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2 hours ago, royiv said:

Fuck him. He’s business partners with monsters. I’m sure he could have found another buyer to be partners with that doesn’t have Trump’s stench.

Reall?  Is this where we are now?  You're not allowed to sell your business to people you don't agree with politically?

How's that gonna work with the stock market?

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Posted
1 hour ago, royiv said:

The campaign needs to figure out a way to really dumb down the talking points on tariffs. The average idiot has no grasp on how tariffs work. They just think “China bad, stick it to ‘em with tariffs” and magically none of the costs get passed along to consumers.

What have we learned from Trump?   SAY IT OVER -- AND OVER -- AND OVER and it will be true.

repeat after me:

"THE TARIFFS ARE TRUMP'S TAXES ON ALL OF US. But he's also going to give tax cuts to his rich billionaire friends TAX CUTS."

Bizzaro Robin Hood

(Bizzaro reference will resonate with GenX males, don't ask me how I know)

Posted
23 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

Nope, this gambit would pay off in a popular vote scenario as well. Stay on the ballot in populous blue states to siphon votes from Harris and get off the ballot on solid red states. The specific states to sue to come off the ballot would be different but the strategy would still work. This is a separate issue that should be addressed. 

@Js1's campaign to compress the election calendar is a great idea. 

 

17 minutes ago, Js1 said:

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I agree with the sentiment but you're going to have legit First Amendment issues trying to enforce this.

Hard things that are still easier: ditching the electoral college, making DC a state, getting rid of gerrymandering.

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Tuned in late to Deadline White House on MSNBC. In addition to Liz Cheney endorsing Colin Allred they’re reporting that she says her dad is voting for Kamala Harris too.

Okay, Dubya, you’re up. 

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Posted
5 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

In a sane world with current technology and AI we could eliminate gerrymandering tomorrow. But we don't live in a sane world. 

Paradoxically, advances in technology have made gerrymandering far more effective.

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14 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

Reall?  Is this where we are now?  You're not allowed to sell your business to people you don't agree with politically?

How's that gonna work with the stock market?

1. He’s partners with these fuckfaces. He didn’t outright sell the team. He made a decision to let these people be his boss. He’s totally cool letting these shitheads be the majority owner of a franchise that he brought back to life. 

2. This isn’t the stock market. It’s a private enterprise. 

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Posted (edited)
5 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

I don't know about the rest of the country, but out here nurses and firefighters make a shitload of money.  They don't belong in the same mention as teachers.

It isn't that way all over.  There are many paid fire departments that start in the high 40's across the country.  

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Posted
4 hours ago, SquishMitten said:

Gotdamnit that makes my blood boil. The worst part about it, well, not the worst part ... the worst part is him saying we just have to accept it as a part of life ... but the second worst part is that he's so close to saying what a majority of the country would be in favor of re: gun control.

The worst part is that he's saying this, usually behind bulletproof glass, surrounded by Secret Service agents who are willing to risk their life to protect his, and surrounded by people who have been carefully screened for weapons.

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Posted
7 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

I'm Missouri on this:  fucking show me.  

He's suing Bexar County this week:

https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2024/09/04/texas-ag-sues-bexar-county-over-plans-to-mail-voter-registration-forms/

And now Travis County:

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/travis-county/paxton-sues-travis-county-over-approved-agenda-item-regarding-voter-registration/

They are scared shitless that a slight bump in voter registration and turnout will put Texas in play, or at the least put down-ballot races in play.

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Posted
29 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

The worst part is that he's saying this, usually behind bulletproof glass, surrounded by Secret Service agents who are willing to risk their life to protect his, and surrounded by people who have been carefully screened for weapons.

And even with all of that (minus the bullet-proof glass) some kid was able to walk right into range of Donald Trump with an AR 15 and get a free shot at him.

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Walz doing a Dallas fundraiser on the night of the debate next week. So much interest, it’s likely to be moved from someone’s house to a private event space 

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Posted
4 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Walz doing a Dallas fundraiser on the night of the debate next week. So much interest, it’s likely to be moved from someone’s house to a private event space 

How about the Cotton Bowl.  

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Posted
5 hours ago, SquishMitten said:

Make it impossible for "psychos" to get guns! Have far stricter requirements for who can get a gun. Make sure people that develop mental illnesses have their guns taken away until they are mentally stable again. Invest in mental health to prevent people from going down that path, and help them get out of it when they do.

Essentially this, which will all get behind:

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Why should we have to harden schools? The problem isn't with the schools, it's with the shooters and the ease with which they can access massively lethal weapons. 

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Posted
13 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

Way too prepared to be President of the US.

If that's how she prepares and operates on a daily basis she's gonna fuck dotard up next week.

