2024 USA Presidential Election

[Gloves | 11,779]

49 minutes ago, Richardhead said:

I love VAGS political talk so much. This is fun.

I’d like to thank Glovsie, my baby mama and her babies mama!

You can't thank me three times. 

[Reed Rothchild | 9,530]

Hey, rest of the world, tremble before our god

[CodysGameRoom | 2,008]

I'm predicting that this topic becomes legendary come election time...

anyway, there isn't anyone I want to vote for on that list. So Biden it is I guess?

[Gloves | 11,779]

19 minutes ago, CodysGameRoom said:

I'm predicting that this topic becomes legendary come election time...

anyway, there isn't anyone I want to vote for on that list. So Biden it is I guess?

I'm predicting the thread gets closed and two people get banned.

[OptOut | 8,884]

8 hours ago, Reed Rothchild said:

Hey, rest of the world, tremble before our god

Yeah, BUT in fairness to Trump he didn't go blind. Probably staring directly at an eclipse is fine.

[Link | 2,712]

11 hours ago, Richardhead said:

since I said I’d vote Trump in the comments, that’s what I’m sticking with

You can change your mind, you know. The election is over a year away. 

[ZeldaFan042 | 1,181]

17 hours ago, avatar! said:

poll added

Did Doug Burgum pay you in gift cards to get on this poll?

[Tabonga | 2,318]

13 hours ago, Richardhead said:

Biden can barely ride a bike.

It is mostly a matter of his not falling over!

He needs this one - it even has room for Navy when she next goes to the White House.

 

 

Edited August 4, 2023 by Tabonga

[Gloves | 11,779]

In all fairness, I can barely ride a bike.

[fcgamer | 4,723]

7 minutes ago, Gloves said:

In all fairness, I can barely ride a bike.

If you haven't peddled down the main drag at 30 or 40 MPH helmetless whilst dodging buses and cars during rush hour, you ain't been living.

[Tulpa | 3,500]

13 minutes ago, fcgamer said:

If you haven't peddled down the main drag at 30 or 40 MPH helmetless whilst dodging buses and cars during rush hour, you ain't been living.

*people gather around Dave's mangled corpse squished between two trucks*

*one man removes his hat*

"Well, that's a man who lived."

[Hammerfestus | 3,846]

How many of your old people do you know that can ride a bike? Maybe we just shouldn‘t have 80 year old men duking it out for the fate of the country that everyone else has to live in.

[Khromak | 768]

I'm no professional politician or anything, I don't even play one on TV. That said: I don't think riding a bike is a required task for presidents. I'm pretty sure there's no physical aspect at all. Rumor has it, we could even have a wheelchair-bound president.

I agree that old men shouldn't be running the country because they're mostly out of touch with reality and fuck rich people, so I'm not the biggest fan of a lot of politicians, but let's not focus on their dexterity.

[MrWunderful | 2,927]

2 hours ago, Khromak said:

I'm no professional politician or anything, I don't even play one on TV. That said: I don't think riding a bike is a required task for presidents. I'm pretty sure there's no physical aspect at all. Rumor has it, we could even have a wheelchair-bound president.

I agree that old men shouldn't be running the country because they're mostly out of touch with reality and fuck rich people, so I'm not the biggest fan of a lot of politicians, but let's not focus on their dexterity.

Its not- but, Biden’s age and physical ability gets almost daily coverage on Fox news, so its a big deal for a huge part of the electorate. 

[Estil | 1,265]

22 minutes ago, MrWunderful said:

Its not- but, Biden’s age and physical ability gets almost daily coverage on Fox news, so its a big deal for a huge part of the electorate. 

Ike was under that same kind of scrutiny for the 1956 because had heart issues.  And at the time, he was the oldest ever President.  So this is nothing new TBH.

But I'll tell you why I would've protest voted for Stevenson (had this been known at the time)!!  After all the rotten, nasty things Ike said about kitties!!!

https://pictures-of-cats.org/dwight-eisenhower-hated-cats-this-is-my-reason-why.html

Edited August 4, 2023 by Estil

[Estil | 1,265]

17 hours ago, Richardhead said:

Biden can barely ride a bike.

I guess that's better than barely driving a car!  

[Tabonga | 2,318]

9 minutes ago, Estil said:

Ike was under that same kind of scrutiny for the 1956 because had heart issues.  And at the time, he was the oldest ever President.  So this is nothing new TBH.

Wilson had a stroke in 1919 that virtually incapacitated him and his wife essentially ran the executive branch until he left office. It was covered up from the public with the co-operation of the press.

