As I mentioned in my reaction to the first presidential debate back in June, I am not a massive fan of Trump. I definitely don’t think he’s the second coming of Christ like a lot of people seem to think he is, but I also don’t think he’s evil incarnate either. I definitely don’t condone some of his actions (though many of the allegations against him have been fake), but between him and Kamala – the woman who used her gender and her body to get into politics and can’t name a single policy – I would’ve voted for him if I could since he was the lesser evil in this election. Though I don’t agree with some of his policies, especially regarding the abortion debate, I like his plans for foreign and economic policy. The team working with him is great and I’m the most excited about Robert Kennedy’s role in trying to figure out why America is as sick as it is today (let’s just hope that the coming Trump administration will fulfil its promises on that). That said, I was low-key excited when he won the election and the news sunk in that we would be spared another 4-8 years of Kamala and that god-awful cackle. Now, it’s time to look back at all the highlights from this election season – the memes, the quotes, the historic moments, and the stupidity.
#1: Two Attempted Assassinations
The fact that there was not one, but two attempted assassinations on a former president is something that will go down in history. No other president in or out of office has had that many shots fired on him, and I suspect the number of assassination attempts will sadly increase as time goes on. Just this week, the Feds stopped yet another plot to kill Trump, this being the second one originating from Iran. And the saddest part of those assassination attempts was the fact that so many Americans were on board with it, wishing that Trump had been killed and praying that the next shooter didn’t miss.
I guess there’s no hate live Leftist love and tolerance, am I right?
#2: “They’re Eating the Dogs, They’re Eating the Cats.”
Though Trump did not do very well in his debate with Kamala, with how many memes and musical remixes there are of this line on the internet, this will go down in infamy. What made it even funnier was the moderators’ fact-checking Trump on this line and then later reports coming out that the Haitians in Springfield are indeed eating people’s pets. Now it’s a joke amongst my friends and I that when asked what we did over the weekend, we’ll say that we went to Springfield and tried fried cat. May this forever be the slogan of the 2024 Presidential Election.
#3: Vance’s Jim Halpert Impression
Most people don’t really watch the VP debate because they usually aren’t seen as being as important as the presidential debate and this was true of this year as well. However, that still didn’t stop 43 million people from tuning in and creating meme after meme, with the best one being J.D. Vance looking at the camera like he’s Jim Halpert from The Office. 10/10 for breaking the fourth wall.
#4: “I’m a knucklehead.”
If there was a list of things you don’t, under any circumstance, want to say during a debate, the statement “I’m a knucklehead,” is at the very top of that list. Other statements such as Walz being friends with school shooters, misspeaking about being in China during the Tianmen Square Massacre, and confusing Israel with Iran and vice versa would also be up there on the list of things that you shouldn’t say.
#5: The Entire VP Debate in General
If I’m being honest here, much of the VP debate was comedy gold as Walz made mistake after mistake, looked terribly worried the entire time, and Vance completely ruled the stage. However, the best part of the entire thing was how friendly they were towards each other. Though both people took jabs at each other before the debate, Vance was still able to find some middle ground and both were respectful towards each other, which is something you don’t see every day in a world where much of politics revolves around slinging mud at your opponent hoping something will stick.
#6: “Excuse Me. I’m Speaking.”
After watching Trump do poorly during the second debate with Kamala, I was happy to have something to laugh at when Kamala started speaking over him and he used her line from the 2020 VP debate of: “Excuse me. I’m speaking,” and then followed it up with: “Does that sound familiar?” I swear, both debates were a comedy show.
#7: Brat Summer
Why?
Just…why?
This was the Harris/Walz campaign’s attempt at trying to be with the times and so relatable and while it worked for a few weeks, it was layers of cringe. Not only is it cringy to watch 60-year-olds try to be relatable with the young whippersnappers, but it was completely disingenuous and was just an insult to women in my opinion since the entire Brat trend seemed to be about embracing being a hodgepodge of stupidity and gaudiness. The entire time, it felt like this meme:
#8: Doritos, Mountain Dew, and Other Junk Food
I never once thought that junk food would be a somewhat defining factor of a presidential race and it definitely wasn’t on my 2024 bingo card, but it happened. Mountain Dew was getting a shout out from both Tim Walz and J.D. Vance during the early days of the campaign trail and it was just funny to watch. Then Kamala had pictures taken of her eating Nacho Cheese Doritos and talked about how they’re her favorite snack. And who could forget Trump working at McDonald’s just a few weeks ago? Junk food became just as much a highlight of the campaign as the actual candidates.
