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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.

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That’s fricken hysterical.
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    Just had an interesting conversation with wife. Her: Hey Wednesday I need you to pick our son up Me: ok but be home by 4 because I am going to Chili’s for some internet friends. Her: You are mee

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24 minutes ago, mchookem said:

Pete will be 50 😁

and still gay.   I love the dude just short of blowing him, but this country won't elect a gay man. 

6 minutes ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

So, I know the end of America is important and all, but this thread has brought up Chili's talk and I must be the only one who does the following.  At Chili's and nowhere else do I order the ranch to dip my chips in along with the salsa and it's fucking delicious.   Also, earlier in this thread there was talk about Project 2025 taking away Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc....  Yeah, I guess those are important since they give people money to live on and health care but the thing that really hurts most people that Project 2025 looks to take away is porn.  

chili's chips, when warm and fresh, are as good as tortilla chips get.   

#floridahombre

Yeah, that doesn’t sort out the cubanos.  

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4 minutes ago, G650 said:

Aren't there like half a million of them in Florida?

1.2 millones Papi.

Just now, RDCanecutter said:

1.2 millones Papi.

Aye caramba

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IF all those Puerto Ricans in FL voted and turned the state of FL blue on election night (yeah, I know it's not gonna happen) I may have to crack open the Pappy 23 I have been hoarding.  

1 minute ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

IF all those Puerto Ricans in FL voted and turned the state of FL blue on election night (yeah, I know it's not gonna happen) I may have to crack open the Pappy 23 I have been hoarding.  

Kamala winning is reason enough to open it. 

 

16 minutes ago, Zonahorn said:

 

Simple Trump thinks the guy is saying "who cares" about Biden.  no dumbass, he's making fun of you for still talking about Joe Biden WHO ISN'T YOUR OPPONENT.

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7 minutes ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

IF all those Puerto Ricans in FL voted and turned the state of FL blue on election night (yeah, I know it's not gonna happen) I may have to crack open the Pappy 23 I have been hoarding.  

Fuck that, I’ll be booking a summer vacay in PR and throw my money around like paper towels after a hurricane to thank them. 

2 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

 

This just makes me fucking sad. Fuck Donald Trump. 

2 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

TBH she was probably always voting for Kamala just took some money from Trump pac to promote.

Lulz at thinking they pay people for shit. 

24 minutes ago, Js1 said:

And this. 

Literally, just fucking elect her and then go back to picking Republicans in 2025/2026 and beyond.  For the love of God, you will get another chance in 2028 if she wins.  

What if the republican is jv?

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1 minute ago, Js1 said:

Fuck that, I’ll be booking a summer vacay in PR and throw my money around like paper towels after a hurricane to thank them. 

I'm heading to PR next March. If they help seal the election for Kamala I will kiss every Puerto Rican I find until I'm arrested

20 minutes ago, G650 said:

Aren't there like half a million of them in Florida?

 

14 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

1.2 millones Papi.

So you're saying that could have an impact when Trump won Florida in 2020 by *checks notes * 371,000 votes? 

21 minutes ago, Zonahorn said:

 

That’s the first time I’ve ever seen a genuine chuckle out of the guy

4 minutes ago, honolulu horn said:

I'm heading to PR next March. If they help seal the election for Kamala I will kiss every Puerto Rican I find until I'm arrested

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1 hour ago, immamac said:

my 5 year old is aware of who Trump and Harris are, but everything he hears about is how Trump is a bad man and he asks about it and we just explain to him in plain English not in some weird partisan way that the way Trump behaves and the things he does are not good for anyone to do. It's not about being political, it's about teaching your kids that being a scoundrel piece of shit isn't ok. I don't have all the positive things and whatever to say about Kamala, but it's easy not to have to explain why she is in court or why she is saying Mexicans are bad. It's crazy to think that my son who strongly identifies as Mexican can pick up on the background noise of ABC World News with Dave Miur and be like why doesn't he like Mexicans?

That's what is wrong with Trump. 

Family values and protecting our children, supposedly conservative values:

My 7-year-old loves learning about presidents. He can tell you info about most presidents — their party, when they were elected, who they beat, something interesting about their presidency, etc. He wanted to watch the debate and I had to tell him that it wasn’t appropriate for children since that guy would likely say terrible things — which he did. Anything involving the former president should be rated NC-17.

33 minutes ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

So, I know the end of America is important and all, but this thread has brought up Chili's talk and I must be the only one who does the following.  At Chili's and nowhere else do I order the ranch to dip my chips in along with the salsa and it's fucking delicious.   Also, earlier in this thread there was talk about Project 2025 taking away Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc....  Yeah, I guess those are important since they give people money to live on and health care but the thing that really hurts most people that Project 2025 looks to take away is porn.  

 

wing stop and pappaduexes have Michelin star ranch, better than chilis 

So, all this talk of Chili's and I got to thinking - here on the Surl I'm in Virtual Texas, but in my very blue corner of this country that is my home, there are no Chili's. None. None in WA or in OR. Zero. (No Bennigans either.) So - you can talk all the rah-rah Kamala progressive liberal stuff you want, but keep that in mind before you make Bah Gawd Texas into a progressive hellstate bereft of Chili's. You have been warned....

