Elerond Posted yesterday at 08:02 AM Share Posted yesterday at 08:02 AM One thing that people don't talk yet is that Harris can still declare herself as president in January 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceVC Posted yesterday at 08:03 AM Share Posted yesterday at 08:03 AM 1 minute ago, Chairchucker said: Like I said, no voter ID required. Just use some common security questions I guess. Yes but just to be clear, the list they have on you is that the voters role? What I want to understand is where do they get that information from that they check the security questions. Im trying to compare it to South African elections to be clear on the differences in how you vote "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceVC Posted yesterday at 08:05 AM Share Posted yesterday at 08:05 AM 4 minutes ago, Lexx said: Apparently voter turnout was much lower than last time. It's just such a lol thing. I guess democratic voters were so sure of winning that they felt no need to go to vote... again. Just like last time with Trump. That will be interesting if true because then the question will be " why didnt the same number of people vote " if this election was as important compared to other elections? "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceVC Posted yesterday at 08:07 AM Share Posted yesterday at 08:07 AM 3 minutes ago, Elerond said: One thing that people don't talk yet is that Harris can still declare herself as president in January 6 I can guarantee you we wont hear anyone say "this election was stolen " "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairchucker Posted yesterday at 08:08 AM Share Posted yesterday at 08:08 AM 4 minutes ago, BruceVC said: Yes but just to be clear, the list they have on you is that the voters role? What I want to understand is where do they get that information from that they check the security questions. Im trying to compare it to South African elections to be clear on the differences in how you vote Probably. I don't pay too much attention to what the book is they're flicking through. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bugarup Posted yesterday at 08:21 AM Share Posted yesterday at 08:21 AM Oh well. The lesson all other countries should take from this is never, ever neglect your education systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexx Posted yesterday at 08:36 AM Share Posted yesterday at 08:36 AM 15 minutes ago, bugarup said: Oh well. The lesson all other countries should take from this is never, ever neglect your education systems. Unless you want this outcome. 1 "only when you no-life you can exist forever, because what does not live cannot die." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melkathi Posted yesterday at 08:47 AM Share Posted yesterday at 08:47 AM And they do want this outcome. Look at Greece removing art from the syllabus and replacing it with cheerleading. Unobtrusively informing you about my new ebook (which you should feel free to read and shower with praise). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majestic Posted 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago (edited) 2 hours ago, Lexx said: If Trump will win, I have lost my trust in all of you americans. /Edit: Did a quick google. I really can't understand this. wtf, americans are some of the dumbest people on the planet. If any american around here feels insulted now, yeah, you probably should be. This is just absolutely embarrassing for your country. Says the guy from AfDmany. Don't misunderestimate (sic, best Bushism ) me, my own reaction to this quagmire mirrors yours, but it is problematic to cast stones while sitting in the proverbial glass house. More so for me than you, because technically the AfD isn't the strongest party in the Bundestag just yet, but you'll get there. Eventually. Just like we did. We don't need to look that far away and try to understand this Trump victory. We have Orban, Wilders, Kickl, Höcke, Weidel, Le Pen and Kaczynski as well as Wagenknecht from the other side of the spectrum (sort of). The Brits had their funny Trump copy, there's on the other side of the planet, even when not looking at the US, there's the Argentinian nutjob Milei, there was the Brazilian nutjob Bolsonaro. Not like our population is any smarter, we just have other parties people can funnel their frustration with the establishment into, as you can see with the meteoric rise of the BSW in Germany's eastern federal states. The biggest advantage we have over the US is that our voting systems usually do not have a "the winner takes it all" feature, but even in Europe you can point at the nations that do and their weird election results. Like, well, the Brits, where Keir Starmer's Labour won almost two thirds of the seats with 33% in the popular vote. Keir Starmer of course immediately proceeded to be just another establishment politician. Or France, where candidates were forced to not run to produce a win for everyone who was not in the Front Rassemblement National. Edited 23 hours ago by majestic No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexx Posted 22 hours ago Share Posted 22 hours ago (edited) 41 minutes ago, majestic said: Says the guy from AfDmany. Don't misunderestimate (sic, best Bushism ) me, my own reaction to this quagmire mirrors yours, but it is problematic to cast stones while sitting in the proverbial glass house. More so for me than you, because technically the AfD isn't the strongest party in the Bundestag just yet, but you'll get there. Eventually. Just like we did. Nah, I expected this response. EU is not better at all. However, if something like this shifts in Germany, most of the world couldn't care less. Meanwhile the USA have a *huge* influence on the rest of the world. That's the big difference. Also the US have the biggest military power in the world, which means it's technically a danger to all of us. I don't want them to be a super nazi state. German military is a joke. If we go to war, half our soldiers will call in sick leave and the rest didn't even had basic training yet. Edited 22 hours ago by Lexx 1 1 "only when you no-life you can exist forever, because what does not live cannot die." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elerond Posted 22 hours ago Share Posted 22 hours ago 12 minutes ago, Lexx said: Also the US have the biggest military power in the world, which means it's technically a danger to all of us. I don't want them to be a super nazi state. German military is a joke. If we go to war, half our soldiers will call in sick leave and the rest didn't even had basic training yet. Don't worry this election result will mean that European countries will build their military up in fast pace which is not anything to worry over considering that nationalist have won last elections almost every country in Europe in countries past elections. And as history teach us Europe never goes war when it has nationalist governments that put trillions in new armaments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Also gorgon Posted 21 hours ago Share Posted 21 hours ago AWW MAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoonDing Posted 21 hours ago Share Posted 21 hours ago Hillary at least won the popular vote... Trump will get 5 million more than Harris. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexx Posted 21 hours ago Share Posted 21 hours ago 1 hour ago, Elerond said: Don't worry this election result will mean that European countries will build their military up in fast pace which is not anything to worry over considering that nationalist have won last elections almost every country in Europe in countries past elections. And as history teach us Europe never goes war when it has nationalist governments that put trillions in new armaments. War and military is extremely unpopular in Germany. I'm pretty sure whatever party will re-introduce the military draft is going to lose the next election. Currently we are pretty much using our anti-war sentiment to just do the same as always-- absolutely nothing. The only ones winning are the people invested in the arms trade, that's the only thing we're stocking up in. 1 "only when you no-life you can exist forever, because what does not live cannot die." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceVC Posted 21 hours ago Share Posted 21 hours ago 14 minutes ago, Lexx said: War and military is extremely unpopular in Germany. I'm pretty sure whatever party will re-introduce the military draft is going to lose the next election. Currently we are pretty much using our anti-war sentiment to just do the same as always-- absolutely nothing. The only ones winning are the people invested in the arms trade, that's the only thing we're stocking up in. But do you not think the EU needs to its own well resourced and funded military that is effective and independent of the US in most areas where reasonable? And Germany would be a part of that as the strongest economy? "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elerond Posted 21 hours ago Share Posted 21 hours ago 7 minutes ago, BruceVC said: But do you not think the EU needs to its own well resourced and funded military that is effective and independent of the US in most areas where reasonable? And Germany would be a part of that as the strongest economy? EU already has well resourced and funded military. EU's defense expenditure is over 200 billion euros per year (so only USA and China use more money to their military), but EU's military is controlled by member nations and their military alliances, not the union itself. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted 20 hours ago Share Posted 20 hours ago 4 hours ago, BruceVC said: The interesting part now will be how effective Trump will be in addressing these core issues, border\illegal migration and the economy: inflation Dubious 1 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago I bet you it was Russian nazis that flipped WI to red. Or maybe it was @Bartimaeus 1 1 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PK htiw klaw eriF Posted 18 hours ago Share Posted 18 hours ago So as things roll on and the dust settles some thots: 1) Total voting looks on track to be more than 10 million less than four years ago. In some ways this feels very much like 2016 again, with two deeply unpopular candidates running and there not being much enthusiasm for the dems while gop is animated with cult adoration. Overall I think a read of this as a broad rejection of the Biden administration (and the continuation of it via Harris) is probably more correct than people generally becoming maga. 2) The momentum from Kamala replacing Biden completely evaporated in the face of the laughable centrism of dem strategists. Dems managed to alienate potential voters with wishy washy nothings on pretty much everything while all outreach to Republicans yielded jack ****. Again I think the dem strategy of taking progressive and minority voters for granted while they chase conservatives is a huge mistake and by God are we seeing that unfold. 3) Things are either going to go to **** or it's going to be a situation where a Trump bi/trifecta doesn't do anything because they only have concepts of a plan, if that. Maybe 50/50 split. Either way we'll probably see Dems really win in 2026. Assuming they don't **** it up by uncritically supporting a genocide or trying to beat Trump on the border. 