US Election Late Nighers? Who’s staying up as the results come in?

What depressing news to wake up to. My last feelings that Americans are better than they are portrayed are shredded.
The only possible positive from this debacle is that the rest of the world and particularly Europe stops following Americas lead and starts to do stuff for itself.

Well done Americans – you’ve proved to the world how racist / sexist / chauvinistic you really are. I really couldn’t care less if Trump builds a wall round the country and you spend the next 4 years mass shooting each other with your 2nd amendment assault rifles – it’s Ukraine my thoughts and prayers are directed towards. All that death and bloodshed to be now sold down the river in what will be Trumps idea of ‘peace’.

It’ll be a landslide for Trump, the Republicans and to many, proof that 2020 was a rigged election.  That’s how Trump will spin it.

It’s a comeback worthy of Lazarus!

Bugger

Trump has built a firewall of populism around himself
Rape allegations – fake news
Fraud trial – victimisation, fake news
BFFs with epstein – fake news
Tried to overthrow election – fakenews

When the Internet exists and you can put any old nonsense out there some of which seems to be eject funding from Russia!

On top of that has any government survived an election post inflation bomb?

Fertile ground for populism

As Forrest Gump once said “Stupid is as stupid does”…….

Ukraine’s buggered.

This pretty much nails it.

https://twitter.com/ShippersUnbound/status/1854055061925560448

Well done Americans – you’ve proved to the world how racist / sexist / chauvinistic you really are.

Oh give over. See above, all they’ve done is demonstrated that they are angry and pissed off at the fact they haven’t benefitted from economic growth.

The only possible positive from this debacle is that the rest of the world and particularly Europe stops following Americas lead and starts to do stuff for itself.

Europe is going the same way. Far right govts in Italy, Austria, Hungary. Far right parties on the brink of power in places like France and advancing rapidly in the UK, Germany and others. We’re just a few years behind the US, but the one thing we can guarantee is that liberal centrist parties across Europe will not learn the lessons in the same way that the Democrats have failed to.

Oh give over. See above, all they’ve done is demonstrated that they are angry and pissed off at the fact they haven’t benefitted from economic growth.

No, they’ve bought into a narrative that says all their problems are caused by illegal immigrants and foreigners. See also: Brexit.

Oh give over. See above, all they’ve done is demonstrated that they are angry and pissed off at the fact they haven’t benefitted from economic growth.

Trumps campaign and the man himself has gone hard on the racism and sexism, you can’t pretend it hasn’t been dazh

Oh give over. See above, all they’ve done is demonstrated that they are angry and pissed off at the fact they haven’t benefitted from economic growth.

Sure, there’s definitely some truth to that. But the next step breaks the logic chain which is that those frustrated people decide to vote against the progressive policies and instead vote for the guy with the gold shitter.

See also: Brexit.

edit: lol at Pondo’s identical response.

FFS it’s not the voters, it’s the f***** centrist do-nothing more of the same idiot politicians who think they can serve up the same shit sandwich election after election and assume everyone will still vote for them. The Democrats have got exactly what they deserve.

You say that, but this was an odd election, vote for the ‘continuity candidate’ or vote for the guy who’s already had the job once before. So vote for more of the same or… More of the same?

He’s blabbing on stage now.

Western liberal democracy has been devoured by oligarchic neoliberal capitalism and voters have decided they’ve had enough.

You might have to show the working out behind this blockbuster of a sentence.

Do you really think the Dem’s are the problem?

No. But the problem is the Dems are offering more of the same and the Republicans are offering simple solutions to people’s problems led by a guy with a reputation as a “tough street brawler”

This sort of thing doesn’t help either:

“I’m a Democrat, but I did not give my vote to Harris,” said Gus Tarraf, 51.

“Because my people are getting killed. I’m Lebanese…countries are being destroyed: Gaza, Lebanon. Why would I give my vote to her?”

When you look at the turn out and the landside he has you have to wonder if a lot of Americans are very very right wing.

I know it’s a genuinely daft thing to assume but that’s no protest vote it’s an ideology

Gracious and self effacing as ever…

Ye ha! 3 in a row for common sense and decency ??

There is an interesting parallel between Trump and say, Lee Anderson. Both are (morally and politically) the same people as they were a decade ago when the “left” of the time loved them back- but in order to maintain those same moderate, rational, centre left ideals- they have had to move “Faaaaar Right” (according to the MSM Marxist blob) on the political spectrum.

I was genuinely worried my boy was going to grow up in a woke, post-truth, doublespeak laden hellscape of censored oppression but this gives me hope. So relieved. Musk was right- this was the last stand for democracy.

