If it weren’t for the Electoral College, the election would not even be close. I predict Harris will get 52% of the popular vote. And still might not win.
Politics
Thou Thou
Indeed it will.
I think I need to practice shooting again. Might need that in this country soon enough. It’s hard to find a shooting range outside of the military, though, where you can target shoot anything more than 300 meters out. The kind of shooting I’d need to do, I’d want a range with targets out to a thousand meters. I’m very good at all distances but I’m great at long range. And I’m getting too old to jump out of planes and run around in trenches and that kinda shit.
Not all liberals are afraid of guns.
That Light is a Nuke
Fuck me, if Trump wins, Ukraine will be crushed and thus there is an 80% chance we will be fighting in Poland by 2032. Same for the South China Sea but that’s like 90%+. Trump absolutely will sell out Ukraine, Taiwan and all our allies.
If Harris wins, there’s still a large chance of the above but it’s more like 30% for Poland and 70% for SCS. Better, but not great.
WWIII, here we come I guess. Fucking hell.
Narrative Control
Polls for the presidential election are gonna be way, way wrong again and then we’ll have to spend another four fucking years being gaslit about how “the polls were really correct” and that “the experts actually did get it right” when anyone with an ounce of sense and statistics knowledge can tell that’s just utter bullshit.
I’m really looking forward to that.
Cow Wards
They are afraid of what will happen if Trump wins. Fucking cowards.
Brotopia Cannot Exist
‘They’re Just Over It’: How Trump Has Converted Male Frustration Into a Movement.
The reaction in many ways doesn’t make a lot of sense (as in actually solving anything1), but that there was a backlash is completely predictable.
For a couple of decades now since it curdled into uselessness, feminism has been spouting the idea that men are inherently evil (Schrödinger’s rapist), that an unattractive man just minding his own business and existing is “creepy,” and that men are responsible and accountable for everything, while women should have power with no responsibility or accountability.
Needless to say, that puts many men off and makes them angry. Including me. I just don’t think that punishing or hating women for it will actually fix anything. Nor will voting for Trump.
But yeah, it’s perfectly understandable to not want to vote for a party that’s supported people and still contains some people that tell you that you are inherently terrible.
Big fucking shock.
Elden
That is messed up indeed. It’s possible that the election from the popular vote perspective will be a blowout for Harris but Trump still might squeak out a legit win due to those elderly white people and our doofy Elector College system. No coup required.
We really might see Harris win the popular vote by 54%+ but still lose. Now won’t that be something.
Rattus
This is a Fox News ratfuck designed to suppress turnout among Latino Dems. There’ll be tons of this the closer we get to the election.
Throw Over
I give this a fairly high probability.
Knife
I agree with Noah Smith here.
Although it’s not possible to know for certain what the consequences of a second Trump presidency would be, it’s very possible that it would result in the U.S. essentially surrendering its European allies to Russia and its Asian allies to China — thus dramatically weakening America’s own ability to resist those enemies in the future.
This is an extremely likely outcome of a Trump victory. And that, therefore, will make WWIII far more likely as well. Either that, or the below — followed by WWIII.
If the U.S. abandons resistance to China and Russia, it will go very badly for America’s allies. Europe will probably fracture again, with some states (probably including Germany) falling all over themselves to appease the Russians. Russia will then become a sort of de facto hegemon in Europe. In Asia, China would probably conquer Taiwan, cutting off U.S. semiconductor supplies and establishing Chinese hegemony in East Asia. Japan and South Korea would then be forced to choose between either becoming nuclear powers or becoming de facto satrapies of the new Chinese empire. Essentially, America’s major allies would fall to America’s enemies.
It is indeed, as Noah observes, a very dangerous time.
Incap
It’s pretty obvious from watching and listening to Trump that he’s gone downhill even more than Biden has. Politics aside, he’s not fit to be president simply for health and mental capacity reasons.
If you vote for Trump, your actual prez will be J.D. Vance whether or not he holds that title officially.
Pocketed
Trump is in Putin’s pocket and if he wins, it’ll go very badly for Ukraine.
Ryan Air
Regardless of why Jeri Ryan was added to the cast of Voyager, as an actor she was the best part of the show. The eps focused on her were better than all the rest, and she exhibited more range than the rest of the cast except perhaps Katherine Mulgrew (Janeway).
I couldn’t find it on YouTube and it’s been twenty years since I watched it, but there was one episode where Seven was talking about her difficulty in integrating back into human society after the trauma of being assimilated into the Borg and then the further shock of having to leave that behind and adapt to a now-foreign culture. It was just perfect and heartbreaking. Jeri did a lot with a little and I always appreciated how much she gave to what could’ve been just a trivial eye candy part.
Unfortunately, she helped elect Obama by accident. She didn’t mean to, so I don’t hate her for it.
Veeper
People really overestimate the amount of power a Vice President has (nearly none most of the time) and underestimate the amount of power a President has. At least, in the US system.
Empty Vessel Makes the Greatest Sound
But the “experts” told me that the 2016 and 2020 polls were eleventy billion percent correct and anyone who doubts this is a horrible, terrible, no-good conspiracy theorist. You mean they were just protecting their own self-interest? Why, that never happens!