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Politics 2024 General Election Thread

Started by Enigma, Apr 28, 2020, in Life Add to Reading List

Who did you/are you voting for?

Poll closed Nov 6, 2024.

  1. Kamala Harris

    15 vote(s)
    27.3%

  2. Donald Trump

    11 vote(s)
    20.0%

  3. Third Party

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  4. Abstaining

    5 vote(s)
    9.1%

  5. Not a US Citizen, but would vote Democrat

    12 vote(s)
    21.8%

  6. Not a US Citizen, but would vote Trump

    6 vote(s)
    10.9%

  7. Not a US Citizen, but would vote third party or abstain

    6 vote(s)
    10.9%
  1. King Tadpole
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    King Tadpole Arizona Sky LP by Tadpole

    Jul 15, 2024
    It was a close election and swing states were down to <1%. With an election that close, it was totally possible for him to get a second-term if he campaigned differently, governed differently, etc.

    It's just weak-mental for a leader to blame the media when there were things in control he could've done differently.

    (And I'm not being partisan; say the same thing for Biden now. If he loses, it's because of mistakes on his end at well.)
     
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  2. Enigma
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    Enigma Civil liberties > Police safety

    Jul 15, 2024
    This was Trump's own doing. The first 6 months of his handling of the pandemic in 2020 was a hectic disaster from downplaying the virus initially to suggesting Americans inject themselves with bleach. No one to blame but himself for not listening to the advisors who were raising alarms before there was even a recorded COVID death in the U.S.
     
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  3. King Tadpole
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    King Tadpole Arizona Sky LP by Tadpole

    Jul 15, 2024
    Trump had a simple path to victory in 2020
    * Tell the public about the pandemic in Feb-March, instead of waiting to acknowledge it.
    * Sell Trump 2020 facemasks
    * Don't gas the BLM protesters; be diplomatic about it for good optics.
    * Have a better and more civil debate performance
     
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  4. pluto✰
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    pluto✰ where the opioids?

    Jul 15, 2024
    OH NO NOT THE BLEACH:') y’all n----s dumb as f--- prolly flipped over chugging almond milk at the parties

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    january 2020
     
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  5. reservoirGod
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    reservoirGod reckless adventurer.

    Jul 15, 2024
    @pluto✰ is a case in point how Trump mishandled the Covid Pandemic.

    @pluto✰ was making threads about how he thought there were worms in face masks and how everyone who got the Vax was going to become Marburg virus zombies.

    Why was he so insane?

    Because of Trump's bad leadership.

    Everyone in the world memory holes the 2012 Ebola virus in Africa.

    It wasn't a big deal in America, unless you watched Fox News and right wing talk radio.

    Commentators on those platforms were saying that President Obama was mishandling the Pandemic and it was going to lead to millions of Americans dying.

    Some Republican Commentators even said that Obama was doing it on purpose because he wanted America to be more like Africa.

    They printed bumper stickers and t-shirts that said "Obola" and Fox News ran a segment about Ebola every night for 11 months. They thought that they could scare Americans into voting for Romney because of the African disease that was going to k--- us all.

    At the end of the 2012 Ebola crisis... one American died from it. A doctor in Texas that caught it treating volunteers.


    When covid19 hit, the Right Wing media outlets convinced themselves that the real news was pulling an election year stunt like they did with Ebola 8 years earlier.

    That's why Trump first f----- up and said it was "Democratic Hoax" and it was going to go away by Easter of 2020.

    That was a signal to all of his supporters to not to take it seriously and fight against mitigation.


    Then Trump got self conscious about his pancake make up he wears and didn't want to have an incident wear it would smear on his mask... so, he told the world he wouldn't wear a mask... that signaled to his supporters not to wear a mask and attack anyone who does.

    Then it was confirmed that Covid was mostly effecting Urban Democratic areas... so, Republicans lost concern over it. 1,000 dead a day in New York City was probably a plus in their eyes.

    A good President wouldn't let that happen.. even a bad President wouldn't let that happen. Romney wouldn't let that happen.


