Current Affairs 2024 POTUS race

[NeroCeasar]

Really bummed out for you Legs, maybe you could find some Irish ancestry and move over here? We are reasonably light on complete mentallers, and they're mostly out west anyway

There is a least one in Cork

 

[BlueTX]

Mate you elected Kennedy a serial adulterer with ties to the mob, and Bill Clinton - enough said about his truth and character, also Doobyah with his little vial of talcum powder in the UN, Trump's way worse than those on many different levels, but the office of president has had more than a fair share of past inhabitants of dubious truth and character in it

This is whataboutism on a very silly level.

 

[Frenk]

It doesn't feel quite as depressing to be British anymore

It’s even more depressing being an Everton fan

 

[LinekersLegs]

real life Handmaids Tale is right around the corner

One of the few positives about to tonight is that several states have put in portections for abortion rights





Even Florida had a majority vote of 58.2% (more than De Santis won by in 22), unfortunately 60% was the threshold,

However how voters can simultaneously reject these bans yet support a Trump/Vance admin baffles me.

 

[john jako]

He’s like a drunk dad at a wedding now with this speech

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. The Democrats should be ashamed of themselves for putting the US in this position three elections in a row. Are you seriously telling that this was the best they could put against Donald 'kin Trump?! Ffs.......

 

[Amw79]

Serious question here but are there any positives that can be taken from another Trump presidency?

At least we don’t have to witness endless unsavoury conspiracy theories about stolen elections, and illegal schemes to overthrow an election.

We’ll see a normal, peaceful transfer of power and hopefully some honest reflection and repositioning from the losing party.

 

[Eggs]

…..just think at some point over the next 4 years, JD Vance could be POTUS

Amazed at the size of Trump’s youngest, hope they’re not planning on a family dynasty.

 

[hirons11]

It’s even more depressing being an Everton fan

American Evertonians - ouch!!!

 

[tsubaki]

There has been no point at which I have not thought that filthy piece of distended rectum would win since it announced it was running again, but I still feel like the world has just passed a terrible inflection point.

Game over for the environment.
Game over for Ukraine.
Game over for Palestine.
Game over for women.
More MAGA Scotuses.
Trade wars pushing global prices up further when everyone's already at breaking point.

It is possible to get too down about this. Things have to happen for things to get better, but this may lead to a better outcome in the end.

Firstly this has to be seen as the final failure of centrist, triangulated, “West Wing” style cosplay politics that has dominated Western politics for the past thirty years. In every aspect of governance - economic, foreign policy, human rights, technological progress - they’ve been shown up as failures and now with this defeat they can’t even claim to be good at politics.

Their time should have ended after 2016 but now it has to see the Democrats remove from power the people responsible for this - and by that I don’t mean Harris (who I think aside from a couple of errors ran as a good a campaign as she could have), I mean the strategists and the leaders in the House and Senate who decided to fight this election by using court cases timed to go off around this campaign and raised the spectre of a risk to democracy rather than develop candidates and policies that would actually appeal to people. There is no better example of this than the talk over the economy, which is at a macro level much better than it was under Trump but which never acknowledges that for most people they can see how bad things are in terms of medical costs, job terms and conditions and so on.

Secondly this result looks like it will force the EU, and us, into a position where it’s abundantly clear that we have to look after our own interests and actually deal with the remaining issues that are harming our democracies. That means actually dealing with the dark money - and far more of it came from the US than it did Russia or anywhere else, dealing with the social media firms and disinformation, getting a credible independent military / military industrial base, accelerating the spread of renewables and independent energy generation and an independent foreign policy. This doesn’t and shouldn’t mean the end of NATO but it does mean we shouldn’t be in a position to be blackmailed with threats of the US leaving. FWIW I think this also ramps up massively the likelihood of the UK rejoining the EU in the next five years.

Most of all though this should really be an opportunity for the US to look at the outrageous liberties that have been run with their country for decades, which have been unchallenged by both parties. Musk claims there are two trillion dollars that could be cut from the federal government’s budget and whilst I have no faith he’d do that in any way that didn’t benefit himself, he is not wrong; Medicare / Medicaid alone is a system that has been looted by the drug and medical insurance industries for years for example.

Trump is almost certainly going to obviously fail to do anything about these but highlighting them should give someone down the line the opportunity to raise them as an issue finally, which if it comes from a reformed and much more capable Democrats is going to deliver an actual success next time around.

 

[BlueandWhite]

It was over as soon as he pretended to be shot.

 

[Eidean]

Kind of funny she was an Avid Diddy party goer being backed by Celebs / Athletes who we're frequent diddy party Enjoyers.

& he’s a rapist who was mates with Epstein.

What a country.

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

Not surprised when Arnold f'ing Schwarzenegger can become a governor....as if that isn't a general warning.

 

[Frenk]

It was over as soon as he pretended to be shot.

I don’t like him but how did he pretend to be shot?

 

[Rita_Poon]

A victory for money above anything else. america is for sale and if your rich enough you can run the entire show.

the land of the free and the home of the brave. get in the bin and rot.