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

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50 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

I think the issue is your original post didn't make sense in terms of generations.

 

I'd consider Gen Z to be 18-29 right now, millenials to be 30-44, gen x to be 45-59, with 60-65 being some weird grey area, and 65+ being boomers. 

As years go on the boomers are dying and their massive vote is reducing. Where as GenZ and millenials represent the biggest block of voters for the next 30-40 years. Gen X is essentially fucked in terms of vote power.

Jesus Christ do we have to have this same stupid labeling argument 5 times a week?  Cut it out

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1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

Jesus Christ do we have to have this same stupid labeling argument 5 times a week?  Cut it out

WTF are you talking about? Show me 5 instances in the past week I even mentioned it in this thread?

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14 minutes ago, Js1 said:

He looks and sounds like shit this morning 

Bret Stephens says Trump will win. So congrats Kamala!

I saw Stephens on The Bulwark this weekend and thought what a colossal waste of space that guy is.

Can Trump make it to four rallies today and manage to be two hours late to each one?

2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Jesus Christ do we have to have this same stupid labeling argument 5 times a week?  Cut it out

Sounds like something someone in the "weird gray area" generation would say.

1 minute ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

I saw Stephens on The Bulwark this weekend and thought what a colossal waste of space that guy is.


I can’t imagine he has more than 3 people in his life that don’t think “this guy fucking sucks”

28 minutes ago, Clintonaldo said:

Explain this to me like I am stupid. 
 

 

spoiler alert 

Parent Company, Chili's  

1 minute ago, BurntOrange&White said:

WTF are you talking about? Show me 5 instances in the past week I even mentioned it in this thread?

I didn't accuse YOU of always bringing it up, but it's like a weed that can't be killed.  It means absolutely nothing.

Just now, jimmyjazz said:

I didn't accuse YOU of always bringing it up, but it's like a weed that can't be killed.  It means absolutely nothing.

It means everything you pussy

2 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

Anyone who is "not decided" is not going to watch a Bernie vid.  What a waste of effort.

51 minutes ago, Clintonaldo said:

Chilis better send us a gift card. 

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When I was a kid, the Chili's Baby Back Ribs commercial convinced me that they were possibly the greatest food on earth.  I begged my parents to go to one for months so I could try them.  They finally gave in.  I took one bite and my childhood ended.  They were fucking terrible.  They were baked in an oven after being drenched in liquid smoke.  I couldn't even eat them.  I'm honestly shocked they didn't make me eat the whole damn rack after whining about them for months.  I guess they took pity on me.

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1 minute ago, kevwun said:

When I was a kid, the Chili's Baby Back Ribs commercial convinced me that they were possibly the greatest food on earth.  I begged my parents to go to one for months so I could try them.  They finally gave in.  I took one bite and my childhood ended.  They were fucking terrible.  They were baked in an oven after being drenched in liquid smoke.  I couldn't even eat them.  I'm honestly shocked them didn't make me eat the whole damn rack after whining about them for months.  I guess they took pity on me.

And you'll order them again on Wednesday!

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2 minutes ago, kevwun said:

When I was a kid, the Chili's Baby Back Ribs commercial convinced me that they were possibly the greatest food on earth.  I begged my parents to go to one for months so I could try them.  They finally gave in.  I took one bite and my childhood ended.  They were fucking terrible.  They were baked in an oven after being drenched in liquid smoke.  I couldn't even eat them.

Must be nice to grow up rich.

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The perfect political ad doesn’t exis…..

 

10/10 no notes, would have been a 20/10 if they got Aubrey Plaza to be the chick 

 

I work from home and there is a Chili's maybe half a mile from house. I wasn't planning on visiting, but then I was reminded of the Southwestern egg rolls above. I might have to head there for lunch and order those and a pour of their best bourbon (heaven knows what that will be).  Should make for an interesting afternoon of work.

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1 minute ago, Thrawn said:

 and a pour of their best bourbon (heaven knows what that will be).  

Do you go to McDonalds and ask for their best cut of beef?

You'll drink your Jim Beam and like it. 

5 minutes ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

The perfect political ad doesn’t exis…..

 

10/10 no notes, would have been a 20/10 if they got Aubrey Plaza to be the chick 

 

She'll do

2 hours ago, gernblansten said:

I've been saying the same for years. All the village idiots are able to communicate with one another now. Downfall of our society. 

