The 2024 US Presidential Election Discussion thread

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Mission accomplished for both. Neither hurt their running mate. No effect on outcome.

Trump is riding a wave masculinity that exists nowhere else in the world. How else could a convicted felon, and proven liar get away with it?

The USA is not ready for a female president, yet. Harris, for all her flaws, is unlikely to win. I stand with the enlightened minority, and I hope Trump loses.

[harrybarracuda]

Trump is riding a wave (of) idiocy that exists nowhere else in the world.

FTFY.

[beachbound]

enlightened minority .

There’s a shit load of stupid people in the United States, but not enough to make up the majority.

[malmomike77]

There’s a shit load of stupid people in the United States, but not enough to make up the majority.

does anyone over there have the slightest clue what each candidate is running on? policies when they get in office? apart from abortion rights or immigrant restricyions?

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There’s a shit load of stupid people in the United States, but not enough to make up the majority.

Unfortunately some Americans and who are allowed to vote, and they! have no desire to enjoy the benefits of equality. They are still riding that wave of masculinity, but they will end up dead on the beach one day. The sooner the better.
I do hope you are right about that dumb majority, presumably Trump followers.
Reminder: Trump is not a politician.

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does anyone over there have the slightest clue what each candidate is running on? policies when they get in office? apart from abortion rights or immigrant restricyions?

At this point policy is irrelevant. The only point this time round, is to bury the psychopath Trump!

[Molle]

There’s a shit load of stupid people in the United States, but not enough to make up the majority.

47% of voters supports Trump, they are all stupid. Are you suggesting that there ain't any stupid people in the other 53%?

[bsnub]

47% of voters supports Trump, they are all stupid.

No, they are not. Some are rich greedy bastards, others march lockstep, just like the Germans did in supporting the Nazi party, lacking the moral courage to break with their political party.

Are you suggesting that there ain't any stupid people in the other 53%?

There are some sure, but the overwhelming number of college grads and people with advanced degrees vote Democratic. The dumb, uneducated ones want free stuff, but god knows they need it.

[david44]

restricyions?

I think there will be a big push to improve spelling.

They are so determined a specialist from Chiang Mai may be necessary

They considered Professor Halfstrong from Bangkok but the beer per diem too high even if freighted over DHL-EFL rate

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I think there will be a big push to improve spelling.

They are so determined a specialist from Chiang Mai may be necessary

They considered Professor Halfstrong from Bangkok but the beer per diem too high even if freighted over DHL-EFL rate

Lol, green owed. ��

[beachbound]

47% of voters supports Trump, they are all stupid. Are you suggesting that there ain't any stupid people in the other 53%?

Yes, there are no stupid people on the left, and all Trump supporters are stupid.
SMH

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If the left fluke a win, they will move further left, to try and impose their ideals.

If Trump wins, the country will have a fading, broken celebrity in charge. Get rid of the felon Trump and let the congress and the senate balance the country.

[harrybarracuda]

If the left fluke a win, they will move further left, to try and impose their ideals.

If Trump wins, the country will have a fading, broken celebrity in charge. Get rid of the felon Trump and let the congress and the senate balance the country.

The senate is an obstacle to progress. Unless, of course, it's tax breaks for the rich.

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The senate is an obstacle to progress. Unless, of course, it's tax breaks for the rich.

It means whoever is in the hot seat, cannot play fast and loose with legislation, but still get away with silly stuff.

[harrybarracuda]

It means whoever is in the hot seat, cannot play fast and loose with legislation, but still get away with silly stuff.

You mean like sticking religious psychopaths on the Supreme Court for example?

[Norton]

You mean like sticking religious psychopaths on the Supreme Court for example?

Prez nominates but Senate must approve as they did in 2016.

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Prez nominates but Senate must approve as they did in 2016.

Trump is more brazen in his attempts to undermine the constitution. Harris is too timid because the senate is unbalanced.

I don’t support all the Harris left wing idealism, but she is up against a proven felon.

[harrybarracuda]

Prez nominates but Senate must approve as they did in 2016.

Or block.

This is one time you need a Dem senate and WH.

[harrybarracuda]

How embarrassing.

[misskit]

^ Yeah. People were saying Musk was very high this day.

Can’t we send him back to South Africa?

[misskit]

Musk-founded PAC says it will give $47 for every swing-state voter referral who signs petition

The America PAC, founded by tech billionaire Elon Musk, is asking the public to sign a petition in favor of the First and Second Amendments and offering supporters $47 for each subsequent registered voter a person gets to sign the petition in swing states.


Musk, who has endorsed former President Trump’s White House bid, encouraged his followers on the social platform X to sign the pledge and make referrals.


“For every person you refer who is a swing state voter, you get $47! Easy money,” Musk wrote in his post on the site he bought two years ago.

The petition pledges support for the Constitution’s first two amendments, which, according to the petition’s description, “guarantee freedom of speech and the right to bear arms.” The offer is valid for the next two weeks.


The America PAC is setting out to secure the signatures of 1 million registered voters in the seven key swing states: Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and North Carolina.


It comes as the Trump and Vice President Harris campaigns kick into high gear in the battleground states. The election has become a nail-biter since Harris’s entry into the race — especially in those swing states, where polls have placed the distance between the two candidates often within the margin of error.


According to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ’s national polling average, Harris leads Trump by 3.4 percentage points, 49.8 percent to Trump’s 46.4 percent.


Decision Desk HQ’s polling average shows Trump leading Harris by 1.2 points in Arizona and 0.7 points in both Georgia and North Carolina.


Harris, meanwhile, leads by 0.2 points in Michigan, 2 points in Nevada, 0.8 points in Pennsylvania and 1.3 points in Wisconsin.


The Hill has reached out to Musk’s PAC for comment.

Musk-founded PAC says it will give $47 for every swing-state voter referral who signs petition

[Shutree]

“For every person you refer who is a swing state voter, you get $47! Easy money,”

Is that legal?

[happynz]

...all the Harris left wing idealism,

Wut left wing idealism?

[nidhogg]

Good old Musk. Trying to buy a president, lock stock and barrel

[david44]

Yes pork barrel politics not sure if he's the pork and Trump the barrel or vice versa.
Looks like a publicity stunt that has achieved its aims and makes US democracy look more like here than EU, of course there are corrupt practices everywhere just the sums involved to be POTUS are HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE