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bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Almost not even surprising anymore to have the raging hypocrisy out there. Still pisses me off even though it shouldn't.

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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

President
Matt Patricia Fan Club
Ann Arbor branch

CBJSprague24 posted:

Donnie's gonna have a ketchup.

tbh I thought they had their Arizona and Georgia numbers backwards, but it's all consistent with pure toss-ups. And the Arizona poll (Donnie +3) had Lake down by like 12 and 25% of conservatives going for Gallego. Downballot candidate quality is really something else this year.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

DEER CRACKERS
https://x.com/kbeninato/status/1838840415639760995

CBJSprague24
Dec 5, 2010

Blue Jackoffs are Rags west
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1839817819070071073?t=zukqidMaagn_H-3NdUEnUA&s=19

A whole bunch of gibberish with no answer while turning the crowd against his perceived enemy of the people.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

DEER CRACKERS
Who among us wasn’t Man of the Year or Woman of the Year eighteen years ago?

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007

Platystemon posted:

Who among us wasn’t Man of the Year or Woman of the Year eighteen years ago?

The family of JD Vance's mistress

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?

CBJSprague24 posted:

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1839817819070071073?t=zukqidMaagn_H-3NdUEnUA&s=19

A whole bunch of gibberish with no answer while turning the crowd against his perceived enemy of the people.

:lol: @the amount of sources in the community note

CBJSprague24
Dec 5, 2010

Blue Jackoffs are Rags west

Duzzy Funlop posted:

:lol: @the amount of sources in the community note

Yeah, that wasn't there when I made the post! :roflolmao:

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

President
Matt Patricia Fan Club
Ann Arbor branch

Duzzy Funlop posted:

:lol: @the amount of sources in the community note

every single time he's in Michigan he says he won man of the year

every single time he's in Michigan and I'm not even joking

Arc Light
Sep 26, 2013



Platystemon posted:

Who among us wasn’t Man of the Year or Woman of the Year eighteen years ago?

:golfclap:

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

DEER CRACKERS

Duzzy Funlop posted:

:lol: @the amount of sources in the community note

CBJSprague24 posted:

Yeah, that wasn't there when I made the post! :roflolmao:

It’s gone now.

Someone in the Community Notes program needs to give us the inside scoop on the edit war.

Arrath
Apr 14, 2011


Platystemon posted:

It’s gone now.

Someone in the Community Notes program needs to give us the inside scoop on the edit war.

Probably something like "elon stormed into the office throwing a fit that the notes dared besmirch daddy trump"

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

President
Matt Patricia Fan Club
Ann Arbor branch

Arrath posted:

Probably something like "elon stormed into the office throwing a fit that the notes dared besmirch daddy trump"

Deeper in is the origins anyways: he made it up (note the date)

https://x.com/ddale8/status/1295447665552035840?t=pIUoazvQUV5Z-e7JtIvNhg&s=19

A.o.D.
Jan 15, 2006

Utterly Dethpicable
You know, if no one would have corrected him, he would have probably forgotten that he'd ever made that claim, but because he gets corrected every time he says it, he likely feels the need to double down on it and will the award into existence.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

President
Matt Patricia Fan Club
Ann Arbor branch

A.o.D. posted:

You know, if no one would have corrected him, he would have probably forgotten that he'd ever made that claim, but because he gets corrected every time he says it, he likely feels the need to double down on it and will the award into existence.

Yeah it's just corncobbing under the guise of "never backing down". A good one here:

https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1840121367670251818?t=THLp7X0YXCOuX_bU5ptjLQ&s=19

CBJSprague24
Dec 5, 2010

Blue Jackoffs are Rags west
Is it weird that I have a much better feeling about this election at this point than I did at the same time in 2020?

facialimpediment posted:

Yeah it's just corncobbing under the guise of "never backing down". A good one here:

https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1840121367670251818?t=THLp7X0YXCOuX_bU5ptjLQ&s=19

I can't find it now, but there was a Tweet yesterday talking about how Kamala singlehandedly wrecked his world view by pointing out people leave his rallies early.

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1840118070037361072

King of projection.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

DEER CRACKERS
He’s setting the foundation for getting out of jail by virtue of mental incompetence.

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016

Platystemon posted:

He’s setting the foundation for getting out of jail by virtue of mental incompetence.

He’s not that smart.

He’s just a mush brained idiot.

CBJSprague24
Dec 5, 2010

Blue Jackoffs are Rags west
https://x.com/EdKrassen/status/1840024712581091727?t=ydkJ-TmxXgK-03Tp720Mpg&s=19

The full Vance dossier is out.

