Did you really think Kamala would win? Deep down inside, did you?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a Trump voter, so I was obviously hoping she wouldn’t win…BUT… if the Kamala that gave the concession speech on Wednesday would’ve been the Kamala on the campaign trail, she’d have beaten Trump easily.

Why her advisors insisted on limiting her exposure and keeping her away from cameras like they did except for a few curated (and disastrous) appearances, I’ll never understand.

Because Wednesday Kamala was a refreshing change. She was carefree. Stress free. She didn’t speak haltingly, walking on eggshells. That Kamala would’ve won.

I’m glad she listened to her advisors. But I’m also sad for her, that we didn’t see her “real” self, until Wednesday.

Such is life.

This is because she was not built to carry the stress of the presidency. She had a weight off her shoulders.

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I was the only one in my circle who thought she would not win. I'm a Black woman and have first hand experience of having to be twice as good to get half as much.

Her nomination was unexpected, she had about 100 days to campaign, and she had to walk to line of being loyal as the VP. She did a great job, with what she was dealt, but I didn't think it was enough and based on how we can see specifically how various demographics voted, I was right.

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Dave Chapelle warned everyone.

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I did, actually. But my faith in the basic decency of the American public was apparently misplaced.

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Anonymous wrote:He’s so horrifying I’d hoped enough voters would turn out to stop his reelection. Trump had fewer votes than the last election but too many people sat out or did not vote for either.

I was hopeful. She barely had time to run. We needed a stronger candidate for sure. Trump’s victory is less about him, minus he should not have been a candidate period.

Oh to be a white man in America. This man attempted to overthrow the results of a fair election and isn't currently in a jail cell.

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Anonymous wrote:I did. Mainly because of the vision of America I had.

That vision is now dead and my eyes are wide open. America is not the beacon of democracy, freedom and righteousness that I thought it was but that's on me for being an idealist. It's just like all the other countries, neither here not there, but no definitely not exceptional.

Democrats don’t win the presidency every single election! AMERICA IS DEAD.

Do you not have a problem with a felon who tried to disrupt our democratic process? Democratic or Republican, it doesn't matter. Do you Obama could get away with even a 10% of what Trump has said/done? The right wing press berated the man for wearing a tan suit!

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Anonymous wrote:I did. Mainly because of the vision of America I had.

That vision is now dead and my eyes are wide open. America is not the beacon of democracy, freedom and righteousness that I thought it was but that's on me for being an idealist. It's just like all the other countries, neither here not there, but no definitely not exceptional.

Democrats don’t win the presidency every single election! AMERICA IS DEAD.

You voted for a criminal fascist whose brain is rapidly decomposing. This ain't our fault.

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Anonymous wrote:Absolutely not. She was appointed to the vice presidency which is a nothingburger as she clearly showed during her tenure. When the DNC tried to appoint her to the presidency, game over. No one heard of her during the Biden presidency, then suddenly she was the person behind every thing he did. Even the Democrats had to be leery of her being in charge of the most powerful country in the world. Many women can be president, but Harris does not have the chops.

Will you say the same about Vance? 🤔

This whole election cycle has just reinforced how terribly ignorant Americans are about our government. They have no understanding of what POTUS or VPs can and can't do, what falls to Congress, how economics actually works...all of it. They vote like it's high school class president at stake.

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I really did. I didn't see how any young woman could vote for Trump.

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Anonymous wrote:I never felt like she had it in the bag, but I will admit that I’m quite surprised that Trump won by this margin. I thought it would be close. While it’s no shocker that she lost, I will never be able to understand how so many people could vote for someone as ill suited for the job as Trump, especially when they’ve had the last 8 years to get to know him. What made Trump more palatable than the other Republican candidates who ran? That’s the thing I can’t grasp.

Why is the American electorate so fickle? They were lukewarm on Trump in 2016, turned off by his performance as president in 2020, he’s done nothing to become more appealing since then, and now they give him a mandate? He has never produced any credible plans to solve any of the issues he runs on. He admitted he has a concept of a plan…4 years after serving a 4 year term as president, during which he repeatedly said he was just weeks away from unveiling the most beautiful plan. We’re about to have another octogenarian at the helm. Trump talks about absurd nonsense. He gets confused easily. He’s having speech issues. He’s been complaining at rallies that he’s tired. Remember when those types of issues made people concerned about Biden’s presidency? But let’s embrace Trump’s decline!

It's baffling. He's does what he does best, cons people. Lots believe the election was stolen in 2020. A wealthy guy (largely inherited from daddy) from New York has duped the working class Joe from Ohio that he cares about their struggles. Hilarious.

It's only baffling to out of touch morons like you. Thinking like this is why she lost so bad, keep it up, it's nice watching you whiny little babies self-destruct.

What exactly did Trump do for the middle class during his last term? He inherited the stable economy from Obama. He locked migrant kids in cages, but I don't think that made life for the middle class easier. He mishandled the pandemic by not taking action soon enough and arguing with health officials. He gave out unemployment and stimulus checks, but they obviously contributed to the state the economy is currently in, aka "Biden's" inflation. You keep calling Dems out of touch but the Republicans are merely pretending to be in touch. High tariffs on foreign goods will not lower housing and grocery prices. You do know the VP elect insulted the working class in his book right? Trump doesn't care about you. He cares about his fragile ego and probably wants to be able to pardon himself.

