Doesn’t matter who the VP pick is, the big wet boi is cooked.

Trump’s followers will do some terrorism like they usually do, but the majority of them will become disenfranchised and go the way of the tea party - still present, still a pain in the ass, but ineffectual. They will devote their time to Trump’s new talk show and he will sell them Trump hairy balls strong man supplements and other scams.

American empire will continue to expand, nothing will fundamentally change. Blue MAGA is the new order.

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    the celebrations after she wins are going to be the most insufferable shit imaginable, worse than when Biden won. I think I’m just gonna try to go to sleep for the entirety of November through March

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      I tend to agree but it’s hard to say when she has been so, so invisible as veep

      Maybe she can be normal? I’ve probably heard her talk for all of 10 minutes since 2020 when you add it all up

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      Seems doubtful to me. The ways in which Harris is weird are either common among all politicians, or just as widely shared among Republicans as Democrats.

      R’s can’t challenge her from the right, since she mostly agrees with them there, and they can’t challenge her from the left without “going woke” and starting to care about things like genocide and the prison industrial complex.

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    Generally agree with the title. Biden was dragging the DNC’s chances down to hell with him, but polling shows Kamala is closing the gap in swing states.

    American empire will continue to expand, nothing will fundamentally change. Blue MAGA is the new order.

    Unfortunately true, while US Hegemony crumbles. Better than GOP rule, but won’t make much, if any, positive material change. I do believe we are seeing the dying throes of a rescinding empire, however.

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    Harris as candidate improves their chances in that it removes the sundowning old white man problem. But Harris still has charisma and organizational issues, economy still sucks for most people, still signing off on a genocide. I’m not saying Trump has it for sure, but the honeymoon is going to end soon and I’m sure the Republicans will be able to come up with something better that old cat lady.

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    Predicting election results this far out is pointless in a country where the political lines are as blurred as they are in the US.

    Something like half of the people polled after the Minneapolis police station got torched thought it was a good thing (or at least that it was justified); I severely doubt those same people feel that way now. The country’s electorate is incredibly fickle and biased towards the aesthetic of the moment, as reactionaries are wont to be, to say nothing of their memory.

    3 months is a lot of time for things to happen.

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    Kamala Harris represents the same type of cultural and social malaise that Trump does but in a different form. It’s all about how cruel you can be to get ahead. People like Kamala wrap themselves in a blanket of false kindness, of “nice vibes” but in reality they are just as evil, just the same as more blatant and obvious narcissists like Trump.

    You can keep people imprisoned beyond their sentencing, using them as self-admitted slave labor because it’s simply too profitable to release them, and you can be president one day. It’s all about how much debasement we will accept from our society.

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    Full agreement. I wasn’t sure until Saturday when I saw Trump speak.

    Live hes so boring and low energy. He barely got the crowd going… Got his biggest cheer when he said he’d fire Gary Gensler. A minute later he just said it again to try and get people cheering.

    Just old and wet and tired.

    Now I’m fully coconut pilled.

    But of course anything could happen. Maybe someone tries to shoot Harris or something and in true Democratic excellence she spins that into a losing proposition somehow

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    VP pick does matter in at least one instance: Josh Shapiro could tank her chances in Michigan, and most of her pathways to victory run through Michigan. Other than that, I’d agree that her VP matters very little

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        Michigan has a significant population of Arab Americans who are not fans of US support for genocide in Gaza. Josh Shapiro has been very pro-Israel and hostile to anti-Zionist protests, so adding him to the ticket would not play with those voters, who may stay home or even vote for Trump out of spite.

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    I’m not going to say it’s a guarantee even now. It does look like a low-point for Trump with a large portion of the country genuinely hating him. The same was true of Biden but Kamala is such a blank slate that people can just assume what they want about her.

    Unlike Mondale, Gore, Lieberman, and Biden. Harris has no history of being a boisterous “moderate.” This helps a lot with her perceived image. Still think she’s a charismatic sinkhole and that Dems have an uncanny ability to fuck things up.

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    It’s a race between “weird” locking up the election vs. Israel starting a regional war and/or Ukraine collapsing

    If events force foreign policy back into the national media spotlight, then Harris is cooked