2024 Presidential Election Thread

[Uncle Ted]

Trump Announces Nearly $53 Million Fund-Raising Haul After Guilty Verdict

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/u...g-verdict.html

Y’all have any more of those guilty verdicts?… Trump is asking.

[falafel]

Trump Announces Nearly $53 Million Fund-Raising Haul After Guilty Verdict

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/u...g-verdict.html

Y’all have any more of those guilty verdicts?… Trump is asking.

Yeah, but they’re on back order.

[frank ryan]

So Musk is doing a Town hall on X for Trump and Bobby Jr…

Embedded Tweet

but no town hall for Grandpa Joe?

How is that going to work? You need everyone quiet as church mice to hear anything RFK Jr says and Trump is incredibly loud. Him just breathing would overwhelm the acoustic space.

[Uncle Ted]

How is that going to work? You need everyone quiet as church mice to hear anything RFK Jr says and Trump is incredibly loud. Him just breathing would overwhelm the acoustic space.

It's a townhall format... one at a time for questions from the audience.

[frank ryan]

It's a townhall format... one at a time for questions from the audience.

lol @ you thinking Trump is going to respect decorum or that Musk/Twitter are going to be good at moderating it.

[Uncle Ted]

lol @ you thinking Trump is going to respect decorum or that Musk/Twitter are going to be good at moderating it.

I am hoping he doesn't... it makes for great entertainment.

[frank ryan]

Ken Burs does well at expressing how I feel about this election and bothsidesism

His most compelling words came when he departed, apologetically, from his usual position of neutrality. “Do not be seduced by easy equalization,” he said. “There is nothing equal about this equation. We are at an existential crossroads in our political and civic lives.” He bluntly warned that “the presumptive Republican nominee is the opioid of all opioids,” a drug meant to alleviate pain whereby “you end up re-enslaved with an even bigger problem, a worse affliction and addiction, a bigger delusion.”

The choice this election, he explained, boils down to this: “There is only the perpetuation, however flawed and feeble you might perceive it, of our fragile 249-year-old experiment, or the entropy that will engulf and destroy us if we take the other route.” If we choose former president Donald Trump, then we will see what happens when “the checks of conscience are thrown aside and a deformed picture of the soul is revealed.” There is no third choice.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...lection-trump/

[Uncle Ted]

Ken Burs does well at expressing how I feel about this election and bothsidesism

His most compelling words came when he departed, apologetically, from his usual position of neutrality. “Do not be seduced by easy equalization,” he said. “There is nothing equal about this equation. We are at an existential crossroads in our political and civic lives.” He bluntly warned that “the presumptive Republican nominee is the opioid of all opioids,” a drug meant to alleviate pain whereby “you end up re-enslaved with an even bigger problem, a worse affliction and addiction, a bigger delusion.”

The choice this election, he explained, boils down to this: “There is only the perpetuation, however flawed and feeble you might perceive it, of our fragile 249-year-old experiment, or the entropy that will engulf and destroy us if we take the other route.” If we choose former president Donald Trump, then we will see what happens when “the checks of conscience are thrown aside and a deformed picture of the soul is revealed.” There is no third choice.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...lection-trump/

I don't know who Ken Burs is but Robert Hur wrote this about Biden in his report:

In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was worse. He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (“if it was 2013 – when did I stop being Vice President?”), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (“in 2009, am I still Vice President?”). He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.

And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said he “had a real difference” of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to Barack Obama.

We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.

https://www.justice.gov/storage/repo...ruary-2024.pdf

Of course, Grandpa claimed executive privilege to block getting the tapes of his interview so we could not hear all his incoherent babbling:

Embedded Tweet

Now it is coming out that the Biden administration doctored the transcripts (aka, tampered with evidence):

Embedded Tweet

Boy, payback with this new presidential lawfare stuff is going to be a b*tch!

[LVAllen]

I don't know who Ken Burs is but Robert Hur wrote this about Biden in his report:


https://www.justice.gov/storage/repo...ruary-2024.pdf

Of course, Grandpa claimed executive privilege to block getting the tapes of his interview so we could not hear all his incoherent babbling:

Embedded Tweet

Now it is coming out that the Biden administration doctored the transcripts (aka, tampered with evidence):

Embedded Tweet

Boy, payback with this new presidential lawfare stuff is going to be a b*tch!

Riiight. Hur says the transcripts are accurate. The court reporter says the transcripts are correct. But because "Um" was omitted, Ted seems to think that a headline screaming 'doctored" will have any traction at all.

[Bo Diddley]

Riiight. Hur says the transcripts are accurate. The court reporter says the transcripts are correct. But because "Um" was omitted, Ted seems to think that a headline screaming 'doctored" will have any traction at all.

[Uncle Ted]

Riiight. Hur says the transcripts are accurate. The court reporter says the transcripts are correct. But because "Um" was omitted, Ted seems to think that a headline screaming 'doctored" will have any traction at all.

They just need to get it in the right court with a group of Grandpa Joe's "peers"...

[LVAllen]

They just need to get it in the right court with a group of Grandpa Joe's "peers"...

Friendly reminder that there are more registered Republicans in New York City than there are in most red states. Also, that even the juror who got all their news from Truth Social voted to convict.

[frank ryan]

Ted it isn't shocking you don't know who Ken Burns is. It's not great that don't either.

[Uncle Ted]

Ted it isn't shocking you don't know who Ken Burns is. It's not great that don't either.

Oh, Ken Burns… I thought you said Burs.

[frank ryan]

Oh, Ken Burns… I thought you said Burs.

I misspelled it. Doubt you'll revisit what he said if you took the time to consider it in the first place.