--Kids in cages? Obama did it first, but the media/leftists didn't care until big bad orange man did it.
--Pandemic: Trump immediately tried to close the borders to China, from whence the virus originated, and was called a racist xenophobic blah blah blah. Democratic leaders in NY and San Francisco went out of their way to encourage people to congregate and attend Chinese events as a middle finger to the big bad orange man. I clearly remember this - do you? Were you even aware? Trump, as you well know, pushed Operation Warp Speed to develop the covid vaccine. The rest? It was literally an unprecedented situation and therefore it's impossible to (accurately) say a Democratic president would've handled it better.
--Stimmies: Yes, the Trump checks contributed to inflation. But the "Inflation Reduction Act" (ha - even Biden admitted it wasn't really about reducing inflation) and American Rescue Plan Act were hugely inflationary. Further, the Biden admin insisted that inflation was transitory when it decidedly was not. It then trumpeted the decreasing RATE of inflation without acknowledging that prices were (and are) still inflated.
--Tariffs: Admittedly, I am concerned about the near-term effects of tariffs on the working class's wallets. However, the reasoning behind them is SO important: Trump wants to encourage, whether with a carrot or with a stick, companies to manufacture in America again. Reshore jobs! Buy American! I fully support this ambition. I sincerely hope for progress on this front.
--I read Hillbilly Elegy. Did you? I am from a working class family and grew up in a working class area. I didn't find Hillbilly Elegy to be insulting to the working class. I found it to be largely accurate of my own experience. Just because certain parts of it may be unflattering, doesn't mean it's insulting. This is a big issue with the left of calling facts they don't like "racist" or "hate speech". The truth isn't always pretty.

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I was hoping for the best but expecting the worst. I did get a little more positive in the days leading up to it, but clearly that was unwarranted.

People suck.

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Anonymous wrote:I never felt like she had it in the bag, but I will admit that I’m quite surprised that Trump won by this margin. I thought it would be close. While it’s no shocker that she lost, I will never be able to understand how so many people could vote for someone as ill suited for the job as Trump, especially when they’ve had the last 8 years to get to know him. What made Trump more palatable than the other Republican candidates who ran? That’s the thing I can’t grasp.

Why is the American electorate so fickle? They were lukewarm on Trump in 2016, turned off by his performance as president in 2020, he’s done nothing to become more appealing since then, and now they give him a mandate? He has never produced any credible plans to solve any of the issues he runs on. He admitted he has a concept of a plan…4 years after serving a 4 year term as president, during which he repeatedly said he was just weeks away from unveiling the most beautiful plan. We’re about to have another octogenarian at the helm. Trump talks about absurd nonsense. He gets confused easily. He’s having speech issues. He’s been complaining at rallies that he’s tired. Remember when those types of issues made people concerned about Biden’s presidency? But let’s embrace Trump’s decline!

It's baffling. He's does what he does best, cons people. Lots believe the election was stolen in 2020. A wealthy guy (largely inherited from daddy) from New York has duped the working class Joe from Ohio that he cares about their struggles. Hilarious.

It's only baffling to out of touch morons like you. Thinking like this is why she lost so bad, keep it up, it's nice watching you whiny little babies self-destruct.

What exactly did Trump do for the middle class during his last term? He inherited the stable economy from Obama. He locked migrant kids in cages, but I don't think that made life for the middle class easier. He mishandled the pandemic by not taking action soon enough and arguing with health officials. He gave out unemployment and stimulus checks, but they obviously contributed to the state the economy is currently in, aka "Biden's" inflation. You keep calling Dems out of touch but the Republicans are merely pretending to be in touch. High tariffs on foreign goods will not lower housing and grocery prices. You do know the VP elect insulted the working class in his book right? Trump doesn't care about you. He cares about his fragile ego and probably wants to be able to pardon himself.

--Kids in cages? Obama did it first, but the media/leftists didn't care until big bad orange man did it.
--Pandemic: Trump immediately tried to close the borders to China, from whence the virus originated, and was called a racist xenophobic blah blah blah. Democratic leaders in NY and San Francisco went out of their way to encourage people to congregate and attend Chinese events as a middle finger to the big bad orange man. I clearly remember this - do you? Were you even aware? Trump, as you well know, pushed Operation Warp Speed to develop the covid vaccine. The rest? It was literally an unprecedented situation and therefore it's impossible to (accurately) say a Democratic president would've handled it better.
--Stimmies: Yes, the Trump checks contributed to inflation. But the "Inflation Reduction Act" (ha - even Biden admitted it wasn't really about reducing inflation) and American Rescue Plan Act were hugely inflationary. Further, the Biden admin insisted that inflation was transitory when it decidedly was not. It then trumpeted the decreasing RATE of inflation without acknowledging that prices were (and are) still inflated.
--Tariffs: Admittedly, I am concerned about the near-term effects of tariffs on the working class's wallets. However, the reasoning behind them is SO important: Trump wants to encourage, whether with a carrot or with a stick, companies to manufacture in America again. Reshore jobs! Buy American! I fully support this ambition. I sincerely hope for progress on this front.
--I read Hillbilly Elegy. Did you? I am from a working class family and grew up in a working class area. I didn't find Hillbilly Elegy to be insulting to the working class. I found it to be largely accurate of my own experience. Just because certain parts of it may be unflattering, doesn't mean it's insulting. This is a big issue with the left of calling facts they don't like "racist" or "hate speech". The truth isn't always pretty.

