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

“the moderators will facilitate those opportunities”

love the corporate jargon, y'all

CBS News says it will be up to Vance and Walz to fact-check each other in veep debate

if you can't be bothered to fact-check interviewees and hold them accountable for their lies you shouldn't be allowed to run a news business imo

yeah, but when they fact check Republicans people get mad at them. Did you ever think of that?

it also means that vance can do the trump trick and just say that everything that walz says is wrong/untrue/a lie and nobody will be able to stop him during the debate.

He's gonna go hard at him for the "stolen valor" BS, try to put him on the defensive from the start I'm sure. Knowing he won't be fact-checked is total open invitation.

If it's up to the debaters themselves to fact check then Walz should totally bust out the couch-fucking thing.

Feels like Walz has much more room to attack Vance than either Harris had to attack Trump (she's boxed in by how people can't handle women or POC going on the offensive) or Vance has to attack Walz (Vance is repellent and people really like Walz). I mean who knows but I can see Vance attacking Walz backfiring badly.

he should print out a picture of a sofa, hold it up for the camera, and ask jd if he likes what he sees

he should paint lipstick and hair on that sofa.

Like Walz is a coach, and in America that sort of personality is allowed to lecture you, dress you down, call you out... it makes people like them even more. Vance has a quisling vibe and I never see those kinda guys come out ahead in a public argument even when the facts are on their side.

I think Walz should treat the "debate" like a one-on-one interview. Answer the questions put to him, and if he's called upon at any point to respond to something Vance says, or even acknowledge Vance's existence, react with puzzlement. "Who? That guy over there? He has an opinion about something? Whatever. Like I was saying..."

Should Vance introduce himself to Walz with the line, "Put me in, coach. I'm ready to play!" Trump would win in a landslide

lol like Snickers from Hudson Hawk

And the straightest dude I ever knew was standing right for me, all the time
So I had to play football for the coach

Should Vance introduce himself to Walz with the line, "Put me in, coach. I'm ready to play!" Trump would win in a landslide

read this as "Put me in, couch. I'm ready to play!"

he should print out a picture of a sofa, hold it up for the camera, and ask jd if he likes what he sees

― hott ogo (voodoo chili), Monday, September 30, 2024 10:47 AM (forty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he should paint lipstick and hair on that sofa.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, September 30, 2024 10:50 AM (forty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

If only

really wish we could have a Lou Reed/John Fogerty debate

a guitar debate

Would it be like a live song duel?

"Who loves the sun?" vs. "Who'll Stop the Rain"

Tim Walz and Scout meet the We Rate Dogs team:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spiwlde4kys

"really wish we could have a Lou Reed/John Fogerty debate"

east coast -vs- west coast death choogle showdown. of course comrade kamala DESTROYED west coast choogle. used to be the best choogle. everyone says so.

Make America Choogle Again

vance can't dance but he'll choogle your money

Choogle is something Trump might say if he gets tongue tied talking about China and Google.

sorry to return to the topic of philip bump, but has he (or any other prominent fact checker) ever spoken about the seemingly pointless nature of all of his work? surely at some level he believes in the power of facts and reporting what seems to be the truth, the power of an informed public, etc. it might be why he went into journalism in the first place. has he reflected, publicly, on the experience of meticulously reporting tens of thousands of blatant lies ("The Washington Post's fact-checkers documented 30,573 false or misleading claims during his presidential term, an average of about 21 per day.[1][5][6][7]") and it having apparently ZERO influence on any voter?

and to fact-check myself, when i say "philip bump", i also mean "daniel dale"

Wanna hear my fact check, are you bumpin' that?

and to fact-check myself, when i say "philip bump", i also mean "daniel dale"

Do you mean Glenn Kessler instead of Philip Bump? Maybe Bump does fact-checks, too, but Kessler is "The Fact-Checker" for WaPo.

kessler has been pretty useless lately (maybe forever, dunno)

He’s sucked for years

We have one suggestion so far for tomorrow's thread title:

"We don’t need these fartsniffers anymore" for October Thread Title.

― Charlie Hair (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, September 24, 2024

NYT endorses Kamala Harris. Here's why that's bad etc.

Someone did suggest "Arby's in your pants"

Not sure if that's ancient history by now.

Arby's In Your Vance

Is there...any way we could not do that for a whole month?

same with fartsniffers

I know we're all tired of Trump quotes but "One rough hour — and I mean real rough" has to be a contender

"I keel you" has legs.

It sucks that the VP debate isn't tonight (damn football!), because you know there'll be some good title content there.

its on my birthday though. yay?

Jimmy Carter's 100th birthday too

yes, jimmy and i will both be 100.

"they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats" for thread title, it can be nothing else

Too bad we can't use video or images, because <KAMALA REACTIONS>

don't start the new thread until tomorrow night after the debate imo

can we create another thread for it?

Sounds like a concept of a plan.

don't do cats and dogs. ugh.

i like the prison of glass line. to buy aspirin.

“You know, in New York, you can’t walk into a drugstore now,” Trump said. “It’s like you’re in a prison of glass. If you want to buy aspirin, you have to wait 45 minutes for a clerk to come up and open, because of what’s gone.”

He said he recently knew of a tenant on Wall Street who was forced to close due to rampant thefts that he complained are not prosecuted by the courts.

“And the police aren’t allowed to do their job,” Trump complained. They’re told if you do anything, you’re going to lose your pension. You’re going to lose your family, your house, your car.”