US Election Thread 2024

[Red Phoenix]

One thing became obvious quickly as I started playing a new game today : Kamala Harris shouldn't be the first black female president. Saga Anderson from Alan Wake 2 should be instead. It's not too late Dems, get campaigning and voting for her.

 

[The wanderer]

16 hours ago, Pete said:

She's running for POTUS though.  Not spinning plates, whilst juggling chainsaws and eating fire & she seems quite charismatic to me. 
Being awkward will improve in time if she's victorious (shes way better now than she was in July/August).  I'd rather have a dull cunt who does the actually job they're meant to rather than some charlatan mob boss using it as way to get out of jail and punish those he doesn't like, as a five year old would. 

I wouldn't give a fuck who they vote for if it wasn't for global/climate implications. If they think the orange shitstain as POtuS is good for them, then screw them, you reap what you sow.  Me? I'd like a planet that's not hurtling to it's own self made destruction, for everyone decent an who has kids.   But hey some folks don't like the awkward, charisma free, uninspiring Democrat.  Fair enough. 

She’s a giggling fuckin idiot. How the fuck one of the world’s biggest economies can only put these two up is beyond me.

[Section_31]

4 minutes ago, The wanderer said:

She’s a giggling fuckin idiot. How the fuck one of the world’s biggest economies can only put these two up is beyond me.

 

Don't think you go to Harvard and become an attorney general if you're thick like.

[Pete]

7 minutes ago, The wanderer said:

She’s a giggling fuckin idiot. How the fuck one of the world’s biggest economies can only put these two up is beyond me.

Again. What the fuck is drumpf then?!? She’s not allowed to laugh yet Drumpf gets away with pretty much every vile thing he does or says?!? 
The hypocrisy and misogyny is astounding.  Fine let’s have the orange cunt win and finish the planet of for good. 

[The wanderer]

2 minutes ago, Pete said:

Again. What the fuck is drumpf then?!?

Can’t you fuckin read ? 

[The wanderer]

10 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

 

Don't think you go to Harvard and become an attorney general if you're thick like.

I think she went to Howard and UCLA but she still comes across as a giggling idiot. Honestly neither her nor Trump have put forward decent overviews on policy if elected.

[Pete]

1 hour ago, The wanderer said:

Can’t you fuckin read ? 

Yes. And all I see folks picking on the most minor of things.  The standards she has to observe vs the orange twat is mid boggling. No wonder we're fucked as a species. 

 

[Bjornebye]

Who the fuck is Drumpf!!??

[The wanderer]

17 minutes ago, Pete said:

Yes. And all I see folks picking on the most minor of things.  The standards she has to observe vs the orange twat is mid boggling. No wonder we're fucked as a species. 

 

Neither are up to scratch. Get over your hatred for all things Trump and ask yourself why each party can only put forward these candidates it’s a sad indictment of today’s world.

[Anubis]

17 hours ago, Section_31 said:

….but social media has allowed them all to connect with each other like a thick bastards version of the Borg.

That made me laugh, but also a bit sad because it’s the truth. I’ve got a father who is anti-vaxx and voted Reform because of morons he drinks in the pub with in town at the weekend.

 

If I didn’t look after my mum while he has his time out I’d have gone with him to kick off an argument and probably a bar brawl.

[Pete]

25 minutes ago, MacsBurstNads said:

Who the fuck is Drumpf!!??

Trumps natural german name.  
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/video/2016/mar/02/john-oliver-targets-trump-with-make-donald-drumpf-again-campaign-video

[razor]

2 hours ago, The wanderer said:

I think she went to Howard and UCLA but she still comes across as a giggling idiot. Honestly neither her nor Trump have put forward decent overviews on policy if elected.

 

"Policy".  I bet you still wear flared trousers.  BOOMER.

[Captain Turdseye]

Blimey!

 

 

Tucker Carlson Tells Crowd Trump Will Give Country a ‘Spanking’

The former Fox News host used a bizarre extended metaphor at a rally in Georgia where Donald J. Trump spoke.

 

The former Fox News host Tucker Carlson stirred up a crowd of Trump supporters on Wednesday night with a bizarre extended metaphor that cast former President Donald J. Trump as an angry father about to come home and give a “vigorous spanking” to his disobedient daughter.

