2024 United States Presidential Election Megathread

Most Important Election of Our Lives

  • Yes

    Votes: 103 59.9%
  • Nígga Please

    Votes: 69 40.1%

  • Total voters
    172
  • Poll closed .

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1/11
He cheats at golf. He cheats on wives. He cheats on his financials. He cheats at elections. He cheats at everything, against anybody, whenever he can. Not just a little, but to a pathological degree.

Trump cheats. And we are here to remind the electorate—and him—of that fact.

@PsychoPAC24

2/11
Sometimes he cheats for financial gain. Sometimes he cheats to feed his grandiosity. He feels entitled to cheat, and he identifies - not only with others who cheat - but with others who feel similarly entitled to cheat. And then sometimes he just cheats because he likes cheating.

3/11
He never cheats in golf though….

4/11
He cheats on his own friends and allies.

5/11
When it comes to cheating, Trump’s got it down to an art form. But we’re here to make sure the voters don’t forget it. 🎯 /search?q=#TrumpCheats

6/11
What’s also interesting is he is cheating on X too. The “post” he made is made to look like a post but is an ad. Does not show up on his page at all. It’s just another grift. & the influencers that support him here are eating it up.

7/11
This lady is giving Trump sleepless nights.

8/11
I love you. You figured it out, this is how you beat him. He’s in the verge of doing something very stupid

9/11
I love golf. We were warned in 2015 about what a cheat Trump was on the golf course. He can’t face losing at golf so he just changes the score card. He did this when he lost the 2020 election. When will we learn?

http://golfdigest.com/story/youre-no

10/11
Trump cheats religiously.

11/11
He even has cheats on his golf shoes.


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Project 2025 training video instructs participants to avoid using emails because they leave a paper trail, and paper trails are hard to hide from the public.

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Not following their own, don't leave evidence advice, they documented all of their plans with instructions in videos, and a huge paper trail of their plans just leaked.
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comment by /u/memomem :

Project 2025 training video instructs participants to avoid using emails because they leave a paper trail, and paper trails are hard to hide from the public.

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Not following their own, don't leave evidence advice, they documented all of their plans with instructions in videos, and a huge paper trail of their plans just leaked.
Inside Project 2025’s Secret Training Videos

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Opinion

David French


To Save Conservatism From Itself, I Am Voting for Harris​


Aug. 11, 2024

A black-and-white photograph of a woman’s hands clasped in prayer on a Bible.


Credit...Thalassa Raasch for The New York Times

By David French

Opinion Columnist

I believe life begins at conception. If I lived in Florida, I would support the state’s heartbeat bill and vote against the referendum seeking to liberalize Florida’s abortion laws. I supported the Dobbs decision and I support well-drafted abortion restrictions at the state and federal levels. I was a pro-life lawyer who worked for pro-life legal organizations. While I want prospective parents to be able to use I.V.F. to build their families, I do not believe that unused embryos should simply be discarded — thrown away as no longer useful.

But I’m going to vote for Kamala Harris in 2024 and — ironically enough — I’m doing it in part to try to save conservatism.

Here’s what I mean.

Since the day Donald Trump came down that escalator in 2015, the MAGA movement has been engaged in a long-running, slow-rolling ideological and characterological transformation of the Republican Party. At each step, it has pushed Republicans further and further away from Reaganite conservatism. It has divorced Republican voters from any major consideration of character in leadership and all the while it has labeled people who resisted the change as “traitors.”

What allegiance do you owe a party, a movement or a politician when it or they fundamentally change their ideology and ethos?

Let’s take an assertion that should be uncontroversial, especially to a party that often envisions itself as a home for people of faith: Lying is wrong. I’m not naïve; I know that politicians have had poor reputations for honesty since Athens. But I have never seen a human being lie with the intensity and sheer volume of Donald Trump.

