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

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1 minute ago, SydneyCarton said:

I mean, he was like 50 10-15 years ago I thought?

I don't think that's right. I remember when he enlisted (air force?) and got stationed in Hawaii. 

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Was Rocko the one with the stylishly carpeted Corvette?

WHO CARES ABOUT ROCKO

Just now, Js1 said:

WHO CARES ABOUT ROCKO


I bet you can’t bench 225 10 times. 

Rocko definitely voted for Trump and is voting for him this time. 

I'm getting old.  Was Rocko the one who responded with *yawn all the time?

Not sure why I thought he was the guy who showed up to his neighbors with a bottle of wine -- but that was someone else, correct?

3 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:


I bet you can’t bench 225 10 times. 

I can’t :( 

But I can squat it or deadlift it! Lol

24 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

El Paso art rocks!

My favorite is this sculpture:

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9 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Was Rocko the one with the stylishly carpeted Corvette?

I always think of him as the corvette and paystub guy. Is that right?

2 hours ago, Pancho said:

Man, I feel terrible just for having once voted for Trump.

Imagine how this guy feels ...

1 minute ago, hookem2010 said:

I always think of him as the corvette and paystub guy. Is that right?

Yes, and the bench press shenanigans. With that other guy whose name started with a C. Can't remember what it was. 

1 minute ago, hookem2010 said:

I always think of him as the corvette and paystub guy. Is that right?

Paystub guy is greenspoint. Rocko was the guy who bought a suit to sleep with some hookers and left the tag on so he could return it. He posted pics with the price tag still hanging off the wrist, IIRC. Then again I apprently didn't remember his age correctly, so...

6 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

I'm getting old.  Was Rocko the one who responded with *yawn all the time?

Not sure why I thought he was the guy who showed up to his neighbors with a bottle of wine -- but that was someone else, correct?

I think that was the guy who claimed to be a scratch golfer …in the dark

13 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

I don't think that's right. I remember when he enlisted (air force?) and got stationed in Hawaii. 

Hi, guys. I just joined the Navy SEALS and got stationed in San Diego.

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1 minute ago, South Austin said:

Hi, guys. I just joined the Navy SEALS and got stationed in San Diego.

Gravy Seals.

2 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Paystub guy is greenspoint. Rocko was the guy who bought a suit to sleep with some hookers and left the tag on so he could return it. He posted pics with the price tag still hanging off the wrist, IIRC. Then again I apprently didn't remember his age correctly, so...

Rocko was the original paystub flop out guy. 

2 hours ago, Js1 said:

I trust (insert pretty much any name here) over Helio when it comes to what the black community thinks of these "rappers" supporting Trump  everything fucking imaginable.

fixed ...

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1 hour ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

can confirm, my vietnam veteran dad who was a life long republican before Trump has gone from "holding my nose for biden" to wearing Kamala-Walz shirts in public. My mom, the wife of a vet for 53 years, has been running a campaign to convince her sisters to vote for Kamala too. She invited multiple aunts over the last several weeks, and when they come, she just has the debates running in the background and clowns on Trump the whole time until they are like "no way I'm voting for that guy!"

So it's not just voting, but actively campaigning for the democrats. My dad donated to the galveston county democratic party, like that blows my fucking mind. Put a "WE'RE NOT GOING BACK" sign in his front yard facing the trump-loving dipshits. Told my brother to wise up and vote smart. Legit proud of him.

I voted Trump the first time, voted Biden second time and will absolutely be voting for Kamala. I laugh at myself sometimes how much I have changed and a lot of it is getting older and having a kid. I don’t see myself ever going back republican but I always try to keep an open mind plus it shows what one shitty candidate can do to a party. 

3 minutes ago, Clintonaldo said:

I voted Trump the first time, voted Biden second time and will absolutely be voting for Kamala. I laugh at myself sometimes how much I have changed and a lot of it is getting older and having a kid. I don’t see myself ever going back republican but I always try to keep an open mind plus it shows what one shitty candidate can do to a party. 

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6 hours ago, BamaATL said:

2.  Women have now outpaced men by 58k

New/2020 non-voters and simple high turnout can mean different things in this election, and we won't really know what until after the fact when data is available. 

This one, though. This is good.

The sanewashing is insane. 
 

If Harris bailed on a town hall and said “Hey let’s just play music instead” and stood there awkwardly swaying back and forth for 40 minutes….. we as a nation, like everyone, would have had a week long serious conversation about what had happened to her mind. People would be openly wondering if she had a stroke, etc. and if there is a mechanism available to replace her.
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If Harris bailed on a town hall and said “Hey let’s just play music instead” and stood there awkwardly swaying back and forth for 40 minutes….. we as a nation, like everyone, would have had a week long serious conversation about what had happened to her mind. People would be openly wondering if she had a stroke, etc. and if there is a mechanism available to replace her.

Not to mention cancelling interviews.  Or an event with the most GOP-friendly organization that exists, the NRA

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21 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Lots of great points made on this topic already, but Tiger Moms/Karens aren't helping. We don't let kids suffer any consequences anymore and we don't let them fight their own battles (literally or figuratively) without "mama bear" showing up at the school to give everyone hell. My son has a friend he's been swimming with since they were probably 10 years old. It was obvious pretty early on the kid was going to be an elite swimmer. He was 6'6" in 9th grade and already had facial hair. Both this kid's parents were military officers who met at a service academy. This kids entire life has been micro-managed by his mom since his first swim practice (probably longer, but that was my first exposure) She manages every aspect of his life right down to what and when he eats and drinks. I've heard her at swim meets talking to other moms about not liking this teacher or fighting with that teacher. Now they are seniors, and my son says he's the most immature kid in his friend group by a long shot. Any time they are at a travel meet and his mom isn't around, he fucks around like he's a middle schooler. He says the only kids that want to hang out with him are the underclassmen. Kid has signed an LOI to swim at a service academy next year and he's going to be in for a rude awakening. 

There are two sides to that coin. Sometimes you have to fight for your kid. Here is an example.

 

We live in a lily white suburb where last I counted(my kid was in 8th) there were only 11 ethnic kids altogether in my kid's grade. That's all ethnicities other than white combined. My kid started the year(high school) missing 5 of the first 10 days of school because of away vball tournaments. She got a 15 and a 16 on the first two quizzes on Algebra 2. There was 0 communication with us. No emails or anything. My wife saw the first grade on my daughter's school app and messaged the teacher. No response. The volleyball coach is working from her end. No response either. My wife contacts the AP. Next thing you know we get an email from the math teacher saying she failed the second quiz and is no longer eligible to compete in volleyball. Mind you, all her other grades are A's. So we call a meeting.

In the meeting the first thing the lady said was Algebra 2 is above our kid's head and she recommends she drop out and take an easier course. I immediately got pissed. My kid has never gotten bad grades before, even in math. Instead of looking back and coming to the conclusion that there must be some fundamental thing she simply isn't grasping, she decided to give up on her a few weeks into the year. "Black kid not smart enough to grasp math". I get pissed and corner her on the fact that when she never notified us of anything. I also pointed out that as a soon to be D1 athlete, she needs that course, and she could lose her scholarship if her college saw that she failed a course or dropped it. So they agreed to let her retake both tests over 4 days. I could tell the lady didn't think it was possibly by her expression. We go home and start working with her. We found what she was struggling with and worked a few problems until she had a solid grasp on the mechanics. She got two 85s on the retakes(that's the highest grades allowed) and went on to do well from then on.

TLDR- Sometimes teachers think your black kid is just stupid instead of giving the same effort they give with other kids. Many black parents find themselves having to go up to the school. Lol

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13 minutes ago, Clintonaldo said:

I voted Trump the first time, voted Biden second time and will absolutely be voting for Kamala. I laugh at myself sometimes how much I have changed and a lot of it is getting older and having a kid. I don’t see myself ever going back republican but I always try to keep an open mind plus it shows what one shitty candidate can do to a party. 

never voted Trump but I did think Sark was a bad hire, so I can empathize.

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McConnell's shit-talking about Trump isn't really "news," and neither is the endorsement, but the punchline is still devastating.

This represents the epitome of party-over-country bullshit that enabled a fucking idiot to take over an entire party. Read it, digest it, and weep. Then, get enraged and go vote out every one of one these pathetic, simpering shitbags.

If you're a former Republican or even a current conservative who has turned away from this farce, take comfort in knowing you're a better person than any of your fellow party members. I commend you for putting your country over your party.

The punchline: “It was the price he paid for power,” says McConnell's biographer.

 

McConnell called Trump ‘stupid’ and ‘despicable’ in private after the 2020 election, a new book says
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitch McConnell said after the 2020 election that then-President Donald Trump was “stupid as well as being ill-tempered,” a “despicable human being” and a “narcissist,” according to excerpts from a new biography of the Senate Republican leader that will be released this month.

