2024 US Presidential Election Thread

[Famine]

the candidates on the ballot not palatable choices

I mean... it's not like they're equally bad choices though. One spent four years in the job already, showing a complete lack of respect for the fundamental limitations on government, enriching themselves and manipulating the judicial branch to give him a seemingly endless supply of GOJF cards, and has openly stated that they're going to do more of that but bigger next time. The other one hasn't said enough bad things about Israel being bastards.

Never mind all the other stuff, it's properly baffling that 45% of Americans - who'll scream blue murder about the first and second amendments at the slightest provocation (as evidenced by the number of them that don't take to having their posts moderated well and go straight to crying about 1A) - actively want a guy who is not only straight-up ignorant about the whole Constitution/BoR thing but doesn't give a **** about it and would wipe his arse with them if they were to hand and he could reach his arse to wipe it and wasn't in nappies anyway.

 

[Blitz24]

I mean... it's not like they're equally bad choices though. One spent four years in the job already, showing a complete lack of respect for the fundamental limitations on government, enriching themselves and manipulating the judicial branch to give him a seemingly endless supply of GOJF cards, and has openly stated that they're going to do more of that but bigger next time. The other one hasn't said enough bad things about Israel being bastards.

Never mind all the other stuff, it's properly baffling that 45% of Americans - who'll scream blue murder about the first and second amendments at the slightest provocation (as evidenced by the number of them that don't take to having their posts moderated well and go straight to crying about 1A) - actively want a guy who is not only straight-up ignorant about the whole Constitution/BoR thing but doesn't give a **** about it and would wipe his arse with them if they were to hand and he could reach his arse to wipe it and wasn't in nappies anyway.

That's the entire reason. People are stupid and want someone "strong/brash" as their leader. They will happily ignore the fact that he is criminal because he "resonates" with them.

 

[Famine]

They will happily ignore the fact that he is criminal because he "resonates" with them.

They seem to be happily ignoring the fact that their country is founded on the Constitution - the Constitution they love and will shout about how great it is even in entirely inapplicable situations - and the guy they want in charge knows nothing about it and won't so much ignore it as not be aware of it at all.

It just blows the mind that 45% of people who show up will say yes to this. And then there's 10% who just don't know if they want that or the other thing. It just... shouldn't be close. It's like voting for lava man, whose promise is that he'll turn the country into lava but he'll start out with the gays and Jews and Muslims and trans and women who need a termination in order not to die but has still overtly said he'll turn the whole place into lava, because the other person has a name they can't pronounce properly, hasn't been quite vocal enough about Netanyahu, and their predecessor's predecessor's predecessor might have met that paedophile guy who actually called lava man his best friend.


As someone said on Twitter, there's some big Helm's Deep-eve energy right now. The USA dies today if those 10% are ****witted enough to tick the lava box.

 

[Kriptical]

One-third of people won't vote. Of those that do, 5/11ths are going to vote for the apocalypse and 5/11ths are going to vote for not the apocalypse. The remaining 11th are those that haven't yet decided if they should vote for apocalypse or not and will decide whether there's an apocalypse.

Why the **** is it this close?

Welp..im going with…

Most of my generation didn’t realize Alex P. Keaton was satire.

Bush/cheney. Omg 911 freedumb.

Then oxy is a hell of a drug

Also, my generation thinks sociopaths make the best ceo’s/leaders. Which kinda stems from the whole Family Ties thing..

Obviously this is a weak attempt at humor…sorta…maybe not really… 🤷‍♂️

 

[Blitz24]

Fun fact, RFK was still on the ballot in my state.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

Fun fact, RFK was still on the ballot in my state.

Also in Illinois. He'll also be on the ballot in Michigan and Wisconsin.

 

[Blitz24]

That's probably going to siphon votes away from Trump.

 

[Duke]

Vermin Supreme is on the ballot in my state, as the official candidate of the Conservative Party.

My state will throw its paltry few electoral votes to the blue side no matter how I vote, so I'm strongly considering voting for him.

But I want the popular vote to be as clearly against Trump as possible, so I will most likely vote for Harris.

 

[Fezzik]

Just get a divorce America. Both sides will be happier in the end.

 

[dylansan]

Dixville Notch goes 50/50 for Trump and Harris. What's baffling is that all six residents voted in the Republican primary this year (for Haley), and yet it went 5-0 for Biden in 2020. Who are these people?

 

[Sprite]

Dixville Notch goes 50/50 for Trump and Harris. What's baffling is that all six residents voted in the Republican primary this year (for Haley), and yet it went 5-0 for Biden in 2020. Who are these people?

Confused souls.

 

[Joey D]

Well it was a cluster, but I got my voting sorted out. Apparently, my local precinct had my voter's information, I just didn't have the card. I'm glad I took the deed to my house along with the loan documents because, as I expected, they were put out by the whole thing. But I proved that I lived where I said I lived and was able to vote. I think this is also the first election I've voted in where I voted for zero Republicans too. They're all election deniers who hate the country so I voted for whoever the other choice was in every race. Even the drain commissioner, who was a Republican, I voted against even though I don't know anything about the drain commissioners, but I just assumed he was an asshole.

They seem to be happily ignoring the fact that their country is founded on the Constitution - the Constitution they love and will shout about how great it is even in entirely inapplicable situations - and the guy they want in charge knows nothing about it and won't so much ignore it as not be aware of it at all.

I would wager most Americans have never read the Constitution and barely passed 7th-grade civics. Of those who have read it, I'm guessing less than half even understand it. It's not just a conservative thing either, liberals are just as guilty for not knowing the Constitution, but the outcomes are vastly different. Liberals who don't understand the Constitution just want to violate rights. Conservatives who don't understand the Constitution want to dismantle the country.

Vermin Supreme is on the ballot in my state, as the official candidate of the Conservative Party.

I mean, he wants to give every American a free pony. I've heard worse ideas.