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

Polio Comeback Tour ‘25

Weirdly it's the thought of more Elon Musk that's upsetting me even more than Trump being back

Some people are definitely much more endangered than others, and need to be especially protected. But it's also naive to think anyone won't be affected. We've already seen, this is bad for all of us.

sherrod brown lost. senate’s red

At least be comforted by the fact no one lasted in any cabinet position under trump for more than a few months

I guess.

Please don't let it be a clean sweep. That plus the Supreme Court I just can't comprehend

biggest hope right now is that trump gets sick of rfk and elon and reneges on his promises lol

barf

dems could also still win the house, which would mitigate things slightly

sherrod brown lost. senate’s red

― brony james (k3vin k.), Tuesday, November 5, 2024 10:15 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

Thanks Black Keys

Well looks like Liz Cheney won’t get that cabinet position after all

she needs georgia or pennsylvania, if she loses both, it doesn’t matter what else happens

seems like she lost GA for sure..

Pennsylvania could still go her way.

re: GA the unfinished part is mostly the ATL metro area that favors her. trump count was up in GA until day 4 of counting. it doesnt look certain that trump has GA rn.

she needs to outperform biden by something like 2% in all outstanding votes, and she hasn’t been doing that anywhere

Weirdly it's the thought of more Elon Musk that's upsetting me even more than Trump being back

― Alba

Ditto, it would be like “Trump 2.0 now with more suck”.

Kamala will still win this don’t doom.

Harris is on track to underperform Biden by 5 points in Minnesota, despite picking Tim Walz as her VP. If there's a home state VP effect, we're just not seeing it — that's basically exactly her national underperformance on Biden and is, in fact, worse than the rest of the Midwest

— Lakshya Jain (@lxeagle17) November 6, 2024

Abortion rights passed in Missouri, a good thing.

Trump got North Carolina

Horrible news but still was expected

NYT is projecting trump to win the *popular* vote by a full percentage point…would have thought that unfathomable

if she loses tonight, i'd like to see us start a thread for books, movies etc relevant and helpful for living in dark times ... and resistance.

also let me just say i owe this community a lot. i take from it more than i give, or acknowledge. my communication style doesn't jibe seamlessly with the prevailing tone, but that's fine. i don't mind being a bit of an awkward fit. i'm sure i'm not unique in that sense.

anyway, i'm rambling. do love you all.

hang in there.

decision desk caveat but:

Democrats are now favored to flip control of the US House, according to the DDHQ Election Pulse. pic.twitter.com/9MAWArABcd

— Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) November 6, 2024

I've wondered about the popular vote. Still pretty hard for me to believe he'd win that, but I've given up expecting him to lose so who knows.

Taking the House would be very good.

And CD I second the cope thread, in whatever form.

US just won't vote for a woman as President, let alone one that is not white.

billionaires leading senate races in wisconsin and pennsylvania

Looking back at the lack of enthusiasm among trump supporters at his rallies, and the abundance of enthusiasm among Harris supporters, I think an explanation for this result is that there are a hell of a lot of Trump voters who won't admit that they're racist/misogynist assholes and just secretly let it out in the voting booth.

Yeah, that's been the most jarring discrepancy for me. The Trump campaign really felt out of gas and democrats appeared fired up.

xps does feel like this is on Biden and the Democratic party more than just about Harris..

yep people do not like joe biden and are angry at the administration.

something like 65% of exit poll respondents said that they were “dissatisfied” or “angry” with the direction of the country

They don't appear to be escaping the global trend against COVID incumbents.

"I've wondered about the popular vote. Still pretty hard for me to believe he'd win that"

She seems to be underperforming in blue state cities (like NYC and Chicago). If that trend holds up that is what could give Trump the popular vote

I'm not an expert, but listening/watching the returns as they come in it's fairly clear that any good news we get won't be coming until those notorious swing states have counted all their ballots, and what the good news would look like if we get it, would be a very narrow electoral college victory for Harris predicated on fewer than 200,000 total ballots spread across four or five states.

I spent much of the past 90 minutes listening to the PBS panel and watched in real time as their wise pundits, including Brooks and a couple of political consultants start to spin out a skein of conventional wisdom about why voters are voting for Trump - and it was the same economic populist bullshit the NYT kept selling us after 2016. If Trump wins, look to hear a lot more of that, if you can stand it.

seeing the same in the NYT opinion writers' liveblog

Yeah, that's been the most jarring discrepancy for me. The Trump campaign really felt out of gas and democrats appeared fired up.

Do not get this at all. I would really think that the number of people who show up to your rallies would translate to number of votes, but apparently not.

it might be a bit closer to the truth last time. biden’s admin chose to operate as if trump was an aberration and not a new formidable force in our nation’s politics. they rolled back the stimulus policies without shoring up the safety net, refused to prosecute the jan 6 big guns, repeatedly capitulated to israel. they’re operating in a 2012 world and we’re not going back

georgia for trump

There goes Georgia

he’s at 246

Fuck.

Still a bit early for an autopsy but when analyzing the systemic bias of the voting public etc it’s worth considering this is all happening in the context of factors like the recent SCOTUS decision okaying Virginia’s removal of a significant number of voters from the rolls.

In 2016 the Trump campaign was in disarray and had no ground game (Democrats were off the record bragging about their operation and laughing at GOP incompetence). Maybe those things… don’t really matter in the way political heads want them to matter.

yeah it just seems like people like trump

NYT has trump at 92%

This loss was only possible because Democrats & Republicans came together to greenlight the deregulation of crypto so that the Wall Street-backed cryptocurrency industry would spend unlimited sums in our elections.

Crypto spent $40M again Sherrod Brown because he wouldn't. https://t.co/AsMhvlw6M2

— usamah andrabi (@usamahandrabi) November 6, 2024

The air has been let out of the balloon

These people in flyover country just voted themselves into oblivion. It’s like voting for Reagan when he destroyed their farm subsidies

yeah it just seems like people like trump

this really is what makes it hard. losing elections, this happens. losing to the guy who has no redeeming qualities at all, that hits you right in your faith-in-humanity

I’m sure the DNC will find a way to blame progressives again

Because Trump was a TV show host. They like TV. Hence, they trust man on TV who echoes their shit beliefs and converses in a sub-5th grade level