US Presidential Election 2024

[rushy]

Oct 30, 2024 7:17:56 GMT iank said:

If Harris wins, we're ALL cooked.

why

[iank]

Have you not been around the last 4 years? Theey're incompetent to dangerous degrees and sadly what happens in the US trickles down to the rest of us...

[rushy]

Oct 31, 2024 17:37:42 GMT iank said:

Have you not been around the last 4 years? Theey're incompetent to dangerous degrees and sadly what happens in the US trickles down to the rest of us...

I live in Estonia, the US barely knows we exist. 

In any case, I'll take incompetence over Trump's Goldfinger shtick

[Bernard Marx]

But Stan, don't you know? It's always between a giant douche and a turd sandwich. Nearly every election since the beginning of time has been between some douche and some turd. They're the only people who suck up enough to make it that far in politics.

-South Park.

[Ludders II]

Oct 31, 2024 17:37:42 GMT iank said:

Have you not been around the last 4 years? Theey're incompetent to dangerous degrees and sadly what happens in the US trickles down to the rest of us...

Or the last 8 years? I'm not endorsing the Dems, but that also sounds like a pretty good reason NOT to vote Trump.

[Bernard Marx]

Five votes for Jill Stein, one for an abstention, and only two for the major parties.

These results emphatically demonstrate that the Hive is neither right-wing (as falsely portrayed by some of its opponents) *nor* a concentrated mass of neoliberal conformism (a description often applicable to said opponents).

[Bernard Marx]

Oct 31, 2024 23:10:33 GMT Ludders II said:

Or the last 8 years?

Make that the last 40+ years. Having said that, I reckon the US is incessantly approaching ever-new nadirs…

[Ludders II]

Oct 31, 2024 23:20:47 GMT Bernard Marx said:

Oct 31, 2024 23:10:33 GMT Ludders II said:

Or the last 8 years?

Make that the last 40+ years. Having said that, I reckon the US is incessantly approaching ever-new nadirs…

Quite.

[burrunjor]

I hate to quote NPH but if there was ever a time for the "Vell Zhat's Alright Then" meme surely this was it. 

[Bernard Marx]

So it’s happening tonight. To return to the final paragraph of Clockwork’s original post- who do you guys think will win it?

[rushy]

Harris seems more likely. Trump has his diehard fanbase, but he doesn't have the same energy and movement behind him as he did in 2016, or even 2020. I think Biden quitting rattled him, his campaign never recovered from it

[iank]

Trump, unless they cheat again, which is entirely possible.

[burrunjor]

Oct 31, 2024 20:24:16 GMT Bernard Marx said:

But Stan, don't you know? It's always between a giant douche and a turd sandwich. Nearly every election since the beginning of time has been between some douche and some turd. They're the only people who suck up enough to make it that far in politics.

-South Park.

I think John Lennon put it in a less dude bro way LOL. 

"There's room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill. If you want to be like the folks on the hill."

Same applies but I guess it's giggle in Kamala Harris' case. 

[rushy]

Trump was already rambling about how Democrats are cheating in this election before it even got started. He's as predictable as clockwork these days. Of course they're cheating. It can't be that Trump would actually lose, noooo, it always has to be a cheat or interference with this man.

[Ludders II]

Hard call, I kinda feel like it's gonna be Harris, but I find myself wondering if America is ready to accept the idea of a female president.
I agree with Rushy about Trump, but I also feel that conservativism is dyed in the wool of the white American psyche.
If I was a betting man I'd take a gamble on Harris, but not a very solid one.