U.S. Politics, November 2024: GARBAGE DAY!!

The audience at this rally is looking bored.

(Trump's, that is)

Silver should start a project with that Democratic data guy who lost his project because he was a gambling addict.

Hannity & Colmes for the gambling app era

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwUUZ8aDDMY

What is the soonest the race could realistically be called tomorrow night?

― Cow_Art, Monday, 4 November 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Might go on for weeks yet ;-)

Does Trump have any entertainers or bands to add some supplemental appeal for the people attending his rallies these days? Some kind of Ted Nugent imitators or sub-Nashville superpatriotic one-hit wonders who'll consent to appear on the stage for him?

afaics, he's the sole attraction and a piss-poor one at that. It's all a hash of aging material, like a hack Vegas comedian who appeared twice on Tonight when Johnny Carson was the host and now can barely attract the attention of the nickel slots players.

i can't explain it but this is like an Escher drawing

So I'm thinking about this....... for as stupid and incoherent Kamala Harris is and as trash as Walz is, and despite the fact that Kamala Harris is the only Democratic Nominee to not have actively campainged in a Primary (the most undemocratic shit ever, and really says alot…

— Azealia Banks (@azealiaslacewig) November 4, 2024

https://i.imgur.com/fgUTrtth.jpeg

is this good for the day before the election in a swing state you absolutely must win

That's a masterpiece of posting xp

everyone waiting with bated breath for Azealia Banks to chime in, she finally dropped a truth bomb

The everyday American is too sick/obese/distracted/transgendered to fight a war and win.

omfg lmao

I see Azealia has heard of the word 'tantamount' but has forgotten what it means. But, she is quite the prose stylist!

Freeway and LeVar Burton… man.

man I just fuckin started crying. Burton seeing how his work lives on in others. got me

Whoopi Goldberg has said some of the dumbest shit on American network television, and that REALLY, REALLY says something. I can’t believe I loved her one woman Broadway show directed by Mike Nichols

Azelia would've gotten foreign policy in a Trump admin. Real opportunity missed.

Whoopi’s brain melted in the green room, making nice with the centrists.

Reuters: US Election updates: 'It's ours to lose,' Trump says during his final rounds

That's what we're all hoping for

Whoopi has now spent the great majority of her adult life living in Hollywood among the sort of people who are allowed to come into contact with and speak to established stars. It does weird things to you.

yes, trump did end his rally by dancing to y.m.c.a. just now.

always weird to me that trump never got the memo that you are always supposed to end a speech with "god bless you and god bless the united states of america" when you are running for president and were an actual president. just another way that he is "quirky".

its also very weird that Trump's signature song/dance combo involves a song which already has a signature dance and is a de facto gay anthem

And he’s doing this essentially in blackface

What a country!

These are some times some key states were called by AP in 2020 after polls closed

Eastern Time: State
00:19: Ohio
00:21: Iowa
00:35: Florida
01:06: Texas
02:51: Arizona
14:16: Wisconsin
17:58: Michigan

Just hoping I can fall asleep before midnight and make it til at least 5am

This will be the first time I've been on the west coast on election night. Looking forward to watching results at 4 p.m.

unless it's a total rout the race itself probably won't be called until Wednesday or Thursday but if either NC or GA goes blue we should know that pretty early and either one would most likely be game over

And he’s doing this essentially in blackface

For real, is ANYONE talking about this

Like not just “haha so much bronzer” but actually that he is not that many shades away from Al Jolson

00:35: Florida

I'm absolutely certain other papers/networks called Florida around 8 p.m.

always weird to me that trump never got the memo that you are always supposed to end a speech with "god bless you and god bless the united states of america"

him ending his 2021 farewell speech with "have a nice life" is the funniest thing to me, a top DJT moment

One thing that's crazy is we spend so much time, money, and attention on these campaigns, and -- do we really know whether any of it works? All those tens of thousands of people knocking on doors, does that work? Do the TV ads work? Do the texts work? Do public rallies work? Will any of this have mattered?

I mean, I think in the end Hillary would have won if it wasn’t for two or three late breaking events that went against her, all just piling up. The Comey letter being the main one, which tied back to Anthony Weiner, plus there was that time she was looking very ill in public right after Trump was suggesting she was in poor health and she wasn’t up for the job or something along those lines. I really do remember having a sense of mounting dread, even though I thought she would win.

And by “very ill“ I really don’t think she looked particularly ill, I think it was something along the lines of her slipping on a step or something, and maybe she was a little under the weather. I don’t know.

she fainted

I know the early vote doesn't indicate everything, but gender split here across pretty much every state is really encouraging:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/early-vote

Also impressive # of Dem party early votes in PA.

If she had said, "I feel like crap!" she might've recovered from the perception. Of such things our political circus are made.

Derek Guy had a makeup artist review their makeup in Foreign Policy magazine.

I'm part of the 34% "Other" vote in Montana. If I was a registered Democrat, maybe I wouldn't have gotten so fucking many Sheehy flyers in my PO box the last few months.

Yeah, that’s what it was, i blocked out that last week or much of it in the wake of election night. All that bullshit added up.

In September 2016, Clinton developed pneumonia. She left a 9/11 commemoration ceremony early due to illness.[167][168][169] Video footage of Clinton's departure showed Clinton becoming unsteady on her feet and being helped into a van;[170] this footage went viral.[171]

Like not just “haha so much bronzer” but actually that he is not that many shades away from Al Jolson

― DJP, Monday, November 4, 2024 4:06 PM

Thought the same thing, especially after this:

https://i.imgur.com/Isn1C00.png

Oh my god I saw that picture and practically screamed “OH MAMMY”

The Jizz Ringer

But how many blackface jokes can one cac like myself make.

Just imagine the people around him looking at that and saying, "yep, you look great sir! totally normal and very masculine!"

It almost makes you wonder if it's deliberate sabotage, like the fact-checking cameraperson.

I know the early vote doesn't indicate everything, but gender split here across pretty much every state is really encouraging:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/early-vote

Also impressive # of Dem party early votes in PA.

― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Monday, November 4, 2024 4:57 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

was expecting this gap to close as we got closer to election day and it looks like it's stayed pretty much the same. gonna have to be a lot of dudes coming out tomorrow if they wanna make this competitive.

I agree you can't really tell much from early vote but the fact that the Dems are close to 2020 numbers is very encouraging considering that they were telling everyone to vote by mail because of the pandemic while the GOP was telling people mail-in voting was "rigged"

I have a feeling Trump’s campaign is on the “not giving a shit” train because of the “little secret” he and Mike Johnson alluded to a million years a week ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/us/politics/trump-secret-house-republicans-panic.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XU4.sb1X.qnpAd2JrGgJq&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Yeah that is scary.

this thread needs more Freeway content

this is my favorite of his probably even though it's not long enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPh0Zr9nRCU

Yeah, I just think that would be fought tooth and nail. This wouldn’t be like Bush vs Gore. This country would and should shut down if they did that. But it’s also why it’s important to GOTV to the point that it’s undeniable. It also felt like desperation, and some unscripted bullshit.

Combined with his usual rhetorical bit about secrets he's not supposed to say, which can mean anything -- also worth remembering he said that at the MSG rally where the damage from the garbage comment and the full sense of a late break away from him wasn't yet known.