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[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I've had 2016 bad feeling in my gut for months. Never wanted to be wrong more in my life.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's wild to me that Democrats thought Hillary Clinton 2.0 was a good idea. They even fucked up the primaries like in 2016 as well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

There was no time for a primary.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I voted in the primaries so IDK what you're talking about.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Like how granular do we want to get? There was no time for primaries with finding multiple candidates who have time to prepare a platform based on new pollng information (also takes time) on what policies were popular and battling it out for a month which would have cut into campaigning time.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Three was no time because they waited too fucking long

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

If you mean for Biden to step down, there's no arguing with that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Primaries where I live where held in June. My options for President in June where Joe Biden and Terrisa Bukovinac. What you mean is there was no time to hold a second primary. If the Democrats needed to hold a second primary, doesn't that mean they fucked up the first one?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank you for getting granular all on your own.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

You're welcome 🤗

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

joe biden has been in office for almost four years. his approval rating has been low for a while. there was time

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

.... He didn't step down until 3 months before the election, so no there wasn't time for a primary after he stepped down.

There was time for him to step down and I think he should have never tried for a second term, but that's not what the discussion is.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

it looks like we’re mostly on the same page here. maybe the only difference is that i think that joe biden’s refusal to step down was a core part of fucking up the primary. so, for that reason, i think it is an important part of the discussion. there would have been plenty of time if he had stepped down earlier.

but i’m more-so just trying to clarify my earlier comment. i completely agree with you that there wasn’t time for a primary after he stepped down.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
And everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor and the rich get rich
That's how it goes
And everybody knows

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

The last 2 weeks of nonstop Trump headlines was the nail in the coffin for me.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I thought we had it when he said they were eating cats and dogs.

I thought we had it when he said they were eating cats and dogs.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I made the mistake of thinking we had it when we heard him say he can grab them by the pussy so this one didn't get me.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As a European I thought there is no way Americans are stupid enough to reelect someone who openly supported overthrowing the government the past time.

Had I said it out loud I would have known trump would get reelected, because americans are that stupid.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As a European, we shouldn't be so quick to judge, we are only a few years behind them, and who is the greater fool, the fool or the one who follows the fool?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't worry my country just this last cycle reelected a wannabe Orbán fuck as PM and his crony won the presidency, I already live in a clown country, now the US has followed it, as a bonus I am of Hungarian descent so I can't even "go home" because obviously I would just exchange Orbán light for Orbán.

I should go back to Czechia, already spent 9 years there, it's just a better country.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I should go back to Czechia, already spent 9 years there, it’s just a better country.

Don't worry, here in Czechia we are electing our(or rather Slovak) wannabe Orbán next year :-/

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago

I thought calling Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage was the Trump campaign's final death rattle.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

I thought Roe v Wade would move the needle but apparently immigration is more important

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought we had it when so many Republican insiders were worried, when even the Toupee himself was losing sleep over the possibility of losing. I hoped they knew something we didn't.

Turns out they're even incompetent at worrying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

They just wanted you to think they were worried so you wouldn't vote. who do you think put out the news that trump didn't get a good nights rest? who would even know that to share unless it was on purpose?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Same... As soon as the polls were showing how close it was I knew we were going to lose all of the swing states... We never learned our lesson over the last 10 years... Every poll Trump is involved in the polls underestimate him by a lot... +1 Harris, +3 Harris, whatever, is really +4 Trump.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago

Problem is they think the undecideds are actually undecided rather than ashamed of what they're about to do.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

Polls don't account for people who are ashamed to tell the truth - even anonymously.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Did the bettors know? Or make profitable guesses?

Since ~Oct. 5 📈

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A great show. Perfect for current binge watching.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Theme/intro sequence is great IMHO.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

“Back in the 90s, I was in a very famous TV show […]”

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The thing is, I was certain it would take more time than this. I thought the election would be close enough for him to contest it, and that the Supreme Court would end up deciding the election 6-3. Instead the presidency was just...handed to him directly.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I figured the outcome of this election would be one of three things:

  1. Harris wins decisively
  2. Harris wins by the skin of her teeth after a couple weeks of recounts and lawsuits
  3. Trump wins by the skin of his teeth after a couple weeks of recounts and lawsuits, and maybe a riot

I didn't really consider the fourth option because Trump's never won the popular vote before and it seemed like there was more excitement for Harris than Biden, at least up until the last month. So I'm actually blindsided by the fact that it turned out to be:

  1. Trump wins decisively

He didn't do any better than he ever has, it's just that nobody showed up for Harris.

Edit: plus the fact that the R's seem to have every branch of government. This really couldn't have gone much worse

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Probably the biggest contributing factor is that the Democrats aren't really anything to get excited about, like nobody's going "YEAH! SOMEBODY TO GO PLAY DRAG ASS FOR 4 YEARS AND STILL GET OPPOSITION!" It's just better than having some more blatant corporatist fuck actively make things worse, which is unfortunately where we've ended up.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Gun control from Bojack is kind of apt today as well.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

This more or less captures the spirit of the last 100 days, yup. Maybe I should watch some Bojack, it's certainly more lighthearted than this political season has been. Ugh

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you haven't seen BoJack horseman, it's a guy that knows he's a bad person and he suffers because of it. That's the whole series.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

He suffers because of his actions, but thinks he deserves it, so he never changes them.

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