US Presidential Election, Nov 5th 2024

[I'm With Stupid]

It's interesting that people take a significant degree of inequality as some sort of Darwinian natural order thing when for most of our history as homo sapiens we have prospered by avoiding that.

Well yeah, it sort of works for one generation, maybe two, but once you get your first generation of rich kids, it's suddenly no longer based on merit but who your daddy was, what school you went to, and how much was in your trust fund. Once you have a generation of people who can live on the proceeds of money they've invested rather than the work they've done, this idea of inequality incentivising work disappears. Not completely. There'll always be the odd person who breaks through. But the more unequal things get, the more you're having to spend your wages paying off the mortgage of someone significantly richer than you, rather than saving for your own mortgage, the less of an incentive you have to work hard. And this is where you get a whole generation of people saying 'fuck it,' from the anti-work movement to Trump voters.

In the past, we recognised this, and properly redistributed wealth. That went out of fashion in the late 70s though and it's been a one-way road since then.

 

[lloydie]

I don't particularly remember the names of the 2 attempted murderers and I o really don't care for them or their potential handlers if they had any.

You didn't answerthe question, and now you say you have avoided finding out but you still felt sure enough to imply by voting for Trump you were voting against "Them".
You specifically stated you voted for him because "they" tried to kill him.
You're either being disgracefully disingenuous or holding an utterly dishonest intellectual position.
Which makes you a dishonest person.
I wouldn't want to be you or anyone within your orbit.

 

[Dax777]

You didn't answerthe question, and now you say you have avoided finding out but you still felt sure enough to imply by voting for Trump you were voting against "Them".
You specifically stated you voted for him because "they" tried to kill him.

Was that what I said?

You're either being disgracefully disingenuous or holding an utterly dishonest intellectual position.
Which makes you a dishonest person.
I wouldn't want to be you or anyone within your orbit.

I thank you for your response. Good luck to you.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

You didn't answerthe question, and now you say you have avoided finding out but you still felt sure enough to imply by voting for Trump you were voting against "Them".
You specifically stated you voted for him because "they" tried to kill him.
You're either being disgracefully disingenuous or holding an utterly dishonest intellectual position.
Which makes you a dishonest person.
I wouldn't want to be you or anyone within your orbit.

Nailed it.

Ignore and move on.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

+1

It may take a dust-bowl, 1920's era Depression, for Republicans to wake up - and a Roosevelt incarnate to change course, peacefully.

Or, we may actually be headed for decades of woe - comparable perhaps to the dysfunction of Cuba or Argentina.

Don’t worry. Trump is a climate change denier. We’re close to the 2% average increase that was declared the point of no return decades ago.

So it’ll be raining cats and dogs over that depressive dust bowl before you know it. So they’ll have plenty to eat.

 

[bugsyblue]

People can have any opinion they want on Trump I get it. However the guy survived an assassination attempt and still carried on fighting for what he believes in.

Stupidity or not you cant fault that.

Yep it shows the lengths he will go to line his own pockets and avoid prison

 

[kaz7]

Biden lost these elections.

It's american culture.

Protestant, ambitious and Anglo-Germanic culture.

It is not the humanist and Catholic Mediterranean culture.

Americans love a winner.

And, as character, Biden is a loser, and Trump is a winner.

Biden lived his entire life in politics. He is a man without presence. You whatch him and hear him and your insides feel nothing. You turn off the TV or fall asleep when he appears on the screen.

Trump represents the "self-made man." Successful businessman. He transmits interest, energy, security...

These types of choices are won by the character. And Biden made Harris lose these elections, because Biden was the one there and caused fatigue and indifference in the American people.

Trump inherited his money and he has been banckrupt six or seven times

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Trump inherited his money and he has been banckrupt six or seven times

Yeah, but what a businessman. I mean … you’ve seen The Apprentice, surely.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

I see BBC news are reporting an Iranian man is being charged with an assassination plot against trump. Is this a man of Iranian origin living in the US or is the suggestion of a state sponsored plot?

 

[KS55]

What facts did Democrats rely on? I mean over the election period there was more than enough documenting of lies from both sides of the debate.

The only problem here is that only one side can be thrown out of office...

I didn’t say that. System failure. It was Foggy, I think.