Interestingly, I have two YouTube channels that both seemed to have picked up different algorithms. One pro Trump, one pro Kamala. And I have to say- both made me want Trump want to win. You lefties are nothing but vacuous hate filled liars. By contrast, Trump consistently revealed himself to be genuine and likable.

Anyway, I haven’t read so much as a post here for maybe a year now but I did know this would be a great place to peek through a periscope into lefty la-la-land and you didn’t disappoint.

Enjoy your salty tears, Make America Great Again Hooooo Yah ??

It’s nice to see the Trump fans are as classy as ever!

Forgive my ignorance, but in a divided country with such polarized views, is there scope for a democratic state such as California to seek independance?

No, they’ve bought into a narrative that says all their problems are caused by illegal immigrants and foreigners.

Yawn. Yes they’re all racists. We get it. See my comment above though. Why are they racist or have sympathy with that narrative? Because the political system doesn’t serve them. They see other people benefitting from either goverment largesse or economic growth while their own experience is higher prices, lower wages and ever increasing economic insecurity. People don’t have room in their heads to worry about things like racism and other ‘woke’ issues when they can’t afford to feed their families. That’s why the Hispanic vote has flipped to Trump.

Anyway I’m out. I can see this thread/forum going down another sneering and patronising rabbit hole of ‘look what the rednecks have done!’ outrage. I bet everyone in Kamala Harris’s campaign HQ is thinking the same right now. That’s why they lost.

That’s a pretty depressing thing to wake up to. Like @supernova, the only positive I can get from this is:

… that the rest of the world and particularly Europe stops following Americas lead and starts to do stuff for itself.

And yeah: the left needs to up its game. Stop playing so nice.

We voted Boris, they voted Trump. We are not so different.

We didn’t vote for him twice though…

Well, that’s a balanced and erudite outpouring.

You lefties are nothing but vacuous hate filled liars.

There are no lefties on here. Probably only a few on the entire forum, but not on this thread so far.

Well, if Starmer needed any more potent reason to move closer to the EU, there it is. We can’t rely on the US for the next four years, and perhaps never again in my lifetime.

A few people have said the only silver lining on this is that we might get pushed into closer cooperation with Europe. But let’s see.

Oh the leader of the free world is doing an amazing speech here

The talking about the rocket was worrying to say the least .

TBH you can see his appeal to the un educated American man

dunno how complicated it really is….i expect plenty of ‘folks’ thought to themselves that they felt better off in 2018 and that was where the thinking ended.

The only thing Europe is getting closer too is not a love in with the UK.

Well, if Starmer needed any more potent reason to move closer to the EU, there it is.

You’re joking aren’t you? Just watch, he’s going to follow in the wake of every PM before him and stick his nose as far up Trumps backside as he can tolerate. He has no choice, the UK always falls in line and does what it’s told.

What fantastic news to wake up to. Great result for Donny, his country and the world.

MAGA MAGA MAGA

Off for a celebratory bike ride.

It’s a real shame too that the American system allows $16bn dollars to be spent on election campaigns. That’s disgusting (both sides)

^ nice to see you’ve dug your second login out today.

Think it’s pretty much all been said but just watching him rambling on, turns out up until a couple of weeks ago he hadn’t even heard of starlink.  At least he’s not completely out of touch with the world on top of everything else….

I don’t think anyone is expecting him to moon Trump at the G8. I believe he is allowed to move closer to other countries as well as be polite to the US.

As if the news is not bad enough, but we also get Dazh trolling.

Looks like Trump has it in the bag now – declaring victory early as youd expect.

Its very clear the majority of American voters are indeed bonkers.

YMCA as his anthem will never not be both hilarious and utterly perplexing…

turns out up until a couple of weeks ago he hadn’t even heard of starlink.  At least he’s not completely out of touch with the world on top of everything else….

Now we wait to see how long until his backers invoke the 25th and install Vance.

Its very clear the majority of American voters are indeed wabonkers.

Oh give over. See above, all they’ve done is demonstrated that they are angry and pissed off at the fact they haven’t benefitted from economic growth.

That argument might hold water if Trump hadn’t previously been president. I don’t think the majority was doing so well then, either. The fact is, they know what they’re getting so it’s hard to see how this is a protest vote.

Yawn. Yes they’re all racists. We get it.

Do you? Doesn’t sound like it. Anyway – as fascinating as it is to plough through this same tiresome old shit for the millionth time, I’ll leave you to your celebrations over this triumph of democracy.

daveylad Free Member
What fantastic news to wake up to. Great result for Donny, his country and the world.

MAGA MAGA MAGA

Off for a celebratory bike ride.

I know I shouldn’t but I do hope your bike snaps in half. And that you’re completely unhurt and just sit in a puddle and have a good think about what a silly little boy you are.