information space.  You cannot have a functioning Democracy with this shit.  It’s too much concentration of power, they can rewrite history if they want and no government is going to stop them. 

This shit. This shit right here. All of it.

It's why this country is heading into a dark age at absolute best, regardless of who wins the election. Trump may or may not win, I honestly have no idea (gun to my head - he does, we simply cannot have nice things). But this shit is too far gone.

[gmr548 16,701]

6 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

Well here's (at least part of) their plan:

 

Oh, and this shit too. So infuriatingly brazen and it will no doubt fly under the radar and be allowed to slide, if not expanded to all mail ballots.

[NorthLoop 14,469]

23 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

 

 

This shit. This shit right here. All of it.

It's why this country is heading into a dark age at absolute best, regardless of who wins the election. Trump may or may not win, I honestly have no idea (gun to my head - he does, we simply cannot have nice things). But this shit is too far gone.

Granted maybe this list wasnt 7 people long, but hasn't this been the case for a long fucking time? I don't buy into the doom and gloom here. Media magnates have always existed. 

[gmr548 16,701]

4 hours ago, Born to Run said:

I disagree and really was hoping for her to go on there.  Shit ton of young males need to be reached plus the Tik Tok crowd. We can't keep ignoring this demo.  And she's  tough enough to brush back any bullshit he might ask.

I sadly know a lot of moderate types that listen to JR bc "he has interesting guests." I'm talking otherwise fairly progressive people  including a dude that had Tim Walz as an teacher in HS.

I think it would have created a lot of positives.

I generally agree with this sentiment, but if Joe Rogan can't accommodate the sitting Vice President of the United States by agreeing to reasonable terms - whether that be studio security, acknowledging there are going to be some questions she cannot answer, arranging a remote interview, whatever - then he can kiss VPOTUS's ass.

For the record, again, we have no idea if any of this happened because the source is the Travis County GOP clown.

4 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

  jet stream of bullshit

Your wife also listens to I've Had It, I see.

[Chopper 17,432]

18 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

I generally agree with this sentiment, but if Joe Rogan can't accommodate the sitting Vice President of the United States by agreeing to reasonable terms - whether that be studio security, acknowledging there are going to be some questions she cannot answer, arranging a remote interview, whatever - then he can kiss VPOTUS's ass.

For the record, again, we have no idea if any of this happened because the source is the Travis County GOP clown.

Your wife also listens to I've Had It, I see.

That nonsensical post implying Harris is afraid of a Rogan interview for some reason is ridiculous and there's no reason to give it any credence. In fact Rogan said himself today that he's still trying to accommodate Harris.

Edited October 26 by Chopper

[tx 3 putt 78,693]

 

[tx 3 putt 78,693]

 

[atomheartbevo 90,651]

2 hours ago, Paper_jam said:

Jesus it's insane that this election is even close. It was sickeningly astonishing the first time Trump won, but for Americans to put him in office again after everything he's done is just a big middle finger to the concept of responsible, democratic government. Voting for Trump is not an act of ignorance anymore, it's an act of malice.

Dick Fucking Cheney has publicly supported Kamala Harris, as have a shitload of other high-profile Republicans. Shit, the mayor of Oklahoma Fucking City just came out yesterday.

That means there's going to be a shitload of Republicans who *quietly* vote for her (or just don't vote).

Hell, .Republicans I know have said they are voting for Harris.

[henrygandorf 29,227]

there’s also a clip where he says “kamala” several times and pronounces it correctly every time. 

 

[tx 3 putt 78,693]

the Rogan interview was a horrible idea but rogan listeners have already decided

[StassneyHorn 6,775]

1 hour ago, gmr548 said:

Your wife also listens to I've Had It, I see.

what is this shit? Win or lose the end goal is Thailand

[Chopper 17,432]

33 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Here's a short video of someone panning a camera from a seat up high at the Kamala Harris rally as 30k attendees do the wave to kill time.

https://bsky.app/profile/ablington.bsky.social/post/3l7ezyxwkjz2t

[tx 3 putt 78,693]

MAGA !!!!!!!!

 

[SydneyCarton 49,506]

10 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

Well here's (at least part of) their plan:

 

One of the lawyers want to tell me why this isn’t catastrophic? It got kinda lost in the rally buzz. 

[HenryJames 67,373]

It only applies to Mississippi for this election.

[LCHorn 2,751]

41 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

One of the lawyers want to tell me why this isn’t catastrophic? It got kinda lost in the rally buzz. 

