Current Affairs 2024 POTUS race

[WA Toffee]

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

He's only allowed to be president twice, so we never have to hear about him again after this

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

Said it before and I'll say it again, the USA is a third world nation that goes around wearing a Gucci belt.

 

[BlueTX]

Biden was able to win in 2020 for much the same reasons that Trump appears to have won now - the administration didnt deal well with a crisis that emerged because they hadnt got the country in a place that it could have dealt with it. For Trump that was COVID, for Biden/Harris it was Palestine.

Palestine?

Mate, foreign affairs did not lose this election for the Dems. Relentless messaging for 4 years about gas prices and crime by the right-wing and trad media were far more instrumental.

That and the clear message the US is not to be led by a competent woman. Unless, perhaps, she rants like a populist.

 

[tantavisiteler]

Said it before and I'll say it again, the USA is a third world nation that goes around wearing a Gucci belt.

Muricans are really weird overall yeah. Never liked them, yanks

 

[blulouie]

Do the Friedkins like this ?

M.E.G.A.

 

[Rita_Poon]

not capone, not nixon, not gotti, not giulliani, but trump. Finally a gangster above the law.

god bless america.

 

[bluestevon]

The word was apt, btw.

Hardly anyone in the country who voted in 1960 knew about Kennedy's affairs or mob ties. The press kept things like that quiet 60+ years ago.

The imperfections of the men you cited quite simply pale in comparison, akin to a speeding violation versus armed robbery. If you cannot recognize this there's really nothing more to say.

Mate in my original post I did say that Trump was way worse than any of those on so many different levels. So yes I obviously can see that as I stated such.

The inflection point for me was Clinton though, prior to that yes it's sink a politician it's why Kennedy's etc never saw the light of day for decades, was it Hart eho saw his presidential nominee campaign sink like a stone after his affair came out?

But something changed with Clinton to the point a candidates morality and character just seemed to no longer matter, I think that was the point truth and character died, Trump is just the most stark illustration that yea it indeed has but already had done prior.

Same in the UK when it became ok for a prime minister to have been known to have f'cked a pigs head to get into a society at University.

 

[Chewbacca]

But then how did biden win? Is it time for a radical dem candidate? I just don't think Americans will vote for it...it's just a fundamentally selfish country..seems most 'normal' Trump voters was because they think the economy was better under him

Despite the facts

 

[Rita_Poon]

georgia won by 200k

some turn that.

 

[efcste97]

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

But then how did biden win? Is it time for a radical dem candidate? I just don't think Americans will vote for it...it's just a fundamentally selfish country..seems most 'normal' Trump voters was because they think the economy was better under him

I guess you have to be a raving populist nutter or a boring competent bloke

 

[Chewbacca]

He's only allowed to be president twice, so we never have to hear about him again after this

Only if there is another election

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Large swathes of Ukraine will be left to be annexed by Russia pretty darn quickly because of Trump's love for Putin. It'll set a dangerous precedent.

Itll be complex if Ukraine refuse. I suppose we'll see if Europe still has the metal of old.

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Biden was able to win in 2020 for much the same reasons that Trump appears to have won now - the administration didnt deal well with a crisis that emerged because they hadnt got the country in a place that it could have dealt with it. For Trump that was COVID, for Biden/Harris it was Palestine.

Don’t see it that way. For Americans this election was all about internal affairs. The economy, inflation, jobs.

In fact Trump would quite happily have Gaza and the Palestinians wiped off the map along with Iran.

 

[Prevenger17]

I guess you have to be a raving populist nutter or a boring competent bloke

I think this is closer to the truth of it