#9: TikToker Endorsments
The fact that the Harris campaign was paying millions of dollars to TikTokers, streamers, and other social media influencers (including OnlyFans creators) in their desperation to get people to vote for them was ridiculous. Meanwhile, the Trump campaign had people endorsing him for free, inviting him on streams and supporting him publicly on their channels.
#10: Biden Trolling
Obviously, Biden seemed distraught about being drop kicked out of the presidential race. He did terribly in the first debate, was promptly replaced, and left to just sit inside the white house and eat his ice cream. When news reached him that Kamala lost, he seemed happy beyond belief, was grinning the entire time he was making his speech congratulating Trump, and according to White House staff, his wife was no less happy as she couldn’t stop smiling.
#11: Democrats Joining Trump
The fact that not only did we get one but two lifelong Democrats to endorse Trump (Robert Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard) is nuts, not to mention the fact that 20% of the LGBTQ+ community – one of the most Left-leaning communities ever – voted for Trump alongside much of the Hispanic/Latino and Black community is crazy.
#12: Ecclesiastics and Two Corinthians
I can’t help myself. Anytime a person on either side of the aisle mispronounces things this badly, I have to make fun of it. What’s even worse is that Trump said that “two Corinthians” was his favorite passage in the Bible, when it’s actually a book.
#13: Trump in a Garbage Truck
This was my brother’s favorite part of the entire campaign. Though it was a set up, it was still hilarious seeing a former president sitting in a garbage truck and what made it even better was that one of the people backing him, Vivek Ramaswamy, actually worked a shift as a garbage man.
#14: Biden Bumbles
On one hand, the Biden bumbles are really funny to watch, especially during the election where Trump was calling him out on it. On the other hand, however, it was sad to watch as we saw elder abuse happen on the world stage. At least Cornpop didn’t make an appearance.
#15: We’re Garbage
In response to a roast comedian making a joke about how Puerto Rico is a floating pile of trash in the middle of the Carribean, Biden went onto a zoom call and called Trump supporters trash, which has led to some of the best memes of the election on sites like X and Instagram.
And those are my top fifteen highlights from this year’s election cycle. Let me know in the comments if I missed anything and what your favorite moments were.
Until next time,
M.J.
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Very nice. I enjoyed reading
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It’s great when christians choose to lie. Curious how you can’t support any of these lies you told, MJ.
“I definitely don’t condone some of his actions (though many of the allegations against him have been fake), but between him and Kamala – the woman who used her gender and her body to get into politics and can’t name a single policy – I would’ve voted for him if I could since he was the lesser evil in this election. “
nothing like bearing false witness from a christian.
and such nice lies here too: “Obviously, Biden seemed distraught about being drop kicked out of the presidential race. He did terribly in the first debate, was promptly replaced, and left to just sit inside the white house and eat his ice cream. When news reached him that Kamala lost, he seemed happy beyond belief, was grinning the entire time he was making his speech congratulating Trump, and according to White House staff, his wife was no less happy as she couldn’t stop smiling.”
hmm, dear, which “white house staff”?
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1. Did we watch the same debates? Trump was able to name and defend his policies while Kamala was resorting to telling nonsensical allegories about her childhood and complaining about Trump to the point where even Anderson Cooper from CNN was confused.
2. And here’s my sources for the second place where you claim I’m lying.
https://news.yahoo.com/news/smiling-winking-biden-looked-delighted-173238422.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmluZy5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKdOEvpE4LX8Akqq_Lo6b7Fd_eHSER2x3An9hvxt3nYJu-Bx7nunNqOLCHmRo6NOTaj1pBO3d4lwCl2yZO6ueEMzCfTDTjwy9O6NoS6M1tIRFR1BFXMpg35uPrD7JVJugQDeIjyKoHqsuouwyAigVvuvSu1E-VskEf60n6i9AMZ1
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Yep, we did, and funny how you lie about them, MJ. Funny how Trump didn’t have policies he could name and claimed he had a “concept of a plan” when it came to healthcare.
