The 2024 United States Presidential Election Thread

[Chris]

If I ever said that, that no one said that to you, I was probably only speaking about this board because I wouldn’t be able to speak about what you might experience in Texas or with your friends or with family. That’s the issue I think a lot of times with threads like these is, we can only speak for what’s going on here. I apologize if I ever gave you any other impression. Especially lately because I’ve been fairly low profile in politics.

I also can’t person recall ever telling you what you should or shouldn’t worry about off the top of my head. I just give my own personal feelings and I don’t think America’s gonna personally become Nazi Germany. There might be a couple of things that might happen that you’re worried about, but I don’t think the plethora is going to. But again, I’m not telling you you can’t worry about it, but I do think we have enough checks and balances that the vast majority of things that people think is going to happen I don’t think are going to happen, but that’s just me. I’m only speaking for me.

Yes it's just frustration that builds when I'm constantly told I'm overreacting and not to worry when I can point to concrete examples of when I was told that and the thing happened. I want nothing more than for all those people to be able to say I told you so to me in 4 years if nothing happens. I don't have any issue with you or your opinions

 

[Chris]

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11/06/us/trump-election-harris-news

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at Howard University after calling President-elect Donald J. Trump to congratulate him. “While I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign,” she told supporters.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

I think this time is going to be different in general because I don’t think there’s anybody here outside of maybe people that weren’t posting in this thread that personally wanted this outcome so I don’t think I’ve seen anybody talk about overreactions yet outside of maybe Bobby. I will be honest I will Poke Bobby a little bit just because that’s the rapport I have with him but definitely worry if you’re worrying because everybody’s feelings are valid. I will try not to say or do anything to indicate otherwise. I might give my opinion on specific policies that I think are safe or not safe just from a political standpoint, but nothing is impossible.

For example, the one thing that I’m not entirely sure about is or isn’t possible is removing ourselves from NATO. He didn’t do that the first time so I don’t know how serious he would be about actually doing that the second time, but I also don’t know what the strings are for that. I’m sure as the head of the executive that’s something he could look into.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

She shouldn’t. She’s still got a whole career ahead of her.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

I’m not sure if AOC would make for a good president or not but she just got reelected for the third time and she’s still young enough and popular enough with the younger generation and I am wondering if maybe she might be able to do it. I think the Democratic ticket needs to go younger.

 

[Bobby Barrows]

Who knew John Lennon would still be right 66 years later.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

What I’m most interested in though when it comes to the situation overseas is not if he pulls out of NATO. It’s if he does what he claimed he could do when he was campaigning, and would sit down with Putin and Zelensky and end the Ukraine war in his first 30 days.

That was such a lofty thing to suggest and I’d like to see how he explains it to his supporters when that doesn’t happen.

 

[Chris]

You can probably already place bets on what his excuses will be when everything he said he was gonna do doesn't happen

 

[Death By Looch]

 

[Kross Rhodes]

My God Trump just hit 295 and he still has two states that are just about to call it for him.

 

[Death By Looch]

The Institute of International Finance cautions that if the U.S. President-elect Donald Trump follows through with the tariffs he campaigned on, the result will be a renewal of inflation and higher U.S. banking loan interest rates.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/23/trump-tariffs-likely-to-lead-to-higher-us-interest-rates-iif-chief.html

So yea, if he pulls through with what he campaigned on, the people who voted him because of the global inflation, gonna break their brains about why it's gonna happen again.

Also

Donald Trump becomes the second President-elect since Grover Cleveland in 1892 to serve non-consecutive presidential terms once he is inaugurated. He is the oldest person and first convicted felon to be elected president of the United States.

 

[Bobby Barrows]

His first term is already considered a bottom five Presidency to both historians and political scientists, I can only imagine how much worse this one will be.

 

[Canadian Dragon]

I mean he may die in office he's pretty old

 

[Death By Looch]

His first term is already considered a bottom five Presidency to both historians and political scientists, I can only imagine how much worse this one will be.

It's gonna be the Wrestlemania's 2 and 9 combined of Presidencies.

 

[Chris]

Honestly the tariff thing is actually the least of my worries bc I think enough Republican economists will put a stop to that whereas they won't care about trans rights