US Presidential Election, Nov 5th 2024

[mosssideblue]

I take it he will get off all charges now ? Also assume he will do no jail time

That was my initial thought too. Will grant himself a pardon.

That said, isn’t sentencing for one of his crimes due later this month?

 

[Middedon]

corrected that for you.

Well, it’s clear we will have to disagree on this one!

 

[moomba]

I wonder what will become of the Republicans against Trump crowd. Will they join the Democrats, start up Republicans against Vance/Trump Jr, start a new party, walk away from politics.

 

[BlueHammer85]

I can't disagree with a single word he says there.

Articulated brilliantly however it’s easy to slag off Harris campaign after the result - I personally felt she was doing all the right things, positive, hardly any gaffes,smashed Trump in the head to head debate.
If she had focused on the economy progressing and job sector doing well no one would have cared.

Trump won on lies, misinformation and being a WWE figure that ‘owns the libs’, can ‘Make America Great Again’ and is against the ‘Mainstream Media’ all backed by the worlds richest man pumping constant propaganda for Trump on the biggest social media platform. I don’t think a Harris change of philosophy for her campaign would have made any difference .

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

I take it he will get off all charges now ? Also assume he will do no jail time

He was never going to see the inside of a jail cell, it was all theatre really.

 

[KS55]

Avoid the question. Good one. So where did all the 2020 Democrat voters go? They just decided to sit home and allow a "fascist" to be elected over a poor noble woman of colour?

The republicans intercepted and destroyed the ballots.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

I wonder what will become of the Republicans for Trump crowd. Will they join the Democrats, start up Republicans against Vance/Trump Jr, start a new party, walk away from politics.

I suppose if they are for trump then they will be quite content?

 

[moomba]

I suppose if they are for trump then they will be quite content?

Funny.

 

[Dax777]

I think it’s a few things -
1) The country is further right than many of us would like it to be and those people are voting on emotion not specific policy

You are half right. The country isn't as left as most here think. But they are not voting on emotion. They are voting against ideas that are antithetical to their reality.

2) The radicalization of young white men

Disagree. Again, Trump made gains with Black women, Black men, Hispanic men, Hispanic women, non college degree white men and women and young men.

He failed to outperform his prior numbers in 1 demographic. College educated young women.

One can reach whatever conclusions one wants, but the facts remain the facts.

3) Social media’s (and media in general) sowing of discontent and misery and Dem’s inability to understand or control it

Well, I think there was discontent and I agree the Dems had no answer.

And most importantly -
4) an electorate that is unhappy with the incumbent

Ding Ding Ding!!!! You saved the best for last :)

That was the ballgame all along. The Economy was ALWAYS the answer. Always!!

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Well, it’s clear we will have to disagree on this one!

It seems they’re fed up of being told what to think by experts, so they’ll have to live out the experiences of the past.

It’s probably best to leave them to learn from what happens next whilst minimising the damage it might do to you and your family and friends.