Badeendje

That's fair...

The voters proved your theory wrong. Working class voted Trump or stayed home. How you you explain that... Because whatever Biden did.. 1) it was not enough and 2) Harris promised more of the same.

Harris said she could not think of anything she would do different from Biden in a period where Biden was remarkably unpopular and people are hurting, a lot. And she essentially promised them more of the same. "We won't go back" is not a promise to move forward. And her promises to help people start a business and give child credits.. does not help anyone not interested in starting a business, who already has kids or does not want kids. Everything was contingent on very narrow promises.

So the voters that needed change stayed home... They can say they did not vote for Trump and wash their hands of anything bad that happens.

Let's see how it pans out.

That's a bold strategy, let's see if it pans out.

If you can wait in an ER there are people that have it worse.. proper distributed healthcare outside hospitals would dramatically reduce this issue, GPs handle so much that the US handles through emergency rooms.

Finding out why people stayed home is essential.

America will withdraw from anywhere without a direct financial benefit to the administration. This creates a vacuum and blind spots that will be filled by the US's adversaries, creating an even more opaque playing field for the US.

Heavily tarrifed sales to the US will be paid for by the US citizens while at the same time non US companies will see their sales in the US decline. If he removes income tax, this might be a bump in take home, but won't offset the rise in prices, especially not if US companies will just raise their prices to as close as possible match the non US alternatives making record profits.

Trump will demand countries pay for us protection, but having shown to be unreliable, this might mean some short term income for the US, the countries will scramble to be independent from the US and the US MIC as they cannot be trusted either (the us might stop sales, or even turn of supplied weapons).

The same for Ukraine, most likely Trump will just tell Europe to poney up the money and as long as the EU has no alternative they will have to, or they will allow Ukraine to fall, blaming it on trump. Regardless the relationship between the US and the EU will dramatically sour.

Since the EU is in an energy crisis, most likely Trump will try to price gouge the EU here as well.. on the other hand, drill baby drill could mean cheaper energy overall giving him severe leverage over countries in the middle east.

Luckily the police and the military have a bit different standards. Army generals are mostly well educated and very well read men who deal with the whole world and not just their neck of the woods, and possibly more important is that in the world of the military they do not have the monopoly on violence. They have to deal with adversaries who are equals and thus changes the power dynamic A LOT. A police captain can in the end just escalate all the way to the national guard and stomp out anything.. in the military they cannot as their escalations immediately leads to deaths and escalates all the way to nuclear Armageddon. So luckily they are of a different breed.

But now, trump might replace the top brass with his loyalists, (loyalty > competence) fast tracking some appointments of people that normally not have made it to that level.

The guard rails are off.. the world is in for a wild ride.

Or push someone off the raft in the hope the shark goes for that target.

Exactly the rich donate to both sides to get a seat at the table and steer the conversation. Money is so important that the rich get to dictate the direction, else the money dries up.

But she lost the popular vote.. from a convicted felon adjudicated rapist.. I still can't...

True.. I also think that Dems should be hammering their victories more. It's like they fail in public and their successes happen in the shadows.

"Look, the financials for all normal people are shit, the whole world has had massive inflation, we had less than the rest of the world, and if we had not had to clean up trumps shit and massive debts, it would have been even better. Meanwhile the rich got richer by firing you or your family members, refusing proper pay bumps, outsourcing your jobs and gouging you on prices while making record profits. We are mad too, at the republicans and their tax cuts for their mega donors, at the corporations for treating you unfairly while stealing from you... Point your anger at them...

You deserve a living wage, deserve to not worry about your health or going bankrupt by seeing a doctor, you deserve good and affordable housing and clean drinking water. We will tax the ultra wealthy and make them pay their fair share, stop their tax dodging and shady constructions. And we will show them they are not above the law.