The 2024 U.S. Presidential race

[GoblinCampFollower]

Oh, I wasn’t making jabs at the Guardian, just adding to the convo.

Same, didn't mean to sound like a jab at you, just adding to the conversation.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Another "Sir," story. Unfortunately it's unclear if the other chap was a big strong guy with tears in his eyes, but I 'm sure that, if asked, Trump would confirm this was the case.

Trump Praises Men for Letting Wives Travel Solo to MAGA Rallies

The former president cheered his "wealthy as hell" and "perfectly coiffed" NC female roadies who follow him everywhere.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[Sheera Khan]

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I‘m surprised the Guardian didn’t link to another of their articles from a few years ago.

Women are happier without children or a spouse, says happiness expert

Especially if they are owned by cats ^^

 

[Soen Eber]

I'm skimming through the pdf... idiot said there wasn't any Skype in 2005 2006, yet Skype was released in August of 2003.

Nope. Not reading anymore of his lies.

Well, to be honest back in that time period Microsoft was the place where technology went to die, they had a lot of problems getting their act together. Office and Windows were carrying them. That Skype survived and grew is almost a miracle, because it really didn't gather a lot of attention early on.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[WolfEyes]

Well, to be honest back in that time period Microsoft was the place where technology went to die, they had a lot of problems getting their act together. Office and Windows were carrying them. That Skype survived and grew is almost a miracle, because it really didn't gather a lot of attention early on.

Thing is Skype wasn't the only international communication platform in existence back then. There were plenty of options, including Yahoo Instant Messenger, MSIM, AOHell, IRC, Trillian, ICQ, not to mention the platforms gamers were using back then I can recall the names of at the moment.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

RFK Junior's exploits with dead bears are only part of the story.

This is from an interview with his daughter, Kick Kennedy, in Town&Country Magazine, December 2012.

Kick's taste for the extreme was fed by her dad's eccentric environmentalism. Exhibit A: When she was six, word got out that a dead whale had washed up on Squaw Island in Hyannis Port. Bobby — who likes to study animal skulls and skeletons — ran down to the beach with a chainsaw, cut off the whale's head, and then bungee-corded it to the roof of the family minivan for the five-hour haul back to Mount Kisco, New York. "Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet," Kick recalls. "We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us."

Not weird at all.

 

[Aeon Jiminy]

this article concludes " Whether women and children in Kharkiv or Rafah live or die may depend on what Mike the mechanic in Michigan and Penny the teacher in Pennsylvania think about their grocery bills. "

There is no need to fan the flames of anxiety. Whether you choose Harris or Trump, you can rest assured that the MIC will be just fine. Both have kissed the ring. Women and children and sperm donors will continue to be showered with bombs, and Mike the mechanic in Michigan and Penny the teacher will continue to be devastated by their grocery bills and cost of living.

It's not like we are being presented with anything new. Both Harris and Trump have had 4 years to show us just how much of an agent of change they are. Come on Charlie Brown, kick that football one more time. Believing there is any meaningful choice to be made between these two is sheer insanity. War and struggle. It's all that is served by both parties. War, terrorism, financial collapse, housing crisis, Pandemic, lockdown, financial collapse, crippling inflation. genocide.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

this article concludes " Whether women and children in Kharkiv or Rafah live or die may depend on what Mike the mechanic in Michigan and Penny the teacher in Pennsylvania think about their grocery bills. "

There is no need to fan the flames of anxiety. Whether you choose Harris or Trump, you can rest assured that the MIC will be just fine. Both have kissed the ring. Women and children and sperm donors will continue to be showered with bombs, and Mike the mechanic in Michigan and Penny the teacher will continue to be devastated by their grocery bills and cost of living.

It's not like we are being presented with anything new. Both Harris and Trump have had 4 years to show us just how much of an agent of change they are. Come on Charlie Brown, kick that football one more time. Believing there is any meaningful choice to be made between these two is sheer insanity. War and struggle. It's all that is served by both parties. War, terrorism, financial collapse, housing crisis, Pandemic, lockdown, financial collapse, crippling inflation. genocide.

There is a very clear difference between the two candidates' attitude to Russia, Ukraine and NATO. Trump is in Putin's pocket. Harris isn't.

If Trump wins, that means Putin gets what he wants in Ukraine, and then the Baltic states, former Russian republics, will be next on his list, bringing Russia into direct confrontation with NATO.

Your may regard the Russian invasion of Ukraine as “A quarrel in a faraway country, between people of whom we know nothing”, but Europeans can't afford that luxury.

Similarly, the two candidates have diametrically opposed policies on abortion and women's access to reproductive medical services. You may regard such matters as an irrelevance but many other people do not.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

...will continue to be devastated by their grocery bills and cost of living.

I can get why you aren't satisfied that Harris will do enough to stop the war in Gaza (although Trump actively encourages Netanyahu to be harsher). But it's just raw willful ignorance to think their economic policies are equivalent. Republicans think we just need to let the free market operate. Democrats do what they can to pass real measures. And the inflation was mostly due to overly expanding the money supply during COVID combined with a bit of price gouging. It's too late to do much on the former, that's run it's course, but only democrats want to do anything about the price gouging.

This response is of course more for any onlookers since I know you just wanted to jerk off to how self righteous you are.

 

[Casey Pelous]

... it's just raw willful ignorance ...

That's Aeon's special gift.

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Free]

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

It's so cute how republicans think it's a gotcha that Harris is mixed race. ...it's just one small step away from directly attacking her for not being white. Most people in the USA who aren't white are mixed. They have no idea how to attack her.

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I was going to post this as a response to Free's post over in Political ZOMGWTF, but I think it fits better here

Thumbs Up: The Story of No-Context Trump

Is he a ghoul or a sociopath?

substack.com

 

[Cristiano]

This made me laugh out loud:

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

this article concludes " Whether women and children in Kharkiv or Rafah live or die may depend on what Mike the mechanic in Michigan and Penny the teacher in Pennsylvania think about their grocery bills. "

There is no need to fan the flames of anxiety. Whether you choose Harris or Trump, you can rest assured that the MIC will be just fine. Both have kissed the ring. Women and children and sperm donors will continue to be showered with bombs, and Mike the mechanic in Michigan and Penny the teacher will continue to be devastated by their grocery bills and cost of living.

It's not like we are being presented with anything new. Both Harris and Trump have had 4 years to show us just how much of an agent of change they are. Come on Charlie Brown, kick that football one more time. Believing there is any meaningful choice to be made between these two is sheer insanity. War and struggle. It's all that is served by both parties. War, terrorism, financial collapse, housing crisis, Pandemic, lockdown, financial collapse, crippling inflation. genocide.

And your perfect solution is?

Oh, I know the answer already: "I'm going to withhold my vote thereby giving Trump an edge toward giving this country everything I'm wanking off about!"

 

[Free]

AI just can't seem to capture Kamala Harris all that well. This looks more like a Marxist Eva Longoria.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

AI just can't seem to capture Kamala Harris all that well. This looks more like a Marxist Eva Longoria.

Evil RADICAL marxist!