Honestly I thought this would be a slam dunk for Trump after the assassination photo, then he completely failed to capitalize on that, then I thought it would be a slam dunk for Harris, then she did absolutely nothing to make her likeable and got an endorsement from Cheney. How are both presidential candidates so bad at running for president
Neither have anything to offer and they know it.
The mask is peeling off, Musk is already blatantly bragging about being the "shadow president" behind Trump like its something to be proud of.
all the years of hysteria and bullshit from both parties and american voters are about to come out probably in record numbers to deliver the same result as a random number generator app
maybe Americans are smarter than I thought lol
From what I understand, Trump actually got chilled by the attempt, right? Like he actually had to stop and think about the world and his place in it for the first time in his life. I don't know, I'm sorry to anthropomorphize a republican. I haven't really been following. But he's supposedly talented at reading the room, right?
I may not be Dale Earnhardt
But I'm about to crash into the wall because I couldn't turn left

I may not be Johnny Knoxville... But I ate shit, on live TV
All Harris had to do was to even pretend to be progressive, but she had to jump on the ghoul train in order to impress 7 columnists. Why do they think that Negraponte and Cheney are good endorsements?
The dems were on a slight roll when they chose to do what the 'left' told them by replacing Biden and choosing Waltz for VP, but then decided to double down to pander to the right.
Bribers. They bring war profiteering bribers.
Her sister is married to an Uber executive. Her inner circle is a buch of people deeply involved with McKinsey, major banks, the Ford Foundation, etc. She is personally deeply embedded in the donor class, it's not even about appeasing them, it's the fact that she IS them
It really is one of the most incredible unforced errors of all time.
It’s the donors, it’s always the donor money that does this to them.
Exactly. They’ve siphoned off a lot of GOP donors and see that as a continually valid strategy
Anyone notice their polling numbers started tanking as soon as it came out that
was consulting their campaign?
Or maybe it was the Cheney announcement? Or Walz's comments on Iran and Israel?
Boy I'm so excited for another 2016, I can already hear the quiet panicking and finger pointing on election night.
They switched from calling Republicans "weird" to being like "Okay, but we love Republicans, we're adopting a bunch of their policies, and we'll have Republicans in our administration" and the numbers dropped. Wow who could have seen this coming!?
And yes, all of this sounds like HRC's strategists.
When you put it that way 
"We agree that immigrants are scary and dangerous, just don't be weird about it, kay?"
oh those fingers are already pointed at us and have been since the beginning.
you know those wacky oversized foam fingers? they just went ahead and taped them to us a decade ago and relieved themselves of the need to ever self-crit
You're telling me that Dick Cheney's endorsement didn't catapult her to an easy win? What is this world coming to smh
Dang it's almost like she was bottom-tier in the 2020 primaries for a fucking reason.
I wonder why. It must be Russian propaganda there is literally no other possible explanation! 
Weird that their strategy of courting Republicans isn't working, given there's already a Republican candidate that appeals more broadly to Republicans (on account of saying out loud, "I'm a Republican").
Demo are gonna lose this election, take a long hard look at themselves in the mirror and say "We've gotta get more genocidal."
Turns out the "Im basically a republican in all but name" strategy didnt work out work so well when
will always prefers the big wet boi.
They probably think that Kamala wasn’t old and right wing enough. Next time they will select a 90 year old southern democrat who has dementia and that’s why he didn’t switch parties.
literally the easiest election ever for the democrats, and they will still lose to fucking low energy trump lol
I remember when a poll showed "Generic unnamed Democrat" polling 8% better than Biden in some places. It was clear as day that voters wanted literally anything but Biden. When Biden dropped out people thought they'd be getting their wish, but every day since then, Kamala just keeps telling us that she's gonna continue exactly what Biden did.
Axios has an article out about infighting between Biden's and Harris's staff. I didn't post it because it was a nothingburger of a read, but I guess it's a sign they might be gearing up to pin a loss on Joe.
I mean it is at least partially his fault, but also it’s a fault that Harris can and should completely eliminate if she wanted to win
Why is he still president??? Fucking 25th amendment the man and you don’t have to worry about that anymore. And continuing to allow him to rule is an incredible failure of her basic responsibilities in her current job.
But she won’t do that because she supports all of his worst policies and opposes only his best, so if she got rid of him the ability to blame someone else goes away and it becomes obvious how bad she sucks.
But if they 25th Biden, then Kamala can't serve her anointed 2 terms as president 
Yeah she can, term limit doesn't apply for people who took the position more than 2 years into a term. LBJ, for example, was allowed to run for a thirs time, but opted not to because of how unpopular Vietnam war made him.
Edit: exact text:
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
Dems will lose to prove fealty to Israel
What other group will they talk down to next to rectify this?
It's like they're both trying to lose.
What’s even funnier is that all Kamala had to do was do the one thing democrats are good at: doing NOTHING! Just say they will take no more action in aiding Israel and Ukraine, and boom. EZ clap.
But no. Dems think that will “alienate the working class by being too woke” so they won’t do it.
At this point i fully believen that for the wider world, American elections are pointless. Who gives a shit about the next administrator of US imperialism. Wether its Trump or Harris, blood will keep being sacrificed to the blood god that is capital. International law has proven itself meaningless when war crimes are being comitted by the west and its allies, so what are institutions like the UN and the ICC supposed to be? The fact that western media still treats this election as some extremely important global event, with live updates starting as far back as july shows the utter derangement of the average western liberal. The emperor has no clothes but the west is tripping over itself to praise his sense of fashion.
lose, you piece of shit
Congratulations Harris. Get ready to become more than a president. She will become light itself 
I don't know if I'm online too much, and I'm definitely not smart enough to put things together, but it seems like these next few years will determine the next few decades and neither Trump nor Kamala wants to deal with that. To elaborate, war is on the horizon, the targets are China, DPRK, Iran, and Russia, and the events are already being set in motion. The wars will be both cumbersome, expensive, and potentially unpopular and blame and vitrol will be on whoever wins this next election. So with that said, neither party really wants to win nor deal with whatever turmoil comes from these upcoming conflicts. If Democrats want to keep the very little bit of legitimacy they have, they'd lose the next election , blame Trump for the wars and economic downfalls, and pick up whatever is left in 4-8 years.
My timelime might be off though.

Election wins don't just fall out of a coconut tree.
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