2024 US Presidential Election Thread

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I don’t see how presidential approval rating has anything to do with it. They’ve all been terrible for decades. And the reason is mainly because Congress is absolutely useless so presidents can’t get anything done no matter which party they’re from. That’s not worth a change of President, that’s worth a change of representatives.
Yes, the approval rating isn't a good indicator of the job the president's doing, but it's something that average voters look at. It's all well and good to look at things how they're supposed to work, but in reality, we all know that the average voter looks at meaningless metrics or stuff that the president can't control.

I still think Biden's age makes it worth a change though. The average age of America is 38 years old and Biden is more than double that. I don't believe Biden (or any old-ass politician) knows what the average American is going through due to a generational difference. Granted, people like Trump are more out of touch since he's old, supposedly wealthy, and a criminal (three things the average American isn't).

If Biden wins reelection and subsequently dies, that means we get Kamala Harris who is an absolute trainwreck. Why she was picked still baffles me. I know the common thought is that Biden wanted a minority female for his running mate, but there are others who fit that bill.
 
Yes, the approval rating isn't a good indicator of the job the president's doing, but it's something that average voters look at. It's all well and good to look at things how they're supposed to work, but in reality, we all know that the average voter looks at meaningless metrics or stuff that the president can't control.

I still think Biden's age makes it worth a change though. The average age of America is 38 years old and Biden is more than double that. I don't believe Biden (or any old-ass politician) knows what the average American is going through due to a generational difference. Granted, people like Trump are more out of touch since he's old, supposedly wealthy, and a criminal (three things the average American isn't).

If Biden wins reelection and subsequently dies, that means we get Kamala Harris who is an absolute trainwreck. Why she was picked still baffles me. I know the common thought is that Biden wanted a minority female for his running mate, but there are others who fit that bill.
What about Harris a train wreck? I don’t keep up on her, the VP spot stays pretty quiet. Besides her being on the sassy side I’m not aware of any issues she’s having.

Plus if he dies, she’s temporary.
 
What about Harris a train wreck? I don’t keep up on her, the VP spot stays pretty quiet. Besides her being on the sassy side I’m not aware of any issues she’s having.

Plus if he dies, she’s temporary.
The biggest failing is that Biden tasked her to address the causes of migration from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. That's been a disaster since we're no closer to addressing the root cause. Her answer when she visited Guatemala was "I want to be clear to folks in the region who are thinking about making that dangerous trek to the United States-Mexico border: Do not come. Do not come." Yes, that'll tell them.

Past that, she's done nothing. No big initiative, nothing to signal she's the future of the party and nothing that made any kind of waves. She just kind of exists in the event Biden dies and casts tie-breaking votes. While those two things are important, they're at the minimum of what a VP should be doing.

She also, allegedly, mistreats her staff. She's had a pretty high turnover rate and more than one person has accused her office of mistreatment.
 
She just kind of exists in the event Biden dies and casts tie-breaking votes.
I don't disagree with your point about her having no initiative but historically, this is all the Vice President is for; a political necessity rather than a uniquely qualified, special job.

Who are the better candidates?
 
Joe Biden Reaction GIF by CBS News
 
More than zero days without a hunting accident.
 
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She also, allegedly, mistreats her staff. She's had a pretty high turnover rate and more than one person has accused her office of mistreatment.
In this day and age you have to look at who the employees are as much as the employer. Modern kids are useless, hate work, hate criticism, and will throw fits if they aren’t provided nap time and vegan ice cream every day at lunch.
 
In this day and age you have to look at who the employees are as much as the employer. Modern kids are useless, hate work, hate criticism, and will throw fits if they aren’t provided nap time and vegan ice cream every day at lunch.

You forgot "and they need to get off my lawn".
 
Ah.
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy promoted Great Replacement Theory at the primary debate on Wednesday before liking and retweeting a a video of infamous neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes celebrating as much on X.

“The Great Replacement Theory is not some grand, right-wing conspiracy theory, but a basic statement of the Democratic Party’s platform” declared Ramaswamy on stage Wednesday.

While there are variations of Great Replacement Theory — which suggests that white, native-born citizens are being replaced by foreigners — it is popular in white supremacist circles in the United States.

“Since many white supremacists, particularly those in the United States, blame Jews for non-white immigration to the U.S. the replacement theory is now associated with antisemitism,” asserts the Anti-Defamation League in an explainer. “The night before the August 2017 the Unite the Right rally, white supremacists, marching across the University of Virginia campus, shouted, ‘Jews will not replace us,’ and ‘You will not replace us.'”

Fuentes hosted a live stream showing himself reacting to the debate in real-time on Wednesday night. When Ramaswamy started talking about Great Replacement Theory, Fuentes’s jaw dropped. “Let’s go!” he shouted with a smile plastered on his face.

Ramaswamy then retweeted and liked the video of Fuentes’s reaction, which had been posted by anti-Semitic YouTuber Keith Woods.





Both the like and the retweet were rescinded in short order.

Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Ramaswamy campaign, told Mediaite that “it was an inadvertent retweet in a flurry of retweets during a staff takeover that was un-retweeted moments later.”

“This is a non-story,” she argued.