Steezo
Jun 16, 2003


I wonder what kind of language his kinks are couched in....

That Works
Jul 21, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


CBJSprague24 posted:

Is it weird that I have a much better feeling about this election at this point than I did at the same time in 2020?


Nah I feel the same but gotta keep reminding myself that a looooot of poo poo is within margin of error and could go either way. No need to doomer but don’t get complacent.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

President
Matt Patricia Fan Club
Ann Arbor branch
It's mostly because Donnie/JD are running an objectively terrible campaign. Today, JD hosed up a campaign stop at a Pittsburgh sandwich shop because his advance team didn't bother to contact the store and the shift manager freaked out and temporarily banned everyone from coming in.

Also, Donnie's Big New Thing today was a gloom-and-doom racist rant at a Wisconsin rally where he called Kamala "mentally impaired and mentally disabled" (linked earlier) while declaring that he wasn't owned (also linked earlier!).

Just basic poo poo that generates negative headlines (even with a heavy dose of NYT-style sanewashing). If Donnie wins, it will be in spite of his campaign, not because of it.

Grip it and rip it
Apr 28, 2020

We need to increase the effectiveness of rural schools 100x or this problem will persist until it destroys the USA. People are just too loving stupid

Basticle
Sep 12, 2011


As the child of rural school teachers, I can tell you that the schools are at the mercy of psychotic, arrogant, selfish and ignorant parents (don't worry they also make up the school boards) and they retired 20 years ago, I can't imagine how bad it is now.


We're hosed is what I'm trying to say

stealie72
Jan 10, 2007
Don't forget rural school boards full of batshit insane freaks.

Ronwayne
Nov 20, 2007

That warm and fuzzy feeling.
Isn't the problem more suburban educated/mostly educated shitheads with jacked up F-250s with obnoxious accessories* pretending they're rural when they're far closer to the Getting-drunk-at-sports-bar-in-strip-mall-just-off-the-interstate sort? I don't think many rural people, no matter how chuddy, were able to take vacation on a wednesday right after the holidays to go rush the capitol, for example.

*I sort them on a degrading scale of worse to even worse, depending on the worst thing possible on the list:

*american flag
*american flag with eagle
*anything to do with god/religion unless done in a mexican catholic sense in which case they might be okay
*basic Maga poo poo
*low key III% sticker and other outright nazi poo poo
*full bonkers trump adonis van art
*outright nazi ranting with vehicle covered in screeds/bumper stickers.

If they have a twitter it probably involves either a sports team avatar or themselves sitting in said vehicle with sunglasses on.

Ronwayne fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Sep 29, 2024

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007




gently caress reading a 229 page Twitter thread. Just eat my entire rear end.

Pine Cone Jones
Dec 6, 2009

You throw me the acorn, I throw you the whip!
Here's to hoping the attempts at voter disenfranchisement don't gently caress with the hope I have of trump losing and dying mad

Soylent Pudding
Jun 22, 2007

We've got people!


Ronwayne posted:

Isn't the problem more suburban educated/mostly educated shitheads with jacked up F-250s with obnoxious accessories* pretending they're rural when they're far closer to the Getting-drunk-at-sports-bar-in-strip-mall-just-off-the-interstate sort? I don't think many rural people, no matter how chuddy, were able to take vacation on a wednesday right after the holidays to go rush the capitol, for example.

The hard core Trump support in rural areas tends to be the wealthy of those areas. The college friend who was just in a Trump boat parade used his family money to buy the used car dealership that he runs, for example.

Basticle
Sep 12, 2011


I just saw a YouTube ad for some "Crypto Voter" organization

Truly the worst timeline

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Midjack posted:

gently caress reading a 229 page Twitter thread. Just eat my entire rear end.

not emptyquotin'

MRC48B
Apr 2, 2012

good old web1.0 to the rescue, its on cryptome.

https://cryptome.org/2024/09/J_D_V.pdf

Wingnut Ninja
Jan 11, 2003

Mostly Harmless

Midjack posted:

gently caress reading a 229 page Twitter thread. Just eat my entire rear end.

Especially if it's stuff like "podcast #38 in which Vance says problematic things about women and/or immigrants".

maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned

Soylent Pudding posted:

The hard core Trump support in rural areas tends to be the wealthy of those areas. The college friend who was just in a Trump boat parade used his family money to buy the used car dealership that he runs, for example.

those folks are fun because generally they are totally oblivious to the obvious and love to talk about how actually they got where they are through being shrewd and hard work, and also they're terrible to be around. furthermore, water is wet

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016

Midjack posted:

gently caress reading a 229 page Twitter thread. Just eat my entire rear end.

