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

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.”

^^^ title of thread xpost

1+ for “prison of glass”

Once I was in love and it was a gas

I'm down for anything that doesn't include the word 'fartsniffer'

Prison of Glass is my favorite Blondie song

Dammit

Seriously, what happened to xpost notifications?

i am down for anything that is not a sexual double entendre or pun

farts >>>> sexual innuendo in this campaign

“You’re going to lose your house, your family, your car.”

Hidden in his coat was a red right hand

Underrated Trump brainfart: "Bring Back Johnny Carson!"

I think corny halloween puns are an underused resource on this board. something BOO please

He Did The Vance, The Monster Vance...

xp OCTOBER SURPRISE

Trick or Trump

it would be cool if we took the cue from something somebody other than fucking Trump though. centering this asshole is how we got here and it's a bummer to be in this "no matter what, you get to hear what he said over and over until you're numb from it!" position.

The Montana Senate debate is tonight. I don't know how to watch it, but I don't know why I would. It couldn't possibly impact my vote.

"centering this asshole" has my vote

That's my usual Saturday night special.

A positive story to perk up your evening.

Republicans are starting to raise alarms about Trump’s ground game
“They are out-matching us in money, in enthusiasm and in the ground game,” one Michigan-based GOP strategist said.

Some battleground state Republicans say they’re worried they see little evidence of Donald Trump’s ground game — and fear it could cost him the election in an exceedingly close race.

In interviews, more than a dozen Republican strategists and operatives in presidential battlegrounds voiced serious concerns about what they described as a paltry get-out-the-vote effort by the Trump campaign, an untested strategy of leaning on outside groups to help do field work and a top-of-the-ticket strategy that’s disjointed from the one Republicans down the ballot are running.

After years of attempts to mimic Democrats’ Barack Obama-era grassroots organizing model, the GOP is still trying to develop a ground game strategy that can rival their opponents’. And as Harris continues to pour money into her door-to-door efforts, some of the strategists and operatives fear the party’s efforts this year will fall short — potentially hampering Trump in key battlegrounds.

“The question in my mind is, are they all singing from the same sheet of music, and is there that strong, extensive, well-funded machine at the top of the ticket?” said Stephen Lawson, a Republican operative in Georgia. “I think that’s a central question heading into early voting next month.”

A Michigan-based GOP strategist, granted anonymity to speak candidly, described the party’s challenge bluntly: “They are out-matching us in money, in enthusiasm and in the ground game.”

...

One GOP operative in a battleground state, who like others was granted anonymity to speak candidly about the state of the race, cast doubt on whether the Trump Force 47 program is actually putting its recruits to work.

“It’s almost like a timeshare scheme. You have to go in and do the training, and you get the swag and the hat and the yard sign. That’s what you have to do to go get it,” the operative said. “It doesn’t seem like people are really being activated, and the campaign’s not very forthcoming on whether they’ve been activated.”

so uh is this one of the things that could contribute to a polling miss?

machines, sheet music

are they all singing from the same sheet of music?

Unfortunately the only sheet music licenseable to the Trump campaign was “Bawitdaba.”

They aren't trying to gotv because they know they've hit their ceiling of Trump supporters and they are just going to redo the coup anyway. Why waste money on grassroots when you could spend it on more lawyers & judges?

Sounds like a great strategy, nobody will see it coming

I still maintain that “children react to Trump” videos are a fantastic early October concept for the Harris campaign.

Or teenagers! Or first time voters! You know what I mean

“Skate punks react to JD Vance”

President Joe Biden has made clear his desire for an immediate halt to the fighting. Asked at the White House on Monday whether he was aware that Israel was preparing a limited incursion into Lebanon, he said: “I’m more aware than you might know, and I’m comfortable with them stopping. We should have a cease-fire now.”

"I'm more aware than you might know" for Oct. thread title

Being "comfortable" with a ceasefire is, how do you say?, leading from behind

the rest of the article (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/09/30/us-israel-lebanon-hezbollah/) is about how the biden administration says they're doing a great job pushing israel toward a cease-fire,

“We of course continue to support a cease-fire,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters Monday. “But at the same time, there are a couple other things that are true as well-

while also supplying the weapons for the operation, and having nothing to say when the special military operation "limited" invasion, for some reason that no one knows the answer to, targets palestinian refugee camps (https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/10/1/israel-attacks-palestinian-refugee-camp-in-lebanon)

for some reason that no one knows the answer to

and sorry, probably not an effective use of internet irony voice there. i think everyone knows the answer to why palestinian refugee camps were targeted in southern lebanon

"I'm more aware than you might know" for Oct. thread title

― There’s a Monster in my Vance (President Keyes), Tuesday, October 1, 2024 9:02 AM (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

if you heard the quote in context, you'd understand why he phrased it this way

oops

Being "comfortable" with a ceasefire is, how do you say?, leading from behind

― There’s a Monster in my Vance (President Keyes), Tuesday, October 1, 2024 9:03 AM (thirty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

^^ responding to this

not that i disagree about the substance but just sayin

biden asked if he’s comfortable with a ground incursion in lebanon:
“i’m comfortable with them stopping. we should have a ceasefire now.”

impact: zero pic.twitter.com/Hx1BeRyo9e

— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) September 30, 2024

budo, what am I missing?

I guess because Biden was reacting to the journalist's use of "comfortable."

It reads a lot worse than it sounds imo.

I guess. Biden still pretending they're working on a peaceful solution is p repugnant at this point