Politics Official 2024 Presidential Election Thread

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Who will "Win?"

  1. Harris

    78.6%
  2. Trump

    21.4%
  1. PtldPlatypus

    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    I agreed with everything in your post except this. There was no such thing as "illegal immigration" to the Americas in the 17th/18th centuries. We can make the salient points without exaggerating the facts.
     
  2. UncleCliffy'sDaddy

    UncleCliffy'sDaddy We're all Bozos on this bus.

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    I agree with this 100%. These are people who say they want the government out of their lives, yet expect government to solve all their problems. And when the government can't (or won't) it's everybody else's fault but theirs. They say they want jobs, but if they are certain kinds of jobs. The absolute irony is that good old JD Vance addressed this very topic in Hillbilly Elegy. Yet now it is all the fault of "illegal" immigration. At least you called it for what it is; lazy, entitled white trash. And Vance has validated what was made clear to me after reading his book; he is a self serving, hypocritical poser hell bent on making his bones on the backs of the undereducated and less fortunate.
     
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  4. MickZagger

    MickZagger Well-Known Member

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    and votes
     
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    You don’t see the irony here? It’s a cult, yet you fully and wholeheartedly engage with it, to the extent where you decorate your own yard with a “response” to it?

    Seems more like a stupid game you are completely willing to play.
     
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    It's definitely a cult. And publicly labeling it a cult is a good thing.
     
  7. UncleCliffy'sDaddy

    UncleCliffy'sDaddy We're all Bozos on this bus.

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    And I am having an absolutely shit ton of fun doing it. It's my passive aggressive way of addressing racist and ignorant (many willfully so) attitudes and behaviors. Sometimes you just have to smack people with the truth for it to sink in.....
     
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  8. Chris Craig

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    Technically sure there were no laws or policies in place but, we didn't stop when we got here to make sure the natives were cool with it. We just slaughtered them, kept stealing their land, and pushing them ever west.
     
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    I’m sure it’s going to work just the way you describe it—calling people racist, ignorant cult members via corny yard ornaments will surely change hearts and minds.
    Insulting people and engaging in childish behavior as a response to insults and childish behavior definitely isn’t perpetuating the exact things you complain about.
     
  11. PtldPlatypus

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    Again, everything else you said was accurate. Just suggesting that including inaccurate statements in your posts undermines them.
     
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    No no no no. These people are against other people doing those things.

    You see they've become accustomed to a world where they don't have to deal with competition. So if nobody else can do these things it makes life much easier.
     
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    His zest for Jesus has corroded his brain.
     
  15. Chris Craig

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    Just making a point. I get what you are saying thanks.
     
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    Used to be if politicians did things like this, they were done. Forced to resign or end campaigns. Now, it seems to be cool...on the right anyway.
     
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    UncleCliffy'sDaddy We're all Bozos on this bus.

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    Who's trying to change hearts and minds???? You can't fix what is irreparably broken but you can certainly call it out for what it is. If my neighbors don't like it, then they can move to a community that more accurately reflects their views and good riddance. They know that they are in a minority in our 'hood but "owning the libs" is their idea of neighborliness. Typical MAGAt behavior; provoke a confrontation and then whine when they receive a like minded response. And for whatever it's worth, I have tried to have a civil discourse with these people and got treated like a traitorous commie for expressing my views. So f**k them.
     
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    No offense, but sounds like you’re placing yourself right on their level. A bunch of grown ass adults having neighborhood yard sign wars? Trying to proclaim who is or isn’t welcome in the neighborhood because they represent a political ‘minority’?

    It’s like I said before, you are a willing participant in the silly game, so trying to justify or condemn either side of any of it falls on deaf ears as far as i go. It’s all just stupid.
     
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    Now a Pennsylvania town is having problems with Haitians.





    No pet eating claims yet. But it’s funny the people who have issues are clearly MAGA, uneducated people who find them as a threat to their government handouts.

    Trump’s already shifting focus to Charleroi
     

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