US Election

[spenze]

They shouldnt be taking it well. They lost an unlosable election and they lost it badly. Democrats need to oust the dead wood from the leadership of the party. They are right, Biden should never have ran, it was a stupid idea and it was shown up for what it was pretty quickly. Should have Harris been the candidate? well through the late Biden call they couldnt run the process to select a candidate properly and Harris was gifted the gig do to a popularity burst prior to the DNC. So everything was done on the fly.

Hopefully now come 2028 we will see a fresh look for American politics.

I wonder how many people are excited that JD Vance is 50% likely to be the president of the united states by 2026?

I have read his book of his life. I will say I was more than surprised that he was Trumps running mate.

His book, Hillbilly Elegy gave an indication of why Trump had a collective of people disaffected by modern politics enough to see him as a saviour as there was a group who had a reasonably OK life on the back of factory work where they had a decent house, a car, a community to raise their family...and right or wrong, that seemed to be taken away from them from both sides and Trump, reached out to those people.

His life, to be born into a shitty, drunken, Appalachian family in the woods, to be saved by his grandparents, to be forced to do school, to be saved from himself, to go to Iraq (or Afghanistan but I think it was Iraq)and then better himself to the point he pushed himself to become the best he could be, going to a University that he felt he did not belong in, because it was the best ( It was Yale) and make more of a man of himself.

Then to go back to his community and help disadvantaged kids because it was the right thing to do, to pay it forward...

I get people dislike Trump, I get it, but Vance, read his book (it is a great read), he is everything America says it stands for, you can be born anything but you can become anything.

He was born Hillbilly trash, he started form the bottom

 

[spenze]

 

[Slippery Pete]

I can’t understand why people didn’t warm to Tim Walz and his wife.

 

[spenze]

The last man to beat a woman as badly as Harris was yesterday

 

[adelaidecrows]

I have read his book of his life. I will say I was more than surprised that he was Trumps running mate.

His book, Hillbilly Elegy gave an indication of why Trump had a collective of people disaffected by modern politics enough to see him as a saviour as there was a group who had a reasonably OK life on the back of factory work where they had a decent house, a car, a community to raise their family...and right or wrong, that seemed to be taken away from them from both sides and Trump, reached out to those people.

His life, to be born into a shitty, drunken, Appalachian family in the woods, to be saved by his grandparents, to be forced to do school, to be saved from himself, to go to Iraq (or Afghanistan but I think it was Iraq)and then better himself to the point he pushed himself to become the best he could be, going to a University that he felt he did not belong in, because it was the best ( It was Yale) and make more of a man of himself.

Then to go back to his community and help disadvantaged kids because it was the right thing to do, to pay it forward...

I get people dislike Trump, I get it, but Vance, read his book (it is a great read), he is everything America says it stands for, you can be born anything but you can become anything.

He was born Hillbilly trash, he started form the bottom

I think it was him sane washing Trumps statements that rubbed some people the wrong way.