Based on the inspiring positive momentum and America for all message Kamala Harris has infused in her campaign, I'm confident she will win the popular vote and the EC while Trump increasingly looks like a train wreck heading for the dust bin of history. My week of positive calls in N. Carolina reinforced that belief. As many analytics guys are pointing out, early voting trends look favorable for us but the effort to understand by how much is quite foggy.
Winning BIG today and Weds is WAR I and we'll win. The larger the margin in the popular vote the better.
However, we all need to brace for WAR II. Trump and MAGA's response to a second loss may be loud, legalistic and potentially violent. What individual citizens or the totality of the grassroots movement can do to fight WAR II is not clear to me.
For starters, I'm thankful that Joe Biden will be POTUS until Jan 20 and commander in chief of our military should we need it.
I'm also thankful the DOJ works under a Democratic administration this time around.
After that, we must be prepared to stand up for our 250 year democracy and our tradition of free and fair elections. It's been a long battle. Getting our grievance driven fellow MAGA Americans to return to our democratic heritage is the next battle we must win.
The undemocratic Electoral College must go. My vote is worthless compared to Pennsylvania which is not the way democracy works. It is left over from slave days; shame on us for not getting rid of this after the Civil War.
Huh. It's 9:30 pm and I'm just now listening to this, so I would've missed the election eave rending of...hankies, although I hope it has been posted someplace.
At any rat,e I'm a Bulwark Plus member and I didn't get a link to the festivities. Maybe it's my bad breath...the toenail fungus...
“You’re convinced that you make the right choice not because you have such great faith in your own insight or understanding. You’re convinced because you look around at your companions, and you see that they are the kind of people whom you want to be fighting alongside. Their presence gives you confidence that it is the right path, that it is the right side.”
No truer words were ever written. Thankful for The Bulwark community who have been companions fighting alongside in the good fight.
Particular thanks to Bill. And Carville. And Axelrod. Who were relentless in thinking about what could be. But above everyone, to Pelosi, who wrestled us a fighting chance.
It’s a trust fall. We just have to have faith in our fellow Americans. We have to trust that we will catch each other. Geronimo!
If Trump wins & puts RFK Jr. in charge of HHS et al, he will be responsible for more preventable deaths, mostly of children, than the 100s of thousands of excess deaths that Trump's quackery was responsible for during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In case you haven't seen it, but JD Vance just said at his rally that they will take out the trash in DC, and the "trash's" name is Kamala Harris. MSNBC just aired it; and Tim is on the show right now as well. The Vice President of the US is "trash" according to JD Vance!
This is the very definition of a cult. MAGA isn't a political movement with some sort of basic philosophic dogma that defines how it thinks. It's a cult that adores its leader and has no intention of actually thinking about what it stands for.
There is a video on Youtube by a former Moonie 50 years ago who has become an expert on cults. It describes how the cults function and how they control their adherents. It gives advice on how to make contact with them without setting off their defenses so that they can once again think rationally.
My fear is if Trump wins. Musk who will be given a roll in Trump's admin., and Vance will join forces and run the country. Trump is losing it and they will use him as the image of the party and then encourage him to play golf. They will then turn the USA into their own racist fiefdom.
That's a given. Trump will be the token, basking in the adulation of his fans, while Musk, Vance, Miller, RFK Jr, and others loot the country and break it into fiefdoms for the techno-billionaires.
Bill, I so wholeheartedly agree. However dark the situation gets — and might get —, every time I look around me, what I see is a group of incredible, upstanding Americans.
Once again, thank you all. I couldn’t be more proud to be in this fight with you guys.
“Very peaceful and relaxing” 😂😂😂
TWO WARS TO WIN:
Based on the inspiring positive momentum and America for all message Kamala Harris has infused in her campaign, I'm confident she will win the popular vote and the EC while Trump increasingly looks like a train wreck heading for the dust bin of history. My week of positive calls in N. Carolina reinforced that belief. As many analytics guys are pointing out, early voting trends look favorable for us but the effort to understand by how much is quite foggy.
Winning BIG today and Weds is WAR I and we'll win. The larger the margin in the popular vote the better.
