2024 Presidential Election Thread

[Bo Diddley]

Wow. That's nuts.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Well, I suppose it shouldn't be too surprising, but the latest thing for MAGA is revisionist history of WW2 putting Hitler and the Nazis in a more favorable light. Tucker Carlson leading the charge. Sheesh.

[myboynoah]

DOJ cracking down on Russian efforts to use social media and other media to affect the election. UT, you okay?

[falafel]

We have something brewing in Nevada that could have a huge impact on the election.

My neighbor is very involved in local/state/federal politics for the GOP has fireside’s almost weekly with candidates and electeds and because of him I’ve met almost every GOP candidate over the last 10 years. I was chatting with him a couple days ago and he said they are very optimistic about the upcoming election, in large part because they were able to purge 100k targeted voters in Clark. He claimed they have been working with the Secretary of State and governors office to get rid of a lot of suspect voting records in Clark.

I hadn’t heard anything about this so I went home and checked my voting registration. We have lived in the same place, I vote in all elections, no recent changes to licenses, haven’t received any notice in the mail and when I checked my voting registration it shows online as if Ive never registered to vote.

I called the election services department and was told by a rep there that they have no record of me ever voting in the state. I called the secretary of states office and after multiple phone calls emails, I was finally able to chat with someone who told me that they purged thousands of voters who have not voted in 2 major elections consecutively and didn’t respond to a mailer. I assured the person that was not the case and was told there is no record of you voting in any general election.

I re registered to vote via paper application, drove 40 mins to the office responsible for registration, verified with the folks there that I filled out the proper paperwork, triple checked everything and left the office confident that I was good. This week I checked online, as they told me to wait 5 days, and the site says there’s no record of my registration. Another round of calls and apparently the current explanation is that the computer system changed a letter in my name when it corresponded with the DMVs computer system and had rejected my registration.

So now the proposal is I have to go to the DMV to change a misspelling of my name that doesn’t exist to register to vote. I have a meeting with the SOS office tomorrow via the phone call hoping to resolve the issue without a visit to the DMV.

https://thenevadaindependent.com/art...ts-voter-rolls

Scary. I just checked mine, and it first it didn't come up. I tried different spellings, with and without my middle name (obviously I did the exact name on my DL first). Didn't find it and I started getting suspicious.

Then I realized I transposed a number in the last 4 of my SSN. My registration is still active.

[YOhio]

This election feels so weird. There really isn't an outcome that would surprise me. I could totally see either winning in a landslide or super tight race that isn't decided for a month. I've been surprised at some friends who are voting for Trump and equally surprised by friends voting for Harris.

[Uncle Ted]

DOJ cracking down on Russian efforts to use social media and other media to affect the election. UT, you okay?

Yeah, been hiding out and laying low in Utah.

[Uncle Ted]

Maybe Bobby Jr and Tampon Tim need to do a family swap…

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even the dog?

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[BigPiney]

Apostrophes matter

[Uncle Ted]

What about in 2022 when everyone was predicting a MAGA landslide that didn’t happen?

What about 2016 when Hillary has a 90+% chance of winning but the Russian hacked the voting machines?

[All-American]

Apostrophes matter

Yeah, but at least it's what we would expect from Trump supporters.

[SteelBlue]

Maybe Bobby Jr and Tampon Tim need to do a family swap…

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I'm gonna go ahead and guess that "entire family" in this case are distant relatives if relatives at all. Also, it's apparently the ones who made it to middle age without knowing how to pluralize their own last name.

[myboynoah]

I believe the best term for these awesome people is "differently-apostrophe-abled."

[Jeff Lebowski]

Anyone who so gleefully gives the middle finger like that to a public family member is a horrible person.

[falafel]

Maybe Bobby Jr and Tampon Tim need to do a family swap…

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even the dog?

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Weird that Walz's *entire* family doesn't include any of the members of his immediate family. So strange.

I do remember when all of Trump's immediate family (Melania, Barron, Donny Jr., Ivanka) wouldn't even attend court the day the verdict was read and he was convicted of 34 felonies (those each carry a 1-year minimum) except Ewic Twump.

So I guess Walz's family are Republicans. Only 50% of the country is. That's not a terrible thing. What is a terrible thing is using racist and ugly language like Trump:

The reported conversation happened in the early 1970s at Trump's parents' home in Queens, New York. Trump showed Fred his Cadillac convertible with a "giant gash, at least two feet long [and] another, shorter gash next to it" on its canvas top, according to Fred's book.

"'N—,' I recall him saying disgustedly. 'Look at what the n— did,'" Fred wrote in his book. "'I knew that was a bad word.'"

Trump did not see who damaged his car, according to Fred Trump, but rather assumed it was a Black person.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/0...anger-00165930

Maybe Trump can win back the black vote by firing all the latinos back to Mexico and giving black people "their jobs" back.

[Donuthole]

Anyone who so gleefully gives the middle finger like that to a public family member is a horrible person.

Exactly. I posted elsewhere that this says way more about the cult of Trump than it does about Tim Walz.