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

Landside

Nah its they dont want a woman.

one (very obviously pro choice) Sky News correspondent was incredulous earlier that a pro-life punter didn't want abortion rights decided by the states… (which is exactly what overturning Roe v Wade did)

P.A called for convicted felon Donald Trump who will now proceed to pardon himself and his cabal

Wouldn't have won a primary

maybe thats the point

you’ve been at it all night apparently, as recently as 5.37…

The mood on BBC and Sky is very solemn, almost like someone has died, beautiful to see them so downbeat lol.

Any US companies headquartered here will need longer than Trumps term as president to organise relocating their corporate headquarters back to America.

There was no exodus of US investment last time around, and Trump has a business operating here himself so I wouldn't be jumping to that type of conclusion.

There remains a massive issue for Ireland regarding the way we structure our economy in this way, and eventually the house of cards could come tumbling down and successive Irish governments have failed to address that.

Perhaps with a looming general election our political class could get their fingers out of their backsides and turn their attention to running the country properly instead of calling the electorate names for a change.

If I miss understood the context, apologies. May have fired too soon.

In general most comments in this thread had a poor grasp of betting markets, how odds work, etc. They are far sophisticated than people think.

Yeah but if you tried telling people that here over the last 3 months and you’d be lynched - that was half the problem with the democrats - they were so far up their own righteous arse that they approached this as a moral crusade not an election - they ended up preaching - not a good look at all - as for some of their supporters, listening wasn’t in their skill set - they’ve paid the price and they deserve it

Well at least we know in 4 years it finally comes to an end. We survived the first 4 years, we'll survive the next 4.

It's racism, sexism, years of propaganda about "something, something woke", "something, something communism", the woeful failure of the American education and mental health systems, combined with a healthy dose of nationalism, inbreeding and indoctrination through home "schooling" (i.e. bible study).
If the US wasn't such an internationally important country, we could ignore it, but this is definitely not a good sign for the entire world.

I will still call his supporters for what they are. Just because the stupid are in the majority, doesn't make them right and now we'll have to call them out even more.

In the end they will get what they paid for. At best, four years of stagnation at worst, Germany 1934.

No point in immediate postmortems given, as Jon Stewart points out here: they’re almost always, always bullsh*t, TLDR,

2008: “the beginning of post racial America” (looool)

2012: “Republicans need to appeal to Hispanics with respect” (kind of true given tonight’s result apparently with gains among Hispanics, but in such a strange way of Othering Hispanics, especially Mexicans over the Wall TM to win 2016 and calling immigrants rapists etc.)

2016: “Democrats need to pick a new younger generation of candidate” (Joe Biden????)

2020: “after the insurrection Trump will never be allowed back in the White House” (…..)

Past my bedtime, see yall tomorrow