Elections; 2024
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UPDATED: Friday, November 21, 2025 00:12
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POPULAR VOTE:
76,429,164 for Trump (50.1%) / 73,736,923 votes for Harris (48.3%).
Total votes counted: 150,166,087
Trump's lead: 2,692,241
California: 7% left (Just shy of 1.1 Million votes left)
New Jersey: 5% left
Utah: 4% left
Oregon: 4% left
Washington: 3% left
Colorado: 3% left
New York: 3% left
Illinois: 2% left
Nebraska: 2% left
Mississippi: 2% left
Maryland: 2% left
Alaska: 2% left
Washington D.C.: 2% left
Compared to the 2020 election:
The 2020 results were 74,223,369 for Trump and 81,282,916 votes for Biden*
The total EXACT vote count in 2020 was 155,506,285.
The total amount of votes less in 2024 compared to 2020 is down to only 5,340,198 now.
Trump now has 2,205,795 more votes than he did in 2020.
Harris now has 7,545,993 less votes than Biden* did in 2020.
It must be another holiday in California. Looks like any of the votes counted in the last 24 hours came outside of California. That's why they've only counted about 80,000 of the remaining 1 to 1.5 Million votes since the last update.
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President. 
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MSNBC can't even get 75k people watching in prime time right now.
Time to fire Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow.
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‘The Penguin’ Finale And ‘The Batman’ Are Saying The Same Thing
(Trump could be a Super-Villain and his Trumptards are fooled by him)
HBO’s ‘The Penguin’ (starring Colin Farrell, Cristin Milioti and Rhenzy Feliz) is a cocktail of wealth inequality, narcissism and misplaced rage, just like ‘The Batman.’
By Dani Di Placido | Nov 12, 2024, 08:00pm EST
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2024/11/12/the-penguin-and-
the-batman-share-the-same-theme/
The Penguin follows Colin Farrell’s titular crime boss as he grows into his traditional supervillain role, climbing the greasy, blood-stained ladder of organized crime to the very top.
The Penguin is a spin-off from Matt Reeves’ The Batman, and the two explore similar themes, featuring self-serving villains who believe they are acting in the interests of the working class.
This incarnation of Batman is concerned with the question of wealth inequality, and his antagonists cloak their true motives under a veil of righteous anger.
Or, as Robert Pattinson’s Batman puts it, “vengeance.”
Spoilers Ahead for ‘The Penguin’ and ‘The Batman’
‘The Batman’ Is About Misplaced Anger
The Batman establishes Bruce Wayne as an emotionally damaged vigilante, beating up street thugs to avenge his murdered parents, a man who lives to inflict violence on those he deems deserving.
The film follows Batman as he collects clues from Paul Dano’s Riddler, a serial killer who is murdering Gotham’s corrupt, wealthy elite. This version of Batman is still young, and the Riddler (along with Zoë Kravitz’s Catwoman) give him an education on the real source of the rot that infects Gotham.
Batman comes to understand that the institutions of Gotham are hopelessly corrupt, and he has been blinded from seeing it because of his billionaire upbringing.
In fact, Batman almost misses the Riddler’s final clue, as the weapon Riddler used to murder Gotham’s mayor was a carpet tucker, a tool Batman did not recognize, as he has never worked with his hands.
Once Batman was informed of the tool’s purpose, he was able to tear up the carpet, revealing the Riddler’s plan to explode Gotham’s seawall and flood the city in a “righteous” purge.
At this point in the film, Batman’s belief system has been shattered by the revelation that the Riddler was inspired by his costumed vigilantism, and believed they were on the same team.
Batman is forced to conclude that beating the snot out of muggers was not a solution to anything—he was really doing it for himself.
The film ends with Batman understanding that he needs to help the needy people of Gotham, not just punish petty criminals.
The Riddler Is An Angry Populist
The Riddler reflects and contrasts with Batman, having grown up an orphan, just like Bruce Wayne.
Unlike Bruce, the Riddler grew up in squalor, and was radicalized by the suffering of Gotham’s orphans, knowing that the city officials were redirecting funds away from public services to fill their own pockets.
The Riddler actually had a deeper understanding of the issues plaguing Gotham, but used righteous anger to justify his sickening acts of violence.
The Riddler claims to represent the working class (and even has a streaming channel where he radicalizes other angry young men), but his goal is to flood the city in an act of environmental terrorism, condemning the citizens to injury, struggle and death.
