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

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8 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Surprised they didn’t go with Haitian gang violence 

It’s still early. 

3 hours ago, hobbes2702 said:

Dana Bash should be taken off the air for that. Absolutely embarrassing to have such feeble pushback to a VP candidate admitting he’s taking pages directly from the Nazi playbook 

Well, she's horrible, so yes, she should be taken off the air . . . years ago.  An absolutely unlikeable, untalented hack who mostly just interrupts people.

Yet another example of the ramifications of the dangerous policies implemented in liberal-run states like *checks notes* Florida.

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52 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

 

 

Shit. 

22 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Surprised they didn’t go with Haitian gang violence 

You should get Facebook. Sources say that two Haitians were fighting over some cat bodies.

1 minute ago, Gatorubet said:

You should get Facebook. Sources say that two Haitians were fighting over some cat bodies.

Or blame the Cubans.

MAGA turning against the Cubans would be a prime example of leopards eating faces.

Probably swing FLA to Harris

10 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Well, she's horrible, so yes, she should be taken off the air . . . years ago.  An absolutely unlikeable, untalented hack who mostly just interrupts people.

On the latest Sarah Longwell podcast/video, Bash tried to justify her and Tapper’s failure to fact check in the first debate… and somewhat criticize ABC’s decision to fact-check in last week’s debate.  it was infuriating.

Her halting speaking style sucks too.  I always assume I’m somehow just missing her appeal.

2 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

Or blame the Cubans.

MAGA turning against the Cubans would be a prime example of leopards eating faces.

Probably swing FLA to Harris

Nothing will get Cubans to budge.

2 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

Or blame the Cubans.

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7 weeks to go, key dates for things that could change the outcome:

9/17: Fed meets on Sep 17-18; their announcement about rate changes could have dramatic impact on the stock market and sentiment toward Harris.

9/20: Early voting begins; exit polling and other insights might start showing up.

10/1: VP debate; for now it looks quite likely that Walz/Harris will receive another bump, but a major snafu could erode their momentum.

10/4: Sept jobs report released

10/10: Sept inflation report released

11/5: Election Day 

Unscheduled or unknown events that could change things:

Assassinations and assassination attempts

Health problems for either candidate or their running mates 

Scandals (affairs, etc.)

Developments in Ukraine/Israel wars

Significant stories involving illegal immigrants


I think there’s more downside for Trump in the unknowns than for Harris.  I think Trump is more likely to get killed, have healthy problems, or have a scandal.  Harris is more vulnerable to negative outcomes related to stories on the economy, Ukraine/Israel, and immigration, but I think it’s limited.  I don’t think the majority of Americans actually would prefer Trump to handle something like the aftermath of Putin firing off a nuke, or Iran escalating with the Israelies.  Interestingly, it doesn’t look like the actual crimes that Trump has been indicted for are going to have any material impact on the election; that’s insane to me.

3 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

I think Trump is more likely to get killed, have healthy problems, or have a scandal. 

The most likely scenario is that batshit crazy Laura Loomer can’t keep her big mouth shut and tells someone who tells the press that she’s been sucking Trump’s micropenis. 

3 minutes ago, South Austin said:

The most likely scenario is that batshit crazy Laura Loomer can’t keep her big mouth shut and tells someone who tells the press that she’s been sucking Trump’s micropenis. 

Didn’t that literally already happen?

1 hour ago, Radical Larry said:

Of course, Sporkfoot is calling it another assassination attempt. 

CNN now reporting that he was the target. Goddammit people.

1 hour ago, Surly Bevo said:

So Florida Man gonna Florida Man

Just remember that Trump will do ANYTHING to get re-elected.

47 minutes ago, honolulu horn said:

Florida Swifties aren't fucking around. 

Pretty sure it was just a Haitian duck hunting.

Glad he wasn’t harmed….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With that said, something is up. Whether it was the major blowback from JV on this Haitian stuff, JV’s terrible morning shows, turnip’s “i hate swift” tweet, or what but it’s just odd that this randomly happened….now. 

34 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

Or blame the Cubans.

MAGA turning against the Cubans would be a prime example of leopards eating faces.

Probably swing FLA to Harris

Nawwwwww man, the cats were shooting at the Haitians.  Hatin' them Haitians eatin' us!!!

