The 2024 United States Presidential Election Thread

[Death By Looch]

Don’t get me started on why Arizona still hasn’t been called yet when the results are pretty clear, at least for Trump, but yeah Kari isn’t winning that she’s down by 3% with 70% reporting.

I’ll be shocked if she makes the comeback.

Don't believe anything anymore. Maybe they find an unmarked sack of 50k votes somewhere.

 

[Smart Marx]

No chance that there will be a separation of church and state anymore.

For the record, the only thing the government is forbidden from doing is establishing a state religion or interfering with your right to your own religious beliefs, but it doesn’t have anything to do with how politicians decide to preside.

As much as I personally don’t care for religious fanaticism.

 

[Death By Looch]

For the record, the only thing the government is forbidden from doing is establishing a state religion or interfering with your right to your own religious beliefs

...for now

 

[Smart Marx]

...for now

They’d have to repeal the first and good luck with that.

The funny thing is, that would be the first thing that would actually destroy the current unity between establishment Republicans, and Maga, and not just for the politicians, but from the cultists and the general conservatives at home, because the first amendment along with the Second Amendment are the two things that most conservatives care about most, and you fuck with that it’s going to be hell of a fucking fight.

So who knows maybe the new season of American television is going to get a good.

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Religion should be taxed based on property ownership. Totally free to believe whatever you want but if a religious organization owns property, they should pay taxes too.

 

[Jimmy King]

 

[Butters]

I was talking about this earlier how a lot of conservatives were calling him a pussy and a woman. It’s a shame

 

[Tyler2]

I was talking about this earlier how a lot of conservatives were calling him a pussy and a woman. It’s a shame

Like they didn't spend 4 years crying stop the steal and tried to overthrow democracy?

 

[Chris]

Trump Names Susie Wiles as His White House Chief of Staff

The president-elect turned to his top political aide to fill a key post managing the White House when he returns to office.

www.nytimes.com

President-elect Donald J. Trump on Thursday named Susie Wiles, the Florida strategist who has run his political operation for nearly four years, as his White House chief of staff for his incoming administration.

In choosing Ms. Wiles, Mr. Trump turned to an aide he knows well and who has worked closely with him, understands how he operates, is close with his family and to whom most of his current team is loyal. She will be the first woman ever to hold the job.

In addition to having run his political operation through a winning campaign, she has helped deal with the lawyers on his various criminal and civil cases.

 

[Chris]

Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie elected mayor of San Francisco

Wealthy Democratic outsider unseats incumbent mayor London Breed in expensive race

www.theguardian.com

After years of negative headlines and post-pandemic economic struggle, San Francisco has picked a wealthy Democratic outsider with no government experience to serve as the city’s new mayor.

Daniel Lurie, 47, is one of the heirs to the Levi Strauss jeans company fortune, and previously spent 15 years as the executive of a San Francisco non-profit he founded. He defeated several Democratic challengers, including the current mayor, London Breed, in an election that was expected to break local campaign spending records.

Lurie poured more than $8m of his own money into his campaign, while his billionaire mother, Mimi Haas, backed him with another $1m. He will be the first San Francisco mayor since 1911 to win office without previously serving in government, making him the city’s “least experienced mayor in a long time”, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

But the Chronicle also ended up endorsing Lurie, praising the “balance of compassion and toughness” in his planned approach to dealing with the people in San Francisco struggling with homelessness, and saying the city needed a change in leadership, making Lurie’s inexperience potentially worth the risk.

Lurie had touted his experience funding and building affordable housing at the Tipping Point Foundation as evidence that he could lead San Francisco in the right direction.

 

[Death By Looch]

Can't believe Trump and Harris are not even 30k votes apart in Wisconsin

 

[Death By Looch]

...apparently

 

[Butters]

Lol that some admitted racism was part of it

 

[Chris]

FBI thwarts Iranian murder-for-hire plan targeting Donald Trump

The Justice Department has unsealed criminal charges in a thwarted Iranian plot to kill President-elect Donald Trump before this week’s presidential election.

apnews.com

The Justice Department unsealed criminal charges Friday in a thwarted Iranian plot to kill President-elect Donald Trump before this week’s presidential election.

A criminal complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan alleges that an unnamed official in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard instructed a contact this past September to put together a plan to surveil and ultimately kill Trump.

If the man, identified as Farjad Shakeri, was unable to create a plan by then, the complaint said, the official told him Iran would pause its plan until after the presidential election because the official believed Trump would lose and it would be easier to assassinate him then, the complaint said.

Shakeri told the FBI he didn’t plan to propose a plan to murder Trump within the seven days the official had requested, according to the complaint.

The plot, with the charges unsealed just days after Trump’s defeat of Democrat Kamala Harris, reflects what federal officials have described as ongoing efforts by Iran to target U.S. government officials, including Trump, on U.S. soil.

 

[Chris]

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/08/special-counsel-jack-smith-seeks-pause-in-trump-criminal-case-to-assess-unprecedented-circumstance.html

A judge on Friday paused proceedings in the criminal election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump at the request of special counsel Jack Smith, a move that reflects the expected end of the prosecution.

Smith said that vacating the schedule of remaining pretrial motion deadlines would give the prosecutor’s team “time to assess this unprecedented circumstance” of Trump’s electoral victory “and determine the appropriate course going forward consistent with Department of Justice policy.”