We see the aftermath of this in The Penguin, when Vic (Rhenzy Feliz) suffers the loss of his family, as his district is flooded by the Riddler’s careless destruction.
The Riddler may have experienced the depravity of Gotham’s failing institutions, but he has no real solutions—only grand, narcissistic acts of violence.
The Penguin Is Also An Angry Populist
The Penguin has much in common with the Riddler, having come from humble beginnings, spending his life being overlooked, or outright mocked. He is disabled, and his family needs to collaborate with the mob just to make ends meet.
However, Oz Cobb (Colin Farrell) doesn’t suffer a terrible ho
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Originally posted by second:
‘The Penguin’ Finale And ‘The Batman’ Are Saying The Same Thing
(Trump could be a Super-Villain and his Trumptards are fooled by him)
Wow. That's deep, bruh.
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Trump is fine.
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Quote:I'm guessing you have been manipulated since you were a tiny boy without being aware. Somebody paints a picture ("America has never been worse than today", a paraphrase of every sentence Trump speaks) and you believe Trump speaks "Truth" because your life is a fucked up mess since the time you were a tiny boy. That is the whole story in The Penguin. The Penguin convinces his gang of criminals that things have never been worse in America than right now. What else can the gang do other than burn everything to the ground, per the Penguin's orders? It would be an improvement! The Penguin promises "I alone can fix it." Sounds like Trump.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
‘The Penguin’ Finale And ‘The Batman’ Are Saying The Same Thing
(Trump could be a Super-Villain and his Trumptards are fooled by him)
Wow. That's deep, bruh.
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Truth Social, Late Calls Take Over Economists’ Lives Under Trump
By Katia Dmitrieva | November 17, 2024 at 4:00PM EST
Trump has yet to be sworn in — that’s not until Jan. 20 — let alone announce policies and steer them through Congress. That means some economists are asking a lot of “what-ifs” but aren’t jettisoning their current forecasts just yet.
“It is critical not to get caught up in the noise and drama,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. “It is always important to focus on what policymakers do, and not necessarily on what they say. That was certainly the case in President Trump’s first term, and I suspect will be even more the case in his second.”
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/investing/2024/11/17/truth-social-late-cal
ls-take-over-economists-lives-under-trump/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:I'm guessing you have been manipulated since you were a tiny boy without being aware.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
‘The Penguin’ Finale And ‘The Batman’ Are Saying The Same Thing
(Trump could be a Super-Villain and his Trumptards are fooled by him)
Wow. That's deep, bruh.
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.
You'd know a lot about manipulating tiny boys, wouldn't you?
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.
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Quote:I hang out with Trumptards. For them, things just don't go the better way that things go calmly, rationally, habitually for people who face life in ways that are nothing like a Trumptard's long-term quest for failure and disappointment. (That's why Trumptards smoke, drink, over-eat, over-spend, etc. It is their quest.) Specifically, Trumptards have demons living in their heads. Trump knows that very well because he is living with demons.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You'd know a lot about manipulating tiny boys, wouldn't you?
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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*yawn*
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.
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Quote:6ix, you are a shithead. That's reality for your kind. That's why you act the way you do and you get crappy results. Voting for Trump is just one more shitty thing you did to ruin yourself.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
*yawn*
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.
No, Trump is not on the side of blue-collar workers
Oh come on:
Do we really have to play this game? Trump's appeal to the working class isn't based on the economy. It's based on cultural hot buttons and resentment of elites. Is this even controversial? I doubt that even blue-collar workers themselves would disagree.
As president, Trump will:
• Raise tariffs, which hurt the working and middle classes.
• Appoint union busters to every possible position.
• Cut taxes on corporations and the rich.
• Try to repeal Obamacare, which primarily helps the poor and working classes.
• Try to repeal the IRA and CHIPS Acts, which provide lots of blue-collar jobs.
• Fail to follow through on his promise to eliminate income tax on tips, overtime, Social Security, etc.
• Do his best to roll back regulations on workplace safety, consumer protection, and financial ripoffs.
• Appoint conservative judges who routinely favor corporations over consumers.
I'm sure I'm missing some things, but it doesn't matter. The notion that Trump is on the side of workers is laughable. What's the point of pretending?
https://jabberwocking.com/no-trump-is-not-on-the-side-of-blue-collar-w
orkers/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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