As he warmed up the crowd before Mr. Trump spoke at a rally in Duluth, Ga., Mr. Carlson said that the country under Democratic leadership was like a toddler allowed to “smear the contents of his diapers on the wall of your living room,” or a “hormone-addled 15-year-old daughter” who gives her parents the finger and slams her bedroom door. And he cast Mr. Trump as the strict, disappointed father.

“When Dad gets home, you know what he says? ‘You’ve been a bad girl, you’ve been a bad little girl, and you’re getting a vigorous spanking right now,’” Mr. Carlson said. Grinning, he went on: “And no, it’s not going to hurt me more than it hurts you. No, it’s not. I’m not going to lie. This is going to hurt you a lot more than it hurts me. And you earned this. You’re getting a vigorous spanking because you’ve been a bad girl.”

The crowd went wild.

Mr. Carlson’s speech — at a rally hosted by the conservative group Turning Point Action that featured Mr. Trump as the headline speaker — was full of disparaging comments about women. He called former Representative Liz Cheney “Dick Cheney’s creepy little daughter” and described Democrats as “the party of weak men and unhappy women, one of which leads to the other, by the way.”

 

He raged against Vice President Kamala Harris in particular, referring to her as “Carmela or whatever her name is” and asking: “Kamala Harris, who couldn’t change the tire on your truck, much less drive it — how did she wind up at the top of the pyramid? And then once she’s there, she lectures you like you did something. It’s too much! We can’t allow that!” Making a grabbing motion, he described her as a pawn of the Democratic “machine” and called her “just a hapless victim who happened to be there in the right color, so they grabbed her.”

Mr. Carlson told the crowd that they had been unfairly demeaned by Democrats who called their views fringe, exhorting them to view themselves instead as a trampled majority, “the most mistreated group in this nation.”

He cast Democrats as illegitimate, calling them “the most parasitic, useless, violent, nasty, aggressive people in your country.” He said that “they have no legitimacy in a democracy, where the government must rule by the consent of the governed.”

In an apparent reference to people who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War, he continued: “They tore down statues to their memory. People who never built anything in their lives, they went out of their way to humiliate you and spit on you and the graves of your ancestors.”

And he told the crowd directly that they should not accept the election results if Ms. Harris wins.

“At the end of all of that, when they tell you they’ve won, no!” he said. “You can look them straight in the face and say: ‘I’m sorry, Dad’s home, and he’s pissed.’”

[The wanderer]

2 hours ago, razor said:

 

"Policy".  I bet you still wear flared trousers.  BOOMER.

You bastard

[Pete]

 

[Section_31]

3 hours ago, Anubis said:

That made me laugh, but also a bit sad because it’s the truth. I’ve got a father who is anti-vaxx and voted Reform because of morons he drinks in the pub with in town at the weekend.

 

If I didn’t look after my mum while he has his time out I’d have gone with him to kick off an argument and probably a bar brawl.

 

Two of my mates have been radicalised in the same way, and I don't use the word lightly. One is always on TikTok and the other YouTube (doesn't watch telly!?). They both have cookie cutter opinions on everything from Ukraine and BLM to feminism and Labour. It's like something from invasion of the body snatchers. 

[Creator Supreme]

52 minutes ago, Pete said:

 

Very good, nice wrinkle that he played a Trump like president in civil war.

 

He's in deep shit if that orange bastard wins like.

[Captain Turdseye]

MAGA is winning hands down on the economy. People had more money in their pockets under Trump. That’s the established truth, right?

 

So that leaves abortion and immigration as the two other policies most discussed throughout. 
 

Do either of the second two trump (no pun intended) the first for the average American? I’m not sure they do. 
 

Obviously there’s fucking nutjobs devoted to either side for various reasons, but what’s the Average Joe who’s undecided going to prioritise when he goes to vote?

[cloggypop]

1 hour ago, Captain Turdseye said:

Blimey!

 

 

Tucker Carlson Tells Crowd Trump Will Give Country a ‘Spanking’

The former Fox News host used a bizarre extended metaphor at a rally in Georgia where Donald J. Trump spoke.

