U.S. Presidential Election

[steviewevie]

 

[maelzoid]

10 hours ago, VCK2 said:

 

I think war is inevitable with either of them. Trump has his eyes on Iran for sure, but these Democrats aren't peace loving hippy lefty types; they're centrists who serve corporate America. And corporate America does like a good war in the Middle East.

This kind of equivalency is so wrong. The Democratic Party today has shown no overt signs that they want wars in the middle east, while they may not be able to prevent such conflicts from arising, and we can certainly question their judgement and loyalties with regard to Israel and Palestine.

 

Trump on the other hand has already laid the groundwork for withdrawing from NATO and said on record that he would encourage Putin to invade NATO countries. That's what leads to WW3.

[steviewevie]

I don't know if Trump presidency makes WW3 more likely, think just make US reaction to global events more unpredictable. But whether Trump or Harris wins I think Ukraine/Russia thing will have to come to an end sooner or later, I guess a Trump win means Putin gets more what he wants though. Whoever wins Europe are going to have to start spending more on defence, but Trump will likely make that more profound.

How US reacts if China does invade Taiwan with either Trump or Harris in the Whitehouse is a big unknown. Surely no one wants all out conflict between China and US.

What could also get with Trump is a trade war which could cause some turbulence around the world.

 

All academic cause Harris is going to win, right?

[maelzoid]

17 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

All academic cause Harris is going to win, right?

 

Right... If the election was today. But we're 3 months out. That sounds obvious, but think how things were exactly one month ago...

 

Trump has the lead after a disastrous debate for Biden. In the last 31 days we've had the assassination attempt, Biden getting Covid and pulling out, NATO summit, the RNC, Harris nominated, 2 VP picks and tremors in the markets...

 

[Spuddhism]

2 hours ago, steviewevie said:

 

This Walz guy seems to have something about him - to my amateur ears he sounds plain speaking, down to earth, and pretty energising. Early impressions positive. 

[steviewevie]

9 minutes ago, Spuddhism said:

This Walz guy seems to have something about him - to my amateur ears he sounds plain speaking, down to earth, and pretty energising. Early impressions positive. 

folksy is the word

[steviewevie]

32 minutes ago, maelzoid said:

 

Right... If the election was today. But we're 3 months out. That sounds obvious, but think how things were exactly one month ago...

 

Trump has the lead after a disastrous debate for Biden. In the last 31 days we've had the assassination attempt, Biden getting Covid and pulling out, NATO summit, the RNC, Harris nominated, 2 VP picks and tremors in the markets...

 

yeah, has been crazy...but Harris definitely has the momentum at the moment.

[FloopFiller]

Trump squandered both the RNC and an actual assassination attempt to boost his polling, whereas Kamala has absolutely gamed the system with both Biden’s dropping out immediately after those things, working the pre-existing memes that could’ve easily come across as cringey and out of touch, picked the VP that the ‘people’ wanted, and also still has the DNC coming up which usually means a couple of bumps in the polls. Ball is very much in the Dems court right now and it would take some pretty big f**k up or revelation to mess that up, although granted, I’m sure Republicans are digging for that big October surprise ‘gotcha’, even if they do really seem to be floundering in finding anything on both Harris and Walz right now - they’ve got absolutely f**k all and it’s hilarious. 

[Suprefan]

1 hour ago, FloopFiller said:

Trump squandered both the RNC and an actual assassination attempt to boost his polling, whereas Kamala has absolutely gamed the system with both Biden’s dropping out immediately after those things, working the pre-existing memes that could’ve easily come across as cringey and out of touch, picked the VP that the ‘people’ wanted, and also still has the DNC coming up which usually means a couple of bumps in the polls. Ball is very much in the Dems court right now and it would take some pretty big f**k up or revelation to mess that up, although granted, I’m sure Republicans are digging for that big October surprise ‘gotcha’, even if they do really seem to be floundering in finding anything on both Harris and Walz right now - they’ve got absolutely f**k all and it’s hilarious. 

 

the attempt on his life happened too early. Timing wise it was perfect to go into the RNC and just seem like he was gonna win it without question but then Vance just chipped away at that and then Biden waiting for the right moment to drop out and made them waste their time in the spotlight for nothing was a master stroke. He was never going to be able to campaign off being shot at for 4 months anyway. It had been stated that the worst thing that could happen to the gop was Biden dropping out.

[steviewevie]

 

[steviewevie]

[Nobody Interesting]

32 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

 

My eyes must be fake news then cos they did done saw a bigger crowd at Harris than at tRump y'all

[FloopFiller]

Hmm wonder what this is about 

 

[LJS]

22 minutes ago, Nobody Interesting said:

 

My eyes must be fake news then cos they did done saw a bigger crowd at Harris than at tRump y'all

 

 

Fake Eyes

[Spuddhism]

5 minutes ago, LJS said:

Fake Eyes

FAKEST EYES EVER!!! I didn't notice they were EYES until 5 minutes ago when they turned into EYES!

[Spuddhism]

15 minutes ago, FloopFiller said:

wonder what this is about

About 90 minutes, I expect. 

[steviewevie]

28 minutes ago, FloopFiller said:

Hmm wonder what this is about 

 

binning Vance?

has some evidence that proves Kamala Harris isn't black?

his golf handicap has improved?

[FloopFiller]

Trump’s thing largely just seems to be him complaining about how unfair it is that the Dems kicked Biden aside and how much worse Kamala is, so no real surprises so far.

 

There were rumblings he might be dropping out, but that doesn’t seem likely at all, or that he was dropping Vance, which was more likely but doesn’t seem to be the case. Just seems he’s annoyed that he had victory snatched away from him and is trying to act like he feels for Biden.

[steviewevie]

 

[charlierc]

3 hours ago, FloopFiller said:

Hmm wonder what this is about 

 

So far it's about Presidential debates and that Trump is willing to do 3 next month from what I saw on a news wire just now.

[FloopFiller]

Apparently the reason he’s doing this is because Republicans have seen some polling and it is bad, so having Trump come out and ramble on and cry about absolute nonsense was their solution. 

[FloopFiller]

Also hilarious revelation - Trump’s whole Hannibal Lecter thing seems to have come from him mistaking ‘seeking asylum’ with something to do with mental asylums, which is why he keeps jumping from illegal immigrants to his Hannibal Lecter bit. Absolute idiot. 

[steviewevie]

11 minutes ago, FloopFiller said:

Also hilarious revelation - Trump’s whole Hannibal Lecter thing seems to have come from him mistaking ‘seeking asylum’ with something to do with mental asylums, which is why he keeps jumping from illegal immigrants to his Hannibal Lecter bit. Absolute idiot. 

omg what a farce

[steviewevie]

 

[FloopFiller]

Dude is cooked. Whole thing was clearly done in an act of desperation and Trump being Trump just made himself look even weaker - whole of Twitter, even people on his side, are just laughing at him and saying that was the death knell of his campaign. I think the assassination attempt has shook him a lot more than he’s let on (and rightfully so, tbf)  and he’s just totally off his game. It would be sad to see somebody going out like this if he wasn’t such a piece of sh*t. 

Edited August 8 by FloopFiller