US politics - the end of an error

Wayne county with Detroit still missing heaps of votes.

Iā€™ve warned about 2024 bringing someone far more terrifying.

Donā€™t think it couldnā€™t happen. Remember when we thought there couldnā€™t be anyone worse than George W Bush?

And now heā€™s a ā€œgood, kind, honest and decent man.ā€

This is how empires die.

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In that sense we have been fortunate that Trump is Trump.

The next far-right demagogue who comes along and isnā€™t as obnoxious, lazy and incompetent is far more dangerous.

Trump didnā€™t lay the groundwork, but heā€™s shown what one can get away with, if one chooses to.

Donā€™t you love the revisionist history? He was my least favorite president by far.

Michigan has come right in.

Obama got 69.5m votes in 2008, currently Biden is sitting on 68.4m heā€™s going to give Obamaā€™s record a good nudge. Maybe everyone went a bit quick on the Biden doesnā€™t excite the turnout angle.

Watching planet america?

Dems picked up votes with men and young men at that.

Completely unexpected, both sides seemed to lose their base or appeal to the other.

Exactly.

The media has completely rehabilitated his image.

ā€œAw isnā€™t that cute, he paints pictures now instead of bombing poor Middle Eastern childrenā€

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There is a lot to unpack, regarding people being sick of ā€˜ old fashionedā€™ conservatismā€¦ but there is also a demand from right-winged population, that they want politics to be entertaining and exciting.

As someone that works in government policyā€¦ it is fcking boring. And itā€™s suppose to be fcking boring.

If anyone is trying to make politics entertaining, then theyā€™re likely trying sneak dodgy sh*t through the system while they tell everyone to look the other way.

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US population has grown by nearly 10% since 2008 though.

George W has a lot to do with why I came here the first time.

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Trump has everyone votingā€¦

He would encourage democrats to come out and vote for a brick.

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Cmon man. Really.

After everything Trump has done, thatā€™s the thing that turned them?

210,000 mail in votes to be counted for Philly.

Reckon most new voters are voting against Trump not for Biden.

Is that legal or illegal population growth?

ā€œThe absentee ballot results in Green Bay, Wis., are delayed because one of the vote-counting machines ran out of ink. An elections official had to return to City Hall to get more.ā€

Hah go figureā€¦

Yeah agree