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[calumniate]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

Why the postal service?

Was just something I remembered from during his 2020 campaign. He tried to completely kneecap the postal service because he thought it might help him with the election (wanted to #### up mail-in ballots).

https://apwu.org/news/vote-mail/apwu...th-social-post

Just kind of a random casualty in his efforts to skew the scales. Can pile this in with his efforts to subvert the media and anything that helps the transfer of knowledge in general

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Cast my ballot today in early voting.

You know, it can be pretty exciting being a part of history in the making. What a thrill knowing that I participated in the last democratic Presidential election in American history!

God, if you're there, it's me Cali...help us.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by calumniate

Was just something I remembered from during his 2020 campaign. He tried to completely kneecap the postal service because he thought it might help him with the election (wanted to #### up mail-in ballots).

https://apwu.org/news/vote-mail/apwu...th-social-post

Just kind of a random casualty in his efforts to skew the scales. Can pile this in with his efforts to subvert the media and anything that helps the transfer of knowledge in general

Forgot about the mail in ballot. Make sense.

Reminds of when Kramer didn't want mail.

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by Strange Brew

Kamala held a big rally in Houston over the weekend. There are other races and I guess that they calculate that the national press coverage is beneficial.

Harris County was 56% blue in 2020.

Texas overall was 5,890,347(R) to 5,259,126(D), so it's not like it's completely off the table.

The demographic of Texas is changing quickly, being the second most popular destination for immigrants, as well as the second largest recipient of domestic migration.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by Bill Bumface

Harris County was 56% blue in 2020.

Texas overall was 5,890,347(R) to 5,259,126(D), so it's not like it's completely off the table.

The demographic of Texas is changing quickly, being the second most popular destination for immigrants, as well as the second largest recipient of domestic migration.

Yeah, myself included but I don't think people realize the changing demographics of places we label as RED.

Destain and Abbott can flex that people are running to Texas and Florida, but those people coming are bringing their Democratic views and could end up voting them out lol.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Bill Bumface

Harris County was 56% blue in 2020.

Texas overall was 5,890,347(R) to 5,259,126(D), so it's not like it's completely off the table.

The demographic of Texas is changing quickly, being the second most popular destination for immigrants, as well as the second largest recipient of domestic migration.

If my Texas based co-workers are to be believed half of California is moving to Texas

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

Cast my ballot today in early voting.

You know, it can be pretty exciting being a part of history in the making. What a thrill knowing that I participated in the last democratic Presidential election in American history!

God, if you're there, it's me Cali...help us.

Hey man, you’re in Florida. If there is a God, she abandoned your ass a long time ago.

[Muta]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

If my Texas based co-workers are to be believed half of California is moving to Texas

And in Civil War, the movie that came out earlier this year, it's California and Texas leading the western forces....

Spoiler!

[TorqueDog]

I’m glad I got to see the Rangers play at MSG the night before Trump got his stink all over it.

[Josh]

I can't believe MSG said yes to the booking. Why on earth would you break the streak of 32,295 days since the last Nazi rally at that venue?

[activeStick]

Originally Posted by Josh

I can't believe MSG said yes to the booking. Why on earth would you break the streak of 32,295 days since the last Nazi rally at that venue?

It's so hard nowadays to know what to believe in social media, but it looked pretty damn full too. I was surprised that there's so much MAGA in a very blue city and state.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Even very blue and very red cities still have at least 25-30% of the population from the other side of the spectrum. New York metro is more than 23 million people, so it would have been more surprising if he couldn't fill it. As to why MSG allowed it, it's a five letter word that rhymes with "money". No doubt they extracted a huge premium, likely paid by Elon.

[MarchHare]

Originally Posted by activeStick

It's so hard nowadays to know what to believe in social media, but it looked pretty damn full too. I was surprised that there's so much MAGA in a very blue city and state.

Trump got over 5 million votes from New York and New Jersey in 2020, yet he still lost both states by landslide margins. It shouldn't be surprising that he can find ~20,000 deplorables from the nearby area to fill an arena. He won't come close to winning either state in 2024.

[#-3]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

Even very blue and very red cities still have at least 25-30% of the population from the other side of the spectrum. New York metro is more than 23 million people, so it would have been more surprising if he couldn't fill it. As to why MSG allowed it, it's a five letter word that rhymes with "money". No doubt they extracted a huge premium, likely paid by Elon.

As long as they followed the #1 rule with anything that has the Trump name on it. Payment in Advance.

[activeStick]

Originally Posted by direwolf

Holy crap, just saw some of the highlights of Trump's Nazi rally at MSG. Basically a murderer's row of reprehensible scumbags spewing all kinds of racism, misogyny, and ridiculous bulls***. One speaker described Puerto Rico as "a floating island of garbage".

That was stand up comedian, Tony Hinchcliffe, of the Kill Tony live comedy show in Texas. He's claiming that it was a joke, and that he made fun of everyone (I didn't watch his whole set).

https://twitter.com/user/status/1850641658599399587

[Lanny_McDonald]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

Cast my ballot today in early voting.

You know, it can be pretty exciting being a part of history in the making. What a thrill knowing that I participated in the last democratic Presidential election in American history!

God, if you're there, it's me Cali...help us.

I hear you Cali. I submitted mine the day after we received ours two weeks ago and I've been nervous ever since. The American people can't be this stupid and vote for this Nazi wannabe?

[Coach]

LOL.

"Why is the VP candidate even watching my comedy set that is opening for the speech of a Presidential candidate?"

Really sick of this generation of comedians. "Don't like what I'm saying? Don't listen!" Okay, will do.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by activeStick

That was stand up comedian, Tony Hinchcliffe, of the Kill Tony live comedy show in Texas. He's claiming that it was a joke, and that he made fun of everyone (I didn't watch his whole set).

https://twitter.com/user/status/1850641658599399587

He talked about Watermelon carving with black people.

Not sure who else made fun of as he says.

Going to a Nazi rally and having your set around racist jokes probably isn't a bright idea.

[octothorp]

Originally Posted by Josh

I can't believe MSG said yes to the booking. Why on earth would you break the streak of 32,295 days since the last Nazi rally at that venue?

It is majority-owned by James Dolan, who routinely makes business decisions out of spite. (See him using facial-recognition to ban legal opponents from attending events at MSG, his ongoing feud with the NBA board of governors, extensive frivolous lawsuits, feuds with popular Knicks legends who have been critical of his handling of the team). I think he's probably a lot like Trump in terms of having an extreme persecution complex. Like a lot of billionaires, he's got a lot of financial reasons for supporting Republicans, but unlike many, he's never going to let public opinion sway what he wants to allow or disallow in his venues.

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by activeStick

It's so hard nowadays to know what to believe in social media, but it looked pretty damn full too. I was surprised that there's so much MAGA in a very blue city and state.

Apparently a lot of people flew in from red states just to attend because it was at MSG.