2024 Presidential Election Shittastic Shittacular

[ChuckF]

So like I already said before, now there's another Republican dipshit loser trying to kill Trump.

looooooool

Local outlets say that Miller is a registered Republican. He has a master's degree from UCLA and campaigned for Nevada's state assembly in 2022, but lost in the primary election, according to local daily newspaper The Press-Enterprise.

Bianco said he is part of a right-leaning anti-government group and considers himself a sovereign citizen, someone who does not believe they are subject to government laws unless they agree to them.

Meanwhile, Miller told the Southern California News Group on Sunday that he was "shocked" to be arrested and accused of trying to hurt the former president whom he is a supporter of.

Miller said he was at the California rally on a "special entry pass" given to him by a Republican Party associate and that he never had trouble when he attended Trump rallies in Nevada with weapons in his trunk. He said he thought the law would be the same in California.

[Stephen Maturin]

That's a step or two beyond the usual 2024 slobberin' shitizen fare, i.e., telling a traffic cop "I'm not driving; I'm traveling" for YouTube views.

[seebs]

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Gotta admire the degree to which Trump is now making Biden look young and spry.

[Ensign Steve]

Stood frozen and silent on stage for 30 minutes? That is truly unbelievable. That's like Buckingham Palace guard levels of bearing. I'm honestly mind-blown that he is capable of that. Even if he just dissociated up there for half an hour (military pro-tip, that's literally how it's done), you'd think physically he'd need to sit down at some point.

[specious_reasons]

According to the news I read (AP News), there were two medical emergencies which halted the rally. Trump asked for music to be played while that was going on, and he stood there listening. Once that cleared up, he spoke for a few more minutes and then decided to just play music for the rest of the rally.

The incidents at the rally seemed to throw him off and left everyone confused.

[seebs]

I am distrusting news reports sanewashing his behavior because there's a lot of after-the-fact rationales and excuses being offered for which there's no actual evidence.

[LarsMac]

The latest notion I have seen suggests that they are lining up for JD to take over after the festivities, with MrT's latest behavior setting that up. He just drifts off the stage after the party, and goes off to spend his retirement on the national Dole, and ol' JD takes over.
Yeah, I know, it's not quite that simple, but you get the drift.

So vote like your future depends on it. (because it probably does.)

[ChuckF]

Arnold Palmer's huge penis

[specious_reasons]

Originally Posted by LarsMac

The latest notion I have seen suggests that they are lining up for JD to take over after the festivities, with MrT's latest behavior setting that up. He just drifts off the stage after the party, and goes off to spend his retirement on the national Dole, and ol' JD takes over.
Yeah, I know, it's not quite that simple, but you get the drift.

So vote like your future depends on it. (because it probably does.)

With his ego, Trump will have to die before letting Vance take over, and Trump hasn't lost enough cognitive function to casually let Vance 25th Amendment his ass. It might take years for Trump to be in such a bad state that he can be outplayed by new money Vance.

I'm sure Vance is willing to wait him out, though.

[seebs]

i think trump may well actually have lost that much cognitive function, it's very hard to tell.

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"Trump: I’ve got no cognitive problem. I have no cognitive. There's no cognitive problem. Got no cognitive"

[Stephen Maturin]

Originally Posted by ChuckF

Arnold Palmer's huge penis

Harris is doing a major disservice to undecided voters by failing to state a public position regarding Arnold Palmer's gargantuan squirter

~ Matt Taibbi, probably

[Pyrrho]

Originally Posted by specious_reasons

With his ego, Trump will have to die before letting Vance take over, and Trump hasn't lost enough cognitive function to casually let Vance 25th Amendment his ass. It might take years for Trump to be in such a bad state that he can be outplayed by new money Vance.

I'm sure Vance is willing to wait him out, though.

They would most likely keep Trump as President until he died, as a figurehead "Dear Leader", as often is done. Example: Robert Mugabe. It would be the "power behind the throne" that would run things.

[specious_reasons]

In my experience, people’s personalities don’t fundamentally change, the dysfunction comes and goes, and intelligent people are able to mask the dysfunction better. I think Trump will raise hell to keep in power until he is literally unable to think for himself, and that could be a long,long time.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Originally Posted by specious_reasons

In my experience, people’s personalities don’t fundamentally change, the dysfunction comes and goes, and intelligent people are able to mask the dysfunction better. I think Trump will raise hell to keep in power until he is literally unable to think for himself, and that could be a long,long time.

I've seen a few old folks, and one malignant narcissist a lot like Trump, cling to the threads of life trying to build a pyramid to be remembered by, gracelessly destroying everything in their path as they rage against the inevitable.

This tells a tale.
And I'm not so sure it was tongue in cheek.

[Stephen Maturin]

Phoenix man charged with shooting Democratic office had 250,000 rounds and a grenade launcher

[P]olitical violence leading up to and after Election Day has experts concerned, especially in light of revelations about a Phoenix man arrested Tuesday who authorities said was allegedly planning a “mass casualty” event in the state.

Jeffrey Michael Kelly, 60, was arrested in connection to his alleged involvement in four separate incidents of political violence. Police have tied him to a series of shootings at a Democratic National Committee office in Tempe, as well as placing anti-Democratic signs with razor blades and bags of white powder attached to them in nearby Ahwatukee.

During an initial appearance in Maricopa County Superior Court on Wednesday, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office said that a search warrant of Kelly’s home found 120 guns, 250,000 rounds of ammunition, body armor and a grenade launcher. (Emphasis added.)

That's a whole lotta freedom right there.

[Ensign Steve]

Hoarders gonna hoard.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Originally Posted by Stephen Maturin

Phoenix man charged with shooting Democratic office had 250,000 rounds and a grenade launcher

Misread 'had' as 'with' and wondered just how big the crater is where the building was.

[seebs]

More than 100 Arizona Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and progressive Democrats and community leaders have signed a letter making the case for those reluctant to support Kamala Harris against Donald Trump.

[viscousmemories]

We are deeply frustrated that Harris has not yet met our movement’s demand that she break with Biden, defy the powerful extremists enforcing the status quo, stand with the majority of Americans, and pledge to uphold US law and international law and condition aid to Israel. Still we believe there are clear reasons to hope that we can win positive policy change with a Harris administration and a Democratic Congress.

From the letter referenced in the article.

I disagree that the reasons are clear, but I agree they exist. It is certainly clear that a Republican administration offers no such hope.

[Stephen Maturin]

Big ups to anyone who had "honking off Puerto Ricans by having a D-list 'comic' call Puerto Rico a 'floating pile of garbage' during your Nuremberg-style event at Madison Square Garden" on your bingo cards.

[LarsMac]

WTF?!?!?!????

Israel bans UNRWA, the U.N. relief agency for Palestinian refugees

[specious_reasons]

I can forgive all sorts of transgressions in a joke if it's funny. This was not funny. He also made a "joke" that hispanic people have a lot of kids. They won't pull out, just like they won't pull out of the country! (Paraphrased, but he literally used the term "won't pull out".)

I saw a little blurb about how the "comic" wrote on Twitter/X that the joke was taken "out of context." The last refuge of an asshole.

[specious_reasons]

Sorry, he said, "They won't pull out, they come inside, just like they do to our country."

[seebs]

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[Kamilah Hauptmann]

“I disagree with Kamala’s position on the war...