>>205
>Probably something like that. Just surrounding themselves with whoever agrees with them, parroting the same things back and forth, while foaming at the mouth about how evil the other side is. So of course, when public opinion starts to turn against them, they'd have no idea.
And they'll just scream fascist, nazi, bigot, and whatever other progressive buzzwords are going through their head. They've learned absolutely nothing from 2016. More level-headed leftists have been starting to call this out in the aftermath of this election.
>That's another huge one. It's clear that, while there were Republicans who didn't stand up to it as much as they could have, it was largely pushed by Democrats. And of course, there was a Democrat president in office when it all got put into place. It's no secret who was signing the papers about the vax.
From the inception, the difference between red state and blue state handling were basically night and day. Speaking in broad terms, red states were less restrictive regarding businesses staying open, social gatherings, mask policies, vaccine policies, etc, whereas blue states were the opposite. From what I remember, red states economically recovered quicker than blue states on average, while blue states generally had lower deaths per capita, so there was some tradeoff. But yeah, by late 2022 or so, pushing it was only really a viable idea in the bluest of areas. Hell, NY's gubernatorial election almost gave them a Republican governor for the first time since the 90s.
>I'm sure the Dems have a plan to blame it on any conservative they can find if the Republicans continue to gain traction. But it's too late really, the people have experienced these struggles for months now, if not years, while Democrats are proudly trying to twist the truth about the economy. So their narrative wouldn't be widely accepted.
The Dems didn't really have a consistent narrative regarding the economy this election cycle. They couldn't decide on going with "Things are great, actually, unemployment is low and job pay has increased as well", or "The economy is in the tank, but it's actually the GOP's fault". I think that hurt them here. The Republicans had a much easier time with messaging, since they had the much more obvious path of "The economy sucks right now, we can fix it if in power".
>Which is interesting since Vance did pretty well in the debate against Walz, iirc. He was able to present himself well, speak clearly, etc. while Walz struggled in a few ways. Vance proved to be the better of the two, and many people in the country saw that.
Both of them did better than Trump/Harris did in the Presidential debate. But I do think that Vance was very much a "long game" VP pick. It didn't make a whole lot of sense when it was announced due to him being from a pretty safely red state, but as time went on, it became clear he was pretty much a foil to Trump's bombastic personality, which really shined in that debate. Inversely, Walz was more of a shortsighted pick. At a glance he was picked specifically on character, as a "Wholesome dad" sort of archetype. But things didn't take too long to fall apart. The stolen valor controversy was the big one, though I could also give an honorable mention to MN's pandemic response.
>>253
Call me an optimist, but I'm inclined to believe that we're roughly at peak shit, though that will plateau for at least a good few years. A lot of the hack game devs can only really put out successful products if they're tied to a company and/or IP with name recognition. When they go indie, they usually end up producing nothing of value. But so long as they have some semblance of grip on who's allowed in the industry, things won't get better anytime soon. Also, do consider that any decent-scale project starting after today won't see the light of day until at least a ways into Trump's term.
>>261
>First pic
Outside of urban areas, Texas counties are pretty much all red, even in the Hispanic-heavy southern part of the state.
>>283
>Fifth pic
Have you tried NOT oversampling Dems?
>>294
I remember them taking pictures of the aftermath of Trump rallies, and basically saying the same thing about the right. It's all massive projection
even if some people in both sides are guilty of it, and others on both sides innocent
>>295
Hopefully the bringing in of people with different agendas doesn't just make everything into a massive clusterfuck. That said, for all the accusations of Trump being a far-right fascist, he really isn't.
>>307
I'm going to predict that some of the relatively benign parts of P2025, the ones not used as talking points, will make progress, but the harder stuff won't. Also, I recall one of Trump's former staff saying something along the lines of him not being fit to lead on the world stage, or something along those lines. The way she phrased it, it seemed implied that she was upset he wasn't more of a warmonger.
>>331
Maybe there will be a smoking gun. Then again, as the cuckchan Twitter screencap post in
>>322 states, perhaps it's for the best that everything turned out the way that it did.