Yup.

https://x.com/ryangrim/status/1854148818872205446

More than half of America wants a return to where the concerns and appetites of white men are prioritized.

rsmurphy wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 7:04 am More than half of America wants a return to where the concerns and appetites of white men are prioritized.

Ended up at 62.9% in the end, by my maths. Christ.

Kamala Harris didn't run on bread and butter but she also didn't run on identity politics, unless you consider "running while black" etc running on identity politics.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 7:08 am Ended up at 62.9% in the end, by my maths. Christ.

As much as we like to think we've moved the needle it doesn't matter if it's the same record. We need a new record.

I'm curious as to how many of the 75,000 undocumented Canadians, 599,000 Europeans, and 1,697, 000 Asians will be getting booted if Trump holds his resolve for the first day. "There's no price tag," he says.

jimmy spako wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 7:23 am Kamala Harris didn't run on bread and butter but she also didn't run on identity politics, unless you consider "running while black" etc running on identity politics.

I’d say her the Dems allowed themselves to be defined as Cultural Warriors by their opponents. The Dudebro Trans Paranoia ads were ludicrous and meant the Dems got defined as the people that want your daughter getting slapped down in basketball by a 6’3” guy in a dress and stuffed bra. How do you respond to that without validating the claim? It’s a Catch 22 situation because 99% of the population have other priorities and the Dems weren’t talking about those either. Well, unless you count another Means Tested Fucking Tax Credit.

Trump won because of 150,000 people in three states.

That’s a massive indictment of First Past the Post.

Gramsci wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 7:44 am Trump won because of 150,000 people in three states.

I understand why that's being said, but to boil it down to that is a serious fucking error.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 7:45 am

Gramsci wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 7:44 am Trump won because of 150,000 people in three states.

I understand why that's being said, but to boil it down to that is a serious fucking error.

Yeah, I'm not going to watch 30 minutes of somebody trying to correct their math...but that seems very wrong. Can you give us a summary of his learnings? If you want to do a proper reckoning, Trump won nearly everything there was to win, by a substantial amount, including the popular vote by like 5 million votes, and made inroads pretty much everywhere, including metro centers. I'm open to wild interpretations of those basic facts, but trying to say that it was a coin-flip accounting issue seems disingenuous or even dangerous.

rsmurphy wrote: More than half of America wants a return to where the concerns and appetites of white men are prioritized.

The Cure timed their record drop correctly.

handsbloodyhands wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2024 4:44 pm I work for a local community college. The first thing brought up in a meeting today was start thinking about what it means to us if the Dept. of Education gets dismantled.

This is every federal employee's concern right now. Schedule F.

Gutting these agencies is a politically insane thing to do (a lot of Trump supporters rely on them too), but.. buying Twitter and turning it into a neo nazi platform was also an insane thing to do.