And yet Trump's own official merchandise is made in China. But sure, he wants everything made in America.

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Anonymous wrote:I never felt like she had it in the bag, but I will admit that I’m quite surprised that Trump won by this margin. I thought it would be close. While it’s no shocker that she lost, I will never be able to understand how so many people could vote for someone as ill suited for the job as Trump, especially when they’ve had the last 8 years to get to know him. What made Trump more palatable than the other Republican candidates who ran? That’s the thing I can’t grasp.

Why is the American electorate so fickle? They were lukewarm on Trump in 2016, turned off by his performance as president in 2020, he’s done nothing to become more appealing since then, and now they give him a mandate? He has never produced any credible plans to solve any of the issues he runs on. He admitted he has a concept of a plan…4 years after serving a 4 year term as president, during which he repeatedly said he was just weeks away from unveiling the most beautiful plan. We’re about to have another octogenarian at the helm. Trump talks about absurd nonsense. He gets confused easily. He’s having speech issues. He’s been complaining at rallies that he’s tired. Remember when those types of issues made people concerned about Biden’s presidency? But let’s embrace Trump’s decline!

It's baffling. He's does what he does best, cons people. Lots believe the election was stolen in 2020. A wealthy guy (largely inherited from daddy) from New York has duped the working class Joe from Ohio that he cares about their struggles. Hilarious.

It's only baffling to out of touch morons like you. Thinking like this is why she lost so bad, keep it up, it's nice watching you whiny little babies self-destruct.

What exactly did Trump do for the middle class during his last term? He inherited the stable economy from Obama. He locked migrant kids in cages, but I don't think that made life for the middle class easier. He mishandled the pandemic by not taking action soon enough and arguing with health officials. He gave out unemployment and stimulus checks, but they obviously contributed to the state the economy is currently in, aka "Biden's" inflation. You keep calling Dems out of touch but the Republicans are merely pretending to be in touch. High tariffs on foreign goods will not lower housing and grocery prices. You do know the VP elect insulted the working class in his book right? Trump doesn't care about you. He cares about his fragile ego and probably wants to be able to pardon himself.

--Kids in cages? Obama did it first, but the media/leftists didn't care until big bad orange man did it.
--Pandemic: Trump immediately tried to close the borders to China, from whence the virus originated, and was called a racist xenophobic blah blah blah. Democratic leaders in NY and San Francisco went out of their way to encourage people to congregate and attend Chinese events as a middle finger to the big bad orange man. I clearly remember this - do you? Were you even aware? Trump, as you well know, pushed Operation Warp Speed to develop the covid vaccine. The rest? It was literally an unprecedented situation and therefore it's impossible to (accurately) say a Democratic president would've handled it better.
--Stimmies: Yes, the Trump checks contributed to inflation. But the "Inflation Reduction Act" (ha - even Biden admitted it wasn't really about reducing inflation) and American Rescue Plan Act were hugely inflationary. Further, the Biden admin insisted that inflation was transitory when it decidedly was not. It then trumpeted the decreasing RATE of inflation without acknowledging that prices were (and are) still inflated.
--Tariffs: Admittedly, I am concerned about the near-term effects of tariffs on the working class's wallets. However, the reasoning behind them is SO important: Trump wants to encourage, whether with a carrot or with a stick, companies to manufacture in America again. Reshore jobs! Buy American! I fully support this ambition. I sincerely hope for progress on this front.
--I read Hillbilly Elegy. Did you? I am from a working class family and grew up in a working class area. I didn't find Hillbilly Elegy to be insulting to the working class. I found it to be largely accurate of my own experience. Just because certain parts of it may be unflattering, doesn't mean it's insulting. This is a big issue with the left of calling facts they don't like "racist" or "hate speech". The truth isn't always pretty.

And yet Trump's own official merchandise is made in China. But sure, he wants everything made in America.

Yes, how exactly did he do that his first term? Would love to see that info.

We all know what happened to FoxConn. Biden was more American made oriented than him.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought she was a weak candidate being propped up with money and the democratic machines. All the pollls and media gave the impression she had a real shot but it was all a big hoax

Not sure what you mean by propped up with money - unlike Trump, most of her money came from small donors. Trump got most of his money from billionaires, truly man of the people.

So Kamala grifted off ordinary people who couldn't afford to lose money while Trump grifted off people who had silly money.

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Anonymous wrote:I really did. I didn't see how any young woman could vote for Trump.

Well the young women who wouldn't spread their legs for everyone who said her pink hair showed she was a true feminist voted for Trump.