Twitter makes me yearn for the days of blogs.

Tiny
Oct 26, 2003
My leg hurts....
I went to school in a very rural area in VA, which at the time was top 10 in public education in the US. For me, It just reinforces that there are good and bad rednecks. Schools were well funded and staffed, had a vo-tech program for welding and car, computer, and HVAC repair. Had a few oddball teachers, some in a good way. You weren't expected to go to college because there wasn't one within a 2 hour drive. Everyone in my age group just wanted to get that HS diploma, turn 18, and get the gently caress out of that small town hell.

Farming and tourism were the only jobs that existed, it was kinda a rich area full of poor folks like me and everyone around me.

I'm really glad I grew up before the camera phone era.... Unsupervised redneck teenagers in the woods with access to guns and farm equipment equals soooooo many technical felonies that would be life ruining if they wound up on YouTube like they would these days. Half the dudes in my highschool were volunteer firefighters because there was simply nothing else to do.

stealie72
Jan 10, 2007

Midjack posted:

gently caress reading a 229 page Twitter thread. Just eat my entire rear end.
It's entirely milqutoast.

poo poo like "once posted in social media that he was having brunch and then going to a winery, and suggested California life was nice" and "once posted some pieces on a site owned by a never trump republican."

The most interesting thing in it is bro didn't bother voting for like 6 years. You know, because he had no interst in politics till Theil and Trump dropped him into the senate thanks to Ohio's hog voters.

fknlo
Jul 6, 2009


Fun Shoe

Soylent Pudding posted:

The hard core Trump support in rural areas tends to be the wealthy of those areas. The college friend who was just in a Trump boat parade used his family money to buy the used car dealership that he runs, for example.

These are also the folks that have Trump shrines at their lake house.

Except now tiktok has been showing me videos of lake houses with the giant Harris/Walz signs. I don't think that Harris is going to win any true red states, but something definitely feels different this cycle. I'm seeing way less overt Trump stuff and have personally seen Harris signs in places I didn't expect. Very anecdotal and all, but it feels like there's been a shift of some of his support.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

President
Matt Patricia Fan Club
Ann Arbor branch

fknlo posted:

I don't think that Harris is going to win any true red states, but something definitely feels different this cycle. I'm seeing way less overt Trump stuff and have personally seen Harris signs in places I didn't expect. Very anecdotal and all, but it feels like there's been a shift of some of his support.

I've mentioned stuff like this, but the general feel of things is best expressed by the below, which is a mainstream, SNL-level joke:

https://x.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1840292383625187824?t=XG2nadQbw9Zb0d58ltNQ6A&s=19

If fuckin SNL is making jokes to that level, it's a pretty solid sign that Donnie lost a bunch of speed off his fastball.

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Kaiser Schnitzel
Mar 28, 2006

Schnitzel mit uns


fknlo posted:

I don't think that Harris is going to win any true red states, but something definitely feels different this cycle. I'm seeing way less overt Trump stuff and have personally seen Harris signs in places I didn't expect. Very anecdotal and all, but it feels like there's been a shift of some of his support.
I think alot of old-line republicans have had enough of the crazy. Anecdotal evidence isn't and all, but my dad has finally given up on Trump. He's 72, lived in Alabama his whole life, educated, practicing Catholic, works in banking, reads the WSJ (but not the editorials) voted straight ticket Republican since 1972 except to vote for Doug Jones for senate instead of insane Roy Moore. Thought George W was the best, couldn't stand Obama. Thought Trump tarrifs were stupid, thought his handling of COVID was terrible, still voted for him in 2020. On J6 I remember his first reaction being 'I didn't vote for this' and then having the realization that, 'oh wait, maybe this actually is what I voted for.' I thought that had finally broken the spell and it did briefly. Until a few months ago thought he was very much "well I live in Alabama, my vote doesn't matter anyway so who cares if I vote for Trump," but he's finally come around and said he's not voting for Trump again. I imagine he'll leave it blank or maybe vote Libertarian or something instead of voting for Harris, but hey it's better than voting for Donny from Queens.

Several other members of his upper-middle class Alabama family are the same-still voting for downballot R's but can't stand Trump.

E: several of my under 40 cousins there have had the same swing. All went to college but run the gamut from doctors and lawyers to public school teachers and foresters, and they all voted trump in 2020 but I don't think they will this time. They're far from liberal, but all the culture war stuff that plays well 75 year olds just backfires on them, from immigration to LGBTQ to abortion stuff. They're mad at biden for inflation want lower taxes and hate a welfare queen and they sure aren't voting for Harris, but they just want trump to go away.

Kaiser Schnitzel fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Sep 29, 2024

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