2024 U.S. Elections | Trump wins

Doesn't it mean that he has essentially free hands for the next two years? That's plenty of time to wreak havok.

Barely qualified, but intensely loyal national intelligence director, AG (not as unqualified to be fair), DHS and sec def. I wonder what he could use that for...
 
But some things are more important than votes and winning. Sometimes you must do what is in your heart and stand by your friends, who you ideologically agree with. Being honest may cost you votes, dignity, the future of the country, human civilization. But if you believe something, say it loud and proud: "We love you Liz Cheney, thank you Dick for everything you have done."- Kamala 2024

Only then will you become Brat.
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Doesn't it mean that he has essentially free hands for the next two years? That's plenty of time to wreak havok.
The GOP only have a slender majority in the House, they lose these special elections they could lose control - not saying it'll happen - but the more House members Trump appoints the better the chance that the Dems can pick up some seats - a Dem house can block some of what Trump attempts to do - wishful thinking perhaps but I'm sure there's some Republicans are horrified at the thought of Gaetz being AG and a TV show host as Sec Def and will rebel or just not vote
 

The Dems should fire the large majority of their advisors apparently bc they're more out of touch than those on the other side. Hate or love her but people like AOC actually seem to get it. But that would require the Clintons and co to relinquish their control of the party.

Then again the article right above also shows there is a deeper issue that allows the Trumps of the world to amplify toxic masculinity. And I say that as a man. We don't need more frat boys. We need men who aren't self indulgent little cnuts.
 
Yeah but why. If someone is going to say Tate etc - while he is a bad apple he is also clearly harvesting them after being abandoned by society.
Really? That is it? The whole story? Are you sure?
I mean lets talk about it, boys and girls are largely equal when they start in education
Equalish in development terms but girls tend to go through puberty earlier and males brains' are also effected differently by the flood of testosterone, which is why girls are a couple of years more mentally mature until boys/men catch up in their late teens or even early 20's. This is not caused by education.
and its hardly controversial to say education is a female dominated institution in the west that can be biased
Huh? Do you mean that there are more female teacher, particularly in primary schools?
for a start not to mention a lack of role models during the critical growth period that male teachers are viewed as predators.
What? I used to be a teacher and know lots of teachers, and this is nonsense.
Combine this with single mother parenting being increasingly prevalent and you can see the problem.
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Then you get to high school where boys education is designed not necessarily to actually educate and utilize their energy levels but to curb masculinity, anger and bend them to social authority, which obviously doesn't work just breeds resentment.
WTF are you on about? Are you suggesting that it is bad thing to engage kids in sport for a variety of reasons? It is a great idea and complements education rather than the opposite. That last part of your sentence is outright weird.
Once they come out of education we have resentful, weak adult men lacking in confidence that are then seen as inherently toxic, privileged and vilified for what their ancestors did 200 years ago, yet are still expected to be high earners while women are even further ahead than they were in school, given inherent favoritism in dating and employment opportunities at college, internships etc that men also don't have. At least the poor white ones.
Won't anyone think of the the neglected white males? White males still on average have huge advantages over others. The idea that white males are some discriminated against minority is outright nonsense.
I mentioned in an earlier post about a gender war and this is absolutely what is playing out right now men know they are losing.
They really don't. Not the sane ones who haven't drunk the Fox News/MAGA type coolaid.
If we aren't going to get more male teachers
Men have always been underrepresented in primary education, largely because it pays less plus the perception that it is a female occupation. No real change has occurred in my lifetime so it is irrelevant. And attracting good teacher who will stay will alwasy a challenge when we don't pay or value teacher properly.
what we really need back again is single sex schools with different agendas, course this means acknowledging we are actually a sexually dimorphic species and good luck with that in the nebulous world of gender.
More utter nonsense. Single sex schools almost ensures that idiotic, socially clueless and often toxic male behavior will occur. We all live together for life and kids of each sex need to interact and learn how to interact and socialise with each other. School is the perfect place for this to happen as education and the social aspects of life are equally important for all.
Its a big problem with gaming as a whole, especially as its one of the few spaces, certainly depending on system and genre, that''s audience is still dominated by men.
So men who spend lots of time alone, mainly with other men, and don't socialise or interact with women are a bigger problem? Maybe if they had gone to a coed school they would have more social skill?
You will find many many many people that don't actually care about the games anymore but rather hating what is coming out cremating these games as woke, (especially with a female protagonist) i see it EVERYWHERE that isn't heavily moderated. Clearly another facet of this gender war, in trying to be a more "inclusive" space it has turned in to a toxic breeding ground of resentment and anger.
The terms gender war and woke are idiotic, and designed to try to justify people's bigotry, or at least avoid calling it what it is.

