news 2024 US Election Megathread 🇺🇸🏛️

[CandyCoatedClouds]

Won all seven swing states but his crowd size would have been smaller than his 2017 crowd size. Won all seven swing states but his supporters aren't in DC because no one is prepping for them to show up. Won all seven swing states but DC is business as usual just days before a presidential inauguration. I am not a conspiracy theorist but I get how people can fall onto that hole and can become one.

 

With that said, I see we're going to have to do this **** full French revolution style because the powers that have any pull (the democratic party) has just decided to roll over and play dead. I'm not insinuating anything, but maybe we need more people to be influenced by Luigi Mangione.

[anti-bitch]

People on this site talking shii about Tiktok... people here would crash out too if this website suddenly got banned by political decision. Even if it is a stunt and the app will go back online tomorrow, people's emotions are being played with right now. And just going to Instagram is not an option for many anymore, seeing Meta's recent policy changes.

[Blankspace2010]

9 minutes ago, anti-***** said:

People on this site talking shii about Tiktok... people here would crash out too if this website suddenly got banned by political decision. Even if it is a stunt and the app will go back online tomorrow, people's emotions are being played with right now. And just going to Instagram is not an option for many anymore, seeing Meta's recent policy changes.

There's always the option to go outside touch grass, talk to real humans, not place life ending value on digital platforms? They're a product - products go in and out of popularity, get discontinued etc. that's life. It's ridiculous that anybody would feel a certain way. 
 

also let's be honest - ATRL is slowly dying the last decade. I am shook it still has the activity it does right now. Truly impressive. 

[Armani?]

The Tik Tok message is sending me 

[anti-bitch]

3 hours ago, Blankspace2010 said:

There's always the option to go outside touch grass, talk to real humans, not place life ending value on digital platforms? They're a product - products go in and out of popularity, get discontinued etc. that's life. It's ridiculous that anybody would feel a certain way. 
 

also let's be honest - ATRL is slowly dying the last decade. I am shook it still has the activity it does right now. Truly impressive. 

Otherwise I agree, but imagine if someone's secondary or even primary income was coming from Tiktok streams. Now they lost that. That's a reason to get emotional.

[Vermillion]

Oop.  

 

 

[ClashAndBurn]

6 hours ago, Blankspace2010 said:

There's always the option to go outside touch grass, talk to real humans, not place life ending value on digital platforms? They're a product - products go in and out of popularity, get discontinued etc. that's life. It's ridiculous that anybody would feel a certain way. 
 

also let's be honest - ATRL is slowly dying the last decade. I am shook it still has the activity it does right now. Truly impressive. 

Regardless, the Democrats have handed Trump the biggest possible PR win of all time.  And it's all thanks to their obsessive fealty to Israel.

 

 

[MattieB]

What a foreboding image, it literally looks like hell fire

 

[Marianah Adkins]

10 hours ago, CandyCoatedClouds said:

Won all seven swing states but his crowd size would have been smaller than his 2017 crowd size. Won all seven swing states but his supporters aren't in DC because no one is prepping for them to show up. Won all seven swing states but DC is business as usual just days before a presidential inauguration. I am not a conspiracy theorist but I get how people can fall onto that hole and can become one.

 

With that said, I see we're going to have to do this **** full French revolution style because the powers that have any pull (the democratic party) has just decided to roll over and play dead. I'm not insinuating anything, but maybe we need more people to be influenced by Luigi Mangione.

Ever heard of the silent majority? Just because they didnt show up doesnt mean they didnt support him.

Which is much scarier because it means that they REALLY believe and agree with him despite evidence to the contrary. 

[Princess Aurora]

I'm literally speechless. I'm wondering what historians will think of this era in 40 years

[wastedpotential]

19 hours ago, Virgos Groove said:

Bringing back the classics, I see…

Toppling the regime in Venezuela (and Cuba, tbh) and replacing them with a shill would be just about the only way to reasonably make mass deportations (of Venezuelans and of non-Venezuelans) work, in terms of distance and hypothetical capacity. A friendly Venezuela with some degree of fiscal normalcy is about as close to a Rwanda-style "solution" as the US will ever be able to get. 

 

Of course, that's dependent upon the power vacuum not being immediately filled by remnants of SEBIN or one of the gangs, and the US doesn't exactly have a strong recent history with state building 

[wastedpotential]

1 hour ago, Vermillion said:

Oop.  

