Harris Vs Trump 2024 US Presidential election - read the warning in the OP posted 18/09/24

It's halloween, so we're all in the mood for a little bit of Horror. But a 2nd Trump presidency would be about as funny as throat cancer.

He won't just break America. He'll do enormous irreversible damage to the whole world.

The problem with Trump not winning, is that all of the trump supporters will think that no matter how things go under Harris, Trump would have been better, and the next Trump will be even worse than the current Trump.

I've lost faith in human civilisation. There are too many people who are utterly incapable of critical thought, and too many incentives for bad actors to do things that are only in their own short term interest, but ultimately bad for everyone in the medium to long term.

in fairness if he managed to secure the endorsement of JFK jr I’d say that might impress a few people…

The Republican party has become a giant freak show.

What's the analysis, here? Are they trying to lose the election for some reason, or are they feeling so confident of winning that they feel comfortable pulling the mask down?

If Trump wins in America, and he does what he says he will do (put tariffs on everyone) there is a chance that the USD will end as the global reserve currency. Being the reserve currency basically gives you unlimited money. You can print as many dollars as you like to pay for whatever you want. Infinite money.

If the Euro became the new reserve currency, Eurozone countries could invest way more in defence with interest free loans from the ECB without diluting the value of the currency.

American power is not in their military, it is in their currency

I hope someone is taking notes of all the more extreme things Trump is predicted to do, even things he said he'd do, so we can check to see if he followed though on them in 4 years time.

Personally I think the more extreme things he says is just bluster, all part of his act.

Show me where Trump has ever said he was working class? What you see is what you get with Trump. It played well with voters and that's what his team wanted

Another big problem with Clinton's loss was how the DNC completely shafted Bernie Sanders. They turned an awful lot of supporters away by manipulating the primaries and that was enough for Trump to sneak in.

The Democrats are way more right wing than any mainstream Irish party, even the Tories in the UK are probably more to the left than the DNC

Sanders would be considered a centrist in Ireland, he was seen as an extreme left option in the US.

Harris doesn't have this problem this time, because there basically was no primary, and people don't really blame her for screwing over another candidate that they would have preferred.

this seems like a bizarre thing to introduce. moreso given that trump wants to become america's hitler if he wins the election.

the vid is about 30seconds long. i tried to google it but cant find anything.

The racists .

Plain and simple.

It is, in theory, and in contrast to the alternatives, where there are no votes, or only certain people get to vote.

But it is a flaw in the system where you're trying to arrive at a good decision, and the majority of people do not know enough about the subject to be able to make a rational choice.

Would you like to undergo surgery where every decision made by the surgeon is decided by a simple majority of everyone in the operating theatre? Or do you want the surgeon to be the most experienced and expert person in the room, with others around him who are also informed, who can check their decisions and challenge them if they're doing something stupid?

There are very good reasons why we don't make people take a test before we allow them to vote. What I actually want, are better protections against blatant propaganda in elections. So that voters are better informed, so that candidates can't lie blatantly to the public, so that media organisations cannot be nakedly partisan, so that media cannot be owned by individuals who can use that power to influence elections

Musk is such a poor public speaker, he's so awkward

Melanie on Sky News live now at Madison square gardens -delivering a speech- or more like sounding like a 4th class student reading out a passage in English class- not very well

If you argue that Michelle has a brass neck by not speaking about Bidens cognitive decline [which he seemed to display during the debate with Trump] while mentioning that Trump has it to a lesser degree than Biden, would you accept that the GOP should get Trump to pull out of the race in advance of his further decline?

Most people slamming the Dems for not getting Biden to pull out earlier do so on the basis of his decline.