news 2024 US Election Megathread 🇺🇸🏛️

[Iridesence]

5 minutes ago, GraceRandolph said:

I really blame parents for not instilling any real morals or values in their sons. They just think the internet can raise them. 

I see this all the time at the schools I'm teaching sadly (although I'm not from US). Disengaged parents are ruining the future generations. So many children these days lack basic morals and manners, in particular young boys

 

I have been called homophobic slurs before by male students as young as 14 for just asking them to stop playing computer games or stop watching movies during class instead of doing their classwork. Genuinely terrified for the next generation…

Edited November 6 by Iridesence

[FrederickGa]

14 minutes ago, anastaciabby said:

trump is a dictator sis, there isn't going to be a normal democracy anymore

I dont think the GOP will let that, a lot of em wanna be President too

[GraceRandolph]

2 minutes ago, gagacasanova said:

Coming from someone that has watched elections since 2008 (which probably doesn't say much), this has been the most traumatic election...

2016 was worse

[Armani?]

2 minutes ago, XDNA said:

I hope Dems can keep the house at least. 

She's underperforming the polling average by possibly 2pts so probably not

[MP3]

5 minutes ago, Calvin said:

We may never hear about Kamala again in the future. It wasn't even close, what an embarrassment. 

It really is. She should have stop laughing and try to understand why 50% of Americans voted against her

[Rep2000]

6 minutes ago, Chiidish said:

Yes. There is no more organizing. We must build power now, not just community. 
 

One thing the hardcore leftists and steiners were right about, is that a Trump win is a chance to reset. We can't trust Democrats to do anything other than go further right after this. So we need to learn how to build pockets of power and then rework on taking over the Democrat seed of power on a cultural level once the people most at risk have stabilized. 

This is truly serving "after Hitler, our turn" omg
Y'all are truly delusional since the only reset right now is the deconstruction of the whole American government BY TRUMP.
 

[Sensation]

As someone who voted for Kamala, I'm not surprised unfortunately. 

[Calvin]

How will this impact Taiwan? Expecting a Chinese attack there soon. 
ukraine is a goner. 

[DevilsRollTheDice]

No idea how some of y'all are looking at the fact that nearly every minority demo and women all swung hard towards Trump and concluding that Dems lost by not pushing further left or because of their stance on Palestine . Clearly in the type of internet echo chambers that caused this result to be so shocking. 3rd parties, where that vote was supposedly going, didn't over perform whatsoever. Trump did. It's looking like he'll win all the battle grounds with over 50% of the vote.  

 

The problem is way deeper and scarier. Social media has done incredible damage to Dems and progressive positions. There is no precedent or game plan for internet misinformation and disinformation. These websites are run by private companies that prefer Republicans subtly or openly and foreign governments that are the enemy of the US. 

We are COOKED cooked. The Harris campaign correctly identified that the electorate was leaning far more right and tried to capture some of them. Truly terrified to see where we go from here. 

 

Edited November 6 by DevilsRollTheDice

[GraceRandolph]

1 minute ago, Iridesence said:

I see this all the time at the schools I'm teaching sadly (although I'm not from US). Disengaged parents are ruining the future generations. So many children these days lack basic morals and manners, in particular young boys

 

I have been called homophobic slurs before by male students as young as 14 for just asking them to stop playing computer games or stop watching movies during class instead of doing their classwork. Genuinely terrified for the next generation…

Yeah there is a legit crisis among men/boys in this country and nothing is being done to address it. 

[Looolqueen]

11 minutes ago, Princess Aurora said:

Do you think World War 3 will happen under Trumpet? I mean, we had a pandemic under him. No wonder another catastrophic event will occur.

Some say this will stop a world war actually because Trump is besties with Putin and Kim Jon, and the war in Ukraine will finally be "over", without getting what that actually means for Ukraine, and for Eastern Europe and more..

Edited November 6 by Looolqueen

[pride4jc1222]

9 minutes ago, gagacasanova said:

Coming from someone that has watched elections since 2008 (which probably doesn't say much), this has been the most traumatic election...

2000 and 2004 were pretty bad, too. Future generations will be wondering how W Bush and Trump got 2 terms in the White House.

 

We just have to hope there's a Barack Obama on the democrats side in 2028 (like there was in 2008) to fix things. Otherwise, we're screwed.

Edited November 6 by pride4jc1222

[brazil]

1 minute ago, DevilsRollTheDice said:

No idea how some of y'all are looking at the fact that nearly every minority demo and women all swung hard towards Trump and concluding that Dems won by not pushing further left or because of their stance on Palestine . Clearly in the type of internet echo chambers that caused this result to be so shocking. 3rd parties, where that vote was supposedly going, didn't over perform whatsoever. Trump did. It's looking like he'll win all the battle grounds with over 50% of the vote.  

 

The problem is way deeper and scarier. Social media has done incredible damage to Dems and progressive positions. There is no precedent or game plan for internet misinformation and disinformation. These websites are run by private companies that prefer Republicans subtly or openly and foreign governments that are the enemy of the US. 