If you’re a regular slate reader, your concern might be tempered by the fact they’ve run a “this is the end of the republic as we know it” article daily since 2007.  

[Bama Llama 1,508]

Apathy is the enemy moreso than Trump the Bloviator.  In 2000,  if only 10% more registered minority Democrats had made their way to the polls in this punkass backward state (according to SurlyWorld), Al Gore would have carried Alabama and made it to 270 and won the Presidency without carrying Florida, if we truly concede Florida, which I will never do. 

[wildcat09 29,579]

50 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

One of the lawyers want to tell me why this isn’t catastrophic? It got kinda lost in the rally buzz. 

Scotus SHOULD overturn this, as they have a precedent that basically calls for no last minute election changes. But it’s, let’s say, unevenly applied. 

[TwiceHorn 32,080]

5 hours ago, Chopper said:

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/bezos-kills-washington-post-endorsement-guardrails-falling

Something else it shows, perhaps, is that a second-term Trump may do more than threaten.

[Js1 87,187]

6 hours ago, Paper_jam said:

Jesus it's insane that this election is even close. It was sickeningly astonishing the first time Trump won, but for Americans to put him in office again after everything he's done is just a big middle finger to the concept of responsible, democratic government. Voting for Trump is not an act of ignorance anymore, it's an act of malice.

 

 

It’s “close” bc the media is selling you a 50/50 horse race. It’s “close” because every polling firm is terrified to be wrong again and making the polls reflect a 50/50 race so they can say “well it could have gone either way!”

It’s really not going to be that close. 2012 redux

[TwiceHorn 32,080]

1 hour ago, wildcat09 said:

Scotus SHOULD overturn this, as they have a precedent that basically calls for no last minute election changes. But it’s, let’s say, unevenly applied. 

I guess we should explain that it's the Fifth Circuit, which has jurisdiction only over Texas, MIssissippi, and Louisiana.  Of those, only Mississippi attempts to count votes not received by election day.  So it only actually affects Mississippi and it wasn't changing the electoral outcome in any of them.  ETA, even the MS Secretary of State said the change will not be implemented until after this election.

But, it could be used as a precedent elsewhere.  It's not binding anywhere else, and, now that the Fifth Circuit has lost most of its credibility, will not be a convincing precedent   And, luckily, the trial court reached the opposite conclusion and didn't attempt to give a nationwide injunction against such laws.

Also, this is what wildcat refers to.  Purcell.

Edited October 26 by TwiceHorn

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,733]

8 hours ago, Goofyboy said:

The TikTok crowd had a massive section at the DNC. They cover her campaign well.

They cover her campaign well for the algorithm that feed people who are already going to be voting for her.

its a mistake to not go on Rogan.

[Bookman 4,764]

6 hours ago, Paper_jam said:

Jesus it's insane that this election is even close. It was sickeningly astonishing the first time Trump won, but for Americans to put him in office again after everything he's done is just a big middle finger to the concept of responsible, democratic government. Voting for Trump is not an act of ignorance anymore, it's an act of malice.

 

 

It's because Trump voters literally don't care about you at all. 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,733]

6 hours ago, Pancho said:

 

I assume the county releases the official voter affiliation for each ballot received. Why not just stop the ruse and count the mail in and early votes as they occur. So what if one candidate realizes they are behind and they go all-in to get more voters. They do this already based on imperfect data. 

[Sawbonz 28,225]

7 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

He watched the movie to see Kristen Dunst's tits.

[RomaVicta 30,597]

Thought y'all might enjoy a good novella. 

17 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

This and the LA Times is nothing more than owners preemptively protecting themselves if DJT wins.  It is a sign that our Constitution and social contract are at grave risk. 

It's a pleasure to find a forum where I can toss a hook 'em after one of your posts. Great observation, my friend.

 

17 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

When the people and entities supposedly protected from government action by the First Amendment restrain their speech because they fear the planned regime will NOT be restrained by the protections provided by the First Amendment, then the First Amendment is dead.

To be clear, the side shouting "free speech!" as loudly as they can, all the time -- in the COMPLETELY wrong context -- has actually succeeded in killing protected free speech.

They are enemies of the Republic, freedom, and the Constitution.

The hate engine has spent more than forty years convincing them that they are the protectors of America. Liberals are their juden. We're carried beyond reason. Somehow the obvious doesn't matter anymore.

If a reckoning comes for the MAGA traitors, they will be Michael Douglas on the pier in Falling Down.

