American Politics 3.0 - Back to Brunch

[Paulie Walnuts]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1844787934228017317

For those saying JP Mandell isn’t an extremist piece of ####.

[rubecube]

If the Dems want to run a campaign that's essentially Diet GOP, I'm not sure why they're surprised when their base and progressives lose the enthusiasm they originally had.

[Paulie Walnuts]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1844869841087258770

Occupied America.

Liberation Day!

[Inglewood Jack]

Originally Posted by rubecube

If the Dems want to run a campaign that's essentially Diet GOP, I'm not sure why they're surprised when their base and progressives lose the enthusiasm they originally had.

What’s the Dems diet version of Project 2025?

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack

What’s the Dems diet version of Project 2025?

You're almost arriving at the point.

[Looch City]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

What makes Harris "truly awful"?



What makes Trump "truly awful"?

Lol that quote is on par with "Trump is the smartest one in the room". What a call back!

[butterfly]

Originally Posted by rubecube

If the Dems want to run a campaign that's essentially Diet GOP, I'm not sure why they're surprised when their base and progressives lose the enthusiasm they originally had.

Eh, there's two ways to do it for both parties. Appeal to the base and rely on turnout of vote-or-stay-home people, or appeal to the center and pick off conflicted voters.

I'm not sure there's a Pareto optimal strategy. A bit of game theory, too, as if one side makes their strategy clear, maybe the other one is better.

[EldrickOnIce]

What is 'The Alien Enemies Act of 1798' you may be asking?

Well

The law permits the president to target these immigrants without a hearing and based only on their country of birth or citizenship. Although the law was enacted to prevent foreign espionage and sabotage in wartime, it can be — and has been — wielded against immigrants who have done nothing wrong, have evinced no signs of disloyalty, and are lawfully present in the United States.

Was last used in 1812

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by butterfly

Unless you affixed the world's most inconspicuous camera to my purse, you have no idea who I voted for.

You said you were a Trump fan earlier in this thread....

[Senator Clay Davis]

Imagine a fried out of his mind on ketamine Elon Musk just knocks on your door. His desperation is certainly very curious.

In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, the richest man in the world has involved himself in the U.S. election in a manner unparalleled in modern history.

Elon Musk, seen over the weekend jumping for joy alongside former President Donald J. Trump at a rally in Butler, Pa., is now talking to the Republican candidate multiple times a week.

He has effectively moved his base of operations to Pennsylvania, the place that he has recently told confidants he believes is the linchpin to Mr. Trump’s re-election.

He has relentlessly promoted Mr. Trump’s candidacy to his 201 million followers on X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter that he bought for $44 billion and has used to spread conspiracy theories about the Democratic Party and to insult its candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris.

Above all, he is personally steering the actions of a super PAC that he has funded with tens of millions of dollars to turn out the vote for Mr. Trump, not just in Pennsylvania but across the country. He has even proposed taking a campaign bus tour across Pennsylvania and knocking on doors himself, in part to see how his money is being used.

Taken together, a clear picture has emerged of Mr. Musk’s battle plan as he directs his efforts to elect Mr. Trump with the same frenetic energy and exacting demands that he has honed at his companies SpaceX, Tesla and X.

As early as February, Mr. Musk was speaking apocalyptically, in private, about what he considered the crucial need to defeat President Biden. But even as he was meeting with advisers in Austin, Texas, in April to plot his super PAC, Mr. Musk sounded as if he considered Mr. Trump merely the lesser of two evils. He told friends in the spring that he wasn’t sure he even wanted to explicitly endorse Mr. Trump.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/11/u...nsylvania.html

[butterfly]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

You said you were a Trump fan earlier in this thread....

Here's a list of everything I said. Which comment are you referring to?

https://forum.calgarypuck.com/search...13210185&pp=25

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by butterfly

Here's a list of everything I said. Which comment are you referring to?

https://forum.calgarypuck.com/search...13210185&pp=25

Sorry it wasn't this thread. It was the Biden dropping out thread where you posted 99 times. Stating you would vote for a pedo rapist over a pet rock. Still gulping the orange koolaid?

https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showpo...&postcount=219

https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showpo...&postcount=225

https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showpo...&postcount=237

[butterfly]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

Sorry it wasn't this thread. It was the Biden dropping out thread where you posted 99 times. Stating you would vote for a pedo rapist over a pet rock. Still gulping the orange koolaid?

https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showpo...&postcount=219

https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showpo...&postcount=225

https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showpo...&postcount=237

Nowhere in those links did I state that I'm a fan of his or voted for him.

Yes, I think he's preferable to absolute anarchy. Guilty on that charge.

No orange Kool-Aid, though I do also happen to enjoy a Diet Coke, which is probably guilt by association in the court of Johnny Makarov.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by butterfly

Nowhere in those links did I state that I'm a fan of his or voted for him.

Yes, I think he's preferable to absolute anarchy. Guilty on that charge.

No orange Kool-Aid, though I do also happen to enjoy a Diet Coke, which is probably guilt by association in the court of Johnny Makarov.

He is effing absolute anarchy! lol

[butterfly]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

He is effing absolute anarchy! lol

Do you know what anarchy is? The abolition of all forms of authority. That sounds like Trump to you? Is he a fascist or an anarchist?

I think he's a protectionist who appeals to dark sides of society. Not my cup of tea, but obviously the world didn't end with either him or Biden in the White House. Meanwhile, both sides yell over each other predicting imminent catastrophe shall they lose, neither of which will happen.

No matter who wins, I guarantee you one thing. 2028 will be the "most important election" of our lives, according to them.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by butterfly

Do you know what anarchy is? The abolition of all forms of authority. That sounds like Trump to you? Is he a fascist or an anarchist?

I think he's a protectionist who appeals to dark sides of society. Not my cup of tea, but obviously the world didn't end with either him or Biden in the White House. Meanwhile, both sides yell over each other predicting imminent catastrophe shall they lose, neither of which will happen.

No matter who wins, I guarantee you one thing. 2028 will be the "most important election" of our lives, according to them.

Yes defend the piece of human waste more! you will convince all of us uneducated Canadians that he is fit to lead if you post another 200 times! lol

It's so sad your craphole country has so many deplorables who would even consider voting for him. Brainwashed to the extreme!

[Senator Clay Davis]

Originally Posted by butterfly

Yes, I think he's preferable to absolute anarchy. Guilty on that charge.

Biden is running the country right now and it's not "absolute anarchy" lol. Christ almighty did I miss when America became one election away from Somalia?

[butterfly]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

Biden is running the country right now and it's not "absolute anarchy" lol. Christ almighty did I miss when America became one election away from Somalia?

Sorry, I should have provided some context if you didn't click over to that other thread. The comment had nothing to do with Biden or Democrats. It had to do with a Trump presidency compared to a theoretical presidency of an inanimate object.

[Paulie Walnuts]

When someone says but Trump isn’t the worst we have ourselves a Trumper.

Buttsy it’s ok. He’s your guy.

[Johnny Makarov]

Yeah she was ripping CaliPanthersfan a new one for choosing a pet rock over a orange cheeto pedo rapist!