US Politics, September 2024 -- “I’m Not Going to Apologize For Posting a Joke”

That was the mourning joe lady xp

She doesn’t care what happens to these kids, just like he doesn’t give a shit what happens to all the young men who take the Pfizer booster he’s been pushing on them.

Megyn Kelly is an anti-vaxxer now?

pretty powerful address by the Springfield OH father:

Father of Ohio boy, 11, tells Trump and Vance to stop using son’s death for ‘political gain’

The father of an 11-year-old boy who was killed last year when a minivan driven by an immigrant from Haiti collided with his school bus has asked Donald Trump and JD Vance to stop using his son’s name for “political gain”.

During a city commission meeting on Tuesday in Springfield, Ohio, Nathan Clark, the father of Aiden Clark, addressed the forum alongside his wife, Danielle. Speaking at the meeting, Clark said: “I wish that my son, Aiden Clark, was killed by a 60-year-old white man. I bet you never thought anyone would say something so blunt, but if that guy killed my 11-year-old son, the incessant group of hate-spewing people would leave us alone,” the Springfield News-Sun reports.

Clark went on to list politicians including Donald Trump and JD Vance who he said have been using his son’s name for “political gain”.

“Bernie Moreno [the Ohio Republican senate candidate], Chip Roy [the Texas Republican representative], JD Vance and Donald Trump … have spoken my son’s name and used his death for political gain. This needs to stop now. They can vomit all the hate they want about illegal immigrants, the border crisis, and even untrue claims about fluffy pets being ravaged and eaten by community members. However, they are not allowed, nor have they ever been allowed, to mention Aiden Clark from Springfield, Ohio,” said Clark.

“I will listen to them one more time to hear their apologies. To clear the air, my son, Aiden Clark, was not murdered. He was accidentally killed by an immigrant from Haiti. This tragedy has been all over this community, the state and even the nation. But don’t spin this towards hate,” he continued.

Clark went on to say: “Did you know that one of the worst feelings in the world is to not be able to protect your child? Even worse, we can’t protect his memory when he’s gone. Please stop the hate.”

lol She's on Sirius FM. Who the hell has that?

people who just bought/leased a new car and haven't been prodded to pay for it yet

Also interstate truckers and former Howard Stern fans who bought a lifetime subscription

My favorite Sirius FM story is when they started a Young Turks channel and just played the same episode on a loop for months.

I always listen to it in rental cars, and I always have the same revelation on the Grateful Dead channel: "Say, these guys aren't that bad!" followed shortly by "What a godawful, boring boogie jam this is..." and then switching over to the new age station which is nice when you're driving through the redwoods

jesus christ lol

JD Vance on Taylor Swift: I don't think many people are going to be influenced by a billionaire celebrity who I think is disconnected from the interests and the problems of most Americans. pic.twitter.com/NzZ0FY4DWY

— Acyn (@Acyn) September 11, 2024

jesus christ

Worse: Taylor Swift.

Ha! WOW.

JD, have you been living under a rock?

remind me - who is JD Vance running on a ticket with?

At this point I think Vance is trying to get fired, maybe he doesn’t want loser stink on top of his many liabilities.

watch when his wife votes for Harris

that "tank it" bit from 30 Rock comes to mind.

Frogbs, what can one say but... haters gonna hate.

genuinely do not understand how this guy won a Senate seat he's the single worst politician I've ever seen

genuinely do not understand how this guy won a Senate seat he's the single worst politician I've ever seen

Shit-ton of Thiel money, positive press for years due to rich liberals buying his book, and running against a Dem candidate who decided he had to get even more conservative as the campaign went on probably were contributing factors

"I don't think many people are going to buy shoes just because some guy who can dunk a basketball wears them" -- JD Vance, 1984, probably

well tbf this is more like saying that in 1994

Is this Vance sassing back at Trump?

I don't think Vance is capable of that level of chess

I think JD might be a rockist

Trump saying he ended the Nordstream 2 was cool. How’d he do that?

intense focus

I have a friend who's going around facebook or somewhere looking for disgruntled republicans who wanna unload their Swift tickets, which he'll resell.. already gotten a couple bites

aside from "they're eating dogs!!" the greatest legacy of this debate is probably going to be those kamala reactions

can't find it rn (it's probably on this thread) but my favorite one was something like

My wife when I start talking about Michael Mann's Heat (1995)

Best thing in the debate is Kamala Harris Facial Reactions #Debate2024 pic.twitter.com/SlfZMGsaoj

— 𝐕𝐉☆ (@HeDontMissVj) September 11, 2024

I'd mostly forgotten about the Drudge Report but the headlines today are over the top in a fun way

TRUMP'S 911
WORST PERFORMANCE OF CAREER

THE NIGHT TRUMP LOST IT ALL...
BECOMES WHAT HE FEARED MOST: LAUGHING STOCK...
RATTLED DON DEMANDS ABC BE SHUT DOWN...
FLIGHT RISK: WILL FEDS SEIZE PASSPORT?
SAYS HE'LL FLEE USA IF HARRIS WINS...
LIVE IN EXILE?