Their irony deafness doesn't recognize the obvious in the below. This is why you can't argue with them:

It now occurs to me that if nothing is obvious, you can't be ironic. Not bad for a Saturday morning.

16 hours ago, South Austin said:

Yep.  And more specifically, Kamala Harris needs to schedule a stop in North Carolina as soon as she can, and tell the attendees and viewing audience that Andy Mother-Fucking Harris has proposed stripping North Carolinians of their right to vote and determine the allocation of the state's electoral votes regardless of the will of the people.  

She would need to speak off the cuff on this subject and it's implications alone. Leave the boilerplate at home. This national leader, Fuckwad Harris (no relation), is calling for election results prior to election day. He is cancelling everybody's vote and right to vote whether you vote Republican or Democrat. 

Does anyone want to give a man who doesn't care anything about our Constituition the power to award public office before anyone has even voted? 

That was Vice President Kamala Harris, we have Congressman Fuckwad Harris here to explain his point of view. Congressman?

Kamala Harris is a radical socialist who wants murderers and rapers to come to this country to murder and rape us. And eat our pets as they're doing in Springfield. We want to protect the sanctity of election results by preventing Democrat cheating. We will not let them steal another election!

Do you believe Donald Trump won in 2020?

We don't want to look back. We are looking forward to the day that we can make America great again at bayonet point.

 

16 hours ago, mdmost said:

Corporate media with a vested interest in things staying a certain way. It's why I hope CNN and others start going under. They've stoked this era of politics at every turn. They reacted to Fox News by becoming something almost worse. 

CNN has ceased being a news gathering organization as they rely on print media for their stories. They've drifted so far from the concept of reporting that their banner at the bottom of the screen always reads: Breaking News. Most of the time, it's just a description of who is appearing on one of their panels. Real journalism news organizations were picky about getting things right.

CNN does try to stay in the middle with their panel discussions which has some value. Sadly, they don't exercise editorial discretion to keep out the bullshit. They're too timid to call something what it is. Lies in the case of Trump or famine in the case of the poor citizens of Gaza.

If they go, I wonder where a lot of people will hear what the newspapers they never read are reporting. CNN  is at least a clearing house for a little bit of that. I'd prefer that CNN improve, but that's a pipe dream.

8 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

I’m actually impressed he knows the word “melancholia”

7 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

He watched the movie to see Kristen Dunst's tits.

TwiceHorn beat me to the main point. The other main point is Dunst is blonde and...well just take a look at photos from 2011.

 

 

Take me, daddy.

[Bozo_Casanova 26,851]

Couple things:

1) The Harris rally was epic. It seems like it broke through the noise for her in a way that nothing else really has this month. 

2) Trump is flailing and his team is flailing. He could win, obviously, but they are running on fumes and relying on whatever fuckery they have cooked up to come down with the ball. It is evident to me that they thought Harris would revert the signal by now. She hasn’t, and the mid-oct Trump bounce has peaked.
 

3) Harris should absolutely do Rogan, and I still hope she does. There is literally no downside and in an election like this she loses when dances to their tune (CNN/60 Mins) and wins when she’s making her own weather (Fox, CHD, Houston Rally).

Edited October 26 by Bozo_Casanova

[Js1 87,187]

3 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Couple things:

1) The Harris rally was epic. It seems like it broke through the noise for her in a way that nothing else really has this month. 

2) Trump is flailing and his team is flailing. He could win, obviously, but they are running on fumes and relying on whatever fuckery they have cooked up to come down with the ball. It is evident to me that they thought Harris would revert the signal by now. She hasn’t, and the mid-oct Trump bounce has peaked.
 

3) Harris should absolutely do Rogan, and I still hope she does. There is literally no downside and in an election like this she loses when dances to their tune (CNN/60 Mins) and wins when she’s making her own weather (Fox, CHD, Houston Rally).

On point 2, weekend Fox & Friends (my mom had it on) was basically discussing how she could still lose the race, not how Trump is winning it.

Not the most confident assessment of the race by the F&F B-team 

[SimonBolivar 11,064]

Racism > Business

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/22/us/elections/trump-deportation.html

 

 

[TheStoicPaisano 9,953]

Siap

 

[Macanudo 13,327]

Harris should set up a series of rallies in Philly or Pittsburgh at 2-3 venues.  Places that seat 15,000+.  Plan it so that she moves from one place to another and has three distinct "parties" like she did last night but all in one day and in a 4-5 hour window.   Imagine the way that would look if 40k or 50k or 100k showed out for that.   I think the enthusiasm is there for it   The logistics are a bit hard to pull off but do it.    

