Politics The US Presidential Election, Nov 2024.

[Newtonk]

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Nailed it

 

[Vorph]

Oh my God, this is the best one yet, I'm dead

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[Mike1976]

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[Mike1976]

Liberal tears are flowing, and we found the craziest female meltdowns ever... - Revolver News

Liberal women are melting...

revolver.news

 

[colin traveller]

Mean while ...

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[haze99]

White woman arrested after attacking Hispanic female Trump supporters

The woman was arrested in Washington state after she allegedly approached the two women and asked them why they would support Trump, given the color of their skin.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Newtonk]

Listening to Biden's speech, in a moment of clarity, he made the point this proves the integrity of the electoral process, as I don't think even Trump anticipated such a shift to the right / away from the left as was delivered by the people.

 

[primer]

DOJ's Jack smith abandoning his serial court wasting files is his last form of power before Trump fires him.

Tyrus on Fox predicted the time of 2024 poll close. He got landslide and time.

 

[Fluff]

No, not really. Biden was Trump's most productive election aide in this campaign.

As someone that's worked for a political party, I'm both stunned and amused by how bad the Democrats' campaign was. Actually, I think it was the worst election campaign I've ever seen in a Western democracy. I'd been expecting this result for well over a year.

Each step on their downwards spiral, in chronological order:

1.
The Democrats' refusal to accept they've been losing some minorities, and that their post-materialist positions don't win elections. For ten years, they've been relying solely on the hope that America loathes Trump more than it does whoever becomes the blue candidate. Terrible idea, marketing-wise. You don't get people to buy a BMW by pointing at a Mercedes and being like, "isn't that an ugly car, why would you wanna own such an ugly car"? You have to give them a reason to buy your product, not just a reason not to buy another's product.

2.
Afghanistan. Sullivan's management of the botched withdrawal did lasting damage to Biden's reputation. I was quite surprised back then Biden didn't start his every sentence for the rest of the year with "this was Trump's doing, he negotiated with the Taleban and signed a treaty forcing me to withdraw" – because from a purely strategic standpoint, that's what he should've been doing.

3.
The trials against Trump. It doesn't matter how merited the accusations were, they aided Trump and hurt Biden. A blue district attorney pushing boring white collar crime charges in a blue state? That gifted Trump with a narrative that in him, the Democrats were trying to sabotage a rival. And everyone hates saboteurs.

4.
Biden's refusal to see himself as a transition candidate. He should have been realistic about his strength and renounced a second term by the midterms. Egged on by a biased media sphere, no one on the left side of the aisle wanted to admit that Trump was right (until it was far too late): Biden was too old and didn't have the energy for a second term.

5.
Biden's refusal to build a successor. Trump went to great lengths to portray Harris as a bad vice president, but the fact is she actually didn't even have a track record of her own. Biden didn't give her any serious projects of her own for which she could've kept the credit if successful. Many Americans didn't even know Harris.

6.
Speaking of track records: Biden had successes (denying this would be as disingenuous as denying Trump had successes in his first term), but he never made an effort to sell them. And it shows, considering how many registered Democrats didn't vote this time. For a time I'd thought he was simply too old-school in his communication, trusting in the voters' interest in political matters; but I've come to think he was simply too old and haggard to defend his record (or whatever he thought his record was).

7.
Gaza and Ukraine. On both issues, Biden tried to strike a balance between the two poles of his party and failed. In both cases, he did too much from one side's perspective and too little from the other's, failing to please either, which cost him (and Harris) some blue support.

8.
Biden's late withdrawal, the whole party reeking of panic. With that decision, they basically said: Trump will win if we don't start from scratch now. All the voters heard was: Trump is probably going to win. You can't prop up your rival more than this.

9.
The selection of Kamala Harris as a candidate. They only picked her because she was "kinda next in line", and expected America to be satisfied with that explanation. Again, they only ever relied on antipathy towards Trump and never gave a reason to vote for Harris.

