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

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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 29,647 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    I'm not sure what people expect her to say about doing things differently though. The US managed the post-Covid inflationary period better than anyone and invested heavily in blue collar and low income job creation and wage growth. They did this while growing the economy quickly and having lower inflation than the rest of the western world and getting it under control faster.

    The alternative is that they should have forced a recession and mass unemployment on the US and how are you supposed to say that as an answer?

    Sometimes world events outside you control just overtake the narrative. The Biden administration pretty much did do most things correctly, but people don't care about competent management of external forces. They want someone who says "I'll fix it" with no plan and vague ideas that will only make it worse. Not much anyone can do about that.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 327 ✭✭Iecrawfc


    Did climate change even get a mention in this campaign? Totally over shadowed by everything else...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,131 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    Ireland seems to be the only useful idiot country taxing their citizens in the name of “climate change” anymore.


    Other mature countries have woken up and realized what matters first.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭DangerMouse27


    You kinda forget that the first thing the man did after getting shot, secret service pulling all-over him. He jumped up repeated it.

    Fight.

    It shouldn't be that surprising that lots of Americans saw a leader in that moment.

    In hindsight, Dem strategy to absolutely ignore SpaceX's remarkable rocket catch was ceding the media to Trump. They could have easily congratulated Space-X's American team. They may have done so, eventually but they were slow out of the gates.

    On MSNBC, prior to the catch, they talked up Harris and the ability to cancel Space-X contracts.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭mojesius


    Identity politics in America has peaked.

    While recognising that it happened in prior elections, I think there is a creeping over-emphasis of voter groups by both politicians and more obviously, the US media. "Why didn't Harris appeal to Latino voters?" , "Why did Blacks vote for Trump?". These are the head-scratching questions being asked on CNN (and likely a slew of other news media right now).

    America is a melting pot. Yes, there is inequality among races, gender etc. but the whole point of the 'American dream' is that it shouldn't matter where you come from or the colour of your skin.

    Maybe people are just sick of being pigeon-holed into a 'voter demographic' based on the colour of their skin or if their granny was Mexican.

    It's always the economy, safety and 'can my kids have a good life, the way this is going', what's in it for me? etc. In 2024, regardless of your colour, gender etc., you are going to vote for the candidate that has a better story to right the wrongs.

    Nothing to do with Harris at all. Joe should have stepped aside sooner. There were also some voters for Trump who said they may have voted differently, but said they couldn't vote for Harris as she had not been tested against other potential candidates through a primary, which is normal procedure.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭Sandor Clegane


    Trump sold the lie better and he did something the Dems didn't…

    He concentrated on the electorate.

    People wanted change and he offered it while Harris said she'd do nothing different, which was madness considering how people were vocal about wanting a change, it was pure arrogance on the Dems part, they just didn't listen and concentrated on wokeness, identity politics and bullshit while Trump managed to convince people he's in it for them, even though he himself is the ultimate elite he convinced people he's going to make life better for everyone, put more money in their pocket from the blue collar to the elite, its all bullshit but he sold it like any good salesman.

    In years to come I think Biden will be looked on favourably, he cleaned up a lot of the first Trump mess and did a lot of things right, had Harris of got in I think things would of been more of the same but it would of been a lot better than whats coming now imo but as I said she failed to sell that idea, she needed to concentrate on alleviating peoples concerns, come up with her own policies, stop the nonsense and get back to basics but she didn't do it and this has happened and they still don't get it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,313 ✭✭✭✭markodaly


    White House Chief of Staff announced and it's a woman. First time ever.



  • Subscribers Posts: 43,022 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Just spoke to American business owner tonight. Chatted about politics and trump .

    He expanded to me that trumps government gave his business over $220k in assistance during COVID to keep going, not a loan, not an interest dependent assistance, but literally free money. Pure socialism.

    That's why trump was seen as being better for the pocket of the general American.

    He can call his opponents commies / socialist / Marxist because that has zero relevance to the ordinary American. He can enact pure socialism ideology on a national scale but the electorate are so far insulated from what an actually socialist policy is, that they don't recognise it. If a business gets a grant, it's on the basis that they employ people and aren't an NGO, therefore it's capitalist... And that's sticking it to the Dems.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 327 ✭✭Iecrawfc


    Sounds like that's what Americans voted for including some that may well be caught up in it...one thing you can say about Trump and his team, they're not hiding their intentions andthe voters lapped it up



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 327 ✭✭Iecrawfc


    Of course, no issues at all, stick your fingers in your ears



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,210 ✭✭✭amandstu


    It got mentions alright.As you say ,though it seemed completely overshadowed.

    I remember when Kamala said she would allow fracking it was on the basis of her administration meeting its committments towards agreed climate policy anyway.

    Think that was fair (if it was true)

    I assume the New Republicans will stiff those agreements*.They are hardly men of their word and they seem buoyed by self righteousness and victimhood (that they will probably share around with their real victims)

    • Obviously hope they either don't or are just too busy deporting the undeserving foreign residents.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭sock.rocker*


    A lot of that guy's post is sensible and people can't just put their fingers in their ears any more now that the demographic shift in voting has happened. It would just be denial now to not analyse why black and Latino voters etc. moved right.

