the official 2024 US Presidential Election thread

I’m legitimately terrified of tomorrow. I have so much that will ride on this, and I want to hope, but I’m scared to get complacent.

Regardless of the outcome, I’m getting fucking liquored up when it’s all over.

Just as an onlooker from the Old World, who is nonetheless effected by this whole thing by virtue of being a non-voting member of the Empire, this mess has to be the pinnacle of negative campaigning. My enemy is Hitler is obviously an old trope by now, the political equivalent of the jump scare, but from Putin is Hitler, Hamas is worse than Hitler to Trump loves Hitler's Generals and plans to cross the rubicon to destroy democracy (again), all balanced out by "levelheaded" warnings of Marxism, the CCP and woke stalinists, the crescendo ending of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly looks almost Bressonian in comparison.

I save time by not specifically mention all the lunacy around Trump, but how anybody can somehow raise any sort of genuine enthusiasm for Harris is beyond me. That story is the epitome of what's wrong with the political landscape in America. From the media's justifications for Biden's blackouts and the ensuing deferral to alleged rightwing discourse up to the moment when Danny Ocean and Livia Soprano, the Wolfs of the plutocracy, took out the Old Man, an act of self-revelation of the chattering classes that was breathtaking in its brazenness. An just to top myself with endless movie references, they decide to go with Kamala, the Orlando Bloom of federal politics, a person without any political instinct whatsoever, a vain vacuum of liberal ticking boxes. And the subsequent theatrics, the efforts to transform her into someone deserving of a place alongside MLK or Mandela in a mural painting in Harlem or South Central. Joy as a substitute for anything resembling a coherent idea, the whole brat-hype as mimicry of true cultural penetration, almost Orwellian in nature. The alignment of the neocons and the whole liberal order. The Liz Cheney-firing squad fake news, another good idea Trump never had. The horror, the horror.

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Cute creative writing piece there, but it's enlightened centrist nonsense, ironically, "as a substitute for anything resembling a coherent idea". It speaks volumes when people honestly think this is the shit to be wasting time blabbering about, as though it's some sort of scathing commentary to roast the TikTokification of political campaigning, a real Hunter S. Thompson for Gen Z. No, the naked and undeniable fascism is actually more concerning. That's "the epitome of what's wrong with the political landscape in America", I'd say. 

During the time when Golden Dawn was a member of the Greek parliament, there was an interview of Nikos Michaloliakos, their leader, on Greek tv where the reporter asked him if he was fascist and his reply is one of the funniest things I've ever heard on a political talk show: "I can't be fascist because I'm not Italian". I'm glad most of these clowns are in jail right right now, but during the seven years they were in the political scene here in Greece most political debates on TV and in the parliament were comedy gold.