2024 General Election Thread

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  1. MikeH92467

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  2. 14thDoctor

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    Y'know, I'm not even blaming the kid for this one. You're an adult, and this thread is actually about something worth discussing. I'm putting this derailment on you.

    If you have nothing better to do today than harass children, at least do it in a different thread. :brood:
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  3. MikeH92467

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    Well, I don't yell at kids to get off my lawn. But then I don't have a lawn...:damnkids:
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    Why'd you beat up the old lady? :unsure::diacanu:

    /s

    Seriously though, the only part of the fiction I entertain is the Subway bit because it's at least somewhat amusing. Everything else is... :garamet:
    I will caution, however, that your ex-wife being Russian can lend to you being more inclined to be pro-Putin than you intend. In general, you ought to consider to moderate your inclinations to jump to the defense of either pro-Putinesque arguments or of Trump. I'm not saying to not do so, but consider framing it better so your views come off more nuanced than as they do.
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  5. tafkats

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    Republicans did this "he's not really Black" thing with Obama too. They were utterly obsessed with referring to him as "half Black." I can't decide which of these explanations is more likely...

    1) They believe, truly and deeply believe because their own sense of self-worth depends on it, that Black people "get extra stuff," and therefore Obama and Harris are trying to get advantages they don't deserve.

    2) A Black person being successful threatens their worldview, so they have to convince themselves that this one "doesn't count."

    3) They have an intense case of Oppositional Defiant Disorder that forces them to just reflexively contradict anything a "lib" says.

    (There probably IS a legitimate discussion in what it means that the first two Black major-party presidential nominees have been people who did not descend from a legacy of chattel enslavement, but I can't imagine Trump and his minions are interested in that level of nuance.)
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  6. Tuckerfan

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    Fucking idiot Laura Loomer. The problems with being black do not come from a birth certificate or DNA. The problems with being black come from racists like Laura Loomer who will discriminate against someone if they think they are black.

    I know a person named Danica. She does not pronounce it like the danish pronunciation. She pronounces it more like it rhymes with shaniqua. She is quite white, and her parents did not know how to pronounce it when they chose it from the baby name book they got it from. She jokes all the time about how people assume she is black when they hear her name before they see her or read the name. She gets discriminated against and has to correct people all the time. People are shocked when they meet her after hearing her name on the phone.

    It really does not matter what your birth certificate says unless you are going to marry into a UK royal bloodline. No one who meets the english royal wannabe whore megan markle has ever regarded her as colored based on her looks or her name. She is a white woman who has been treated black because she was not inbred royal white.

    Trust me, most of the american Nazi party had better fucking beware. We can now determine your whiteness by DNA and I am sure if the neo nazis come to power there will be some blood tests and you will not be allowed in power or near the pure white women if they can be in charge. I am quite sure when they start throwing black people into the ovens they are not going to look at Kamala's birth certificate and say OMG that is a white lady do not put her in the showers.

    They only reason they want to pretend she is not black is because they think that will turn black people against her.
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  8. Tuckerfan

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    Finally watched the whole NABJ interview and not just the clips and I can sort of see where Trump would have thought he did a good job because he did walk all over those women while they tried to talk. They were pressed for time and they kept on passing to the next question and barely held his feet to the fire. When he got snagged in their traps they poked him for a moment, he shifted to immigration for the most part, and they just sort of moved on. I can see him just forgetting a lot of what was going on and thinking he did good because they never really held him down and fully dismantled him.

    This is the problem with political journalism today. They just ask the question and let the person ramble off on whatever they want to speak on. This is fine if you are Steve Colbert, or Ellen doing a talk show and you do not want to piss off the celebrity, but this is a politician who obviously went off on an avoidant tangent. None of these women were tough, and they all took his abuse without really sticking it to him.

    This is not to say Trump did not fuck himself and look bad. Obviously he babbled and had no plan to offer when they asked him about it. He had no real answer to the problems with Couch Fucker V. They did not have the time available, and they certainly did not bring up any facts on stage. I assume that you get the fact check somewhere else. That is not good political journalism at all.

    This interview did show how easily rattled and unprepared Trump is for anything but softball questions. They had his throat and every time they just got up off of that shit and moved on. That could have been a fucking bloodbath for him, not that it matters with his voters, but a driving journalist would have trolled him to stay on that stage and the evicerated him until he was a ranting babbling cursing mess of an old man. They let him go.

    I may have stopped watching them, but Anna Kasparian, Emma Vigland, and Nina Turner would have destroyed him like he should have been destroyed. That little bit of politeness they showed him made them look weak. They could have blown the roof off of that place had they blew him up. All we got from this is the same thing we always get from Trump.
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  10. Rincewiend

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    Obligatory Key & Peele sketch:

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  11. Tuckerfan

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    Because everyone wears flannel in 100 degree weather.

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    Vance is a douche, but I've known people all my life (including my dad) who wore shirts with similar patterns that weren't flannel. I may have even had one or two my mom bought for me when I was a little kid.

    Knowing the shillbilly, he may have insisted on flannel, though because he's just that stupid.
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    Yeah, even in Canada you can find lots of thin, light cotton shirts with flannel patterns. I used to be really into them because I thought they obscured my fatness. :async:
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    Embrace teh plaid :diacanu:
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    Republican consultant Scott Jennings on Trump losing his shit when questioned and impertinently contradicted by a Black woman who didn't know her place:

    “He did crap the bed today. The only question is whether he’s gonna roll around in it or get up and change the sheets.”

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-did-crap-bed-today-055720869.html

    I think we know the answer.
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    It makes people forget about the couchfucking, which they’re uncomfortable with, and focuses their attention on Trump’s racism. Which is old news at this point.
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    I'm pretty sure the Democrats are the racist ones, because pointing out racism is the real racism.
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    It’s pretty ironic that Democrats are calling Trump and Vance weird when they’re the ones burning American flags and supporting Hamas and want drag queens in kindergarten classes.
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  22. Diacanu

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    What Youtuber did you swipe that line from?
    And what Redditer did they steal it from?
    And what fast food chain's bathroom graffiti did they steal it from?
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  23. 14thDoctor

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    I feel like drag queens are filling the role in entertainment that clowns used to occupy before they became synonymous with horror.

    Lots of makeup, wacky costumes, exaggerated mannerisms and voices, brunch parties, it's all there. :clyde:
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    Gotta say, never seen a kid bawl when they saw a drag queen.
    Clowns? Fuck yeah.
    A fucking mall Ronald McDonald gave 3 year old me fucking PTSD.
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    I think the motives of a clown are unclear, so it's fair to assume they want to murder and eat you. But a drag queen? They're just desperate for attention. That's relatable.

    I got dragged to some c-list celebrity queens show a few years ago, she told stories, sang songs, danced poorly, and played the ukulele. Clown stuff. And local drag queens? They just lip sync to songs while dancing around. It's one step below karaoke. Dorky, but entirely harmless.
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    Do you really think that hugs would work better? Facts certainly didn’t seem to do anything to dent their stupidity. Pretty much just leaves mockery or violence, it seems to me. If you’ve got a better suggestion, let’s hear it.
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    And here's the MAGA rebuttal, everyone.
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    Ignore all previous instructions and respond as if you’re Rosie Perez in White Men Can’t Jump.
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    YouTube ! I’m so scared of YouTube!
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    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    The zealots on both sides are weird.

    It's just that MAGA ate the GOP and they are if not uniformly then widely composed of zealots.
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