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RE: 2024 US Presidential Election
August 9, 2024 at 4:23 pm
If the attacks on Walz’s military record seem at all familiar, it’s because it’s being orchestrated by the same scumbag - Chris LaCivita - who ran the ‘swift boat’ smears against John Kerry.
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RE: 2024 US Presidential Election
August 9, 2024 at 6:43 pm
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LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens), the oldest and largest Latino civil rights organization in the US, has endorsed the Harris-Walz ticket.
In its 97 year history, this group has never before endorsed a presidential candidate. This is kind of a big deal.
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RE: 2024 US Presidential Election
August 9, 2024 at 7:10 pm
Trump has said he didn't know Kamala is half black...like it's been some secret kept from him.
Now they are going after Walz's military service...like Corporal Bone Spurs has a dog in that fight.
Can you say "desperation"?
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RE: 2024 US Presidential Election
August 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm
^Yeah, about that -
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RE: 2024 US Presidential Election
August 9, 2024 at 9:02 pm
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I just hope his opponents don't adopt his habit of pinning derogatory nicknames to him or other opponents. It's juvenile, coarsens our discourse even more, and ought to be beneath them.
That's not to say I'm opposed to an opportunistic intracranial neuroblastoma.
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RE: 2024 US Presidential Election
August 9, 2024 at 9:03 pm
(August 9, 2024 at 7:10 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Trump has said he didn't know Kamala is half black...like it's been some secret kept from him.
One's racial background is of upmost importance for doltish repubs.
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RE: 2024 US Presidential Election
August 9, 2024 at 9:15 pm
(August 9, 2024 at 9:03 pm)Silver Wrote: (August 9, 2024 at 7:10 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Trump has said he didn't know Kamala is half black...like it's been some secret kept from him.
One's racial background is of upmost importance for doltish repubs.
It's unfortunately important to a lot of people the world over, including non-Republican Americans, believe it or else.
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RE: 2024 US Presidential Election
August 9, 2024 at 11:56 pm
(August 9, 2024 at 6:43 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens), the oldest and largest Latino civil rights organization in the US, has endorsed the Harris-Walz ticket.
In its 97 year history, this group has never before endorsed a presidential candidate. This is kind of a big deal.
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Boy, is it ever a big deal - in theory at least. I suffered a lot of headaches banging my head against the wall in 2020 trying to incite my Hispanic associates here in Phoenix to vote. They just couldn't be motivated. Texas could be turned blue if they would get off their collective asses and vote.
I'm not familiar with this group so I have no idea how much influence they have in the Hispanic community but if they even motivate 5% of them, that would probably be plenty to swing Arizona blue. Even Texas would be on the table and that would change national politics here forever. Without Texas, The Republicans would have to massively reinvent themselves to survive.
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RE: 2024 US Presidential Election
August 10, 2024 at 12:46 am
(August 9, 2024 at 11:56 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: (August 9, 2024 at 6:43 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens), the oldest and largest Latino civil rights organization in the US, has endorsed the Harris-Walz ticket.
In its 97 year history, this group has never before endorsed a presidential candidate. This is kind of a big deal.
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Boy, is it ever a big deal - in theory at least. I suffered a lot of headaches banging my head against the wall in 2020 trying to incite my Hispanic associates here in Phoenix to vote. They just couldn't be motivated. Texas could be turned blue if they would get off their collective asses and vote.
I'm not familiar with this group so I have no idea how much influence they have in the Hispanic community but if they even motivate 5% of them, that would probably be plenty to swing Arizona blue. Even Texas would be on the table and that would change national politics here forever. Without Texas, The Republicans would have to massively reinvent themselves to survive.
From my personal observation, LULAC is much more weighty in California than Texas. As such, while their endorsement is great, it won't change much in the two largest Electoral College states, impo. I could well be wrong.
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RE: 2024 US Presidential Election
August 10, 2024 at 4:25 am
(August 10, 2024 at 12:46 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (August 9, 2024 at 11:56 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: Boy, is it ever a big deal - in theory at least. I suffered a lot of headaches banging my head against the wall in 2020 trying to incite my Hispanic associates here in Phoenix to vote. They just couldn't be motivated. Texas could be turned blue if they would get off their collective asses and vote.
I'm not familiar with this group so I have no idea how much influence they have in the Hispanic community but if they even motivate 5% of them, that would probably be plenty to swing Arizona blue. Even Texas would be on the table and that would change national politics here forever. Without Texas, The Republicans would have to massively reinvent themselves to survive.
From my personal observation, LULAC is much more weighty in California than Texas. As such, while their endorsement is great, it won't change much in the two largest Electoral College states, impo. I could well be wrong.
Based on some cursory web searches (I'd never heard of LULAC until I posted about it), I suspect you're correct. That said, the endorsement is likely to help eat into Trump's standing with Hispanics nationally, which is going to rattle him even more.
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