☭POLITICS☭: Election Season Hell

[meatballmaniac]

John Boehner rocks though I like him

[Ass Dan]

I kinda get what snakes is saying. I think it is better to have Dewine or Kasich as governors than someone like Desantis.

[johnny two cool]

People who have always lived in states where the democrats have key structural advantages have a very different perspective (ironically, often tend to be unwilling to move to a state that leans republican but also think both parties are basically equally bad)

[Percussionist Foster Grant]

Romney and McCain losing to a black man broke the brains of the rank-and-file GOP establishment a lot of us grew up with. People joke about this "Trump Derangement Syndrome" among his haters but Conservatives ACTUALLY had that shit for nearly a decade. The primordial MAGA movement invented it with Obama.

An actual war hero and an uber-religious Reaganite couldn't win in '08 and '12, they knew they had to go back to the drawing board. Who knew they'd sink THIS fucking low though.

[johnny two cool]

Example A:

U.S. Sen. Mike Braun did not get state Rep. Julie McGuire, the running mate he preferred, from the Indiana GOP convention in June, even though she received late backing from former President Donald Trump. Instead, delegates to the convention, who had the final say in the matter, nominated Micah Beckwith, a pastor and podcast host who is a self-described Christian nationalist. Braun clearly wasn’t happy: “My running mate can say whatever he wants,” he said. “If it doesn’t make sense or it doesn’t resonate, remember, I’m going to be the governor.”

By contrast, Democratic nominee Jennifer McCormick, a former state schools superintendent, picked as her running mate Terry Goodin, who served for 20 years in the state House before becoming a Rural Development official with USDA. McCormick — herself a former Republican — wanted a running mate who speaks the language of rural precincts that supported Democrats in the not-too-distant past. “McCormick is really making a play to rebuild the Democratic coalition that used to spread from the big cities to the rural corners,” says Robert Dion, a political scientist at the University of Evansville.

Maybe that won’t work. McCormick has made abortion the centerpiece of her campaign, while Goodin has recanted conservative stances he once held regarding abortion and gay rights. But McCormick is attempting to be strategic about expanding the universe of voters who might vote for her, even with Trump certain to carry the state.

Braun, by contrast, has been running a low-energy campaign. He came practically out of nowhere as a wealthy truck manufacturer six years ago to defeat two sitting House members in the GOP Senate primary. This time around, he won the primary easily, but with less than 40 percent of the vote. Democrats haven’t won an election for governor in Indiana since 1996. Braun perhaps felt he could take the race for granted, failing to mend fences within the party after the primary or lend sufficient support to McGuire to secure her the second spot.

www.governing.com/politics/indianas-surprisingly-close-governors-race

Mike Braun is also a dipshit

[solidsnake]

Oct 21, 2024 10:41:14 GMT -5 meatballmaniac said:

You 4 realz?

Yes daddio.

[meatballmaniac]

My blue state’s last Republican governor played a pivotal role in building the Kingdome—so, obviously a mutant psychopath.

[meatballmaniac]

Oct 21, 2024 10:59:40 GMT -5 solidsnake said:

Oct 21, 2024 10:41:14 GMT -5 meatballmaniac said:

You 4 realz?

Yes daddio.

hell yeah

[solidsnake]

Oct 21, 2024 10:44:42 GMT -5 Ass Dan said:

I kinda get what snakes is saying. I think it is better to have Dewine or Kasich as governors than someone like Desantis.

And most of the not evil ones have jumped ship, when they could’ve gone the Mike Lee route like craven bitches. 

[solidsnake]

Oct 21, 2024 10:41:57 GMT -5 johnny two cool said:

“Why do drugs when you can mow a lawn” republicans thought they had a lot more control over the party than they actually do.

But, on the other hand, they aren’t turning out in solidly red states that almost always hand the governorship to a generic Have A Beer With Me inoffensive middle-aged white guy.

It turns out fully embracing and reinforcing victimhood messaging works better. That was always there, but it wasn’t the primary message.

[Percussionist Foster Grant]

I'd be a lot more willing to speak with or entertain ideas from the average republican voter if they themselves knew what it was they were voting for. Couple weeks out from the election, I'm still waiting for "what Trump did" to make these peoples lives so much better back in 2017-2020.

Gas? We're putting out more barrels now than Trump did, and that's largely an OPEC issue regardless. What else? Groceries? Trump dealt with less than a year of COVID before "see ya" and the fallout became the dems problem; experts say the tariffs Trump implemented (on, say, Chinese washing machines for example) didn't even make a dent. He puts sweeping across-the-board tariffs in place and all these companies are just gonna pass their losses onto consumers AGAIN. This guy isn't the answer for making things cheaper. Lest we forget this guy just threatened John Deere for no reason besides tough guy political posturing.

Abortion? Is anybody actually buying that "I did away with Roe to put the decision back with the states" bullshit? This guy really thinks we're as stupid as he is.

