The largest contribution it probably made was ripping the mask off for undecideds. The left was in full swing misrepresenting Trump's conversation and all you had to do was listen for 5 minutes to hear him share an anecdote and circle back to a mostly straight answer. Trump became the authentic choice.
The loss was more about people feeling economically threatened. People who are experiencing existential angst lose their minds when they try to doublethink. They can do it when they're calm and demoralized, or just incoherent with insanity but most people aren't that. Kamala's campaign required an ability to doublethink and so it only appealed to people who were already drinking the DNC koolaid and who were still insulated from the economic damage that went down from 2020-2024.
Worse, people could remember a better economic reality under Trump, so in failing to denounce his 4 years for Biden's 4 years, Kamala was asking Americans to denounce their lived experience.
Wow. I was unaware.
She doesn't understand that we're a constitutional monarchy, the prime minister is not our actual head of state, and it would ultimately come down to a trilateral agreement between Canada, the UK, and America. Elizabeth May is famously drunk and retarded.
That's the thing. I believe what I'm seeing when he stares at the Stars and Stripes. I also believe that Trump believes that America is exceptional and that it can break if things are taken too far. Trump respects limits and might cut away some of the disease and make space for America to heal.
Harris was the makeup on one of the faces of a globalist hydra. I can't trust that hydra to do anything more than thrash and bite and devour what's left.
Ideally the trans character would be there to physically outcompete women, dab on them, make them uncomfortable in their bathrooms, then fail and die spectacularly during a psychological game.
Me too honestly. Ginsberg lighting her legacy on fire like that is more impressive and spectacular than Hillary's loss after a lifetime of political maneuvering. All over some Tarantino-style revenge fantasy. Amazingly she gets very little hate when people reflect on it. It's the same media smokescreen that had Biden sharp as a tack going into his last debate.
That wasn't Obama's mistake. Ginsberg wanted to be decommissioned and have a medal pinned on her in some big ceremony led by the first woman POTUS. Her state of mind on Trump's victory must have been as incredible as Hillary's.
My theory on this is that men exercise their beauty premium differently.
Attractive students receive a disproportionate share of peer resources. Whether through tutoring or people eager to carry them through group projects. The people who are both intelligent and attractive lead study groups and get mobbed by people who just want to hear them paraphrase and explain things. The act of paraphrasing and explaining and preparing to perform reinforces the curriculum and benefits them.
At face value, females are passive. Help pursues them and remote learning scenarios make this unlikely. Males are initiators. Even in remote situations, they're still going to video/conference call people and hunt down help. Arguably, in a lockdown scenario, they're going to have more one on one access to the peers willing to hold their hands. The intelligent + attractive males are still going to lead groups and repeat and ruminate on the curriculum.
https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/harris-60-minutes-interview-faces-backlash-over-edits-221468229890
Kamala Harris' "60 Minutes" interview with CBS is facing backlash over edits during one question. An early release clip that was posted to social media shows Harris responding to a question differently than what aired on the broadcast. Oct. 10, 2024
*The video is no longer available but NBC did post this and there is editing that changes Harris' response to at least one question before damage control was done.
The online consensus of high reputation reviews are that Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a 10/10 masterpiece. As time goes on, the transcripts of tuber videos will become part of that consensus, as well as social media buzz around it, and user reviews. It will be recategorized.
Their nearly insurmountable challenge will be convincing the American public that it's playing out as expected and that things will get better after the course correction. Assuming that cranking up natural resource industries can't be done quickly enough to offset the issue. Mining and Oil & Gas can take years to inch through the courts. They're often frustrated by foreign funded legal teams that sue through non-government organization proxies.
Trump is going to have to bring the Army Corp of Engineers to heel. They're usually the ones resource companies have to call on to do environmental impact studies to push through court proceedings. It's just that the Hawaiian contingent of the Army Corp of Engineers started hijacking the process midway through Trump's first term and they're extremely biased toward giving activists in the Environmental Protection Agency the conclusion they're looking for.
The first years are going to be a slog even if the MAGA movement is sincere and things pan out.
An argument against is that they're a long term investment and that the cost will not be worth it if the electorate is impatient. The inflation is an upfront cost. Potentially offset by dropping fuel prices, but still a cost. The payoff is that more people have more opportunity to earn domestically and, so long as that doesn't all end up in unproductive real estate speculation - offset by deportation and stabilization of the adult population, the rising tide will float all boats. Generally, widespread prosperity will decrease the costs of law enforcement, prisons, and social programs.
"Progressives" will make a ton of noise to try and fan impatience. So will NGOs and foreign agitators.
In general, everything depends on whether or not California manages to steal congress for the democrats. An obstructionist congress gives them options.
A republican trifecta backed by a sympathetic court could shakedown their entire side. They could end up with sympathetic bureaucrats excised and their fiefdoms gutted. That takes generations to set up and it could be gone, with license, in a few short years.
There's also wildcards in RFK and Musk. Vance hasn't been on the reservation all that long either and he's either a born again Christian or a spit against the wind existentialist who made an absurd leap of faith. None of that is safe to slide into the presidency through a national trauma.
He didn't want the job. His brother, the actual son of Pierre Trudeau, was killed in an avalanche and Justin was the only option left. He was forced into the role after molesting his students during his tenure as a high school teacher.