 

The former Fox News host Tucker Carlson stirred up a crowd of Trump supporters on Wednesday night with a bizarre extended metaphor that cast former President Donald J. Trump as an angry father about to come home and give a “vigorous spanking” to his disobedient daughter.

As he warmed up the crowd before Mr. Trump spoke at a rally in Duluth, Ga., Mr. Carlson said that the country under Democratic leadership was like a toddler allowed to “smear the contents of his diapers on the wall of your living room,” or a “hormone-addled 15-year-old daughter” who gives her parents the finger and slams her bedroom door. And he cast Mr. Trump as the strict, disappointed father.

“When Dad gets home, you know what he says? ‘You’ve been a bad girl, you’ve been a bad little girl, and you’re getting a vigorous spanking right now,’” Mr. Carlson said. Grinning, he went on: “And no, it’s not going to hurt me more than it hurts you. No, it’s not. I’m not going to lie. This is going to hurt you a lot more than it hurts me. And you earned this. You’re getting a vigorous spanking because you’ve been a bad girl.”

The crowd went wild.

Mr. Carlson’s speech — at a rally hosted by the conservative group Turning Point Action that featured Mr. Trump as the headline speaker — was full of disparaging comments about women. He called former Representative Liz Cheney “Dick Cheney’s creepy little daughter” and described Democrats as “the party of weak men and unhappy women, one of which leads to the other, by the way.”

 

He raged against Vice President Kamala Harris in particular, referring to her as “Carmela or whatever her name is” and asking: “Kamala Harris, who couldn’t change the tire on your truck, much less drive it — how did she wind up at the top of the pyramid? And then once she’s there, she lectures you like you did something. It’s too much! We can’t allow that!” Making a grabbing motion, he described her as a pawn of the Democratic “machine” and called her “just a hapless victim who happened to be there in the right color, so they grabbed her.”

Mr. Carlson told the crowd that they had been unfairly demeaned by Democrats who called their views fringe, exhorting them to view themselves instead as a trampled majority, “the most mistreated group in this nation.”

He cast Democrats as illegitimate, calling them “the most parasitic, useless, violent, nasty, aggressive people in your country.” He said that “they have no legitimacy in a democracy, where the government must rule by the consent of the governed.”

In an apparent reference to people who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War, he continued: “They tore down statues to their memory. People who never built anything in their lives, they went out of their way to humiliate you and spit on you and the graves of your ancestors.”

And he told the crowd directly that they should not accept the election results if Ms. Harris wins.

“At the end of all of that, when they tell you they’ve won, no!” he said. “You can look them straight in the face and say: ‘I’m sorry, Dad’s home, and he’s pissed.’”

 

Has he sued Trudeau yet? 

 

https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-russia-justin-trudeau-1971060

[Captain Turdseye]

If Donald Trump wins people will start watching the news again. He’s box office all over the world. 
 

What a time to be alive. 

[TheHowieLama]

funny laugh

stupid

awkward

 

"Alexa, mansplain me Kamala Harris."

 

[Captain Turdseye]

Oh, look at the news. Here we go again with the foreign interference nonce sense. 
 

[Captain Turdseye]

[Kevin D]

This always gets a laugh out of me, from 2020. Like the idea of the Ayotollah stroking his chin and going “hmmm” as he delivers the punchlines.
 

https://apnews.com/article/ayatollah-ali-khamenei-mocks-us-election-096db26f2e5e00fcf8248d1689ec6230
 

 

“If you look at their own situation, it’s interesting to watch. The incumbent president, who is supposed to hold the elections, says this is the most-rigged U.S. election throughout history,” Khamenei said, not acknowledging that individual U.S. states run the vote. “Who says this? The sitting president who is arranging the elections himself. His opponent says Trump intends to widely cheat. This is American democracy.”

 

 

[Section_31]

Arnie has spoken

 

 

 

 

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I don’t really do endorsements.

 

I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians. I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

 

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

 

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

 

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

 

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand. I want to tune out. But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

 

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican. That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious. For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing. The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people.

 

The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better. It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed! But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

 

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful. We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

 

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz. Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us. And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. http://vote.org