We are COOKED cooked. The Harris campaign correctly identified that the electorate was leaning far more right and tried to capture some of them. Truly terrified to see where we go from here. 

 

Facebook and Google prefer Trump? Conservative talking points is exactly that these major corporations prefer Harris. 

[Calvin]

Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania were so so important. 

[Redstreak]

Idk man maybe dems should start running hard on fiscal policy but that would require them to not be in bed with corporations and well

[Vermouth]

12 minutes ago, Princess Aurora said:

Do you think World War 3 will happen under Trumpet? I mean, we had a pandemic under him. No wonder another catastrophic event will occur.

I'd be far more worried that Putin is now going to be handed the Donbass and Crimea by Trump ( who will claim he's a peacemaker). Come back for the rest of Ukraine in a few years having undermined it from within, and rebuilt his army. Moldova and Georgia (Caucasus) are next, then he can start nibbling at the Baltics and undermining the rest of Europe. 

 

Think Rhineland,Saarland, Austria, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, Memel, even before Poland in 1939. 

 

The bulwark against this has been NATO since 1949, and the ultimate bulwark for NATO was article 5 mutual assistance clause backed by the USA. If Trump is seen as weak on article 5 well we are off to the races and that ain't good.

Edited November 6 by Vermouth

[Harrier]

I'm just going to leave this here

The US is fundamentally conservative country. Liberal is infinitely more damaging of a description than conservative, by default. Dems can only win by inserting themselves within the overton window of normality. Harris did not succeed in doing this despite her best efforts

[Jay07]

5 minutes ago, Kool_Aid_King said:

Sadly I think the only thing this is going to do is push the Democratic party more to the right.

It will but they will just keep losing. People don't want a discount republican party when they can vote for the real thing and when even the most center right policies are painted as "communist", "woke" and idiots buy it. If they call us communist anyway, we should give them communism. Maybe it will inspire some people. 

[Princess Aurora]

1 minute ago, Looolqueen said:

Some say this will stop a world war actually because Trump is besties with Putin and Kim Jon, and the war in Ukraine will finally be "over", without getting what that actually means for Ukraine, and for Eastern Europe and more..

I don't know honestly.......I think this will give more power to Russia, North Korea, and China to expand their plans. I hope I'm wrong with the World War but his presidency gave us a very bad surprise last time.

[Rep2000]

4 minutes ago, Redstreak said:

Idk man maybe dems should start running hard on fiscal policy but that would require them to not be in bed with corporations and well

Biden's fiscal policy is as good as it can get. Since it was already a shitshow inherited from Trump and Covid, but he did turn it around and actually avoid a complete crash and turns it into a softer landing. Sure, the inflation is still terrible. But trust and believe, it's gonna be so so much worse with Trump's tariff plans in the future.

Edited November 6 by Rep2000

[GraceRandolph]

6 minutes ago, DevilsRollTheDice said:

No idea how some of y'all are looking at the fact that nearly every minority demo and women all swung hard towards Trump and concluding that Dems lost by not pushing further left or because of their stance on Palestine . Clearly in the type of internet echo chambers that caused this result to be so shocking. 3rd parties, where that vote was supposedly going, didn't over perform whatsoever. Trump did. It's looking like he'll win all the battle grounds with over 50% of the vote.  

 

The problem is way deeper and scarier. Social media has done incredible damage to Dems and progressive positions. There is no precedent or game plan for internet misinformation and disinformation. These websites are run by private companies that prefer Republicans subtly or openly and foreign governments that are the enemy of the US. 

We are COOKED cooked. The Harris campaign correctly identified that the electorate was leaning far more right and tried to capture some of them. Truly terrified to see where we go from here. 

 

No one is coming to save us. The change will come when enough of us start demanding it. 

[Green]

37 minutes ago, greeneyedsoul said:

Can they just call Michigan so it can be over?

 

 

It's already official without Michigan

 

Trump 277

Kamala 224

[punisher]

just realised trump is old as hell

he's gonna be sleepy trump in 2 years

[CaptainMusic]

14 minutes ago, Calvin said:

We may never hear about Kamala again in the future. It wasn't even close, what an embarrassment. 

I mean she will always be known as the first female vice president so that's something I guess

[Malkuth]

2 minutes ago, Looolqueen said:

Some say this will actually stop a world war actually because Trump is besties with Putin and Kim Jon, and the war in Ukraine will finally be "over", without getting what that actually means for Ukraine, and for Eastern Europe and more..

Hopefully. If the West can get on friendlier terms with Russia, North Korea, etc, it could be a little silver lining. I really, really don't want anymore wars. Hopefully an agreement can be made between Russia and Ukraine now. Maybe the parts of Ukraine which are mostly Russian can become part of Russia, and the parts of Ukraine which are mostly Ukrainian stay in Ukraine.