Ohio rizz
Wow, really looks like little-t fucked the couch on this one.
Looks like people are ok with an old racist rapist with dementia, but fucking a couch is where the line is drawn.
I’m with Fox News on this one. I demand to see the video!
…that’s where I draw the line!
It’s not just that. Democrats finally found a way to message “these people do not deserve the benefit of rational debate; they deserve ridicule”.
I hope this is a lesson that sticks, at least for a generation.
I’m just happy people are finally drawing a line.
Ya fuck one couch, and everyone calls you a couch fucker.
The thing about this meme is that it’s stuck so it works. Doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. You can just call him a couch fucker and it renders anything he says irrelevant.
If you meet anyone who wants to talk about voting for the guy you just need to call them a couch fucker too and you’re done.
Yes couch fucker
Polls in August never “spell doom” for anyone, but especially when the other candidate has only been in the race for 3 weeks. There is no certainty that the poll numbers will maintain as people learn more about the candidates.
But there’s something very good about these articles: MAGAts like strength or what they think strength is and articles talking about humiliation are not helpful for Trump.
Dementia DonOLD the weird racist rapist with 34 felonies is looking like he’s out of gas and his running mate is a fucking clown. They’re in deep shit. Everyone has a vote, and everyone needs to vote! Volunteer to help those that wouldn’t be able to vote without assistance.
All of those except maybe “out of gas” were true when he was up by 5 points everywhere.
Good. Don’t care. Behave like the polls show Harris two points behind. Get everyone you know to commit to voting. Offer to drive them to vote. Get them to bring their friends.
I’m genuinely thrilled to see Harris getting people energized and moving the needle, but complacency is our enemy.
Offer to drive them to vote
I always forget how good we have it in Oregon. I’ll go through the pamphlet and read up on all the ballot initiatives while filling out my ballot in the comfort of my home at my own pace. Then I’ll drop it in the mail or at a drop box somewhere the next day
Shit-tier mods that destroy narratives are also a problem. Why even use this site, mods like this out here contorting the entire outlook. This guys a monster. Why should anyone believe anything you say?
Oh look, I might go and say “the second amendment doesnt actually give cletus the right to own a rifle.” Oh no … gonna get banned……
Polls don’t mean shit. Vote. Write in your fucking grandma for all I care but vote, and bring your friends. Make a party of it. Or sign up for mail in ballot if you still can, and tell your friends, family, strangers in the grocery line, coworkers, scream into the black void. VOTE.
They mean something but there’s a thing called polling error, which news outlets studiously ignore.
The race is essentially tied currently. The danger of the new reich is very real.
I’ve asked this before, what does Lemmy have against polling? You guys know that people aren’t using polls as a substitute for voting, right?
Polls are bullshit and cause stupid. Also they are getting increasingly biased as time goes on, seriously some still only use land lines.
I cannot speak for the whole of Lemmy, but anything but exit polls tend to have multiple issues. The way that they’re used in popular media tends to fuel horse race politics.
Here’s the Pew Research Center, likely the largest polling organization in the US outside of the US Census. https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/2023/04/19/how-public-polling-has-changed-in-the-21st-century/
Here’s how they can fuel partisanship when that bias is not taken into account by the media https://phys.org/news/2020-10-political-scientist-negative-partisanship-voters.html
Here’s what I mean when I say horse race politics. https://journalistsresource.org/politics-and-government/horse-race-reporting-election/
Arguably the first time Trump got elected the polls saying he couldn’t win played a large part in that. People felt safe not voting in protest of Hillary because “there’s no way Trump can win anyway.”
The polls were generally within the margins of error…. Dems need at least 5% more than repubs to win electoral college. The polls were not that far off, they were within the margins of error
Hillary got a little too cocky and assumed it was her birthright or whatever weird shit that was
Illinois just mails me a ballot before every election. Super convenient, it’s a shame more states don’t do it.
Same in Oregon
Imagine my shock of the voting process when moving from Texas to Oregon. From pulling teeth to vote to getting it delivered on a silver platter. It feels so unconstitutional down there.
Yep, that’s by design.
Funny I lived in Texas for a while and had no problem voting. In fact I found it quite pleasant as my polling station was like a 5 minute walk from my house. Granted, I lived in a fairly affluent area which certainly gaffs the scale, but I’m curious as to what you’re experienced was.
I lived in Texas for a while and had no problem voting.
found it quite pleasant as my polling station was like a 5 minute walk from my house
Hmmm, wonder why…
I lived in a fairly affluent area
Well, that twist was entirely expected.
The poster made the claim like it was a statement of fact for all of texas, I explained how my experience was different, even giving reasons why that might be the case, and you still felt the need to be a douche about it.
Amazing.
