2024 US Election

mdgoonah41

RowJimmy lol well not to be pedantic, but democrats have a pretty substantial majority in this country and regularly lose elections because of gerrymandering and the electoral college. a small sliver of trump hating republicans shouldn't swing the outcome of a national election, especially when the democrat gets 7 million more votes for president than his republican challenger

Gazza M

mdgoonah41 assuming the democrats win, there will be some fallout dealing with the never trump/bush jr era/Lincoln project/joe Scarborough types. they're all over cnn and msnbc and have a fairly large amount of impact on democratic party messaging. allowing some 2000s era republicans to hold any kind if sway in the future is a one way ticket to losing again imo. they sowed the seeds to let their party get burned down by maga, they can stay politically homeless as a consequence

Claudius

Gazza M let the Republican Party burn. Given current dynamics and the Democratic ticket, I think they’d lean even more into their pettiness and hateful rhetoric instead of reforming towards the centre. A black woman as president will not sit well with white nationalists.

Gazza M

donated to Kamala, appointed walz to his board of governers and praised him for his handling of the rioting in Minnesota. Jamie carragher level of own goals there

Qwiss

That Trump supported both tells you everything you need to know about how limited the choice in US politics is.

JazzG

Qwiss Trump is a typical business man, pay who you need to in order to get what you want done.

Burnwinter

Qwiss

TWEEDLEDUM: Tweedledee is a perverted and un-American left wing radical!
TWEEDLEDEE: Tweedledum is a threat to this great nation's democratic norms!

Edit: in before someone thoughtfully reminds me this election is putting forward a meaningful choice. Yes it is, and yes I support Harris, but one still might wish for an even more meaningful choice.

naz

It's insane that those two are the best options for the strongest and largest country in the world. We're at the mercy of a bunch of fools like them

flobaba

You're lucky Elon is ineligible

Coombs

flobaba wait, aren't you lucky, too?

Qwiss

flobaba he has more power than the US president anyway.

Claudius

Someone show me Kamala’s resume please.

mdgoonah41

looks like the attempted swift boating of walz is not going as smoothly for republicans as it did when they derailed kerry's campaign 20 years ago. the internet has really evolved.

QuincyAbeyie

mdgoonah41 their attempts are really pitiful.

Qwiss

QuincyAbeyie who do they think thats appealing to? The weirdos who care about that are already on team Trump. No one they can win over will vote based on that sort of nonsense.

RocktheCasbah

50 years ago yesterday since Nixon resigned. All The Presidents Men on the box - seen it a few times now and its power only seems to grow with each viewing. The book is something else too.

mdgoonah41

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/times-and-wapo-jump-on-board-trump-camp-swift-boating-of-walz

obviously the NYT and WaPo want another 4 years of trump so they can pump out the "can you believe he did this??" pieces that get lots of hate clicks. its disgusting.

Coombs

CNN as well. They've got ringers in from the National Guard and everything making up shit as if any of it matters when their candidate is a literal draft dodger.

Claudius

Coombs cnn love Trump. When he was shot, they didn’t cover any other news for 24 hours.

Burnwinter

Claudius He's great for business. The "liberal" press outlets feed his profile no less than the others, no matter the outrage. For one moment since Walz's nomination Trump's been the less interesting figure to the media, and it feels almost like being in the eye of the cyclone of the constant publicity he receives.

Gazza M

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/05/trump-praises-georgia-election-board/74674946007/

he literally only ever publicly praises people that are directly doing him favours. if Georgia is close in november, it will make Florida in 2000 look like child's play

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