The only differences I see this time are:

1. They royally fucked up by betting that Trump wouldn't call their bet, and debate Biden with all the ridiculous terms/conditions they wanted. He did, and now some of the people in the middle actually got a look behind the curtain, and got to see what the media has been hiding for 4+ years.
2. The economy is still total shit, but this time (without Covid being dropped in the left's lap as this perfect gift), the media - despite all its efforts - is going to have a very hard time pinning this on "Drumpf".

They still have all the propaganda/indoctrination they have been doing via media/internet to fall back on. They still have all the election laws they changed to fall back on. They still have all the underhanded ballot-harvesting and other gamesmanship they engage in to fall back on.

That being said, I now - for the first time in 4 years - feel ever slightly less doomerish, and think there is a tiny chance they fucked up so hard, that Trump is going to slip through.

Even if he does, though, I have such a hard time envisioning it making that big a difference. We are just going to be right back where we were 4 years ago, with the media going 24/7 doom/gloom, and the economy is in such a poor state, it's not going to be hard to blame it on Trump once he is back in charge. Seriously - it's going to be so disgusting to see the light switch flip, and - if Trump gets in - all of a sudden inflation is going to be the number one thing the media focuses on.

The bottom line is that it's way too easy to manipulate people when you have a stranglehold on the narrative, and I don't see how Trump getting elected is going to do anything to break that stranglehold that the left has. We're just going to get a short reprieve from watching the left tear down the country. Any real change is going to have to come from people having kids, and inoculating them against the indoctrination system the left has constructed.

The only differences I see this time are:

1. They royally fucked up by betting that Trump wouldn't call their bet, and debate Biden with all the ridiculous terms/conditions they wanted. He did, and now some of the people in the middle actually got a look behind the curtain, and got to see what the media has been hiding for 4+ years.
2. The economy is still total shit, but this time (without Covid being dropped in the left's lap as this perfect gift), the media - despite all its efforts - is going to have a very hard time pinning this on "Drumpf".

They still have all the propaganda/indoctrination they have been doing via media/internet to fall back on. They still have all the election laws they changed to fall back on. They still have all the underhanded ballot-harvesting and other gamesmanship they engage in to fall back on.

That being said, I now - for the first time in 4 years - feel ever slightly less doomerish, and think there is a tiny chance they fucked up so hard, that Trump is going to slip through.

Even if he does, though, I have such a hard time envisioning it making that big a difference. We are just going to be right back where we were 4 years ago, with the media going 24/7 doom/gloom, and the economy is in such a poor state, it's not going to be hard to blame it on Trump once he is back in charge.

The bottom line is that it's way too easy to manipulate people when you have a stranglehold on the narrative, and I don't see how Trump getting elected is going to do anything to break that stranglehold that the left has. We're just going to get a short reprieve from watching the left tear down the country. Any real change is going to have to come from people having kids, and inoculating them against the indoctrination system the left has constructed.