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Falcos_Commisar said:
Except they won't.

In 2026 the Senate elections are FAR more favorable, possibly allowing them a super majority in the House and Senate
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Consider me skeptical on any sort of post-election house/senate surge if Trump does win. Why? Because the House and Senate will flop around, not actually support Trump like they did refused to after 2016 as well, only pass tax cuts and more money for Israel (I think Trump will be able to pull off cutting Ukraine funds when he wins), and then be surprised when they get rekt in the 2026 midterms.

Won't really be a condemnation of Trump, though, and if Trump takes lots of executive actions and bypasses Congress he might actually salvage their midterms.
 
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BigJoey41X said:
What do you people think of this?, because for all the quite vague talk of him fixing the economy, very little is actually discussed when it comes to his policies.

In general, he's a card-carrying protectionist, that much is obvious, he's quite weary of the global trade system the west has established, and he believes it has weakened the domestic economy, he'll continue trying to wean off the awkward economic relationship between the US and China, two geopolitically opposed great powers that also happened to trade a lot with each other, he's not a fan of regulations in general, probably because of his past experience as a businessman who he perceived such things were just holding him back, he doesn't like income taxes too and if he had his way, he would cut it off altogether, and finally, he LOVES petroleum and would do a lot to bolster the national production to the point renewable/alternate sources of energy are less of a priority on his mind, I'm not sure why he has such a boner for oil, maybe wind and solar are just for soyboy faggots or something
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It seems Trump got into pretty good detail about his policy and goals from interviews and rallies, based on your summary. As for energy policy, him and Vance see most renewable sources of energy as inefficient and have a deep hatred of wind especially because they suck at making power, wind farms are a waste of land and are an eyesore, also they hurt the environment though making waste (fan blades are not easy to recycle and don't bio degrade) and they hurt wildlife like birds and apparently whales according to Trump. So they don't solve our energy needs, nor do they solve environmental ones, and are a huge scam of government funds. Trump wants to tap into America's oil reserves as a way to generate wealth and foster industry, but for power he and Vance want to invest into nuclear, as they see it as the most efficient and clean.
 
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Democrats and the Republican power brokers have no fucking idea just how much they fucked up in 2020.

By cheating in the election, with Republican elite like Bitch McConnell and Shit Romney either helping them or quashing investigations into all the boxes of ballots "appearing" and all the other shady shit that went down, they've ensured that diehard Trump supporters and conservatives are even madder then before.

Trump could of been President for another 4 years, the party elite could have voted against his policies and sabotaged his Administration, (like they did all throughout his 1st term) and he would of been out and history might have called him a lame-duck President.

Instead, those bastards are all dying off or are being turned on by the average Republican, Trump is possibly more popular then before, and after 2 failed assasination attempts, wants revenge.

The establishment is fuuuucckked.
 
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Dr J said:
Wisconsin is hard to poll
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Dane and Milwaukee counties' existing fucks up polling efforts in WI, even before they kicked the ballot stuffing there into high gear in 2018.

Coupled with conservatives normalizing lying to pollsters for the lulz, WI is indeed hard to poll and will likely remain so.
 
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Call me a libertarian but what happened to the marketplace of ideas? Shitlibs just want to censor everyone because their ideas are shit and don’t stand up to scrutiny and mockery. Isn’t suppressing opposite opinions literally fascism? Yet they accuse us of the things they literally do. It just proves you can propagandise weak-willed and low information people to the point their minds are owned. Shitlibs worship ‘experts’ because it’s the ultimate mix of being spoon-fed their opinions and feeling superior because of it.
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It's the gradual years-long shift from milquetoast pro-government/pro-union opinions to outright Marxist attitudes and methodology in the open coming to fruition. The difference being: Marxists always fight dirty, as a rule.

Notice the shift in rhetoric; there's always been hysterical bullshit in politics (especially modern media-fueled America), but nowadays it's very explicitly "Do or Die". Climate Change Apocalypses, Trans Genocide, Project 2025 Trump Theocracy, Handmaiden's Tale Women-Enslavement, etc.

This is no longer a difference in opinion, a discussion, or an argument. This is outright open hostility and socio-cultural warfare. The Left is literally telling their base: "No matter how bad or corrupt we might be, we must win because the opposition will literally kill you."

Not gonna lie, it's not a bad tactic if all you care about is winning. Speaking from personal experience; I've had friends come at me about Trump (or any other number of political issues), and I manage to successfully push back and corner them, only for the conversation to end with any variation of: "Well, maybe you're right about Trump/The economy/immigration/Roe V Wade/etc, but the Republicans don't believe in climate change and we're literally all going to be dead in (X number of years) if we don't totally revamp our entire society (in a way that would be blatantly totalitarian)". Any pushback becomes "Muh experts, trust the science". Can also substitute gay/trans kids, or maybe COVID vaccines.

I'm assuming that this is part of the demoralization Yuri Bezmenov was talking about, because frankly, I don't see any fixing some of these people. The State is their religion and they will move Heaven and Earth to keep believing what they want.
 
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Necrosan said:
I think he is more of a fan of being energy independent and to not buy shit that you can easily manufacture at home. Once people's trust in Nuclear is good enough he'll probably go for that instead.
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Maybe, but even outside of the environmentalist standpoint, I think it would ultimately hurt the health of domestic energy production to just focus only one specific source, I don't see anything wrong with also having a diverse array of sources in the form of more renewables into the national energy pool.
 
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BigJoey41X said:
What do you people think of this?, because for all the quite vague talk of him fixing the economy, very little is actually discussed when it comes to his policies.
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I think a lot of his ideas are too late at this point, you need industry to have tariffs be useful for example, but should probably still be done to at least get the ball rolling on them. I could see it turn into de facto austerity, but again, if no one bites the poison pill on these things, the USD will eventually just hyperinflate and/or some other imperial collapse occurs.
 
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I think it’s great that the sister of Buffalo Bill gets a chance to work! Go CNN!!
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Two things about this:

1. The MSM is trying really hard to motivate Democrat voter turnout tomorrow. Again, it's an uphill battle since Democrats are historically not nearly as enthusiastic as Republicans are on Election Day voting ... But oh boy, are they trying.

2. Stuff like this is exactly why Trump is focusing so hard on the swing states in the East Coast in these final days of campaigning and why his campaign has been pushing the early vote so hard (with successful results, I'd say). He's working his ass off to force this being called ON Election Night. He's trying to back them into a corner to call the results in a timely fashion like they had to in 2016.
 
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On the topic of muh establishment, I agree with the Academic Agent who describes two factions who currently hold most of the political and economic power: the neolib/neocon axis backed by 20th century money and defense contractors and the technocrats backed by the UN and their own new fortunes.
They used to have largely overlapping goals and interests(like mass migration for wage suppression and property scarcity) but the split has become more pronounced over the past few years. For example, the traditional ivory tower dwellers were completely blindsided by AI coming for white collar rather than blue collar work.
This is why we see the usual establishment types like Bezos or the Obamas acting in an unforeseen and inconclusive manner.
 
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Hey Johnny Bravo said:
I know there are advances being made in salt thorium reactors, but there simply is not enough uranium on Earth to keep us going on nuclear energy for more than maybe 50 years. I used to be extremely pro-nuclear energy until I found out how little material there is for it versus the amount we need.
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Uranium is extremely common. We literally aren't allowed to even prospect for it because of ecofags, but there is an insane amount of it laying around everywhere. Fun part about nuclear power is it lets you get the energy to make refining these lower grade uanium deposits cost effective. It's yet another case of Peak X retardation which has no basis in scientific fact.
 
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BigJoey41X said:
Maybe, but even outside of the environmentalist standpoint, I think it would ultimately hurt the health of domestic energy production to just focus only one specific source, I don't see anything wrong with also having a diverse array of sources in the form of more renewables into the national energy pool.
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Just because Trump wants to do away with wind farms in favor of older, more reliable energy sources doesn't mean that we won't have a diverse and robust energy grid. Growing up in SoCal I can tell you that being dependent on renewables isn't worth it when you have brownouts every summer and have to drive past miles of ugly wind farms on road trips (I don't mind roof solar panels though). Giving the West Coast a nuclear plant will be a massive improvement to their grid, especially when California wants to go full speed ahead with electric cars.
 
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