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Posted
20 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

Way too prepared to be President of the US.

I know.  What kind of President pays attention at a briefing and, uh, really knows stuff?

Posted
1 hour ago, Leeroy Jenkins said:

It isn't that way all over.  There are many paid fire departments that start in the high 40's across the country.  

Fair enough.  
 

I've sold homes to a half-dozen firefighters, including one that works in Las Vegas and commutes to San Diego County.  I'm not kidding.  His wife and kids hated the heat, so now he drives up, works six days in a row, comes home for 10 days or so, rinse and repeat. 

These guys have one thing in common...they max out on overtime.  there's a "code" among these guys.  You MUST take every available sick day, because when you're out sick, somebody is collecting time-and-a-half to cover your shift.  Most of these guys make nearly as much in OT as they make in base salary.  It's a fucking racket. 

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1 hour ago, Leeroy Jenkins said:

It isn't that way all over.  There are many paid fire departments that start in the high 40's across the country.  

And then there's the unpaid

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I don't understand the backlash over Vance's "just whatever makes sense" comment.  I mean, that is EXACTLY what I said to my wife back when we were dating and she asked how I might like to spice up our love life.

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Posted
1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

I don't understand the backlash over Vance's "just whatever makes sense" comment.  I mean, that is EXACTLY what I said to my wife back when we were dating and she asked how I might like to spice up our love life.

When you entered your human girlfriend, did you have any inputs that the humans call “ feelings”?

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Posted (edited)
43 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

Way too prepared to be President of the US.

I imagine working for Biden is like, shooting the shit, laugh at crazy uncle Joe’s story about corn pop over ice cream, etc. BS your way through some report or chart by making him laugh or distracting him, but it’s fine, he has competent advisors who will read my report 

Kamala? Oh shit, now we gotta WORK. And be prepared. And say it to her face 

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/06/politics/dick-cheney-kamala-harris-president/index.html

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Friday that he will vote for Democrat Kamala Harris over fellow Republican Donald Trump in the November election, warning that the former president “can never be trusted with power again.”

“In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Cheney said in a statement. “He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He can never be trusted with power again.”

“As citizens, we each have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution. That is why I will be casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris,” he concluded.

Cheney’s daughter, former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, first revealed earlier in the day that her father would be voting for the Democratic ticket during remarks at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Texas. The former Republican congresswoman said Wednesday that she would be voting for Harris, citing “the danger that Donald Trump poses.”

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Dick Cheney’s support for Harris represents a stunning move for the staunch conservative who was vice president to George W. Bush and a longtime congressman from Wyoming who held several leadership roles in the House Republican Caucus.

The former vice president was critical of his party and Trump in the wake of the January 6 attack. In campaign ads for his daughter’s 2022 reelection effort, he called Trump a “threat to our republic” and a “coward.”

“He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him,” Dick Cheney said of the former president in the ad.

His daughter’s outspokenness against Trump and the former president’s efforts to ov

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25 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

I don't understand the backlash over Vance's "just whatever makes sense" comment.  I mean, that is EXACTLY what I said to my wife back when we were dating and she asked how I might like to spice up our love life.

And....that's why you still sit a bit funny.

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Posted (edited)
3 minutes ago, G650 said:

Dick Cheney voting for a Democrat is not something I ever thought I would see in my life.

well, admitting it at least. unprecedented times indeed

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Posted
41 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 

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The decision reverses a lower court’s ruling that allowed the Green Party to qualify for the Nevada ballot for the first time since 2008. It is also a victory for state Democrats and ensures that only Libertarian Party candidate Chase Oliver will appear as a third-party candidate on Nevada’s presidential ballot after independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped out of the race last month.

Democrats in multiple states have sued to keep the Green Party off the ballot, fearing dissatisfied left-leaning voters would not vote Democratic if the Green Party was an option. 

 

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However, the affidavit language used by the party is the same as the one recommended by the Nevada Secretary of State’s Office in its guide for minor political parties to qualify for the ballot. The high court’s majority ruled that this error by the state did not absolve the Green Party’s legal obligation to use the right form.

“The Green Party's failure to use the correct circulator affidavit cannot be excused by the Green Party's reliance on the sample petition received from the Secretary,” the opinion states.

In their dissent, Pickering and Herndon were “deeply concerned that our decision today excuses an egregious error by the Secretary of State's office that will result in a significant injustice.”

 

https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/green-party-will-not-appear-on-nevada-presidential-ballot-state-supreme-court-rules

Ah yes, but that's the party that is "saving Democracy."  lolz.

