2024 General Election Thread

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  1. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    Yes, you have a couple of days left until the election is decided. We will either have four new years of you idiocy, or you will run away again back under you rock.

    Biden the asswipe may back off of it, but you are and have always been a piece of garbage.
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  2. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    The whole rage at Biden thing is pure pearl clutching anyway.

    1. The Trump people started calling peurto ricans garbage. It is perfectly fine to say no you after that. You are not starting the name calling when you say no you. The right is completely disingenuous as the bully whining because the others fought back. IOf your expectation of decency is to stay silent while othjers insult you because the victims are too upity for the trumpanzees then you shouldn't start no shit and there won't be no shit.

    2. What the fuck do you want the Dems to do? Biden said it. I agree Biden called the repugs in MSG garbage. The dems said fuck you to the old POS a long time ago. He won't be president again. He is an old rambling fuck and does not deserve a second term. You win, and no one is voting for him. What the fuck else do you want? Oh yeah, you want to hyperventilate with impotent rage like a toddler crying frantically trying to get attention.

    @T.R needs a fucking binky and a diaper change. Where the fuck are the Trump brand Gold diapers? Did we use them all up on @Steal Your Face ?
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  3. Crosis36

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    Who TF cares?
    Yeah, they're saying the quiet part out loud. But they aren't wrong.
    Deplorables vote for Trump? Check.
    Most of Trump's supporters are garbage? Yep.
    Even Obama with his comments was right on the damn money.
    Sorry, not sorry, but I'm tired of pretending that I have to give respect to the kind of people who put up Flags that say "Fuck Harris" and wear shirts b that say "Fuck Around and Find Out". Those are garbage people, and I'm tired of pretending they're not.
    You wanna bitch about Biden's garbage comment, while they literal at their Nazi rally said Harris was the antichrist, Clinton was a son of a bitch, and Democrats were evil.
    So, once again, fuck off with the pearl clutching.
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  4. RickDeckard

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    If you were a persuadable voter for one side, would you be more or less likely to switch your vote if the other side insulted you?

    Anyway, Trump is a cunt, a total fucking asshole. But lots of his voters aren't. They're just politically disoriented.
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    Yeah, plenty of "very fine people" in that crowd... :brood:
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  6. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    Remember people like @T.R know the complicit and weak will go after the lefties for being mean because they are afraid of the right. Conflict bothers them because and they also know the left actually cares about the feelings of the weak so they will try to appease them by being a doormat for the right.

    I got tired of that crap years back. If you do not like me fighting against those that are hurting me, and you will join the bullies against me, then you are in front of the flamethrower. Burn like the bullies, or GTFO of the way. Human garbage comes in complicit too.
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  7. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    If you like Trump at this point then you are either a complete Nihilist looking for him to destroy the system, or you are the garbage. Even a Nihilist understands eventually you will have to destroy the Trump system and every single Trumpanzee is garbage. For the rest there is no excuse. Ignorance of joining the Nazis is not an excuse for being a Nazi.
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  8. T.R

    T.R Don't Care

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    Obviously you do or you wouldn't be arguing with me about the moral high ground.

    You talked to every supporter of Trump? Or is that what your favorite left wing talking head said?

    Obama wasn't even close to being on the money. Only a dumb elitist thinks people in small towns are all racists who cling to guns and religion.

    In my years of experience I've never seen democrats having any trouble verbally attacking people who disagree with them. So this idea you were some how muzzled because of correctness is laughable.
    I'm not bitching about anything. I could care less what he thinks. But don't claim the moral high ground while at the same time attacking people who vote differently. Those comments aren't reserved for the extreme right and you know it. Stop playing dumb.

    Sure thing Whoopi. That comedian was all that happened at MSG. The View? Really? That's the dumbest group of talking heads ever assembled. Repeating their talking points doesn't make you smart.

    Again, by all means, demonize an entire electorate of people . But don't claim a moral high ground after doing it. It makes you look like a hypocrite. Sorry, not sorry, but you are nothing more than a left wing version of a Limbaugh listener.
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    I'm still gonna claim the moral high ground, because I'm not voting or enabling an actual fucking fascist to lead this country. That's not hyperbole, not overstated, it's the fucking truth.
    I happen to believe General Kelly, and General Milley, and Liz Cheney, and everyone else who says Trump is dangerous. So, yeah, if you're voting for Trump? Fuck you. And if you're voting 3rd party and giving some mealy-mouthed "Well both sides have their problems" justification, fuck you too.
    This isn't Bush V. Gore or Obama V. Romney. It's not the usual Giant Douche V. Turd Sandwich we all laugh about every 4 years. It's Literal Fascism V. Life As We Know It. And if you vote for or enable the fascist, then fuck you.
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  11. T.R

    T.R Don't Care

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    I've never voted Trump so......

    So fuck everybody who votes their pocketbook and doesn't vote Harris? Mmkay then...

    :lmao:

    I almost forgot how batshit insane this place could be.

