2024 US Presidential Election

[Thumpalumpacus]

Just in case anyone thought that it's only women's bodies Republicans want to control:

A new Harris-Walz campaign ad voiced by actor Julia Roberts encourages women to vote for Vice President Harris in the presidential election, even if their husbands are backing former President Trump.

[...]

“In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose, you can vote any way you want. And no one will ever know,” Roberts says in the ad as a woman on screen meets up with her husband after casting her ballot for Harris.

The voter winks at a fellow female voter as her husband asks if she made the “right choice.”

Republicans have responded to the video with outrage, with some claiming that a wife lying about her vote is as bad as an affair.

“If I found out Emma was going to the voting booth and pulling the lever for Harris, that’s the same thing as having an affair,” Fox News host Jesse Watters said on air Wednesday in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.

Other GOP members including Charlie Kirk said the thought was “nauseating.”

In criticizing the ad, he discussed a husband working hard to afford his wife’s lifestyle, and then said a wife who lied to her husband about whom she backed would amount to undermining her husband.

“I think it’s so gross. I think it’s so nauseating where this wife is wearing the American hat, she’s coming in with her sweet husband who probably works his tail off to make sure that she can go you know and have a nice life and provide to the family, and then she lies to him saying, ‘Oh, yeah, I’m gonna vote for Trump,’ and then she votes for Kamala Harris as her little secret in the voting booth,” Kirk fumed to radio host Megyn Kelly.

“Kamala Harris and her team believe that there will be millions of women that undermine their husbands and do so in a way that it’s not detectable in the polling,” he added.

In response to his statements, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) called Kirk a “twit.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/49...a-roberts/

Jesus Christ, their insecurity is palpable.

[The Grand Nudger]

Mike Kelly felt the same way about Liz Cheney. Weird fuckers, to a man.

[arewethereyet]

My mother used to say she voted just to cancel out dad's vote.

[Fireball]

^ Same thing in our family when I was growing up! 

[arewethereyet]

Here's some dandy news:

Donald Trump told a crowd in Henderson, NV Thursday that he would put his surrogate, noted anti-vaxx conspiracy theorist and former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of women's health in his second administration.

"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. we have. And he's going to work on health, and women's health and all of the different, because we're not really a wealthy or a healthy country…That's why I told Bobby, Bobby, I want you to take care of health."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/t...b5f9&ei=62

[Fake Messiah]

Oh, brother. It seems that if Trump wins, Hulk Hogan will join RFK Jr as the head of the Food Administration.

JESSE WATTERS (HOST): If Trump wins, are you going to play any role? I know RFK Jr. is talking about making America healthy again. Is Hulk going to make America tough again? Strong again? What -- are you going to have any role?

HULK HOGAN (GUEST): Well you know, brother, in the wrestling business, when you're getting ready to draw some big money, you got to shoot an angle, put some hot spice on the feud. And when I had Trump in the back at the Garden, I said, "You know something? This Robert Kennedy Jr, he's onto something with nutrition." But if you tag team us up as the mega powers, you know -- the MAGA powers, there you go, MAGA powers, RFK Jr. and Hulk Hogan -- he can get them eating the right food and I can get all of our kids in shape, brother.

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/je...nistration

[Silver]

Trump self describes the Madison Garden rally in his honor as a lovefest.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Here's some dandy news:

Donald Trump told a crowd in Henderson, NV Thursday that he would put his surrogate, noted anti-vaxx conspiracy theorist and former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of women's health in his second administration.

"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. we have. And he's going to work on health, and women's health and all of the different, because we're not really a wealthy or a healthy country…That's why I told Bobby, Bobby, I want you to take care of health."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/t...b5f9&ei=62

There's an organization down here, "Democrats for Trump", who've posted "Make America Healthy Again" signs with "#RFKJr" at the bottom. I didn't know we had so many crack-muppets around here.

[arewethereyet]

I don't think I can watch the election results as they play out on Tuesday. I may check in now and then and watch the forum for updates...but I would need either a few stiff drinks or a strong tranquilizer to sit through the whole thing. I don't think I have ever been so nervous about a presidential election in my life...and I have been around for quite a few of them.

[Silver]

I don't think I can watch the election results as they play out on Tuesday. I may check in now and then and watch the forum for updates...but I would need either a few stiff drinks or a strong tranquilizer to sit through the whole thing. I don't think I have ever been so nervous about a presidential election in my life...and I have been around for quite a few of them.

Good thing I'll be working, but it's still a high likelihood many residents will have the coverage on their tellys.