2024 U.S. Presidential and State election thread - I'm gonna... I'm gonna... VOOT!!! I'm VOOOOOTING!!!

[Diana Moon Glampers]

Not my type of lady but time has been very kind to her

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I've been seriously considering swapping my PFP from ACB to Roseanne Barr for about a year now.

Like Trump, one of the things I like about Roseanne is that she is unabashedly real. She may be retarded sometimes but she's also obviously not focus group testing her public opinions. In an age when every celebrity's image is managed by professionals, that's incredibly refreshing.

Her appearance is in line with the rest of her. It may not be what any particular person enjoys, but it's honest and without pretense or affectation. This is why, e.g., Trump's love of McDonald's doesn't look like a cynical ploy the way it would if a Mitt Romney took up a Big Mac habit.

Some people go through life acting as their actual, natural selves. That used to be almost everyone. Now, even normies are performative clones of their TikTok idols, speaking with exaggerated gestures and wide eyes. People who are just themselves and don't feel the need to doublethink their own opinions will become more and more standout as this trend continues.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Same thing with opiate addicts. They can stay clean for years, and “reset” their tolerance. That first hit after abstinence will get them nice and high.

But within a few weeks, they’ll be back to the same crazy high tolerance they had when they quit. The receptors have been permanently changed.

Have you ever heard about the Sinclair method btw?

It’s a treatment for alcoholism where you keep drinking but take naltrexone at the same time.

That way it decouples the pleasure addicts feel from drinking from alcohol.

I’ve heard people swear by it.

I never took Naltrexone, but it absolutely works for tons of alcoholics and it's dirt cheap. It is offered by many doctors and it not only prevents you from getting the high feeling of alcohol, but it also reduces cravings. It was originally developed for opiate addicts, but a researcher noticed that test subjects also stopped drinking. It's classical conditioning.

Yeah, the Rekieta thread has been a hell of a thing to follow over the years.

Wasn't he always a douche, though? Most addicts have personal issues ("character defects") that they use substances to cover up instead of dealing with them. There are people who get addicted to drugs and alcohol because they feel good, and do fine when they stop because it really was just overuse. It's not common, but I have seen it.

 

[Sulla]

I realize this is a bit off-topic, but a mentor of mine (old school Dem, gay, harris-bro, took the Puerto Rico bait) just reached out and asked for podcast or journalistic recommendations to "help understand the outcome of the election and future of the country". I can't exactly tell him to join the Farms and even Rogan is probably too much for him.
What do you guys recommend for someone on the precipice of breaking the conditioning?

Jimmy Dore, used to be on the young Turks, essentially a liberal without the sjw poison

 

[Not Really Here]

I realize this is a bit off-topic, but a mentor of mine (old school Dem, gay, harris-bro, took the Puerto Rico bait) just reached out and asked for podcast or journalistic recommendations to "help understand the outcome of the election and future of the country". I can't exactly tell him to join the Farms and even Rogan is probably too much for him.
What do you guys recommend for someone on the precipice of breaking the conditioning?

Jimmy Dore.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

That's actually 12% of people.

but yet they got over 50% of the votes!

 

[Fapcop]

Not my type of lady but time has been very kind to her

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Holy shit man! She looks like a goddamn alien.

Poor old lady is so brain broken that she probably still think of herself as “sesssy!”

 

[God of Nothing]

Forgive me if this is late.

top anime moment 2024

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

I've been seriously considering swapping my PFP from ACB to Roseanne Barr for about a year now.

Like Trump, one of the things I like about Roseanne is that she is unabashedly real. She may be retarded sometimes but she's also obviously not focus group testing her public opinions. In an age when every celebrity's image is managed by professionals, that's incredibly refreshing.

Her appearance is in line with the rest of her. It may not be what any particular person enjoys, but it's honest and without pretense or affectation. This is why, e.g., Trump's love of McDonald's doesn't look like a cynical ploy the way it would if a Mitt Romney took up a Big Mac habit.

Some people go through life acting as their actual, natural selves. That used to be almost everyone. Now, even normies are performative clones of their TikTok idols, speaking with exaggerated gestures and wide eyes. People who are just themselves and don't feel the need to doublethink their own opinions will become more and more standout as this trend continues.

We could certainly use more fearless people in politics. When Rogan asked Vance if he's afraid of being assassinated, he flat out said "I'm a person of faith, so whatever happens happens." How can you beat that?

 

[Vaclav]

This is the real answer. Someone must have pointed out to Elon, Vivek, and Trump that the UK Government was taken down not too long ago by their version of the fed intentionally crashing the economy in response to the government disobeying their unelected banker masters.

E: They will absolutely 100% do the same thing to them in the US in 2025. They're SALAVATING at the idea of doing so, because they can pin every economic sin since 2008 on him and walk away claiming to be financial experts that absolutely must be obeyed during the reconstruction in 2030. You will own nothing and be happy.