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2 minutes ago, Mole said:

Family values and protecting our children, supposedly conservative values:

These are common values of humanity. This phrasing has always pissed me off (not directed at you, Mole, just 40 years of propaganda).

4 minutes ago, flatdawgs said:

So, all this talk of Chili's and I got to thinking - here on the Surl I'm in Virtual Texas, but in my very blue corner of this country that is my home, there are no Chili's. None. None in WA or in OR. Zero. (No Bennigans either.) So - you can talk all the rah-rah Kamala progressive liberal stuff you want, but keep that in mind before you make Bah Gawd Texas into a progressive hellstate bereft of Chili's. You have been warned....

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Interesting article from the Daily Beast about mounting pressure on shrub Bush to endorse Harris. 

During a live interview that aired Friday on The New Yorker Radio Hour podcast, Liz Cheney said, “I can’t explain why George W. Bush hasn’t spoken out, but I think it’s time, and I wish that he would.””

Shrub’s daughter is all in with Harris. Of course she is.

 

 

 

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4 hours ago, Blotto said:

Is it your theory that they just joined the trump cult this morning?

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What is that, another  5 or 6 votes for the good guys? 

No. But after the anti-vax stuff, was hoping she had come around.  The rest, I am happy to wash my hands of. 

I think there has been complete supression of the suffering of women in Texas. Evidence is that in the last week, two stories have started to be talked about, one from 2021 and one from 2023. Why are we just hearing about this now? Fucking ridiculous.

This is about to be a bloodbath. Nate Cohn is basically saying pollsters are smol beans who didn't want Republicans to yell at them and were scared we'd realize that everything they do is worthless:

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Perhaps the very best reason to think the polls might underestimate Kamala Harris this cycle is simply that many pollsters are so concerned — understandably — about underestimating Mr. Trump.

It’s hard to overstate how traumatic the 2016 and 2020 elections were for many pollsters. For some, another underestimate of Mr. Trump could be a major threat to their business and their livelihood. For the rest, their status and reputations are on the line. If they underestimate Mr. Trump a third straight time, how can their polls be trusted again? It is much safer, whether in terms of literal self-interest or purely psychologically, to find a close race than to gamble on a clear Harris victory.

At the same time, the 2016 and 2020 polling misfires shattered many pollsters’ confidence in their own methods and data. When their results come in very blue, they don’t believe it. And frankly, I share that same feeling: If our final Pennsylvania poll comes in at Harris +7, why would I believe it? As a result, pollsters are more willing to take steps to produce more Republican-leaning results.

Over the last month, I’ve written about one such example: weighting on past vote. Many of the blue-ribbon pollsters using this method know it doesn’t go by the book. They didn’t do it in the past, and they’re probably aware that it would have induced polling error over the last half century of survey research. (Among the problems is that a surprising number of respondents are likelier to remember voting for the winner.)
But after the last few cycles, they don’t trust their data to represent some of Mr. Trump’s supporters. Their data may still look implausibly “blue,” and using this method moves their result toward Mr. Trump. They wouldn’t do it otherwise.

Even the pollsters who haven’t taken such heavy-handed measures may still, subtly, be tugged by a decade’s worth of focus on finding the full measure of Trump support. Whenever there’s a choice between two equally defensible paths, they have almost certainly erred toward the right.

 

45 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

Admit it.  You tell everyone you're a Spaniard.

Funny thing is, when I was a wee one, my mom enjoyed scandalizing the white Houston oilfield trash with whom we mostly associated.  People would hear my name, and so as to avoid even the hint of suggesting that I was low-born, they'd ask "oh...is he Spanish?"  My mother would grin, and cigarette in hand, would answer "naah...he's a little mexican."

My mom was a tacky bitch, and lord did she have fun with it.

41 minutes ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

So, I know the end of America is important and all, but this thread has brought up Chili's talk and I must be the only one who does the following.  At Chili's and nowhere else do I order the ranch to dip my chips in along with the salsa and it's fucking delicious.   

Ummmmm......

39 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

not a bad play at Chuys either

THIS.  The Chuy's jalapeno ranch may well be the main reason to ever go to a Chuy's again.

16 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

What if the republican is jv?

If that's the case, then nationally....

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...because we fucking SMOKE that clown.  He won't get nearly enough of the MAGAs inspired enough to vote, women loathe him....God, please let him be the future of the party [spoiler - he's not].

12 minutes ago, flatdawgs said:

So, all this talk of Chili's and I got to thinking - here on the Surl I'm in Virtual Texas, but in my very blue corner of this country that is my home, there are no Chili's. None. None in WA or in OR. Zero. (No Bennigans either.) So - you can talk all the rah-rah Kamala progressive liberal stuff you want, but keep that in mind before you make Bah Gawd Texas into a progressive hellstate bereft of Chili's. You have been warned....

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

That's also exactly how the voters should look at it.

