Election 2024: The Fate of Democracy

Millsy
This has been pretty obvious from the offset to be fair.

Except at the BBC, where they were talking about him as an unpredictable disruptive force.

Unpredictable is the last thing he is and all the whoppers proclaiming shock at his latest stunts, posting his ramblings on twitter are basically shining a light on their own fucking stupidity.

Mad_Cyril yeah, obvious, but good to have assumptions of his child-level zero sum game approach confirmed by an expert.

Trump is a very simple man. It’s not difficult to figure out what motivates him and with the full support of the Supreme Court, it’s going to be a disaster for the US and everyone adjacent. If their democracy survives this, the next administration will have to begin a decades long rebuild.

Millsy good to have assumptions of his child-level zero sum game approach confirmed by an expert.

Isn’t that what twitter is for??

Millsy The more he saves the more he wins.

Have said this on here before; these fruit cakes view business like we view sport, if they made a penny more than their competitor they would hold it up the way we would the Jules Rimet having just scored a 40 yard screamer in a pair of Copa Mundials.

303abuser If their democracy survives

Think they’ll make a full term, or it’ll fall apart at some point?

Amps I think it depends on whether or not the “guardrails” hold like they did last time. It’s possible that Mike Pence, as generally reprehensible as he is, was the only thing that stood in the way of the Jan 6th insurrection.

Now they have project 2025, replacing federal workers with people sympathetic to fascist ideals, the Supreme Court confirming the president as a king above the rule of law, controlling propaganda sources, eroding public faith in government institutions, and I’m sure countless other measures that are either hidden or yet to occur. Who knows how this ends. We do know now that the American system has traditionally relied on norms and not legislation, so that’s not good for democracy.

Might stick £50 on Californian secession in the next 4 years.

With the wildfires and potential flooding, California might be in proper trouble too. Insurance is becoming an issue.

303abuser many of those affected were uninsured.

alistair Uninsured, underinsured. And many of the homes in the nicer areas are owned by families who have had them for decades, making them house rich and cash poor. Looks like the rich will win again.

Millsy nice

Good read

What a have we done

We’ve been bang out of order.

The markets today will be amazing. Nice one Donald.

Millsy Thank god for Brexit

Along_the_Wire that sums up most of my days at work!

LOL @ Amps and Dubman in this thread, looking like that: