Election 2024

‘Trump’s America’: Comeback Victory Signals a Different Kind of Country

In the end, Donald J. Trump is not the historical aberration some thought he was, but instead a transformational force reshaping the modern United States in his own image.

In her closing rally on the Ellipse last week, Kamala Harris scorned Donald J. Trump as an outlier who did not represent America. “That is not who we are,” she declared.
In fact, it turns out, that may be exactly who we are. At least most of us.

The assumption that Mr. Trump represented an anomaly who would at last be consigned to the ash heap of history was washed away on Tuesday night by a red current that swept through battleground states — and swept away the understanding of America long nurtured by its ruling elite of both parties.

Someone slipped the NYTimes a Mickey.

These people imagine themselves in danger to feed their outsized egos.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Leftie pundits cannot fathom Kamala’s loss

A lot of Lefties are learning today that it’s messy to cry through a nose ring. Me, I’m quids in. A Trump victory is a goldmine for writers who aren’t heartbroken: one producer told me they were struggling to find a pundit who didn’t sound depressed.

Ian Dunt, a former host of the Remainiacs podcast, called it “America’s darkest dawn”; Paul Mason, “a fascist process”.

My favourite was Sadiq Khan, not a pundit but then not really a mayor either, who tweeted: “An important reminder for Londoners: our city is – and always will be – for everyone.” That’s the style: portentous and self-involving, as if the election of a president thousands of miles away has any effect on Barnes Pond. But the commentator I most enjoyed this election was Rory Stewart, a podcaster who once ran a province in Iraq (the fact that he shares his podcast with the man who helped destroy Iraq, Alastair Campbell, never fails to amaze me).

Randos losin it …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Moment ‘polling Nostradamus’ who predicted Kamala Harris would win election realizes he was wrong

An American political historian known as the “Nostradamus” of elections was seemingly at a loss for words early Wednesday when he realized his prediction — that Kamala Harris would win the presidential election — was wrong.

Allen Lichtman, who has correctly predicted the outcome of nine of the 10 elections since 1984, was captured on a livestream repeatedly saying “I don’t get it” as Donald Trump’s landslide victory started to become evident.

@metrouk

A pollster nicknamed the 'Nostradamus of US presidential elections' appeared shocked as he realised his prediction was incorrect. Professor Allan Lichtman had only been wrong about one election before the 2024 voting began, when he predicted a win for Al Gore in 2000. Americans are waking up to the news that Donald Trump will be the 47th President of the United States. #usa #uselection #trump #allanlichtman #polling #trump #harris

♬ original sound – MetroUK

PS. If anyone comes across a good dissection of the massive failure by pollsters let me know.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Honestly, It Really Wasn’t That Close

For months, we heard regime media and many of the pollsters tell us how razor-thin this election was going to turn out to be. The final Real Clear Politics average of national polls between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris showed the Vice-President was ahead by one-tenth of one percent. As of the writing of this column, with votes still coming in from different pockets of the country, Donald Trump has won the popular vote by somewhere around 3.5%. The election really wasn’t that close.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Full Blown TDS: Trump’s election is a crisis like no other, not only for the U.S. but the world

Nothing mattered, in the end. Not the probable dementia, the unfathomable ignorance, the emotional incontinence; not, certainly, the shambling, hate-filled campaign, or the ludicrously unworkable anti-policies.

The candidate out on bail in four jurisdictions, the convicted fraud artist, the adjudicated rapist and serial sexual predator, the habitual bankrupt, the stooge of Vladimir Putin, the man who tried to overturn the last election and all of his creepy retinue of crooks, ideologues and lunatics: Americans took a long look at all this and said, yes please.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, Trump Derangement Syndrome, USA

Kamala’s Conceited Cunctatious Concession

Would she have taken as long to announce her victory as she does in conceding her defeat?

Kamala Harris, a candidate who proved herself capable of saying anything to win, appears at a loss for words upon her defeat.

Though the outcome appeared as a fait accompli overnight, Harris went through the night and the next morning without conceding. She reportedly looks to deliver a speech, hopefully conceding defeat and offering a congratulations, at 4 p.m. to the man she labeled a “fascist” just a few days ago.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Trump Victory Media Roundup: Establishment Goes Through the Stages of Grief

 

Donald Trump has been reelected, and the self-appointed arbiters of acceptable opinion in the establishment media are struggling to adjust to new realities. As they do so, they’re giving us a textbook display of what it looks like to go through most of the classic stages of grief: denial, anger, depression, and acceptance. And even though Trump’s victory was comprehensive and inarguable, we know from long experience that they’re going to have the hardest time with that last one.

SOME RANDOM VIDS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Kamala Harris yet to speak as Trump wins White House

Kamala Harris has lost her bid to become America’s first woman leader, as her Republican rival Donald Trump surged to a decisive victory in the US presidential election.

The vice-president is yet to speak, despite it becoming clear by Wednesday morning that Trump had secured wins in several key swing states.

Harris cancelled her expected election night appearance at Howard University in Washington DC, where she was an undergraduate, after Trump gained momentum as early results began to trickle in.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Trump wins!

Some random reactions …

Russia Russia Russia!

CBC sucks shit

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

A Response to My Liberal Neighbor

This neighbor’s children grew up with mine. We were once good friends. We socialized and traveled together. No more. But we are civil toward each other. I don’t remember ever talking with him much about politics, but I know him to be center- left — certainly no radical, let alone a revolutionary.

Curiously, my neighbor thinks I do not know what my former friends feel about me. How could I possibly not know? I regularly run across people who hate Trump as much as my former friends do. Either my neighbor doesn’t know that he lives in a bubble, or he doesn’t know that I do not. He can easily avoid conservative news. I, on the other hand, cannot avoid his sources of news because they saturate the air I breathe. I could not avoid them even if I tried. He can avoid conservatives, or turn conservative friends like me into erstwhile friends.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

The Republicans are entering election day with a historic lead in a majority of states, figures show.

The Republicans are entering election day with a historic lead in a majority of states, figures show.

This is the first time that registered Republicans have outvoted registered Democrats in more states since at least 2008, with early voting traditionally favoured by Democrats.

Across two-thirds of states that produce early voting data by party, registered Republicans outperformed the Democrats in votes cast.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024