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

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Ok, hypothetically if this is close, I'm giving Kamala Michigan and Pennsylvania. Which state(s) give her the best chance to seal the deal? 

Wisconsin

Georgia

North Carolina

Arizona and Nevada

 

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9 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Why? I didn’t get the Allsup hype. It was mediocre. I feel let down by @Brisketexan

Shots fired!! We have Shots Fired!!!

1 hour ago, Bullneck said:

I know the story but I usually try to be as accurate as possible when I post.  And I watch Maddow at least once a week so I’ve got her input on it as well.  

listen to ultra, it’s good. 

9 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

Ok, hypothetically if this is close, I'm giving Kamala Michigan and Pennsylvania. Which state(s) give her the best chance to seal the deal? 

Wisconsin

Georgia

North Carolina

Arizona and Nevada

 

No, I'm not drinking. You're drinking.

Are you asking for the bellwether or tipping point?

18 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Why? I didn’t get the Allsup hype. It was mediocre. I feel let down by @Brisketexan

I’ve never seen a man jinx his own asshole

1 minute ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Are you asking for the bellwether or tipping point?

I'm asking if she only wins one of those, which is it?

1 minute ago, aggie08 said:

I'm asking if she only wins one of those, which is it?

Wisconsin 

24 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Why? I didn’t get the Allsup hype. It was mediocre. I feel let down by @Brisketexan

How does it compare to a Chili's Burrito Grande del Pollo?

1 hour ago, Pancho said:

 

She's always been a dumb twat.

2 hours ago, Ravishing Rick said:

Nope.  I've been working in Monaco for a while and haven't gotten into the American political news cycle.  I also intentionally avoid social media unless I'm peepin' hotties on Instagram, which I quite enjoy.  

self-imposed almost total ignorance does not say a lot about your meeting your duties as an informed citizen voting. 

But you came to the right place and all forgiven.  Please vote for Harris.  unless you don’t like democracy and the constitution and candidates threatening to sic the military on their opponents - and anyone who doesn’t agree with them. Which apparently many people don’t.

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20 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

That 11,000 figure has to be bullshit.  A single county in TX (known for voter apathy) can beat that.

Here is the SOS saying the same.

 

Nm

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It's been a good week. Both kids at UT voted (one for the first time) for Harris/Walz and texted and helped get some of their like-minded friends registered earlier in the year.

Wife and I just voted today for democrats across the board here in Harris County. 

We walked out and high-fived and made it back in time to crack a beer for kickoff. 

LFG!

1 hour ago, Ravishing Rick said:

Nope.  I've been working in Monaco for a while and haven't gotten into the American political news cycle.  I also intentionally avoid social media unless I'm peepin' hotties on Instagram, which I quite enjoy.  

Pics of the Princess or GTFO (assuming she's over 18) k thx, bye

Reporting from NBC News - published 2 hours ago. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/elon-musk-x-boosts-election-conspiracy-theories-ai-trends-twitter-rcna176941

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Elon Musk’s social media app X is supercharging the spread of voter-fraud conspiracy theories with the help of artificial intelligence, boosting unfounded claims including two personal smears against Vice President Kamala Harris.

The dubious content is spreading in the app’s “explore” section, which says it uses Musk’s AI software, named Grok, to aggregate trending social media topics. The information does not appear to be fact-checked by humans, and in several recent examples it seemed to repeat false or unsubstantiated claims as if they were true.

The feature is named “stories for you” and has a label saying it’s in a beta test, meaning it’s an experiment not available to all users. Each “story for you” consists of a feed of posts related to a trending topic. On the desktop version of X, users can also see a paragraph-long summary of the topic written by the Grok software if they look at the history of the “story for you.”

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The feature’s placement in X’s explore section gives it prominent digital real estate in the final weeks of the presidential election, in which Musk is backing former President Donald Trump. Its repeated amplification of misinformation and conspiracy theories related to the election follows a string of instances where Musk has personally shared similar ideas, both in live appearances and on his social media.

In the past week, NBC News identified five “stories for you” that pushed baseless claims related to the election.

Each trending topic curated by Grok includes a warning disclaiming any responsibility for accuracy and telling users to check facts on their own: “Grok can make mistakes, verify its outputs,” the disclaimer says.

On Monday, Grok uncritically repeated debunked allegations of wrongdoing related to the voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems. Grok produced a “story for you” titled “Public Scrutiny of Dominion Voting Systems,” which aggregated posts accusing the company of “election rigging” and “fraud.” Dominion has previously denounced similar accusations as lies, and last year Fox News agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion.

Grok’s written summary of the online debate accused Dominion of “potentially stifling legitimate discussions on election security” through “legal threats.”

On Wednesday, Grok parroted unfounded claims of wrongdoing in Maricopa County, Arizona, boosting a claim by an X user that county election workers are “corrupt” because of the speed at which they count ballots.

And in a third election-related “story for you,” Grok this week spread the unsupported claim that a voting machine in Tarrant County, Texas, was “flipping” votes. X’s AI software promoted posts alleging that there were multiple examples, but only one voter came forward and his claim was not verified. Local officials said there was no evidence behind his claim, suggesting that he may have unintentionally pressed the wrong candidate. They say he was able to successfully cast the vote he intended to after he reviewed his ballot.