If they blow up the economy will people really blame it on Trump? His supporters know the system has been fighting him at every turn and a financial rugpull right after he gets in fits the pattern perfectly. Trump has also shown a remarkable talent at turning lemons into lemonade and an economic crisis would give him popular support to take whatever drastic measures he wants to fix it. If he managed to pull the country out of the tailspin he would have an even more solid mandate to do whatever he wanted and push through all kinds of reforms.

 

[Fapcop]

I never took Naltrexone, but it absolutely works for tons of alcoholics and it's dirt cheap. It is offered by many doctors and it not only prevents you from getting the high feeling of alcohol, but it also reduces cravings. It was originally developed for opiate addicts, but a researcher noticed that test subjects also stopped drinking. It's classical conditioning.

I could fix alcoholism from day one as president.

Disulframide is a drug that’ll make you violently ill if you drink alcohol.

Just pour it in the drinking supply everywhere. No more alcohol for anyone.

Total brewer death!

 

[BallsMcLongDong]

We could certainly use more fearless people in politics. When Rogan asked Vance if he's afraid of being assassinated, he flat out said "I'm a person of faith, so whatever happens happens." How can you beat that?

Coded Cowboy Bebop reference. Given his age and love of shitposting, I could 1000% percent see a young eyeliner wearing JD Vance watching [as} and going, "SHPIKE SHPEEGUL IS TEH COOLEST AND I WILL NAO MODEL MY ETHOS ON HIM."

 

[BigGuyOS 6 : Jovial Janny]

Forgive me if this is late.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-GsqtbxsDUUtop anime moment 2024

Is this a Naruto parody?

 

[God of Nothing]

Is this a Naruto parody?

yes
it's amazing how much it works for this situation though

 

[Burnt Effigy]

Oh my fucking god, trump's campaign subscribed to X, Youtube and nate fucking silver and passed them as campaign expenses

Here are all the companies Trump and Kamala got subscriptions to:

Spoiler: Trump

YOUTUBE TV
YOUTUBE
X CORP
WWW.NATESILVER.NET
TUCKER CARLSON NETWORK
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
THE NEW YORK TIMES
THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
THE AUGUSTA PRESS
THE ATLANTIC
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR
SCRIBD
RELX INC. DBA LEXISNEXIS
PUCK
PEACOCK
OTTER.AI
NEW YORK TIMES
NEW YORK POST
MICROSOFT
INSTACART
HULU
GRAMMARLY INC
GOOGLE
DROPBOX INC
DOW JONES & CO
CONCUR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
CANVA
BLOOMBERG LP
AUGUSTA PRESS
ARTLIST LLC
AMERICAN EXPRESS
ADOBE

Spoiler: Kamala

ZOOM VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
ZOOM
ZIPSTORM, INC.
ZERO BARRIERS
ZENDESK INC.
YOURMEMBERSHIP
WPVIP INC.
WP ENGINE
WORDPRESS VIP, INC.
WISPOLITICS
VRS COMPLETE, LLC
VAST
VANDERBILT TELEVISION NEWS ARCHIVE
VALIDITY INC
TVEYES, INC.
TVEYES
TRIPLESEAT
THE MORNING CONSULT
THE BRAND IDENTITY
TACTIC, INC.
STANDARDS SITE INC.
SORTLY
SMAT LTD.
RESULTANT, LLC
RESULTANT
READY OR NOT
RAMP BUSINESS CORPORATION
RALSTON
QUICKBASE, INC.
QUICKBASE
QUICK BASE
QUETEXT INC.
PUNCHBOWL NEWS
PRIORITIES USA ACTION
PERSONIFIED TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING LLC
PAGERDUTY, INC.
PAGERDUTY
OTTER.AI
OTTER
OPTIMIZELY NORTH AMERICAN, INC
OPTERY PRIVACY OPT OUT
OPTERY
OPALBRIDGE.AI
ONESIGNAL, INC.
OKTA, INC.
NGP VAN INC.
NATIVE INSTRUMENTS
NAMECHEAP
MZL MEDIA LLC
MPH CONCEPTS
MOSEY
MICROSOFT STORE
MICROSOFT
MAXON COMPUTER
MARCUM TECHNOLOGY LLC
MANDIANT INC.
MAILCHIMP
LUCIDCHART
LLAMA NETWORKS
LINKEDIN CORPORATION
LEVER, INC
LEGATO SECURITY PARTNERS INC.
LAS VEGAS TIMES
LAS VEGAS CHINESE DAILY NEWS
KAHOOT
IDEALIST.ORG
ICONIK MEDIA
HULU
HP
HOXHUNT INC
GOOGLE, INC.
GOOGLE SERVICES
GOOGLE PLAY
GOOGLE LLC
GOOGLE G SUITE
GOOGLE CLOUD
GODADDY
FRONTAPP, INC.
FRAME.IO INC
FRAME.IO
FILE & SERVEXPRESS, LLC
FIGMA, INC.
EXPENSIFY, INC.
EXPENSIFY
DROPBOX/BUSINESS
DROPBOX INC.
DROPBOX
DOCUSIGN INC.
DOCUSIGN
DIGITAL RIVER
DIGIDEMS PAC
CREATIVELY
CONSTANT CONTACT
COMMERCIAL TYPE
CLOUDFLARE
CISCO SYSTEMS
CHORUS AI
CHECKR
CDW
CASTLE POINT TECHNOLOGIES
CAREER CENTER
CAMERA BITS
CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC PARTY
BSP RESEARCH
BRANDLIVE INC
BLUE STATE DIGITAL, INC.
BLUE BIRD CONSULTING LLC
BITLY INC.
BITLY
BASE FOR BUSINESS INC
ATLASSIAN
AT- RISK INTERNATIONAL LLC
ASSOCIATED PRESS
AMAZON WEB SERVICES
ADOBE