If we elect Trump, the damage done will be incalculable, and cannot be recovered from in a generation, if at all.

If we elect Harris and she turns out to be a shitty president, we can replace her in 4 years with somebody better, and the damage will be manageable.

Been saying this for months. The worst-case scenario for Kamala is she's not any good and she's replaced in 2028/29. Worst-case scenario for Trump? American Democracy is dead.

1 hour ago, InkaUtexas said:

You live near my dad? He asked me what I wanted to borrow when I go up this weekend. I told him I am good thanks. Can only carry so much ammo and you can only shoot 1 at a time.

Not with that attitude you can't...

 

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Just now, Evil Bill Obrien said:

Not with that attitude you can't...

 

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Good point. And with the girth of the average maga you will hit for sure.

3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

I mentioned this before, but it's actually a real-deal, and how we should look at our fellow human beings as an asset, not a liability.

The boy has lived overseas in the UK and Germany the past several years.  When he was home for Xmas this last year, as we were running errands on N. Lamar, he sighed and commented "man...I really miss mexicans.  It's just something I grew up so used to, and you really notice their absence over there."  He went on to talk about how it wasn't just the food, it was the vibe.  Generally happy folks, often going to or from working hard.  Just, literally, the kinds of attitudes and behaviors you WANT to see in your neighbors.

A generation ago, we would describe someone wearing work boots and a hard hat from sunup to sundown during the week, then having a backyard bbq with lots of family and friends, as the ideal American.  Now.....we hate him, because he's brown and speaks spanish.  WTF?  Hispanics are great Americans.  They are, quite often, the best of us.

Dude.  Like you can go TWICE at your age.

I du*no.

The friendliness cannot be over stated. I clutched my pearls in this neighborhood 10 years ago. Now I don't want to be anywhere else.

Can't count how many times I've been walking Luna and got invited to a yard/street party. A Gordo sweating over giant skillet of frying God knows what. Didn't matter. It was fucking delicious.

Is there gunfire? Yes, but mostly into the air.

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1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Who signed the bill that made the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts permanent? Who declined to sever the connection between healthcare and employment insurance? Hey, who was married to the guy who signed the repeal of Glass Steagal? Oh, right. The 2016 Democratic Nominee. Who authored and co-sponsored the 2005 bankruptcy bill that stripped protections from millions and unleashed a wash of private student loans?

Are you saying the same people who are concerned about private student loans -- which Biden has tried and tried to take off the books only to face opposition at every turn from the GQP -- are the same people who were against Universal Healthcare but also in favor of a much stricter regulatory approach to banking? But also they're NOT 50 to 80 year olds but they're pissed about a financial services law passed 25 years ago. Oh you mentioned the law that stabilized the banking system from collapse, signed into law by SHRUB. And they hate Elizabeth Warren and any consumer protection too. What a bizarre conglomeration of laws those people are theoretically pissed about. Those people definitely seem incredibly confused at the very least. Please tell me what segment of the population is this delusional. Subscribers to a Matthew Yglesias substack? I don't think that's considered a demographic, sir. 

1 hour ago, The Dog said:

Because of this:

Speaking of Georgia: My sister is Chairperson of Forsyth County Georgia Republicans for Harris Organization. In order to join, you must have voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020. She currently has 1,345 members. Since the Liz Cheney comment last night, over 700 more women joined. They're all voting on Tuesday

 

Pics of sister? Give her my love.
 

The best part about this is 2000 votes for Harris takes away and equal 2000 votes for Trump. 

1 minute ago, MissingInAction said:

The friendliness cannot be over stated. I clutched my pearls in this neighborhood 10 years ago. Now I don't want to be anywhere else.

Can't count how many times I've been walking Luna and got invited to a yard/street party. A Gordo sweating over giant skillet of frying God knows what. Didn't matter. It was fucking delicious.

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Just flipped Kamala a little more cheddar for the final stretch run!

Just one thing left to do:

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Decided to go to chilis tonight for dinner because of you assholes 

1 minute ago, SubliminalHorn said:

Decided to go to chilis tonight for dinner because of you assholes 

I think it’s your own asshole you should be worried about. Those greasy ass appetizers do a number on my colon.

2 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

Decided to go to chilis tonight for dinner because of you assholes 

That’s all on you, bro.

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3 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

Decided to go to chilis tonight for dinner because of you assholes 

No one has ever regretted advice they got from Surly.

So we're all going to our local Chili's on Wednesday in solidarity if the election goes our way, correct?

If I see any of you, I'll knowingly nod.

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2 minutes ago, 'stache said:

I think it’s your own asshole you should be worried about. Those greasy ass appetizers do a number on my colon.

Get the appetizer sampler with the side of Imodium sauce

1 minute ago, aggie08 said:

So we're all going to our local Chili's on Wednesday in solidarity if the election goes our way, correct?

In college station? Fuck no.

1 minute ago, aggie08 said:

So we're all going to our local Chili's on Wednesday in solidarity if the election goes our way, correct?

If I see any of you, I'll knowingly nod.

You know what, I’ll allow it. 

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