7 responses to “A shriek at the darkness”

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   granville

   11/06/2024

   That was a thumping that even I didn’t expect. I was pessimistic but heading into the election itself I thought, well, her campaign has been garbage, but if you can outright buy this thing she has raised enough money to buy this thing.

   They never visited rural Georgia, just sent Bill Clinton to explain that HIS billionaire friends are better than Trump’s billionaire friends. Then they sent him to the Detroit suburbs to tell Arabs that their family members weren’t in Israel first so the country really has no choice but to kill them and we are proud to send them the nooses and blindfolds. The candidate could have cleaned that up except she was taking the full day off 2 weeks before the election to prepare for a friendly 20 minute interview on NBC where she was typically evasive but inexplicably hostile for no reason.

   But they should be able to buy this thing. I guess the good news is that you… can’t? And if you field a scolding candidate that nobody knows and those that do don’t have a great feeling about her and then lock her in a room because you’re afraid she’ll be asked questions about what she’ll do and then campaign with war criminals, you might still lose despite throwing $400 million at Pennsylvania.

   This isn’t a bad as Nixon or Reagan’s re-election (was only alive for one of those but I can read a map), but you’re right, the curse of knowing a bit about anything is understanding a little more of what’s coming: charlatans and crooks like Kennedy and Musk and Tucker, an official Trump Thanksgiving NFT, crypto investors with bodies buried in their backyard carving out FTC policy, unions sent back to the basement to write stern memos about firings they can’t do anything about and all of them getting high off another injection of cheap money. Can’t wait to find out all the new ways they intend to financialize my life and sell interest on my likelihood of dying in short order.

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      Doug Holland

      11/06/2024

      You were following the campaign closer than I did. Can’t really speak to her strategy, except that everything you say sure sounds right to me. The Democrats again are the alleged opposition, the Washington Generals to the Republicans’ Harlem Globetrotters.

      For me the entire campaign was like TV news — it puts me in a sour mood just watching the briefest snippets of that horse doodoo, so I didn’t. Reading about it in bits, though, Harris’s strategy seemed to be basically blather, always in a dash to back away from saying anything inspiring, never speaking to people’s genuine and obvious and widespread problems. No solutions from what’s amusingly called “the left.”

      To me, she didn’t seem any different from Biden in 2020 or Clinton in 2016. Going through the motions. “Same old same old” was enough for Biden last time, probably because he had a penis and name familiarity and whiteness. It wasn’t enough for a relative newbie who lacked all three.

      The Dems, of course, will never nominate anyone who isn’t “same old same old.” If further elections are allowed, they’ll all look like reruns of 2024.

      I edited it out of my rant because it’s a little off-topic, but what struck me first was the margin. Trump lost by 7-million four years ago, and won by 5-million yesterday — that’s a 12-million vote turnaround, even though he was *much* more obviously crazy this time around. He almost literally promised to stomp America like Godzilla, and America said, “Sounds good. Start stomping. It’s better than same old same old.”

      Yeah, it’s going to be ugly as fuck.

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         granville

         11/06/2024

         I never dreamed a Republican could win the majority vote again, they’ve only done it once since I’ve been able to vote and that was during war hysteria.

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            Doug Holland

            11/06/2024

            My first thought was election fraud, because despite Trump saying it, those electronic counting machines really are a black hole of trust. But unless there’s some evidence, and I’ve seen none, it’s absurd to imagine anyone connected with Trump has enough competence to pull off such a scheme.

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            johnthebasket

            11/06/2024

            I’m old enough to have been fucked in the ass by Nixon, Reagan and Bush I — That was a long 24 years with only four years of Jimmy Carter in the middle to catch a breath. But I do prefer breathing, and the plebiscite numbers yesterday were rather breathtaking.

            When the Beatles sang “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”, the top US marginal tax rate was 91%. It is now 37%, with a LOT more exemptions. Every decrease has been during a Republican administration, and our educational system doesn’t arm the poor (all of us, for example) with information as to how to vote in their best interests. Of course, Harris got a late start: Obama was organizing a Presidential run four full years before he ran. Harris woke up with no time to organize at all. Whatever her national message, the Dems could have used some local organization in the swings (phone banks, rides to polling places, buddy systems, doorbelling, etc.) that seemed to be barely present, especially in Pennsylvania and Georgia. Michigan was the biggest surprise to me. The decline of unionism in the US has had a horrible effect on the Democrats’ ability to win blue collar states.

            It was a horrible day for everyone except the rich, and a horrible day for America.

            John

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               Doug Holland

               11/06/2024

               91%, as late as the early 1960s. Breathtaking.

               I barely remember Nixon, but thought he was the worst American president… until Reagan, who was the worst American president… until Bush, who was the worst… until Bush, who was the worst imaginable… until Trump… And when Trump chokes on a french fry, it’ll be JD Vance.

               I don’t know how rich he is, but I don’t think Tuesday was a bad day for DNC Chair Jaime Harrison. He’s quitting, sure, but there’ll be a comfortable place for him in Democratic circles, and for his successor, who’ll try just as hard (not very), and fail just as predictably.

               There’s no hope to be had from the Democratic Party, and no other alternative is allowed, so there’s no hope to be had.

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   DR. GASSAN ABU SITTA

   11/06/2024

   Gone is a genocidal president too hypocritical to admit it. And in comes a genocidal president who wears it as a badge of honor.

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