"The teleprompter guy is worried but I gotta say something else. New thing because today is my inauguration for the second time on tv. It should be the third time but only second time on tv. Now - new branding. Much better. No more elephant. Republican symbol is the Flathead. The Flathead - strong and powerful. Best. The Phillips bad. Designed by Bad Holland Communists to break and destroy America like the democrats. They wanna screw you. They do. They do..."

Rainman starts counting a visual representation of the vote where each vote is a toothpick. He begins counting Kamala's 74,563,603 votes but he suddenly stops at 8,713 and he starts yelling - "TOO MANY! TOO MANY! NO NO! UNDERWEAR ON THE HIGHWAY..."

That's why Kamala is my Shoe-In of the Week!

I forgot all about that guy and his keys! I googled.

'I admit I was wrong': Allan Lichtman explains why his election prediction failed

• Lichtman attributed the inaccurate prediction to factors like disdain for the Biden administration and Harris' late campaign start.

• Despite the miss, Lichtman stands by his "13 Keys to the White House" system, emphasizing its long-term accuracy.

• He also criticized Nate Silver's polling-based prediction model, suggesting it relied heavily on chance.

Buy my book! It will help you predict a coin flip. Perhaps wrongly but still...!

This made me laugh.

"I don't think I called any (keys) wrong," Lichtman said. "The contest key was rendered problematic by what went on by the Democratic Party but I don't think you can say I called it wrong except for in retrospect. At the time it was the more reasonable call."

I'm stealing "render problematic" and "[My logic was not wrong]" and "I don't think you can say I called it wrong except [in] retrospect".

They were already broken. Its except 2016

that assumes their brains were in proper working order to begin with

"Nobody" won in a landslide with like 90 million votes

They are doing something. They're crying and moaning on Twitter while they wait in the drive though for their Starbucks! What more could you ask of them!

Then do something?

I just realized that post-election - I haven't seen a single Bluesky post about any nuts-and-bolts efforts on stuff like voter outreach or voter registration. The libs entire worldview is ya gotta Vote(!) and then after the election - email your congresspeople to "keep the pressure on". It's going to be pretty funny when DC libs start strategically doing their norm of compromising in advance and doing nothing of importance to throw sand in the gears. And no amount of email is going to change that.

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Hell, libs could even post about improving reading comprehension and literacy to serve as a bulwark for democracy. The average American reads at a sixth grade level. But libs would rather repost something from The Bulwark which is a right-wing concern troll site co-created by Bill Fucking Kristol.

kind of looks like everyone gets screwed no matter what pile they're in!

JFK got and 49.72% and Nixon got 49.55% on 1960

Meanwhile Clinton won on 43.0% in 1992

'Oh so Harris' number is still smaller, got it'

because this is a republican web site. we like small business owners, hamburgers, and killing muslims, and abusing our kids. obviously.

We like that

WE GOT ONE

People coming here to say this don't seem to understand we hate both candidates, vast majority of American politicians and the entire American political system.

I am personally not in the West and the identity of the president affects nothing here. I do know trans people in America and I was hoping Kamala would win, even if I was too disgusted by her stance on Palestine, until I learned her actions as a prosecutor and "we should follow the law" statement on trans people, showing she would not be a hardliner on trans issues. That was the one advantage she might've had over Trump.

It is because the candidates are both hateworthy and ghoulish that it's funny to laugh at people who are convinced one of them is morally pure or advantageous for the average person. We also had a few laughs at chuds who thought Trump was anti-war.

tl;dr Trump indeed bad. The issue isn't that Trump good but that acting like Trump is the worst person in American politics or a root cause of the current problems is rather bizarre.