2024 Election Thread

[revo]

Read that this morning. He retired a full year before his unit deployed, and filed paperwork to run for Congress two months before reports emerged that the Minnesota National Guard might deploy there. He should have been Nostradamus!

It's just so funny that Republicans cannot help themselves with personal attacks. Considering they're running a felon, traitor, pedo, rapist, bigot, racist, misogynist, draft dodger who historians named the worst president ever, maybe they should lay off that line of attack?

[Teenwolf]

They're running the swiftboat play, again! The same political strategist who ran out the disgusting (but successful) swiftboat strategy against John Kerry is working for Trump, and running the same strategy against Tim Walz. I was a teenager when they did the swiftboat thing, and it blew my mind that people could be so gullible.

This time, they're claiming Walz wasn't dedicated enough to serving in the military because he ONLY served 24 years and "bailed" right before deployment to Iraq.

So commander bone-spur's VP is attacking Walz for stolen valor. That should go well.

[revo]

I fear that the future will include a Don Jr. presidential run. And he may be worse than his father. So, the MAGA cult will be all in.

That would be f'ing fantastic! A cokehead nepotist!

Once TFG ("That Felon Guy") loses -- AGAIN -- Republicans HAVE to wake up and realize they literally tossed away the last 6 years politically by coddling an incompetent traitor, out of fear he would primary them.

Just one poll, but a Marquette University poll shows Harris with an 8 point lead when dog eatin' bear killin' brain womin' Bob Kennedy is included.

[madducks]

Or Elon Musk, or some.other billionaire, lots of bad possibilities

Any potential GOP nominee would need the approval of Lord Paid-Her before the MAGA cult could support them.

[The Feral Slasher]

I fear that the future will include a Don Jr. presidential run. And he may be worse than his father. So, the MAGA cult will be all in.

Or Elon Musk, or some.other billionaire, lots of bad possibilities

[madducks]

I am even more pessimistic, even after Trump is gone , the issues that allowed him to be elected and remain in the spotlight for a decade remain. They won't just disappear magically. But defeating trump in the election would be a nice first step

I fear that the future will include a Don Jr. presidential run. And he may be worse than his father. So, the MAGA cult will be all in.

[umjewman]

I am even more pessimistic, even after Trump is gone , the issues that allowed him to be elected and remain in the spotlight for a decade remain. They won't just disappear magically. But defeating trump in the election would be a nice first step

No, they won't disappear. However. Trump has his cult which no other person has ever had. Maybe once he's gone, there is an opportunity for a rational conversation where reasonable people can have different viewpoints. Then again, probably not.

[The Feral Slasher]

Yes, I expected him to win but I was hopeful. I’m just inherently pessimistic since I keep expecting him to go away and he just will not.

I am even more pessimistic, even after Trump is gone , the issues that allowed him to be elected and remain in the spotlight for a decade remain. They won't just disappear magically. But defeating trump in the election would be a nice first step

[the heat]

I really didn't know much about Tim Walz before today, but his speech was electric, and he seems like the bulldog the Dems needed.

Agreed.
When I first saw his pic, my first thought was, Oh no, another old guy. Come to find out he's 60...I thought he looked more like 70. He showed a lot of energy. Team Trump should be worried as he seems to be a good choice for Dems.

[Teenwolf]

I really didn't know much about Tim Walz before today, but his speech was electric, and he seems like the bulldog the Dems needed.

One important thing to note is that Republicans are screaming foul Kamala didn't pick Shapiro, calling it antisemitic. You know it's a good pick when the right is crying, and it especially reveals how excited they were to obliterate Shapiro.

Seriously, the best VP pick since Gore, and the most hopeful and united the left has been since Obama.

Walz' messaging is just so fucking good, framing universal benefit programs as "being a good neighbor"! His ability to simplify the messaging, in a populist way, is 80 grade. Weird is going to stick.

[umjewman]

I'm guessing you guys expected him to win in 2020 as well? I was very confident Biden would win but I understand the anxiety.

Yes, I expected him to win but I was hopeful. I’m just inherently pessimistic since I keep expecting him to go away and he just will not.

[revo]

I really didn't know much about Tim Walz before today, but his speech was electric, and he seems like the bulldog the Dems needed.

[madducks]

Walz is a DEI hire! I don't know what DEI means! All hail King Trump!

Good pick. I assumed it would be Shapiro because of the importance of PA, but Walz seems to be quite likeable, which tends to end up being more important in elections than any real policy.

Walz claims to be white. But his closest friends have said that both of his parents are caucasian. How can the Democrats tolerate such a scandal?

[The Feral Slasher]

I'm guessing you guys expected him to win in 2020 as well? I was very confident Biden would win but I understand the anxiety.

I don't even remember what I thought in 2020, I just don't assume the election is over at this point. No one thought trump would win in 2016. Looking good now for Harris, but lots of time for stuff to happen. It's still a tossup from what I have seen

[DMT]

I'm guessing you guys expected him to win in 2020 as well? I was very confident Biden would win but I understand the anxiety.