US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

 

[The Nothingness]

This morning, I passed an electronic ad from my local NPR station that said, "Be informed, not enraged." I found that amusing after learning they spread another about Trump at Arlington Cemetery, misinforming and enraging their listeners.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

Damn, I guess not having crowds for a debate will be the norm now.

Yeah I don’t care about that. It just feels fake and gay to not have a crowd live reacting.

The only crowd I need while watching the debate is my Kiwi frens.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

@Null pls host live debate viewing party for kiwi frens

Looks like Trump is leading in all the sun belt states. He needs to turn the rust belt and he will win.

Even the shitty D+ showing cumala only leading by 2+ AFTER convention....

 

[Meat Target]

As of today (and thus subject to change), here are my predictions:

They get Kamala over the finish line, either by fortifying or by tricking enough swing-state niggercattle. Dems win back the House. R's flip Senate seats in Montana, Ohio, West Virginia, and and *maybe* Nevada. Kari Lake loses in Arizona again.

We then get more bitching and moaning about how the Senate is "undemocratic" in spite of Dems holding it for 4 years.

I'm guessing this because split-ticket voting is becoming more common. You have Dem governors in otherwise blood-Red states like Kansas and Kentucky.

The best way to win an election (beyond fortifying margin) is to not be a fuckwit and let your opponent hang himself. It's how Doug Jones won an Alabama Senate seat, or Glenn Youngkin upset Terry McCauliffe.

 

[BatterHomes&Gardens]

The last time I saw a troupe of boyscouts, they were all pooners. There was maybe one boy. The scouts are pozzed beyond repair. Scope things out before you commit.

This is truth. My daughter was a brownie and the troop leaders SON was in the troop! Then when the faggot month rolled around they have a official girl scout event that was BINGO WITH A DRAG QUEEN AT THE GIRLSOUT OFFICE. She got removed immediately from the scouts.

It's inexcusable what the trannys have done to the scouts. They have taken a good and honest program and fetishized it. There will be no quality young women coming out of girl scouts, it will be all young activist radicals rebelling against their parents because that's what their 'pronouns in bio!!!' troop leaders are telling them what to care about.

Disgusting.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Literal brats or adult children larping as revolutionaries?

Why Not Both?

Imagine a swarm of these abominations storming the capitol.

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

This is truth. My daughter was a brownie and the troop leaders SON was in the troop! Then when the faggot month rolled around they have a official girl scout event that was BINGO WITH A DRAG QUEEN AT THE GIRLSOUT OFFICE. She got removed immediately from the scouts.

It's inexcusable what the trannys have done to the scouts. They have taken a good and honest program and fetishized it. There will be no quality young women coming out of girl scouts, it will be all young activist radicals rebelling against their parents because that's what their 'pronouns in bio!!!' troop leaders are telling them what to care about.

Disgusting.

The Girl Scouts were ruined when that org turned into a for-profit cookie-selling enterprise using free child labor to peddle them. They make literally a quarter of a billion dollars a year on that.

 

[CarlKingofDucks]

• MPTP is a side effect chemical created if you make some drugs wrong. It gives you Parkensons. Forever.
• Bromo-DragonFLY is a technically legal hallucinogen that is legal because taking it is it's own punishment. Unlike most other drugs, there are no happy Bromo-DragonFly trips, it's apparently like going to hell itself and it's a time dissonant trip -- you'll be tripping balls for a few days but it will feel like years from your perspective. Oh, and it causes you to vomit blood and random body parts will become necrotic (i.e., parts of your body will start to rot days or weeks after you take it, and there's no treatment). And that's assuming a "safe" dosage, it gets rapidly less pleasant the more you take.
• EA-3167 is another hallucinogen, stupidly potent, very bad trip, and it lasts about two weeks... and that's just the start. It leaves you confused, amnesiac, and unable to speak or think clearly afterwards. After THAT wears off you get to deal with increased levels of "hypochondriasis, depression, hysteria, psychasthenia, schizophrenia, and mania" for upwards of 6 months.

MPTP is a non-starter, you'd get some poor brown person crying in the media about how the ebil gubbmint laced his weed with shit that turned him into Michael J Fox -- gibs moneies pleeeez. The other two sound promising. DragonFLY literally sending people to hell for days (years from their POV) with most of them killing themselves afterwards and the ones that survived having the body parts the demons ripped off them during the trip rotting off their bodies later on would probably end the epidemic pretty damned quick.

