Elections; 2024
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Quote:I am guessing you don't know much about history. Note that the book title has "violence" in it. Joanne Freeman, a professor of history at Yale University, whose most recent book is The Field of Blood: Congressional Violence in Antebellum America is interviewed. The main question the professor was asked:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Well...
It looks like one of Second's friends just tried to kill Trump again.
Remember kids.... I'm the Nazi lunatic in the room.
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Trump is fine.
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What the Founding Fathers Would Say About Trump’s Win
November 8, 2024, 12:01 PM
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/08/what-the-founding-fathers-would-s
ay-about-trumps-win/
RA: Joanne, how do you imagine the Founding Fathers would interpret this week’s news?
Joanne Freeman: Well, they might say “I told you so.” If you read the personal letters, anything that they were writing in the founding era, it’s hard to say that the founders agreed on a lot, but they did agree that the greatest threat to any republic, but particularly a democratic republic, was a demagogue. The world was monarchies at the time and a democratic republic grounded on public opinion was experimental. What made these largely elitist founders nervous was that “the public” would be easily persuaded, warped, led astray by someone who could get their emotions riled up. That’s the vulnerability of anything democratic, that the people and their emotions can lead them astray. And historically speaking — going back to ancient Greece, ancient Rome — when they looked at republics, what they saw were demagogues saying anything that they possibly could to get the public’s emotions flowing, to woo the public, and then once they got power, doing whatever they wanted and becoming tyrants. They talked about that throughout the entire founding period when trying to evaluate politics in the first decade of the republic. That was what was on their mind. So, in a way, this is an easy question to answer because that would be the absolute first thing that they would say — “We told you. We told you that demagogue tendencies are the vulnerability, and now here you are.”
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Look at the debates at the Constitutional Convention, look at the concerns of that general generation of power holders, and what they were worried about was executive power. And so they felt that they were bounding in the executive in a variety of different ways that would prevent this from being too powerful an executive.
In the founding era and particularly in the 19th century, Congress was at the center of news coverage, journalism, and power. There certainly were executives that were exceptions to that rule, but before the Civil War, most people felt power was in Congress. Now we live in this moment of apparent executive immunity. It’s a fact that the men of the founding era would have been absolutely against executive immunity. There is nothing in the Constitution that justifies an immune national executive.
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But he also discovered that you can get away with a lot. You don’t just have to flex the technical rules or find loopholes and ways to undercut congressional opponents. You can just do things, and often the pushback is so much weaker than you would imagine. That was a lot of what his first term was about. He would go to places you thought you couldn’t go as president and it was okay as long as the internal norms that you’re guided by don’t check you. He’s been explicit that in the next four years, especially with Project 2025, we are going to see a significant ramping up of an already powerful presidency that tries to cut the power of Congress further, undermine the power of the courts, and demonstrate that if someone is willing to use the presidency in a robust and aggressive fashion, no one’s really going to do anything about it. They might criticize it, but the fallout won’t be as sever
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Maybe the West Coast can finish counting the votes before the sun burns out at this rate.
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My favorite man-hating cat lady over at Slate... The one, the only Jill Flipovic is not happy. No ma'am.
Men Got Exactly What They Wanted
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/men-got-exactly-what-they-want
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The 2024 election, perhaps more than any other in history, was an election of identity politics. But unlike what that term usually implies—that we’re talking about women and/or racial minorities—this race was about a particular kind of masculine identity that increasingly crosses racial lines, and imperils women and men alike.
A lot of "men" voted for your dumb bitch, you dumb bitch.
Yes. They were men, even if they have low-T and walk around with dildos in their assholes for punishment for their white male privilege as they pray to the Democrat Party and Science. We still know the difference between Men and Women, even though we realize that half of the country's men aren't very masculine at all.
I wouldn't worry so much about the men if I were you. Good luck not being replaced by AI before 2028. This might have been the last election you get to cover, Jill.
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Senate: 53R / 47D
House: 216R / 208D. 218 to win.
Popular vote is now 74,331,522 for Trump, 70,409,153 for Harris.
TOTAL COUNTED VOTES: 144,740,675
Trump's lead is now down to 3,922,369 votes.
It would be tempting to claim that Trump should easily win by over 3 Million votes at this point, but California is REALLY slow-walking things. They still have 37% of the votes left to count, because the California government is a fucking joke. I don't think California counted a single vote today. I don't care that it's the weekend, they should be forced to work until the last vote is counted. You want to poison the well with 10 Million mail-in fraud votes every election? Then you don't get a day off until they're finished being counted. Even when you lose and half of you are on suicide watch.
There were about 150,000 votes counted in total today. I have no idea where they came from. My guess is that they weren't from any of the states that are a long way away from finishing and it was just some final numbers for a few states that are sitting at "99%".
Other states that still need counting.... 10% left in Washington, 16% left in Oregon, 17% in Arizona, 23% in Alaska, 8% in Colorado, 14% in Maryland, 17% in Utah, 3% in Nevada, 1% in Illinois, 1% in Maine, 1% in New Hampshire, 1% in Connecticut, 5% in New Jersey, 9% in Washington D.C.
Every other state is listed at "99%" on the Google homepage map. Whatever "99%" actually means.
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How's it feel to be a minority, Second?
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Originally posted by second:
Joanne Freeman, a professor of history at Yale University, whose most recent book is The Field of Blood: Congressional Violence in Antebellum America.