However, we all need to brace for WAR II. Trump and MAGA's response to a second loss may be loud, legalistic and potentially violent. What individual citizens or the totality of the grassroots movement can do to fight WAR II is not clear to me.
For starters, I'm thankful that Joe Biden will be POTUS until Jan 20 and commander in chief of our military should we need it.
I'm also thankful the DOJ works under a Democratic administration this time around.
After that, we must be prepared to stand up for our 250 year democracy and our tradition of free and fair elections. It's been a long battle. Getting our grievance driven fellow MAGA Americans to return to our democratic heritage is the next battle we must win.
The undemocratic Electoral College must go. My vote is worthless compared to Pennsylvania which is not the way democracy works. It is left over from slave days; shame on us for not getting rid of this after the Civil War.
I wonder when Kristol arrived at the divergence of the roads? When did he make the choice he looks back on now with satisfaction?
Huh. It's 9:30 pm and I'm just now listening to this, so I would've missed the election eave rending of...hankies, although I hope it has been posted someplace.
At any rat,e I'm a Bulwark Plus member and I didn't get a link to the festivities. Maybe it's my bad breath...the toenail fungus...
“You’re convinced that you make the right choice not because you have such great faith in your own insight or understanding. You’re convinced because you look around at your companions, and you see that they are the kind of people whom you want to be fighting alongside. Their presence gives you confidence that it is the right path, that it is the right side.”
No truer words were ever written. Thankful for The Bulwark community who have been companions fighting alongside in the good fight.
Particular thanks to Bill. And Carville. And Axelrod. Who were relentless in thinking about what could be. But above everyone, to Pelosi, who wrestled us a fighting chance.
It’s a trust fall. We just have to have faith in our fellow Americans. We have to trust that we will catch each other. Geronimo!
If Trump wins & puts RFK Jr. in charge of HHS et al, he will be responsible for more preventable deaths, mostly of children, than the 100s of thousands of excess deaths that Trump's quackery was responsible for during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bill, your sentimentality is syrupy sweet and delicious. And a balm for my soul.
Why am I not surprised? https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/4/2282557/-Musk-Admits-Million-Dollar-Lottery-Was-Complete-Fu-k-ng-Scam?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web
Apropos of nothing:
Musk's $1 million lottery is a fake:
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/11/04/2024-elections-live-coverage-updates-analysis/elon-musk-lottery-lawsuit-00187123 😦
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/-in-my-humble-view-lights-out-nicolle-wallace-reacts-to-jd-vance-calling-vp-harris-trash-223539781512 Also includes Tim.
Those are some lovely thoughts, Bill. It was a pleasure to read , and I appreciate the encouragement.
In case you haven't seen it, but JD Vance just said at his rally that they will take out the trash in DC, and the "trash's" name is Kamala Harris. MSNBC just aired it; and Tim is on the show right now as well. The Vice President of the US is "trash" according to JD Vance!
“The movement is mostly him.”
This is the very definition of a cult. MAGA isn't a political movement with some sort of basic philosophic dogma that defines how it thinks. It's a cult that adores its leader and has no intention of actually thinking about what it stands for.
There is a video on Youtube by a former Moonie 50 years ago who has become an expert on cults. It describes how the cults function and how they control their adherents. It gives advice on how to make contact with them without setting off their defenses so that they can once again think rationally.
https://youtu.be/uMlLTtL80pI?si=wjcPZ2D23zPkkeTY
My fear is if Trump wins. Musk who will be given a roll in Trump's admin., and Vance will join forces and run the country. Trump is losing it and they will use him as the image of the party and then encourage him to play golf. They will then turn the USA into their own racist fiefdom.
That's a given. Trump will be the token, basking in the adulation of his fans, while Musk, Vance, Miller, RFK Jr, and others loot the country and break it into fiefdoms for the techno-billionaires.
Absolutely.
Bill, I so wholeheartedly agree. However dark the situation gets — and might get —, every time I look around me, what I see is a group of incredible, upstanding Americans.
Once again, thank you all. I couldn’t be more proud to be in this fight with you guys.