10.
That disastrous interview. Asked if she'd done anything differently in Biden's place, she said no. That was the biggest blunder of her own making and really set the mood: If you don't like Biden, you won't like Harris. And you've heard it from Harris herself. She didn't even try to set herself apart from Biden, completely ignoring Biden's terrible approval ratings. Mind-bogglingly incompetent!

It is quite telling the media landscape is now once again characterised by disbelief, despair and even anger, and that millions of Americans are being labelled as patriarchal right-wing extremists. They still don't get it. They don't get it that they essentially created Trump.

And think what you want about Kamala Harris, but it was an uphill battle for her. She might've stood a better chance had the decision made in late July actually been made a year or two before that. This … this was never going to work.

Communication-wise, it was a disaster of epic proportions. I'm only half-joking when I say that the Dems should demand their money back from whichever strategist put their campaign together, because that someone did a terrible job.

tl;dr: If the Democrats want a scapegoat, they need look no further than Biden.

No 9. Given all their wokery, there was no option to pick anyone else, over the black/indian lady. Unless a Black/indian Gay Lady was available. With one leg. Who practices Sectutopologiy by way of procreation.

 

[muck]

The patronizing is what really annoys me and makes me want to vote for the "other guy" so badly even if it is a road sign

But that is their pattern through all the left in the entire world

I think it's been deleted since, but I caught a glimpse of @haze99 writing something about a WEF agenda that Americans had voted out?

There is no agenda. No conspiracy. It's just a very underhanded and effective way of acquiring and securing power.

If you want to understand the left, just read Orwell's 'Road to Wigan Pier'.

In that book, an originally socialism-sympathetic George Orwell describes his experience with so-called labour leaders whilst visiting the mining towns around Liverpool. He describes in vivid detail how he realised that they neither care nor respect the "common man" and only use the workers' plight as a stepping stone to a power which they couldn't acquire themselves, as they were too mediocre.

The Western left does the same thing now. Identity politics is not some sort of big agenda to change the world. It's just a stratagem: divide et impera, divide and conquer.

They had a real shot to make parts of their ideology mainstream during the 1990s and early 2000s. I'd be lying if I said that the so-called Third Way of Clinton, Blair and Schroeder didn't make some good arguments. But they were already too moderate and "neo-liberal" for their own parties' liking. When those men lost power, the radicals were able to return the movement to orthodoxy.

And that's where were are now. Following some backlash, there have been attempts to hide this fact. Make no mistake, Joe Biden isn't a socialist. Keir Starmer isn't a socialist either (though he insists otherwise), nor is Olaf Scholz. But social democracy is just a figleaf now. They're attempts of their much more left-leaning parties to deceive the electorate all like "see how centrist we can be?"

Had you voted for Harris, you would've gotten Obama's "you didn't build that"-style of socialism.

Sectutopologiy

I actually tried to google that.

 

[primer]

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Biden outperformed Kamala in every county.
Covid distorted politics plus or minus depending and each state handled it differently but even despite covid she still lags behind in every county.

 

[NebrHogger]

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Kammie's big takeaway from the election? $20 million - or so. "Somebody" no doubt laundered it for her... for a generous slice of the pie.

 

[Mike1976]

Kammie's big takeaway from the election? $20 million - or so. "Somebody" no doubt laundered it for her... for a generous slice of the pie.

Only the tip of the iceberg no doubt. BLM levels of fraud.

 

[primer]

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[muck]

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Aww god, when will it stop? There was no rigging. Can't believe I listened to that guy once. Back in 2016, when he was actually open-minded about stuff and not just parroting the viewpoints of his guests.

Trump will be the first to admit that he likes to rile up people and make enemies. The idea that he couldn't have riled up enough people to be voted out of office fair and square is just absurd. It's also pure make-believe to act as if Biden in 2020 was as bad as he is now. Everyone with an elderly relative will now how big of a difference even a single year can make (which is why age limits for office would be a good idea). But this time, Trump was up against a senile doddering old man and a pale office mouse. Who ran the worst campaign in living memory.

 

[BeNder]

The riots start 1/20

 

[Cron]

The Guardian meltdown continues apace. This one is a classic. And to be fair, my first thought after reading it was "thank fxck for that".

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/07/4b-movement-trump-women