Your 2024 Presidential Election Thread

[The Quartermaster]

People routinely vote for things because they think it will only affect other people, then change their tune when it impacts them. My favorite was This story out of Flordia regarding ICE raids on hospitality businesses.

That guy you quoted is a RINO and not a great example but it is a cherry picked one, lol.

And everyone I know votes for the things they want will be affected by, including myself. Congress votes for things they won't be affected by, big difference from us not in congress.

 

[ThunderHorse]

The more I hear about Hegseth, the more I love this guy. He's the a warfighter, and we've had a bunch of technocrats who've pushed DEI nonsense going back to Robert Gates. Folks that have not been focused on Lethality. I remember when I was still in the Army was pivoting to "readiness" and guess what. Our readiness dropped. We got more fat. We got less lethal. But DEI, lots of that. Changing evaluation models to be more corporate...Standards imploded in order to let women into combat arms branches.

Really I'm just seeing way more liberal tears on the site formerly known as twitter, so if it pisses the military woke complex off, I'm about it.

But hey, whatever, I'm just me.

 

[amlove21]

I like Hegseth for a lot of reasons. Combat veteran, never made it to the level of being owned by big business (flag officer) and he is anathema to the status quo we saw under Austin.

There is going to be *a lot* of old heads losing their minds on the internet about these appointments- and I am here for it.

Burn it ALL. Break all the glass, sound every alarm.

Hegseth has said a lot and it's all out there for all to hear. Among those things, he doesn't believe women should serve in combat MOS's. Agree or not, not sure he can put the toothpaste back in that tube. He's also stated that he would fire the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and every other woke general. We'll see how handles his history of smack talking.

"Virtuous nations don't send its mothers and daughters to fight its wars." Knowing his body of work, the toothpaste is probably fine just where he left it.

 

[ThunderHorse]

Ok, sidebar.

The left kept telling me that only conservatives do this...but I don't recall anyone taking an axe to their father's head when Biden won. This is wild. Also, how can you be a "power lesbian" when you are partnered with a dude that cut his junk off. Well we don't actually know if he "transitioned".

Power lesbian murders her own father in Election Night meltdown

 

[Bypass]

I'm sooo happy!!!

Carry on and GOD Bless.

 

[Bypass]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1856731220857532624

 

[Topkick]

Virtuous nations don't send its mothers and daughters to fight its wars." Knowing his body of work, the toothpaste is probably fine just where he left it.

I'm not sure exactly what your point is, but I agree with that quote and with Hegseth. I know it's an old way of thinking but I don't care. Sticks and stones and all that.

My point is that I hope Hegseth makes a lot of the changes he says he would, now that he can, and that he wasn't just talking out his ass.

 

[Cookie_]

My point is that I hope Hegseth makes a lot of the changes he says he would, now that he can, and that he wasn't just talking out his ass.

I'm not a fan of all of his proposals, but I like enough of them. Hope to see positive changes overall.

 

[Archangel27]

I disagree with this pick because Cotton and Ernst would have been far less of a use of political capital and able to implement much of the stuff the current nominee proposed. This also looks like a base pleaser to mollify the Rubio and Waltz picks.

Oppose the rumored Gabbard as DNI for other reasons but she would be a base pleaser as well.

 

[Topkick]

I disagree with this pick because Cotton and Ernst would have been far less of a use of political capital and able to implement much of the stuff the current nominee proposed. This also looks like a base pleaser to mollify the Rubio and Waltz picks.

Oppose the rumored Gabbard as DNI for other reasons but she would be a base pleaser as well.

Ernst isn't a diehard trump loyalist so I don't think she was a serious contender. I thought it would be Cotton.

 

[Archangel27]

Ernst isn't a diehard trump loyalist so I don't think she was a serious contender. I thought it would be Cotton.

True, but she hasn't shown herself to be entirely opposed either. Look what happened to Rubio after all.

 

[ThunderHorse]

I disagree with this pick because Cotton and Ernst would have been far less of a use of political capital and able to implement much of the stuff the current nominee proposed. This also looks like a base pleaser to mollify the Rubio and Waltz picks.

Oppose the rumored Gabbard as DNI for other reasons but she would be a base pleaser as well.

Cotton would be ok, Ernst I'm not willing to put that Senate seat at risk. So far we've seen a lot of Republican establishment folks who lean towards Trump but were solid well before he came to the scene be named to the administration.

Tulsi would be interesting. But we can slow roll some of these other things.

The House and Senate might go along with some cuts to gov't positions, but broad, deep cuts will be opposed because there are too many jobs at stake. Today's Red district is tomorrow's Blue district if you start putting people out of work. Some agencies will backfill cut GS positions with contractors and now you're paying more over the long haul.

The government added 400,000 jobs alone in October. The only company adding positions is the dotGOV. Like this economy is effed.

 

[Bypass]

Here's a longer version if you would like to see all of it.

 

[Blizzard]

I mean we could just keep status quo. Do you want change in Washington or no?

 

[ThunderHorse]

John Thune is the next Majority Leader of the Senate. I know people were pushing Rick Scott. I do find these scores interesting...also some Ds with a score of 0 is hilarious.

liberty-score-frontend

 

[Topkick]

John Thune

Nice, another RINO

 

[amlove21]

I'm not sure exactly what your point is, but I agree with that quote and with Hegseth. I know it's an old way of thinking but I don't care. Sticks and stones and all that.

My point is that I hope Hegseth makes a lot of the changes he says he would, now that he can, and that he wasn't just talking out his ass.

I didn't mean you, specifically, in anything I said. I used the quote because Hegseth has used it as an axiom as to why he has rejected women in combat roles before.

My point, specifically, is that Hegseth is a great choice for the role. I hope he burns it to the ground. Some people will not like many of these appointments because they're beholden to old ways of thinking.

I hope all the sacred cows are slaughtered. I hope the wailing and gnashing of teeth in DC and political circles can be heard from space. Or the firmament, or whatever.

 

[amlove21]

Nice, another RINO

Thune is a disgusting choice here, and you're exactly correct.

He has exactly .01 seconds to start delivering the mandate set forth by the American people, and when he doesn't, he should be removed and primaried.

 

[amlove21]

Matt Gaetz is your new AG.

 

[Cookie_]

Matt Gaetz is your new AG.

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Well if there was gonna be any debate on who will have the most fighting back and forth during the confirmation process, that's done before it starts.

Who else will get the push back he will? Maybe Noem?