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Old 11-08-2024, 01:23 PM   #701
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Just finished watching the McMahon documentary on Netflix the other week, and I can't help but feel WWE's reflects what we now see in American politics. It honestly does feel like people are making decisions on who to vote for based on personality and perceived "owning" of the other side rather than for actual policies or facts. At this point, the Dem's real chance next time around might actually be to bring in a celebrity.
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Old 11-08-2024, 01:23 PM   #702
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/202...olitics-canada

Good article from a site I know basically nothing about. Some good points though.. Harris had a massive groundgame and Trump didn't really give a #### about his rallies.. just rambled about Hannibal Lecter, minimal crowds, no bands.
However much of the electorate is always online now.. and their reach in that domain simply won
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Old 11-08-2024, 01:23 PM   #703
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Last time the Rock threw his suppourt behind Biden.

This time he said he wouldn't do the same. A bit disappointing considering what was at stake here.
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Old 11-08-2024, 01:26 PM   #704
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There's a post-election poll out there where one of the questions was Biden vs. Trump if Biden stayed in the race, and Trump won that 49-42. If that's anywhere near accurate, they probably would have lost 6-7 more states and we'd probably be looking at 57-43 Senate that would potentially give Republicans control of the Senate for the next 6-8 years at least.

And that assumes that Biden didn't continue to drag his own campaign down with more debate-like performances. Even though they lost, getting him out of the race was massive in limiting the damage.
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Old 11-08-2024, 01:26 PM   #705
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Just finished watching the McMahon documentary on Netflix the other week, and I can't help but feel WWE's reflects what we now see in American politics. It honestly does feel like people are making decisions on who to vote for based on personality and perceived "owning" of the other side rather than for actual policies or facts. At this point, the Dem's real chance next time around might actually be to bring in a celebrity.
Gavin Newsom seems to be the best bet. Or wait Newscum am I doing this right?

The Democrats need to get nasty as well, because the other side doesn't care and its obvious being a terrible human resonates with a lot of the US population.

You can't always take the highroad you have to fight back.
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Old 11-08-2024, 01:30 PM   #706
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So to sum up the past 33 pages of posts

Democrats lost because of:

Racists who will never vote for a person of colour
Misogynists who will never vote for a woman
Progressives who didn't show up to vote
Bigoted folks
Uninformed folks
Purposely ignorant folks
Uneducated folks
The male vote
Especially the white male folks
Young indoctrinated voters
Right wing media propaganda
Elon Musk
Misinformation
Trump's cult
Latinos who should know better
Regressive Christians
The electoral college
The poor folks who bought Trump's lies
Not embracing Hasan "America deserved 9/11" Piker
Jews / Israel support
Muslims / pro-palestine
Catering to neocons
Not choosing Bernie Sanders
Not enough spending
Too hard to vote
Not catering to progressives enough
Messaging issue
Russian election interference

*Biden*
*insanity

Anything else that's missed?

*Biden added as Pelosi the mastermind of the DNC is now blaming him.

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Old 11-08-2024, 01:32 PM   #707
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In the least surprising news of the year

https://twitter.com/user/status/1854164649433858119
Americans should rise up against this #### if so. It's really sad that the majority of them have bought into the grift though, and what exactly Project 2025 is (a dismantling of democracy). It'll be a couple years into this regime before some of them will start to realize they're being conned.
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Old 11-08-2024, 01:33 PM   #708
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So to sum up the past 33 pages of posts

Democrats lost because of:

Racists who will never vote for a person of colour
Misogynists who will never vote for a woman
Progressives who didn't show up to vote
Bigoted folks
Uninformed folks
Purposely ignorant folks
Uneducated folks
The male vote
Especially the white male folks
Young indoctrinated voters
Right wing media propaganda
Elon Musk
Misinformation
Trump's cult
Latinos who should know better
Regressive Christians
The electoral college
The poor folks who bought Trump's lies
Not embracing Hasan "America deserved 9/11" Piker
The Jews
Catering to neocons
Not choosing Bernie Sanders
Not enough spending
Too hard to vote
Not catering to progressives enough
Messaging issue

*Biden*

Anything else that's missed?

Seems like a party that wants to win, but only on the terms that any voters must conform to the DNC's view of what an American should be.

*Biden added as Pelosi the mastermind of the DNC is now blaming him.
Russian interference in the election
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It honestly feels like The Rock would have obliterated the votes, he's just so damn likeable! Legitimate Idiocracy vibes had it been The Rock vs Trump.

