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

i mean i dont think its fine the national fantasy of protecting yourself with a gun is a threat to everyones safety

― lag∞n, Friday, September 20, 2024 1:45 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

fair point tbh

Harris is pretty safe now, but she used to live alone, and as a former D.A. who put away some pretty nasty people, I can totally see her having a .38 in her nightstand

sure its just been extensively proven to make you and others less safe tho

"They don't care about fixing the cruise control on a '79 International"

Walz otm

I presume Harris now has armed Secret Service

You mean the person who's been VP since early 2021? Yes, rather.

That doesn't sound as safe as it used to

I presume Harris now has armed Secret Service

yeah it's just political now, to counter 'they're gonna take your guns!' bullshit

It's a government plan. If you want extra protection you have to hire bodyguards, or buy your own gun.

man i get it's funny to talk about kids giving you the plague but you're running for VP cut that shit out. maybe it's just how unfunny he is

who does he attack more Harris or his kids

Get Kids, Get The Plague

"You know who does the most damage to the economy? My fucking kids when they want to go to Disneyland."

sometimes I wish he'd just Pokemon Go away...you folks know what I mean. just having a little bit of fun here. they don't want you to have fun anymore.

When Vance wants online porn he hits up the RoomsToGo.com.

As JD’s mother hated him, so shall he hate his spawn, it was foretold.

at the intersection of crypto bros, "complete masculinity" and trump,

It’s easy to dismiss cryptocurrency as a niche interest, but according to figures from a national FDU Poll that I helped carry out last month, 1 in 7 registered voters in the United States say that they have owned cryptocurrencies or related assets like NFTs. Men are more than twice as likely as women to say they’ve owned crypto, and ownership rises to 43 percent among men 30 and under. Black and Hispanic men are also rather more likely than White men to say they’ve owned crypto. This is a group of people who aren’t happy with existing government policy — and overwhelmingly support Trump.

In our poll, crypto owners favored Trump by 12 points over Vice President Kamala Harris, 50 percent to 38 percent. Among voters who don’t own crypto, Harris leads by 12 points, 53 percent to 41 percent.

People who have owned crypto aren’t more likely to be conservative or MAGA, or less likely to be liberal or progressive, than other voters. They’re slightly more likely to lean toward the Republican Party, but not by nearly enough to account for the huge gap in vote intentions. On the whole, they most resemble registered voters who support third parties or aren’t going to cast a ballot at all. If Trump is using his crypto appeals to make a play for this bloc of otherwise uninterested voters, it’s working.

But the real story here is about what Trump and cryptocurrency have in common and why both are so appealing to young men. Crypto is one option for men looking for a way to achieve the role they think society demands of them — to make money, to be providers, to be sophisticated about finance and technology. Despite the unlikeliness of using gains from these investments to buy a big house in a good school district, crypto seems to offer these young men a path to prosperity that the traditional routes of education, hard work and saving don’t.

The overlap among these three things — crypto ownership, views on masculinity and views on Trump — might seem like a coincidence, but our poll found strong evidence that they’re interrelated. A question on our survey asked people to rate how masculine or feminine they are on a six-point scale running from “completely masculine” to “completely feminine.” About half of men said they’re “completely masculine.” Such men support Trump over Harris by a 34-point margin. All other groups, men and women alike, favor Harris by about 20 points.

https://wapo.st/3Y0VYvL (gift link)

*end of movie music*

"....my masculinity is complete."

those who buy in get rich quick schemes = trump supporter, shocker

every time i see a toxic comment on a random reddit sub, the redditor is inevitably also posting frequently on either a crypto, steroids, or porn sub.

Is there crypto porn?

Don't answer that

crypto owners 73% more likely to own a ball-tanning lamp

Everybody's Crazy 'Bout a Ball-Tanned Man

Gimme All Your Tanner

No amount of funding is ever enough for the national security state pic.twitter.com/7Dy1gyQybJ

— KlipNews (@klipnewsorg) September 20, 2024

Ken couldn’t have called it “The Klip Joint”?

Falling behind the Klingons?

Re Vance: for a guy who wants white people to have kids he sure makes it sound attractive.

You have kids because God wants you to. You don't have to like it.

vance is such a total head case

What’s the over/under on Vance managing to not sound even more nuts in the VP debate?

lol there's a VP debate? I had no idea

Oct 1st, CBS

Walz is prepping with another young National Dem figure of appropriate annoyingness and weird affect

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/walz-debate-prep-underway-pete-buttigieg-vance-stand/story?id=113872808

they're already starting:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/18/trump-election-georgia

VP Debate might not happen if Vance still has the plague/Walz has to change the oil in the Scout

xp Yup, this one as well: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/20/georgia-state-election-board-meeting

really hopes this shit becomes a major story, I think one thing that drove Dem turnout in 2020 was the knowledge that Trump would try to cheat

Hope Vance is leaning on his teenage groyper chat group to train for the debate (I can’t believe that has leaked anything yet, maybe Harris/Walz are waiting for October).

That -hasn’t- leaked anything

vance is such a total head case

― lag∞n, Friday, September 20, 2024 8:28 PM (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Cannot be stated enough

he's fine, he just needs some sugar. sugar, and water.

sugar in water!

I've rarely seen folks as interested in a story as they are in Mark Robinson's scandal. Google searches for him are through the roof nationally & in North Carolina.

Although Robinson was likely losing anyway, the prez race in NC is tied & NC is basically a must win for Trump. pic.twitter.com/PkmNquiTJW

— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) September 20, 2024

Prediction for the debate is that Vance will be a total dickhead because that is the only mode he has, and Walz will be a forceful-but-friendly dude. It will be ruled a draw, the Trumpy types will think Vance kicked his ass by taunting him about lying about his military service and so forth, other people will think that Vance is an asshole.

sounds about right

check out Happy Harry's face

Walz will be a forceful-but-friendly dude

Needs to go full locker room half-time pep talk, and use a bunch of emasculating football analogies that will go right over Vance's head

I think Walz will go pretty hard at him about the lies about Haitians.

all those GOP pols advice for Trump to keep talking about "the issues" is paying off lol

A new survey finds voters see Vice President Harris and former President Trump as roughly equal on the question of who would best support the economy.

Harris earns 41 percent support compared to Trump’s 43 percent, the data shows, according to the latest poll conducted by The Associated Press/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

About 1 in 10 voters said they either trust the two presidential nominees equally or don’t trust either candidate.

The former president has sought to link Harris to President Biden’s unpopular record on inflation and his “Bidenomics” agenda.

But as inflation and the economy appear to be moving in a more positive direction, the vice president has been able to capitalize on the shift, likely helping to influence public opinion on the issue.

xpost VP candidates typically haven't debased themselves as much as Vance has before their first national debate.