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Either the respondents for that are spouting bullshit, or it's just that classic Trump policy advantage where he's said basically everything so somewhere in the projection of diarrhoea there is stuff you agree with.

No worries just got a headache 😊

Someone observed in here that Trump's message discipline was actually quite good, in that whenever he found himself lost in a ramble he pivoted back to the economy.

I seem to recall that, a couple of days ago, somebody was talking about how people want to sound smart in their answers to polls. Well, it sounds smarter to say you mostly care about policies.

Thats a 2017 poll just to illustrate precedent ratio for policy => personality determinants.

But also yes, from what I understand from another study is that Republicans (or possibly it was supporters of populists) are more likely to say they agree with the policy base / politics even if they can't even name a distinct policy.

I would think most could name build the wall

Anyway, for anyone looking for a long list, Nate Silver wrote it before the election

https://www.natesilver.net/p/24-reasons-that-trump-could-win

BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr4lwlpx3wxo

I know the result shouldn't surprise me, but when I read this...

Along the way he was indicted in federal and state courts. He was convicted of multiple felonies. He was found liable in a civil court in case relating to a sexual assault. Another court levied massive fines on his business empire.

...I continue to be flabbergasted by the cognitive dissonance required for people that say they believe in law and order yet vote for someone with his track record.

has anyone reached out for comment to Chloe Dygert or Quinn Simmons?

Biden should quickly executive order a few extra supreme court judges, because you can bet Trump will put a couple more ultra-conservatives on during his term.

Can't be asked - too busy eating ice cream. Yummy!

The Supreme Court ruled a sitting president can do what the fuck he likes and not be answerable for it, even if it's against the law, so in theory Biden could legit have Trump taken out by the security services and get away with it. Might even salvage his legacy.

he was indicted in federal and state courts

"Politically-motivated harrassment and abuse of power by the Democrats" (Even some Democrat politicians are embarrased by at least one of the New York cases)

He was found liable in a civil court in case relating to a sexual assault

"Clinton got away with it. The elite media made excuses for him and sneered at the victim" (This is true and shameful, regardless of the fact that Republicans are hypocrites on this issue)

Another court levied massive fines on his business empire

"More persecution."

"And yet he's still a successful billionaire. He really is good at this."

"He even told us that he understands corruption because he's seen enough of it in business. How honest is that?"

It's also worth remembering that "He may have been formally elected but he's not my president" is something Democrats started back in 2000. It went around and it came around.

in theory Biden could legit have Trump taken out by the security services and get away with it

Should have shot him in the middle of Fifth Avenue 4 da ironiez

"He may have been formally elected but he's not my president"

More 'appointed by a hack partisan SC', which was the point back then.

"She hasn't conceded yet" from Republicans who spent the last 4 years bleating about a stolen election is jokes.

Nope, I think he will get rid of the rules completely and just anoint a successor who may be Musk or Don Jnr.

He hates Musk, and he’ll want his dynasty. Best case scenario is that we get Ivanka in 2028, and not Don Jr.

I continue to be flabbergasted by the cognitive dissonance required for people that say they believe in law and order yet vote for someone with his track record.

The law and order is to be applied to other people, not their own

Well, what an absolute ratfuck that was.

bleating about a stolen election

It would be funny of Harris complained about the stealing the vote, rigged elections and fake news

This post from Robert Peston is interesting. The reTrumpification of the US could rapidly get us back into the EU.

Trump’s re-election is a global earthquake, and some of the strongest shocks will be felt in the UK and Europe.
These are the three big reasons
1.The UK and Europe are too dependent on the US military and its defence industry at a time when Putin’s land grab in Ukraine threatens our security directly and the Middle East tumult risks dangerous escalation - and when Trump talks of securing a fast peace with Putin on terms that could be presented as a victory by the Russian dictator.
2.The UK and European economies are growing too sluggishly to adequately deliver the living standards and public services demanded by citizens - and Trump’s threat of swingeing tariffs and a new age of protectionism could turn low growth into perma frost.
3.The cohesion of all our societies are being shaken by a social and digital media that daily challenges truth and fact, and which promotes hysteria, grievance and resentment. Trump’s pact with Musk means there is no chance that the digital misinformation beast will be tamed. The populist far right will be emboldened everywhere.
There is now a massive geopolitical choice for Starmer. Does he djtch his cautious incrementalist approach to restoring economic, trade and diplomatic relations with the EU in favour of something that looks more like a big bang? He’ll be under enormous pressure from his supporters, the LibDems and Greens to go much faster than he instinctively wishes to restore trade integration with the EU and build a new security integration.
Apart from anything else, the UK will now be under intense pressure to increase defence spending. Quite how that will be affordable is unclear absent a growth boost from securing seamless access once more to the EU’s single market.
Or does Starmer stick with relatively timid incrementalism in changes to the EU relationship, and make a brave bet that he can work constructively with an emboldened Trump - who (I am told) admires what he sees as Starmer’s untrammelled control of parliament while nursing a grievance at what looked to Trump like a coordinated Labour plan to help Kamala Harris.
Trump has historically been contemptuous of the EU. He would not be impressed by any perception that Starmer and the UK would choose friendship and loyalty to Brussels, Paris and Berlin over Washington.
But Starmer will have to choose.

The next Euro Cup is 2028 so the EU has nothing of value to offer Starmer until then.

I think Ivanka is moving away from her father. Don Jr is unfit even by his father’s standards.
Vance is his heir as far as I can see, or some unknown plutocrat.

Ivanka is moving away from her father

Isn't that her taking a photo as he is about to go on stage for his victory speech?