Think about if she'd been at Minute Maid for a speech at 4:00, moved to Shell at 5:30 and then Minute Maid to close it out.  Have the Big Screens on so everyone at each location can watch party with the other locations.  Give three distinct speeched covering 3 specific items (say, the economy, foreign policy and a GOTV one.)

That would rock.  But with 9+ days left, it might not matter.   

[Bullneck 19,530]

4 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

MAGA !!!!!!!!

 

Sounds like he's trying to channel his inner Springsteen.

Google says the stadium has 22,000 seats.  They all look filled, as well as half the field.  They are doing The Wave in the video:

Edited October 26 by Bullneck

[BamaATL 16,593]

Georgia overnight data dump highlights:

1.  2.614 million votes have now been cast

2  Women outpace men by 300k 55.5% to 44% (a .1% uptick from yesterday)

3.  Vote totals against 2020 - EV voters make up 76.4%, day of voters 6.6%, and non voters 17%

The 2020 early voters now make up 2 million of the 2.614 million, while the day of make up 174k.  The big question then, who are the 444k non voters from 2020 (this will determine the winner)?

Demographic breakdown of the non voter

White - 237k

Black - 107k

Hispanic - 22k

Asian - 19k

Other - 59k

By Gender

Female - 233k

Male - 199k

Other/Unknown -12k 

By Age

18-29 - 140k

30-39 - 64k

40-49 - 55k

50-64 - 89k

65+ - 88k

Unknown - 9k

Fortress Atlanta 2020 Non Voters

Clayton County - 10k

Cobb County - 31k

Dekalb Couny - 30k

Douglas County - 6.2k

Fulton County - 58k

Gwinett County - 38k

 

So the curious thing this week will be if we see a voting turnout that runs out of steam.  We've now exceeded EV turnout by 300k from 2020, and 2020 EV voters that haven't voted only represent about 325k.  I've been expecting a bit of slow down, but yesterday proved to be the exact opposite.  It now appears that Georgia will easily exceed 3 million votes cast by Friday, the end of EV.  The real question is how high this total will actually go.  Is 3.5 million possible?  Well I'd have certainly told you no before all this, but now I think it's almost assured.  

The engagement is fantastic, and I certainly believe that favors us strongly.  Apathy is our enemy, and I don't see any.  

 

 

 

[aggie08 21,805]

32 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

Racism > Business

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/22/us/elections/trump-deportation.html

 

 

Let me summarize: 

Arkansas: "We need you to take these jobs."

Immigrants: "Ok."

Arkansas voters: "They turk err jerbs!!!"

[Stringer 1,487]

Were there any voting locations close to the rally yesterday?

It would have been awesome if there was a line switch system where one person could go vote while waiting in line and then switch with whoever you came with.

[Radical Larry 28,822]

19 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

Harris should set up a series of rallies in Philly or Pittsburgh at 2-3 venues.  Places that seat 15,000+.  Plan it so that she moves from one place to another and has three distinct "parties" like she did last night but all in one day and in a 4-5 hour window.   Imagine the way that would look if 40k or 50k or 100k showed out for that.   I think the enthusiasm is there for it   The logistics are a bit hard to pull off but do it.    

Think about if she'd been at Minute Maid for a speech at 4:00, moved to Shell at 5:30 and then Minute Maid to close it out.  Have the Big Screens on so everyone at each location can watch party with the other locations.  Give three distinct speeched covering 3 specific items (say, the economy, foreign policy and a GOTV one.)

That would rock.  But with 9+ days left, it might not matter.   

She should hold a rally at Four Seasons Total Landscaping. 

[Macanudo 13,327]

Just now, Radical Larry said:

She should hold a rally at Four Seasons Total Landscaping. 

Oh, I completely agree with that.  

[BamaATL 16,593]

1 minute ago, Radical Larry said:

She should hold a rally at Four Seasons Total Landscaping. 

That's the spike the football moment, what you do is post up there once 270 is crossed and give a speech.  

[Chuckie Finster 23,081]

Sounds like he's trying to channel his inner Springsteen.
Google says the stadium has 22,000 seats.  They all look filled, as well as half the field.  They are doing The Wave in the video:

I know we are so far beyond stuff like this, but it reminded me that Trump thought a reasonable exaggeration for the crowd outside his McDonalds stunt was TWENTY-NINE THOUSAND, aka the same size as the Kamala rally last night.

I can’t believe we are this close to putting a man that stupid back in office.