I used to be all "we deserve to have this country fail and shit to be chaos" about stuff but I don't want the young kids in my family to go through all of this, you know? Just gets harder and harder to insulate the people you care about from this brain rot shit.

[carl carlson]

the “trump good on economy” sentiment/consensus is certainly baffling

[johnny two cool]

people posted in this thread about a month ago about how we were actually in a recession and the Biden administration was lying about it.

[solidsnake]

Oct 21, 2024 11:40:25 GMT -5 johnny two cool said:

people posted in this thread about a month ago about how we were actually in a recession and the Biden administration was lying about it.

I remember saying that in jest. 

[solidsnake]

Oct 21, 2024 11:36:05 GMT -5 carl carlson said:

the “trump good on economy” sentiment/consensus is certainly baffling

Probably the thing that pisses me off the most. Want less prosperity? Vote Trump. 

[solidsnake]

I was talking about my baby son being an old man yesterday and my mother in law said it’s unlikely cuz the rapture.

[Ass Dan]

I have a friend who found a job two weeks into his UI and is complaining about how tough the economy is. He’s a moron that listens to Rogan and Theo Von.

[Frederik]

Oct 21, 2024 11:26:50 GMT -5 Percussionist Foster Grant said:

I'd be a lot more willing to speak with or entertain ideas from the average republican voter if they themselves knew what it was they were voting for. Couple weeks out from the election, I'm still waiting for "what Trump did" to make these peoples lives so much better back in 2017-2020.

Gas? We're putting out more barrels now than Trump did, and that's largely an OPEC issue regardless. What else? Groceries? Trump dealt with less than a year of COVID before "see ya" and the fallout became the dems problem; experts say the tariffs Trump implemented (on, say, Chinese washing machines for example) didn't even make a dent. He puts sweeping across-the-board tariffs in place and all these companies are just gonna pass their losses onto consumers AGAIN. This guy isn't the answer for making things cheaper. Lest we forget this guy just threatened John Deere for no reason besides tough guy political posturing.

Abortion? Is anybody actually buying that "I did away with Roe to put the decision back with the states" bullshit? This guy really thinks we're as stupid as he is.

I used to be all "we deserve to have this country fail and shit to be chaos" about stuff but I don't want the young kids in my family to go through all of this, you know? Just gets harder and harder to insulate the people you care about from this brain rot shit.

Because none of this shit matters to trump voters. He made it ok to take pride in being a complete asshole to people, particularly minorities and women, which was all they wanted after the Obama years and the fallout of the Ferguson riots and initial wave of BLM protests.  It's been said before, but the cruelty is the point.

[Percussionist Foster Grant]

100% but frankly I'd at least respect(?) them if they'd come right out and say it. This whole charade like these people are armchair economists tracking inflation and shit... just admit you like the guy "who tells it like it is" and you could care less if he improves the quality of life. The boost to their smooth brain ego and superior attitude's enough to make them feel like life's gotten better for them.

[gmaneb]

My waife always says “hurt people hurt people.” That’s all Trump and all his supporters are. They couldn’t give two shits about any actual improvement to quality of life. They’re all reeling from their own shitty lives themselves.

As long as someone else has it worse off, and they can just degrade someone (based on race, sex, gender, etc.) that’s all the “improvement” they need.

[Sorley Boy]

The economy is always bad for the Trump voter demographic bc they have no useful skills and are too stupid and undisciplined to effectively manage any money they make. Couldn't possibly be their fault though.

[bonerinsweatpants]

Oct 21, 2024 13:44:15 GMT -5 Sorley Boy said:

The economy is always bad for the Trump voter demographic bc they have no useful skills and are too stupid and undisciplined to effectively manage any money they make. Couldn't possibly be their fault though.

blah blah blah bootstraps blah blah blah

[johnny two cool]

A Biden admin W? I think so!

[Ass Dan]

Executive level policy changes can be ephemeral. Except for the shitty ones like immigration policy and tariffs. Apparently those are forever.

[Percussionist Foster Grant]

Oct 21, 2024 14:41:01 GMT -5 johnny two cool said:

A Biden admin W? I think so!

Biden admin W, KingCobraJFS troll L.

[solidsnake]

Oct 21, 2024 15:08:17 GMT -5 Ass Dan said:

Executive level policy changes can be ephemeral. Except for the shitty ones like immigration policy and tariffs. Apparently those are forever.

Tariffs might go away when the majority of Americans understand them on the most basic level. Which will probably never happen. 

[Percussionist Foster Grant]

Trump legit thinks he invented tariffs.

[Percussionist Foster Grant]

Old Joe Medicine Show.

[jimmyspudboy]

Welp

[Percussionist Foster Grant]

Nah, that election predictor guy picked Harris and he's never(?) wrong. Cancels it out.