Your whole post reads like a "woe is me. Women are victimising me and others".
 
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Really? That is it? The whole story? Are you sure?

Equalish in development terms but girls tend to go through puberty earlier and males brains' are also effected differently by the flood of testosterone, which is why girls are a couple of years more mentally mature until boys/men catch up in their late teens or even early 20's. This is not caused by education.

Huh? Do you mean that there are more female teacher, particularly in primary schools?

What? I used to be a teacher and know lots of teachers, and this is nonsense.

:rolleyes:

WTF are you on about? Are you suggesting that it is bad thing to engage kids in sport for a variety of reasons? It is a great idea and complements education rather than the opposite. That last part of your sentence is outright weird.

Won't anyone think of the the neglected white males? White males still on average have huge advantages over others. The idea that white males are some discriminated against minority is outright nonsense.

They really don't. Not the sane ones who haven't drunk the Fox News/MAGA type coolaid.

Men have always been underrepresented in primary education, largely because it pays less plus the perception that it is a female obligation. No real change has occurred in my lifetime so it is irrelevant. And attracting good teacher who will stay will alwasy a challenge when we don't pay or value teacher properly.

More utter nonsense. Single sex schools almost ensures that idiotic, socially clueless and often toxic male behavior will occur. We all live together for life and kids of each sex need to interact and learn how to interact and socialise with each other. School is the perfect place for this to happen as education and the social aspects of life are equally important for all.

So men who spend lots of time alone, mainly with other men, and don't socialise or interact with women are a bigger problem? Maybe if they had gone to a coed school they would have more social skill?

The terms gender war and woke are idiotic, and designed to try to justify people's bigotry, or at least avoid calling it what it is.

Your whole post reads like a "woe is me" women are victimising me and others.
Great responses - I was just too lazy to type up this sort of post :+1: :+1:
 
The Dems should fire the large majority of their advisors apparently bc they're more out of touch than those on the other side. Hate or love her but people like AOC actually seem to get it. But that would require the Clintons and co to relinquish their control of the party.

Then again the article right above also shows there is a deeper issue that allows the Trumps of the world to amplify toxic masculinity. And I say that as a man. We don't need more frat boys. We need men who aren't self indulgent little cnuts.

Yep, the entire Obama/Hillary/Biden mafia need to go. In this case, Jen Palmieri is a Hillary staffer who was sobbing in live tv after Trump beat her. All of them need to be replaced.
 
I've read about concerns regarding the voting machines. If that's true why isn't the democratic party demanding recounts. After 2020 you would think that a basic audit or recount would be standard.
 
I've read about concerns regarding the voting machines. If that's true why isn't the democratic party demanding recounts. After 2020 you would think that a basic audit or recount would be standard.
Because it's a conspiracy theory and they know it, I've not seen anything about voting machines this time around, albeit I'm not on X ot any other social media where this carp is peddled so I wouldn't have likely seen it
 
I've read about concerns regarding the voting machines. If that's true why isn't the democratic party demanding recounts. After 2020 you would think that a basic audit or recount would be standard.
There's a sub Reddit that's growing fast called Somethingiswrong2024, where they're trying hard to find hard evidence that this election has been stolen.

Myself, I don't like staying into conspiracy theories, however I can think of about a dozen reasons why something just seems very odd about the way he so quickly and effortlessly won while taking all swing states.

On the other hand, there are a few reasons to argue why the result was predictable & legitimate.

Basically, I just don't know, but I will say I was very concerned about Musk's involvement from the very start.
 
There's a sub Reddit that's growing fast called Somethingiswrong2024, where they're trying hard to find hard evidence that this election has been stolen.

Myself, I don't like staying into conspiracy theories, however I can think of about a dozen reasons why something just seems very odd about the way he so quickly and effortlessly won while taking all swing states.

On the other hand, there are a few reasons to argue why the result was predictable & legitimate.

Basically, I just don't know, but I will say I was very concerned about Musk's involvement from the very start.
It's pretty simple why he won

Trump's total vote number were down slightly from 2020, around a million or so

Harris's total number of votes was down compared to Biden's 2020 numbers by more than 10 million

The simple truth is that Trump maintained his vote numbers and 10 million odd people who voted for Biden in 2020 didn't vote in 2024
 
It's entirely possible (very likely, even) that many of the people who did not vote for Biden in 2020 simply voted for Trump this time.