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Quote by LYFBUZ
From a Canadian perspective watching all this, the Democrats were an abysmal failure. Having said that I do think the results expose the true nature of America: its not any where close to the world's greatest democracy. Instead its rife with hate, racism and greed. It always has been, just ask anyone who belongs to a marginalized group of Americans. Your government and supreme court have been sold to a few rich cronies, a direct result of a system that ultimately allows a tiny number of Americans to decide who runs for office and ultimately runs the USA. American campaign financing rules pretty much ensure this will always be the case.
My view is perhaps distorted by the Canadian news lens but I was stunned that nearly all I ever saw from Democrats was bashing Trump's character. Stupid strategy, his character is well known and he still managed to get nearly 50% of the vote in 3 elections; they needed to articulate policy much better. The one thing that astonished me is I didn't hear a single Dem point to Trump's previous admin as the cause of inflation. All that money that got handed out in the US and other countries during the pandemic is what caused inflation. The same payouts and inflation occurred in most countries. Its Economics 101.
Biden should have been replaced much sooner and as offensive as it sounds there are a huge number of Americans who will not vote for a woman president and certainly not a black woman. Looks like the Dems lost every swing state which suggests a major failure of the campaigns in those states. The Dems consistently self-destruct, often because they can't keep members under one, contiguous policy umbrella due to their divergent opinions. While I personally feel that is exactly how government should work, (diverse opinions being considered within policy discussion) its tends to not work very well at election time.
I'd be curious if Americans see a different perspective based on the various US media outlets. I'm assuming the news coverage in the US was more focused on the issues.
With control of the House and Senate its going to be an ugly 4 years and given Trump is a fat old guy we may see a President Vance.
As an interesting side note we have a federal election coming in Canada and the current polls show the Conservative leader well ahead. The leader, Poilievre and the party seem to be a slightly watered down version of MAGA. If he gets in I'm moving to New Zealand.
I was watching on election night and kept hearing about all the early votes and how women outnumbered the men voters. The assumption seemed to be that it favored Harris. I didn't feel that way at all. Trump announced earlier that he would get rid of the income tax. I knew that would swing a lot of voters to his side. Harris kept talking about a middle-income tax cut. I'm certain there were people on the lower pay scale who were saying, "What about me?" They, very likely, voted for Trump. Abortion? Climate change? Ukraine? Those things are a distant second (if that) to whether they can pay bills and keep food on the table or not.
Trump will most likely impose a national sales tax. This, of course, along with his increased tariffs on imported goods, will likely mean that the lower income citizens will actually be paying more in taxes than they would have been with the income tax. It's the people in the higher incomes, as always, who will benefit the most. The low-income voters will figure it out when it's too late.
I agree that the democrats spent too much time making fun of Trump, instead of focusing on policy. When Trump said he wanted someone to attack NATO members who hadn't paid up, the attack was the only thing that was focused on. While it was stupid of him to say that, I guarantee there were plenty of voters who heard (loud and clear) about the part of paying up. This is something that has been brought up, multiple times, during my lifetime, starting with Jimmie Carter. He won the Nobel Prize for negotiating the Middle East Peace Treaty. I remember someone saying that he essentially paid two kids to quit fighting each other when it was in their own best interest to not fight. And he used our money, not his own, to do it.
People are tired of the USA being the world's babysitter. Trump, by saying what he did, connected with those people. I think this is why he won the election.
Quote by Dani
What's actually happening here? I genuinely have no idea what any of this means.
There was a Trump rally in Coachella. There was an area some distance away for people to park their cars, so they needed to be bused in from there. They used several buses for this, but when the rally was over, there was only one bus to take them back to the parking area, and apparently, didn't return to pick up the rest of the rally goers, leaving them stranded.
I don't believe the poles. I think Harris is going to win big and not just by the swing states. I think she's going to win some red states that the republicans have taken for granted as theirs. If this does, indeed happen, it may be the best thing to happen to that party. They need to purge the crazies out of there and let them form their own party.
Some possible reasons as to why Ann Coulter has never been married.
(A) Found out Coulter was a man in disguise.
(B) Found out Coulter wasn't a man in disguise.
(C) Found out Coulter's ugly public persona was every bit as ugly in private.
(D) Answers 'A' and 'C'.
(E) Answers 'B' and 'C'.
(F) Answers 'C' and 'C' again.
(G) Didn't know what sex was and couldn't figure out what Coulter was.
(H) Did know what sex was, but still couldn't figure out what Coulter was.