Posted
1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

Fucking.  Seriously.  Enough.  Just fucking ENOUGH.  I don't want any crimes committed by anyone.  But of all the horrible things about Donald Trump, the worst thing about him is that he's not dead yet.  His death will be the greatest historical event of my lifetime, and I really don't know if there's even a close second.  He's awful, evil, and irredeemable in every way.  JUST.  FUCKING.  DIE ALREADY.


No. Die after losing the election to a black woman.

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50 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/06/politics/dick-cheney-kamala-harris-president/index.html

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Friday that he will vote for Democrat Kamala Harris over fellow Republican Donald Trump in the November election, warning that the former president “can never be trusted with power again.”

“In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Cheney said in a statement. “He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He can never be trusted with power again.”

“As citizens, we each have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution. That is why I will be casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris,” he concluded.

Cheney’s daughter, former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, first revealed earlier in the day that her father would be voting for the Democratic ticket during remarks at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Texas. The former Republican congresswoman said Wednesday that she would be voting for Harris, citing “the danger that Donald Trump poses.”

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Dick Cheney’s support for Harris represents a stunning move for the staunch conservative who was vice president to George W. Bush and a longtime congressman from Wyoming who held several leadership roles in the House Republican Caucus.

The former vice president was critical of his party and Trump in the wake of the January 6 attack. In campaign ads for his daughter’s 2022 reelection effort, he called Trump a “threat to our republic” and a “coward.”

“He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him,” Dick Cheney said of the former president in the ad.

His daughter’s outspokenness against Trump and the former president’s efforts to ov

DIck Cheney is the monstrous war criminal of our times who  in any just society would have had his head chopped off by now.   If Kissinger had been capable of blushing Cheney would have made it happen. But it is humorous seeing all the old neoncons tossing their fits at the logical result of their policies coming back to bite their control in the form of the orange baboon.  Lincoln Project another example.  

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Posted
3 minutes ago, Red Five said:

No now would be perfectly fine.


Fine but not optimal, especially for those of us who want to see him suffer. 

8 minutes ago, MC Fresh Breath said:

DIck Cheney is the monstrous war criminal of our times who  in any just society would have had his head chopped off by now.   If Kissinger had been capable of blushing Cheney would have made it happen. But it is humorous seeing all the old neoncons tossing their fits at the logical result of their policies coming back to bite their control in the form of the orange baboon.  Lincoln Project another example.  


I don't think it's tossing a fit to recognize an existential threat to democracy. 

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1 minute ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:


 


I don't think it's tossing a fit to recognize an existential threat to democracy. 

Oh lol.  A man who did his best to destory multiple countries, including ours.  Suddenly he has a concious and cares?  OK.

Posted
47 minutes ago, G650 said:

Dick Cheney voting for a Democrat is not something I ever thought I would see in my life.

43 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

well, admitting it at least. unprecedented times indeed

1 minute ago, MC Fresh Breath said:

DIck Cheney is the monstrous war criminal of our times who  in any just society would have had his head chopped off by now.   If Kissinger had been capable of blushing Cheney would have made it happen. But it is humorous seeing all the old neoncons tossing their fits at the logical result of their policies coming back to bite their control in the form of the orange baboon.  Lincoln Project another example.  

I thought RFK Jr filming himself telling Roseanne Barr the story of how he killed a bear cub in the country and then drove it into New York City and dumped its carcass in fucking Central Park and then posting it on social media would be the weirdest story of this political season.

Dick Cheney voting for the Democratic nominees, a Black woman no less, has managed to top that.

I did not expect it in my lifetime either.  Romney or George W Bush?  Possibly?  Dick Cheney?  No, although in hindsight, maybe blood is thicker than water with him and he wasn’t going to ignore Trump working to primary his daughter,

Dick Cheney is somebody you can point out to your relatives to help “normalize” Republicans at least not voting for Trump.

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Posted
2 minutes ago, MC Fresh Breath said:

Oh lol.  A man who did his best to destory multiple countries, including ours.  Suddenly he has a concious and cares?  OK.

Which is why it’s a bit of a big deal when he of all people is saying the Republican nominee is a threat tot he country.

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Posted
2 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

I thought RFK Jr filming himself telling Roseanne Barr the story of how he killed a bear cub in the country and then drove it into New York City and dumped its carcass in fucking Central Park and then posting it on social media would be the weirdest story of this political season.

Dick Cheney voting for the Democratic nominees, a Black woman no less, has managed to top that.

I did not expect it in my lifetime either.  Romney or George W Bush?  Possibly?  Dick Cheney?  No, although in hindsight, maybe blood is thicker than water with him and he wasn’t going to ignore Trump working to primary his daughter,

Dick Cheney is somebody you can point out to your relatives to help “normalize” Republicans at least not voting for Trump.

If I ever get the opportunity to point at Dick Cheney it will be with two middle fingers while yelling obscenities.

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