2024 Presidential Election thread

[Mr.TaterSalad]

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

Not good to hear this for the short term result but longer term it could be good news for the Dems in the midterms if 2022 was any indication.

You have to imagine that Elon is going to fund some real nutcase challengers to some of these Republicans. Primary challenges more in the vein of a Marjorie Taylor Green and Lauren Bobert, candidates more likely to lose in a competitive general election.

[Motown Bombers]

[Tigermojo]

Top Google searches during election week:

"How can I change my vote?" and "Did Joe Biden drop out?"

Google employees must sit there and say "look at all the stupid people".

[Motown Bombers]

Matt Gaetz is the attorney general nomination. Christ almighty. 

[Tigerbomb13]

Jesus Christ. As expected the nuttiest of the nuts getting all the high up positions. 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

Donald Trump chose an alleged sexual trafficker for Attorney General of the United States. Nothing shocks me anymore with Donald Trump. This chaos is all just par for the course.

[RatkoVarda]

Musk spent over $200,000,000.00 of his own money to get Trump elected. It's going to be a freakshow - all day every day for four years.

[smr-nj]

Obviously, the inmates will now run the asylum.  
Most of these nominations seem to be a giant “**** you” to American citizens… no matter who you voted for.

[Hongbit]

47 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Matt Gaetz is the attorney general nomination. Christ almighty. 

I have no words.   
 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

Susan Collins was right, Trump has learned his lesson. And that lesson was that there are no repercussions for anything he will do, no matter how far he pushes the boundaries or how crazy he makes things.

[1776]

Encouraging:
https://www.carolinajournal.com/libertarians-played-spoiler-in-key-nc-elections-prompting-dialogue-with-major-parties/

[Motown Bombers]

At least cable news will get the ratings they were never going to get with Biden. 

[chasfh]

2 hours ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

You have to imagine that Elon is going to fund some real nutcase challengers to some of these Republicans. Primary challenges more in the vein of a Marjorie Taylor Green and Lauren Bobert, candidates more likely to lose in a competitive general election.

Provided the 2026 elections are free and fair. You can ask Edman about that.

[chasfh]

55 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Matt Gaetz is the attorney general nomination. Christ almighty. 

Welcome to my nightmare.

[Mr.TaterSalad]

Just now, Motown Bombers said:

At least cable news will get the ratings they were never going to get with Biden. 

We're in the midst of a full on takeover by lunatics, anti-vaxxers, fascists, and alleged sexual traffickers and this guy is concerned and talking about ratings? 

[chasfh]

5 minutes ago, 1776 said:

Encouraging:
https://www.carolinajournal.com/libertarians-played-spoiler-in-key-nc-elections-prompting-dialogue-with-major-parties/

Nice P.R. piece.

[chasfh]

2 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

We're in the midst of a full on takeover by lunatics, anti-vaxxers, fascists, and alleged sexual traffickers and this guy is concerned and talking about ratings? 

Doesn't hurt him, he's a white cisgender man of great means.

[romad1]

Tulsi is the worser pick.

[Hongbit]

Gaetz is going to end up being a win for the Rebellion.  

Trump is going to need a strong AG to make the right legal arguments on many of his controversial mandates.   That’s not Gaetz.  He’s an entitled rich kid that’s gotten by on the heels of his family connections and the idiocy of Florida Man.  He won’t be able to stand on his own and protect Trump and his interests in the face of the law.   He will do much more harm than good for Trump.   

[LaceyLou]

Does anybody else remember footage from an early cabinet meeting in 2016, in which they all went around in a circle heaping praise on Drumpf? That was sickening enough-I really hope I don't accidentally see any footage of how they act this time.

[romad1]

A lot of notes on my TV about how Trump lost in the Senate today (when Thune was voted leader) and the Senate might actually stand up to him on these nutbag appointments.   Well, i hope so.

 

[romad1]

13 minutes ago, LaceyLou said:

Does anybody else remember footage from an early cabinet meeting in 2016, in which they all went around in a circle heaping praise on Drumpf? That was sickening enough-I really hope I don't accidentally see any footage of how they act this time.

Yep, it would have been the one where Mattis actually didn't play along.   Mattis resigned about halfway through so this would have been 2017-2019. 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

Here is the video clip of all Trump's cabinet members praising him. I'm sure stuff like this happens, to an extent, in most administrations. I don't know if it is always laid on this thick in front of the cameras. But I wouldn't be shocked that it happened with Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Reagan, etc.

 

Edited November 13, 2024 by Mr.TaterSalad

[Edman85]

From another forum

[Mr.TaterSalad]

https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1856813945094311999

Click the link to watch the video. L-O-L!

Edited November 13, 2024 by Mr.TaterSalad