[Discussion] 2024 Election catch-all

For stuff about the 2024 election

mudbunny wrote:

Is it wrong to want Trump to keep RFK Jr on his ticket?

RFK Jr. vows to stop chemtrails after watching video pushing conspiracy

RFK Jr. revealed in a reply to a video on X that he believes in the conspiracy theory that planes drop chemicals while flying to kill off the public. Trump said on Sunday that RFK Jr. would tackle health issues under a potential future administration.

Apparently, stopping chemtrails is a high priority.

“We are going to stop this crime,” he wrote.

I had to do a wiki search on The Daily Dot to make sure that wasn't a satire article. lol

karmajay wrote:
Mr. Kennedy and Ms. Gabbard, who had been progressive Democrats for many years

wut

Hang on, that's a typo. Let me fix that:

Mr. Kennedy and Ms. Gabbard, who had been progressively bad at being Democrats for many years

Big opportunity here.

Wow. People really fall for this garbage?

How many bibles did he sell?

DSGamer wrote:

Big opportunity here.

Wait, this is a NEW line of NFTs? He did this exact same thing like two years ago and they’re all basically valueless now, I saw people talking about this on social media earlier and thought they were just mocking his old NFTs.

Zero coincidence that the grifts are ramping up at the same time he’s seeing his campaign’s chances trending downward. Get ‘em in while the window is still open.

This is real.

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Trump doesn't know who the president was in 2020.

So, if I'm reading this right, Trump campaign staff took photos of him at a memorial ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery which they used for publicity purposes. This is illegal and they were told such beforehand.

When a Cemetery official tried to stop them, Trump's staff "verbally abused and pushed the official aside" then had the gall to issue this statement in their defense:

"The fact is that a private photographer was permitted on the premises and for whatever reason an unnamed individual, clearly suffering from a mental health episode, decided to physically block members of President Trump's team during a very solemn ceremony," Cheung said in the statement.

Some real classy people here.

I think at this point I would prefer Wormtongue to Steven Cheung. Saruman's spokesman is so much more genial and forthcoming.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

This is real.

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Trump doesn't know who the president was in 2020.

Wow, I have seen his cult trying to put the economic / crime of 2020 on Biden but this is new!

Trump voter convinced not to back Trump after 'unstable' rally speech

https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/t...

After sitting through Trump’s rambling 100-minute speech in Pennsylvania, a woman who voted for Trump twice changed her mind. “But after listening to that, I’m actually afraid of Trump being president again. I don’t know what he was talking about half the time,” she told The Guardian.
farley3k wrote:

Trump voter convinced not to back Trump after 'unstable' rally speech

https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/t...

After sitting through Trump’s rambling 100-minute speech in Pennsylvania, a woman who voted for Trump twice changed her mind. “But after listening to that, I’m actually afraid of Trump being president again. I don’t know what he was talking about half the time,” she told The Guardian.

Only half?

CaptainCrowbar wrote:
farley3k wrote:

Trump voter convinced not to back Trump after 'unstable' rally speech

https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/t...

After sitting through Trump’s rambling 100-minute speech in Pennsylvania, a woman who voted for Trump twice changed her mind. “But after listening to that, I’m actually afraid of Trump being president again. I don’t know what he was talking about half the time,” she told The Guardian.

Only half?

It is someone who voted for him twice - clearly they have some brain damage.

farley3k wrote:

Trump voter convinced not to back Trump after 'unstable' rally speech

https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/t...

After sitting through Trump’s rambling 100-minute speech in Pennsylvania, a woman who voted for Trump twice changed her mind. “But after listening to that, I’m actually afraid of Trump being president again. I don’t know what he was talking about half the time,” she told The Guardian.

I've always thought that one of the more shady things the media did with regards to Trump was to try to interpret/translate his word salad into full and complete sentences.

It certainly normalized it.

CaptainCrowbar wrote:
“But after listening to that, I’m actually afraid of Trump being president again. I don’t know what he was talking about half the time,” she told The Guardian.