    Personally, I think the bear or man in the woods was one of the most weirdly damaging societal events in recent times. And I wouldn't be surprised at all if a specific poll showed it influenced young men's swing to the right.

    Like talk about alienating young men.. You are stuck inside in your late teenage and early adult years because of Covid, you are already lacking in real-world experiences and social skills, and then a bunch of middle-aged women shout down at you that they are so likely to rape a woman, they'd rather be mauled to death by a bear than risk being alone with you, and then a bunch of young women just go along with it.

    If there was a message men were supposed to hear in that global assault on them, it got lost and drove them away. Like what were men supposed to do? Be even more scared of talking to women in public? Not hang out in the woods? Men are already avoiding talking to women and cross the road to not make them feel uncomfortable. The only thing that could be done was retreat even further and that means swinging right.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,939 ✭✭✭ArthurDayne


    Well, I read that social media post and can honestly say I found it to be most eloquent, articulate and beautifully polished turd I have ever seen.

    He talks about "open borders", which effectively nobody advocates. He talks about defending the police, a concept that relatively few people ever got behind in any manner thay got it beyond very isolated implementation. He talks about transgender medicine, something which pertains to a relatively miniscule community and is in no way a widespread issue.

    He talks about Covid lockdown conspiracies in a world where Covid lockdowns were a feature under Trump's first term too and are now gone. He talks about the Democrats being woke scolds while conservative Christian voters whose morality is predicated on the dictations of ancient scriptures and seek to impose such mores on others flock to Trump.

    He talks about the perceived persecution of his views in a situation where via peaceful democratic process a President who apparently represents his views has been elected resoundingly — which makes me think this guy doesn't quite understand what persecution actually is.

    He talks about Democrats and the left descending into hyperbole and mass condemnation when the Trumpist Republicans have massaged a narrative that moderate centrists are in fact rampant communists seeking totalitarian absolute power.

    He then talks about all the awful consequences of the past 10 years as if a certain President elect didn't preside over almost half of those.

    Yes. An eloquent, articulate and beautifully polished turd that guys post is indeed.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,210 ✭✭✭amandstu


    "Men are already avoiding talking to women and cross the road to not make them feel uncomfortable"

    They are ? Poor darlings.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭sock.rocker*


    Yes, that's the attitude right there. Keep them alienated, mock them for their attempts at navigating this world where women see them as predators, and then learn nothing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,313 ✭✭✭✭markodaly




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,725 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    del



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,725 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Can't throw all the blame on her, that was reported:

    As far as the Latino vote in general, it was the Latino man. It was a Latino man who decided that they were going to vote for Donald Trump. And I will dare to say that it’s the Latino man who will – who wouldn’t want a woman president. I mean, you and I had this discussion before, and I have audios from the Latino men who were calling my show, telling me that they wouldn’t vote for her just because she was a woman.

    And that is unfortunate, but that’s part of the Latino culture, right, with the Latino the man. And he’s the one, the provider. And we’re the boss, and we still, unfortunately, have a lot of Latinos with that mentality where the woman belongs in the kitchen. That is a reality of the Latino male chauvinist culture. And I think that’s what exactly what happened.

    https://www.mediaite.com/tv/hispanic-pa-radio-host-tells-msnbc-dems-lost-latino-men-over-harriss-gender-the-woman-belongs-in-the-kitchen/

    Even if this stuff about voters attitudes is correct, recriminating it is the wrong approach for Democrats. They probably should be looking to eg. Pete Buttigieg how to respond to the moment, ie with radical empathy



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,210 ✭✭✭amandstu




  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,900 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    There are indeed, but who are they?

    The surveys are indicating that the folks moving are disproportionately the sort who don’t like the way their departure state is being run. A firearms enthusiast who finds Illinois’s most recent gun control law to be affecting his enjoyment of life just that bit too much. A Californian who thinks the LGBT agenda is being pushed a bit too hard on his kids. Whatever, there are still a lot of Republicans in Vermont or Connecticut who may feel unrepresented where they are now and could see a Southern state as a step up.

    The population of the Southern states are changing their accents, yes, due to melange of out of state immigrants, but the political makeup isn’t changing anyone near as much.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,725 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    On its face sounds like riling people up and heinousness, and it is still pretty poor form, and like I said in an earlier post, probably only hurt the country economically, however denaturalization itself isn't some fascist pipe dream in its current state but a long established concept whereby the courts have held that naturalized citizens can be denaturalized upon narrow grounds, such as determining that their naturalization was obtained through fraud, or shortly after getting naturalized, moving out of the country, specifically living back in their home country for an extended period.

