Be back in a bit guys, gonna head to a small town midwest diner to figure out how this happened. I know that’s the content you guys need.
Or I’m just hungry and am gonna get some cheap dinner and avoid talking to fucking anyone. That sounds better.
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It really is wild. I’m hearing so many stories like this. People who are so engaged and on edge but just… don’t vote. If we still have free and fair elections in 2 years I’m seriously considering volunteering in a GOTV effort.
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She was convinced not to vote for Trump, but she said Kamala sucks too (failed at securing the border, gives money and free housing to illegals), so she decided to sit this one out.
If that’s the way she thinks, then her not voting was a win for Kamala.
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How do you mean?
I’ve said many times I think the Dems would have done better with a more progressive economic message, but I don’t think that’s a magic bullet, I don’t think there’s any “one thing” that would have fixed a massive structural problem like this. In 2016 you could argue that dissatisfied voters stayed home because the Dems were too centrist. In 2024 we just had massive turnout and losses across the board. It’s hard to square that with anything other than the fact that America likes the racist demagoguery that Trump is selling.
Kamala’s campaign wasn’t perfect, but it was largely focused on abortion, which is about as broadly popular a platform as you’re going to find, it flopped. Not sure focusing on Medicare 4 All or whatever one’s favorite pet cause is would have helped much. She also wasn’t lacking in charisma the way Hillary was. Support for the genocide almost certainly hurt her with young voters, but I kinda doubt that’s what’s driving the massive wave of Latinos voting for Trump. Also she didn’t do that much worse in Arab-heavy Michigan than the rest of the Midwest.
I think we have a Twitter/Fox/NYT/WaPo media ecosystem that’s completely captured by billionaire perverts and conventional political campaigning is sort of powerless against endless waves of messages about illegals coming over to rape your children.
Best we can hope for is that they crash the economy and badly mismanage the country the way fascists always do and everyone gets pissed off.
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Any wish list items for the lame duck that we absolutely wont get?
If she’s that against immigration it’s just a win for Kamala that she didn’t vote for Trump.
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Shifting from voting Trump to not voting is a gain of one vote. Shifting from voting Trump to voting Harris is a gain of two votes.
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Had no idea when I left the country in 2015 that it was the perfect timing to do so.
Now time to look into citizenship.
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Fair enough.
I also felt somewhat consoled by overhearing her next conversation with a separate housemate about how shape shifters are 100% real because she saw one when she wasn’t high on PCP. Some people are living in a different reality.
Edit: She also said she was mad at Kamala for claiming she is African American when she’s really Jamaican.
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How many kanji would I need to memorize to become a Japanese citizen? I think I’m up to a few dozen.
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So she’s basically just the kind of crazy fucker our electorate is full of. Got it.
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Yes. I started just saying hmm, okay once she said stuff like this. I can admit when I don’t have a chance of reaching a person. Maybe she feels the same about me now.
Biden should resign like 3 days before the end of the term, so Kamala becomes 47th president. Then, all the maga chuds that bought 47th president tshirts will need to buy new shirts.
we got em.
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I am 100% in favor of this level of petty.
Edit: also that could go in the grifting thread.
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Yet another issue going forward is the Dems have completely ceded the memes of production to the right. Youth rightward shift will continue until it’s once again cool to be an online leftist. Until then the kids will continue to translate Hitler speeches on TikTok
I have no idea how to fix it, or if its fixable at all
I’m so far gone from last night I thought that was where I was posting, lol
Just fucking TROLOLOLOLOLOL at seriously pitching “be more business friendly” as a winning strategy. What in the everloving fuck.