U.S. Presidential Election

[steviewevie]

I tell you what never gets a mention, climate change. Is he going to pull US out of the COP thing now? Is that it for net zero?

[MilkyJoe]

At least on the upside all the wars are going to end in January.🙃

[FloopFiller]

1 minute ago, steviewevie said:

Well, there will now be a lot of soul searching and recriminations on Democrat side, but maybe in the end whoever stood for Democrats were going to lose...polling constantly showed that the economy has been main issue for voters and they've been through a cost of living crisis.

And we all are horrified by Trump, but a lot of people really like him, they think he is on their side.

Biden’s name is gonna be mud after this for not stepping aside earlier and allowing for a proper primary. Kamala did great but she was on the back foot from day one.

[steviewevie]

3 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Well, there will now be a lot of soul searching and recriminations on Democrat side, but maybe in the end whoever stood for Democrats were going to lose...polling constantly showed that the economy has been main issue for voters and they've been through a cost of living crisis.

And we all are horrified by Trump, but a lot of people really like him, they think he is on their side.

and it's quite possible that US economy goes through a pretty good period, economic cycles and all that, and he'll get credit for that...unless he cocks it all up with tarrifs and stuff.

[steviewevie]

Have to see how fascist he is now. People were making a lot of possibly over the top warnings about a Trump presidency, Project 2025 and all that, if he isn't that bad then they will just look silly...unless he actually is that bad. 

[MilkyJoe]

At least on the upside all the wars are going to end in January.🙃

[MilkyJoe]

There's also a very real chance that Vance will be President within the next couple of years.🤯

[steviewevie]

Not looking forward to telling my daughter when she gets up. I expect there will be a lot of parents going through this in US right now. Terrible moment for women's rights.

[FloopFiller]

 

[FloopFiller]

He’s not even scraping a win - he’s trouncing her 

[MilkyJoe]

 

[steviewevie]

Trump will be all powerful now. There are no doubts.

[FloopFiller]

3 minutes ago, MilkyJoe said:

 

Yup. She was as good of a candidate as you could hope for, but ultimately is a woman and so, it seems, didn’t stand a chance. 

[fraybentos1]

35 minutes ago, FloopFiller said:

Kamala did great

Eh? She did great? She’s about to lose 

[MilkyJoe]

Almost wish he had won 4 years ago now and we'd be rid of him.

[fraybentos1]

She was a fairly unpopular vice president and they never even had a primary. She was not the dream candidate in any sense that matters.

 

[FloopFiller]

1 minute ago, fraybentos1 said:

Eh? She did great? She’s about to lose 

As great as she could imo. Few missteps here and there, but ultimately it seems that America just doesn’t want a female president, and perhaps Trump was inevitable all along.

[Ryan1984]

26 minutes ago, MilkyJoe said:

There's also a very real chance that Vance will be President within the next couple of years.🤯

Extremely likely, I’d say. For all Trump’s ‘Sleepy Joe’ talk, he appears to be declining just as rapidly.

[FloopFiller]

Yeah, Trump dying or having to be 25th was the plan all along. I’d be pretty surprised if Vance isn’t President by the end of the four years, and that’s a sickening feeling.

[1986]

13 minutes ago, MilkyJoe said:

 

This came up with Hilary as well, not that Hilary wasn’t flawed but there will always be people who just won’t vote for a woman. Let alone a black woman.

[MilkyJoe]

trump about to start rambling...

[MilkyJoe]

The song he just walked onto is like something out of Book of Mormon.

[pink_triangle]

10 minutes ago, FloopFiller said:

As great as she could imo. Few missteps here and there, but ultimately it seems that America just doesn’t want a female president, and perhaps Trump was inevitable all along.

I think if Newsom had been the candidate the result would be the same. The economy isn’t doing good enough and when that is the case people generally vote for change.

[steviewevie]

We'll never know if another candidate would have done better or worse than Harris. Fact is though that despite Jan 6th, despite all the convictions and charges, Trump has won all over the place and with all demographics. Maybe it is partly because Harris is a woman, partly because she isn't white, but maybe people are also worried about making ends meet, worried about crime, worried about immigration, don't like all the wars they're seeing on the tv, want change and like Trump's simple promises to fix everything.

[1986]

45 minutes ago, FloopFiller said:

Biden’s name is gonna be mud after this for not stepping aside earlier and allowing for a proper primary. Kamala did great but she was on the back foot from day one.

Constant problem with American politics. These old pricks constantly put career first to the detriment of everyone else.