What the fuck was Kamala's campaign doing spending money in all that shit? Seriously, all they have is a shitty fucking website.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

I could fix alcoholism from day one as president.

Disulframide is a drug that’ll make you violently ill if you drink alcohol.

Just pour it in the drinking supply everywhere. No more alcohol for anyone.

Total brewer death!

Some people will drink even when they're puking blood. That becomes "normal" for them. It's unreal what addiction does to people. I wish it was an easy thing to treat like Strep, but it isn't.

Coded Cowboy Bebop reference. Given his age and love of shitposting, I could 1000% percent see a young eyeliner wearing JD Vance watching [as} and going, "SHPIKE SHPEEGUL IS TEH COOLEST AND I WILL NAO MODEL MY ETHOS ON HIM."

It's a religious thing, for sure. My grandma was intensely faithful and she wasn't afraid of a fucking thing.

Also, @Tsukasa Kadoya, I'm calling our bet. Fatpacks is still shitposting and I believe I've won. Show me your best Android Kikaider profile picture.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

Tim Dillon.

it really is too bad the media hates the right so much, in some alternate universe i could easily see Tim Dillion in a sitcom where his sister and her kids moves in and he's basically the gay archie bunker/bernie mac.

He's barely republican honestly. he's a true moderate, everyman type. his only real political position is "things are nuts out here" which is barely a position at all.

Roseanne is that she is unabashedly real.

every time i bring up her show, everyone from all walks of life as long as they're lower income and white said that was the most authentic show on tv. people forget when the show started hollywood hated her for being too Left she was a proud non-college educated feminist and didn't care about male institutions. her show was leading the way on stuff like gays and lesbian issues, abortion, etc.

Even the revival was amazing, yeah they made jokes about muslims but it was obvious that she still treated them like people, but just more like mormons or other weird religious people instead of an unprotected class. Niggers ruined that show. it still addressed the issues, but anyone that remembers the behind the scenes of roseanne understood she really controlled the writers room in a way you'd only see from Sorkin or Sheridan years later. Which is also why the writers room was a lot different than most writers rooms in hollywood, its not like on even a feminist show like Murphy Brown you'd have a butcher, a fork life operator, a dancer from CATS, a groupie, a waitress from flyover country, and a party clown all working on a tv show. But its also why people like norm macdonald, tom arnold, chuck lorre, amy sherman paladino, joss whedon, deann heline, penelope spheeris even got a shot at working as writers in hollywood in the first place.

 

[draggs]

The ACA was supposed to lower medical costs, increase the number of insured to near 100% (mostly through Medicaid eligibility expansion), and improve the overall health of Americans through the increased access to paid-for-by-someone-else medical care

It failed on all three

It increased the number of insured about 10%, from ~80% to ~90%

It led to medical costs increasing at an even greater rate than it was increasing before, because healthcare institutions used the increased government money to add a shit ton of new administrative positions at six figure salary+benefits

Americans are less healthy overall than they were before it

It's a fiscal and medical failure

Of course there are people who it benefited, there is never a government program that benefits absolutely no one

Did it do more bad than good? Uh, yeah. It's not even close

 

[Thomas Talus]

If you're going with Thomas Sowell, "The Vision of the Annointed" might have a fair amount of impact in its ability to explain how and why the Harris campaign, and the Ds more generally, just lost so bad.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

The ACA was supposed to lower medical costs, increase the number of insured to near 100% (mostly through Medicaid eligibility expansion), and improve the overall health of Americans through the increased access to paid-for-by-someone-else medical care

It failed on all three

It increased the number of insured about 10%, from ~80% to ~90%

It led to medical costs increasing at an even greater rate than it was increasing before, because healthcare institutions used the increased government money to add a shit ton of new administrative positions at six figure salary+benefits

Americans are less healthy overall than they were before it

It's a fiscal and medical failure

Of course there are people who it benefited, there is never a government program that benefits absolutely no one

Did it do more bad than good? Uh, yeah. It's not even close

I'm not a fan of the ACA at all, but I'm playing devil's advocate as I am wont to do. It did help me and a lot of others in a specific way.

 

[AnotherPleb]

High quality healthy food is expensive, which schools don't want to pay.

Well yeah, the administration wants that money for their annual raises.