Not one person is impressed with her piece of paper stating that she's been sufficiently brainwashed, or that she is continuing the brainwashing tradition on a new generation of Ivy League douche bags who, just like her, will never do an honest day of work in their lives.
Nor does anybody give a single shit about Joanne's book.
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November 4th, around 5PM CST:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Also, although I don't provide the data here, I have reason to believe that states such as Virginia, New Hampshire and even Minnesota are in play as well.
These numbers probably aren't official yet, but according to Google's maps, here's where those states stand now...
Virginia: Harris +5.2 (51.8% Harris / 46.6% Trump)
New Hampshire: Harris +2.7 (50.9% Harris / 48.2% Trump)
Minnesota: Harris +4.2 (51.1% Harris / 46.9% Trump)
2 out of 3 of them were within most polling outfit's margin of error, and the third one just narrowly outside of it.
What did those three states look like in 2020?
Virginia: Biden +10.1
New Hampshire: Biden +7.4
Minnesota: Biden +7.1
https://www.cookpolitical.com/vote-tracker/2020/electoral-college
And in 2016?
Virginia: Clinton +5.3
New Hampshire: Clinton +0.4
Minnesota: Clinton +1.5
https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_battleground_states,_2016
Joe Biden's insane harvested ballot count made it look like Democrats were going to run away with these 3 states forever.
Though it's obvious Harris wasn't as repulsive to them as Hillary Clinton was except for in Virginia, these three "safe" Democrat states were far closer than any of the states that the Legacy Media was trying to convince you would be very close between Trump and Harris. Yanno... states like Iowa, Florida, Texas and Maine District 2 (Which Trump won by 13.3%, 13.1%, 13.9% and 9.2%, respectively).
I think we're seeing a shift here. If the Deep State doesn't manage to destroy Trump and his team and things actually start getting better now, it may be a very long time before a Democrat gets reelected for President.
Who would they even run 4 years from now? Every one of their big names are hated by everybody, including their own. On top of that, because they've tried to be the party that caters to everyone who isn't a white male, there is a TON of constant infighting 24/7 that the media never talks about. Most people in the Democrat party from the constituents up to the top brass hate other people sitting under the umbrella with them.
Trust me... All that chronic racism and sexism that they try to project on everyone but themselves is in full effect against each other when the camera's aren't turned on.
That situation is untenable. And I think we're going to start seeing a lot of that infighting become public over the next few months as everyone continues to point fingers at everyone else and nobody takes any responsibility for the massive loss.
You guys should have run Michael Obama like I told you to. You probably would have eeked out a win this year by running her. I don't think anybody is going to buy into the race/sex bullshit any longer though, so I think that was your last opportunity to run her just on her sex and race.
You guys better figure out another grift quick. Yanno... if you're not actually going to do the hard work and take the steps necessary to fix your party now.
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Quote:You probably forgot this, but I was raised in family that switched religions from Baptist to Jehovah's Witnesses, a minority religion where followers do NOT vote and have been jailed (in America and Russia) for their beliefs. You also forgot that my angry poor white trash relatives who did not switch religions went on to become Trumptards who struggled, suffered, and died young.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
How's it feel to be a minority, Second?
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Meanwhile, my Jehovah Witness parents, who worked at Burger King, lived long and healthy lives, became millionaires, as did my sisters, the school teacher (74 y.o.) and the nurse (66 y.o.) both still working. My family is proof that the American Dream is readily reached by decent people while Trumptards achieve far less because of their rotten behavior everyday. Voting for Trump amounts to no change in your life. Instead, you have change the way you act if you are going to prosper.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Jehovah's+Witnesses+jailed
Funny thing, my nieces and nephews who dropped their parents' religion have not prospered and have become Trumptards in the mistaken belief that a change in government will bring prosperity to them, not a change in their own actions.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Frustrated Americans who voted for Trump await the economic changes he promised
Nov 9, 2024 7:03 PM EST
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/frustrated-americans-who-voted-f
or-trump-await-the-economic-changes-he-promised
The wonderful future Trump promised? “It’s not going to happen,” Holtz-Eakin said.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:
Frustrated Americans who voted for Trump await the economic changes he promised
Nov 9, 2024 7:03 PM EST
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/frustrated-americans-who-voted-f
or-trump-await-the-economic-changes-he-promised
The wonderful future Trump promised? “It’s not going to happen,” Holtz-Eakin said.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Oh No! Trump Already Solved Every Problem As President-Elect And Now Will Have Nothing To Do As President
https://babylonbee.com/news/oh-no-trump-already-solved-every-problem-a
s-president-elect-and-now-will-have-nothing-to-do-as-president
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PALM BEACH, FL — Just four days after winning the election, President-Elect Donald Trump already finished solving every single problem in the world and will sadly now have nothing to do for the next four years.
Despite not having even been sworn in, Trump has already succeeded in starting peace talks in Ukraine, kicking Hamas out of Qatar, restoring fortunes to retirement accounts, reducing gas prices, halting migrant caravans, securing natural gas purchases from the E.U., and even getting Target to put up signs saying "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays."
"It took me four whole days, but I got it done, all the world's problems solved," Trump told reporters. "I don't know what I'm going to do the next four years, but we're going to keep on winning, let me tell you. Maybe winning at pickleball since I have no work left to do, I don't know. I like winning at golf, but it's almost too easy now. You just hit the ball and it goes in the hole, which some people find very difficult, I don't know why."
At publishing time, Trump had decided to perhaps continue working as a McDonald's fry chef to keep busy while he's President.
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