Only half?

She still understands the racist parts.

A comment on the Reddit thread put it the best. Folks aren't leaving Trump because they disagree with him. They are leaving him because they are embarrassed by him. He still represents their darkest, most intimate desires. They are just afraid to admit to it in public anymore because of how deeply weird he is.

Paleocon wrote:

A comment on the Reddit thread put it the best. Folks aren't leaving Trump because they disagree with him. They are leaving him because they are embarrassed by him. He still represents their darkest, most intimate desires. They are just afraid to admit to it in public anymore because of how deeply weird he is.

Which is how it's always been. Trump gave "permission" to express views that have been seen as shameful since WWII. You can draw a pretty direct link from pre-WWII groups like the Friends of New Germany and the German American Bund to MAGA. Those American Nazi groups didn't dissolve in WWII because they all changed their mind, but because public sentiment made their message shameful.

You won't ever change their hateful minds. You can only suppress their activity through shame and embarrassment, and keep them out of political power.

Whelp... There's the next conservative outrage... Walz thinks the cheese on a cheesburger should be INSIDE the burger.

*Legion* wrote:
Paleocon wrote:

A comment on the Reddit thread put it the best. Folks aren't leaving Trump because they disagree with him. They are leaving him because they are embarrassed by him. He still represents their darkest, most intimate desires. They are just afraid to admit to it in public anymore because of how deeply weird he is.

Which is how it's always been. Trump gave "permission" to express views that have been seen as shameful since WWII. You can draw a pretty direct link from pre-WWII groups like the Friends of New Germany and the German American Bund to MAGA. Those American Nazi groups didn't dissolve in WWII because they all changed their mind, but because public sentiment made their message shameful.

You won't ever change their hateful minds. You can only suppress their activity through shame and embarrassment, and keep them out of political power.

With the added spin that malevolent foreign actors like Putin and Elon Musk champion the shitheel narrative as "free speech".

JC wrote:

Whelp... There's the next conservative outrage... Walz thinks the cheese on a cheesburger should be INSIDE the burger.

If he wants actual controversy, he should take a firm stance on which bar, Matt's or the 5-8 Club, invented the Jucy Lucy.

I need Tim Walz to complete the name of this game:

Duck, Duck, ___?

He will either reveal he isn’t a true Minnesotan or out of touch with all but like 2.5 states.

Paleocon wrote:

With the added spin that malevolent foreign actors like Putin and Elon Musk champion the shitheel narrative as "free speech".

"Free speech" was the reason NY major Fiorello LaGuardia allowed the Bund to hold a Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden.

"If we are for free speech, we have to be for free speech for everybody, and that includes Nazis," [LaGuardia] said.

NPR: When Nazis Took Manhattan

Of course, afterwards, he was so pissed about the rally that he set his DA to dig up dirt on the Bund and their leader, and got the leader for embezzlement and tax evasion, sending him to prison for a couple of years until his citizenship was revoked and he was deported.

The stable genius is definitely doing okay, folks.

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*Legion* wrote:
Paleocon wrote:

With the added spin that malevolent foreign actors like Putin and Elon Musk champion the shitheel narrative as "free speech".

"Free speech" was the reason NY major Fiorello LaGuardia allowed the Bund to hold a Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden.

"If we are for free speech, we have to be for free speech for everybody, and that includes Nazis," [LaGuardia] said.

NPR: When Nazis Took Manhattan

Of course, afterwards, he was so pissed about the rally that he set his DA to dig up dirt on the Bund and their leader, and got the leader for embezzlement and tax evasion, sending him to prison for a couple of years until his citizenship was revoked and he was deported.

A NY judge also had a more creative solution to that problem too.

Now that's an activist judge

"ALL OF OUR ENGAGEMENT IS REAL AND ORGANIC, WHILE KAMALA HAS TO PAY FOR HER FAKE ENGAGEMENT."

Every accusation is a confession. Too bad there are no journalists left to follow the money. We might learn something.