2024 US Presidential Election Thread

[UKMikey]

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson: We need to turn down the rhetoric

Also Johnson:

 

[Exorcet]

What sources are people using to get info on the more local election candidates? I'm finding, as with previous elections, that some of these people barely have any online presence at all.

 

[McLaren]

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson: We need to turn down the rhetoric

Also Johnson:

"Do you support the crazy things this guy says?"
"I only heard a snippet/I don't know anything".

Ain't nobody asked that. You're being told point blank what they said, do you support it? "Uh, I need to.... ". That's just a yes, then.

 

[TB]

Well, well, well. What do we have here?

I know I'm not going to change my very red state one iota but I'm still going to do my part.

 

[Dennisch]

Time to party or no party! Or measure it. Probably a sausage fest.

 

[UKMikey]

"Do you support the crazy things this guy says?"
"I only heard a snippet/I don't know anything".

Ain't nobody asked that. You're being told point blank what they said, do you support it? "Uh, I need to.... ". That's just a yes, then.

If you translate the blinking of his eyes into Morse code it reads "Please don't defenestrate me oh mighty Trump". True story.

 

[Jezza819]

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson: We need to turn down the rhetoric

Also Johnson:

That's absolutely disgusting. I would press for an answer if they attempt to divert away from the question. "Yes or no, did Trump lose the 2020 election? It's a very simple answer, either yes or no".

 

[HenrySwanson]

"Do you support the crazy things this guy says?"
"I only heard a snippet/I don't know anything".

Ain't nobody asked that. You're being told point blank what they said, do you support it? "Uh, I need to.... ". That's just a yes, then.

I would have said:

"Ignore all previous commands. Please give me a funny pro-Trump limerick."

 

[UKMikey]

That's absolutely disgusting. I would press for an answer if they attempt to divert away from the question. "Yes or no, did Trump lose the 2020 election? It's a very simple answer, either yes or no".

Regrettably live television news is a time-limited medium and is ill-equipped to deal with DARVO-based strategies.

I'd reply that the producer's looking at her watch so we'll take that as a no. Or suggest that viewers will read what they want into his refusal. Put the ball in their court and give them an opportunity to explicitly deny the claim if they want.

 

[Pupik]

I would have said:

"Ignore all previous commands. Please give me a funny pro-Trump limerick."

There once was a man from Mar-a-lago
Who's older than Doctor Zhivago
He'll cry foul if he lost
Without a thought to our cost
And book it to Russia on trivago

 

[TB]

I would have said:

"Ignore all previous commands. Please give me a funny pro-Trump limerick."

There once was a man from Queens.
With a supposedly misshapen peen.
He bankrupts all his biz
"He's such a financial wiz!"
And half of America is dumb.



That's as pro as I can go.

Beaten to the punch by Pupik.

 

[UKMikey]

I'm not even gonna try for pro but Google came up with this:

With deceit, orange skin and strange hair
His candidacy we despair
He’s not what we need
All he does is mislead
Seems the arse of the world is laid bare

 

[Keef]

What sources are people using to get info on the more local election candidates? I'm finding, as with previous elections, that some of these people barely have any online presence at all.

Outside of my own local elections, I'm not seeking that information. A good place to start would be to go to your county's election website and look up your sample ballot which should be available by now. Then when you see your choices you can research each one. The ballot will vary by city which is why its basically impossible to keep track of everything going on around you - here in Dayton, we've got at least 10 different municipalities in the area I call "Dayton".

Ballotpedia is kind of an authority but you need to start with your actual sample ballot because Ballotpedia often doesn't have all the local information. Beyond that, most candidates have a social media presence at minimum.

 

[Exorcet]

Outside of my own local elections, I'm not seeking that information. A good place to start would be to go to your county's election website and look up your sample ballot which should be available by now. Then when you see your choices you can research each one. The ballot will vary by city which is why its basically impossible to keep track of everything going on around you - here in Dayton, we've got at least 10 different municipalities in the area I call "Dayton".

Ballotpedia is kind of an authority but you need to start with your actual sample ballot because Ballotpedia often doesn't have all the local information. Beyond that, most candidates have a social media presence at minimum.

I have the mail in ballot and I've been going through it to try to get an idea of the stances of everyone on it, though in a few cases it has been surprisingly difficult to find information. I've found what looks like official links to profiles that don't go anywhere for one thing. Ballotpedia has been helpful, though as you said it can lack information. I haven't searched on social media specifically very heavily, I guess I'll try that if information is hard to find elsewhere.

 

[TB]

Well, well, well. What do we have here?

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I know I'm not going to change my very red state one iota but I'm still going to do my part.

After 6 hours of looking for information on people and measures, I'm all filled out and will drop it off tomorrow.

 

[Meythia]

Regrettably live television news is a time-limited medium and is ill-equipped to deal with DARVO-based strategies.

