uncle bernard

Whether you want to believe it or not, his economic plan carries significant risk for worsening inflation and tanking the GDP. His tax plan will also add trillions to the deficit. That's worrisome to me. Also, I value a lot of the regulation/departments he wants to cut. I like clean drinking water. I like clean air. I like people being vaccinated against preventable diseases. I like fluoride in the water because I like when people have all their teeth. Now, if RFK wants to take the poison out of our food, I'm all for it, but I have a feeling that's not going to happen. I worry about the continued blank check to Israel to escalate war in the middle east and I worry about his judgment on foreign affairs in general. I worry about a women's right to choose and women dying from preventable miscarriages/dangerous births. I worry about access to contraceptives and other reproductive healthcare. Has anyone asked him how he plans to deport 20 million people? Is the military going door to door asking for papers? Because that's also pretty scary to me. Ultimately, I'm not living my life organized around fear. I'm still going to keep doing what I'm doing. But I don't think the world is headed in a good direction and that saddens me.

"News" It's likely propaganda if China is feeding it to you. I thought Trumpers were anti-China?

That's what they want you to think

Why are you getting all your news from a source owned and controlled by the Chinese Communist Party?

People were way more fired up in 2020 on the Dem side. There was widespread apathy amongst democrats, who were rightly dissatisfied with the Biden administration. Harris had an initial excitement bump, but then she kept on all of Biden's people and they told her and Walz to tone it down and the whole thing fizzled.

The media was obviously wrong about record vote turnout or else we're missing millions of votes (which would point to the Republicans stealing the election, which I don't think happened). As for 2020, think about how insane that situation was. Trump was a historically unpopular and polarizing president and then a massive pandemic broke out and tanked the world economy and killed hundreds of thousands of people. So yeah, people were pissed at him and motivated to vote against him.

@wrestlingguy To add on to this, Harris' loss is right in line with what we've seen all over the world this year, with few exceptions. Parties in power during inflation, conservative or liberal, lost major ground in their next election. Of all the insane stuff that happened in this election, likely none of it had anywhere near the impact as the Fed's handling of inflation. When there are rational, historically backed explanations for why things happen, there is no need to go hunting for conspiracy theories.

The people who stayed home aren't complaining. They didn't vote because they didn't care who won. There are million and millions of people in this country that feel that way. We have one of the lowest voter participation rates in the democratic world.

hmmmm

I think it’s more likely that the last 4 years were such a disaster that people didn’t see a real difference and stayed home. The dems strategy is 100% anti-trump. it didn’t work as well this time because he hasn’t been in office for 4 years and he didn’t have to deal with post-covid fallout. Last election, we were mid-pandemic spiraling and trump was in the news everyday being annoying and people hated it so they voted different. but then Biden didn’t actually do anything meaningful in office and inflation skyrocketed so what reason did those people have to come back out. Trump also lost votes this time too. Just not nearly as many. That’s the benefit of not having to own the current state of things.

Not that it matters but this was a mistake on CNN. She did outperform in several counties, but no states.

I don’t.

This was a well-deserved loss by the Democrats.

MSNBC is a joke in general but Joy is one of the stupidest people on TV. She’s claiming Kamala ran a “flawless” campaign lmao

So why wouldn’t they have done it again now that they actually oversee the elections in those states? Laziness?

Because historically it has.

Mail-in and early voting heavily skews older. Voting in general skews older, but it should even out a bit.

My guy, this is public knowledge. If you don't know it, that's because you've buried yourself in an insane Trump echo chamber. None of this is a secret. Black Book: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/22/jeffrey-epsteins-black-book-trump-clintons-prince-andrew.html Named Accuser: https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-trump-stacey-williams-5ab730ec694ef47e587e8f5ca4f1ad55 Full quote on Epstein in New York Magazine (2002): https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/ "I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump booms from a speakerphone. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.” This took two minutes to find. You and I both know, you would not feign ignorance if identical connections were exposed about Kamala Harris or any other democrat.

He is on the "list" and he has been "outed." What "list" are you referring to? Epstein's Black Book? Yes. The recently released court documents from the case? Yes. Accused by a specific witness on the record? Yes. Quoted referring to Epstein as a "terrific guy" who likes women "on the younger side?" Yes. So what list isn't he on? The flight logs? Newsflash, Epstein didn't limit his crimes to his island. He did them all over the place, notably Trump's two haunts, NYC and South Florida. The cognitive dissonance here is INSANE.

You're close here, but the actual reason Trump isn't attacked on Epstein stuff by the Dems is because - for God knows what reason - they aren't willing to cut ties with the Clintons. In general, neither party is willing to push hard on this because major players from both would be implicated. Rich people protecting rich people.

Trump is on the list. We have pictures and videos of them hanging out. What are you talking about? lol

I think he's going to thrive under Gilman. My first introduction to Spratley was actually him working out with Gilman during this video series at Eric Guerrero's club several years ago.

My favorite Elon fact is that he admitted in court, under oath, that this was his twitter burner. A deeply, deeply pathetic individual.

This happened years ago. Why are you bringing it up now? Qanon people being mentally ill isn't exactly breaking news.