superglowy Posted November 6 Posted November 6 Moo Ding the ******* Hippo being a better pollster than Ann Selzer is a scream. 5
Komet Posted November 6 Posted November 6 Yeah, Bidet did an objectively good job on economy despite overseeing fallout from a once-in-a-century pandemic, managed to keep US well above everybody else, avoided recession despite everybody predicting it, achieved a soft landing, kept unemployment to crazy low levels and markets are currently higher than ever before. Hoverer, it's very hard to sell 'it's not good but it's much better than it could've been!' on its own, but also meanwhile things are noticeably more expensive than 6 years ago and people for some reason think they can go back to those prices. 3
Rep2000 Posted November 6 Posted November 6 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Lose My Breath said: They wont understand until it happens. They do, but as they also say, "high on copium" and all that. It's always been a projection on their part. Edited November 6 by Rep2000 1 1
anti-bitch Posted November 6 Posted November 6 Not really looking forward to having Trump in the news headlines every damn day for the next 4 years, but maybe that will remind people why they disliked him in the first place. 1
GraceRandolph Posted November 6 Posted November 6 2 minutes ago, Riot said: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCAfFlWxoW_/ Well... People saying "red mirage" for hours
LadyDiana Posted November 6 Posted November 6 6 minutes ago, anastaciabby said: this is what I've been saying, I was watching coverage from different monitors since the start and it was said repeatedly that the Palestine issue was a big factor especially in PA, muslim and Arab areas voted for trump by a landslide and the other just didn't go vote so they could "stick it to genocide Kamala" Well, I wish them safe trip to their home countries, once he starts deporting them. 4
Chemist Posted November 6 Posted November 6 1 hour 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. This is true. I hope people here (from both sides) stop blaming the Gaza issue because it was completely neglible in these elections. Turndown was not depressed (in many counties it was even higher than in 2020), there was simply a massive shift from democrats to the GOP. From men, latinos, even suburban women. Truly unprecedented 1
Jon Snow Posted November 6 Posted November 6 5 minutes ago, anastaciabby said: trump the dictator won but still whining about Harris Respectfully, you don't give the impression of understanding what the word "dictator" means. And it doesn't mean that it's the end of the world if he won, you give him too much credit
Komet Posted November 6 Posted November 6 11 minutes ago, Harrier said: Also, now Trump gets to exist in the economy that the Democrats rebuilt after covid and inflation, and may not reside over a major economic crisis during this term. He has been so lucky with his timing and is probably going to be popular for a while as he will take all the credit for a situation that was already improving If he does do the tariffs, maybe this will all come crashing down tho Bidet should say **** it and kamikaze the economy by doing the tariffs himself Call it the Trump Tariff bill and frame it as starting his work for him 8
19SLAYty9 Posted November 6 Posted November 6 Given republicans will have the house and senate, his tariffs might pass?
Rigalo Posted November 6 Posted November 6 Ummmm what happened? Ann was wrong? The bellwethers didn't hold?
makeme Posted November 6 Posted November 6 We should be allowed to take off work today. And don't even get me started on UNI later thats going to be annoying as ****.
XDNA Posted November 6 Posted November 6 (edited) Biden should've mailed out some Biden-Harris stimulus checks to all people. Just something tangible even if the national debt increases. It was worth the risk. Edited November 6 by XDNA 2
Harrier Posted November 6 Posted November 6 6 minutes ago, Chemist said: This is true. I hope people here (from both sides) stop blaming the Gaza issue because it was completely neglible. Turndown was not depressed (in many counties it was even higher than in 2020), it was simply a massive shift from democrats to the GOP. From men, latinos, even suburban women. Truly unprecedented Exactly. And the Harris campaign correctly identified the rightward shift, knew it was going to happen in response they they pivoted right, went hard with Liz Cheney etc to try and capture some of that right wing movement. It didn't work at all - yall were right that it wouldnt work. But what else was she supposed to do against this kind of swing? Run left when the country is running right? I fundamentally don't think her haters among the progressive left can answer this question satisfactorily. It was an extraordinarily hard election for the democrats to win 12 1 1
ClashAndBurn Posted November 6 Posted November 6 4 minutes ago, Chemist said: This is true. I hope people here (from both sides) stop blaming the Gaza issue because it was completely neglible in these elections. Turndown was not depressed (in many counties it was even higher than in 2020), there was simply a massive shift from democrats to the GOP. From men, latinos, even suburban women. Truly unprecedented I wouldn't be surprised if half the Democrats still in Congress decide to go "**** it" on Gaza and vote alongside Republicans to make things worse though. Them and the protesters will be a scapegoat. I imagine crackdowns are going to be coming down harder on US campuses too. 1
Jay07 Posted November 6 Posted November 6 5 minutes ago, anti-***** said: Not really looking forward to having Trump in the news headlines every damn day for the next 4 years, but maybe that will remind people why they disliked him in the first place. He has nothing to lose at this point unless he wants to run one of his hellspawn in 2028. He cannot run for reelection and he obviously doesn't give a **** for the republican party or the country, this whole thing was a grift to him and a way to feed his narcissism. He is completely unchecked, America is ******. 3
TaggedGalaxy Posted November 6 Posted November 6 Not the psychics being right. Let me go out and buy me a deck of tarot cards and learn to read astrology charts 2
Achilles. Posted November 6 Posted November 6 (edited) The popular vote numbers are so telling. Trump turned out his base, but less so than in 2020. Kamala utterly failed to turn out the Democratic base to catastrophic results. It's not that voters switched, it's that Dem voters just didn't show up. Maybe if there was a candidate that we actually picked ourselves and not someone forced on us by the establishment because she failed up into the Vice Presidency after being so soundly rejected in 2020 that she dropped out before the first primary… Edited November 6 by Achilles. 3
ctlp27 Posted November 6 Posted November 6 Look it's no Harris faults. She did the best she could in the time she had. Lots of Americans love Trump, and there's no rationale behind it. They just love him and everything around him is excluded (but not of course for Harris). You can't beat love and adoration. I would love to say I'm surprised Gen Z and Latinos favoured him a lot; but not at all. 6 1
Harrier Posted November 6 Posted November 6 6 minutes ago, Jay07 said: He has nothing to lose at this point unless he wants to run one of his hellspawn in 2028. He cannot run for reelection and he obviously doesn't give a **** for the republican party or the country, this whole thing was a grift to him and a way to feed his narcissism. He is completely unchecked, America is ******. I am hoping desperately for yall that Trump having no more elections to run in will manifest in him being an apathetic do-nothing of a president. His low energy victory speech is a sign of this. He has achieved his goals, which was to make up for his humiliating loss in 2020 and avoid jail. Does he actually care to do the hard work of being president? Trump is not ideological and only cares about his popularity, ego, and legacy. In some ways, that means there is hope he will not govern as a christofascist like Steve Bannon etc want him to. Or he will and you're right that America is ****** 1
Cloudy Posted November 6 Posted November 6 15 minutes ago, Cheers said: This is going to be a rough four years. Oh my God. What a disgusting freak 2
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