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The problem is that, even if Trump loses, he'll still be in the public sphere for years because this will stick with him like a pebble in his shoe. He'll never get over it, meaning he'll never let us get over it. He and Elon Musk will tweet daily about how radical and incompetent Kamala is. So while MAGA won't be in the government, it will be in the media for a long, long time coming.
I'm still leaning toward Kamala. Especially after the Puerto Rico fiasco and potential for a "huge dump" of mail-in ballots that are guaranteed to be in favor of Democrats (Not nearly as big as 2020 of course because of no Covid to worry about, but still Blue.).
Big numbers, yes, but don't get too excited. It's not because there are tons of people educating themselves now more than ever. It's because of the same reasons every election Trump has been a part of: hatred. Everyone voting Blue is doing so because it's the closest we'll ever get to slapping Trump in the face. Everyone voting Trump is because they loved him as much as they loved him in the past.Candidates try to divine trends as nearly 70m Americans have cast early votes
Democrats and Republicans try to interpret voting behavior as squeaker of election hits final stretch
Candidates try to divine trends as nearly 70m Americans have cast early votes
70 million is amazing !
I don't doubt kamala will get a majority of votes, what's up in the air is the electoral college.
Well yeah, I wasn't making a distinction about how she does it. I'm just leaning toward her winning.
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Oh, I don't think that. I think if he loses that big, he is toast. Because if the rest of the GOP see they lose with Maga a second time, they will push it out of its leading role. And if they do not manage that... great, then they will have more trouble getting back into government. The Magas already had trouble performing well in the midterms.
That's what I meant about "it wouldn't be in government, but it'll remain in the media." The rightwing podcasts that make money off of the radical rhetoric pushing ragebait. The tweets Trump will crank out nonstop. The scams he'll keep attempting to gain money for lawsuits and court costs coming. He's not disappearing and because of that, MAGA isn't disappearing.
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Fingers crossed. Past decade or so has shown republicans do not deserve to have any kind of power.
No, this other person was far more rude and deranged than anything mentioned here. They were a racist troll whose private diatribes read like fanfiction written by a serial killer. So I'll still take exception with calling anything "bloodthirsty" by comparison honestly. Plus, the report button exists for a reason.
Idk, I guess it's too clever for me to get.
I know you bristle at me not replying but I have no recollection of us arguing over what M3J may or may not have said. Even if I'm likeminded with him on certain things, it's obvious he's an ineffective advocate for his positions and says one thing and backtracks the next. My eyes would probably glaze over.
Using the word "destruction" implies many things, so as easily as I can apparently misinterpret a point ninjabot might make, plenty of people will assume things about what you mean when you use that word. What I think you're talking about is a one-state solution that involves the dissolution of the existing ethno-state. Correct?
Ditto. I did my part (blue all the way down).
Problem is, no matter how many times I explain it, his only reaction is "So YoU wAnT tO kIlL iSrAeLiS!!"
This is not a fantasy world. If Zionists moved to Palestine, then they can move out of Palestine as well.
It is not like the americans can move out of america, or the australians can move out of australia. And it is also not like the Hamas are going to move out of Palestine. You gotta makedo with what you have, and what you have is two different groups in which even moderate people on each side have a lot of hate in them. There is no clear cut between zionist and israeli or Palestinian and Hamas Supporter.
Quoted for truth.
THIS is the biggest kicker for me. The vast majority of Israel is Zionist. The vast majority of Palestine is pro-Hamas. In the same way that Alabama doesn't stop being a red state just from having a handful of Democrats living there, Israel is a Zionist state, and Palestine is a pro-Hamas state. If you get rid of every Zionist, you're getting rid of essentially every Jew. You get rid of all of Hamas, you're essentially getting rid of every Palestinian.