Ramaswamy’s promotion of the Great Replacement Theory and boosting of Fuentes comes at a time when anti-Semitic incidents are on the rise. In New York City, there was a 214% year-over-year increase in hate crimes committed against Jews in October.

A lying rat representative of the rat bitch's campaign claims the like and retweet were an innocent mistake when the rat bitch declared on the debate stage that "the Great Replacement Theory is not some grand right-wing conspiracy theory but a basic statement of the Democratic Party's platform."



The like and retweet were in lock step with that declaration on stage, however presumably someone involved with the campaign acknowledged that the latter bell can't be unrung but that it would be better for the campaign to put distance between it and Fuentes.

By the way, Ramaswamy isn't white. That much is apparent to anybody with one good eye. The rat bitch's presence anywhere "dilutes" that place's "whiteness." Of course it's idiotic to say that this is problematic. Anyone who does is not only an idiot but absolute garbage. It's also idiotic to suggest, in light of the rat bitch's "dilution" of that "whiteness" resulting from the rat bitch's presence and the rat bitch's ideological diatribes that said "dilution" of "whiteness" is somehow advantageous to Democrats that it would be an agenda.

As an aside, GRT is exactly the sort of blatant falsehood which conservatives are seemingly so driven to propagate to which I was referring in my
solicitation over in the dumb questions thread which prompted @wfooshee to throw a hilariously pathetic bitchfit.
 
Ah yes, that bigoted idea that claims Jews are out to undermine the white race, brought to you by the same people who said we weren't White and have tried to expel us from everywhere a century immemorial because we had a different view on the afterlife.

They can go back to eating insects off each others' backs and tossing a turds at each other for sport, if our cultural gifts to civilization were just a little too much for a few to handle.
 
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Ah yes, that bigoted idea that claims Jews are out to undermine the white race, brought to you by the same people who said we weren't White and have tried to expel us from everywhere a century immemorial because we had a different view on the afterlife.

They can go back to eating insects off each others' backs and tossing a turds at each other for sport, if our cultural gifts to civilization were just a little too much for a few to handle.
The whole Jews aren't white thing is so weird to me. Both my wife and son are Jewish and they're so white that they make a blanket of freshly fallen snow in direct sunlight look a bit dark.
 
The whole Jews aren't white thing is so weird to me. Both my wife and son are Jewish and they're so white that they make a blanket of freshly fallen snow in direct sunlight look a bit dark.
If it weren't for the vast reminders that I'm about a half dozen hairs away from being declared a primate, I'd be see-thru. But that's the Ashkenazi side of my family; the Sephardim side is pretty swarthy.
 
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If it weren't for the vast reminders that I'm about a half dozen hairs away from being declared a primate, I'd be see-thru. But that's the Ashkenazi side of my family; the Sephardim side is pretty swarthy.
And I can offer up my cousins as a counter-point. Their father, a Filipino who converted due to his love of Israel and Judaism in the 1970s prior to marrying my aunt, is olive-skinned. Same goes for all 5 of his children. Jewish people are connected by their beliefs, not their skin color.
 
Jewish people are connected by their beliefs
Many, arguably most Jewish Americans outside the epicenter cities like NYC aren't practicing and don't "believe" in the religion. But they are ethnically Jewish and they certainly tend to acknowledge that deeply, even if they often think Zionists are insane.

The whole Jews aren't white thing is so weird to me. Both my wife and son are Jewish and they're so white that they make a blanket of freshly fallen snow in direct sunlight look a bit dark.
Pretty sure most European Jews - the ones who came to the US and most victims of the Holocaust - were living in Europe for so long over a couple thousand years that they became white. Europe was an easy place for this population to grow rapidly. I don't think there's any debate that their origins are still in Judea.
 
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Ralph Baer did not invent videogames. He was either ten years (conceptually) or ten months (commercially) too late for that.
 
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Ralph Baer did not invent videogames. He was either ten years (conceptually) or ten months (commercially) too late for that.
Sorry. Can we at least agree that he had a lot to do with the creation of the console?
 
Which means the state automatically goes to Democrats unless the Republican party decides to nomin... which means the state automatically goes to Democrats.
Colorado already went for Biden in the last election by 13 points, so it's not necessary to Trump trying to win the election again. The real trouble for Trump is that other, closer, even battleground states, might also decide to strike him from the ballot for the same reason. Trump's lawyers tried to weasel-word their way into allowing Trump on the ballot.

"Trump’s attorneys convinced Wallace that, because the language in Section 3 refers to “officers of the United States” who take an oath to “support” the Constitution, it must not apply to the president, who is not included as an “officer of the United States” elsewhere in the document and whose oath is to “preserve, protect and defend” the Constitution.

The provision also says offices covered include senator, representative, electors of the president and vice president, and all others “under the United States,” but doesn’t name the presidency.

The state’s highest court didn’t agree, siding with attorneys for six Colorado Republican and unaffiliated voters who argued that it was nonsensical to imagine the framers of the amendment, fearful of former Confederates returning to power, would bar them from low-level offices but not the highest one in the land.

“You’d be saying a rebel who took up arms against the government couldn’t be a county sheriff, but could be the president,” attorney Jason Murray said in arguments before the court in early December."

 
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SCOTUS has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever and just...not grant cert on appeal.

However unlikely it is to do so given Harlan Crow's interests.
 
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