Doesn’t matter who the VP pick is, the big wet boi is cooked.

Trump’s followers will do some terrorism like they usually do, but the majority of them will become disenfranchised and go the way of the tea party - still present, still a pain in the ass, but ineffectual. They will devote their time to Trump’s new talk show and he will sell them Trump hairy balls strong man supplements and other scams.

American empire will continue to expand, nothing will fundamentally change. Blue MAGA is the new order.

  • HamManBad [he/him]
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    101 year ago

    Trump has been acting like a loser lately. They need to find a better drug mix or he’s Toever

  • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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    Predicting election results this far out is pointless in a country where the political lines are as blurred as they are in the US.

    Something like half of the people polled after the Minneapolis police station got torched thought it was a good thing (or at least that it was justified); I severely doubt those same people feel that way now. The country’s electorate is incredibly fickle and biased towards the aesthetic of the moment, as reactionaries are wont to be, to say nothing of their memory.

    3 months is a lot of time for things to happen.

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    91 year ago

    It’s a race between “weird” locking up the election vs. Israel starting a regional war and/or Ukraine collapsing

    If events force foreign policy back into the national media spotlight, then Harris is cooked

  • TomBombadil [he/him, she/her]
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    Full agreement. I wasn’t sure until Saturday when I saw Trump speak.

    Live hes so boring and low energy. He barely got the crowd going… Got his biggest cheer when he said he’d fire Gary Gensler. A minute later he just said it again to try and get people cheering.

    Just old and wet and tired.

    Now I’m fully coconut pilled.

    But of course anything could happen. Maybe someone tries to shoot Harris or something and in true Democratic excellence she spins that into a losing proposition somehow

  • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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    361 year ago

    it really is amazing how much trump and the republicans bungled the assassination attempt, like when I heard the news and saw that picture I thought it was over for sure, but they really didn’t capitalize on it at all

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      Bro picked the worst possible candidate for VP as well. They could’ve dug up Ronald Reagan and raise him to unlife with the same spell Dems use on Biden and he’d be a better VP than Vance.

        • Not verbatim, it was the whole 'wait, I gotta get my shoes ', then stalling to get himself together for his little fist pump photo. Like Hasan said - ‘the man’s a media goblin! Imagine keeping yourself together through being shot at to have the wherewithal to do a photo op’.

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    Well now she won’t, because we think she will and hexbear is always wrong when it comes to big political events

    • Egon [they/them]
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      121 year ago

      Also I am getting major 2016 vibes from the way people are behaving about this election. And what happened to all the awful shit Biden is doing? Is she gonna stop doing that or? I expect no, but it seems like people on this site even are pretty positive about her, all things considered

  • RION [she/her]
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    171 year ago

    VP pick does matter in at least one instance: Josh Shapiro could tank her chances in Michigan, and most of her pathways to victory run through Michigan. Other than that, I’d agree that her VP matters very little

      • RION [she/her]
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        Michigan has a significant population of Arab Americans who are not fans of US support for genocide in Gaza. Josh Shapiro has been very pro-Israel and hostile to anti-Zionist protests, so adding him to the ticket would not play with those voters, who may stay home or even vote for Trump out of spite.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 year ago

      Dems are just arrogant enough to pull off experiencing a second major humiliation.

      Then as farce and all that.

      They will still learn nothing from it because they can only be failed, and will blame the left once again.

    • I’ve thought that too… but she doesn’t have decades of propaganda and hate directed at her from being in the international spotlight. Harris seems to just have been forgotten about in the media narrative until now. Also, she’s not Clinton.

  • PKMKII [none/use name]
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    291 year ago

    Harris as candidate improves their chances in that it removes the sundowning old white man problem. But Harris still has charisma and organizational issues, economy still sucks for most people, still signing off on a genocide. I’m not saying Trump has it for sure, but the honeymoon is going to end soon and I’m sure the Republicans will be able to come up with something better that old cat lady.

    • I’m not sure they can get out of this slump right now, Vance is wildly repulsive. And the rallying cry of Trump’s nearly funny moment fizzled in the news cycle, with no discernable blip on the polling as a result. MAGA freaks have some real tired and desperate vibes rn too, and they keep doubling down on creepy and weird positions when faced with any pushback.

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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        361 year ago

        trump got shot like two weeks ago and I keep having to remind myself that that happened

        three months is a long time

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        I think the shooter being basically apolitical and doing it out of the same nihilism and alienation as mass shooters really killed any momentum it might’ve generated. If it had been some ridin’ with Biden fool or other Democrat dumbass it might’ve gotten some traction, but instead it ended up being memory holed just like any other mass shooting

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            I’ll admit I’m a little surprised that it made so little impact. When it was happening I figured that it was game over, gg, trump won, but I’m astounded that in the space of two weeks it’s like it never happened at all

    • knightly [none/use any]
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      91 year ago

      I’m not so convinced. The Republicans only have a few weeks to regain the initiative in time to turn the election around and they’ve got nothing on Harris that they haven’t already deployed.

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    Generally agree with the title. Biden was dragging the DNC’s chances down to hell with him, but polling shows Kamala is closing the gap in swing states.

    American empire will continue to expand, nothing will fundamentally change. Blue MAGA is the new order.

    Unfortunately true, while US Hegemony crumbles. Better than GOP rule, but won’t make much, if any, positive material change. I do believe we are seeing the dying throes of a rescinding empire, however.

    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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      61 year ago

      It does make me wonder how the Republican Party will come back from the dead again. They always do. Not even a 20 year ass kicking by the New Deal Democrats was enough to effectively end them.