I dislike trump as he is a convicted felon and guilty of sexual assault. He is a sociopathic narcissist. He is abusive, sexist and racist, he has cheated on everyone of his wives. He financially or legally bullies people or fires those that differ from his viewpoint. He is a poor businessman.
He started a riot intending to overthrow an election result, he has divided america and created a lack of faith in the democratic system there.

Has much of that changed substantially ?

MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 10^th, 2024 at 8:43am:



possibly

every democrat policy was designed to advance university educated women
and they had no intention of dragging poor white men up

now poor white men are at least going to drag them down and create a more equal society
thats socialism.....the whole of society can be united in purgatory, all angry broke and equal
isnt that what the left see as their purpose in life? "equality of outcome"
what are they complaining about 

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Nov 9^th, 2024 at 7:24am:


I work at a place where the same bullshit I saw 12 years ago is happening again. This time, it is with people 20+ years younger. I'm now experienced enough to handle the situation. But the boss is giving too much leniency towards staff that would have been fired for even speaking the wrong way towards customers. Never mind the threats of violence against customers.

Could you imagine Donald Trump pulling out of the presidential race, and people electing JD Vance to presidency? It would be an absolute disaster. You need an experienced person to run the country.

Bobby. wrote on Nov 10^th, 2024 at 9:35am:


Actually, he's much more likely to be the cause of WWIII.

Armchair_Politician wrote on Nov 11^th, 2024 at 6:51am:



No - wants the killing to stop - in Ukraine and Israel.

Some polls get only 2 per cent of people willing to answer questions. No matter how you weight the answers to try to reflect the nation’s general social composition, it seems people who answer polls are just unrepresentative.

The polls showed the battleground states as desperately close. But Trump won them clearly, albeit by margins within the polls’ margin of error. Not one poll underestimated Harris. Polls are not much use if they simply declare battleground states an effective tie with a margin of error of 3 per cent, so that if either candidate wins by less than 3 per cent they can claim they were within the margin of error.

Mainstream media also emerge hugely discredited. Until Biden’s devastating debate performance, almost all of them connived in the obvious deception that Biden was cognitively fit to hold office. They were so soft in interviews with leading Democrats and so hostile to Trump and his surrogates, and their characterisation of Trump was often so absurd – fascist, Nazi, and so on – that they probably contributed to Trump’s vote.

The third institution whose credibility tanked was Hollywood and pop stars. What do Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Beyonce and Taylor Swift all have in common? They enthusiastically backed Harris. As political seers, they make good entertainers. I watch Clooney’s movies, but it has never occurred to me that he has any useful advice on politics.
Greg Sheridan

This is why Trump won, and why Harris lost ...