2024 General Election Thread

The answer is no. The answer is no, they were not eating the pets.

Why would you even entertain the notion that they were eating the pets? There are times where you don't need to pretend to be unbiased, because in that implicit push for non-bias, you reveal privilege and a blind spot for racism.

She could have done to him what he did to Biden. I would have understood it. But clearly she thought "what is there to gain by going down in the gutter with the opponent? I have more self respect." For that she should be admired, not scorned.

I disagree. Never give fascists a single iota of respect. What are you respecting about them? The office? They're going to use that to crush you.

The economy was great today. Stocks went up super high. Thanks J'Biden!

And if this keeps up AND Trump gets rid of the federal income tax, now we're talking.

Kamala Harris didn’t lose the campaign based on policy or issues. Campaigns aren’t often won or lost on those things. She lost the campaign, as Joe Biden would have, because the Democratic Party has lost legitimacy with too many Americans, a sense of belonging with its core members, and any sense of emotional connection to its voters.

I spent most of the fall on the road. When a 40 year old Black man in Michigan says he’s voting for Harris because she’s ‘the lesser of two evils’ something in the state of Denmark is very, very rotten.

she was gonna have a Republican in her cabinet tho

It just dawned on me that if Biff's second term is anything like the first (and anything like the campaign even) his administration will leak like a sieve.

I saw a graph earlier today that showed Big Pharma donations by party, the Democrats took way more Big Pharma money than Republicans by a huge margin. No wonder they were going after RFK Jr.

After Trump Took the Lead, Election Deniers Went Suddenly Silent
Trump supporters spent years fomenting concern about election integrity. On Tuesday, they set it all aside.

Do you think the Canadian authorities are prepared for the influx of celebrities who are going to flee to Canada now that Trump is elected?

Too big to steal.

I live in a pretty Trumpy area. 2016 and 2020 the neighborhood was littered with Trump signs. This time around I saw two. That’s all. Of course I thought maybe people were just tired of Trump. Nope. Those sumbitches just went stealth.

So far I've seen two people (Federal Farmer and Azealia Banks) gleefully admit to voting for Trump after claiming they didn't support him back when it looked like they were going to lose.

Trumpers are nothing if not greasy little cowards.

They’re going to Europe, taxes are too high here for them

The thing I’m really excited for is the next 4 years of you stumbling over yourself to defend awful decisions that trump makes that threaten your democracy and go against your constitution, two things you’ve been telling us all for years how important they are to you

Only then will your fail be fully complete

2016: A New Hope
2020: The Empire Strikes Back
2024: Return of the Jedi

You know who’s a greasy coward, Gavin Newsome and Justin Tredaue

“From a certain point of view”

While there's a good chance you're right about this, tariffs are pretty low on my list of things to be worried about.

Hopefully Trump will build a wall in the north GoT style.

The only reason I mentioned tariffs was this idea that Trump's going to actually help the economy, that @Steal Your Face's comments about the income tax would indicate some kind of fiscal improvement for most Americans, when it simply will not be the case. The Trump administration won't care one whit about average Americans trying to survive.

Will 2028 be The Force Awakens or The Phantom Menace?

I'm hoping it'll be Spaceballs.

Good, we don’t want any Americans here. Half of you are garbage and the other half can’t win against garbage. It’s amateur hour down there

Behind a paywall but here's a screen shot from the Wall Street Journal.




Quoting from Xitter: Cattle rancher Nick Nalder wants Trump to use tariffs to raise the price of foreign beef, so Nick can charge Americans higher prices for his beef. Nick also hopes Trump will "rein in inflation" - but for him, not for his customers.

If I wasn't too fucking old and had some sort of in-demand skill I'd be knocking on the doors of Canada, Australia, New Zealand...maybe even the UK. The good news is that it will probably take long enough for the collapse to happen that I'll either be dead or past caring.

What? They can't vote. Am I misunderstanding this part of your post?

Prove it.

This. I constantly hear this in right wing circles, especially from older boomers, that the "illegals" are being given $5,000, free houses, food stamps, and the right to vote so that Democrats can stay in power. It's completely out of touch with how everything works in this system.

This BBC article does a good job dispelling those rumors: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yj98grr5lo

Here’s Why a Second Death Star Won’t Be That Bad

They're eating the Ewoks