news 2024 US Election Megathread 🇺🇸🏛️

[Wonderland]

3 minutes ago, Vroom Vroom said:

Men like him live forever out of spite 

Not when they're in their 80s.

 

All it takes is a bad pneumonia, fall, stroke etc. and someone can become frail very very fast. Faster than most people can really appreciate.

 

I mean, let's not forget Covid had him hospitalised.

[Communion]

"Well MODERATE VOTERS..."

 

The average American moderate is a non-black man who likes Joe Rogan, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump because he feels they say what they think, is largely politically disengaged, doesn't personally know more than one queer person in real life, and thinks highly-degreed women, especially upper-middle class women of color, are uppity misandirists who have weaponized DEI and modern HR culture to specifically malign people like him because goods and basic essentials are now more expensive. 

 

There is no magical wordplay for centrists to worm their way out of this. 

 

The image of Dems that voters have in their head - and which they HATE - is explicitly tied to the very social policies neoliberal Democrats have leveraged to gatekeep power in the party. 

 

I have more than 2 brain cells and thus don't agree with many of those moderate views and thus neither I am a "popularist" who thinks Dems can only ever support policies with 70%+ support, but this conversation about what voters hate and don't hate isn't going to benefit the side of cackling female politicians like Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris. SO STOP TRYING TO HAVE IT. 

 

The average moderate voter thinks Harris fucks for tracks and that Theo Von is insightful. IT IS NOT THE POPULISTS ON TG OUSTS. 

Edited Friday at 08:26 PM by Communion

[Ashley Banks]

I was going to stock up on my favorite Korean sunscreen before the tariffs hit but it's completely sold out 

[Wonderland]

2 minutes ago, Ashley Banks said:

I was going to stock up on my favorite Korean sunscreen before the tariffs hit but it's completely sold out 

But I thought rationing only happened in socialist economies?????

 

[Thuggin]

Being extra fawning toward my supervisor today   Mainly because I have a compensation review in June but now because I'm scared of getting laid off

[Thuggin]

[BeenTheShit]

This is COVID all over again.  Companies will raise prices, blaming the tariffs, all while raking in record profits and issuing fat bonuses to their CEO's and top executives.  They'll tell their workers times are tough and they can't afford to give them raises.

 

Congratulations, America, you played yourself yet again. 

 

[byzantium]

35 minutes ago, Bears01 said:

Huge drops in the stock market usually=economic pain. They might not feel it this very instant, but unless something changes, we are in for a very bad summer 

Exactly.  I think we are on the same page.  I was just saying how his supporters won't turn today, but as the economic effects hit over the next months is when we need to reassess polling. 

[ClashAndBurn]

Trump supporters tagging the FBI in the comments

[DammnBaby]

4 hours ago, RihRihGirrrl said:

The fact that he just has blatant power to reck the economy and stock market like this is crazy 

He actually doesn't - if Congress would do its job.

[BeenTheShit]

5 minutes ago, ClashAndBurn said:

Trump supporters tagging the FBI in the comments

That graphic should be used to address all future price increases on goods. 

[BeenTheShit]

4 hours ago, RihRihGirrrl said:

The fact that he just has blatant power to reck the economy and stock market like this is crazy 

At this point, he's just flexing his "power" to the world and inflating his ego.

[BeenTheShit]

So apparently, Trump decided to golf instead of attending the transfer of the 4 dead American soldiers.  Biden, however, was in attendance.

 

[eyeroll]

4 hours ago, karron0624 said:

I'm down 4% for the year so far. Literally, my coke stock is saving me from being lower.

coke gets me thru all these unprecedented times too sis

 

Spoiler

Jkjkjk

Spoiler

But fr will tariffs impact my dealer's pricing menu 

OT(ish): for the first time ever I'm glad I don't have a 401k, solely because I don't have to watch it sink rn. Also I've been fortunate enough to work for myself since 2018, but I don't necessarily provide an "essential service" so I'm preparing for the worst (losing all my clients because nobody can afford anything) and sucking up my pride and next week I'm starting part time at my old job. It's a remote gig thank god and pays decently, so that's good I guess. I just want to have my foot in the door in case I gotta jump back into it full time. So tragic, I promised myself I'd never go back to it, but I guess I'm glad I had that option, and I feel like a somewhat responsible adult by making this decision. 
 

hope everyone does something fun this weekend, I feel like everyone in this thread deserves a lil breaky from the chaos, go get a bevy or some d

[Sannie]

1 hour ago, Bears01 said:

Huge drops in the stock market usually=economic pain. They might not feel it this very instant, but unless something changes, we are in for a very bad summer 

 

It's not a declaration of duty to rightfully point out that American workers were screwed over for generations due to jobs being outsourced, and that past leadership didn't properly use the tools at their disposal to fight back. Targeted tariffs=good. Blanket tariffs on everyone and everything=terrible. Simple 

Nah, not right now. Now is not the time to put out a video like this. All this does is give credence to what Trump is doing bc the average American cannot parse the difference between blanket and targeted. 

[Lightbringer007]

 

 

[Sannie]

 

Make conservatives scared again. 

[king_queen]

4 minutes ago, Sannie said:

 

Make conservatives scared again. 

This is exactly the energy everyone who voted for Kamala should have for anyone who didn't  

[on the line]

47 minutes ago, BeenTheShit said:

This is COVID all over again.  Companies will raise prices, blaming the tariffs, all while raking in record profits and issuing fat bonuses to their CEO's and top executives.  They'll tell their workers times are tough and they can't afford to give them raises.

 

Congratulations, America, you played yourself yet again. 

 

Le sigh. It's true. And this was all so avoidable. 

 

27 minutes ago, BeenTheShit said:

So apparently, Trump decided to golf instead of attending the transfer of the 4 dead American soldiers.  Biden, however, was in attendance.

 

And the ATRL locals will still complain about Biden over this. 

 

3 minutes ago, king_queen said:

This is exactly the energy everyone who voted for Kamala should have for anyone who didn't  

That's what I'm doing. **** those fools who did this to us for literally nothing to show for it.

[19SLAYty9]

If Mallory McMorrow wins in 2026 let's run her in 28. She's the only one calling out chucks bullshit.

[GraceRandolph]

[BeenTheShit]

3 minutes ago, GraceRandolph said:

Who the **** is this bozo? 

[Radical Pessimism]

27 minutes ago, Sannie said:

 

Make conservatives scared again. 

the sudden attack 

[GraceRandolph]

1 minute ago, BeenTheShit said:

Who the **** is this bozo? 

MAGA influencer who goes on Piers Morgan. 

[Pheromosa]

nvm

Edited Friday at 10:13 PM by Pheromosa
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