Este.  Been telling my boys this for years. These nutjob morons have the whole world as their audience now.

31 minutes ago, South Austin said:

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So they are already sharing fake screenshots from CNN showing Harris winning Texas.

CNN has come out and issued a statement saying it’s completely fucking fake.

 

Russians or maga? Why not both

11 minutes ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

The perfect political ad doesn’t exis…..

 

10/10 no notes, would have been a 20/10 if they got Aubrey Plaza to be the chick 

 

This is a post from the guy (boricualbc) who said after the rally that he was making a "special project" of Hinchcliffe.  He's doing his part, for sure.

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1 minute ago, quigley said:

She'll do

I'm trying to figure out a smooth way to shoehorn in that yesterday I learned that there's a Vaglick Drive near Beaumont but my aimless attempts to shoehorn jokes have previously failed, so I'll just state the fact.

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2 minutes ago, Pancho said:

So they are already sharing fake screenshots from CNN showing Harris winning Texas.

CNN has come out and issued a statement saying it’s completely fucking fake.

 

Russians or maga? Why not both

They saw my hopeium prediction.....

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Drove by my local Chili's this morning. Had this reaction to it.

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2 minutes ago, Chopper said:

I'm trying to figure out a smooth way to shoehorn in that yesterday I learned that there's a Vaglick Drive near Beaumont but my aimless attempts to shoehorn jokes have previously failed, so I'll just state the fact.

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Yeah, going to be a no from me dawg, I want no part of licking any Vag anywhere near Beaumont...

43 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:



the proud boys riding into town

 

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close, but it's this one

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Hey @Pancho, your Election Day thread unlocking for Dixville Notch at midnight/11pm?

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From Robert Reich's Substack:

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From Robert Reich, Substack

These are the most stressful and nerve-wracking days I can recall. I vacillate between optimism and fear, hope and dread.

You?

I don’t recall an election in which the two candidates represent such opposite poles of the American character.

Harris is the rule of law; Trump, lawlessness. Harris, inclusion; Trump, exclusion. Harris, decency; Trump, loathsomeness. Harris, the American Dream; Trump, the American nightmare.

Harris wants the best for the country; Trump wants the best only for himself.

I don’t need to go on. You know all this. The question is why doesn’t everyone else? That almost half of America appears willing to vote for Trump is itself shocking.

I write this short missive to you every day (sometimes more than once a day) because I want to fortify you. Not just with facts, analysis, and logic, but also with reminders of our shared morality.

I want to reassure you about the common good.

A large part of that common good consists of our concern for something larger than personal wealth, power, or advantage over others — in other words, the opposite of Trump.

The common good is what we owe one another as members of the same society. These duties create a set of relationships that give us a civilized way of living together.

But the common good has been under assault in two ways.

First, it’s been under assault by people with great wealth who have been using their wealth to corrupt our democracy and spew cynicism about the whole project of self-government.

These people include Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Peter Thiel, and Tim Mellon.

Let me also add two powerful people whose cowardice has been reprehensible: Jeff Bezos, who won’t allow his Washington Post to endorse Kamala Harris because he’s afraid of angering Donald Trump. And Jamie Dimon, chair and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, America’s largest bank, who never misses an opportunity to comment on public issues but has gone silent when it comes to the dangers posed by Trump.

Worse yet, hugely wealthy people like them have rigged the American political and economic system to their own benefit. They have siphoned off a significant part of the gains of the economy.

The median wage for the bottom 90 percent of Americans has risen just 15 percent in real terms over the last forty years. Over the same years, the stock market has risen 5000 percent. In the 1960s, CEO pay was 20 times the typical worker’s pay. Today, it’s 320 times.

Second, the common good has been under assault by people who have been exploiting Americans’ fears of others to build their political power. The “others” include immigrants, people of color, gay people, trans people, secularists, even women.

The perpetrators include Donald Trump, JD Vance, and much of the current Republican Party, which has become a cesspool of bigotry and lies.

There’s an important relationship between these two threats to the common good.

A major reason so many Americans are willing to follow Trump and blow up the system is they feel they have nothing to lose.

For years they’ve worked hard and followed the rules but have gotten nowhere. They’ve become frustrated, anxious, and angry. Trump, Vance, and the Republican Party have tapped into these feelings and channeled them into hate of “them” — as if immigrants, people of color, gay and trans people, secularists, and women are responsible for what has happened to white working class men.

