2024 US Presidential Election Thread

[McLaren]

Serious questions:
Why do people on the right keep on saying ballots are being shredded or burnt or dumped somewhere in nature...

So they can claim Democrats are the ones "disposing" their votes & that's how they win.

They keep on saying there are videos or evidence of it..

Next time I will ask them to prove it to me.
I would be it's some sort of made up Photoshop video

The videos are almost always edited or based on an assumption to "confirm" their bias.

Ever see the one that focuses on someone dropping off a box during the night to a counting station after voting stopped? They'll claim that's a box of fake votes for Dems. In reality, that's just how it works because it takes hours for that box to clear security before it gets send to be counted.

Remember, there's also always a good chance projection is at hand. "Votes by dead family members" was a thing until multiple cases arose where it was Republican voters committing such acts. Then the right's talking heads stopped claiming it.

 

[Jezza819]

Remember, there's also always a good chance projection is at hand. "Votes by dead family members" was a thing until multiple cases arose where it was Republican voters committing such acts. Then the right's talking heads stopped claiming it.

Some even tried twice.

https://www.8newsnow.com/investigators/las-vegas-man-who-voted-twice-using-dead-wifes-ballot-pleads-guilty-pays-2000-fine/

 

[Darla Starch]

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/25/trump-freedom-caucus-north-carolina-electors-00185520

It is the damnedest of shames that they don't make those inhumane glue traps for rats this big.

Unfortunately Andy's from my state so I'm sorry for this

 

[Danoff]

Unfortunately Andy's from my state so I'm sorry for this

Glad to see someone's taking responsibility for this.

 

[UKMikey]

In more somber news, if democracy dies in darkness as the Washington Post's motto declares, then someone just turned out the light. My guess is owner Jeff Bezos:

 

[McLaren]

It was obviously 29 million people, dressed head to toe in Maga merchandise. You just didn't see them b/c the corrupt media wouldn't let them into the state.

 

[Danoff]

I think it's relatively simple. Authoritarianism.

We have a significant segment of the US population that thinks that the problems they're afraid of are to be solved with a stick, and the rules are to be ignored if they're in the way. That's Trump. They still don't understand, or even begin to think, that they could be on the receiving end of the stick. They haven't stopped to question whether what they're afraid of is real, whether the rules are protecting them, or whether a stick is actually a good idea to use.

They think they need their leader to be a jerk who pisses people off, and they instinctively want to side with the person who does that.

I defy anyone to listen to Tucker Carlson talk about how the US is an unruly little girl who needs a "spanking" when "daddy" Trump "gets home" and not see the exactly point about authoritarianism I was making above. Tuck is a disturbed individual, but the crowd seems to follow his basic ideology, that all is right in the world when you have a strong father figure who beats his subjects for stepping out of line.

 

[CTznOfTime]

there are so many opportunities for people to get educated and to learn and fact check as much as they can, i am really not sure why people on the right are so stuck on with their own believes and so rigid, unwilling to have an open mind...

The Mooch is one person is giving me hope that more people can be like him, but he is well spoken and educated, who was once corrupted:

 

[Joey D]

Trump works at McDonald's. McDonald's has a massive E.coli outbreak. I'm not saying Trump caused it, but I'm just asking the questions.

That's how morons like Tucker pose things right?

 

[Dbwasson]

If Harris wins the election, let's hope she'll be a better democrat- nay, president than Biden.

 

[Jezza819]

Again with these Conservative thugs.

A judge orders Virginia to restore 1,600 voter registrations purged ahead of the election

U.S. District Judge Patricia Giles told Virginia to restore over 1,600 voter registrations that she said were illegally purged in order to stop noncitizens from voting.

apnews.com

Of course Trump chimed in "Only US citizens should be allowed to vote". Well they're trying to you jackass!!! Your sleazy henchmen keep trying to stop them from voting.

 

[Danoff]

Harris and Trump Deadlocked to the End, Final Times/Siena National Poll Finds

The electorate has rarely seemed so evenly divided. The latest New York Times/Siena College poll found Harris and Trump tied 48 to 48.

www.nytimes.com

Harris and Trump are split nationally in the NYT Sienna poll of 80,000 people. This is the last NYT Sienna poll before the election.

If this is true, it suggests a Trump win. Harris cannot be dead even nationally and still win the EC, which has a republican lean to it. All of the battleground states lean red compared to national averages. So she needs to be leading by something like 3% nationally to be even in battleground states.

I think there is no way this poll is correct. The reason is because I simply refuse to believe that Harris is set up to underperform Hillary at a national level. This poll suggests that Harris is so unpopular that she is at risk of losing the popular vote, and I just don't think that's a credible scenario. If my position turns out to be correct, it means that there is a pro-Trump selection bias in at least this one specific poll.

If my position is not correct, the US has lost its damned mind and is about to elect a maniac clown.