news 2024 US Election Megathread 🇺🇸🏛️

[Riot]

The reality about these celebrities endorsement is that the majority of people DO NOT GIVE A F*CK about who actors and singers are going to vote because most of them do not even follow celebrity culture like that

[Shelter]

@Why @justjess @Rotunda I guess my gut feeling was right. 
 

[Ghiles]

I honestly believed those final polls, utterly shocked

[anastaciabby]

Did some of you see the rise in outward racism after Obama? it's like white people were that mad he was president which was a big factor that led to trump, I always said this though I have always tried to be positive, but America has been ****** for a long time now, we as women don't even have control of our bodies, we are using immigrants as scapegoats again,

what is wrong with people?

[aotearoa]

I dont even know what to say

[anastaciabby]

2 minutes ago, Chemist said:

The indies were all voting Trump

 

it was obvious since the beginning what they were for

[gagacasanova]

I was still feeling hopeful prior to my 3 hour nap... now I'm sick to my stomach and ready to stay in bed for four years.

[rivers]

7 minutes ago, cloudbusting said:

just realized I'll probably lose my fellowship if he guts the NPS as planned and the special hiring authority I am about to earn in another week or two that would allow me to apply for internal openings would be absolutely useless

 

this is sooooo cool, I love seeing my career potentially unravel in front of me

I work in the feds too gurl. Time for the private sector 

[sunbathinganimal]

3 minutes ago, Virgos Groove said:

5 million more votes is actually crazy… 

the way it wasn't even close

[ClashAndBurn]

5 minutes ago, Acuminatus said:

I think the Gaza issue barely registered. Maybe it depressed turnout here and there but overall there has been a right ward shift. Unfortunately with the limited period of time it was tough for Kamala to turn around the narrative about the economy and immigration, and abortion wasn't big enough a motivating factor as we thought. Look at the way the women still voted for Trump! Kamala couldn't magically undo the inflation that happened, and most of the public is too dumb to realize that Trump would have been the same if not worse thanks to COVID.

 

The public have sadly given Trump the mandate to do whatever he wants, God Save America!

Gaza was never going to be determinative for the election, but the worry was that it would cause enough people to sit it out in states where the margins were razor thin enough to be the difference, like perhaps in Michigan. Which, when the election is going to be a coin flip… isn't something you should want to risk. But, Israel was more important to Joe Biden than the election, and those voters were a worthy sacrifice for him to be willing to make.

[Mezter]

I actually planned on having kids in the near future and now that probably won't happen since I don't plan on moving out the US  

[Bubble Tea]

1 minute ago, aotearoa said:

I dont even know what to say

Just be thankful to (presumably) be living as far away in NZ as possible.

[Thickorita]

I'm already tired of the should have chosen Shapiro/throwing Arabs under the bus in the post-mortem rather than looking within and examining why they couldn't even turn out their own base, let alone independents.

[Mezter]

4 minutes ago, Virgos Groove said:

5 million more votes is actually crazy… 

The LOUD majority is taking over. We're done

[Vermouth]

13 minutes ago, Graves said:

America will have a female president in the next couple cycles, she's just going to be a Republican

Might help if people (not aimed at you) stopped making such a big deal out of it and other " glass ceilings ".

 

Thatcher was elected 45 years ago in the U.K. since when there have been two more women Prime Ministers ( with shall we say varying degrees of success!), and the Conservative Party this very week just elected a black woman who grew up in Nigeria as its leader ( she is now the leader of the opposition in Parliament so equivalent of House and Senate minority leaders sort of), beating a white man from the English Midlands in the run off vote. She, in fact, succeeded a man who of a visible ethnic Indian background who was openly Hindu and celebrated Diwali at 10 Downing St.

 

And the point is, as they were being elected all of their "glass ceilings" were notably unremarked on. They got the jobs because they were seen as the best for them at the time simple as.

Edited November 6 by Vermouth

[anti-bitch]

1 minute ago, anastaciabby said:

Did some of you see the rise in outward racism after Obama? it's like white people were that mad he was president which was a big factor that led to trump, I always said this though I have always tried to be positive, but America has been ****** for a long time now, we as women don't even have control of our bodies, we are using immigrants as scapegoats again,

what is wrong with people?

Yeah, and also notice the backlash to gay and trans rights. The straight people are mad at us somehow, straight guys especially.

[KingWitch]

I'm looking on axiom 

 

So Republicans are winning The Presidency, The Popular vote, the Senate and (most likely) the House? The complete humiliation, yall did Kamala bad

[Vermillion]

 

[Chemist]

There will be dozens of thinkpieces about who's to blame but besides Biden not bowing out earlier (Biden should def have some accountability). I really just think it just comes down to Americans prefering Trump over Kamala. That's it.

Kamala underperformed democratic senators everywhere sometimes by a very large margin. 

[Harrier]

18 minutes ago, Jay07 said:

I am reminded of something I read recently, that COVID exposed how truly selfish and rotten people are. They wouldn't even wear a stupid piece of cloth on their face to protect the weaker among us, let alone shoulder the burden of widespread reforms to support immigrants or poor people. And I am shocked to see even Latinos have that "I got mine, **** everyone else" mindset.

Yup. And this stuff was shocking to witness from other parts of the world where mask wearing etc was only not accepted by a fringe few. The individualism of the US is unmatched and fundamentally a politics that does not appeal to that will never succeed

[monologueNacafe]

This is mostly Biden's fault and he probably won't even be around by end of Trump's term 

[Love4Janet]

8 minutes ago, Touchdown said:

The way this all started with kids telling their parents that Kamala was Brat... It was at that moment they decided to take their country back.

An absolute disaster. Mariah and Janet's slayage remain untouched, but the electoral college is a disaster. 

[anastaciabby]

1 minute ago, Vermillion said:

 

she's right about the dystopia: no control of our bodies, controlled by billionaires, no government (since he promised to dismantle it all) and an impending world war, great!

[Ghiles]

I did not need to be shaken like this 20 min before an exam

[Virgos Groove]

1 minute ago, Vermouth said:

Might help if people (not aimed at you) stopped making such a big deal out of it and other " glass ceilings ".

 

Thatcher was elected 45 years ago in the U.K. since when there have been two more women Prime Ministers ( with shall we say varying degrees of success!), and the Conservative Party this very week just elected a black woman who grew up in Nigeria as its leader ( she is now the leader of the opposition in Parliament so equivalent of House and Senate minority leader sort of), beating a white man from the English Midlands in the run off vote. She, in fact, succeeded a man who of a visible ethnic Indian background who was openly Hindu and celebrated Diwali at 10 Downing St.

 

And the point is, as they were being elected all of their "glass ceilings" were notably unremarked on. They hit the jobs because they were seen as the best for them at the time simple as.

Kamala specifically downplayed the glass ceiling aspect. There was no "I'm with Her" this year and she even pivoted away when asked about being the first female president.

 

Conservatives have female leaders before centrists and progressives because it's almost impossible to accuse them of being radicals and therefore drain their electorability. No one would accuse Thatcher of being a leftist. Meanwhile Kamala was campaigning with Liz Cheney and was still called "Comrade Harris" by the right.