2024 Presidential Election Thread

[myboynoah]

What is it with these people?

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[falafel]

I'm not sure Steven Cheung should be making jokes about leaving smells behind. Imagine following him in the airplane bathroom.

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[Uncle Ted]

Vance's attacks on Walz's military record are, well, weird. Contrary to Vance's assertion, Walz had retired months before his unit was ordered to deploy, and nearly a year after the actual deployment. So Vance has falsely accused Walz, who volunteered and served honorably for 24 years, of avoiding service. How does Vance about his running mate, Captain Bone Spurs, who used a phony medical excuse to avoid service altogether?

I don’t know, man…

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and he also claimed that he served in Afghanistan?

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[Uncle Ted]

Like the Vance pick, Walz is a confident pick. Clearly democrats don't see this race as about eking out Pennsylvania. They are aspiring to a route.

None of his "progressive" positions bother me at all. I agree with all of them except the right of kids to transgender surgery legislation in Minnesota, which the whole world is changing their minds about.

Gun control, same sex marriage, abortion rights, free school lunch. These are not radical positions. They're mainstream. He regrets not calling in the National Guard sooner during the George Floyd mayhem.

I'm in favor of undocumented immigrants getting driver licenses.

He was against the defund the police nonsense.

Walz actually owns guns and goes to a shooting range.

He'll support Ukraine and Israel except not West Bank settlements.

I thought Ezra Klein's most interesting point in yesterday's podcast may have been that Shapiro with his fancy law degree and Philadelphia base would be a doubling down on the elite persona--two coastal lawyers. But Walz is totally at odds with that persona. He can outflank Vance as a man of the ordinary fly over spaces.

Yesterday he said nobody he grew up with went to Yale or worked in Venture Capital.

As a Congressman he was more conservative because he came from the sticks. He moved left because he ran for governor and had to. It's what they do. Also, as Klein notes, the left criticized him because he eventually did call in the National Guard.

He was picked partly as a response to Vance. You can come from the rural midwest and not be full of hate and rage.

I love watching democrats grow up and moderate when they get power and own property. See the Squad losing in democratic primaries. George Floyd and defund the police becoming an embarrassment and walking back transgender surgery for kids.

I wish Republicans would do the same.

You forgot tampons in boy's school bathrooms in your list but I am very happy he is a gun owner and is (was?) a NRA fanboy.

[Uncle Ted]

Yet another example that Dems are so dumb… 1.7 million ballot images were erased in the 2020 election thus making it impossible to audit the election. Therefore, the election board proposed a new rule that the memory cards needed to be preserved in the up coming elections. The Dems put up an argument that this would cost too much money and were opposed to the new rule. WTF, it’s a common, cheap as dirt memory card like you use it a camera. Dems are so stupid for even trying to make such an argument.

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Hmm… I wonder how many of those 1.7m ballots were duplicately counted. I guess we will never know.

[Uncle Ted]

Even the Democrats that are honest and fair are calling members of their own party for what is happening to RJK jr… too bad there isn’t more democrats like him, extremely rare:

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i could see Frank doing this too.

[Uncle Ted]

LOL… what a big dummy.

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The dude is 100% a socialist. I guess he never heard of a blind trust or simple IRA.

[Uncle Ted]

LOL.. seems pretty accurate:

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[YOhio]

Be careful, Uncle Ted. Snowflakes on this board get super sensitive when you dare even say one little thing about their beloved papa bear governor.

[Uncle Ted]

LOL… “loose with his language.”

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[frank ryan]

Even the Democrats that are honest and fair are calling members of their own party for what is happening to RJK jr… too bad there isn’t more democrats like him, extremely rare:

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i could see Frank doing this too.

No Ted, no one is rallying to Jr's cause, except maybe Rosanne. She probably like roadkill after a nice day of falconry as well.

[Uncle Ted]

No Ted, no one is rallying to Jr's cause, except maybe Rosanne. She probably like roadkill after a nice day of falconry as well.

My bad… I misjudged you as a defender of democracy and fairness.

[myboynoah]

Be careful, Uncle Ted. Snowflakes on this board get super sensitive when you dare even say one little thing about their beloved papa bear governor.

Damn straight!

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[frank ryan]

My bad… I misjudged you as a defender of democracy and fairness.

I try to be. I hope you can vote for him in Texas.

[frank ryan]

This guy is just such a dork.

Softball question, weird answer.

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He has such strong uncanny valley vibes. Also, do read about that book by Nazi Jack called unhumans. Vance wrote a blurb for it. It compares Franco to George Washington. This is where right wing is now. And he is a poster child for it.