And when was Anderson Cooper “confused”?
so you have a video from the daily wire frauds, which hilariously shill for nonsense like “colostrum” and a yahoo news opinion piece. Nice of you to demonstrate how you have nothing, MJ
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how about we look at a transcript of what Trump said, MJ?
“First of all, I have no sales tax. That’s an incorrect statement. She knows that. We’re doing tariffs on other countries. Other countries are going to finally, after 75 years, pay us back for all that we’ve done for the world. And the tariff will be substantial in some cases. I took in billions and billions of dollars, as you know, from China. In fact, they never took the tariff off because it was so much money, they can’t. It would totally destroy everything that they’ve set out to do. They’ve taken in billions of dollars from China and other places. They’ve left the tariffs on. When I had it, I had tariffs and yet I had no inflation. Look, we’ve had a terrible economy because inflation has — which is really known as a country buster. It breaks up countries. We have inflation like very few people have ever seen before. Probably the worst in our nation’s history. We were at 21%. But that’s being generous because many things are 50, 60, 70, and 80% higher than they were just a few years ago. This has been a disaster for people, for the middle class, but for every class. On top of that, we have millions of people pouring into our country from prisons and jails, from mental institutions and insane asylums. And they’re coming in and they’re taking jobs that are occupied right now by African Americans and Hispanics and also unions. Unions are going to be affected very soon. And you see what’s happening. You see what’s happening with towns throughout the United States. You look at Springfield, Ohio. You look at Aurora in Colorado. They are taking over the towns. They’re taking over buildings. They’re going in violently. These are the people that she and Biden let into our country. And they’re destroying our country. They’re dangerous. They’re at the highest level of criminality. And we have to get them out. We have to get them out fast. I created one of the greatest economies in the history of our country. I’ll do it again and even better.”
Tariffs are paid by the importer, not the country of origin. Trump never created a great economy, much less the best in the history of the US. There was inflation during his presidency.
“And they’re coming in and they’re taking jobs that are occupied right now by African Americans and Hispanics and also unions.”
no evidence of that at all.
“Number one, I have nothing to do, as you know and as she knows better than anyone, I have nothing to do with Project 2025. That’s out there. I haven’t read it. I don’t want to read it, purposely. I’m not going to read it. This was a group of people that got together, they came up with some ideas. I guess some good, some bad. But it makes no difference. I have nothing to do — everybody knows I’m an open book. Everybody knows what I’m going to do. Cut taxes very substantially. And create a great economy like I did before. We had the greatest economy. We got hit with a pandemic. And the pandemic was, not since 1917 where 100 million people died has there been anything like it? We did a phenomenal job with the pandemic. We handed them over a country where the economy and where the stock market was higher than it was before the pandemic came in. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it. We made ventilators for the entire world. We got gowns. We got masks. We did things that nobody thought possible. And people give me credit for rebuilding the military. They give me credit for a lot of things. But not enough credit for the great job we did with the pandemic. But the only jobs they got were bounce-back jobs. These were jobs, bounce back. And it bounced back and it went to their benefit. But I was the one that created them. They know it and so does everybody else.”
curious how trump lied about how bad the virus was despite what he was told. we did not make ventilators for the entire world. What he did was give necessary equipment to Putin for his personal use.
“hat’s just a sound bite. They gave her that to say. Look, I went to the Wharton School of Finance and many of those professors, the top professors, think my plan is a brilliant plan, it’s a great plan. It’s a plan that’s going to bring up our worth, our value as a country. It’s going to make people want to be able to go and work and create jobs and create a lot of good, solid money for our — for our country. And just to finish off, she doesn’t have a plan. She copied Biden’s plan. And it’s like four sentences, like run-Spot-run. Four sentences that are just oh, we’ll try and lower taxes. She doesn’t have a plan. Take a look at her plan. She doesn’t have a plan.”
Funny how he has no plan, not even now. Curious how no Wharton professors approve of Trump’s plan since they’ve never seen one.
