Can you explain how Trump can be re-elected?

[UltraChad]

Good stuff in the morning.
As good as a cup of coffee.

And the big ol' morning glory that coffee induces.

 

[AceDesSpades]

We can be quiet on the western front as we defecate in a circle...

 

[jomar]

This is so funny and predictable.

Our economy was so fucked up because of the way it ws handed to us and
their economy is always good because we handed ours over to them...​

It's the old Obama-Car-Ditch thing in the old brown-paper wrapping.

They could have come up with analogy new.

We had to add the Dawn™ to get Bubbles back (from Michael) in the bathwater (where's the baby?)...​

As Keenan said to Kel at the Good Burger, “You’re not like other people, are you.” In other words…

 

[AceDesSpades]

I do not get the reference. Don't bother explaining. I am a cultural backwater...

 

[AceDesSpades]

This was an interesting read, here's a pull quote (confession: never read this person before):

Independents are a skeptical bunch—unimpressed with partisan rhetoric and propaganda and more “show me, don’t tell me.” If Trump and his party can continue to improve with these voters, particularly by delivering positive results on the two big issues of the economy and immigration, Republicans could conceivably maintain their grip on power and perhaps expand these gains in upcoming elections in 2026 and 2028.

However, Trump and the GOP shouldn’t count on independent support going forward.


https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/whats-next-for-independents

 

[jomar]

I do not get the reference. Don't bother explaining. I am a cultural backwater...

Fair enough. At least trump didn’t fuck up the economy he inherited from Obama. Well, at least until he fucked up the pandemic response. Maybe he’ll do the same this time, except tariffs. We’ll see.

 

[AceDesSpades]

Who handled the pandemic response well enough to stop its spread?

 

[jomar]

Good try

 

[Politruk]

Who handled the pandemic response well enough to stop its spread?

Not Trump.

 

[AceDesSpades]

No answers.
Only serious charges.
And they think people were listening to them.

They were being tuned out while they were yelling at deplorable Nazi garbage church people black/Hispanic men...

 

[Chernosoth]

Here's an Indian perspective with 11 reasons. I partly disagree with the article. Kamala's campaign was too long, not too short. She started with a lead and lost it. Her race looks like a nonissue, next to a guy with an orange face. "America won't vote for a woman" will be argued and flamed for a while until we elect one.

 

[AceDesSpades]

I repeat, but with purpose.

She should have stayed in the basement. I blame her people. Their arrogance cost her.

Next time, she'll get it right and assume her proper role in our lives: coconut Mamala-ade...

 

[AceDesSpades]

Our Next (Gavin or Mamala) California President's Plans: Californication, the Grift

We just ran payroll. The payroll taxes were 2K higher than calculated. We called the payroll company. They explained (in summary) that California has a budget shortfall, and the federal government wants money back that it lent California for UI that it "lost." They are making up… Show more

Little did California businesses know that they were cosigners on the state’s nearly $20 billion loan from the federal government that was used to cover California’s unemployment fund shortfall during the COVID pandemic. This ugly truth became apparent when the state recently decided to stop making payments on this loan. When a state defaults on its federal unemployment insurance loan, federal law requires that the state’s businesses repay the loan.

What makes this default even more egregious is that the stone-age-era IT system of the state’s Employment and Development Department (EDD) opened the floodgates to bad actors, permitting more than $30 billion in fraudulent unemployment claims during the pandemic. Those receiving fraudulent payments include incarcerated felons, a person impersonating a one-year-old, and a person impersonating Senator Dianne Feinstein. A single residential address received checks for around 60 separate individuals filing from that address.

Joel B. Pollak, Breitbart.com

 

[AceDesSpades]

I found this to be an interesting think piece:

Why Democrats are Losing Tomorrow's Elections Today

[conclusion]

In the long run, governors and state governments are the key to Congress and the White House. It’s not only Trump who defeated Harris this month—GOP governors have been beating their Democratic counterparts for years and turning the country red, slowly then quickly. The 2028 presidential election will be the last one fought on the present electoral map.

But the elections of the 2030s are already taking shape, and several governors who aspire to the party’s nomination in ’28, such as Newsom, are only making the next decade’s fights for the House and White House much harder for Democrats to win.

As the sun sets on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, it’s premature for Democrats to think about the next presidential election until they rethink the kind of governors they elect in the largest, yet shrinking, blue states.

https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/why-democrats-are-losing-tomorrows-elections-today/

 

[UltraChad]

I found this to be an interesting think piece:

Why Democrats are Losing Tomorrow's Elections Today

[conclusion]

In the long run, governors and state governments are the key to Congress and the White House. It’s not only Trump who defeated Harris this month—GOP governors have been beating their Democratic counterparts for years and turning the country red, slowly then quickly. The 2028 presidential election will be the last one fought on the present electoral map.

