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


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2 hours ago, austingirl said:

I know it's foolish, but part of me likes to pretend that a person with a decent shot at becoming the next president might have a person or two on his team at least going through some of the normal motions of running a presidential campaign.

To give you a serious response - somebody at a fairly high level in his campaign, with some sway, is doing something along those lines..

1. He's not doing a bunch of campaign rallies, even though this is a time that he should be - Harris and Walz look positively energetic while he looks like a frail old man. Some have speculated that he's got some health issues, but I think somebody close to him realizes the more campaign rallies he does, the more chances there are of him continuing to say stupid shit and drive moderates away.

2. They are still doing ad buys, even bumping them up in some states.

3. They are trying to get free publicity by having Vance follow Harris/Walz - i.e. the reporters are already at their rallies, so have Couchfucker setup shop nearby and get some media attention.

Compared to 2020, his campaign feels like it's in maintenance mode - doing just enough to keep the MAGA core active and sending him money, but they are being extremely frugal with their spending (he should be able to fill out 5,0000 or 10,000 seat arenas, but they are going with cheaper, smaller venues).

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2 hours ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

I posted this because I have absolutely been, in my professional career, the victim of both sexism/misogyny and the fucking glass ceiling.

It doesn't help when for years, people have used phrases like, "Cry like a girl" or "Throw like a girl" or "Hit like a girl" to insult male children. Honestly, enough is enough. Men have been in power for 200+ years here in the US. We have a country that is more than 50% female, and yet the makeup of Congress doesn't reflect that. Time to let us be in charge. 

I'll give you the executive, judicial, and legislative. But "throws like  a girl" gotta stay now that we're playing aggy every year.

2 hours ago, Dahobbs said:

Trump is going to take credit for a cease fire. 

The word you are looking for is Grease fire

18 minutes ago, Chopper said:

It's a good thing tiktok doesn't embed here but I'd allow an exception for this one. Clever 10 second ad for Harris by the Lincoln Project. Worth a click. 

news to me

 

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Posted
5 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

You could have posted this at any time from 2016 on and no one would know when you were referring to.

ETA:  God dammit, this is what just kills me.  These people have literally been a clown car of incompetency and dipshittery from day 1, which was almost 8 god damn years ago, and yet we are still sitting here worrying about them regaining power.  70+ million of our fellow VOTERS (let's not even talk about overall citizens) are so god damn fucking stupid that we are still concerned that we might have to deal with this band of grifting, lying, chucklefucks again.  I mean WHAT THE FUCK?!?!

I'd say it's ramped up in the last month, and that maybe why Trump is even battier than normal - because he picked Ole Couchfucker, and now he's stuck with him and can't ditch him and that has to be driving him crazy.

A month ago yesterday, Trump was wounded by shrapnel/glass from a would-be assassin.  He should have been able to ride that to victory in November.  Instead, we've collectively forgotten that, Dems have coalesced around Harris in record time and record numbers, a lot of Republicans are openly bailing on Trump, and he's stuck with a guy who wears eyeliner and used to dress in drag and who is called a couchfucker.

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3 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

A month ago yesterday, Trump was wounded by shrapnel/glass from a would-be assassin.  He should have been able to ride that to victory in November.

If you are talking about every candidate pre-dotard, sure.  But when you spend 8 years denigrating, insulting, fucking with, and putting almost everyone in harm's way, including your own supporters, I'm not surprised someone taking a pot shot at him didn't rile up the populace.  Pretty much got this reaction and I don't blame anyone with a logical brain for having it:

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Posted
3 hours ago, Old Freak Nasty said:

This.  A billion times this.

I believe America will be better off with women in places requiring strong, ethical leadership.  Especially in national level political elected positions.  Progress is far too slow, but if we can stave off this GQP fever, I have hope that a tsunami will hit soon enough.

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Posted
10 hours ago, Red Five said:

Imagine hearing that and not being clued in that he is a moron conman.

"This stock market is up! It's because of me! No wait it's down. That's because of Biden. Or Harris. Or both. Wait it's back up, because of me!" 

I literally have had this come across social media from MAGA people I know. Along with AI. Tim Walz puts tampons in boys bathrooms. MAGA will literally believe everything coming out this mans mouth, and regurgitate it. No fact checking. No common sense. No logic.

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Posted
1 hour ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

My biggest beef with Dotard.  He’s made voting for one side so repugnant that you have to vote for the other side regardless of policy.  Now we’ve gotta act excited about price controls. 

Uh, I’m pretty fucking excited about price controls. 

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Posted

That Emerson +4 poll has Harris +2, Trump -10, Walz even, Vance -10

That puts the 538 favorability averages at:

Harris 44/48
Trump 43/52
Walz 37/32
Vance 33/42

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Posted
1 minute ago, Js1 said:

That Emerson +4 poll has Harris +2, Trump -10, Walz even, Vance -10

That puts the 538 favorability averages at:

Harris 44/48
Trump 43/52
Walz 37/32
Vance 33/42

Explain to me like I'm 5 the difference between polls and favorability polls.  And why I should care.

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Posted
1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:

Explain to me like I'm 5 the difference between polls and favorability polls.  And why I should care.

If people don't like you, it's hard to get them to vote for you outside of your base.  If over 50% of voters don't like Trump, it's pretty hard for him to get a majority of the vote. 

He usually hovers around 43-45 favorability, which is typically where his polling hovers (44-46%). 

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14 minutes ago, Js1 said:

That Emerson +4 poll has Harris +2, Trump -10, Walz even, Vance -10

That puts the 538 favorability averages at:

Harris 44/48
Trump 43/52
Walz 37/32
Vance 33/42

 

9 minutes ago, Js1 said:

If people don't like you, it's hard to get them to vote for you outside of your base.  If over 50% of voters don't like Trump, it's pretty hard for him to get a majority of the vote. 

He usually hovers around 43-45 favorability, which is typically where his polling hovers (44-46%). 

So by this logic, Walz should be running for POTUS?

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Would it be too much to ask for Kamala or Walz to show up to their debate and put an orange, a mushroom, and a little toy couch on the podium and not say a word about it?

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Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, Pancho said:

 

You know they had zero people there, looks like AI to me. Did they not learn anything from the Four Seasons fiasco? 

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Posted
21 minutes ago, tx ind said:

Would it be too much to ask for Kamala or Walz to show up to their debate and put an orange, a mushroom, and a little toy couch on the podium and not say a word about it?

Props aren’t allowed. I’d rather see Stormy Daniels and E. Jean Carroll seated in the front row of the audience. I don’t know if Karen McDougal could be persuaded. She actually liked the guy. 

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Posted
24 minutes ago, Pancho said:

They are trying to make turnip feel better lol

 

holy shit 7.5 MOE? that's not even worthy of discussion or even using for the average.

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