2024 U.S. Presidential Election Thread: Donald Trump wins & will return to the White House; GOP wins U.S. Senate & U.S. House

[NaijaProdigy Redux]

They do have a mandate if the numbers stay the way they are. AP have house, senate and popular vote all going for them wtf

Genuinely didn’t think I’d witness a day worse than in 2016

 

[Lootpack]

Moment of silence for the folks who woke up to this…

 

[HoldThisL]

Looking at these polls made me lose any sense of solidarity I had with other POC. Matter of fact Black people don't have any true allies regardless of what anybody says.

Why we gotta save the day for other "minorities" when the majority of them don't help us.

 

[ill_will82]

What’s been forgotten in all of this… fukking J.D. Vance is a Big Mac away from Presidency

All I got to say is this the folks in the new Senate/House is going to have to keep Trump & Vance in check.

 

[Trust Me]

All I got to say is this the folks in the new Senate/House is going to have to keep Trump & Vance in check.

Fam, they have the senate too.

 

[Pressure]

The one thing I've been steadfast about since I've been on this site despite the criticism is that voters are first and foremost cynical.

 

[Sghost597]

Just can't make this shyt up

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

They do have a mandate if the numbers stay the way they are. AP have house, senate and popular vote all going for them wtf

That's a full rejection across the board. It's hard to wrap my mind around such a comprehensive defeat.

 

[Absolut]

betting markets starting to slowly crawl back to kamala.

nate silver says kamala will still win.

i think we are about to see a reversal, but it’s going to be a long night.

in here hiding

 

[ill_will82]

Fam, they have the senate too.

Somebody eventually has to stand up for something then again, we're in the last days...

 

[RammerJammer]

Genuinely didn’t think I’d witness a day worse than in 2016

Yep, this is way worse than 2016, this was a beatdown.

And at least in 2016 we knew Trump was a bad candidate but we didn’t completely know what a Trump Presidency would look like

Now we do and we’re about to experience it again after all the felonies and the insurrection and the mishandling of Covid and other bullshyt.

 

[FreedMind]

I got 10k in savings and about to go peep out Spain. More than likely Portugal too.

When I find someplace, the little one gets brought to me and the baby momma and her man can find her way there if she chooses.

My girl ain’t staying here any longer than she needs to.

Gotta find a remote job tho.

Stack 20 and you'll be straight. 10 will evaporate quickly.

 

[Absolut]

That's a full rejection across the board. It's hard to wrap my mind around such a comprehensive defeat.

Is it? We told you what Americans were rejecting. Yet they kept pushing it

 

[Easy-E]

if they were radical, they wouldnt be expressing it through voting. they would be out doing shyt. most are the opposite of radical - they are seeking their 'bread and circuses' and are at least getting the circus from trump or online nihilism.

it starts with a terrible youth economy and cost of living in the midst of a lack of culture and community. they cant get a better job but they can get culture and community online. the only people who have any affinity for them tend to be the manosphere types who know their issues well and pretend to have answers. ultimately, the answer involves alt-right ideology which leads to trump or apolitical nihilism.

apolitical nihilism turns them into either dope, porn, or gaming addicts and takes them out of the discussion altogether. if they choose trump, he turns them into normal voters who dont do anything to upset the status quo and punch down at immigrants/minorities/women/LGBTQ when they need to blow off steam. functionally, it isnt any different than any other right wing voter in the past. they just have a different lingo, less church affiliation, and are often no longer occupying the same position in society as their parents.

the proud boys appeared kinda radical but they were always going to sell out to the republican power structure. their leader went from some capitalist that helped start vice, to a federal snitch who openly allowed a politician to control them. boogaloo boys are probably on the same path. real right wing radicals probably consider trump to be a slave to jews and would rather separate and run their own thing in the mountains somewhere.

Not looking to argue, but, in this country boys are taught to grow up and be fathers and husbands and provide for their families.

By the time they get 18--old enough to vote, the reality starts setting in, especially if they not going to college.

The majority of teachers are women--particularly white.

And boys are being told early; if you not measuring up to the standards of girls, you're failing.

Sorry, masculinity is a natural phenonium. And while there should be limits, boys ain't even being allowed to be themselves in grade school and college spaces.

Ain't much fight you can put up when parents only paid attention to report cards.

A lot of these online boys spaces are also teaching them ways to make money in nontraditional ways and are the only places in media affirming them.

Yes, 100% percent this places lean heavy conservative and racist.

But, the alternative is "step aside young men, girls are running shyt" or "You're success comes at the expense of women no matter how hard you work."

It's complicated.

But, in short--we've ignored them (young men/boys) and told them they don't really matter.

 

[John Mexico]

i'll tell you guys one thing

if republicans manage to pass a tax cut next year, bring down gas prices a little, throw up some border security, stock market stays consistent, one of these Hamas/Russia wars ends.....democrats are in real trouble going forward

"but we'll protect transing your kids" is not gonna cut it as a rebuttal

lol noppppeee

they dont have a policy for that or healthcare. its a nonissue on the right. I'm not necessarily sure his handlers will go through with some of these retard tariffs, but they've yes, permanently put an end to the cultural war. You aint gonna outright the right.

Even the trans shyt was a distraction. They were even pushing this in 2020, but the pandemic response was what killed him, not the trans shyt or George Floyd. By mid 2021 any talk of police reform was dead.

Gaza and Ukraine wont be an issue no more because there will be no more opposition. Uiyghurs were a talking point for a bit as well but we've--under MANY different adminstrations--have given up on them.

I assume this campaign was DOA. I don't think an open convention even moves the needle. Elon and his lapdogs won the age of information long ago, and always had that joker in the deck they could pull at anytime.