But the elections of the 2030s are already taking shape, and several governors who aspire to the party’s nomination in ’28, such as Newsom, are only making the next decade’s fights for the House and White House much harder for Democrats to win.

As the sun sets on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, it’s premature for Democrats to think about the next presidential election until they rethink the kind of governors they elect in the largest, yet shrinking, blue states.

https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/why-democrats-are-losing-tomorrows-elections-today/

Kinda hard to run for POTUS when you can't govern a state for shit.....

 

[AceDesSpades]

RFK meets Trump

 

[AceDesSpades]

“Unfortunately, Trump Derangement Syndrome is real. You all know someone afflicted by it. It’s stage five. It wrecks the nervous system. It addles the brain. There is no vaccine, cure, or therapeutic. But you all have a role in helping people unwind from it. Sunshine, sunlight, maybe someone in their life who has a different point of view.”
Kellyanne Conway

 

[AceDesSpades]

Had to talk the hubs down, I'm sure...

 

[AceDesSpades]

Zito is usually very good about forensic analysis and this perked my brow:

No matter how often these voters said this, it often was dismissed as an outlier. Or it was placed in a silo of race, meaning it was only the white working class. The blindness among reporters and Democrats was that they thought it was only white middle-class voters behaving that way, missing that working-class voters of all races were voting shoulder to shoulder.

Why? Because these voters are culturally connected to each other through their communities where they live* together, their children attend schools together, and they work side by side. Plus, they share other cultural touchstones, such as church attendance, elevated concerns about crime in their neighborhoods, and the economic stress that affects them all.

Middle-class Latino, Black and white voters voted together as a continuum of the working-class realignment in this state that catapulted Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris. This was a direct result of Democrats shedding voters from formerly guaranteed Democratic Party constituencies.

https://hotair.com/salena-zito/2024/11/23/biden-was-the-fluke-in-2020-not-trump-in-2016-n3797268



* NOT by their internet connections... [my emphasis]

 

[AceDesSpades]

How could a Democratic get elected and maintain their base, let alone win the center no matter the candidate?

Again, consider the left-wing logic: it is deemed moral to dismantle the border, disrupt the social fabric of the country, and destroy federal immigration laws. But it is immoral to restore U.S. sovereignty, secure the border, stop the flux of lethal cartel-supplied fentanyl and child sex trafficking, and follow the law?

In this regard, the party that prides itself as progressive is regressively adopting the states’ rights arguments of 19th-century southern states that boasted they would resist all federal enforcement of tariffs. By the late 1850s, these future Confederates were asserting that the national government had no jurisdiction in their state domains. Such brazen nullification would lead to the Civil War.

Note the left assumes that conservatives will not emulate their tactics and thus declare swaths of federal firearms or environmental laws null and void within their red state and county jurisdictions. They know that doing so would start a cycle of lawlessness that would eventually result in either civil war, total anarchy, or both.

Victor Davis Hansen, American Greatness

 

[Politruk]

* NOT by their internet connections... [my emphasis]

But, that's not true any more. Those now matter as much as physical proximity.

 

[AceDesSpades]

You are entitled to your truth.

In light of the election, some examination of your truth might be in order, a little meditative reflection.
I say that it is this disassociation that enables the very worst ideas in so many individuals.
For example: when the reflecting pool is shallow, from tears.

 

[AceDesSpades]

They didn't want to listen,
didn't want to hear.
They were busy shouting
at us; ear to ear,
busy in the celebration
of a brand new year.
An explanation now
but to fall on deaf ear...

Now. On to the Fight! Fight! Fight!
as we begin the peaceful new year.

 

[Holy_Seduction]

Here's an Indian perspective with 11 reasons. I partly disagree with the article.

“…the liberal order established with Barack Obama’s presidency…”

In 2008, US right-wing reactionaries were in fact routinely critiquing the so-called "liberal order," already, which was associated with a range of policies promoting international cooperation, multilateralism, and progressive social values.

They complained that this “”‘liberal order’ was marked by excessive government intervention, political correctness, a clear weakening of US sovereignty, etc., etc.

Critics claimed that the liberal order favored globalism over nationalism, that it undermined traditional values, that it contradicted the American way of life, and on and on. It’s always the same handful of tired, unimaginative lines we’ve heard since the 1798 Aliens and Sedition Act, generally articulated for the same reasons.

 

[Rightguide]

TDS is the emerging mental endemic currently expanding the Democrat dysphoria.