 

 

Even if everything else goes to ****, the Dem infighting over the next 4 years will be delicious to watch play out 

[Vermillion]

 

 

 

[xXavril]

7 hours ago, Blankspace2010 said:

There's always the option to go outside touch grass, talk to real humans, not place life ending value on digital platforms? They're a product - products go in and out of popularity, get discontinued etc. that's life. It's ridiculous that anybody would feel a certain way. 
 

also let's be honest - ATRL is slowly dying the last decade. I am shook it still has the activity it does right now. Truly impressive. 

this is such a terrible take. TikTok didn't organically end and didn't get discontinued. It was BANNED by a government who constantly talks about how North Korea and China are so terrible because they ban and censor their citizens. It's ridiculous that you think the two are the same. I'm going to have to assume you're either not American or very young if you can say something like that with your whole chest 

[wastedpotential]

16 minutes ago, Vermillion said:

 

 

 

This is going to come home to roost for him in the 2028 primary 

[CandyCoatedClouds]

47 minutes ago, Marianah Adkins said:

Ever heard of the silent majority? Just because they didnt show up doesnt mean they didnt support him.

Which is much scarier because it means that they REALLY believe and agree with him despite evidence to the contrary. 

Of course I know of the silent majority. But if people felt so inclined to vote for the man, you'd think they'd show up a historical inauguration, where only for the second time someone is about to serve a non consecutive term

 Either that or they're all too broke to get there.

[FameFatale]

59 minutes ago, Vermillion said:

 

 

 

He'll end up bending the knee by Tuesday. Anything for his lord and savior dear leader Trump. 

[MAKSIM]

59 minutes ago, xXavril said:

this is such a terrible take. TikTok didn't organically end and didn't get discontinued. It was BANNED by a government who constantly talks about how North Korea and China are so terrible because they ban and censor their citizens. It's ridiculous that you think the two are the same. I'm going to have to assume you're either not American or very young if you can say something like that with your whole chest 

You responded to a terrible take with an even worse take analogizing a Tik Tok ban to North Korean or Chinese media censorship. 
 

One hyperbole does not beg another one to be given. Let's have some nuanced takes here. 

[ClashAndBurn]

The reason he ran in the first place was to block the candidate that the youth supported and make sure our concerns were rejected.  

[Communion]

5 minutes ago, MAKSIM said:

You responded to a terrible take with an even worse take analogizing a Tik Tok ban to North Korean or Chinese media censorship. 
 

One hyperbole does not beg another one to be given. Let's have some nuanced takes here. 

Douyin officially having less censorship than TikTok for Americans, China keeps winning

[MAKSIM]

3 minutes ago, Communion said:

Douyin officially having less censorship than TikTok for Americans, China keeps winning

The progressive movement being dead in every corner of the globe. I know you're seething. Jokes on you - I'm in favor of one-party rule / Chinese government style politics. The US would be better off with a fully empowered right wing government then have a multi-party system where nothing gets done. 

Edited 1 hour ago by MAKSIM

[Communion]

2 minutes ago, MAKSIM said:

The progressive movement being dead in every corner of the globe.

Not every corner. 

 

 

[Vermillion]

1 hour ago, wastedpotential said:

This is going to come home to roost for him in the 2028 primary 

17 minutes ago, FameFatale said:

He'll end up bending the knee by Tuesday. Anything for his lord and savior dear leader Trump. 

I actually disagree.

 

The voters Trump won were told he was going to fight China, not start crypto exchanges with them.

[MAKSIM]

1 minute ago, Communion said:

Not every corner. 

 

 

You're so politically lost in the world that you have to try to argue China is a beacon of the progressive movement. This is a right wing world - progressivism is a dead movement. 

[storminthedark]

1 hour ago, Princess Aurora said:

I'm literally speechless. I'm wondering what historians will think of this era in 40 years

I do actually think Trump's historical resonance as an individual figure is overstated. He'll definitely be analysed and remembered for changing the American political sphere and shifting the Republican party but I think his actions outside the Presidency will be more recognised than his actions over his two terms (the next four years pending though…). Trump and Bush seem more similar figures to me in terms of 9/11, Afghanistan and the war on terror overshadowing Bush as a personal figure invoked by parties afterwards, Trump is January 6, MAGA movement and disinformation. But that depends on how the next 4 years go and what type of Republican party succeeds Trumpism.