Former president Donald Trump claims US presidential election as count continues
Former president Donald Trump claims US presidential election as count continues
If Donald Trump is successful, he will be only the second US president to win non-successive terms, following in the footsteps of Grover Cleveland who did it in 1884.
In short:
Donald Trump has claimed victory in the US presidential election, saying his political movement is the greatest the world has ever seen.
The Republican candidate swamped his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in critical swing states.
What's next?
The Republicans were on track to win both chambers of congress, too, paving the way for Trump's agenda to be enacted in full.
Well fuck...
Every time you think Americans aren't going to fuck up the easy choice they find a way to surprise
Welp, I said I wouldn’t be surprised if it happened but damn; how disappointing. Dark times ahead for the US and likely the rest of us I think. Would absolutely love to be wrong though.
You utterly stupid, racist, sexist, trashy fucks. This is going to be so horrible for everyone. Fuck you.
Suck a lemon?
Federal Labor must be getting nervous about next years election. Neo-liberlisim born of the 80's is dead and the biggest flag bearer of this is Labor. Aligning slightly to the left of the right-wing rejection of neo-liberlisim is not a winning strategy in theory nor in practice. If is wasn't for Dutton next election Labor would be gone for sure.
I don't think Dutton is the blocker to a Coalition victory many to the left of the Coalition thinks he is.
Honestly, they should be. Even their rank and file members have been betrayed. As for supporters, the CFMEU fiasco gave many people in my union's chat rooms cold feet, with the pro-Labor peeps in disbelief they would do what they have, and that's on top of the Party's active complicity in the Middle East conflict. Labor have mirrored the US Democrat Party in many clear ways. The main difference I see in the situation is that is much easier for Australia to swing left instead of right, since we don't have the same FPTP spoiler effect in our federal voting system, so they can't just fearmonger over the Coalition to scare the socdems and socialists into joining them.
It will be interesting to see how the Victorian council elections pan out as a litmus test, interestingly in NSW council elections the Labor Party lost 26 seats, with the Greens gaining 8. That's just surface level looking at numbers but its enough for me to wonder if Federal Labor are worried.
It's almost as though if someone wants the right, they'll vote for the right rather than the pale imitation that's buying into the Wright's framing where they can't compete rather than campaigning for something worthwhile.
There's a reason for this though - As long as our ruling class' material interests are aligned with the capital class (and with it, protection of policies like negative gearing), this is the choice we'll get.
Not a huge surprise so I can't say I feel particularly bad about it. This is just the reality we have to accept and live in. The best thing is that the result was relatively quick and we didn't drag it out for weeks to get here.