Grok has also spread smears against Harris, the Democratic nominee for president. It created a “story for you” repeating unfounded allegations by X users that she used cocaine in the White House, and it created a “story for you” repeating allegations by X users that she attended parties hosted by Sean “Diddy” Combs, who’s facing federal sex-abuse charges. Fact-checkers have said a photo of Combs with fashion designer Misa Hylton was altered to add Harris’ face.

Some of the posts aggregated by Grok have millions of views, though it’s not clear if the bulk of the views came before or after Grok included the posts in the trending feature.

The world’s richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Musk has poured nearly $75 million into a super PAC in support of Trump, and he has crisscrossed battleground state Pennsylvania in a drive to register pro-Trump voters and turn them out to the polls, using a $1 million daily giveaway to get people’s attention.

NBC News sought comment from X about its “stories for you” feature. Representatives for X did not respond to a list of emailed questions.

A spokesperson for Dominion Voting Systems had no immediate comment on X’s “stories for you” feature but pointed to a company website that defends the accuracy of the company’s systems.

Representatives for the Harris campaign did not respond to requests for comment.

The feature has been problematic in the past. In July, Grok-written summaries boosted false information about President Joe Biden, helping to spread wild conspiracy theories that Biden had an undisclosed medical emergency, might be dying, had been murdered or would be murdered soon.

It’s a job that used to be done by human curators as recently as two years ago, before Musk bought the app then known as Twitter. In 2015, Twitter’s management rolled out curated trending topics as a way to help users make sense of the flood of information on the app. Twitter employees added verified context from traditional news sources such as The Associated Press and Reuters, in an attempt to elevate the quality of information that was trending.

But Musk, in one of his first acts after buying Twitter, eliminated the jobs of human curators, and now the tech billionaire has delegated the task to his AI software.

Musk is a frequent critic of the traditional news media, including The Associated Press and Reuters, and he has promoted X as the internet’s most trustworthy news source despite the factual errors, conspiracy theories and debunked claims that appear there.

X launched the experiment in AI-written summaries months ago, and although it has received little attention, some users quickly expressed alarm about the Grok-authored text they were seeing in the beta test of the app’s “explore” section. One Reddit user in April compared the trending topic summaries to rolling “brainless AI dice.” And in July, an X user posted a screenshot of “explore beta” with text asserting that Biden would be the next coach of England’s national soccer team.

In recent weeks, dozens of X users have posted about “explore beta,” and the vast majority of the posts have been negative. One user said it was pointless, and another said it was “absolute trash.” But several said they knew of no way to opt out of the beta test.

It’s not clear how many people see the AI-created summaries. Some X users who browse the app’s trending topics see only ranked lists of popular subjects, with no AI-generated text. It’s also not clear if X plans to expand the Grok summaries from a beta test to a standard feature. 

 

 

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47 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Why? I didn’t get the Allsup hype. It was mediocre. I feel let down by @Brisketexan

It’s gas station Taco Bell man. It has its place. 

Sorry if I cried a little here
 
 

God bless that woman.

If anyone wants to know what a real gotdamn patriot looks like…she is EXACTLY what a patriot looks like.
Not sure short-dicked angry white guy in a pickup with truck nuts and a “let’s go Brandon” flag.
It looks like a woman who has fought her whole life to have her voice heard, even paying a racist poll tax to do so. She’s a fucking hero, and every pretend MAGA “patriot” is a fucking pathetic loser in comparison.
Drive safe, take a deep breath of mountain air, then get back to work being the foil to briskets ledge character for 10 more days.

In a way, all of us has an El Guapo to face.
Why? I didn’t get the Allsup hype. It was mediocre. I feel let down by [mention=593]Brisketexan[/mention]

Shots fired!! We have Shots Fired!!!

No we don’t. Yet again, Js has an absurdly wrong take. Film at 11:00.
 
 
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See, y’all say you haven’t seen what I wouldn’t bang. Well, now you have.
5 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 

 

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Forgot to say, voted today in Astoria since it is the first day of EV in NY state, doors opened at 9am. At 940ish am the door guy said they’d already had 150 come through but there was no line when we showed up. By the time we left, there was a 25 person line at the door with a handful of people strolling up from down the block. 

Got my vote in for AOC, Kamala, and essentially all dems since the working families party had all the same candidates, I just voted in their column. 

FUCK traitor pedo convicted felon, rapist bankrupt “businesssman” don old. Go wither in the ashes of the wrong side of history you vile pathetic waste of flesh 

10 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 

 

 

Fucking amateur journalists. Am I supposed to suck her clit or her cunt? Give us the real story here!

If this could be really proven to people (it couldn’t be), I do think that would do more damage to him than a video of him groping a teen. Still wouldn’t end his campaign though. 

What a world. 
 

16 minutes ago, UncleSonny said:

If this could be really proven to people (it couldn’t be), I do think that would do more damage to him than a video of him groping a teen. Still wouldn’t end his campaign though. 