    Every single one of those elections you named it was "vote for my candidate or else the world as you know it ends." "Vote for my candidate or you hate America" "Vote for my candidate or you support fascism" It will be the same stick four years from now and the next four years after that and every four years long after Trump croaks on a Big Mac.
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    Pretty soon you'll be calling them sub-human and then rationalize putting the wrong thinkers into camps.
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    If by "them" you mean Miller, Bannon, Musk, et al, then yes. I think they're sub-human scum.
    If by "wrong thinkers" you mean "insurrectionists willing to storm the Capital", and by "camp" you mean "prison", then yes.
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  14. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    Stop projecting. We are not like you. You are garbage, but we are not Nazis.
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    Anyone "voting their pocketbook" who votes for Trump and doesn't have a net worth into at least 8 figures is an idiot. :brood:
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    It's an excuse.
    But I'm not sure I believe that the guy who voted straight R really excluded Trump anyway.
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    Independently of whether one thinks Trump supporters really are garbage (I don’t… well
    some clearly are, but…) or that Biden really meant to say this (again, I don’t), strategically, this is just so fucking stupid. Especially knowing what a disaster the “deplorables” thing turned out to be for Hillary. Yes, I know, it should not matter, but to too many people, it will, and I can only imagine the Harris campaign people wanting to fucking kill Biden for not being more cautious.
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  18. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    Again, anyone who says they are switching their vote from Kamala because Biden called Trumpanzees garbage is lying. They are pearl clutching, and were always voting for Trump. They are people who are just trying to make others feel bad for insulting them back.

    The left needs to stop falling for it. When you limit your side from fighting back against a guy who is only insults, but is being considered for president anyway, you are trying to lose.
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    It was more believable in 2016, when people thought mayyyyyybe he'd become more "presidential", so some decent people still voted for him.
    That's no longer the case.
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    Ten Lubak Uh huh....

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    I refuse to believe that everyone has made up their minds and no one can be reached, anyway. A) I don’t believe it and b) even if it was true, this would still be bad enough if it motivates some of the wrong people to go voting or stay home.
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  22. T.R

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    :rolleyes:
    It tends to be the top issue in every election.

    Believe whatever you want. :shrug:
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    My understanding is that about 8% of the electorate is ‘undecided’ with the breakdown being roughly 2% who will vote but not sure if it will be Trump or Harris and then 3% not sure between Trump or couch and 3% between Harris or couch.
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  24. Tererune

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    Think about that idea for just a moment. There are these people out there who have yet to make up their mind, and they are also political enough to actually vote? I actually agree with Lewis Black on this one. If you are so horribly ignorant of the election at this point that you do not know who to vote for, you need to do whatever the fuck you were doing before and not vote. I say that knowing someone who has been that oblivious of politics probably is a good natured person who does not like drama and probably would lean democrat because hateful people give enough of a fuck to find their candidate Trump.

    As for anyone who might be wobbling between Kamala and Trump, you are a fucking moron. That knife edge between the two could only be balanced by a fucking moron, and that person needs to eat their lead paint chips or smackfight or beat their head into a wall, or whatever the fuck they do that causes their brain damage. I have known some slow people in my life, and even a person with Downs Syndrome or other mental trouble could easily have an opinion here and see there is no i don't know area because the two candidates are so different.

    I guess this comes down to opinion and beliefs, but if someone told me right now they have not formed an opinion I would consider them a manipulative liar who is ashamed of who they are voting for and harboring some racism and sexism rather than some idiot. Either way, that is human garbage I do not have any interest in getting to know or deal with in any more than a polite greeting.
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    CBS News price tracker shows how much food, gas, utility and housing costs are rising

    Tracker shows that since 2019 in Tampa rent has jumped from $1369 to $2089, cost of a home has risen from $228, 538 to $374,135 and pretty much everything you buy from the grocery store has risen. The results are the same across every major metropolitan area and state. None of this effects millionaires, just the poor and middle class.

    So who is really the idiot here?
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  26. Tererune

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    You if you think any of this is due to anything other than unregulated greed.

    If I ask myself who would do something about this between Trump and Harris the obvious answer is only Harris has a possibility. Trump is all for the unregulated greed and income of rich people. Those are the people who set those prices. He is one of them and has said over and over they should make as much money as possible. He has also given them huge tax breaks and slush funds of Taxpayer cash. Kamala at least has contact with and has been one of the people living from paycheck to paycheck. She has friends in that area and knows how hard it is to get by. Trump has never done a days work or had to worry about the same poverty regular people do.

    If there is anyone going to regulate and help people by capping greed and inflationary pricing due to that, it will be her.

    What was your point again? There is no way Trump ends any of that inflation, and he certainly will promote it.
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    The point isn’t that prices haven’t risen. The point is that they will rise faster under a second Trump administration than under a Harris one.
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    Then the point is a very weak one because we already have a record for both to look back on and compare. Good luck trying to sell that snake oil.

    Like it or not, whichever party is in charge of the white house has always taken credit or blame for the economy. It's how both Clinton and Obama got elected. That doesnt change just because it doesn't benefit your candidate.
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  29. Tererune

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    They do have influence. Again I must point out Kamala is not in charge, and has not been in charge so far. Trump has been in charge so we have an idea of the unilateral actions he will take. We can only go by Kamala's ideas, and her past actions.

    Trump has directly done things which caused inflation, a blosoming national debt, and deregulations in areas where we know corporations and people behaved dangerously harming the economy and others. It is just as foolish to imply the president will have no effect on the economy as it is to imply they are fully responsible for it.

    You are a lying fuckstick in that you try to pretend the other side, which is Trump despite your attempt to tell us you are not endorsing him, is going to be better than Kamala because their policies are going to benefit the economy while her non-existent policies have presently harmed it. Then you try to tell us that it is just the blame game and not that whoever is president influences the direction the economy does like no other elected american citizen.

    You argument is highly manipulative, and relies on ignorance and falsehoods. You do a better job of it than Federal Farmer, but you are still playing the same game he does when he tries to prove Pyramids are power plants using that same obfuscations and biases.
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    We had 30% unemployment under Trump by that measure.
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