Doesn't matter who the VP pick is, the big wet boi is cooked.
Trump's followers will do some terrorism like they usually do, but the majority of them will become disenfranchised and go the way of the tea party - still present, still a pain in the ass, but ineffectual. They will devote their time to Trump's new talk show and he will sell them Trump hairy balls strong man supplements and other scams.
American empire will continue to expand, nothing will fundamentally change. Blue MAGA is the new order.
The "weird" comment was more effective than any campaigning Biden did
the celebrations after she wins are going to be the most insufferable shit imaginable, worse than when Biden won. I think I'm just gonna try to go to sleep for the entirety of November through March
Oh you bet. It will get treated like an Obama moment where the nonwhite girl boss defeated the evil white man.
If they can keep her in front of a teleprompter until the election without fail, maybe. The "they're so weird, right!" thing will only work for as long as they can obfuscate that she is also alarmingly weird.
I tend to agree but it's hard to say when she has been so, so invisible as veep
Maybe she can be normal? I've probably heard her talk for all of 10 minutes since 2020 when you add it all up
Seems doubtful to me. The ways in which Harris is weird are either common among all politicians, or just as widely shared among Republicans as Democrats.
R's can't challenge her from the right, since she mostly agrees with them there, and they can't challenge her from the left without "going woke" and starting to care about things like genocide and the prison industrial complex.
They'll challenge her from the right anyway. They always do. Biden sends BP to literally whip migrants? Too woke
Challenging her from the right only adds further fuel to the five-alarm "Weird" fire at the RNC.
it really is amazing how much trump and the republicans bungled the assassination attempt, like when I heard the news and saw that picture I thought it was over for sure, but they really didn't capitalize on it at all
Bro picked the worst possible candidate for VP as well. They could’ve dug up Ronald Reagan and raise him to unlife with the same spell Dems use on Biden and he’d be a better VP than Vance.
Def, like the pic was cool but it's not the 20th century anymore, we all heard him say 'wait, I gotta have my little photo op' and other shit - the spectacle is dead.
I didn't hear that, did he get caught on a hot mic? lol
Not verbatim, it was the whole 'wait, I gotta get my shoes ', then stalling to get himself together for his little fist pump photo. Like Hasan said - 'the man's a media goblin! Imagine keeping yourself together through being shot at to have the wherewithal to do a photo op'.
Harris as candidate improves their chances in that it removes the sundowning old white man problem. But Harris still has charisma and organizational issues, economy still sucks for most people, still signing off on a genocide. I’m not saying Trump has it for sure, but the honeymoon is going to end soon and I’m sure the Republicans will be able to come up with something better that old cat lady.
I'm not sure they can get out of this slump right now, Vance is wildly repulsive. And the rallying cry of Trump's nearly funny moment fizzled in the news cycle, with no discernable blip on the polling as a result. MAGA freaks have some real tired and desperate vibes rn too, and they keep doubling down on creepy and weird positions when faced with any pushback.
trump got shot like two weeks ago and I keep having to remind myself that that happened
three months is a long time
Slaps roof of three months
You can fit so many decades in this bad boy
I think the shooter being basically apolitical and doing it out of the same nihilism and alienation as mass shooters really killed any momentum it might've generated. If it had been some ridin' with Biden fool or other Democrat dumbass it might've gotten some traction, but instead it ended up being memory holed just like any other mass shooting
it ended up being memory holed just like any other mass shooting
Amerikka-maxing
I'll admit I'm a little surprised that it made so little impact. When it was happening I figured that it was game over, gg, trump won, but I'm astounded that in the space of two weeks it's like it never happened at all
Her anti charisma doesn't matter when the most charismatic people support her and turn her rallies into a concert.
I'm not so convinced. The Republicans only have a few weeks to regain the initiative in time to turn the election around and they've got nothing on Harris that they haven't already deployed.
Generally agree with the title. Biden was dragging the DNC's chances down to hell with him, but polling shows Kamala is closing the gap in swing states.
American empire will continue to expand, nothing will fundamentally change. Blue MAGA is the new order.
Unfortunately true, while US Hegemony crumbles. Better than GOP rule, but won't make much, if any, positive material change. I do believe we are seeing the dying throes of a rescinding empire, however.
It does make me wonder how the Republican Party will come back from the dead again. They always do. Not even a 20 year ass kicking by the New Deal Democrats was enough to effectively end them.
They won't truly die until the material conditions for reactionary thinking die out too.
Predicting election results this far out is pointless in a country where the political lines are as blurred as they are in the US.
Something like half of the people polled after the Minneapolis police station got torched thought it was a good thing (or at least that it was justified); I severely doubt those same people feel that way now. The country's electorate is incredibly fickle and biased towards the aesthetic of the moment, as reactionaries are wont to be, to say nothing of their memory.
3 months is a lot of time for things to happen.
Kamala Harris represents the same type of cultural and social malaise that Trump does but in a different form. It's all about how cruel you can be to get ahead. People like Kamala wrap themselves in a blanket of false kindness, of "nice vibes" but in reality they are just as evil, just the same as more blatant and obvious narcissists like Trump.
You can keep people imprisoned beyond their sentencing, using them as self-admitted slave labor because it's simply too profitable to release them, and you can be president one day. It's all about how much debasement we will accept from our society.
Full agreement. I wasn't sure until Saturday when I saw Trump speak.
Live hes so boring and low energy. He barely got the crowd going... Got his biggest cheer when he said he'd fire Gary Gensler. A minute later he just said it again to try and get people cheering.
Just old and wet and tired.
Now I'm fully coconut pilled.
But of course anything could happen. Maybe someone tries to shoot Harris or something and in true Democratic excellence she spins that into a losing proposition somehow
VP pick does matter in at least one instance: Josh Shapiro could tank her chances in Michigan, and most of her pathways to victory run through Michigan. Other than that, I'd agree that her VP matters very little
I’m clearly not up-to-date on Michigan politics. Why would Shapiro tank her in Michigan?
Michigan has a significant population of Arab Americans who are not fans of US support for genocide in Gaza. Josh Shapiro has been very pro-Israel and hostile to anti-Zionist protests, so adding him to the ticket would not play with those voters, who may stay home or even vote for Trump out of spite.
Hot take there. I've always felt they were fine to puppeteer whomever got in.
trump was only not the bourgeoisie's guy when he did jan 6th, other than that they loved the guy
I always think of the Aamon Animations video about trump losing in 2021/ jan 6th, specifically this line at around 3 minutes in https://www.patreon.com/posts/re-upload-fate-82309664
"As president you can put kids in cages you can bomb weddings and hospitals and kill women and children and starve whole nations, however the president can never threaten the ruling class of this empire... but otherwise you did a pretty good job"
Interestingly this video has been blocked on youtube, so weird!
Trump really didn't mess up anything for the bourgeoisie enough that its that serious. It was all optics. Other than that, business as usual
Bad to who?
I appreciate the idea that the billionaires dont want trump, but the idea that he could never win and the fix was in is simply ridiculous.
Trump has been acting like a loser lately. They need to find a better drug mix or he's Toever
It's a race between "weird" locking up the election vs. Israel starting a regional war and/or Ukraine collapsing
If events force foreign policy back into the national media spotlight, then Harris is cooked