McConnell made the remarks in private as part of a series of personal oral histories that he made available to Michael Tackett, deputy Washington bureau chief of The Associated Press. Tackett’s book, “The Price of Power,” draws from almost three decades of McConnell’s recorded diaries and from years of interviews with the normally reticent Kentucky Republican.

The animosity between Trump and McConnell is well known — Trump once called McConnell " a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack.” But McConnell’s private comments are by far his most brutal assessment of the former president and could be seized on by Democrats before the Nov. 5 election. The biography will be released Oct. 29, one week before Election Day that will decide if Trump returns to the White House.

Despite those strong words, McConnell has endorsed Trump’s 2024 run, saying earlier this year “it should come as no surprise” that he would support the Republican party’s nominee. He shook Trump’s hand in June when Trump visited GOP senators on Capitol Hill.

McConnell, 82, announced this year that he will step aside as Republican leader after the election but stay in the Senate through the end of his term in 2026

McConnell was ‘counting the days’ until Trump left office
The comments about Trump quoted in the book came in the weeks before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Trump was then actively trying to overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden. McConnell feared this would hurt Republicans in two Georgia runoffs and cost them the Senate majority. Democrats won both races.

Publicly, McConnell had congratulated Biden after the Electoral College certified the presidential vote and the senator warned his fellow Republicans not to challenge the results. But he did not say much else. Privately, he said in his oral history that “it’s not just the Democrats who are counting the days” until Trump left office, and that Trump’s behavior “only underscores the good judgment of the American people. They’ve had just enough of the misrepresentations, the outright lies almost on a daily basis, and they fired him.”

“And for a narcissist like him,” McConnell continued, “that’s been really hard to take, and so his behavior since the election has been even worse, by far, than it was before, because he has no filter now at all.”

Before those Georgia runoffs, McConnell said Trump is “stupid as well as being ill-tempered and can’t even figure out where his own best interests lie.”

Trump was also holding up a coronavirus aid package at the time, despite bipartisan support. “This despicable human being,” McConnell said in his oral history, “is sitting on this package of relief that the American people desperately need.”

On Jan. 6, soon after he made those comments, McConnell was holed up in a secure location with other congressional leaders, calling Vice President Mike Pence and military officials for reinforcements as Trump supporters stormed the Capitol. Once the Senate resumed debate over the certification of Biden’s victory, McConnell said in a speech on the floor that “this failed attempt to obstruct the Congress, this failed insurrection, only underscores how crucial the task before us is for our republic.”

McConnell then went to his office to address his staff, some of whom had barricaded themselves in the office as rioters banged on their doors. He started to sob softly as he thanked them, Tackett writes.

“You are my family, and I hate the fact that you had to go through this,” he told them.

The next month, McConnell gave his harshest public criticism of Trump on the Senate floor, saying he was “ practically and morally responsible ” for the Jan. 6 attack. Still, McConnell voted to acquit Trump after House Democrats impeached him for inciting the riot.

Years of doubts and criticism
In a statement to the AP on Thursday, McConnell referenced two fellow Republican senators — JD Vance of Ohio, the vice presidential nominee, and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, both of whom are strong Trump allies after harshly criticizing him during his first run in 2016.

“Whatever I may have said about President Trump pales in comparison to what JD Vance, Lindsey Graham, and others have said about him, but we are all on the same team now,” McConnell said.

McConnell also had doubts about Trump from the start. Just after Trump was elected in 2016, as Congress was certifying the election, McConnell told Biden, then the outgoing vice president, that he thought Trump could be trouble, Tackett writes.

The book channels McConnell’s inner thoughts during some of the biggest moments after Trump took office, as McConnell held his tongue and as the two men repeatedly fought and made up.

In 2017, as Trump publicly criticized McConnell for the Senate’s failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Trump and McConnell had a heated argument on the phone. Weeks went by with no contact. Then Trump invited McConnell to the White House and called a joint news conference without telling him first. McConnell said the event went fine, and “it’s not hard to look more knowledgeable than Donald Trump at a press conference.”

After the passage of a $1.5 trillion tax overhaul that same year, McConnell said, “All of a sudden, I’m Trump’s new best friend.”

He blamed Trump after House Republicans lost their majority in the 2018 midterm elections, Tackett writes. Trump ”has every characteristic you would not want a president to have,” McConnell said in an oral history at the time, and was “not very smart, irascible, nasty.”

In 2022, as Trump continued to criticize McConnell and made racist comments about his wife, former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, McConnell told Tackett that “I can’t think of anybody I’d rather be criticized by than this sleazeball.”

“Every time he takes a shot at me, I think it’s good for my reputation,” McConnell said.

