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2024 US Presidential Elections Megathread

Started by Syt, May 25, 2023, 02:23:01 AM

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Crazy_Ivan80

Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 28, 2024, 04:07:09 PMBallot drop off boxes burned in Oregon and Washington.

 :huh: this time-line is fucked up

Barrister

Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 28, 2024, 04:07:09 PMBallot drop off boxes burned in Oregon and Washington.

TL;DR - sometimes maybe it is on people to vote even at risk to themselves.
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Tonitrus

Quote from: Crazy_Ivan80 on October 28, 2024, 05:05:19 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 28, 2024, 04:07:09 PMBallot drop off boxes burned in Oregon and Washington.

 :huh: this time-line is fucked up

On the upside...the chances of either of those two states going for Trump is about 0.01%.

Admiral Yi


garbon

Biden apparently stumbled over his feet and called Teump supporters garbage.

Definitely reminds why he isn't the candidate. :frusty:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Solmyr

Yeah, because Trump never calls Democrat supporters anything bad. :rolleyes:

Tamas

Quote from: Solmyr on October 30, 2024, 04:29:27 AMYeah, because Trump never calls Democrat supporters anything bad. :rolleyes:

After Clinton doing her deplorables thing in 2016, Biden should know better.

Like it or not Rich Kid Trump is cemented as Man of the Common People, and regular-people background Democrats are always one misstep away from being labelled part of the elite looking down on the common people. It's just the reality this contest is happening in.

Valmy

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Quote from: garbon on October 30, 2024, 03:16:03 AMBiden apparently stumbled over his feet and called Teump supporters garbage.

Definitely reminds why he isn't the candidate. :frusty:

He didn't call them garbage. It is a lie.

What he said was "The only garbage I see is his supporter's-his-his-demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and it's unamerican." So he was saying the demonization of Latinos by this one supporter, Tony Hinchcliffe, was garbage. The 's' there was possessive  and not plural. And it is obvious as he uses the pronoun 'his' and not 'them' that he is only talking about one person and his actions at that.

So Biden didn't call a single person garbage, not even Tony Hinchcliffe, he was calling the actions of referring to Puerto Rico as garbage as being garbage.

It is such a pathetic scandal, I guess nobody fucking speaks English or knows how words work.
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Savonarola

I was listening to NPR this morning, and they continued to have coverage on Hinchcliffe's monologue at Madison Square Gardens.  I was amused that every NPR broadcaster, no matter how terminally anglo, tries to adopt a patois when pronouncing the word "Latino."  I'll bet the roll their r's when ordering burrito bowls from Chipotle.
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garbon

Quote from: Valmy on October 30, 2024, 06:14:50 AM
Quote from: garbon on October 30, 2024, 03:16:03 AMBiden apparently stumbled over his feet and called Teump supporters garbage.

Definitely reminds why he isn't the candidate. :frusty:

He didn't call them garbage. It is a lie.

What he said was "The only garbage I see is his supporter's-his-his-demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and it's unamerican." So he was saying the demonization of Latinos by this one supporter, Tony Hinchcliffe, was garbage. The 's' there was possessive  and not plural. And it is obvious as he uses the pronoun 'his' and not 'them' that he is only talking about one person and his actions at that.

So Biden didn't call a single person garbage, not even Tony Hinchcliffe, he was calling the actions of referring to Puerto Rico as garbage as being garbage.

It is such a pathetic scandal, I guess nobody fucking speaks English or knows how words work.

But...

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4960815-biden-slams-trump-supporters/

QuoteA video clip of Biden's remarks also circulated. In that clip, it sounds as if the president ends one thought with the word "supporters," and then begins a new sentence referring to the "demonization of Latinos."

"The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters," Biden appears to say in the clip. "His, his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it's un-American.  It's totally contrary to everything we've done, everything we've been."

Biden often misspeaks, sometimes making it difficult to figure out what he is saying or meaning. It's also true that different people could hear different things from his comments.

Either way, the remarks and the clean-up effort struck a discordant note for Democrats, as they circulated widely just as Vice President Harris completed a speech at the Ellipse behind the White House where she made her closing campaign argument against former President Donald Trump
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

crazy canuck

Probably best if Biden mutes himself for the next week.


Valmy

There is probably a reason Kamala hasn't had him out on the campaign trail with her.

Granted it might be because he has work to do actually being President. But I bet he could find the time if she asked him...
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Oexmelin

By all means, let's amplify Biden's sentence, and the possibility it may be twisted by people who have no qualms glossing over Trump's many direct fascist sentences.
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crazy canuck

Quote from: Oexmelin on October 30, 2024, 10:47:43 AMBy all means, let's amplify Biden's sentence, and the possibility it may be twisted by people who have no qualms glossing over Trump's many direct fascist sentences.

I see no benefit in putting our heads in the sand and ignoring the fact that every misstatement Biden makes could negatively effect the result.

But more importantly, Trump is still running against Biden. The fact Biden keeps popping his head up during this election is hard to understand.  It must make the Harris team furious.

PDH

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