news 2024 US Election Megathread 🇺🇸🏛️

[Jay07]

53 minutes ago, GhostBox said:

 

again the voting public are just stupid and don't really care about anyone actually doing things that benefit them💀🤷

This is the wildest thing for me. If the economy is actually people's #1 issue, Biden was actually good for the economy and labor. I have no idea why he was so unpopular. If people were so upset about gas prices and groceries, I can't wait to see how they feel when Trump adds trillions to the deficit and his tarriffs make everything more expensive. 

 

No. They just like the guy. They like that he acts like a racist ******* and has no pushback and he takes whatever he wants with impunity. He fucks pornstars and doesn't apologize. They dream they can be him, including latinos. They hate women and minorities and would never vote for a woman to be President. That's what it is and don't talk to me about outreach to the poor working class and addressing their concerns. They're racist and homophobic and they're gone. The people that need to be addressed are the true open minded, progressive people that want to do the right thing and I believe they exist but you have to give them a reason to come out. **** straight men and their ******* wives, they're the root of the problem.

Edited November 7 by Jay07

[Elusive Chanteuse]

I wish AOC wasn't so polorizing because I enjoyed her live and her honesty. She has turned into seasoned politician since the beginning. 

 

[WildAmerican]

3 minutes ago, Sergi91 said:

Harris will run for California governorship in 2026 and will win while Newsom, Whitmer, and DeSantis announce their candidacy for president in early 2027. 

lawdy you'd think a humiliating defeat would put her in retirement. Maybe Hillary should run for Mayor of NYC too 

[khalyan]

1 minute ago, Elusive Chanteuse said:

I wish AOC wasn't so polorizing because I enjoyed her live and her honesty. She has turned into seasoned politician since the beginning. 

 

Polarizing is fine these days!

 

1 minute ago, WildAmerican said:

lawdy you'd think a humiliating defeat would put her in retirement. Maybe Hillary should run for Mayor of NYC too 

She'd be better than Adams at least!

[gagacasanova]

Fatso finally made a good point.

 

[FameFatale]

I'm having such a bad mental health night. I think it just all hit me at once and I'm not okay. I just don't understand it at all. I'm just trying one day at a time. I'm so worried. 

[Lightbringer007]

1 minute ago, FameFatale said:

I'm having such a bad mental health night. I think it just all hit me at once and I'm not okay. I just don't understand it at all. I'm just trying one day at a time. I'm so worried. 

just take it one step at a time <3 

 

its gonna be hard, but its not impossible to overcome. We just have to be for each other and protect those that we love and cherish the most

[CamCam]

4 hours ago, ClashAndBurn said:

Why would you hope that? They saw what happened to John McCain, who is only revered as a hero by Democrats now. They saw what happened to Jeff Flake. They saw what happened to Jeff Sessions when all he did was follow DoJ procedure and self-recused so that Mueller could pursue an investigation that did absolutely **** all. I could go on and on. There is NO value in not kissing the ring.

Not sure what's wrong with wanting for people from their own party/side to call out their members on their BS. The party is corrupt for sure & it's not a guarantee, but I don't see why you find it such an issue that some accountability would be nice in even the slightest of chances. The more, the better.

[CamCam]

Just now, Lightbringer007 said:

just take it one step at a time <3 

 

its gonna be hard, but its not impossible to overcome. We just have to be for each other and protect those that we love and cherish the most

It's been such a hard day. I didn't even bother to leave my house, and seeing Kamala's concession speech was a tough pill to swallow. But I'm just hoping & praying for better at this rate. That's all we can do.

[nadiamendell]

I will give Kamala credit. She had 3 months... 3 MONTHS to make her case to the American people. Biden really screwed her over by waiting so long to get out of the race. With the small amount of time that she had, it's honestly amazing that she did even as well as she did.

 

A reminder: Trump started his 2024 campaign 2 YEARS ago in November 2022. 

Edited November 7 by nadiamendell

[Elusive Chanteuse]

5 minutes ago, FameFatale said:

I'm having such a bad mental health night. I think it just all hit me at once and I'm not okay. I just don't understand it at all. I'm just trying one day at a time. I'm so worried. 

I've been the same for me.  Everything will be okay. We survived 4 years and it will be hard but we can do it again.  

[Sergi91]

12 minutes ago, WildAmerican said:

lawdy you'd think a humiliating defeat would put her in retirement. Maybe Hillary should run for Mayor of NYC too 

A humiliating defeat back in 1960 for presidency (and 1962 for CA Governor) did not stop then-Vice President Nixon from winning the presidency in 1968 and 1972…

[BOOMBAYAH]

I've seen around 100 takes on this election from right-leaning, centrist, and leftist Democrats/people, and they all make great points.  The work that needs to be done by the Democratic Party is immense. The optimist in me believes that, even after a year, Trump will be so divisive and chaotic that people will quickly regret their decision. But the culture is so right-wing right now that I genuinely believe figures like Rogan, Twitch streamers, and Elon on Twitter will somehow manage to convince people again that he's better than the Democrats.

