Election day 2024

[KKLoco]

Next headline: GOP retains control of house.

2024 Election: Final Analysis.

Voting breakdown:

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/pol...s-2024-dg/

Headlined by this:

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Also worth noting she underperformed both Democrat predecessors with overall women voters. Her massive gains in college educated white women were offset by married and Latina voters.

End result, define "landslide" and "red tsunami."

Trump: 312 - 226 + popular vote (blue wall destroyed)
Senate: up to 5 flipped seats
House: likely retained

GOP have everything they need now. So I'm really happy that all the Project 2025 fear is said to be vastly overstated by left leaning media to scare people away from voting GOP.

The abortion initiative votes were especially telling. 7/10 passed, and 8/10 received a majority. This shows an adaptation the states rights as preference. Abortion was 4th and 5th of the importance list. Like the Latinos, pro-choice voters saw the threat of a GOP administration as something to fear as false.

It's a very independent-minded outcome that overwhelmingly favored republican candidates this time. But very free and fair. Not my decision, but...

I think all that fear a coming 4th Reich should try to adopt a clean slate approach for his 2nd term and give him the benefit of the doubt for at least as long as McConnell gave Biden one. (So... Early February 2021)

Great write up! Thank you!

In all honesty, what did anyone expect, when she pandered to emotion — over logic?

A 6 million vote lead — shows how deranged this country is. On this level of creating mental illness, by 2028 — you'll have your majority.

[Byrd]

Interesting. Seems like your family has a lot of gender identity issues. Where do you think that stemmed from?

I am of the opinion that two people out of a group of 120 plus (currently living, lots of 4 generational families and some large ones) is not a "lot of gender identity issues" -- but your mileage might vary.

While your family might have kept records, there aren't any in our family and of course on Ancestry there's no real documents that say "this person is gay" ...unless they're Oscar Wilde or some such.  So  I don't know how many of our ancestors had gay/lesbian siblings (since it's not a recent phenomenon... in fact, there's a well-known (presumably) gay couple from the time of the building of the Giza pyramids (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khnumhotep...iankhkhnum) and at least one of the Pharaohs was reportedly having an affair with the general of his army.

...and then there's the whole Spartans thing.

And Romans, of course.  And the Celts.  And Native American tribes (I'm 1/128th Native American) So, looking at the family tree as far back as I can trace it (German, Scottish, Scandinavian, English)... undoubtedly several, though how many of the thousands of ancestors were homosexual or bisexual is impossible to say.  But given that there's a heavy proportion of Celtic ancestors (German, Scottish, English, Irish) in our ancestry,  there's undoubtedly more than one.

[xpert11]

Well, folks, your Token Liberal here is indeed very depressed over the results.  You'd have felt as I do if the election went the way I hoped for.

Voters globally are growing discontent with the awful election choices before them. (New Zealand couldn't do any better than Prime Minster Christopher Luxon. He doesn't know the price of groceries).


I have many friends and family members who are at risk here (gay, trans, Black, Latinx, the entire Furry community, SF fans, Renfaire folk, SCAdians, etc) and I worry for all of them. 

That is understandable in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's general direction. However, African Americans and Latinx voters didn't flock to Harris and congressional Democrats. American voters across many demographics perceived Trump as better for controlling living costs. Of course, that doesn't square with Trump's anti-free trade stance.


I am very concerned that we may lose Social Security and Obamacare; with hubby's Parkinson's and Diabetes (and a whole list of other problems) and daughter and grandchildren with medical problems, things could get grim.  One friend (widow) with multiple disabilities will likely lose her home and at least one other is at risk of suicide (another woman (age 77) whose medical expenses run into the thousands of dollars each month.)

My thoughts go out to those people, yet from what I understand, social security was going broke before Trump's political rise.

I'll be looking into how to protect our finances... that's going to be critical. 

Like Hillary Clinton, Harris was a terrible candidate. It is glaring that Harris failed to wipe out Trump on the issue of consumers paying for tariffs.

[KTemplar]

Byrd, I see that you are very worried about losing Social security.

Don’t worry, in fact, Trump will most likely save it.

Think of it this way: in my neighborhood, there are mostly Muslim, now Haitians (a lot of them), very few whites, the Mexicans never stay (they always move onto better). The only people I see working are/were are the Mexicans and a couple others, very few!

I speak to a lot of people daily, some have been very honest with me. This is what I have learned:

The amount of people coming to this country and eventually getting SSDI/SSI is staggering. Think about that! They are getting Americans money that was payed into SSI and never/barely paid into it. They get housing, so they can live off crumbs and are happy to do so. That is going to deplete SSI/SSDI. Also, I see a shtload of drug addicts who get it. Not only did they barely,if ever, pay into it, they wreak havoc on society.

I applied for SSDI over 7 years ago, due to several surgeries I had to have (torn meniscus being one), I was denied. While there I personally saw several non English speaking families getting catered to. It is not fair. This is what is going to take away your SSI. I’ve worked for over 35 years, and paid into it, and couldn’t get help. Thank God, I was able to get a job right away again, and let me tell you. Every time I saw some hoochie in line at a store buying false eyelashes and fake nails, then whip out their ebt cards for candy I wanted to throw up. Same jerks I might add that barked at their kids and won’t get them anything. Some have scabs on their faces from apparent crack/meth use.

That’s what’s going to bankrupt SSI/SSDI.

I really hope President Trump looks at these issues, and he’s smart so I know he will.