Granted, he would have lost a lot of votes from people being confused when they saw the name Dwayne Johnson when it came to vote and not "The Rock".
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Old 11-08-2024, 01:40 PM   #710
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So to sum up the past 33 pages of posts

Democrats lost because of:

Racists who will never vote for a person of colour
Misogynists who will never vote for a woman
Progressives who didn't show up to vote
Bigoted folks
Uninformed folks
Purposely ignorant folks
Uneducated folks
The male vote
Especially the white male folks
Young indoctrinated voters
Right wing media propaganda
Elon Musk
Misinformation
Trump's cult
Latinos who should know better
Regressive Christians
The electoral college
The poor folks who bought Trump's lies
Not embracing Hasan "America deserved 9/11" Piker
Jews / Israel support
Catering to neocons
Not choosing Bernie Sanders
Not enough spending
Too hard to vote
Not catering to progressives enough
Messaging issue

*Biden*

Anything else that's missed?

*Biden added as Pelosi the mastermind of the DNC is now blaming him.
Can't Blame the Jews if you don't blame the Muslims too. Pretty much all of these things, you need to take the other side of the argument and that was the problem too.

She lost because she was too friendly to Israel and she lost because she wasn't hard enough on Israel. Someone who is going to be decisive, at least with Trump he'll just tell them to finish the genocide so that we can stop worrying abou weather or not someone could have done something.
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Old 11-08-2024, 01:42 PM   #711
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One would hope that there will eventually be some major buyer’s remorse over these next 4 years from the dips***s who voted for this insanity. Or maybe not. They certainly didn’t learn any lessons from the last time the orange turd was in office, and this time will be much, much worse. It’s gonna be a rough ride for the entire planet, and I’m especially worried about what this means for Canada going forward.
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So to sum up the past 33 pages of posts

Democrats lost because of:

Racists who will never vote for a person of colour
Misogynists who will never vote for a woman
Progressives who didn't show up to vote
Bigoted folks
Uninformed folks
Purposely ignorant folks
Uneducated folks
The male vote
Especially the white male folks
Young indoctrinated voters
Right wing media propaganda
Elon Musk
Misinformation
Trump's cult
Latinos who should know better
Regressive Christians
The electoral college
The poor folks who bought Trump's lies
Not embracing Hasan "America deserved 9/11" Piker
Jews / Israel support
Catering to neocons
Not choosing Bernie Sanders
Not enough spending
Too hard to vote
Not catering to progressives enough
Messaging issue

*Biden*

Anything else that's missed?

*Biden added as Pelosi the mastermind of the DNC is now blaming him.
You missed the main one - people not believing in the establishment that exists and the corrupt media behind it. Besides abortion, which I'm not discounting, because I can't believe it's even a topic, Trump's policies resonate a lot more with what the general population wants to see changed.
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One would hope that there will eventually be some major buyer’s remorse over these next 4 years from the dips***s who voted for this insanity. Or maybe not. They certainly didn’t learn any lessons from the last time the orange turd was in office, and this time will be much, much worse. It’s gonna be a rough ride for the entire planet, and I’m especially worried about what this means for Canada going forward.
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Do you mean this guy?

Spoiler!


or maybe this guy?

Spoiler!


Perhaps this guy?

Spoiler!

This guy

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rap...rter-democrats
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Old 11-08-2024, 01:50 PM   #716
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What in the actual Fata was that? Sharks and Israel? How high was he?
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What in the actual Fata was that? Sharks and Israel? How high was he?
Idk but if he just does this I can get behind Trump for the next 4 years.

I love when he tells stories of when people talk to him. They said sir you can’t have Popeyes gravy with your KFC.
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Idk but if he just does this I can get behind Trump for the next 4 years.

I love when he tells stories of when people talk to him. They said sir you can’t have Popeyes gravy with your KFC.
"Sir this is a Wendy's."
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Last time the Rock threw his suppourt behind Biden.

This time he said he wouldn't do the same. A bit disappointing considering what was at stake here.
Dude, she had a tonne of big name celebrities, with huge fanbases endorse her. You really think The Rock would have saved the day?
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Dude, she had a tonne of big name celebrities, with huge fanbases endorse her. You really think The Rock would have saved the day?
It's clear you haven't seen his movies..........
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