I must be way to high because thinking about doign that to some socio-economic factors had me laughing a lot

 

[PLEASEBANMYASS]

they're basically jerking each other off mentally for believing in the same political ideals

no different than any a&h thread

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

Remember how Trump asked Kamala for three debates: 4th. 10th, and the 28th? Remember? Remember how Kamala cucked about the first one being the one with Joe? And now she can't even commit to one!

Because the Dems know having her talking without a teleprompter is a disaster.

She won't give a single real interview or answer real questions because she doesn't NEED to

 

[Ukraine is Big Gay]

The Girl Scouts were ruined when that org turned into a for-profit cookie-selling enterprise using free child labor to peddle them. They make literally a quarter of a billion dollars a year on that.

Right on the money. There is no real independence or survival training or merit badges or fun camp activities or community/interpersonal skills building for the kids it is JUST primarily the child labor that is somehow "okay" because it's cute to normies and guilts them into buying overpriced for profit slop.

 

[Soycast Guy]

The last time I saw a troupe of boyscouts, they were all pooners. There was maybe one boy. The scouts are pozzed beyond repair. Scope things out before you commit.

Back when I was a kid, the church I went to pulled out of the Boy Scouts when they started allowing gay scout leaders. It could only go downhill from there. Men and boys can no longer have sacred activities.

This is truth. My daughter was a brownie and the troop leaders SON was in the troop! Then when the faggot month rolled around they have a official girl scout event that was BINGO WITH A DRAG QUEEN AT THE GIRLSOUT OFFICE. She got removed immediately from the scouts.

It's inexcusable what the trannys have done to the scouts. They have taken a good and honest program and fetishized it. There will be no quality young women coming out of girl scouts, it will be all young activist radicals rebelling against their parents because that's what their 'pronouns in bio!!!' troop leaders are telling them what to care about.

Disgusting.

It truly is disgusting that all the child molesters have to invade everything kids enjoy. I was lucky to at least have an ok childhood before all this shit really started kicking off.

 

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They're cutting meat at your local deli.
They're putting down tile in houses.
They're driving and unloading trucks.
They're working as commercial fishermen.
They're showing up to every city hall meeting for decades to talk about one niche issue that only they care about.
They're getting into arguments online with other autistic boomers about topics that you can't even imagine someone caring about, let alone arguing about in a thread going back to 1998.

You know how a lot of millennials and Gen Z kids will describe literally anything nerdy or weird as "autistic?" Boomers are the opposite of that. They're not able to recognize mild autism because they literally lacked the vocabulary and culture of even knowing what autism was. To a guy born in 1950 autism is that thing that your friend Tommy's mute little brother has. Boomers see it as an on/off switch, not a thing that you can have a little bit of.

My retirement-age father-in-law is a good guy, but he's also obviously an undiagnosed autist. Earnest but very dorky, bad at picking up social queues, and super obsessive about nerdy hobbies like model trains and board games

A lot of people who are on the spectrum but high-functioning can be a little weird, but otherwise functional members of society, because in the past they were effectively peer-pressured into success and a degree of normalcy. This doesn't seem to be the case any longer and now the spergs who used to obsess about fixing pocketwatches or whatever are allowed to spiral out of control and become chris-chan

 

[StarkRavingMad]

@Amelia Troonheart I read your post right before going to sleep, so that's why I'm responding now.

I agree with everything you said about malnutrition in mothers (and therefore also in babies and children) and how that can affect their health-- seems very common sense and like a no-brainer, right? And yes, gestational diabetes is becoming an increasingly larger and larger problem (as women are getting fatter and fatter at a faster rate than men are-- the average fat woman is fatter than the average fat guy right now). As recently as 30-40 years ago, pregnant women on average weren't even tested for gestational diabetes. Whenever I tell a slightly older woman who became a mother in the 80s and 90s, they look bewildered when I tell them about the gestational diabetes test, lol.

(btw, the 3-hour gestational diabetes test is horrible. They make you drink 100 grams of sugar in a span of a few minutes, and then take your blood at the 1-hour, 2-hour, and 3-hour marks to see how your body is handling it. When I took it, I violently threw up at around the 30 minute mark and the lab told me to "go home and try again another day." I was sick for the rest of the day. Never again. I refused to do the 3-hour test again, and I just monitored my blood after every meal for 2 weeks ... I ended up not having it at all, lol. I will never take the 3-hour test again. Drinking 100 grams of sugar in a single sitting sounds like a ridiculous thing to do while pregnant in the first place, in my opinion. But I digress.)

