US Presidential Election, Nov 5th 2024

[bluemoon32]

Democrats need to learn from this - attack minorities, attack Muslims and people of colour, attack women and their reproductive rights, attack LGBQT, attack the mainstream media and threaten to not accept the democratic outcome if it doesn’t go their way. Support Netanyahu and Putin and get the wealthiest onboard to promote their propaganda on social media.

It's dreadful, i can't get my head around the fact that the US people want this

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

Misjudged the latent racism and/or misogyny of far too many people. Probably more the latter considering they voted for Obama twice.

Probably. I does seem like a lot of this election was fought on the economy though.

It’s not even a close race

 

[SkyBlueAmerican]

Probably. I does seem like a lot of this election was fought on the economy though.

It’s not even a close race

It's both

You have a lot of people who vote on "the other party has been in power and I feel like I have less money"

Sexism absolutely a part of it too

 

[Gabriel]

They are very insular, most don’t have passports and probably couldn’t even show you were most other countries in the world are.

I think that passport point is no longer the case.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/trave...tment-issues-record-us-passports/75794556007/

 

[dickie davies]

Oh dear. No words. Musk and social media have won this for Trump.

Nope, it's the price of eggs and I'm not joking

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Seems like he got the macho man vote, usually means thick as pig shit.

Aye, the sort of people who think Joe Rogan's podcast taught them more than they learned at school. Yeah, no shit.

 

[SkyBlueAmerican]

Nope, it's the price of eggs and I'm not joking

We have a winner

 

[bluemoon32]

Aye, the sort of people who think Joe Rogan's podcast taught them more than they learned at school. Yeah, no shit.

He's an uber ****, can't stand that ****

 

[west didsblue]

Probably. I does seem like a lot of this election was fought on the economy though.

It’s not even a close race

It appears to me that the Democrats didn’t make a big enough deal defending their record on the economy. The narrative has been that the Republicans are a better bet with the economy whereas the reality is that the current administration’s handling of the economy since the pandemic has been exceptional. That message never seemed to get out though.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

I don't believe this is a vote for trump, but rather a vote against the cynicism and paucity of the democrat offerings. The media construct of one of the least popular VPs of all time as an agent of change has not fooled enough people. Similarly, pretending biden was 'sharp as a tack' up until after that debate gave trump the in he needed.
Sad times - I see netanyahu has already fired his defence minister and replaced him with a more extreme nutter now it looks like the incoming US govt will let him do as he likes. :-(