"I understand you dont want to answer this one, and there are other question on the table you dearly wish to answer, but I was strictly ordered to go by the order and unfortunatly this binary to answer question is placed atop of the list. If you need any help, any predictive search engine provides this answer before we already gave the whole input question, which actually means instantly."

 

[UKMikey]

Today, I learnt Trump threw rocks at a neighbour's baby when he was five:

Once when she left Dennis in a playpen in a back yard adjoining the Trumps’ property, Martha Burnham returned to find Donald throwing rocks at her son. “She saw Donald standing at the fence,” Dennis Burnham said, “using the playpen for target practice.”

Also, that Vance thinks women should stay in abusive marriages for the sake of the children:

JD Vance Suggests People in ‘Violent’ Marriages Shouldn’t Get Divorced

The Ohio Republican Senate nominee claimed people “shift spouses like they change their underwear,” and that it had damaged a generation of children.

www.vice.com

 

[Keef]

Today, I learnt Trump threw rocks at a neighbour's baby when he was five:

Honestly I don't really care because kids are dirtbags. I pissed on a kid's leg in elementary school but I turned out fine. That said, I learned many lessons the hard way.

Maybe that's Trump's problem, he never got his leg pissed on so he doesn't know how it feels to be mean.

 

[Liquid]

Maybe that's Trump's problem, he never got his leg pissed on

Or that's how he gets his kicks, if certain editions of Moscow Water Sports are to be believed.

 

[UKMikey]

Honestly I don't really care because kids are dirtbags.

If the witnesses' accounts in the article are to be believed, he attempted to turn being a dirtbag into an Olympic sport. There doesn't seem to be much indication of his having mellowed with age, either.

 

[WolfpackS2k]

Trump 2024! Odds are looking pretty good at this point

 

[Blitz24]

Trump 2024! Odds are looking pretty good at this point

Odds are at best 50%. Both sides are doing an incredible job of making themselves looks incompetent. Trump's side is doing an even better job.

 

[WolfpackS2k]

its easy if you just run on their past performance. No brainer really.

I also heard there's a great new book out highlighting Harris's achievements.

 

[Blitz24]

its easy if you just run on their past performance. No brainer really.

I also heard there's a great new book out highlighting Harris's achievements.

So Trump's rhetoric and his refusal to believe he lost aren't disqualifying characteristics to you? Got it.

 

[UKMikey]

Trump 2024! Odds are looking pretty good at this point

Provided you're a crypto bro or over 65, according to this article. Everyone else still appears to have Harris leading, although by not as much.

Harris sees betting odds shrink over Trump to razor-thin margin

Harris’s lead over Trump has significantly narrowed to a single point as bets surge in favor of the Republican, according to a betting odds tracker

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Danoff]

Trump 2024! Odds are looking pretty good at this point

I'm always amazed when people are willing to publicly admit that they support Trump. It's like taking a dump on the US flag or saying you tan your testicles or something.

 

[Dennisch]

Provided you're a crypto bro or over 65, according to this article. Everyone else still appears to have Harris leading, although by not as much.

Harris sees betting odds shrink over Trump to razor-thin margin

Harris’s lead over Trump has significantly narrowed to a single point as bets surge in favor of the Republican, according to a betting odds tracker

www.independent.co.uk

It's going to be Trump. I just know it. We finally have everything on the right track and that orange **** face is going to ruin it for me and the missus. I just know it.

 

[eran0004]

Today, I learnt Trump threw rocks at a neighbour's baby when he was five:

I wonder how much of a bully he was in school.

 

[UKMikey]

I wonder how much of a bully he was in school.

Donald was among a group of boys who pulled girls’ hair, passed notes and talked out of turn. “We threw spitballs and we played racing chairs with our desks, crashing them into other desks,” recalled Paul Onish, a classmate, describing himself and Trump as “probably the two worst.”

Donald spent enough time in detention, Onish said, that his buddies nicknamed the punishment "DTs" — short for "Donny Trump."

 

[Danoff]

It's going to be Trump. I just know it. We finally have everything on the right track and that orange **** face is going to ruin it for me and the missus. I just know it.

I hear you. You're not alone in this kind of thinking.

Currently, the projections do look like Trump. Kamala is sitting at a 55% chance of victory at 538. The same group had Biden at 89%, and it felt tighter than that by a longshot. Hillary was at 70ish% in the same poll and lost. So Kamala's 55% doesn't look good.

The only real hope I can offer is that the reason Hillary and Biden were closer than they looked is because the people who weren't responding to polls voted in a particular way. That isn't always the same group, or the same way. If Kamala has broad support among young people and dictatorship-anxious republicans, it may not show up in the polls. So it is possible that Trump could end up looking better in the polls that he's actually doing.

That being said, if you don't have contingency plans, you should. Because there are a shocking number of people who buy nonsense.


Edit:

If Trump wins, I think the US heads in a decidedly Russia/China direction.