Even worse, Trump’s lies are contagious. The legal results speak for themselves. A cascade of successful defamation lawsuits demonstrate the severity and pervasiveness of Republican dishonesty. Fox paid an enormous settlement related to its hosts’ relentless falsehoods during Trump’s effort to steal the election. Rudy Giuliani owes two Georgia election workers $148 million for his gross lies about their conduct while counting votes. Salem Media Group apologized to a Georgia voter who was falsely accused of voter fraud and halted distribution of Dinesh D’Souza’s fantastical “documentary” of election fraud, “2,000 Mules.”

And that’s hardly an exhaustive list. Several additional defamation cases are pending against MAGA networks and MAGA personalities.

Let’s take another assertion that should be relatively uncontroversial: Political violence and threats of violence have no place in the American democratic process. Yet threats and intimidation follow the MAGA movement like night follows day. One of the saddest stories of our time is the way in which even local election officials and local school board members fear for their safety. The level of threat against public officials has escalated in the MAGA era, MAGA Republicans often wield threats as a weapon against Republican dissenters, and every American should remember Jan. 6, when a mob of insurrectionists ransacked the Capitol.

I know that threats and violence aren’t exclusive to the right. We all watched in horror as a man tried to assassinate Trump; another man threatened Brett Kavanaugh’s life; and no one should forget the horrific congressional shooting, when an angry liberal man attempted a mass murder of Republican members of Congress on a baseball field.

But only one party has nominated a man who was indicted for his role in the criminal scheme to steal an American election, a scheme that culminated in a violent political riot. Only one party nominated a man who began the first rally of his 2024 campaign with a song by violent insurrectionists. He played “Justice for All,” a b*stardized version of the national anthem by a group called the J6 Prison Choir. The song features the “Star-Spangled Banner” interspersed with excerpts of Trump reading the Pledge of Allegiance.

It’s not just Trump’s lies that are contagious, but his cruelty as well, and that cruelty is embedding itself deeply within one of Trump’s most loyal constituencies, conservative evangelicals. It is difficult to overstate the viciousness and intolerance of MAGA Christians against their political foes. There are many churches and Christian leaders who are now more culturally Trumpian than culturally Christian. Trump is changing the church.

And to what end?

It is fascinating to me that there are voices online who still claim that a person can’t be Christian and vote for Democrats, when the Trump campaign watered down the Republican platform on abortion to such an extent that it’s functionally pro-choice. Earlier generations of the pro-life movement would not have tolerated such a retreat. They would have made it clear that there were some principles Republicans simply can’t abandon without becoming a fundamentally different party.

It becomes even stranger to claim that Christians can’t vote for Democrats when the prime-time lineup at the Republican convention featured an OnlyFans star, a man who publicly slapped his wife, a man who pleaded no contest to an assault charge, and another man who had sex with his friend’s wife while the friend watched — and that’s not even including any reference to Trump himself.
 

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Even if you want to focus on abortion as the single issue that decides your vote, the picture for abortion opponents is grim. Trump should get credit for nominating justices who helped overturn Roe (though the real credit for the decision goes to the justices themselves, including the George W. Bush appointee Samuel Alito, who actually wrote the majority opinion).

But when we’re dealing with a complex social phenomenon, political and legal issues are rarely simple. For the first time in decades, abortion rates and ratios increased under Trump. In addition, the best available evidence indicates that abortion rates are up since the Dobbs decision.

Barack Obama was an unabashedly pro-choice politician, yet there were 338,270 fewer abortions in 2016 than there were in 2008, George W. Bush’s last year in office. Though Trump nominated anti-abortion justices and enacted a number of anti-abortion policies, there were 56,080 more abortions the last year of his term than there were in the last year of Obama’s presidency.

Even worse, after Dobbs the pro-life position is in a state of political collapse. It hasn’t won a single red-state referendum, and it might even lose again in Florida, a state that’s increasingly red yet also looks to have a possible pro-choice supermajority. According to a recent poll, 69 percent of Floridians support the pro-choice abortion referendum, a margin well above the 60 percent threshold required for passage.

