Current Affairs 2024 POTUS race

[Blue 1]

there'll be a slow down in the move toward green energy. The US is the second biggest carbon emitter, this affects everyone.
he'll likely juice the economy by cutting taxes, ballooning national debt and causing a bubble. This will have a huge effect on the global economy.

The Ukranian war would end straight away with victory for Putin. He would then quickly take Moldova and set up a huge presence all along the EU border. I cant say whether this will cause a war but it will raise tensions and cause huge military spending across the region. There'll be a new cold war un till it goes hot.

Backing Israel to the hilt will increase the genocide in Gaza, open a new genocide in the West Bank and further destabilize the region. There'll be further terrorist attacks across Europe.

There'll be a proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

China will take total control of Taiwan and the semi conductor business as well as the south China sea giving them far more control over South Korea, Japan, and places like Vietnam.

Daft tariff policies will upend global markets.

Dictators and Theocrats across the globe will be emboldened and marginalized people will suffer everywhere.

Thats just some reasons the world will suffer if there's a new Trump presidency.
Remember, this time there wont be any reasonable Republicans to try and control the mess.

Cheers, saved me a job there.

 

[emir]

If so, they don’t seem to be taking many of its teachings to heart.

Thou shalt not worship false idols.

I agree.

 

[trueblue84]

Thou shalt not worship false idols.

I agree.

 

[Bishop Thumpety-Thump]

Thou shalt not worship false idols.

I agree.

So what do you think of those MAGA weirdos wearing hats that say God, guns and Trump? Isn't that worshipping a false idol?

 

[Kurt.]

Well, the Bible is read by mostly Trump supporters

And we all know how truthful that book is

 

[Wizard]

 

[JP5]

His policies will be inflationary for the US and deflationary for the rest of the world.

The above will exclude the impact of a less independent Fed as well …

 

[RAFUH]

LAKE LURE, N.C. — Federal emergency response personnel on Saturday had employees operating in hard-hit Rutherford County, N.C., stop working and move to a different area because of concerns over “armed militia” threatening government workers in the region, according to an email sent to federal agencies helping with response in the state. Around 1 p.m. Saturday, an official with the U.S. Forest Service, which is supporting recovery efforts after Hurricane Helene along with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, sent an urgent message to numerous federal agencies warning that “FEMA has advised all federal responders Rutherford County, NC, to stand down and evacuate the county immediately. The message stated that National Guard troops ‘had come across x2 trucks of armed militia saying there were out hunting FEMA.’” “The IMTs [incident management teams] have been notified and are coordinating the evacuation of all assigned personnel in that county,” the email added.

Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-10-13/armed-militia-hurricane-helene-15497437.html
Source - Stars and Stripes

 

[ste d' indica]

LAKE LURE, N.C. — Federal emergency response personnel on Saturday had employees operating in hard-hit Rutherford County, N.C., stop working and move to a different area because of concerns over “armed militia” threatening government workers in the region, according to an email sent to federal agencies helping with response in the state. Around 1 p.m. Saturday, an official with the U.S. Forest Service, which is supporting recovery efforts after Hurricane Helene along with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, sent an urgent message to numerous federal agencies warning that “FEMA has advised all federal responders Rutherford County, NC, to stand down and evacuate the county immediately. The message stated that National Guard troops ‘had come across x2 trucks of armed militia saying there were out hunting FEMA.’” “The IMTs [incident management teams] have been notified and are coordinating the evacuation of all assigned personnel in that county,” the email added.

Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-10-13/armed-militia-hurricane-helene-15497437.html
Source - Stars and Stripes

Jeezus f'in christ...

 

[Pittsburgh Footy]

Data/facts/policy - nothing matters any more

We live in an age of carefully curated disinformation and propaganda

And an Us vs. Them winner take all political climate

 

[BlueTX]

 

[pfim]

LAKE LURE, N.C. — Federal emergency response personnel on Saturday had employees operating in hard-hit Rutherford County, N.C., stop working and move to a different area because of concerns over “armed militia” threatening government workers in the region, according to an email sent to federal agencies helping with response in the state. Around 1 p.m. Saturday, an official with the U.S. Forest Service, which is supporting recovery efforts after Hurricane Helene along with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, sent an urgent message to numerous federal agencies warning that “FEMA has advised all federal responders Rutherford County, NC, to stand down and evacuate the county immediately. The message stated that National Guard troops ‘had come across x2 trucks of armed militia saying there were out hunting FEMA.’” “The IMTs [incident management teams] have been notified and are coordinating the evacuation of all assigned personnel in that county,” the email added.

Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-10-13/armed-militia-hurricane-helene-15497437.html
Source - Stars and Stripes

Truly despicable.

 

[davek]

It looks like the failure of black and Hispanic men to get behind Harris compared with their backing for previous Democratic candidates is going to make this an unnecessarily close race.

Harris could be denied the WH by sexism in these groups especially...not that white males will be less so, it's just that the Democrats rely on black and Hispanic voters to make them competitive.

 

[Blue 1]

It looks like the failure of black and Hispanic men to get behind Harris compared with their backing for previous Democratic candidates is going to make this an unnecessarily close race.

Harris could be denied the WH by sexism in these groups especially...not that white males will be less so, it's just that the Democrats rely on black and Hispanic voters to make them competitive.

I have thought this is a problem for a while. The streets are for Trump.

 

[davek]

I have thought this is a problem for a while. The streets are for Trump.

All the polls have tightened up this week showing Harris' lead down by a couple of % points. Personally I think pollsters might be beginning to weight their polls now to avoid their failure in 2016 and 2020 to forecast the "late Trump surge" (as they spared their blushes with).

I've never believed in the '4%-5% Harris lead' headlines. They seemed like baloney to me.

This is down to thousands of votes in possibly a single battleground state.