2024 Elections: One Last Chance for Democracy

[Handyman]

Nooo my dad was way more conservative than
ost people realize. His entire extended family enjoyed their R reputation, some of them held some important county commissioner seats for decades. He was raised to assume D meant bad/socialist and that Rs were fiscally responsible.

it was a reprogramming

Oh I know...I met his mom

[Jimjamesak]

To go off of Handy here, is the Xanax (anti-depressant) abuse just a cultural norm up in AK? (along the lines of many people in Appalachia getting Social Security and/or Disability checks)

No, Alaska is not any different from any other state.

[mookie1995]

Worst example is an ad for House Candidate Nick Begich that plays up here. It has some middle age blonde woman sitting in a kitchen talking about how her son got Xanax from a friend but it was laced with fentanyl and he overdosed and died. She then begins to tearfully and angerly say "I found him dead in his apartment. And it's all the fault of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Mary Peltola opening the border."

Even when they try to seem empathetic, it's just all hate.

mookie reads this with Kathy bates from the waterboy speaking in his head.

[Jimjamesak]

I would try to find it but I’m not ruining my algorithms for you all. I’m not sure if it was an official campaign ad or one from a SuperPAC.

[Handyman]

I just saw a clip of Harris on Faux...Holy cow she eviscerated Faux and Trump over his comments about people who speak against him. She took no crap and I loved every bit of it!

[Spartanforlife4]

I just saw a clip of Harris on Faux...Holy cow she eviscerated Faux and Trump over his comments about people who speak against him. She took no crap and I loved every bit of it!

I tried to watch it but only made it a couple minutes. They just kept talking over each other.

[ericredaxe]

I had the Fox interview on - got sidetracked at times and didn’t recorded it but from what I saw, Bret asked tough but fair questions and she did pretty well. A bit too much talking over each other but I’m sure she wanted to show that nobody could walk over her. I suspect she did nothing to hurt herself and maybe helped her cause a bit.

[Handyman]

I tried to watch it but only made it a couple minutes. They just kept talking over each other.

Oh I won't watch the whole thing...I have zero interest in it. Liked the clip though because Baier was basically pulling a bait and switch about what he said and she was having none of it.

In other news...Maddow is reporting (and there is evidence to back it up) that in the negotiations with Stormy Daniels over the judgements against her that she has to pay off (they wanted 650k she wanted 620k) which Trump thinks is too low...they are willing to accept that figure if she agrees to not talk publicly about Trump. (NDA) That's right sports fans now they are trying pay her off by laundering the money through a negotiated settlement. Maddow has the documents sent to her lawyers. Stormy said no, settled for 627k without the NDA.

Maddow contacted the Trump campaign and they tried to blame Maddow having the emails on the Iranian Hack.

[Handyman]

I had the Fox interview on - got sidetracked at times and didn’t recorded it but from what I saw, Bret asked tough but fair questions and she did pretty well. A bit too much talking over each other but I’m sure she wanted to show that nobody could walk over her. I suspect she did nothing to hurt herself and maybe helped her cause a bit.

In reality all she wanted to do was show non Trump voters she isn't a weak socialist so if she did that good. If not she loses nothing.

[Handyman]

GA Election Board rules about hand counting ballots was blocked for being too big of a change too close to the election.

[Kepler]

I had the Fox interview on - got sidetracked at times and didn’t recorded it but from what I saw, Bret asked tough but fair questions and she did pretty well. A bit too much talking over each other but I’m sure she wanted to show that nobody could walk over her. I suspect she did nothing to hurt herself and maybe helped her cause a bit.

Not with their audience; their minds wouldn't be more closed if they were deceased.

But it certainly ends the "she only stays inside a bubble" nonsense, which is why she accepted at all.

[dxmnkd316]

https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1846511292510568533

Wait, Harris leading white men of any demographic by any amount would be good. +20 would be insane and I literally don't believe it.

[dxmnkd316]

Not with their audience; their minds wouldn't be more closed if they were deceased.

But it certainly ends the "she only stays inside a bubble" nonsense, which is why she accepted at all.

She did this for two reason:
1. What you said
2. To give AG Sulzberger the finger

This has nothing to do with fox viewers. They're lost and she knows it.

[Jimjamesak]

Saw a YouTube video about Jill Stein and, like every discussion involving her, there are a ton of comments about how “we need to change the voting system!”

Well guess what? Alaska changed its voting system to RCV two years ago and you know what don’t see on any ballot? A ****ing Green Party candidate. Not a single one in any race in the state.

It’s almost as if they’re an unserious group running a campaign for different reasons…

[rufus]

GA Election Board rules about hand counting ballots was blocked for being too big of a change too close to the election.

Funny that many of Dementia Donnie's claims for voter fraud in the 2020 election was that voting laws were changed too close to the election, which obviously means fraud and " they stole the election"

Yet, here in 2024, it's Republicans trying to change election laws. Not to make voting for people easier in a pandemic and such, but to benefit themselves at the polls. All this stuff in Georgia, attempting to change Nevada to a winner take all electoral votes state, etc.

Nothing but hypocrites, and pure abuses of power.