    Now with a Trumpian SCOTUS they for sure could expand this to be even more broad and capricious but we'd have to wait an see. Hopefully this only pertains to people who obtained naturalization fraudulently however given the Trump administration's own track record of truly awful attention to detail, due process, etc. (think the child separation where they didn't bother to make any records), it will in practice hurt a lot of naturalized citizens who don't deserve this treatment under the law — a nonzero amount who will have likely voted for the face-eating leopards. However if everything follows the spirit and letter of the law, anyone who lawfully naturalized and met all the prerequisites diligently is now considered a full citizen of the united states and isn't in any secondary class, ie. deporting them would be, at least in jurisprudence, unconstitutional.

    Article I, Section 8, Clause 4:

    [The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; . . .

    The concept of naturalization typically concerns the grant of citizenship to a person who has lived in the United States for a specified time period and meets certain other requirements; to groups of people in newly-acquired territories who acquire citizenship by statute or treaty; and to children born outside the United States who become U.S. citizens upon birth to a U.S. citizen parent, or who derive their citizenship upon their parents’ naturalization in the United States. Congress has also addressed the concept of denaturalization, which refers to the revocation of citizenship from a naturalized U.S. citizen.

    Congress’s power over denaturalization derives from its power [t]o establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and from its power to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or any Department or Officer thereof.1 In describing the theory of denaturalization, the Supreme Court has stated that [a]n alien has no moral nor constitutional right to retain the privileges of citizenship if, by false evidence or the like, an imposition has been practiced upon the court, without which the certificate of citizenship could not and would not have been issued.2 Thus, there must be strict compliance with all the congressionally imposed prerequisites to the acquisition of citizenship. Failure to comply with any of these conditions renders the certificate of citizenship ‘illegally procured,’ and naturalization that is unlawfully procured can be set aside.3

    The Naturalization Act of 1906 was the first law to provide for denaturalization.4 It authorized judicial proceedings against a naturalized U.S. citizen for the purpose of setting aside and canceling the certificate of citizenship on the ground of fraud or on the ground that such certificate of citizenship was illegally procured.5 The Act provided that if a naturalized U.S. citizen returned to his native country or went to another foreign country and established a permanent residence there within five years of being admitted as a U.S. citizen, such facts were prima facie evidence that he or she lacked the intention to become a permanent citizen of the United States at the time of filing the naturalization application.6 Absent countervailing evidence, the naturalized citizen’s permanent residence in the foreign country would be sufficient in the proper proceeding to authorize the cancelation of his certificate of citizenship as fraudulent, . . .7

    https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C4-1-5-1/ALDE_00013170/v



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭thegame983


    To be fair, as annoying as those people are, they only hurt themselves with their rhetoric. Let them wallow in their own pit of despair.

    Men will be fine. We do everything.

    And one of ours, not theirs, won the other night. So f**k them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭sock.rocker*


    The vote has already happened. Men swung right. This stuff isn't in my head.

    Everything is showing that young men feel disenfranchised and hated, and you are the typical response to that because you don't give a shlt and think them suffering is pathetic.

    You can't be surprised that people "vote for a rapist" when you call them all rapists-in-waiting and say you'd rather be eaten by a bear than risk walking past one of them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭sock.rocker*


    If young males from minorities are voting in line with their gender rather than their race, then things have either gotten better for their minority or worse for their gender. And it would seem it's the latter.

    Or at least they feel that way so vote that way.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,380 ✭✭✭RoyalCelt


    The "Dems" are smarter per say but they're taking America in a direction the majority don't want. They're really idiots.

    I see JD Vance wrote to the ambassador about our ridiculous hate speech bill. Our lot and the Brits (labour) could feel the wrath of the land of liberty.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,725 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    You can't be surprised that people "vote for a rapist" when you call them all rapists-in-waiting and say you'd rather be eaten by a bear than risk walking past one of them.

    They cannot be surprised women feel that way when

    “The feel when you are totally not pressed. The feel when we control your bodies. Hey b*tch, we control your bodies! Guess what? Guys win again. Okay? Men win again. And yes, we control your bodies. It’s your body, my choice and men win again. There will never ever be a female President. Never, there will never be a female President. Ever. It’s over. Glass ceiling? Dude, it’s a ceiling made of f*cking bricks, you will never break it.”

    A lot of masks being thrown up in the air on the right like it's a graduation ceremony.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,210 ✭✭✭amandstu


    "Vote for a rapist" in quotes?

    Well being a President is 10 tenths of the law now.

    He doesn't even need his clarifiers any more.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭sock.rocker*


    If you validate a broad hatred and fear of men, and support the irrational fear and belief that they are all rapists-in-waiting, like you have just done, you are simply going out of your way to learn absolutely nothing about society and the election.

    This is a global thing, not an American one, and you have to be devoid of critical thought to think that some MAGA-heads in America are what's causing women to feel this way.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭sock.rocker*


    The lightning speed at which the left turned on minority men when they voted the wrong way is remarkable.

    Men without degrees, white men, Latino men, black men.. All utter shlt.

    And then they dish out student loan forgiveness to the people who they actually like - White university-educated people.



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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,008 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    A pint of milk and a dozen eggs cost less when I was president. To be fair, I missed it as well. Yes all the other BS was there , and yes, it is not how the economy works but for quite a few, that was the only concern and in their minds, it might work.



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