4) While I don't think Trump goes away with Trump (assuming he does go away), I do think the reorientation of the GOP as a cult dedicated to him is going to collapse because he doesn't have a successor and doesn't care to appoint one. Will be a nasty fight to claim his mantle and even so won't really guarantee Trump level support, in many ways Trump is lightning in a bottle that probably won't be replicated by losers like Rhonda Sanctimonious or Rammyswammy or Lyin Ted. 1 "Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic "you're a damned filthy lying robot and you deserve to die and burn in hell." - Bartimaeus "Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander "Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador "You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort "thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex "Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock "Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco "we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii "I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing "feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth "Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi "Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor "I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine "I love cheese despite the pain and carnage." - ShadySands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceVC Posted 18 hours ago Share Posted 18 hours ago https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/06/black-latino-voters-boost-donald-trump-election-victory/76084362007/ Here is some interesting data , Hispanic support for Trump helped him achieve his massive gains and win " A realignment among Latino voters – and a smaller shift among Black voters in key swing states− helped catapult Donald Trump to his election victory over Kamala Harris as the Republican nominee expanded his support by peeling off voters from two core Democratic constituencies." " Although Trump didn’t win a majority of either group, he won support from about 13% of Black voters nationally and 45% of Latino voters, according to CNN exit polls. In the 2020 election, Trump won just 8% of Black voters and 32% of Latinos." "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted 17 hours ago Share Posted 17 hours ago 42 minutes ago, PK htiw klaw eriF said: 2) The momentum from Kamala replacing Biden completely evaporated in the face of the laughable centrism of dem strategists. Dems managed to alienate potential voters with wishy washy nothings on pretty much everything while all outreach to Republicans yielded jack ****. Again I think the dem strategy of taking progressive and minority voters for granted while they chase conservatives is a huge mistake and by God are we seeing that unfold. Think they'll remedy this by going to the right ? Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjshae Posted 17 hours ago Share Posted 17 hours ago Well, the Democrats are now 0-2 running female candidates for Presidents. My conjecture is it will take a special female candidate to win the office for the first time (assuming there will be any future fair elections). To me, Harris lacks charisma and doesn't have a good speaking voice. I thought at the time that Biden made a non-optimal choice for VP, and now here's the consequence. As for the election whiner, well life is funny even when it's not. It was a "titanic" victory. 1 "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted 17 hours ago Share Posted 17 hours ago This is the butterfly effect from canceling gun clubs in US schools in the 80-90's. We wouldnt be having this discussion if the bullet would have been 3 inches to the right. The nazi long game wins again. 3 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceVC Posted 17 hours ago Share Posted 17 hours ago 5 minutes ago, rjshae said: Well, the Democrats are now 0-2 running female candidates for Presidents. My conjecture is it will take a special female candidate to win the office for the first time (assuming there will be any future fair elections). To me, Harris lacks charisma and doesn't have a good speaking voice. I thought at the time that Biden made a non-optimal choice for VP, and now here's the consequence. As for the election whiner, well life is funny even when it's not. It was a "titanic" victory. But I dont think it should ever be an effective strategy to use race or gender as a reason to vote for someone That doesn't resonate with most people anymore, the policies and current issues in any Democracy is what really matters to voters. There are lots of examples of excellent female PM\presidents or leaders throughout the world so its not like there arent examples of this Part of the Dems strategy or the perception of Harris success was " she is a black female " and that alone would be enough Thats how it was covered in our media by many commentators "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceVC Posted 17 hours ago Share Posted 17 hours ago 4 minutes ago, Gfted1 said: This is the butterfly effect from canceling gun clubs in US schools in the 80-90's. We wouldnt be having this discussion if the bullet would have been 3 inches to the right. The nazi long game wins again. If Trump had been killed he would have become a martyr and the GOP possibly gaining more support from the " Deep State " crowd And that wouldnt have changed the core issues that Americans voted on? And imagine Vance as president, thats worse than Trump IMO "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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