Donald,  Kamala has a message for you… 

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Suspect arrested.

51 minutes ago, Js1 said:

 

Yes I'm a Trump fan, but you see, now the leopards are eating MY face!

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*Nevermind, OF COURSE I'LL VOTE FOR HIM! [blood speckles camera lens.]

Let me go on and get this out of the way… 

 

 

STAGED! 

What possible scandal could bring Trump down?  We all know his base will vote for him even if he brought a donkey up on stage at a rally and fucked it.

23 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Glad he wasn’t harmed….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With that said, something is up. Whether it was the major blowback from JV on this Haitian stuff, JV’s terrible morning shows, turnip’s “i hate swift” tweet, or what but it’s just odd that this randomly happened….now. 

WTF?  I thought it was a couple of West Palm homeboys shooting at each other? 

This is ygifs fucking with us/controlling the simulation, isn’t it?

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“Thank God”?  Doesn’t he just mean himself? 

7 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

Wow

 

 

Only in America is “just a random guy walking around with an AK47” viewed as the less alarming outcome. 

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So they opened fire on a guy that was later pulled over on I-95?

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Isn’t Florida an open carry state? The Secret Service just shot at a citizen that wasn’t breaking any laws.

Just now, Chuckie Finster said:

For a country as gun-obsessed as ours, our assassins have really terrible aim.

We don’t go for precision but volume. Spray and pray beats precision aiming 

Just now, Underdog said:

Where was Melania? 

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A majority of Black voters are just as excited or more this year as in 2008, when then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) became the first Black president, according to new polling. 

A survey from the NAACP, in partnership with HIT Strategies and Hart Research, found that 78 percent of Black voters feel the same sense of excitement as when Obama first ran, with 56 percent being more excited now than in 2008.

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The early evidence indicates that Secret Service agents spotted a suspicious man with a gun at a wood line, a person familiar with the investigation said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe the early stages of a sensitive investigation.

So far, officials do not have evidence that the person fired any shots, but they are still investigating, the person said. Seeing that threat, agents fired at the man. He dropped what he was carrying and fled in a vehicle, which was later stopped by local police, and he was taken into custody, the person said.

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Damn.

“I’m casting a vote for the 26 who can’t”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/first-graders-survived-sandy-hook-will-vote-first-presidential-electio-rcna170471

 

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Grace Fischer survived the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School by staying quiet and huddled, as her first grade teacher softly read “The Nutcracker.”

Then she spent the rest of her childhood watching mostly from the sidelines as dozens of similar shootings shattered other schools across the country.

Now 18, Fischer will vote in her first presidential election in November. It’s a monumental moment, nearly 12 years after she endured one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history, and it has given her and her peers hope that they can effect change.

 

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“It’s a huge turning point in our lives,” said Fischer, who was 6 when a gunman killed 20 first graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012.

Activists at the time hoped the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, would become a watershed moment and spark significant legislative action, said Emma Brown, executive director of Giffords, the gun safety group founded by former Rep. Gabby Giffords — a shooting survivor.

“The country was forced to look at this issue in a visceral, terrible way,” Brown said. “The loss of all of those kids in their classroom was so inconceivable and so horrific that even the politicians and the folks who had been trying to act like this wasn’t a growing problem in this country were unable to deny it for the first time.”

 

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States have since passed hundreds of gun-safety laws, but major federal bills that have been proposed, including bans on semiautomatic weapons and high-capacity magazines, have failed.

After the Las Vegas mass shooting in 2017, the Trump administration imposed a federal ban on bump stocks, which are gun accessories that allow semiautomatic rifles to fire more quickly. But the Supreme Court overturned the regulation this year. 

Friday marked 20 years since the 1994 federal assault weapons ban expired. Meanwhile, mass shootings have become more frequent.

 

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Since 2013, at least 122 people have been killed by gunfire in 64 planned school shootings, according to NBC News’ tracker. Most recently, on Sept. 4, two students and two teachers were killed at Georgia’s Apalachee High School allegedly by a 14-year-old suspect with an AR-style rifle, authorities said.

On Thursday, the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutionssaid guns were the leading cause of death among children and teens, killing more people ages 1 to 17 in the U.S. than car crashes and cancer, for the third year in a row.