I still don't see data to suggest a direct connection with vaccinations and autism, though. Unfortunately, I don't think we will ever see that data (so I'm not saying it's wrong to question it). But as it stands now, I personally can't come to the conclusion that the increase of vaccinations is the reason why autism is more common now.

Also, there are many possible reasons why women are fatter than men are now. Could be birth control, could be the environment, could be the poison that Americans are "allowed" to eat and it's just affecting women more, etc.

I disagree with RFK Jr. on more issues than agree ... But man, when he's right, he's right. I wholeheartedly agree that the health of the nation should become an utmost priority.

If it's simply a case of our knowledge of autism and diagnostic criteria being improved, then why aren't there more adults being diagnosed with autism?

Possibly because adults aren't seeking out to get diagnosed? Especially if there's a spectrum and they're on the higher end of "functioning"?

You're asking a really good question, though.

 

[HackerX]

The Girl Scouts were ruined when that org turned into a for-profit cookie-selling enterprise using free child labor to peddle them. They make literally a quarter of a billion dollars a year on that.

Counterpoint. Samoas are worth the free child labor.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

The perception of poonigger hiding behind a tampon loving white race traitor.

 

[Pascal's Wagie]

I played Q3A and UT quite a lot, when multiplayer was still good. Then went to mostly Battlefield series, first few were great. Then for some reason I got the One one, about WW1. Just awful. Tried 4 and the fun was mostly gone by then, sucks. The early days of LAN Doom/Quake and then Q3A were truly magic.

"You know what no one talks about? Matchmaking. 'Multiplayer' they used to call it, but now they call it 'Matchmaking'. It's not a match made in heaven a lot of the time these days, folks. If you're pretty old like me your video game would just call it the 'Server Browser' or something like that. You would have to use GameSpy, remember GameSpy? Back in those days you would be able to join whatever server you wanted and play with the same guys over and over and over again, now every lobby is different. You used to not have these battlepasses with the skins and what-not, you'd just have the color of your railgun or the character model you used and that was that. You used to be able to strafejump, now you have to slide cancel, talk about "cancel culture." You know the Columbine shooters played a lot of Quake. They had all the Quake they wanted and they still did what they did. I wonder what they would do now..."

 

[teriyakiburns]

This is truth. My daughter was a brownie and the troop leaders SON was in the troop! Then when the faggot month rolled around they have a official girl scout event that was BINGO WITH A DRAG QUEEN AT THE GIRLSOUT OFFICE. She got removed immediately from the scouts.

Tim Curry really was a trailblazer.

 

[Cemetery Support]

Article from the WSJ this morning. This can’t be fucking normal, can it? What the fuck is going on?

Spoiler: Lawsuits Fly Over Election Results and Who Gets To Vote

Lawyers are ramping up battles over who gets to vote and how those votes are counted in the presidential election.

Democrats sued Georgia's state election board Monday about its contentious new rule for certifying results.

Republicans filed lawsuits in North Carolina and Arizona challenging voter registration procedures there. The Supreme Court also stepped into the fray: Last week the justices took a mixed approach over proof-of-citizenship rules in Arizona.

Election lawyers say that the volume of lawsuits is an unprecedented surge from previous contests, but that the last-minute litigation follows a familiar playbook.

The recent lawsuits return to battleground states where Donald Trump and his allies refused to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election-places where the race was won or lost on narrow margins and where the 2024 race between him and Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to be close.

Similar arguments have already been ruled on for this cycle-regarding absentee ballot rules in Wisconsin, Michigan, Mississippi and New York; voter-registration regulations in North Carolina and Florida; and voter roll cleaning in Nevada.

Some states will begin mailing overseas and absentee ballots as early as next week, leaving little time for the cases to work through the courts before voters start heading to the polls. The Supreme Court generally has disfavored last-minute changes to election procedures, but how it has applied that principle has varied depending on the facts of specific cases.


Any litigation at this stage in the election calendar is unlikely to radically alter how voters actually cast their ballots, said Justin Levitt, a Loyola Law School professor.

But late-stage litigation can still be effective in serving political goals, Levitt says.

Partisan lawsuits are fairly common in election spaces, and can be used to drive fundraising efforts and stir up motivation among voters, from any party. Even when normal, a high volume of lawsuits can create chaos— or at least confusion- as Election Day approaches, Levitt said.

"It fosters discontent with a system that works pretty well," he said.


North Carolina Voter Rolls

Twice in the past week, the Republican National Committee and the North Carolina Republican Party sued the state's Board of Elections over its voter rolls.

RNC Chairman Michael Whatley said the board "has chosen to blatantly ignore the law, undermine basic election safeguards, and neglect a fundamental principle of our election integrity."

