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  • I wonder how fast Putin will move on this... Weeks? Months?

  • 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.

  • 219... Come on, climb you bastard!

  • Taking it directly to NATO is a big step though right. I can't see Lithuania fall like that

  • Now everyone knows what they can get away with, I wouldn't be surprised

  • I feel Taiwan invasion is less likely as Trump isn't fond of China ...

  • No fluoride too😂

  • 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).

  • 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?'

  • 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.

  • This is a really shit result.

  • “while offering not a lot more”

    Eh? Not being a narcissist egomaniac in the early stages of dementia has some weight.

  • 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.

  • in the early stages of dementia

    I remember reading on here that Trump was in the early stages of dementia in 2016. Credit to him for finding some sort of miraculous strategy for delaying progression.

    The big question is who will be the new Seth Abramson. The liberal conspiracy grift is on.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • And yet Harris appears to be performing less well than Clinton did, so maybe it's too fair?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • What in your opinion was Trumps clear message?

  • so utterly depressing, i'm going to find a website showing puppy and kitten videos, watch them all and tune everything else out.

  • His message was "there was less immigration under me, you had more money in your pocket under me, your life was better under me"

  • I haven't changed my outlook.

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