rolling “Trump is gonna win” containment thread

It came up at the weekend & sorry as a foreigner idk the rules here, will all the embarrassing Harry Potter libs start calling him “47” or what

harry potter libs?

are they transphobes?

though I'm guessing you mean something like a Sorkin lib or a Hamilton lib.

Hufflepost readers

"Whole Foods Democrats" C/D

lol ok I wasn’t expecting that part to cause confusion, respect for being logged off during that era I guess

For the sake of the question imagine some lame ppl calling him “45”

https://patriotscave.com/cdn/shop/products/2MMC-8155-4547_933x.progressive.jpg?v=1633175561

there we go!

apparently all the big donors are "fluttering towards Nikki Haley" and Trump is starting to lose a few minutes sleep in the republican presidential primaries, because the New Hampshire polling has opened up a remote possibility of some other quite horrible outcome, that doesn't involve Trump winning. lol I haven't a clue what is going on really, but just watched some msnbc on yt.

Do we need a rolling "neighbors are going to kill each other to steal potable water in our lifetimes" containment thread?

― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Monday, November 6, 2023 3:09 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think that's this thread.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, November 6, 2023 3:10 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

I already have that but it's called "rolling dystopian emails from my doomer brother."

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, November 6, 2023 3:28 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

we're experience multiple overlapping ecological and climate crises that will fundamentally alter life on this planet in my life time. so hilarious.

if you don't think that people already kill each other for access to fresh water, i've got news for you. fuck a fashy prepper for sure, but the idea that crisis, displacement, and resource scarcity won't come home to roost sooner rather than later in USA is a smug delusion

Wait ARE you my brother?

I do hear a lot of that from him. I don't think the concerns are misplaced, I just think we're a long way from Mad Max.

Your Thanksgiving table chatter is going to be really good this year

i didn't really think it was controversial. i just assume most people don't want to talk about it because it leads to debilitating depression

where's sanpaku for some doomerism when you need him

i drive through mad max every morning. the mad max looking mfers don't have any weapons though, only the police do. budo jeru is otm of course. glad i won't be sharing the table with any myopic libs catastrophizing about trump while blessed with material comfort and addicted to a national news drip feed.

or anyone bringing up the wonderfully exciting topic of critics' rankings of films, for that matter.

Speaking of doomerism apparently there a lot of people concerned about the 2025 Project for reasons I was unaware of before this helpful video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H95kPWrLsz4

lol @ competing for "taking our impending doom most seriously with most furrowed brows."

Anyway if you don't want catastrophizing about Trump, this is the wrong thread. That's its explicit purpose.

or anyone bringing up the wonderfully exciting topic of critics' rankings of films, for that matter.

― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, November 21, 2023 5:30 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Wait, they aren't exciting?

How badly is Biden alienating pro Palestine voters he'd need to vote for him to prevent 47 being the worst thing ever.
Or an ersatz version thereof?

Stevo, it’s not just pro-Palestine voters— Biden is alienating huge swaths of his former supporters in swing states. https://www.axios.com/2023/11/04/michigan-arab-american-voters-biden-israel

The rest of the world thanks the Democrats for choosing a decrepit doddery war criminal as their presidential candidate.

the way he has repeatedly lied about seeing dossiers and photos that either don't exist or are pure bullshit that somehow justify the genocide - the detestable old bastard.

Dying in his sleep rn might be good.

when the election is the stark choice of this arsehole or a Trump dictatorship I'd be grateful to be one of the disenfranchised that can't vote in US elections.

That's...a bad take.q

Citizens here have died for the sake of the franchise, and we have one party openly committed to eliminating democracy with the help of a corrupt Supreme Court, so forgive me if I don't accept the posture of gratitude for being disenfranchised.

calm down, Alf. I was just expressing that it would make me feel physically ill to have to vote for Biden. I'm aware of what is at stake in 2024, yes, I agree US democracy is in genuine peril here.

All good. Wishing Biden died is fine with me; but I work in voter registration, so I take this subject seriously.

xp you know voting is just like coloring in a circle on a piece of paper, right? you don't have to do anything more than that.

that's the currently the UK version of parliamentary democracy, that's why I'm getting a thomas the tank engine colouring book rather than registering for voter ID next year.

I don't have to vote for an arsehole who I despise in the UK because it isn't a democracy/dictatorship referendum, it's a choice between 2 centre-right parties who both want to make me poorer. Whereas if I was a US citizen it would be a hard choice for me as it will be for US citizens with family in Gaza.

xxp listening to the fiasco podcast on the 2000 florida recount really brought home how fundamentally the US have fucked this apparently simple principle, has it improved since?

No

Xp The infrastructure has improved in some places despite lots of resistance. But confidence in results has vanished, thanks mainly to the Trumpists.

xp you know voting is just like coloring in a circle on a piece of paper, right? you don't have to do anything more than that.

Um, as far as casting your own ballot goes, maybe?

There are also other considerations. Donate, advocate, help with registration (thanks Alfred), phone-bank, canvas, knock on doors, gove rides, GOTV generally.

Yeah I think most folks can manage the fill-in-the-blob stuff.

Some folks think (rightly) that a bit more effort is appropriate, given the stakes.

yeah, but the problem is that people are afraid of damaging their delicate auras by coloring in those circles

I did hundreds of GOTV calls for Clinton in 2016. It was an interesting experience for sure. Most of the people I talked to were very much on the "We need to win this" side of the fence and assured me they would not miss voting. A couple were all, "How did you get my number?"

I keep hearing ‘Deranged Jack Smith’ in Trump videos, it almost sounds like some obscuro country blues singer from the Alan Lomax archive

Home, home on deranged

there was a point a coupla months ago where I genuinely thought trump's goose might be cooked in court. but it feels like none of the cases will end before the election, and it also feels like the dems are fucked. i feel pretty bleak about all of this tbh. and just how awful a second trump presidency would be only seems to exacerbate its inevitability in my mind.

i guess this is the thread for this sort of thing

I hear you. Fight like hell. That's the only way out of despondency. Starting January I go back to knocking on doors and to calling for local candidates.

Always remember: everybody knows Trump, and what swing voters found repellent about him in November 2020 will resurface. Just today the NYT published its first front page story about what a Trump presidency would look like in 2025; in the next ten months you're going to be hearing about it on every medium. I just don't think the voters who went HARD against him in 2020 will say, "You know, gelato went up 75 cents at Target, I'm voting for Trump again."

But I want the media scaremongering to continue unabated

it would be very strange if nothing comes out of these court cases until after the election, especially given the fact that everyone knows delaying until the election has always been the strategy, like why even spend tens of millions of dollars pursuing these cases if you're just gonna let that happen

but yea I'm with Alf on this one the reason why people are really freaking out about Trump 2024 yet is because the primaries haven't even started, once a guy under multiple federal investigations starts winning them under the promise of "rooting out the vermin" I think it'll get covered a lot more. also worth mentioning a lot of people out there don't even really know what exactly Trump's on trial for! there are still smart folks out there who just don't follow this shit in a non-election year