Also in 2022, McConnell said in his oral history that Trump’s behavior since losing the election had been “beyond erratic” as he kept pushing false allegations of voter fraud. “Unfortunately, about half the Republicans in the country believe whatever he says,” McConnell said.

By 2024, McConnell had again endorsed Trump. He felt he had to if he were to continue to play a role in shaping the nation’s agenda.

“It was the price he paid for power,” Tackett writes.

15 minutes ago, Clintonaldo said:

I voted Trump the first time, voted Biden second time and will absolutely be voting for Kamala. I laugh at myself sometimes how much I have changed and a lot of it is getting older and having a kid. I don’t see myself ever going back republican but I always try to keep an open mind plus it shows what one shitty candidate can do to a party. 

Can I ask, did you vote for Trump because you wanted an "outsider"? If so, how much does that play into your decision to vote for Kamala, given she's now the most outside candidate out of the big 3 (Her, Trump, and Biden)?

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Can I ask, did you vote for Trump because you wanted an "outsider"? If so, how much does that play into your decision to vote for Kamala, given she's now the most outside candidate out of the big 3 (Her, Trump, and Biden)?

I think at the time I was anyone but Hillary.

Harris interview on Fox News had 7.1 million viewers

 

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1 hour ago, Haphap said:

El Paso had a contest

 

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The stars at night,

Cum red, blue, and white.

Skeet on the flaaaaaag of Texas!

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21 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

never voted Trump but I did think Sark was a bad hire, so I can empathize.

I'm stunned, I'm pissed, it's Mack Brown.

10 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

The stars at night,

Cum red, blue, and white.

Skeet on the flaaaaaag of Texas!

if you got blood in your skeet, please see a doctor

3 hours ago, Js1 said:

Snoop in January:

 

“Donald Trump?” Snoop Dogg said. “He ain’t done nothing wrong to me. He has done only great things for me. He pardoned Michael Harris.”

Knight, alongside Harris and Dr. Dre, co-founded the Death Row Records record label in the 1990s, which signed Snoop Dogg early in his career. Harris was convicted of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder but was pardoned by Trump in 2021 after serving 30 years of a 25-year-to-life sentence, according to USA Today. Before leaving office, Trump pardoned Harris, along with 69 others.

“I have nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump,” Snoop added.

Snoop also said he was giving up the reefer, so...

3 hours ago, HenryJames said:

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It amazes me how these self proclaimed alpha males care so damned much about if other alpha males think you look cool when using a gun.  It really is the most important thing to them.  I hate tacticool barbies.

3 hours ago, HenryJames said:

Is Ice Cube still considered a rapper?

Only around christmas time

1 hour ago, Celery Man said:

Wait Rocco was old? Hahahahaha

Wait 50s is old?  FUCK

49 minutes ago, pantone159 said:

My favorite is this sculpture:

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Perfectly capture the Gata tackling technique.  It's called "Please Trip"

24 minutes ago, Clintonaldo said:


I think at the time I was anyone but Hillary.

I didn't like HIllary clinton but I definitely thought she was better than Trump. Oh well, water on the bridge, I'm at least happy you're voting for the good guy this time. I'll welcome any resistance against Trump.

Just now, locodos said:

Snoop also said he was giving up the reefer, so...

No, he said he was "giving up smoke", which was a joke about him endorsing a line of smokeless fire pits.

3 hours ago, SubliminalHorn said:

A very good friend who is originally from North Carolina just texted me that her parents just texted her that votes today and they voted for Kamala. This is a HUGE fucking deal because her dad has never voted republican and was a die hard trumper until recently. My friend has been working on him for years sending him articles and talking with him. He has been wearing the camp Harris/Walz hat recently too. 
 

Keep the faith yall. If he can be turned, others can too. LFG!

Forgot to mention he’s a veteran. It’s happening 

Nice. And yeah, I 100% buy that veterans are swinging to Harris as well. IMHO this move is widespread and its scope won't be fully appreciated until election day.

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I didn't like HIllary clinton but I definitely thought she was better than Trump. Oh well, water on the bridge, I'm at least happy you're voting for the good guy this time. I'll welcome any resistance against Trump.

I gladly admit I fucked up and I started feeling that way within the first year. Lesson learned. We are in this together.
1 hour ago, Js1 said:

WHO CARES ABOUT ROCKO

Swam maybe. Tahoe definitely not 

 

Hamas leader Sinwar being killed should be something that helps?

3 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Hamas leader Sinwar being killed should be something that helps?

Was he killed by Israel using weapons that they acquired from the US? Then probably not with the Dearborn caucus. 

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