FDR's physical condition was also covered up.

Edited August 4, 2023 by Tabonga

[Estil | 1,265]

Just now, Tabonga said:

Wilson had a stroke in 1919 that virtually incapacitated him and his wife essentially ran the executive branch until he left office. E\It was covered up from the public with the co-operation of the press.

FDR's physical condition was also covered up.

Yeah, ya know Wilson's old lady could be kinda sorta the first female President.  I mean didn't she do pretty much all the President sort of stuff behind the scenes and did anyone back then even notice?  Sort of like how George Wallace back in the day got around term limits by having his old lady be elected governor and basically she'd do the getting dressed up and waving and cutting ribbons and things like that while George did all the hard stuff behind the scenes. 

[ZeldaFan042 | 1,181]

3 hours ago, Estil said:

https://pictures-of-cats.org/dwight-eisenhower-hated-cats-this-is-my-reason-why.html

The reasoning in this article for why Eisenhower hated cats is false.

[Estil | 1,265]

4 minutes ago, ZeldaFan042 said:

The reasoning in this article for why Eisenhower hated cats is false.

I don't care about no reasoning it doesn't make me any less pissed that he would say such rotten, nasty, awful things about the greatest species of God's creatures in the whole world!

Edited August 4, 2023 by Estil

[Hammerfestus | 3,846]

2 hours ago, Estil said:

I don't care about no reasoning it doesn't make me any less pissed that he would say such rotten, nasty, awful things about the greatest species of God's creatures in the whole world!

Earlier this year my old cat died.  For about a year before he died 2 carpet shampooers and I were locked in a titanic struggle in my basement with him where he decided he didn’t use litter boxes any more.  Fortunately-ish he would also do his business in the back yard.  Unfortunately the weather is cold and shitty for a significant portion of the year.  Anyways he died.  Afterwards I tore out the carpeting in the basement and let me tell you that was one of the foulest experiences of my life.  Almost as bad as the Raid flytrap bag of water thing I put in the garage that turned into a fly farm in a bag filled with dead flies, maggots, and baby flies.  Then when I tried to get it down it fuckin fell and spilled all over the garage floor.  That was probably the most putrid stench I’ve ever encountered and I used to work for the county engineers in the summers scooping roadkill into the ditches so we could paint the roads.   
And that’s why I disagree with your statement about cats being the greatest species.

[Estil | 1,265]

31 minutes ago, Hammerfestus said:

And that’s why I disagree with your statement about cats being the greatest species.

Well yeah but you're not going so far as to say you and your staff would shoot them on sight!

But yeah I'm really sorry for your loss...it wasn't really the cat's fault though and things like that can just as easily happen to people sadly.

[Hammerfestus | 3,846]

4 minutes ago, Estil said:

Well yeah but you're not going so far as to say you and your staff would shoot them on sight!

But yeah I'm really sorry for your loss...it wasn't really the cat's fault though and things like that can just as easily happen to people sadly.

Nah nobody blames him and he’d been with us ever since he was a dumpster kitten I think he was 17 ish.  It was one of those just wait him out kind of deals.  Now my mother-in-law is going down in that basement to die too. I need a sign for over the door, “Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate”

[Reed Rothchild | 9,530]

43 minutes ago, Estil said:

Well yeah but you're not going so far as to say you and your staff would shoot them on sight!

 

[Tanooki | 4,933]

I get that orange man is an easy mark, but I found it amazing it took nearly two pages to even get to calling out Biden on his age related issues.  The bike is a bit much as many can't handle one, and no it's not required for the office, but you know what is?  Stairs, and they seem to repeatedly be his mortal enemy both going up and down them.  Another?  Speaking.  It doesn't take very long for him to start going into jumbling up brand new words for the dictionary caught on video or rambling like an old Abe Simpson joke only falling short of shaking a fist and yelling at a cloud.  Both of them should be excluded, one for potential jail time coming before the election and the other clearly has some form of increasing dementia if you listen to him from the election to year one, into year two it's getting worse.  Killing words, getting cranky, passing out at tables/events, that is disturbing and should worry anyone whatever your stupid party affiliation is.

Rip on R's all you like for doubling down on Trump, the D's are doing it as much if not more potentially for a man who is progressively losing his marbles, and that one IS in power right now which should concern you.

I do question why they won't allow him to get one of those mental fitness tests the left and the media went all on hands on deck for with Trump thinking he was deranged (when he's really just an egomaniacal asshole.)  You ask for one on Biden, topic changes so fast it can give whiplash.