Election Thread 2024

[Dark Lightning]

His sycophants laughed. Massively wealthy people get used to that bubble of sycophants and lose touch. Just like Budd(?) laughing about the chump "grabbing women by the pussy". In the moment, etc. He didn't deserve to lose his job over that, imo. All those immature people who say outrageous shit and get their chops busted, only to say they "were just joking" really aren't. They just pull back a bit until they voice the next outrageous thing. Rinse and repeat.

[Blackleaf]

Elon Musk is what's known as a Schrödinger's asshole. A comment he makes is simultaneously serious and just a joke, until he sees the reaction he gets.

[Dark Lightning]

World's richest asshole. I'm seeing where he's going to exceed $1T in assets. Yet, he's going bankrupt potentially in some of his activities due to their insolvency. Twitter is one of them.

[Blackleaf]

Elon is one of those people who somehow managed to fail his way up. Never seemed to understand business at all, but somehow managed to make money anyway. Probably helps when you come from wealth already.

[Hydra009]

What's a little blood libel among friends?  No one got hurt.  ...this time.

[Blackleaf]

Charge your phone. lol

[Dark Lightning]

Got a real bang out of it.

[Unbeliever]

Trump said, on FAUX snooze, that the audience at the debate went wild because he was being fact-checked so many times!
But, here's the thing - there was no audience at the debate! 🤣

[Hydra009]

Trump tied to another Russian disinfo campaign

Another burgeoning conservative outlet has been tied to Russia, with former advisers to Donald Trump coordinating directly with contributors for Kremlin state media.

It's one of those "far right" websites full of fake news and assorted Trump nonsense.  Suspiciously hostile to Ukraine aid.  About half its board is composed of Trump allies.

I would've posted The Guardian's write-up about it, but they made the galaxy-brain decision of linking the disinfo site in question.  It's not surprising that we have ongoing disinformation problems - bankrolled by oligarchs at home and abroad, spread by a media landscape that not only doesn't filter it out, but actively shares it.

[Hydra009]

Immigrant "serial numbers"

[Dark Lightning]

Can't that lump of mobile excrement just cease to exist, already?

[SGOS]

Serial numbers to be tattooed on immigrant's forearms for quick identification? 

[Blackleaf]

Can't that lump of mobile excrement just cease to exist, already?

Only the good die young.

[Blackleaf]

Serial numbers to be tattooed on immigrant's forearms for quick identification? 

Sounds familiar. What was that character from the Bible that Conservative Christians always accuse the Democratic nominee to be? Oh, yeah. The Anti-Christ, forcing people to take the mark of the beast. But that couldn't be Trump, no. He's God's chosen.

[ferdmonger]

My sister voted for Trump the first time. She's done with that.  In fact, she cited the "I am the chosen one" (with an actual wave of her hand) comment to really turn her off from the guy.