The state of North Carolina has yet to respond in court, but the election board has released lengthy statements rebutting the premise of the lawsuits.

In a Thursday suit, the GOP claimed the election board's process for removing noncitizens from the rolls was flawed and improperly delayed. GOP challengers allege the election board hasn't acted to remove noncitizens from the rolls after the state alerted the people that they were excused from jury duty for not meeting citizenship requirements.

Pat Gannon, the board's public information director, pointed out that the law requiring the comparison between the jury rolls and voting rolls was just passed in July. Since then, the state has compiled the records and found a total of nine individuals who might need to cancel their registrations, he said, and the checks of state and federal records continue.

"The State Board has been transparent about this process from the very beginning," Gannon said, requesting that the Republican groups rescind news releases to avoid undermining voter confidence "on an entirely false premise."

On Monday, the same Republican groups challenged the registration of more than 225,000 voters they allege were improperly registered under a state form, claiming the voters haven't shown proper ID to prove their eligibility and should have to cast provisional ballots.

Gannon, from the election board, said the GOP lawsuit misunderstands the data and overstates any voter registration problems.

"There are plenty of voters who registered before the federal law changed in 2005 to require the submission of a driver's license number or last-four of a Social Security number," he said. "And in any event, all these voters will be asked to show photo ID again when they vote this year."

Federal law prevents widespread voter registration cancellations within 90 days of an election, a deadline that has already passed.

Arizona Regulations

A similar battle is heating up in Arizona, where the state Republican party last week sued Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs over two 2023 executive orders that together expand voter registration outreach and mail-ballot drop-off location access.

GOP opponents of the orders argue that state law doesn't give the governor authority over those elements of election administration. The state hadn't filed a reply to the lawsuit as of Tuesday morning.

"Election deniers and frivolous lawsuits will not stop the Governor from fighting to ensure every eligible voter has the opportunity to have their voice heard at the ballot box," a Hobbs spokesman, Christian Slater, said.

Last week the U.S. Supreme Court allowed parts of a recent Arizona law that required heightened proof of citizenship to vote, but denied a broader request by Republicans that could have prevented thousands in the state from casting a presidential ballot.


The court kept in place an Arizona requirement that voters must show proof of citizenship when registering to vote on a state form. The court's order, however, said the state can't enforce a provision that would bar already-registered voters from casting ballots for president or from voting by mail if they haven't provided documentary proof of citizenship.


Georgia certification


Democrats have asked a Georgia judge to block a postelection rule put in place this month, a rare proactive lawsuit from the party in a cycle in which they have mostly played defense.


The Republican-controlled election board approved a new interpretation of the state's election certification law that challengers say adds uncertain discretion to the election process. The law now requires local election officials to conduct an undefined "reasonable inquiry" before they sign off on the results, a shift from a process that is typically little more than simple math and checking a box.


The Democrats' lawsuit argues that the board overstepped its authority and that the rule sows confusion at a crucial time in the countdown to Election Day and opens pathways for improper delays after votes are cast.

"Certifying an election is not a choice, it's the law. A few unelected extremists can't just decide not to count your vote," said Quentin Fulks, the deputy campaign manager for Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.


Georgia's election laws require officials to certify elections by Nov. 12. Georgia's Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, declined to comment on the pending litigation. Earlier this month a spokesperson said, "We fully anticipate that counties will follow the law."


"Georgia's election record has given voters legitimate concerns about the voting system," said Claire Zunk, election-integrity communications director for the Republican National Committee. "The State Election Board has passed common-sense reforms to secure Georgia's elections and protect legal votes-but once again Kamala and the Democrats are set on dismantling election safeguards."

Several lawsuits and reviews of the 2020 election results from Georgia found no evidence of problems.

Republicans have brought the bulk of pre-election litigation, and Democratic operatives are already positioning themselves to sustain their response through expected postelection disputes. A new political-action committee, led by longtime Democratic strategists including Jim Messina, launched Tuesday with an initial $10 million to support state-level allies. Messina was campaign manager in President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election bid.

"We are not messing around with this- too much is on the line and we've seen what Trump is capable of when he loses an election fair and square," Messina said.

Write to Mariah Timms at mariah.timms@wsj.com

 

[Dimension Sniper]

Counterpoint. Samoas are worth the free child labor.

Kroger has off-brand versions of all the Girl Scout cookies, you can get the same taste for way cheaper and without supporting tranny shit and Planned Parenthood.

(may not apply to other regional grocery stores.)