**Official 2024 US Election Thread**

[FORD]

[silverfish]

I didn't watch the ABC Trump interview but did slog my way through the transcript.
The funniest part - when Trump argues that the MS-13 image he displayed was not Photoshopped.
How is it that none of his people told him to maybe not show off that photo?1...

[Seshmeister]

Meanwhile in St Petersburg you have a property developer with zero knowledge or experience 'of diplomacy or international relations negotiating' with Putin. The credulous cunt fell for some bullshit about Putin praying for Mango Mussolini after the assassination attempt and a painting!!?? He thinks he has a deal Friday on Sunday Putin kills a bunch of civilians.

[silverfish]

Vince McMahon's wife in charge of education.

Was only a matter of time...

Education Secretary Linda McMahon confuses AI with A1, sauce brand capitalizes on blunder

The former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) initially referred to the acronym for artificial
intelligence correctly, saying, "You know, AI development – I mean, how can we educate at the speed
of light if we don't have the best technology around to do that?"

Things got sticky as McMahon's speech continued: "A school system that's going to start making sure
that first graders, or even pre-Ks, have A1 teaching in every year. That's a wonderful thing!"

"Kids are sponges. They just absorb everything," she added. "It wasn't all that long ago that it was, 'We're
going to have internet in our schools!' Now let's see A1 and how can that be helpful."

A.1. Sauce capitalized on McMahon's blunder by posting an Instagram post on their verified account
saying, "You heard her. Every school should have access to A.1."

Full story at:
usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/12/linda-mcmahon-a1-instead-of-ai/83059797007/

[Kristy]

Oh, fuck you and fuck your TYT-cultist. I have one question for you: why do you keep on posting and believing in these dipshits who are no better than the Tim Pool's and Joe Rogan's of disinformation? That peroxide fuckface has been wrong on just about everything he spews" Harris can't lose no matter what" Remember that? Guess Not.

Social Security for realz, hippie:

“We have millions and millions of people over 100 years old” receiving social security benefits. “They’re obviously fraudulent or incompetent,” Trump said.

“If you take all of those millions of people off social security, all of a sudden we have a very powerful social security with people that are 80 and 70 and 90, but not 200 years old,” he said. He also said there was one person in the system listed as 360 years old.

So, which is it to be, fraudulent - or incompetent?

Turns out it's a little bit complicated

Part of the confusion comes from social security’s software system based on the Cobol programming language, which has a lack of date type. This means that some entries with missing or incomplete birthdates will default to a reference point of more than 150 years ago.

Ah. Incompetent. So why don't they just update the software?

The agency decided not to update the database because of the cost to do so, which would run upward of $9m.

Oh. Turns out Elon and his student interns didn't know how to read the figures - an easy mishtake to make. So why didn't they just go on the SSA's website and download a copy of their 2024 audit?

A July 2024 report from social security’s inspector general states that from fiscal years 2015 through 2022, the agency paid out almost $8.6tn in benefits, including $71.8bn – or less than 1% – in improper payments. Most of the erroneous payments were overpayments to living people.

Er, okay. So what happened to all the cash?

The money was reclaimed as part of a five-month pilot program after Congress gave the Department of Treasury temporary access to the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) “Full Death Master File” for three years as part of the omnibus appropriations bill in 2021.The SSA maintains the most complete federal database of individuals who have died, and the file contains more than 142m records, which go back to 1899, according to the treasury.

2021? Strange. Sleepy Joe was in office. What on earth was he doing letting his agencies work with Congress to reclaim overpaid social security payments paid out by the big fella's administration?

And where's the Inspector General who released the report?

Donald Trump fired 17 independent watchdogs at multiple US government agencies on Friday, a person with knowledge of the matter said, eliminating a critical oversight component and clearing the way for the president to replace them with loyalists.

The inspectors general at agencies including the departments of state, defense and transportation were notified by emails from the White House personnel director that they had been terminated immediately, the source said on condition of anonymity.

Okay, but why pay Inspectors General to do independent audits when Elon's prepared to do the job for nothing? That's 17 salaries the taxpayers get to pocket, once DL cuts corporate taxes and replaces them with tariffs.

Still, you'd think they'd have something to say, right? Are they being incompetent or fraudulent - which?

Independent watchdogs summarily dismissed by Donald Trump have denounced the move as illegal and a threat to democracy that paves the way for the appointment of “political lackeys” and widespread institutional corruption.

The sacking of the 18 inspectors general from federal agencies last Friday, including the departments of defence, energy and state, has also been widely condemned as illegal, and as part of the Project 2025 plan for a rightwing authoritarian takeover of government.

Look, we'll have to stop them right there, that's just rude. If that's the way they carry on, Elon must have had every right to fire them. The email was a nice touch - that one had Elon all over it.

So now we know. Millions of dead people weren't paid social security benefits. The overpayments were identified by independent auditors, reclaimed by the SSA, who worked on repayment plans for living recipients facing hardship, as you do. Elon muddled it all up, but we all make a few mistakes from time to time, so that's that.

Still, I'm curious. If this is all known and on the public record, why is DL still saying dead people are receiving Social Security benefits?

Are we talking fraudulent - or incompetent? let me guess: what does the dumbass Peroxide Boy have to say?