"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)"
Woody Allen plays the part of a sperm cell who is afraid to perform his mission. He asks one of the other sperm cells what he thinks it will be like out there. The other responds, "It's just like in film school. There's the ovum and the egg." Woody responds, "You hear these stories like how some of these women are taking these pills." Basically, it's the story about what actually happens in the human body during intercourse, with Tony Randall and others in the mission control room (the brain).
The Karen Read trial in Massachusetts. A Federal investigation of the prosecutors in this case, missing phones, deleted calls, edited videos, evidence not shared with the defense team (Feds provided it through the investigation), no search of the property whatsoever where the body was found (lead investigator is friend of the owner and claimed not to be), witness testimony differs from their Grand Jury testimony to match more closely with others.
One of the funny things about this trial is that the technology to retrieve deleted calls from phones is used by prosecutors to convict accused criminals. That same technology has, at the very least, proven that one of their key witnesses has lied on the stand. If they try to argue the technology was somehow wrong, they could jeopardize any previous cases where they successfully convicted someone with the help of this.
I had a story in another competition that was rejected. I have an idea for a story with this one. I liked the title that I used for the rejected story. Would it be okay to use that same title for the new story? It's a completely different story from the other one which didn't fit this competition.
Quote by Magical_felix
ElCocko doesn't understand that the largest generation of Americans is in retirement age... and that a regular house in California can get you a mansion in another state, completely paid for, with money to spare.
Even lower and middle class Californian homeowners have many options. Home ownership in California is a real investment that pays off.
Unfortunately some Americans born in certain states don't have as many options. It's either stay there or pay off a trailer in Kentucky or something.
Yup. That's what my brother did. He earned his living and bought property in another state and retired to Texas. He certainly didn't move there for the job opportunities. It's funny how these red states complain about socialism when they are being, at least, partially sustained by people on social security, moving there.
I own a cake making business, Moldy Cakes. Not the name I wanted, but I'm under court order to do so, because of some kind of crazy "Truth in Advertising" law in my state. Hey, it was either that or Rat Cakes. I chose the lesser of two evils.
Not surprisingly, sales are down. To increase business, I've decided to start making customized wedding cakes. I'll make cakes for anyone. Straight couples, same sex couples, interracial couples, young couples, old couples, moldy couples, rat couples. I don't care.
MY question is: Can I discriminate from hiring religious people? I mean, if a same sex couple wanted a customized cake, I can't take a chance that my employee might refuse to do so based on a religious belief. That would mean I would have to do it. I'm the boss, I shouldn't have to work! And besides, I don't know how to make a cake.
I can't take a chance on an employee like this. I need all the customers I can get.
Quote by Dani
I don’t think the hyenas would be taken out that easily, if at all, especially if some of them are attacking from behind.
I think the eagles would win too, but the vultures would put up a somewhat decent fight.
I think the water buffalo win because white rhinos have shit eyesight, aren’t as aggressive as black rhinos (actually quite placid), and they also can’t make sudden turns. They have the advantage of a long horn, but I don’t think it’d be enough.
There is a YouTube video where a pack of lions are crossing a river. A hippo sees them and starts charging at them. That hippo meant business, snorting and cutting through that water at pretty impressive speed. I thought one of those lions was done for, but somehow managed to escape. There was another lion who saw what had just happened and decided to go back in the other direction. I'll go with the hippo over the hyenas, simply because the hyenas would attack for food. The hippo would attack just because.
My contribution: Murder hornet vs praying mantis.
I'm not a country music fan, but there are some songs I really like. Back in the day, I watched music award shows, which was my introduction to songs I would not have heard otherwise. Almost every time, the country artists stole the show. Those guys could really play. You can always tell when there is polite applause from the audience, and real genuine appreciation for a performance well done.
That happened when Waylon Jennings played "Waltz Me To Heaven", Ricky Skaggs and His Boys played "Highway Forty Blues" and The Charlie Daniels Band played "The Devil Went Down To Georgia"
Quote by Magical_felix
There is a pattern of conservatives making fake accounts to boost their opinions online by agreeing with themselves.
Sometimes they make black profiles too to make it appear as if black people agree with them or to just simple make black people look bad.
They will also make accounts of liberals or women who suddenly get enlightened and will vote republican in an upcoming election.
It's not always easy to spot but sometimes they fuck it up like Ironic did here.
