Who will win US Election - Gut feelings

[EveryBiteinBangkok]

I have been half following online and media coverage of the US Election. It is getting close now. What is your gut feeling on who is going to win?

About a month ago, I felt fairly confident that Kamala Harris would win (who I want to win). Now though I am not sure and the amount of rumour and almost conspiracy around it online seems to be reaching fever pitch.

If you had to place a bet (grand national style) who would you go for?

Perhaps she speaks out for fellow blacks as no one has supported them before and finally they had a voice

Ah ok that tells me all I need to know about the level of your political acumen.

Oh, I didn't realise that was meant as a complement.

I feel sorry for people with no moral discernment, so there's that.

There is nothing decent about Trump as a human.

I neither mean to complement or insult you - why would I, I have no idea who you are.

I don’t think Trump is a decent human being by any stretch of the imagination, but you must realise the reason why it is such a close race is that he somehow resonates with millions of Americans and that must be down to his policies rather than his personality I guess. I just think the mindless thought that Trump = bad so opposition = ‘good and decent’ is an interesting point of view and as this is a chat forum it’s not ‘banging on’ to challenge that. Don’t take it so personally, other people think the same thing as you, I just happened to quote your post 🤷🏻‍♀️

It's less his policies and more his personality cult. There was an article recently where voters were presented with Harris's and Trump's policies but without saying whose they were. Harris's tended to be more popular across both democrat and republican voters.

He's popular because he's a populist who's riding the wave of a massive, ongoing effort to push the Overton window to the right. His publicists have done a remarkable job of portraying someone who was born with a silver ladle in his mouth and a string of failed businesses as some kind of business genius who's also for the working man.

His rise, and the factors that led to it, is also having the happy coincidence of destabilising the West. It is without question that Russia is behind a lot of this, from funding US right-wing podcasters to having farms of human workers and bots spreading misinformation across the Internet. Same as they're behind a lot of the more rabid anti-immigration rhetoric which fuelled Brexit over here.

You have repeatedly quoted me, patronised me, called me "really childish and naive" in my views, posted from a position of superiority that I lack your "level" of "political acumen", and seem to think you are educating me about the nature of good and evil, or the lack thereof.

Please go and argue with someone else.

I won't even bother replying to most of the absolute nonsensical garbage in this post, but can you please give me one example of this?

but at least Trump will take a stand, is able to change course if needed in a heartbeat and apologize and say "I was wrong".

Thank you!

The irony is you are quite Trump-esq in your thin-skinned and dogmatic responses. But I will leave things there as you request and not engage any further as don’t want to derail the thread :)

Still being professionally rude, high-handed, and superior. And taking potshots as you go... Who knew the sophisticated political analysts of MN were so defensive about Trump (as a rapist, felon, and insurrectionist, objectively a bad person) being called a bad person, even as they claim not to support Trump.

Why do people think Trump is good at business ?
He's been bankrupted so many times that in the UK he'd not be eligible to stand as an MP.

I made you already a prediction: Trump will win and Kamala just a little bit behind

Trump

Jesus Christ let's hope it's Kamala 💙💙💙💙 C'mon America, we are all depending on you!

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Trump.

He appeals greatly to the baser instincts of people.

Bit like Brexit.

Dark days. Even steadfast Republicans are flagging his blatantly fascist leanings.

He's a terrible businessman
He's a rapist
He's sexist
He's fucking mad
As it, it would appear are many Americans

Allan Lichtman still thinks it will be Harris

*Please, God, make him be right

I'm don't live in the US , but I remember saying to people a few years ago that Donald Trump will return and become President again.
Not sure if he will or not now, but I think it'll be close and he may well win.
Be interesting to see if I was right, but whatever happens will be history in the making

Queen Bea has come out in support 🤞🤞🤞

Do you honestly think people care what celebrities think?

Isn't that a bit contradictory? Trump is an isolationist and Putin is a man he admires. And probably wants to emulate.

I'd be surprised if it does much at this stage. Initially when Harris had a high with the polls but now it seems to have swung back a bit

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Queen Bea has come out in support 🤞🤞🤞

Do you honestly think people care what celebrities think?

@SophiaJ8 I think they do over there yes.

'Queen Bea'

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I hope you'll forgive me if I inject a note of levity into this otherwise heady discussion. People sometimes refer to Trump as ' the Orange shitgibbon ' or just as ' orange man'.

But in his most recent appearances he looks a different shade to me. I can't quite pin it down but I think it most resembles ' Burnt Siena' from my childhood water colour paint box. What do people think?

Some of his more recent pics look like he's been fired face-first into the back end of a diarrhetic cow. Bizarre colour.