Pointing out that I’m unsurprised that you’re able to vote easily because you’re an affluent area doesn’t make me a douche. The fact that you reacted like that because I pointed out the obvious that makes your experience the exception to the rule means you should probably be pointing that accusation inwards friend.
Maybe don’t be so sensitive and hostile just because you’re one of the lucky ones?
Without giving too much away, how racially diverse would you say the folk were at your local polling station. And what kinda neighborhood did you cast your vote in?
I voted in Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Beaumont, Garland, and Amarillo. Not all in the same year of course but over the course of a decade. And I’ll tell you, not every polling place is staffed the same. I waited 5 hours to walk into a church lobby with only 3 polling staff and 8 poll booths for what looked like hundreds of folk. And I waited a half hour to vote in a gymnasium that might as well have been a straw poll for how it had so many staff and more polling booths than I could count.
Some sources for those outside of the Lone Star state
https://www.aclutx.org/en/news/5-ways-texas-suppresses-vote-and-how-make-your-vote-count
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/30/opinions/texas-ominous-voter-suppression-obeidallah/index.html
I don’t recall really thinking about the racial makeup of the polling station, but certainly my zip code is pretty racially diverse, which white people just making up the majority. But again, a relatively wealthy area so much of that diversity was not economic.
But it was a gym, it had a reasonable about of polling booths, and I waited only a brief time. Each time I went to vote. My biggest complaint about voting in Texas is the overwhelming number of things that are up for elections.
Good to hear y’all were able to vote in the way it’s intended to be. It’s not like that everywhere in Texas.
I’ve never waited more than 20 mins to vote, and never more than 5 on early voting.
I live in a big city. It could be better, but not much better.
Uh don’t commit voter fraud wtf
Edit oh you probably mean grandma for president. I’m in
Yes I was referencing a standard write in ballot with <Grandma’s Name> being the independent candidate
I still remember all the polls saying Hillary was gonna win and how confident the Dems got.
“Doom” is actually spelled C… O… U… C… H…
Don’t believe polls, they don’t mean anything. Go out and vote. It’s not over till it’s over. Otherwise we risk things going tits up again.
Yes, the good guys need to win overwhelmingly to overcome the bad guys cheating.
It’s not fair, but that’s the system we have right now.
I think knowing that I will be undermining JD Vance (and Trump, of course) will be a gigantic motivator for me.
This will be even better than the first time I voted against him
Real question. If the vice presidential duty is to ceremoniously sign off on delegate votes, how will that work if Kamala is the VP, but also on the ticket? I could see these MAGA nuts using that to drum up support for a stolen election, they tried it when Pence was VP, and he wasn’t an electee.
she still certifies the count. i never heard of the site, but it’s what i found https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/elections-verify/yes-vp-kamala-harris-can-certify-the-election-results-even-if-shes-a-presidential-candidate/536-6eb8fc15-c36f-4ca9-87c3-376a2e16442a
I don’t know the answer, but there is precident for this. Wikipedia tells me 4 sitting VPs have been elected, most recently Bush Sr. In 1988.
I’m sure the right-wing will spin this as a stolen election, like you said. It’s not like this is the first time it’s happened, though.
Let’s be real, JD Vance was picked by the party to be the adult in the room who can actually get Project 2025 passed under Trump since Trump doesn’t care about Project 2025 and just wants what’s best for himself at that moment and to be a petty little bitch
Also worth noting that Vance has no personality. When asked in Eau Claire, WI “why should a voter want to have a beer with you” he responded “uh I uh haha um I actually like beer haha” (he also tried to sidestep a question about Tim Walz by saying “we aren’t talking about Minneapolis policy, were talking about Wisconsin” while literally standing 1 hour’s drive from Minneapolis
And when asked “what makes you smile” instead of any sane answer he answered “insane questions from biased reporters like you!” Then followed it with waffling about how he loves his job so much while forcing the fakest smile you’ve ever seen
Do you have a link for that Eau Claire Interview?
Here is an article with a snippet from the interview referenced. The whole interview is readily available on YouTube if you do a quick search. Hope it helps. https://www.wizmnews.com/2024/08/08/vance-jokes-hes-checking-out-his-future-vp-plane-while-overlapping-with-harris-at-eau-claire-airport/ Cheers!
IMHO they want Vance for one reason: Trump thinks he can control him, but Vance’s actual master, Theil, will have Vance 25th amendment the orange asshat on day one - giving Theil the whitehouse.
That would be a good House of Cards episode, not realistic in the slightest.
The Vice President can’t do that without “a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide” on their side. That can’t happen without either the aid of people that Trump would have to select (and he’s notorious for picking toadies) or Congress passing a bill to create a body to evict him.
eh lol you think Theil only paid off Vance?
roflololol
Also the Ohio thing makes sense when you look at the Senate map. There are exactly two remotely competitive races, Montana and Ohio. Ohio is leaning blue and Montana is leaning red. Picking JD boosts Ohio and Trump is campaigning in Montana right now. Those choices were both made when Biden was still in so seemingly the idea was to secure the Senate and grab an extra seat or two so it’s not razor tight and vulnerable to RINOs.
