Hands Across The Water - Trump thread #135

[Spandauer]

There's only one floating pile of garbage in this story and it lives in Mar a Lago.

To Kamala Harris and all the other Democratic candidates on the ballot - May your courage, determination and hard work bring you the success you deserve. ❤️
To Donald (Jessica) Trump - May you get everything you deserve... and then some.

Community Notice
This won't be the last thread in this bigly nightmare and these threads may fly by over the next week so anyone who is up for continuing them please feel free to do so as I may not be awake all the time!

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5164974-whats-true-pussycat-trump-thread-134?page=10

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/czxrnw5qrprt?post=asset%3A83169321-d335-46d8-a165-c2a84c1d7d2f#post

State of democracy across the different polls is coming out top.

Yeah fuck democracy, who needs it? 

Your ds's map is great @prettybird. But also made me gulp. Can't believe the day is finally here. 😟

That was wrt @Notonthestairs post

I can’t work out if this is good or bad for Kamala?

"I can’t work out if this is good or bad for Kamala?"

Neither can I!

From CNN

I suppose it shows that abortion is a big issue, but only really for women, men are significantly less interested in reproductive rights. So while the women are coming out in force for Harris, partly as a result of this, men are less bothered, but everybody is interested in the economy, and fortunately democracy for the most part.

After being so confident for days, I'm starting to get a bad feeling...

Honestly, these exit polls are mostly a way for media to feel relevant right now. Don't read too much into them, positive or negative. You'd need to know way more than we do about methodology to interpret anything from them.

Amusingly, Trump has been smacked down by the Philadelphia police department

https://x.com/ddale8/status/1853922453539467582

I get the impression there are 5 choices and you can only pick one. So state of democracy might be their key issue but it doesn’t mean reproductive rights aren’t also important to them.

I see democracy being the top priority as good for Harris. Trump is the one who's been making overt threats to it, after all
🤞

@boatyardblues - the cushion was a Christmas present from us with a picture of our two boys, so that he and his girlfriend could still cuddle up to them, as they've moved out into their own place a few months before.

It was a brilliant idea for a present, even if I say so myself

Completely! I’m going to steal it for DS1 who is at uni & missing our cat. 😄

Got it via Tesco.com - it was amazingly simple to do and not expensive

My hopeful heart says that the exit polls favour KH. On the hand, I'm barely hanging onto any optimism.

*other hand

So, I think I'm going to go to bed and set an alarm for 4am, and have a look at what's happening then...

Reports of high levels of Puerto Rican turn out in Pennsylvania which is good!

Right, I’m going to bed. Up at 5.30 to go for a run so I’ll check in with you all then. Stay sane folks!

Yes I need sleep....well, some anyway!

Maybe catch up at some ungodly hour...

What time will we run out of thread? 😁

Depending on the time, and the state of the results my suggestions for new thread titles are...
a) Oh fuck, it's Trump!
b) Holy fuck, it's Harris!
c) what the fuck, it's mayhem!

The orange one is already tweeting about cheating in Philadelphia

Doesn’t exactly scream confident does it!?

Just now on CNN, statement from Philly authorities:

we are in constant communication with the RNC, there are no issues, we have no idea to what he is referring

Seth Bluestein, a Republican Philadelphia city commissioner, called Donald Trump’s claim of “cheating” in the city “disinformation”, and said the vote so far has been “safe and secure”

First polls closed...