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chainsaw

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  1. Where would you recommend someone relocate to
  2. 90% of Americans aren't paying attention because they're too exhausted trying to eke out a living or they're too distracted by stupid bullshit. Either way, we're in Idiocracy.
  3. I am not glad Kamala lost. It's unforgivable what Bibi was willing to do to influence this election. But at a certain point I just want the killing to stop.
  4. Good thing for a bad reason is still a good thing
  5. I'm not sure that theory explains it. In all of those races there were probably alarm bells that clued people into the eventual results. Nobody understands the working class like Dick Cheney
  6. Who sounded the alarms? The data was not projecting an enthusiasm gap in this direction or of this magnitude. I can believe the results (this is what I feared would happen to Biden or a post-Honeymoon Harris) but what I am having a hard time believing is that this was a complete shock to the insiders. These kinds of things don't just happen without a bunch of leading indicators in agreement. It's really not that different from hurricane forecasts. I've never seen anything this far outside the cone.
  7. Yes, silicon valley is fond of Zuckerberg-style mass deployments of unvetted, unethical social experiments. They took the formula that radicalized the Boomers and let it loose on the others. They all self-radicalized.
  8. I think you just described Initech
  9. Here's the problem I see with Gen Alpha, Gen Z, and Millennial men: there's no way to change them. They are driven by entitlement. The have been force-fed propaganda about how they're failures unless they have trad wives and nuclear family to rule over. This has fundamentally changed who they are deep down and what their values are. Once the GOP accomplished that, the only thing they needed to do was make clear appeals to those values. The details never mattered. Trump is the guy who "fights" for those values, and everyone standing in his way is the enemy. They don't know or care what Project 2025 is, and the few who did look into it said "that sounds great!"
  10. Biden has been the most progressive president of our lifetimes and he holds the all-time record for the most votes.
  11. The part I agree with is that "Trump Bad" is a losing message. I voiced my concerns about this many times in the other threads, about how all these clapback and snark videos were implementing the wrong strategy. I didn't want to be right, though.
  12. I'm sure they will immediately reform the tax code to match the campaign promises about tips and overtime.
  13. I disagree. The "big tent" strategy no longer works. If it's true that Harris failed at the one thing she needed to do (drive up turnout) then we should gather as much data as we can about the people who stayed home. I have a feeling they didn't stay home because she was from California. If the racism/misogyny theory holds, then a bold Gavin Newsom who stands up to Trump could energize the people who had stayed home.
  14. We're numb to everything and anything Trump does. But we were not prepared to see Biden look as frail and doddering as he looked that fateful night.
  15. He's a gay though. 55% of the country think there's something wrong with that (NTTAWWT)
  16. The biggest "winner" is Gavin Newsom. Kept his powder dry, was a good soldier, and he will be leading up the "resistance" for four years
  17. Wouldn't the internals and turnout data have foretold all this, though? Journos are pretty good at knowing who's feeling confident behind the scenes and why. Meanwhile Charlie Kirk and Pee Wee German were freaking the fuck out, especially about the gender gap. This wasn't just a polling miss, it was an everything miss.
  18. This could be copium, or maybe sour grapes, but I agree with you. It's not adding up.
  19. These numbers are really no different from what I expected from Biden if he'd stayed in. Allowing him to run for re-election in the first place was a massive miscalculation by the party. What shocks me is that none of the 2016-style alarm bells were going off, and all the favorability numbers and conventional wisdom were saying this would either be a close race or a blowout in Harris's favor. Taylor Swift getting all those new registrations? All these records being shattered in big cities? Fewer Trump signs and people falling asleep at his rallies? The Dobbs effect? Her massive cash advantage and all these field offices and organized ground game? Was all of that a big lie? The only thing I knew to be true going into last night was that Mexican-Americans have absolutely abandoned the Democrats, perhaps forever. I sensed it on a recent trip to the RGV, and last night's results confirmed it. Hillary Clinton won Starr County by nearly 80 percent, Biden barely held onto it, and this year it went red by a lot. "Fun" Fact: Starr County is the first place where a DA prosecuted a woman for having an abortion, before Dobbs. Harris also lost the population centers of McAllen and Brownsville. That was unthinkable twenty years ago. RGV has now become a mini West Virginia, where only incumbent Dems with strong name recognition have any chance. I think Harris ran a near-perfect campaign. She did not make the mistakes Hillary made. This one's on the voters.
  20. The DNC is a model of incompetency and it starts at the top.
  21. That map with all the red arrows on it, we can try to dissect it or overanalyze it. I wouldn't. It only means that propaganda works. The tech bros have won. Condolences.
  22. Next up, Goofus?
  23. They've done a great job of not releasing any details about Pop's illness
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