What a world. 
 

My neighbor’s daughter is neighbors with the guy that died. Was him dying part of the staging? Because he is very much dead. 

Can we please not ever post Rebekah Jones tweets? She's every bit as looney are the right Twitter influencers.

Just now, aggie08 said:

Can we please not ever post Rebekah Jones tweets? She's every bit as looney are the right Twitter influencers.

Fair enough, I don’t know shit about her. I don’t even believe it was staged, I was more saying that being the story being pushed to media outlets makes more sense to me than the groping thing 

1 hour ago, StassneyHorn said:

I’ve never seen a man jinx his own asshole

Oh please, I’ve shit in a hole in the ground outside the Taj Mahal after eating street food in India 

3 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Can we please beat Vanderbilt?

What does Ralston say

I’m starting to feel like this is the map right now.

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Can we please beat Vanderbilt?

Sorry….best I can do is give you some godawful football resulting in a tossup game.
Much like this election.
I hate this timeline, and pray for the earth to explode.
I’m starting to feel like this is the map right now.

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You missed a couple of spots.

Here's a good poll for you: 1700x more people watching Harris than Trump

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8 minutes ago, Red Five said:


You missed a couple of spots.

I’m not convinced GA and AZ are leaning right now. I think they are legit tossups. If I was going to lean GA it’d be blue

8 minutes ago, heso said:

I’m not convinced GA and AZ are leaning right now. I think they are legit tossups. If I was going to lean GA it’d be blue

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5 minutes ago, TexEx15 said:

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This feels like the election. Trump showboating after Biden’s debate. Harris comes back to win

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6 hours ago, aggie08 said:

Were sitting here fighting about how urgently the other Presidential candidate needs to appear on the Joe Rogan Podcast a week before election day, and I'm supposed to not take a "kill everyone" Brisket approach to the future of our country?

Not “kill everyone”.

Just people on cruise ships or who take more than one cruise every five years.

1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

No we don’t. Yet again, Js has an absurdly wrong take. Film at 11:00.

I TRIED IT BC OF YOU! I only stopped at one solely bc of how much you talk about them. Maybe it was a bad batch, idk. Ruth the cashier at the Allsups in Bowie was not up to the challenge.  And neither were her sweat pants 

1 hour ago, heso said:

My neighbor’s daughter is neighbors with the guy that died. Was him dying part of the staging? Because he is very much dead. 

You really think trump wouldn’t push something that had a good chance for collateral damage? The issue isn’t the action per se (although that’s debatable), it’s the callous disregard for anyone that isn’t the sundowning fuhrer. 

the fact you have to ask makes me wonder if you’re drunk. But it’s obvious the staging is in reference to actual intent on the shooter and not the repercussions. Me personally I think the republican shooter (his parents were not republicans and that’s enough for me) did it cause he was a nutzo but the bloody ear was from the fall, shrapnel from the teleprompter, or nicking it on the SS agent as he got covered. Any other theory is … to be doubted without evidence IMO

edit: he was still magat supporting a pedo traitor convicted felon, rapist. I don’t wish  anything bad to happen to trumpers but I’m well past the point feeling bad when karma does its duty against America’s enemies. 

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6 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

In my lifetime, I’ve never seen a campaign where a significant number of politicians publicly endorse the candidate for president from the other party.   And I’m supposed to see that and think it’s Harris who is in trouble?

6 hours ago, Surly Bevo said:

This as well.  Open revolt from fairly prominent members of a candidate's party isn't something we have ever seen at these levels.  

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Even the “Reagan Democrats” didn’t fall into this category generated as much publicity, as most of that was more about a quiet demographic shift from JFK supporters to Reagan.  You also didn’t have prominent Democrats publicly bailing on Carter like we see Republicans bailing on Trump or speaking out against him (especially those who worked in the Trump administration).

1 hour ago, Pancho said:

Can we please beat Vanderbilt?

 

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1 hour ago, UncleSonny said:

If this could be really proven to people (it couldn’t be), I do think that would do more damage to him than a video of him groping a teen. Still wouldn’t end his campaign though. 

What a world. 

He was a chickenshit as a young man (if he wanted to disagree about the Vietnam War, he could have went to Canada or joined a march, and instead his daddy paid off a doctor).

He doesn’t have the balls to even think about something like that.

 

6 hours ago, Surly Bevo said:

If Trump wins he's found a new way to do it by somehow getting the least enthusiastic base I can ever remember in any election in my adult life to get out there and carry him to a win.  

6 hours ago, Red Five said:

….while going to various swing states and shit talking their largest cities.

Bingo.  Driving around rural areas or looking at his crowd sizes is far different in 2024 than it was in 2020.

MAGA is like those fucking Crossfitters or desktop Linux users - they normally won’t shut the fuck up about it, but those who went silent after 2020 didn’t go silent and stop buying flags and stickers because they were afraid or embarrassed, they did it because they wanted nothing to do with him. I’m sure some/many will still vote against Harris, but if they aren’t enthusiastic, they are liable to sit it out.

 

1 hour ago, heso said:

I’m starting to feel like this is the map right now.

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I’ll take it

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