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• #19227
This afternoon?
Netanyahu will go all out very soon too, especially now he's fired Gallant and effectively now admitted he has no interest in the hostages.
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• #19228
219... Come on, climb you bastard!
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• #19229
Taking it directly to NATO is a big step though right. I can't see Lithuania fall like that
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• #19230
Now everyone knows what they can get away with, I wouldn't be surprised
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• #19231
I feel Taiwan invasion is less likely as Trump isn't fond of China ...
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• #19232
No fluoride too😂
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• #19233
So in summary:
- replacing an evidently senile candidate late in the day
- with a widely unpopular VP
- with no democratic process
- who then launched her campaign by leaning into a north London public school mean girls meme
- and calling the other guy weird
- while offering not a lot more
Wasn't successful in the swing states to voters concerned about their precarious economic position?
And this is with corporate donor money out stripping Trump by 3 to 1 (Harris raising nearly a billion dollars during the campaign).
- replacing an evidently senile candidate late in the day
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• #19234
Who could have predicted it would end this way???
It's like they looked at Hillary's campaign and said 'Well, I know this was a spectacular failure last time, but what about if this time it just magically wasn't?'
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• #19235
Listening to TRIP with Dominic Sandbrook, he said a similar thing. Something along the line of if you asked a casting agency to find a candidate most likely to alienate the blue collar they would have created Harris.
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• #19236
This is a really shit result.
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• #19237
“while offering not a lot more”
Eh? Not being a narcissist egomaniac in the early stages of dementia has some weight.
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• #19238
I'm not sure that's quite fair though. Harris brought a lot more positivity, had a record on crime, and Clinton had decades of baggage and had been attacked by the Republicans since the 90s.
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• #19240
Another thing the dems messed up. Instead of sorting their shit out, they kept taking cheap stabs at trump even though only the already convinced people listens to it
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• #19241
He probably wasn't aware of it initially given it is something that seems to happen every election.
Regardless, his decision to have an in-person meeting with Trump and not Harris when he visited the US recently has probably paid off.
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• #19242
I thought a similar thing re the funding. Trump has twice won it with less money. It's totally destroyed that old stat about the biggest war chest winning the presidency.
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• #19243
And yet Harris appears to be performing less well than Clinton did, so maybe it's too fair?
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• #19244
the largest amphibious assault in history and logistically extremely challenging
I am talking about a hybrid invasion of the Kinmen islands for the symbolic value, not the entire island of Taiwan. A risky undertaking for China, but with some hybrid warfare moves one reckons it would be logistically doable.
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• #19245
I'm still not sure.
Harris banged on endlessly about the broad tent, vs Hilary's basket of deplorables. She put a lot more groundwork in too. Also I'm unconvinced that there was another choice when Biden stepped down, so I'm not sure about characterising it as trying the same thing twice.
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• #19246
It's not about money, it's about clarity of message. Harris' position of "I'm not him" just doesn't really work.
I'm shocked that Labour got so far with a similar message about not being the Tories. I expect that majority to thoroughly collapse in 2029.
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• #19247
What in your opinion was Trumps clear message?
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• #19248
so utterly depressing, i'm going to find a website showing puppy and kitten videos, watch them all and tune everything else out.
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• #19249
His message was "there was less immigration under me, you had more money in your pocket under me, your life was better under me"
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• #19250
I haven't changed my outlook.
I wonder how fast Putin will move on this... Weeks? Months?