If the ultimate goal of the pro-life movement is to reduce the number of abortions, not just to change legal precedent, then these numbers and these electoral outcomes are deeply alarming. If present trends continue, then abortion opponents will have won an important legal battle, but they’ll ultimately lose the more important cultural and political cause.

Reasonable people disagree with me. I have friends and family members who will vote for Trump only because he is more moderate than Harris on abortion. I hate the idea that we should condition friendship or respect based on the way in which a person votes. Time and again we make false assumptions about a person’s character based on his or her political positions. There are truly bad actors in American politics, but we cannot write off millions of our fellow citizens who vote their consciences based on their own knowledge and political understanding.

At the same time, we should make the argument — firmly but respectfully — that this is no ordinary race and that the old political categories no longer apply.

For example, how many Republicans would have predicted that voting for a Democrat would be the best way to confront violent Russian aggression and that the Republican would probably yield to a Russian advance? In many ways, the most concretely conservative action I can take in this election is to vote for the candidate who will stand against Vladimir Putin. By voting for pro-life politicians down ballot, I can help prevent federal liberalization of abortion law. But if a president decides to abandon Ukraine and cripple NATO, there is little anyone can do.

While there are voters who are experiencing a degree of Trump nostalgia, remembering American life pre-Covid as a time of full employment and low inflation, there is a different and darker story to tell about Trump’s first term. Our social fabric frayed. It’s not just that abortions increased: The murder rate skyrocketed; drug overdose deaths hit new highs; marriage rates fell; and birthrates continued their long decline. Americans ended his term more divided than when it began.

I’m often asked by Trump voters if I’m “still conservative,” and I respond that I can’t vote for Trump precisely because I am conservative. I loathe sex abuse, pornography and adultery. Trump has brought those vices into the mainstream of the Republican Party. I want to cultivate a culture that values human life from conception through natural death. Yet America became more brutal and violent during Trump’s term. I want to defend liberal democracy from authoritarian aggression, yet Trump would abandon our allies and risk our most precious alliances.

The only real hope for restoring a conservatism that values integrity, demonstrates real compassion and defends our foundational constitutional principles isn’t to try to make the best of Trump, a man who values only himself. If he wins again, it will validate his cruelty and his ideological transformation of the Republican Party. If Harris wins, the West will still stand against Vladimir Putin, and conservative Americans will have a chance to build something decent from the ruins of a party that was once a force for genuine good in American life.
 

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My weed delivery company that died after Covid when 8ths went from 65 to 25 over a week 😢😢😢.

nikkas got them bytches for 8-15$ now 😢.

I still got a business property on East Warren I could use if it becomes legal federally and I can bank my $. Not being able to bank that cash limited my abilities to invest shyt. If it goes legal federally I'm definitely opening one on my property, even if I need somebody else to front the $ or go in with me on the product purchase. I know plenty of growers and can get the good shyt for the minimum all day.
 

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1/11
Kevin McCarthy to Donald Trump on Fox News: "Stop questioning the size of her crowds."

Somewhere in Mar-a-Lago, a ketchup bottle is going through some things.

2/11
So even Kevin McCarthy knows Kamala Harris’ crowds are bigger. 🤣

3/11
Trump can't stop because the vanity narrative matters to him more than winning or losing

4/11
Don't be comforted by this clown show called Kevin McCarthy. Remember what happened to him and where he is today.

5/11
Be careful, @SpeakerMcCarthy, or you may have to spend a few months as coffee boy and boot licker to get back on Trump's good side.

6/11
Heinz should file a lawsuit for abuse.

7/11
LMAO, it seems like Kevin McCarthy really likes to be abused by his cult leader the old weird and racist misogynist.

8/11
i’m glad the gop has never learned telling trump NOT to do something only focuses his mind on it

9/11
Or maybe a ketchup packet 😂🤣😂🤣😂

10/11
Trump is incapable of making it anything but personality driven attacks in racist and misogynistic ways.

11/11
Size matters


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