I never thought I’d experience *positive* nostalgia for the Drudge Report

no, they should die in a house fire.

otm

someone on NPR just mentioned Breitbart which I have to admit I haven't thought of in years

Drudge still has a Tripod/Geocities/Angelfire look which is pretty nostalgic

always loved how much it looked like shit even back when it was current

I asked Stephen Miller, one of Donald Trump's top advisors, what is the evidence for saying that Caracas and Venezuela are safer than the United States. He began by answering that it is the government's numbers. I asked him if he trusted Maduro's numbers. And this was his… pic.twitter.com/qkXTNiGmt0

— José María Del Pino (@josemdelpino) September 11, 2024

I hadn't really clocked how exactly he looks like that guy from the Spongebob cartoon

good for that reporter, just keep asking the same fucking question

Miller has simple rules of engagement, really. When asked a question with an answer that will embarrass you, don't answer but ask the interviewer a different question that has a far more convenient answer. When cornered, yell a lot. When the interviewer refuses to be flustered or give up, yell louder, accuse the interviewer of bad faith, and walk away. He looks like a fool, but at least he can't be filmed answering that goddamned embarrassing question and having it played back at him every time he makes his false claim.

Tapper: Trump is traveling with a veritable legion of doom of bigots and liars. Perhaps none so depraved as this woman, Laura Loomer. Just on Sunday, she posted an insanely racist message that if Harris, whose mom was an Indian immigrant, wins, the White House will 'smell like… pic.twitter.com/J6938cwfmF

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 11, 2024

particularly insane considering who Vance's wife is

It's over:

As my friend @taylorswift13 so eloquently stated, now is the time to research and choose the candidate that speaks to you and your beliefs. Only 54 days left until the election. Make sure you are registered to vote! Your vote in this election may be one of the most important… pic.twitter.com/hN9OaBfH2Z

— Stevie Nicks (@StevieNicks) September 11, 2024

I'm open to explanations of how this is not otm but I fear very much that it is. But that's also why it matters which question you ask, in terms of getting survey data and having it mean anything.

― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, September 11, 2024 2:01 PM (four hours ago)

Good point about what we call the 'script' (the list of questions we ask the voters at the doors/phones and the list of answer choices). A good campaign should test different versions on a small scale before deciding on a main script for the major canvassing push.

sad side effect of the Mango Mussolini's bullshit

WASHINGTON, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Haitian Americans said they fear for their safety after Donald Trump repeated a false and derogatory claim during this week's presidential debate about immigrants in Ohio.

Haitian community leaders across the U.S. said the Republican candidate's remarks about immigrants eating household pets during his debate with Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris could put lives at risk and further inflame tensions in the small city of Springfield, Ohio, where thousands of recent Haitian arrivals have boosted the local economy but also strained the safety net.

Mentioned the hand-on-chin last night:

https://i.postimg.cc/NMJm8Tgg/chin.jpg

Reminded me so much of Obama's "Please, Governor, proceed" in 2012.

I love the Stevie Nicks post, "from a childless dog lady".

Trump couldn't really lose this debate because he is who he is, but he presented a particularly angry version of himself this time, and repeated insane conspiracy theories (Hatians eating pets in Ohio, millions of criminals crossing the border, "illegals" getting trans surgery in prison etc etc). The depressing thing is that nobody cares and nobody takes notice of these statements.

The burden was all on Harris. She had to prove herself. It was Harris's debate to win or lose. I think she won

also his mouth looked really weird the entire time

NEW: A General Services Administration spox tells NPR that as of 11 a.m. ET today there have been 306,422 visitors to https://t.co/WXfQ7iuhYq referred from Taylor Swifts’s URL she shared on Instagram last night

— Elena Moore (@ElenaMMoore) September 11, 2024

I love the Stevie Nicks post, "from a childless dog lady"

Some people want kids, other people want cocaine blown up their assholes. It’s all about choices.

the debate was really good tv. i’ve been enjoying rewatching clips posted online all day today. hard to pick a favorite

note that Nicks did not offer an endorsement, just GOTV hype