Both threats to the common good are inviting brutality. They are undermining decency. They are corroding our shared morality.

In these ways, Trump and his sycophants and funders have elevated the dark side of the American psyche. They have normalized viciousness in America.

Since Trump came on the scene in 2015, hate crimes have soared. America has become even more polarized. Average Americans say and do things to people they disagree with that in a different time would have been unthinkable.

Defeating Trump and Vance tomorrow (or however long it takes for the election to be decided) is only the first step.

The next step is to hold Trump accountable for his criminality.

Third, we must contain the billionaires who are undermining American democracy. We must demand a tax on great wealth, more vigorous antitrust enforcement to break up monopolies, and true campaign finance reform.

Fourth, and hardest of all: We must ensure that Americans who have voted for Trump — whether out of anger, despair, bigotry, or delusion — are brought back into the realm of rationality and included in the nation’s future prosperity.

We must create means to achieve the American Dream that do not require a four-year college degree. We have to get big money out of our politics. Social media must filter out hateful disinformation.

The preamble to the Constitution of the United States opens with the phrase “We the people,” conveying a sense of shared interest and a desire “to promote the general welfare,” as the preamble goes on to say.

Which brings me back to tomorrow’s election.

I know you’re scared and stressed. So am I. Some of you may feel quite alone right now. You are not.

All I can say to reassure you is that time and again, Americans have opted for the common good.

We supported one another during the Great Depression. We were victorious over Hitler’s fascism and Soviet communism. We survived Joe McCarthy’s communist witch hunts, Richard Nixon’s crimes, Lyndon Johnson’s Vietnam War, the horrors of 9/11, and George W. Bush’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. So far, we have survived Donald Trump’s malignant narcissism.

The common good in America is still alive.

If we are true to our history and ideals, Kamala Harris will win, and we’ll get through the destruction Trump will again try to wreak on our democracy in the wake of his defeat, as we did before. And we will get on with the work of achieving broadly-shared prosperity and strengthening our democracy.

We the people will succeed.

 

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3 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

Unfuckingbelievable.  How is this legal?

I guess they didn't interfere with any governmental function which is the new no-fault Treason of the 21st Century.

4 minutes ago, The Dog said:

 

Only one of them has immunity under this SC. 

28 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

It means everything you pussy

Arbitrary buckets and labels mean something?  OK.  No.

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Oh no, it's another (prominent?) republikkkan confused about sexuality and the English language.

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5 minutes ago, The Dog said:

 

I kinda wish people would stop saying this, we all know that no democrat will ever get the benefit of SCOTUS' absolute immunity. 

Look, I'm not a fan of it in terms I wish none of this stuff would happen. But if they riot again the easy solution is to Ashli Babbitt someone much more quickly this time. Once that happened they figured shit out real fast. I'm pretty confident this will happen on January 6th, 2025 because they're already designating it a national security event. The question is if they'll react accordingly in other locations on other dates.
If you want to attempt a coup then you are risking your life. Make that clear, and make it clear very early on. That's how this is handled quickly.
DC will be locked down tight. There will be no riots this time.
8 minutes ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

Yeah, going to be a no from me dawg, I want no part of licking any Vag anywhere near Beaumont...

Movies where Matthew Mcconaughey smokes? : r/movies

6 minutes ago, Chopper said:

Oh no, it's another (prominent?) republikkkan confused about sexuality and the English language.

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Did this dude just admit he has sex with underage boys? Huh.

I want to leave election day thread to be exclusively for results and after they start rolling in. 

Set it for 5PM central tomorrow because that's when the first votes will start getting released if it happens earlier we will open it accordingly. 

1 minute ago, immamac said:

I want to leave election day thread to be exclusively for results and after they start rolling in. 

Set it for 5PM central tomorrow because that's when the first votes will start getting released if it happens earlier we will open it accordingly. 

Do like we do with recruiting and have 1 thread for official called results and 1 thread for commentary? Assign @Js1 to be the poster to post the official results in that thread with special mod type privilege for this forum to post in a locked thread? 

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Just now, BurntOrange&White said:

Do like we do with recruiting and have 1 thread for official called results and 1 thread for commentary?

I would like something like this.

Not quite Chilli's but I did just achieve my lifelong dream of talking about the McRib with the international media (Reuters in this case) which I have to believe is a good omen. 

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