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[Politics] The 2024 US Election - *MATCH DAY*
- Thread starter Zeberdi
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cheshunt seagull
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- Jul 5, 2003
- 2,593
Sorry error in the post
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Curious Orange
Punxsatawney Phil
He can't pardon himself for State convictions, only Federal ones.
Dominic Cummings is busy assembling a Start Up Party - not to lead it but certainly using the populist style / single message campaigning as he did with Vote Leave.
Marlton and Hove Albion
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Real wage growth 2016-2020 vs. Last 4 years.
Levels of Inflation and Interest Rates
Peace Accords vs. Wars
Secure Borders vs. Open Borders
"Elites" and MSM shoving shite down the throats of ordinary people
Whether you like it or not, and most on here will not, it is lazy to overlook the facts that matter when people compare how they feel about their lives, their country, their prospects under 45 vs. 46.
Alot of you suffocate your own brains with tedious TDS. I don't expect that is likely to change, but introspection is always better than denial.
cheshunt seagull
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- Jul 5, 2003
- 2,593
I think we'll see a land grab from Putin to establish the borders which Ukraine will have no choice but to accept as the US withdraws support. Putin will bathe in the glory of victory and wait and watch NATO be weakened before he makes his next move.
We could also see a situation where the brutal Iranian theocracy look like the adults in the room compared with Israel and the US; internationally if not domestically.
Brian Munich
teH lulZ
- Jul 7, 2008
- 199
Yes, 90 MPs out of 650. Not really going to make much of a difference, in the governence of the country is it? Besides, why would you deny the 14-15% their representation?
There's a tipping point in FPTP where you start to win a disproportionate number of seats. Would you feel so happy about our system if Reform got into the low 30s and won a majority?
A Brief History of (My) Time:
0 - 6 years old; Thought America was 'great'.
7 - 14; Nasa/moon landings etc...still thought the same and would loved to have lived there.
14 - 20; Increasingly concerned by their gun culture - which had seemed 'exciting' as a kid.
20 - 40; Getting a little despondent, although a brief flurry of renewed hope during Glasnost/fall of Berlin Wall.
40 - 60; Utterly depressed by the gun culture/mass shootings and increasingly evident racism....and of course, the election of Trump.
60 - ? f*** me, Trump gets re-elected, realise that the majority of Americans truly 'are' stupid (no change from previous concerns), would never want to live there under any circumstances and have zero desire to even visit the damned place.
Congratulations on failing your IQ test, today, America.
0 - 6 years old; Thought America was 'great'.
7 - 14; Nasa/moon landings etc...still thought the same and would loved to have lived there.
14 - 20; Increasingly concerned by their gun culture - which had seemed 'exciting' as a kid.
20 - 40; Getting a little despondent, although a brief flurry of renewed hope during Glasnost/fall of Berlin Wall.
40 - 60; Utterly depressed by the gun culture/mass shootings and increasingly evident racism....and of course, the election of Trump.
60 - ? f*** me, Trump gets re-elected, realise that the majority of Americans truly 'are' stupid (no change from previous concerns), would never want to live there under any circumstances and have zero desire to even visit the damned place.
Congratulations on failing your IQ test, today, America.
Seagull Stew
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Well at least the cats and dogs are off the menu now!
- Mar 23, 2023
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I work with a few Americans and the general feeling is people are fed up of their cost of living, groceries etc and they only voted based on him “fixing” the economy, all the other stuff like abortions came a distant second and the democrats didn’t really say much about fixing the economy also the stuff the democrats pushed like abortions people want to know why they haven’t already done something about it.
Lyndhurst 14
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- Jan 16, 2008
- 5,239
The Pew Research Center say 39% of Americans believe they are 'living in the end times'
A lot of Republicans are obsessed with religion so I guess they are not too concerned about polluting the world or running up massive debt because they believe they will be miraculously raptured away to paradise in the not too distant future.
A lot of Republicans are obsessed with religion so I guess they are not too concerned about polluting the world or running up massive debt because they believe they will be miraculously raptured away to paradise in the not too distant future.
Yep, hence the massive increase in 'Flat Earthers', 'Moon-Landing Deniers', 'Firmament' and basically anything which involves science.
The country (as a whole) is regressing.
nicko31
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US inflation has been below 4% for the past 18 months, ours lasted 6 month longer and they had stronger economic growth to counter it. They're effing idiots
Lyndhurst 14
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- Jan 16, 2008
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Given Trump's age and the fact he seems to be rapidly losing his marbles I thought it might be time to re-post this
- Nov 11, 2009
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Was it a federal or state crime?
If federal he could still pardon himself from jail as soon as in power.
fwiw he won't now go to jail.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
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Idiot nation
- Mar 23, 2023
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Problem with inflation is once prices go up they stay up
Another one blaming the electorate for being 'stupid' rather than the candidate for being unappealing (to enough).
All the while people sneer and call others exercising their democratic right 'stupid' if it the outcome doesn't happen to tally with their own view, the more this happens.
So in that scenario, you have to wonder who the stupid ones really are.
(And I write this as someone who 100% wanted Harris to win but I'm not ready to call those who think differently 'stupid')
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US Seagull
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The frustrating thing is that it's been fixed. Unemployment and inflation are both low right now. Interest rates are coming down. The fed seems to have pulled off a "soft landing". To Trump's credit, the Fed chair was appointed by Trump. He could even have claimed (some) credit for the recovery, but that would mean admitting that there isn't really a problem anymore.
The problem is that people don't understand inflation. They expect prices to go back to what they were, and that's not going to happen. That's not how inflation works. And Trump isn't going to bring prices down either. If he goes ahead with his tariffs, prices are going to shot up.
The post-pandemic inflation was global, not confined to the US, and US wasn't hit nearly as badly as some other places.
- Mar 23, 2023
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Do most Americans think that there is a world outside America?