Sometimes you just have to get lucky to spot them too. If there is a topic the pretender is passionate about, he will post with many or all of his accounts. I just happened to be on a thread where this was happening in real time. On that forum, you could see the members usernames at the bottom of the screen. One by one, the usual suspects started logging in and started posting like crazy. What are the odds that all these 'women' would be on this site at the exact same time, on the exact same thread, with the exact same opinions?
Another way they can be caught is if something happens in their personal life that keeps them away from their computers. This happened on that same forum. He had so many usernames, that the forum almost went dark when he and his 'women' suddenly quit posting. Then one day, he returned, and posted that he had been in the hospital. While most the posts after, expressed well wishes, one member made one memorable post. I can't remember the exact wording, but it was close to this: "Gee Mikee, sad to hear that. Hey, when you were in the hospital, did you happen to notice if (he named off several of the fake female members) were in the hospital as well? It seems they went missing the same time you did. I hope they're okay too."
I lived in two of those states listed in the mid 70's to mid 80's (one year of high school in Mississippi and my final two years of high school and early adulthood in Arkansas). Both of those states were poor back then and it seems nothing has changed in all these years since.
My father was in the military, so we moved around a lot. The good thing about that is you get to see many different places and can compare them to each other. That is a big advantage over people who are born and raised in one place. How can you know how bad you have it if that is all you know?
Just to give you an example: In our one year in Mississippi, we found out you (parents) had to pay for your children's schoolbooks each year. I don't remember the exact cost, but it wasn't cheap for back then. At the end of the year, you had to turn the books back in. You don't get to keep them, so it's like you're just renting them. In the city we lived in, there was no school bus service (at least for the high school). You either walked, your parents drove you, you caught a ride with others, or you drove yourself. You could get a driver's license at 15 in that state.
Because we lived in so many different places, we knew this was out of the ordinary. None of the other schools we went to charged us money for books and all had school bus service, even if the school was a short distance away. The people who lived there all their lives might think this is the way it is everywhere. They think nothing of having to drive their kids to school or paying for books every year because that's the way it's always been. But hey, at least the sales tax was cheap (3%).
I think this is what the problem is. The people living in those states don't see the problems. They're not willing to invest on improvements that could attract businesses and improve their economy and, at least, bring them up to par with the other states instead of being at or near the bottom. It takes money to make money, but the voters in these states will only vote for someone who will cut taxes. A lot of these voters make very little money anyway. How much lower can their taxes go?
Quote by Dani
But you've got it all wrong. It's the drag queens and the gays and trans folks who are hurting our children. 🙄
At this point, I think anyone who seems to have an unhealthy interest, whereby he/she brings up this topic that wasn't even related to the conversation, that someone should keep a close eye on them and never let them anywhere near children. I think they do this to convince everyone that someone else is the problem. If they can do this, it will keep eyes off of them.
Quote by Magical_felix
The Two-Decade Red State Murder Problem
Full article here: https://www.thirdway.org/report/the-two-decade-red-state-murder-problem
The murder rate in the 25 states that voted for Donald Trump has exceeded the murder rate in the 25 states that voted for Joe Biden in every year from 2000 to 2020.
Over this 21-year span, this Red State murder gap has steadily widened from a low of 9% more per capita red state murders in 2003 and 2004 to 44% more per capita red state murders in 2019, before settling back to 43% in 2020.
Altogether, the per capita Red State murder rate was 23% higher than the Blue State murder rate when all 21 years were combined.
If Blue State murder rates were as high as Red State murder rates, Biden-voting states would have suffered over 45,000 more murders between 2000 and 2020.
Even when murders in the largest cities in red states are removed, overall murder rates in Trump-voting states were 12% higher than Biden-voting states across this 21-year period and were higher in 18 of the 21 years observed.
Why is this happening?
Red states tend to have looser gun laws so I guess they are able to protect themselves from murder... That's the republican theory right?
Republicans also say they are the party of law and order and it is blue states that are crime infested. Why is there so much more murder in red states?
Red states tend to be more religious too...
Why? Why are red states so much more dangerous?
If you are going to divide it by conservatives and liberals, I think you have to look at what are their trigger mechanisms. Over the years, I have known people on both sides and, by far, conservatives seem to have more things that upset them.
Whether it's about abortion, homosexual marriage, education, gun control, feminism, taxes, jobs, crime, free speech, religion and who knows what else. Everything seems to be a fight for them even if none of these things are problems in their own lives. Things can only get better as soon as everyone does what they tell them to do. They can't just live their life and let everyone else live theirs. They want control. If they can't get it by law, then they'll get it by gun, because, you know, activist judges.