[Nickdfresh]

The Rigged thing, from what I've heard lacks contest and evidence....

[78/84 guy]

I just want you to know I come from.a small town middle class family....the definition of DEI dumbfucks......how pathetic....fucking brain dead idiots. How scary.

[FORD]

[silverfish]

I don't care if this is true or Fake News - it's funny either way:

Trump Sends Resolute Desk Out for Refurbishment After Musk’s Son Appeared To Wipe Booger on It
mediaite.com/trump/trump-sends-resolute-desk-out-for-refurbishment-after-musks-son-appeared-to-wipe-booger-on-it/

[Seshmeister]

Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail 2024



Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail 2024

It started with nuclear security. Because when you’re Donald J. Trump and your brain functions like a Roomba trapped in a corner, the first thing you do after waddling out of bed isn’t addressing real issues—it’s firing the people who keep America’s nuclear arsenal from accidentally turning Cleveland into a smoking crater.
Yes, in a stunning display of weaponized stupidity, Trump’s Department of Energy fired hundreds of nuclear security personnel. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)—the people who maintain America’s literal doomsday stockpile—was suddenly short-staffed because Trump wanted to "cut costs."

This is the same man who spent billions of taxpayer dollars on a wall that fell over in a light breeze, but making sure nuclear warheads don’t go missing? That, apparently, was too expensive.

But then came the realization:

“Oh, wait—we just fired the people in charge of making sure our nukes don’t explode by accident. Oops.”
Cue the frantic emails, desperate phone calls, and some unfortunate government official realizing they had just fired the human firewall between America and radioactive oblivion. But here’s where it gets even dumber—they couldn’t even reach the fired employees to rehire them because they’d already been locked out of their federal email accounts.
So, not only did they fire critical nuclear security personnel, but they also had no way to contact them to beg them to come back.
Imagine being so incompetent that you accidentally lay off the only people standing between civilization and full-scale nuclear disaster—then realize you can’t even tell them.
And just when you think this carnival of stupidity couldn’t get any worse, Trump pivoted from nuclear security to air safety.
Because why stop at one major catastrophe when you can tee up a second one at 35,000 feet?
Yes, while the nuclear security fiasco was still smoldering, Trump decided to fire hundreds of aviation safety workers at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). These weren’t clipboard-holding bureaucrats. These were engineers, technicians, and safety inspectors—the people who maintain the radars, landing systems, and air traffic control networks that prevent your flight from turning into a fiery news segment.

The union, of course, went into full-blown panic mode, warning that the people being fired are so specialized that replacing them will take decades. But Trump and his goons pressed on, because when you’re actively trying to break the country, you don’t stop just because people might die.
And speaking of death—the skies are already proving how reckless this is.

The Trump administration fired FAA employees right after four deadly plane crashes in a single month:
- A midair collision over Washington, D.C. killed 67 people.
- A plane crashed near Philadelphia, killing seven more.
- Another wreck in Alaska left ten dead.
- M?tley Cr?e’s Vince Neil’s private jet crashed into a parked aircraft because its landing gear failed, killing one.

And if that wasn’t bad enough—just hours ago, a Delta flight arriving at Pearson International Airport in Toronto flipped upside down upon landing.
A whole goddamn plane. Flipped. Over.

This wasn’t some third-world airline with chickens in the overhead compartments—this was Delta, one of the biggest carriers in the United States. Early reports say everyone survived, but that’s pure luck, not a sign that the system is holding up.

So how does Trump respond to these disasters? By gutting aviation safety even further.
And if that wasn’t enough of a joke, the White House actually believes they’ve found a solution: Elon Musk.

Yes, Elon Musk—the man whose cars have a tendency to explode for no reason—is now in charge of "fixing" America’s air safety systems.
His Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—a name so idiotic it sounds like it was dreamed up during a bong-fueled Reddit thread—has now been tasked with "modernizing" the FAA’s air traffic control systems.

So if you’re planning to fly anytime soon, hope you enjoy the experience of being beta-tested. Because soon, instead of trained engineers running the FAA’s systems, it’ll be some Tesla intern rebooting air traffic control like it’s an iPad with a bad Wi-Fi connection.
At this rate, the safest bet might be to dig a bunker, stock up on whiskey, and invest in a sturdy bicycle. Because soon, your travel options will be flying with Trump’s budget-cut FAA, hitchhiking with Elon Musk’s self-driving death traps, or simply launching yourself out of a cannon and hoping for the best. Either way, buckle up—because under this administration, every departure could be your final destination.

[78/84 guy]

The fuck you saying?

The fuck you saying ? Is that some new form of English ? Dumb fuck.....

[Nickdfresh]

You shouldn't bite people. Rabies are not cool. Was a dog giving you the bone ? Worthless bitch....

The fuck you saying?

[78/84 guy]

Strange. Do you all hear that? Sounds like a terminal incel barking like a rabid dog in the distance.

You shouldn't bite people. Rabies are not cool. Was a dog giving you the bone ? Worthless bitch....

[Kristy]

Strange. Do you all hear that? Sounds like a terminal incel barking like a rabid dog in the distance.

[78/84 guy]

I'm not your "honey", terminal incel fag

I didn't know your family had a t.v. show. Pathetic cunt.