2024 US Presidential Elections Megathread

[Syt]

Oh, and even if Harris wins - with the Republicans winning Senate majority it will be more gridlock. Yay!

[Admiral Yi]

270 just called PA for Donnie.  It's officially over.

[DGuller]

So presuming Trump wins this - how long until Trump is declared mentally unfit and President Vance can take over? 

Given what we've seen so far, even if Trump suffers a stroke and pisses his pants, Republicans around him would be too timid to do anything.

[Syt]

Oh this is going to be a fun 4 years (or more!).

[Crazy_Ivan80]

I'm trying to keep being optimistic but I'm failing.

This is how fascism comes to America. In the end, Putin & Xi won. They can have their Empires back.

In the end China won the cold war.

[Admiral Yi]

My advice to Democrats now is to just shut up for four years.  Every single thing we say just convinces Trump voters even more they are right.

[The Minsky Moment]

So uh what happens with all the pending court cases? Isn't there supposed to be sentencing for the rapes, the felonies, the stealing of documents and the Georgia stuff?

All the federal cases are gone.

The NY case would not usually involve a jail sentence. Judge Merchan will not trigger a constitutional showdown by imposing one.

The Georgia case is still alive in theory but expect to see the Ga Supreme Court tank it.

[garbon]

My advice to Democrats now is to just shut up for four years.  Every single thing we say just convinces Trump voters even more they are right.

So the Dems should give up on being a party?

[Tamas]

My advice to Democrats now is to just shut up for four years.  Every single thing we say just convinces Trump voters even more they are right.

Silence will convince them even more.

What can you do when most people want a fucked up felon like Trump?

[Tamas]

OK so twice a woman run against Trump once a man. Can we say America is not ready for women to leave the kitchen?

[Admiral Yi]

So the Dems should give up on being a party?

We should act like a party that has lost a crushing electoral defeat fair and square.

[Oexmelin]

I think staying put as the institutional guardrails of the USA constitutional order are being dismantled is not a sound strategy.

[Admiral Yi]

I think staying put as the institutional guardrails of the USA constitutional order are being dismantled is not a sound strategy.

What is a better one?

[The Minsky Moment]

Guller did you see the Jersey numbers?
Check out Passaic and Bergen.

[DGuller]

I really hope that Democrat introspection would be an open and honest one, and not a sarcastic one like "we should lie without shame, our women should be back in the kitchen", and so on.

They've lost grip on an important constituency, and clearly they didn't get enough in return.  We may not have too many more free and fair elections, let's try to extract the right lessons this time.