“We were told this would be what turns everything around,” said Emma Ehrens, 18, who was next to the Sandy Hook gunman as he shot her classmates. “It really breaks your heart a little bit more every time.”

Ehrens, Fischer and two other first grade Sandy Hook survivors who spoke to NBC News said they are hoping to turn the tide by electing Vice President Kamala Harris as president.

“It’s a no-brainer for me,” said survivor Lilly Wasilnak, 18.

The teens first met Harris at the White House on National Gun Violence Awareness Day on June 6, as they were preparing to graduate high school. They shared their individual accounts of the shooting with Harris, who thanked them for their courage.

“None of you should have had the experience that you’ve had at all,” Harris told them, according to a video released by the White House. “Know that you guys are moving the needle.”

Harris has said keeping students safe from gun violence at schools is a top priority. Her plan, which the survivors support, includes banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and requiring universal background checks.

Harris also champions so-called red flag laws that allow a family member or law enforcement to seek a court order to temporarily confiscate guns if they feel a gun owner may cause harm.

Matt Holden, another survivor who turned 18 last month, said these plans differ from those of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, who received backlash last week after saying school shootings are a “fact of life.”

“I don’t like this. I don’t like to admit this. I don’t like that this is a fact of life,” the Ohio senator said at a rally in Phoenix. “But if you’re, if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets.”

“We’ve got to bolster security so if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children, they’re not able to,” Vance added.

At the rally, Vance said strict firearms restrictions are not the solution. Similarly, at a National Rifle Association event in May, Trump said he would roll back Biden administration executive orders designed to reduce gun violence.

In a response to a request for comment, the Trump campaign provided quotes from relatives of shooting victims in support of the former president, including JT Lewis, whose brother Jesse was killed in the Sandy Hook shooting.

“President Trump established the Federal School Safety Commission and signed the Stop School Violence Act,” Lewis said. “He supports hardening schools and protecting our nation’s children. Kamala Harris wants to take police out of schools and leave our kids defenseless. The choice is easy.”

Brown, the Giffords executive director, said gun safety laws are the way forward to ensure school shootings do not remain the norm.

“There’s a ticket in this race that says over and over that it doesn’t have to be this way,” she said.

Giffords spent $15 million to help Harris’ campaign as well as other House candidates who favor tougher gun laws, NBC News first reported.

Since Sandy Hook, states have passed more than 620 gun safety laws, Brown said. In 2022, President Joe Biden enacted the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the most significant gun-safety law in nearly 30 years.

“The momentum is there, and the will is there,” Brown said.

This fall, when the survivors vote for the first time, Wasilnak and Holden said it will be in honor of their first grade classmates who will not get to experience this milestone, as well as the educators who died making sure they would.

“I’m casting a vote for the 26 who can’t,” Wasilnak said

 

I'm sure Trump will come right out and say we need to make sure weapons like this don't get into the hands of the wrong people so he's going to campaign for an assault weapons ban. 

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4 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Where was Melania? 

 

Probably under one of her SS detail.

 

 

The armed suspect was spotted by a member of Trump's Secret Service team two holes ahead from where the president was golfing, on the edge of the course, multiple law enforcement officials told CBS News. The suspect fled the scene, jumping into a car after he was engaged by Secret Service agents with multiple gunshots. A car with the same license plate number was stopped in Martin County, north of the golf course, and one individual was taken into custody, the officials said. An AK-47 style weapon and scope were recovered at the scene by the golf course. https://cbsn.ws/4ddqsyB

 

So nasty.Old fat on plastic yuck 

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Good thing he didn't have an AK-47 Supreme.

Seventeen former staff members of the late Republican President Ronald Reagan are endorsing the Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris.

In a joint statement first obtained by CBS News, the staff members wrote that Reagan, if alive, would have supported Harris.

"President Ronald Reagan famously spoke about a 'Time for Choosing.' While he is not here to experience the current moment, we who worked for him in the White House, in the administration, in campaigns and on his personal staff, know he would join us in supporting the Harris-Walz ticket," the group writes. "The time for choosing we face today is a choice between integrity and demagoguery, and the choice must be Harris-Walz," the group added. "Our votes in this election are less about supporting the Democratic Party and more about our resounding support for democracy."

Rupar's tweet says "feet", the actual speaker says "yards".

Trump was 2 holes from the shooter, or, in golf terms, about 12 strokes. 

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