Fuck that’s such an easy layup of a question too. You just respond, “because I’m buying”. No positions to attack, potentially makes you look human, and maybe costs you a beer.
trump knows that winning by votes is off the table. he doesn’t care. votes and vice presidents don’t matter when your plan is to take over by force
He’s going to find that a tall order when he’s not an elected official this time.
his muppets in congress, state legislatures, and trailer parks will be doing everything for him. like before, the only thing trump will do is shout “election fraud” every 5 seconds
It’s getting really hard to claim fraud the more Republicans that are coming out against him. If he loses the popular vote by 10-20 percent, that is a real big percent to claim was fraud. But then again if he loses the popular vote by 10-20 percent and he gets the courts to overturn the election there are going to be some riots to get us to abolish the electoral college bullshit.
But then again if he loses the popular vote by 10-20 percent and he gets the courts to overturn the election there are going to be some riots to get us to abolish the electoral college bullshit.
I would hope that the riots would be aiming to do more than that – namely, not letting them act with blatant tyranny to coronate a dictator in the first place.
I don’t think it will work. Governors certify the votes, and every swing state except Georgia has a Dem governor. And the governor of Georgia hates Trump.
Is it the governor or the legislature/board of canvassers?
Who gives a shit? He’s not an elected official. And even when he was president and attempted the coup, they weren’t successful because of how fucking stupid they are. We have the military on our side this time.
Much more likely they will all immediately try to distance themselves from him the second he loses.
Granted.
But where is their intelligence, counter-intelligence, surveillance, counter-surveillance, 5 eyes, the biggest military-industrial complex, organization, planning, infrastructure, communications, and the thousands of other advantages that the current President and -elect have at their fingertips?
Not downplaying the threat or likelihood, but if it happens, there’s 0% possibility of them succeeding at anything short of mass suicide.
Look, I hear what you’re saying. I’m disgusted by the way Trump faced almost no repercussions for January 6th with so much damning evidence against him.
Last time he literally tried to have his own VP killed by a mob working under his direction while he sat and watched Fox News and refused to respond to the Capitol being attacked.
Even if he tries that again, Biden will call out the National Guard immediately, and I imagine that they will be prepared for a repeat attack this coming January anyway.
Things will not go down the same way again.
Dan Quayle must be happy to pass that “worst VP ever” torch on to someone else.
i miss the days when the fuckup someone is remembered for was misspelling potato
I would argue they were just better at hiding the same type of shit these modern politicians are thinking and saying. Now it’s just acceptable. Then you had Howard Dean dooming himself for a cowboy scream.
Putting an e on the end of potato basically ended his political career and now Trump supporters shout “covfefe” because they think it’s somehow smart. I think about that a lot.
Or the fact that people largely see the photo that Dukakis took in a tank as the moment HW Bush won the 88 election - compared to Trump’s photo op in a Fire Truck…
Or when Howard Dean “ruined” his political career by whooping at a rally because it “wasn’t presidential.”
Our expectations are so low right now that putting together two cogent sentences could literally mean that you win the election.
Those were simpler times. Now it’s the Time of Simps.
Slow clap
Well done!
The 90s: “How could we ever put someone in charge who’s so stupid he can’t even spell potato?”
George W. Bush: “Watch this drive”
Donald J. Trump: “unintelligible gibberish”
Simpler times. He gave us these nuggets of wisdom:
- “You take the UNCF model that what a waste it is to lose one’s mind or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is”
- “The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. … No, not our nation’s, but in World War II. I mean, we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century, but in this century’s history”
- “I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future”
- “I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy, but that could change”
- “potatoe” (when trying to “correct” a 12-yr old’s spelling of “potato”)
At least Dan Quayle convinced Pence not to play ball with Trump’s schemes.
Everyone loves a redemption arc. But how sad is it that the ‘potatoe’ guy was the voice of reason who helped save American democracy in it’s darkest hour (so far!). We really are living through Idiocracy!
Worst is subjective. I’d argue that Cheney’s support of blood for oil and Halliburton rebuild scheme was far worse than anything Quayle did.
Yeah, same thought. Cheney was the worst because he was smart, competent, and evil. That beats incompetent.
Agreed. Despite Vance’s inability to please a crowd, he’s more on the “Cheney dangerous” side of the spectrum than “Quayle dumb.”
Sofa don’t care. Sofa loves you unconditionally JD.
Won’t anyone comfort j.d. vance through this difficult time? Anyone? Any…thing?