“First of all, they bought their chips from Taiwan. We hardly make chips anymore because of philosophies like they have and policies like they have. I don’t say her because she has no policy. Everything that she believed three years ago and four years ago is out the window. She’s going to my philosophy now. In fact, I was going to send her a MAGA hat. She’s gone to my philosophy. But if she ever got elected, she’d change it. And it will be the end of our country. She’s a Marxist. Everybody knows she’s a Marxist. Her father’s a Marxist professor in economics. And he taught her well. But when you look at what she’s done to our country and when you look at these millions and millions of people that are pouring into our country monthly where it’s I believe 21 million people, not the 15 that people say, and I think it’s a lot higher than the 21. That’s bigger than New York state. Pouring in. And just look at what they’re doing to our country. They’re criminals. Many of these people coming in are criminals. And that’s bad for our economy too. You mentioned before, we’ll talk about immigration later.”
funny how Trump promised a Foxcon factory and failed with that, among many other things. It’s also amusing that the orange rapist first claims that Harris agrees with him and then claims she’s a marxist. Which is it?
then we have the lovely lies from the orange rapist where he won’t say if he’s for a national ban on abortions, plus his other lies: “And probably after birth. Just look at the governor, former governor of Virginia. The governor of Virginia said we put the baby aside and then we determine what we want to do with the baby.”
then we ahve this as a response to a question about immigration: “n Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating — they’re eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in our country. And it’s a shame. ” and more of the same “The people on television say my dog was taken and used for food. So maybe he said that and maybe that’s a good thing to say for a city manager.”
curious how that was a complete lie, dear. Even Vance admitted to intentionally lying. Your god hates liars.
here’s a direct question about policy and your orange rapist can’t answer it since he has no policy:
DAVID MUIR: You also said you would use local police. How would you deport 11 million undocumented immigrants? I know you believe that number is much higher. Take us through this. What does this look like? Will authorities be going door to door in this country?
FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Yeah. It is much higher because of them. They allowed criminals. Many, many, millions of criminals. They allowed terrorists. They allowed common street criminals. They allowed people to come in, drug dealers, to come into our country, and they’re now in the United States. And told by their countries like Venezuela don’t ever come back or we’re going to kill you. Do you know that crime in Venezuela and crime in countries all over the world is way down? You know why? Because they’ve taken their criminals off the street and they’ve given them to her to put into our country. And this will be one of the greatest mistakes in history for them to allow — and I think they probably did it because they think they’re going to get votes. But it’s not worth it. Because they’re destroying the fabric of our country by what they’ve done. There’s never been anything done like this at all. They’ve destroyed the fabric of our country. Millions of people let in. And all over the world crime is down. All over the world except here. Crime here is up and through the roof. Despite their fraudulent statements that they made. Crime in this country is through the roof. And we have a new form of crime. It’s called migrant crime. And it’s happening at levels that nobody thought possible.
and more leis from trump “Peacefully and patriotically, I said during my speech. Not later on. Peacefully and patriotically. And nobody on the other side was killed. Ashli Babbitt was shot by an out-of-control police officer that should have never, ever shot her. ”
more lies from trump: “I had nothing to do with that other than they asked me to make a speech. I showed up for a speech. I said, I think it’s going to be big. I went to Nancy Pelosi and the mayor of Washington, D.C. And the mayor put it back in writing, as you know. I said, you know, this is going to be a very big rally or whatever you want to call it. And again, it wasn’t done by me. It was done by others. I said I’d like to give you 10,000 National Guard or soldiers. They rejected me. Nancy Pelosi rejected me. It was just two weeks ago, her daughter has a tape of her saying she is fully responsible for what happened. They want to get rid of that tape. It would have never happened if Nancy Pelosi and the mayor of Washington did their jobs. I wasn’t responsible for security. Nancy Pelosi was responsible. She didn’t do her job.”
and more lies: “They’re the ones — and she’s the one that caused it, that’s weak on national security by allowing every nation last month for the year, 168 different countries sending people into our country. Their crime rates are way down. Putin endorsed her last week. Said I hope she wins. And I think he meant it.”
so, MJ, show where your orange rapist states his supposed policies. Here’s the link for the transcript, so you can cut and paste what you need: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542
tell me how he intends to stop the war in ukraine. tell me how he intends to bring down inflation. tell me how he intends on deporting millions of people. Where is that anywhere in that speech, MJ?
“I have concepts of a plan. I’m not president right now. But if we come up with something I would only change it if we come up with something better and less expensive. And there are concepts and options we have to do that. And you’ll be hearing about it in the not-too-distant future.”
funny how he promised that when he was president and still has nothing.
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