Too late now, but next time:
«A few hundred or thousand votes separate the candidates in some of the closest races, including in California, Omaha and Nebraska. »
Voting matters, even in the deepest-colored states.
“Some Republican figures voiced concerns about his plans would expand the deficit and add to an expanding federal black hole.” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/11/07/donald-trump-kamala-harris-us-election-live-updates/#:~:text=Some%20Republican%20figures%20voiced%20concerns%20about%20his%20plans%20would%20expand%20the%20deficit%20and%20add%20to%20an%20expanding%20federal%20black%20hole.
What was I saying about Zimbabwe?
https://herereadthis.blog/2024/11/06/more-shouting-into-the-void/
I know we all eventually pay for tariffs, but I wanted to see how it starts. Foreign companies don’t see a whiff of it. It starts with domestic companies paying the tariffs.
“When the US imposes tariffs on imports, US businesses directly pay import taxes to the US government on their purchases from abroad.”
https://www.axios.com/2024/11/07/democrats-blame-game-2024-election-harris
Great headline: “Democrats start clawing each others’ eyes out over election fiasco”
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/results-nevada-exit-poll-us-presidential-election-2024-11-05/
«Harris wins 45% of white women voters nationwide; Trump wins 53%. Trump’s share is down 2 percentage points from a 2020 exit poll.»
Amazing. Always amazing.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/11/trump-voters-got-what-they-wanted/680564/
«Trump, unfortunately, means most of what he says. In this election, he has triggered the unfocused ire and unfounded grievances of millions of voters. Soon we will learn whether he can still trigger their decency—if there is any to be found.»
If there is any to be found.
Future elections will need to be about not policy or the right candidate or the right messaging (all within limits) but countering the unthinking rage of a lot of Americans. (Including a bunch on the left, too.)
Not necessarily reducing the rage but persuading enough decent Americans or persuading the decent sides of enough Americans to vote against it.
Inb4: yes, I know this is Monday morning quarterbacking. And I know I haven’t always taken this position.
I thought of you, dear fediverse, when I read this quote from “In Enemy Hands (Honor Harrington Book 7)” by David Weber –
“We’ve got reports that they used snowflake clusters on street mobs, My Lord.”
Start reading this book for free: https://a.co/gr8lYjU
A whiff! Of grapeshot!
I guess our next Bad Guy is going to be Napoleon.
«Many of those shattered by this result will be tempted to withdraw into passivity—or recoil into performative radicalism. Reject both. We should focus, instead, on how to win back to the cause of liberal democracy a sufficient number of those Americans who voted for a candidate who denigrated this nation’s institutions and ideals.»
He neglected to mention that they picked Trump over a better-qualified candidate who ran a better campaign simply because she was a Black woman, but ok. Grieve first.
Time to ease into the long haul. Rest, grieve… then…
People were complaining about inflation and taxes.
[Update: why didn’t you say something about this earlier, John? I figured it was more or less obvious, but, yeah, given the stupidity just demonstrated, I should have.]
Here, Read This 