[Lightbringer007]

i hate it here fr

 

 

 

 

 

[Lightbringer007]

 

 

[Achilles.]

33 minutes ago, i spit on haters said:

Even though we lost and it's still a very hard pill to swallow, I still have respect for Pelosi for being proactive in pushing Biden out the race in hopes of impeding another Trump's presidency. I wish he was forced out much sooner but at least they tried a different alternative in the end instead of expecting new results with the same bullshit. And no, Biden would not have won.

We wouldn't have kept those swing state senate seats if not for Kamala being the candidate, so it was ultimately the right choice for the party even with her loss. 

[Ashley Banks]

The thing about 2016 is that the election was so close that any little thing could have swung it the other way, so it's easy to point out mistakes. Trump won in such a landslide this time that I don't think there's anything she could have done in the last 100 days to change things. It seems like the problems were much bigger (inflation, fragmented media landscape, lack of populist message, a perception of cultural elitism).

[HausOfPunk]

37 minutes ago, Sergi91 said:

Harris will run for California governorship in 2026 and will win while Newsom, Whitmer, and DeSantis announce their candidacy for president in early 2027. 

A governorship would be a downgrade for her career-wise. Kamala/Cheney 2028 here we go 

[Relampago.]

I think the silver lining here is that the Dems lost bigly.

 

They got REJECTED hard. There's no way they can say they just need to go a LITTLE more right. They need a huge shift in direction. If they had lost just a little, it would be our 4th Clinmaladen candidate in a row. I think with the next candidate, the person who can differentiate themselves from traditional dems will come out on top. 

 

And if Harris would have eke'd out a win, we would lose even more bigly in 2026 and 2028. So that's something to celebrate I guess

[Lightbringer007]

great video from Leeja

 

 

[BOOMBAYAH]

To reach young (and, let's be honest, mostly straight) men as leftists, the task essentially involves persuading them to relinquish their status as society's "top dogs" and to elevate women and minorities. This is challenging, especially in America, where status and individualism is the prevailing attitude. In recent times, feminist movements have tried to appeal to young men who feel depressed, struggle socially, or have trouble dating, by encouraging them to reject the patriarchy and toxic masculinity—because the patriarchy is what pressures them to fit into a rigid standard, when they could actually be free of these expectations and live a much freer life. However, the right reframed these efforts as society further degrading men and "masculinity," which set the stage for figures like Andrew Tate to gain influence. This makes it tough; even popular left-leaning men like Hasan or Destiny often need an edgy, "4chan-esque" appeal for men to listen to them (casually using slurs and misogynistic/racist jokes here and there), and in Hasan's case, also conventional attractiveness and masculinity to resonate with young men who idolize the gym-bro ideal.

 

On top of all of this, it seems that once young men were presented with the chance to abandon patriarchy for freedom, they chose to stick with it. A lot of young men seem willing to accept the downsides of patriarchy and toxic masculinity for the slim chance of achieving a lifestyle like Andrew Tate's, where they can be sexist, racist, and homophobic without consequence and with reward—similar to working-class people voting for billionaire interests, hoping they'll someday be billionaires themselves. The situation is dire.

[Redstreak]

Random side thought I had

 

I always kinda thought the "Harris and the democrats are hiding Biden's mental problems and lying to the American people" was just standard MAGA noise but I wonder if a non-negligible number of democrats didn't also feel the same

[Chiidish]

24 minutes ago, Richie.Valdez said:

Does anyone feel like the way the "woke movement" (in terms of the LGBTQ+ community at least) was handled by the democrat party played a big role in the turnout of certain demographics? 

 

I kinda feel like it did but idk how it could've been instead.. the country is just so divided and becoming less open-minded in general. 

Yes hence the messaging issue. Tying good policy to identity politics was the perfect line of attack for Republicans and it's clearly worked. 
 

Being woke and socialist ideologies have become interchangeable 

[Lightbringer007]

1 minute ago, Relampago. said:

I think the silver lining here is that the Dems lost bigly.

 

They got REJECTED hard. There's no way they can say they just need to go a LITTLE more right. They need a huge shift in direction. If they had lost just a little, it would be our 4th Clinmaladen candidate in a row. I think with the next candidate, the person who can differentiate themselves from traditional dems will come out on top. 

 

And if Harris would have eke'd out a win, we would lose even more bigly in 2026 and 2028. So that's something to celebrate I guess

especially since itll likely be that trump will f*** things up royally again and itll be a whole rinse and repeat for people suddenly saying how "shocked" they are at him screwing things up ... like were TIRED

[Lil Mistee]

43 minutes ago, Sergi91 said:

Harris will run for California governorship in 2026 and will win while Newsom, Whitmer, and DeSantis announce their candidacy for president in early 2027. 

this actually might happen