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2024 US Presidential Elections Megathread

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

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Zanza

This season of "The Primaries" is a bit bland. Maybe due to the authors' strike. 

Valmy

Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 23, 2024, 09:26:48 PMCNN calls NH for Donald.

And for Biden...despite Uncle Joe not even being on the ballot.

Yang's endorsement just wasn't enough for Phillips to pull it out.
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Savonarola

Quote from: Zanza on January 23, 2024, 09:58:06 PMThis season of "The Primaries" is a bit bland. Maybe due to the authors' strike. 

And it looks like "Trump vs. Biden" is going to be renewed for another season despite low ratings and being widely panned.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Caliga

I just can't believe the Republican Racist Party keeps standing behind this asshole.  What a bunch of cretins.
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Legbiter

Quote from: Savonarola on January 24, 2024, 08:48:31 AMAnd it looks like "Trump vs. Biden" is going to be renewed for another season despite low ratings and being widely panned.

The only decent season was the 2015-2016 one. Running on fumes now that it's 2024. :hmm:
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The Minsky Moment

Quote from: Savonarola on January 24, 2024, 08:48:31 AM
Quote from: Zanza on January 23, 2024, 09:58:06 PMThis season of "The Primaries" is a bit bland. Maybe due to the authors' strike. 

And it looks like "Trump vs. Biden" is going to be renewed for another season despite low ratings and being widely panned.

The screenplays are awful, but on the positive side, neither lead actor can say their lines properly anyways.
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--Joan Robinson

crazy canuck

The Marvel Universe has a lot to answer for. Nobody is willing to take a chance on new material these days.

Savonarola

And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the MAGA about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them  -Revelation 20:9 (aided and abetted by Savonarola)

Trump Says Haley Donors Will Be 'Barred From the MAGA Camp'

QuoteTrump Says Haley Donors Will Be 'Barred From the MAGA Camp'
Far from trying to unite Republicans as he seeks to cast himself as their inevitable nominee, Donald Trump threatened supporters of his last major primary rival, Nikki Haley.

Former President Donald J. Trump essentially threatened Nikki Haley's donors with excommunication from his political movement on Wednesday night, declaring that he would refuse contributions from anyone who donated to her primary campaign.

"When I ran for Office and won, I noticed that the losing Candidate's 'Donors' would immediately come to me, and want to 'help out,'" he wrote on his social media platform. "This is standard in Politics, but no longer with me."

He then added, using his insulting nickname for Ms. Haley: "Anybody that makes a 'Contribution' to Birdbrain, from this moment forth, will be permanently barred from the MAGA camp. We don't want them, and will not accept them, because we Put America First, and ALWAYS WILL!"

Mr. Trump made the post not long after Ms. Haley held a rally in North Charleston, S.C., as the primary campaign moves to that state from New Hampshire. At that rally, Ms. Haley told supporters that she had raised $1 million in the past day since promising she would stay in the race despite her loss in New Hampshire.

"Well in that case...donate here," Ms. Haley wrote on X in response, with a link to her fund-raising page. A spokeswoman for her campaign said on Thursday that after Mr. Trump's post, "We saw a surge of donations." She did not respond when asked for numbers.

Ms. Haley's campaign also promptly began selling T-shirts that read "Barred. Permanently."

Ms. Haley has the support of a number of big donors, who began to coalesce around her late last year as they concluded that she was the most viable alternative to Mr. Trump. Her backers include the political network of the billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch, among the wealthiest and most powerful forces in Republican politics in recent years.

Until shortly before the New Hampshire primary, Mr. Trump had often ignored Ms. Haley. But in the days leading up to the vote, he began to attack her relentlessly. He also began using (and butchering) her given name, Nimarata, and suggesting falsely that she wasn't born in the United States, the same racist playbook he used against former President Barack Obama.

While Mr. Trump's new threat about Ms. Haley's donors was probably empty — politicians in close general elections tend not to refuse large contributions — his post reflected his fury at Ms. Haley for not dropping out and ceding the nomination to him as he, and many elected Republicans, seek to declare the race over.

But Mr. Trump's warning ignored the fact that, to win in November, he will need to earn the support of many of the voters currently backing Ms. Haley — the independents and college-educated voters who don't hold much power in Republican primaries but who will be essential in the general election.

I think I'd take that risk; MAGA Camp sounds like it would be a lot lamer than Space Camp.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Admiral Yi

Koch Brosefs going for Haley is an interesting tidbit.

The Minsky Moment

The risk of Trump refusing to take money from someone for any reason is exactly zero.  It's the least credible threat since Baghdad Bob promised the imminent destruction of American troops.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

Josquius

He'd do things proper 1984 style.
"Mr X is a loser. He's forbidden from MAGA. He's a RINO kind and sensitive person. He's a tool of antifa woke warriors."
*brown envelope appears*
"Mr X has always been a friend of MAGA. He really cares about America. He's our new special advisor."
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Savonarola

Joe Biden speaking authentic frontier gibberish and expressing a courage little seen in this day and age:

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Tamas

I was told off on this forum for raising his age as an issue.

Savonarola

Quote from: Tamas on January 26, 2024, 08:49:23 AMI was told off on this forum for raising his age as an issue.

To be fair, it's been quite the week for senior moments.  Trump here confuses Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi:


(And then, when commenting on this, Nancy Pelosi confused Trump with Biden.)  Trump has long suffered from "Irish Alzheimer's" where one forgets everything except his grudges.  It's getting worse now and his grudges are all starting to run together.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Tamas

If there was ever a chance for a third party candidate to grab the Presidency, it's now. What a shitshow this is going to be.