U.S. Politics, November 2024: GARBAGE DAY!!

Trump farted basically

Yeah if I'm reading it right it's an improvement of .01%?

I think that's an aggregate of the 7 battleground states this guy tracks, basically you'd think Rs would do better this time with early vote since their party isn't actively discouraging it, but they aren't. So either it's good news or nobody listened to Trump when he told his supporters not to vote early in 2020

there's a lot of context missing though, you combine that with women having a 9-point lead overall and polls indicating early voters breaking hard for Harris and yeah it does appear he's gonna need to make up a lot of ground on Election Day

he also notes that R-leaning partisan pollsters have released 93 polls in the final week to try to push the averages back, they may be working overtime because Harris's best polls are apparently coming right now

Fuck! Guys, I'm really finding the uncertainty hard to tolerate. Really drastically different things could happen tomorrow and I have no way of even guessing which of the possibilities will be realized and also no control! Why can't I be like the people who don't care as much? Like, they care *some*, they vote, etc., but it's not IN THEIR STOMACH the way it is in mine. I don't think it's helpful to let it be in my stomach. I don't think I'm more in service to my country because it's in my stomach.

Seen online: "I saw someone call tonight Poll Nidre so that’s what we’re going with."

If you think you're anxious now try 24 hours from now ...

Wow, I dunno how some of y'all can watch CNN. At least MSNBC has laughing, often drunk commentators who look like they're having fun. Everyone's so fuckin' dour over there; they take themselves so seriously.

I cannot watch televised news. The Guardian and some Dutch-language newspapers is all I can do

yeah tv news is dire

This is channel surfing. I watched Hundreds of Beavers and Copycat (prescient about incels!).

Copycat is pretty solid. Christopher Young’s score is beautiful

xxp wait, it isn't even election day yet! it's all just speculation with no new information

I really only tune in for big breaking news or stuff like election night coverage (and even that is close to intolerable because they end up treating every little new nugget of information like it's super important, just to fill the space).

ok thats enough wine for you grandma

If I can see it coming. If Trump loses, the election commentariat is going to blame Trump's mistakes in the last week. You know who won't get credit they deserve? Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Liz Cheney, and tens of millions of women who will be responsible for defeating Trump.

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) November 4, 2024

the news stories on t.v. that freak me out the most are the ones where different state officials talk about how many national guard they have deployed for tomorrow. scary.

Should Harris win, the promotion of this story for the last 18 months will deserve scrutiny:

Former President Donald Trump is seeing support from Black voters decrease just days before Election Day, a poll published on Sunday shows.

According to the final national NBC News poll of the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, is only earning 9 percent of Black support, lower than the 12 percent he received during the 2020 presidential election when he ran against Joe Biden.
Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, leads Black voters with 87 percent, NBC News’ poll shows.

The poll, with a sample of 1,001 registered voters, was conducted between October 30 to November 2 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

If Trump loses, the election commentariat is going to talk about Harris's victory and its meaning for about a day and a half. Then Trump will immediately absorb all media attention by ranting about election fraud and that'll be the headline story right up to the Inauguration Day.

trend pieces cant always be true whats important is that they feel true xp

i really only follow the elections through the ilx threads, only way i can take it

ums, we've totally been pranking u

Trump died months ago

I don’t even own a TV news

The John Krasinski YouTube show was my only connection to current events.

Trump was replaced by an actor named Billy Shears a year and a half into his term. Trump is dead, miss 'im, miss 'im, miss 'im.

The walrus was Vance

"Dead Trump In The Middle of the Road
...and He's Stinkin' To High Heaven!"

It would be kinda funny if Kamala won and on day one in the Oval Office went through her enemies list and put Trump and a ton of Trump people in Gitmo indefinitely for being enemies of the people. And then tells people in a televised address that her to-do list was actually an enemies list and she can do whatever she wants because Supreme Court. And then she laughs for a really long time with that laugh.

Insert joke here about Harris’s expertise in locking people up.

Here come old fat Trump he come groovin' up slowly
He got JD Weirdo this one empty rally

Now that’s how to handle the pre-election jitters! Quips ahoy.

Re: my comments on CNN and MSNBC this evening... yes, there are Trump staffers who no longer much care whether he wins or loses. Not exactly breaking news. Hard to overstate how terrible morale is inside of this campaign—and how much anger/resentment is felt toward the candidate.

— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) November 5, 2024

love it

Wait, people who work with Trump end up hating him? Why are we only learning this now.

huge if true, could swing the race

yeah I know but I'm letting my liberal orange man bad flag fly tonight

he's pretty bad

Rogan has apparently endorsed Trump

lol I assumed he did already

The great and powerful @elonmusk.
If it wasn't for him we'd be fucked. He makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you'll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way.
For the record, yes, that's an endorsement of Trump.
Enjoy the podcast pic.twitter.com/LdBxZFVsLN

— Joe Rogan (@joerogan) November 5, 2024

stupid

xps

Oh he's spectacularly bad! Just an objectively terrible human being on a level that most terrible people can't even contemplate reaching because of his entire lack of empathy or refusal to ever express the tiniest bit of remorse, chagrin or shame. Which somehow makes him appealing to some people.

A FB friend was phone-banking tonight — she's a woman of color, and she was calling people in Wisconsin, and she said the level of anger and aggrievement in the Trump-voting white men she reached was startling. Not just the things they said (about immigrants, inflation, etc) but the vitriol and bitterness in it. There are people who really do get off on Trump. He's like a drug.

I'm in Wisconsin and I have gotten like 20 "political calls" tonight (as determined by my phone.) I wouldn't answer any of them for anything. Anyone who's picking up tonight is a sicko for sure.

yeah they like him because he represents a fantasy of being uninhibited.

very juvenile psychology to the whole thing

It’s a good thing Harris didn’t actually go on Rogan’s podcast.

And lol at the idea of Elon making a compelling case for anything

I think people here like Joe Rogan too, or are at least interested in him or have been following him, which is baffling to me

Shapiro's on stage in Philadelphia doing the Obama thing again

Is he calling his grandmother out for racism?

the return of choom gang

Associated Press:
Harris makes her closing argument to the American people: "We go play hoop"

It would be kinda funny if Kamala won and on day one in the Oval Office went through her enemies list and put Trump and a ton of Trump people in Gitmo indefinitely for being enemies of the people. And then tells people in a televised address that her to-do list was actually an enemies list and she can do whatever she wants because Supreme Court. And then she laughs for a really long time with that laugh.

My Kamala Day One fantasy is she calls the six right-wing Supreme Court justices into the Oval Office and demands their resignation.