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If I’d gone through what you’ve gone through, I would not have handled it as well. Good luck to you. I’m so sorry you lost your daughter.

I think for the GOP to fully turn on Trump they’ll have to see a path to winning elections without him, and I just don’t see how that happens. There’s not a meaningful part of the Democrat base the GOP could take without diminishing their existing base; essentially, getting married to the racists won them the 2016 presidency but it put them in a tough spot once that fully played out. If (huge if) Harris cruises to 320+ EV, I don’t see any way the GOP wins the presidency before 2036 unless the Democrats fuck up big time.

This has nothing to do with the election you stillborn troll.

Just got a text from the precinct 360 TCRP chair telling me to vote straight ballot R and “CHECK YOUR BALLOT FOR MACHINE GLITCHES”. Fuck these motherfuckers.

If Harris wins the popular vote by more than 5% and loses the electoral college, I will seriously consider rioting.

If Harris gets 350+ Electoral Votes next week and Donald Trump dies next year, I think you’ll see a lot of people’s blood pressure go down. (Not that those events are at all likely, but just that there is a scenario where things calm the fuck down.)

I believe Bitcoin’s value will eventually be destroyed by 1 of 2 events: 1. A hack that destroys holders’ faith in the ledger. I’m not knowledgeable about blockchain. I’ve spoken to a shitload of Bitcoin evangelists but none of them know shit about how blockchain or the bitcoin code changes actually work. I’ve spoken to 1 person who I would consider knowledgeable about blockchain and he was pretty ambivalent about Bitcoin and said nothing is 100% secure. 2. Legislation by the US government if/when it becomes a threat to the viability of the US dollar. The US is not going to tolerate Bitcoin actually undermining the Dollar’s status as the world’s primary reserve currency. They will use their economic, military, and political might to destroy it if they need to. It may take years, but I consider one of those two outcomes inevitable. (FWIW I own a small amount of bitcoin but not as a meaningful investment or significant % of my net worth.)

Yep. I’ll still stay engaged enough to be an informed voter. But I won’t be paying attention to polls, spending hours everyday poring over predictions and scenarios, and thinking that if things don’t go my way the whole fucking world is gonna end.

I didn’t give a runny fuck about politics until that orange shitbird came to power. Then I felt kind of forced to start paying attention and having informed opinions. I am hopeful that after January, politics will become boring again and I can go back to not thinking about them at all, much less 24/7 like I am now. It would bring me great joy to never post in this forum again.

Over the past 7 weeks, the average high temp in Austin has been a full 10 degrees higher than the average historic high for that time of year. Concerning.

Revised prediction with 8 days to go.

There’s no logical path to Trump getting more votes than his opponent. But that’s been the case since the beginning. I know a dude who voted Clinton and Biden who has become a gun nut in the last few years. He’s (almost certainly) voting Trump. And there’s some number of people who were willing to vote for a white male Democrat in 2020 who will not be willing to vote for a brown female Democrat in 2024. I don’t think it’s a very large number. I expect Harris to win by a wider margin than Biden did. But American politics has defied logic and reason for going on a decade now.

This is exactly what AI would post.

I’m just spitballing here but maybe thinking Trump is normal and funny is more a reflection of you than anyone else.

FIFY

I would trade a Sherrod Brown loss for a Ted Cruz loss. And I really like Sherrod Brown.

Dude please no more referring to yourself in the 3rd person.

Shane Gillis is the clearest example I can think of, getting fired from SNL for a joke he made on a podcast years ago. But that seems to have worked out pretty good for him in the end.

Most comedians who use edgy humor have major disdain for cancel culture, and cancel culture is associated with the left/democrats. So some of these dudes think backing Trump is their only play. It’s really stupid, but understandable.

Dems have a slight lead in all 5 swing state races (NV, AZ, PA, WI, MI). MT looks lost, but Texas is in play. OH is the only one that looks like a true toss-up but you gotta think the incumbent has a slight advantage. Right now it looks like 48-52. Bill Cassidy, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski would be targets to play the role to stop the GOP from fucking shit up majorly.

Shit if Trump is gonna win the election, I hope the mf wins NY. Let’s just get it over with.

I regret giving you the benefit of the doubt in the other thread. You don’t engage in the conversation, and instead abandon that to come troll in this thread. Truly, fuck you.

It is a valid point. If Trump wins, people will point to the betting markets (along with all the MSM) to say “it was in plain sight the whole time”. So all of that is evidence to think this thing is gonna be a nail biter and that Trump is likely to win. But there’s also plenty of valid evidence that those narratives have been manipulated and that the data heavily favors Harris. In the end people making predictions are probably gonna lean on their own anecdotal experience. For my part there is clearly more enthusiasm for Harris than there was for Biden or Hillary and there seems to be less enthusiasm from Trump’s supporters than there was in 2016 or 2020.

The child decides that taking the horse to school is a bad idea because the horse can’t fit in the closet and so there’s no way to protect it during an active shooter situation.

I expected to go differently as well. Kudos to the piece of shit Trumper for not escalating it further. Although it’s probably too much to ask to expect him to have actually thought about what I said.