    Now we are in a situation where preventable child hood diseases are making a comeback because people refuse to vaccinate their children and people have convinced themselves they are fighting against big pharma by taking ivermectin and hrydroxychorlacline for no reason.


    Now here we are.
     
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  6. Enigma
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    Enigma Civil liberties > Police safety

    Jul 15, 2024
    Trump was notified by intelligence agencies about the spread/threat of COVID-19 on1/3/2020.

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    Trump declared it a “public emergency” over 3 weeks later & still continued to downplay the threat of the virus. When health officials requested funding from the Trump White House in late January/early February, they rejected!

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    Even going into February, Trump was claiming the warming weather would make the virus “disappear:”

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    This was a consistent theme for months. Trump downplayed the virus & rejected his advisors concerns.
     
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  7. JMG
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    JMG

    Jul 15, 2024
    Trump won the 2020 election.
     
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  8. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    Jul 15, 2024
    How do you feel about the illegal aliens like @DJ Lithium @Zebedee and @parentaladvisory voting for the American options in the poll? We need some way to combat voter fraud as we have had too many issues like this and with alt accounts fixing the polls in the past
     
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  9. reservoirGod
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    reservoirGod reckless adventurer.

    Jul 15, 2024
    Pretty funny that even Trump's VP pick has compared him to Hitler.

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  10. reservoirGod
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    reservoirGod reckless adventurer.

    Jul 15, 2024
    I guess, ""Hang JD Vance! Hang JD Vance!" Is close enough to: "Hang Mike Pence! Hang Mike Pence!" For MAGA.


    People didn't think Biden should be Obama's running mate because he gave Obama a backhanded compliment.

    Vance said Trump is Hitler... what does that make him?
     
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  11. reservoirGod
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    reservoirGod reckless adventurer.

    Jul 15, 2024
    https://x.com/keithboykin/status/1812928621625155951


    It should be noted, Vance made these comments before he started wearing eyeliner.
     
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  12. hargydon
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    hargydon No investigation, no right to speak

    Jul 15, 2024
    Both Trump & Biden’s COVID responses were humanitarian catastrophes.

    https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/does-the-public-understand-that-variant
     
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  13. hargydon
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    hargydon No investigation, no right to speak

    Jul 15, 2024
    This would’ve been brilliant.
     
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  14. reservoirGod
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    reservoirGod reckless adventurer.

    Jul 15, 2024
    Actually Mike "MyPillow" Lindell was making MAGA masks at the start of the Pandemic... but his God Savior wouldn't wear them (because he was afraid to smear his makeup).

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    As soon as Trump said he wouldn't wear a mask... his cult members refused to and were belligerent to anyone who did.


    If he said he was going to wear a mask... his cult members would have all wore them and been belligerent to anyone who didn't.
     
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  15. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    Jul 15, 2024
    :emoji_sob::emoji_sob::emoji_sob: brutal
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  16. reservoirGod
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    reservoirGod reckless adventurer.

    Jul 15, 2024
    Vance really doesn't help Trump in anyway.

    Pence got Trump the evangelicals... which helped him in 2016.

    Now the evangelicals hate Pence and Jesus and love Trump...


    I'm pretty sure no one likes JD Vance and probably less people do today than yesterday.
     
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  17. Allis Mines
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    Allis Mines

    Jul 15, 2024
    No one else wanted to, everyone who teams up with trump ends up in jail breaking the law on Trump's behalf. What they get in return is trump turning on them.
     
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  18. reservoirGod
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    reservoirGod reckless adventurer.

    Jul 15, 2024
    Tim Scott really, really, REALLY wanted to be his veep... but.... you know.
     
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  19. srsbsns
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    srsbsns

    Jul 15, 2024
    Wonder if he took that as endorsement?
     
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  20. reservoirGod
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    reservoirGod reckless adventurer.

    Jul 16, 2024
    Seems like he did.



    @pluto✰

    You know besides the Ebola scare of 2012.... Obama actually handled another Pandemic.

    The 2009 H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic.

    He went on Sesame Street and told kids to cough into their elbows instead of their hands.


    Then after 4 months a vaccine was approved and more than 80 million Americans got it without being weird.

    Isn't it crazy how you don't remember that?


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