The 2024 Election —What did we learn?

Dr. Strangelove said:
So because Trump himself and true MAGA believers are kind of stupid dips#!ts, they told their idiotic voters that voting by mail was a bad idea - as a prerequisite for their plan to tell their legion of drooling supporters that the election was stolen. Instead he barely lost by ~24k votes across a few states and likely wins if he encouraged his voters to vote by mail. 
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I can’t argue with this.  Seems spot on. 

 
BigRedBuster said:
I learned that now this is good. 
 

LFG!!!
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Feels like we might be going through a crazy scenario where all the Nobel prize winning economists who said Trump’s economic policies were inflationary and would be bad for interest rates are going to be proven as knowing what they're talking about

 
I feel like Greenland is one of those places that 

1.  You will never meet anyone from Greenland

2.  You will never meet anyone that has gone to Greenland.

 
teachercd said:
I feel like Greenland is one of those places that 

1.  You will never meet anyone from Greenland

2.  You will never meet anyone that has gone to Greenland.
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Actually, I know several people who have gone there recently on vacations and say it's an amazing place to visit.  One young couple actually took their honeymoon there.

 
Lorewarn said:
Feels like we might be going through a crazy scenario where all the Nobel prize winning economists who said Trump’s economic policies were inflationary and would be bad for interest rates are going to be proven as knowing what they're talking about
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The same ones who said the same s#!t in 2016?   Ohhh. Ok  :laughpound

 
BigRedBuster said:
Actually, I know several people who have gone there recently on vacations and say it's an amazing place to visit.  One young couple actually took their honeymoon there.
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That is cool!

I was bored one day and looked into teaching there, seemed like it was not super easy to get a job there.

 
Archy1221 said:
The same ones who said the same s#!t in 2016?   Ohhh. Ok  :laughpound
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No idea if it's the same people or not, but I do know that before someone's in office we can only weigh in on what they say they're going to do vs being able to evaluate how it actually went in hindsight. I do know that there were a number of educated folks at least claiming in 201t that Trump's policies would increase the deficit by about 5 trillion over two terms, and they weren't too far off (actually underestimated it a bit). He ended up at a hefty 3.9 trillion in one term, 6.6 trillion if you count COVID measures.

 


Eh, I think Milley was probably spot on with his assessment. Biden was fine in the room, well-prepared, asked the right questions, and keenly understood the weight of his decisions based on decades of foreign policy experience. If you are a military man comparing Biden to Trump, a chronic narcissist who was rarely well-informed, asked ludicrous questions, and loudly proclaimed himself smarter than the generals, of course you'd want the former as your Commander in Chief, especially if you cared about your country.

Biden was definitely slowing down in 2023, not quite a liability (he'd been uttering nutty non-sequitars his whole life) but raising concerns. Most Dems thought the guy who gave a rousing SOTU address 11 months ago could pull it off. Again, I have a friend who took regular meetings with Biden who said the red flags really started that late winter and spring. Joe could still take a good meeting, but there's no way he conducts an 8 month, 24/7 campaign without generating a string of feeble memes. Dems were forced to realize that even if Biden could hang in and defeat Trump, they were facing four years of a highly compromised President. 

Meanwhile, compare the mental fitness and general coherence Donald Trump showed over the same period, and find me the Republican who tried to intervene on the country's behalf.  

 
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