Lets see your prophecies folks, I’ve got lathes for all

No takebacksies, I will find you and make fun of u if u end up rong

  • FactuallyUnscrupulou [he/him]
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    139 months ago

    The swing states all have a lot of fuckery at the local level and it will take a couple days before we know who is the true winner. SCOTUS will try to intervene but the lower courts will get ahead of them to ensure the states wrap up the counting. Harris probably wins, but the chuds will be frothing at the mouth. I’m setting the over/under for how many get shot dead by the authorities at 3.5.

  • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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    159 months ago

    The funniest possibility: Trump wins the popular vote, loses the electoral college. I don’t even know what would happen next, but it would be really, really funny.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      109 months ago

      Maybe the electoral college would finally be abolished because for some reason Burgerlanders move heaven and earth for Trump’s tantrums.

    • elpaso [he/him]
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      99 months ago

      Nate Silver did mention that he believes the NYT thinks there is a political realignment, with white color voters in suburbs being Dem while rural and blue collar workers vote GOP regardless of race. We did see the GOP wanting to do this in 2016 after Romney lost in 2012. Trump, despite his insane hatred of marginalized groups, is now taking these groups in thanks to Dems taking them for granted. It is believed these vorers vote in presidential elections, not midterms.

      Nate silver has also gone back and forth on if this is a good idea. For midterms, yeah I see it working but for presidential elections? Absolutely not. And considering how insanely powerful the president is, nothing else really matters.

      TLDR: Dems fucking love losing.

  • Relevant update, Sleepy Joe is apparently finally threatening to halt arms shipments… What if the October surprise is just that Biden and Harris were willing to let a genocide go on so they could suddenly kill it to swing the election? Please tell me I’m just being cynical…

    sadness-abysmal

  • VILenin [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    Trump wins, gets shot and killed during his victory speech. We get President JD Vance.

    • Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]
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      119 months ago

      Yes anding this: he continues the tone shift that he’s already started, liberals trip over themselves to reform his image and gush over how “presidential” he acts. Project 2025 is memory-holed immediately.

  • grandepequeno [he/him]
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    39 months ago

    I’m probably going to put money on kamala just because I need at least 1 good reason to be happy if she wins

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    219 months ago

    The Electoral college unveils from behind a sliding metal door Candidate X, an 18 foot tall behemoth of a machine spewing smoke and depleted uranium rounds as exhaust. It lets out a mighty roar like metal gear Rex could do for some reason and starts stomping to the white house where it sits on the roof, spews a plume of fire into the air and signs bills into law.

  • CommunistCuddlefish [she/her]
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    89 months ago

    I’m being pessimistic: I think Holocaust Harris is going to win because American liberals are so bloodthirsty and racist that they turn up in droves for her. I hope I’m wrong

  • riseuppikmin [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    This race is the most “who fucking knows” since I’ve followed US elections.

    Some things of I think are of note

    • AZ and NV having abortion ballot measures should heavily lean dem (someone else here already mentioned this)
    • NC’s governor ticket will probably drag Republicans down. Mark Robinson was exposed as a serial gooner (pornshop debt) who is a black Nazi that wants slavery to return (this is not a joke). He strikes me as a worse Herschel Walker/Dr Oz type candidate and I think dems pickup NC because of it. The broader Republican party is trying to run away from him because he’s seen as that toxic
    • GA will have the most brazenly corrupt election this side of the century, and that’s saying a lot since their incumbent governor probably stole his own first election already. Their election board will send Trump electors no matter what (unless there is somehow a massive electoral college win for Kamala which I don’t see happening)
    • MI goes for Trump on the Stein 3rd party vote and liberals transition from their current state (going mask off) to gleeful celebration of, like, domestic socdem repression
    • PA I genuinely have no clue. No confidence whatsoever in a call either way
    • Every other state I think is locked in (including WI for dems- this is possibly what I’ll be most gut feeling wrong about)

    Republicans take the Senate

    I think a 269-269 tie is an incredibly possible situation and I think it would fall under funniest timeline theory (for those reading this results in a Trump presidency due to tiebreaker rules favoring him).

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      209 months ago

      And also in the event of a 269 vote tie dems will deffinitly concede immediatly and claim the moral high ground for the next 4 years, telling all of us they told us they’d lose if we didn’t support them.

      They lost an election to the Republicans, they aren’t expected to do anything, and they can punch left and blame us. That’s literally everything the democratic party cpuld ask for.

    • Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]
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      99 months ago

      Republicans down. Mark Robinson was exposed as a serial gooner (pornshop debt) who is a black Nazi that wants slavery to return (this is not a joke).

      There needs to be an “all the world’s a stage” but niche sexual complexes. “All politics is sexual pathology” just doesn’t cover it anymore

  • polpotkin [none/use name]
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    139 months ago
    • Kamala will attempt to galvanize her base by appealing to a matriarchal structure. Kalama’s husband will publicly take a supportive role, emphasizing gender equality and position himself as an advocate for women’s rights. However, a recent affair will come to light. He’ll do damage recovery by talking about how behind every strong woman is a man who knows when to step aside. He will later release a memoir about the campaign.
    • Kalama’s campaign will derive a new slogan “Rise with Her”. However, it’ll be revealed that key staffers quit in protest over the strategic direction of the campaign and they join the Trump campaign, with accusations of sabotage. The campaign will lose focus towards the end, with a “Families First” tour that has poor turnout.
    • In a last minute decision, Trump will call an emergency rally in DC and promises to reveal ‘irrefutable proof’ of election fraud. A small but unruly turnout will cause mayhem, with his voters buying fake locks of his hair. Several will be arrested for bringing large inflatable objects.
    • One state will attempt to remove Trump or Harris from the ballot sparking a full blown legal circus. Both candidates benefit from the increased attention and nothing happens.
    • On election night, Harris will be confident that she will win. However, she is pull aside to be told that one of her strongest states may be under legal challenge because of confusing ballot. She makes a speech about urging unity and patience.
    • There will be no clear victor for either candidate. Both parties will have fundraiser efforts to do voting recounts. The inauguration will still happen since the electoral college decided already and voting never mattered anyway.