Losing with some typically means winning with others and vice versa. Losing big with everyone across the board is nearly unprecedented and hard to conceive of as even possible. pic.twitter.com/JhgGduTUML
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) November 6, 2024
Whatever you think about Trump, he fucking trounced Harris. He dominated so hard he should go ahead and show up at his next public appearance in latex and with a whip. Damn.
We are planning now what electronics and imported stuff we are going to buy in the next few weeks and months because those sorts of goods are going to get radically more expensive soon or just become unavailable altogether.
So get your gettin’ on from the gettin’ place, people. Soon all of that will be much more expensive or just not available at all, depending on the exact timing of tariffs and war.
California was a good strategic move for us. Here, we will be insulated from most of the worst of the decline Trump will force on our nation. Not all of it by any means. But in many ways, California is kind of its own country and that benefit of insularity and size is certainly a great thing now as we go into a long bleak time of diminution and corruption.
To re-tool something Mencken allegedly said, the electorate voted for this cataclysm and they are going to get it good and hard.
No one will be spared, but being a bit protected is better than nothing.
Laughing at all these explanations that Trump won because someone called Latinos “Latinx” or some shit like that. Or DEI. Or that we let a trans girl play field hockey or whatever.
No. It was inflation and the gaslighting around it. That’s it, that’s all.
And the US is fucked for a generation because of it, thanks to us electing Trump. And the world, too.
A large share of the responsibility for the Democrats losing the election is on the Dems themselves since they and their myrmidons spent more than three years gaslighting people about inflation. It was almost a religious quest for them. This certainly pissed me off and I barely give a fuck what anything costs. For someone where a price increase actually has consequences, this must’ve been actively infuriating.
“Don’t believe your lying eyes and your declining bank balance” is not a winning proposition. Now they and all of us are going to pay for that 3+ years of pettifogging and obliviousness.
And the sad thing is, it was all an unforced error. Clowns like Paul Krugman and all the others spent so many unnecessary hours writing a vast number of articles about how the rising cost of goods and services is all in your head and that no, those shelves aren’t empty — why, they are quite full in my Park Slope supermarket, how could they be empty anywhere?!?!? They could have just not done that. But no, they had to get those jabs in at the basket of deplorables who could no longer fill their baskets.
In large part, the Democrats did this to themselves. And they deserve much vitriol for that.
Today is a day of despair for America. We are plunged into an anticipatory grief.
For once, I agree with Moira. Her take is basically how it will play out.
But 2024 is not 2016. It is worse. In his first term, Trump’s incompetence was often an impediment to the worst of his agenda; no longer. Institutions, both in the government and in civil society, worked to slow or resist his program; now, many of them seem all too willing to participate, with universities and NGOs eager to launder Trumpism into respectability and the billionaire-controlled media eager to cut deals, suppress unfavorable coverage and minimize his misdeeds. And if in his first term Trump’s impulses were sometimes mitigated by moderates and institutionalists in his administration, by now those people have all been purged. He is surrounded by incels, bigots, conspiracists and sadists, and they are much better prepared to use the organs of the state to pursue their hateful aims.
It is going to be a very, very bad four years. I expect a war with China and economic destruction, perhaps even collapse. And that might not even be the worst things that occur.
Trump winning is a disaster for America, a catastrophe for our allies and a great boon for our enemies.
Ukraine should consider how to surrender with some sort of dignity. It is China’s and Russia’s world for a while now.
If Trump wins fair and square — which looks likely — start prepping, because Russia and China are gonna really fuck us, and soon.
Get ready. I absolutely assure you this will happen.
Received 2 ballots? Here’s what to do.
I’ve seen some people claiming today that because they received two ballots by accident, that it is proof that the voting system is fraudulent.
Funny that, since in every state of the union, duplicate ballots are not counted.
These useful idiots are just laying the coup groundwork. Is a duplicate ballot never counted? Of course not. Mistakes happen. But it’s probably one out of 5 or 10 thousand that don’t get caught.
Too many clowns, not enough clown chipper-shredders.
Coup is coming. People are already claiming evidence of election fraud to get the press prepped for it (as they’ll report any old shit).
We probably won’t need the A-10s this time. But can we use them anyway? Pretty please. Just for me.
Four reasons not to vote for Trump, and four reasons to vote for Harris.
There is no plausible reason to vote for Trump, other than brain damage. Even apart from his previously-demonstrated incompetence, as with Biden he’s simply too old and senile. This alone disqualifies him (or should). Do you really want J.D. Vance or Elon Musk running the country?
Also, Trump seems to be in the bag for our current and future enemies. The coming conflict with China is about the only thing that matters now. No one is focused on this likely-war enough, but to the extent that anyone is Trump wants to make sure we lose.
And those two items are enough to be a big hell no for Trump. He’s bad for the world and bad for America.
Remember, I am horrible at political predictions, unlike most of my others. I think I never take into account how incredibly stupid and uninformed the average is. That said, this is what I predict:
Here’s my Electoral Map:
Because too many people are in fact window-lickers (as noted below).
Oh, absolutely, this is the case. The media makes vastly more money during close national elections. If Trump and Harris were held to the same standards, Trump would be 5-7% down and it wouldn’t even be a contest. But the absolutely insane things Trump says don’t get reported or get buried, while relatively innocuous actions or statements of Harris get distorted and reported on incessantly. This is to make the election be a contest not a landslide for Harris.
And to be clear: this would happen if Harris were the one doing insane things and Trump were the normal one. The media needs the election to be close to make that cheddar. That’s what’s going on.
Also, anyone who believes that January 6, 2021, was not a coup is a big fucking screaming idiot. Of course it was a coup.
That weren’t no tourist expedition to the Capitol. Jesus Fucking Christ. It was, like most things done by Trump, poorly-executed and cowardly. But it was a coup. And I’d say that even if I supported Trump. Too much clownery for words these days.