LATE ADDITION: One our own lost her husband earlier today. She has had the courage and kindness to share their journey over the past months in our comments section. You have supported them through these hard days, and made sure they knew we were with them. This is the best of our website- our community. Spare a thought for GumbyGirl in the midst of tonight’s chaos.
Whelp, here we are. Four years of anticipation, anxiety and effort, crammed into one night.
That’s right: the Olympics kicks off in…
Wait, what?
Didn’t we just do this?
Fuuuck….
Fine. By the time you read this, polls will have started closing. Millions of complete fucking idiots will cast their votes for a brain-rotted rapist. His following of idiots and fascists (and both!) are openly enjoying the prospect of inflicting massive human suffering on innocent children and executing their political opponents.
Our best hope is that people with any amount of decency slightly outnumber them.
Normally I would apologize for my bluntness and making some of you feel bad for your political choices. But the only modification, disclaimer or softening I offer tonight is that my views are my own, and do not represent the official position of DoorFliesOpen, nor necessarily those of any other owner or author.
Feel free to cuss me out in the comments. Hopefully the madness gripping you and your party breaks like a fever.
There were some NFL trades today. The only one I care about was WR Jonathan Mingo going from Carolina to Dallas for a fourth rounder. On balance, Dallas paid more for Mingo than they got for Amari Cooper. That makes me happy.
So I found a (tiny) bright side. The dollar is already getting stronger as markets price in tariffs and inflationary economic policies, so the next year is a great time to travel internationally. Go to the Christmas markets in Europe and buy all the things while your money still has value!
Welcome to the Fall, one and all
https://youtu.be/ZJ7sPS4yYvE?si=7Iwrx80kNwKzpg-c
May not be the right time to play hindsight, but here are my three reasons why Trump won and Harris lost:
Dems will move right, just like they’ve done after every election they’ve lost since the 70s
That’s why she’s a Doktorb.
A center-left populist message would resonate. That seems to be a big takeaway here. but that will fly completely over their heads.
If they keep Schumer, and to a lesser extent, Jefferies as the Party leadership on the Hill, expect more of the same.
In other words, expect more of the same.
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I mean, they are wrong since they think Trump’s economic policies aren’t insane and dangerous, both things are true here
Harris was a deeply flawed candidate that only got as many votes as she got because she was running against Trump.
I do wonder if Biden is sitting in the White House right now with a little smile on his face thinking, “That’s what you get for pushing me out”.
Harris was and still is a flawed candidate.
Whenever I see people say this, I wonder if they have even seen the other guy lately
Me trying to get anything done this morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX-YfuVQmX8
We’ll do this, everyone. If there’s one thing this place has demonstrated over the last decade, we take care of each other.
Love yinz, and sorry about my dumbass Commonwealth.
Heartfelt thoughts, condolences, and prayers (yeah, for real), Gumby clan.
It’s raining here for the first time in two weeks. Even the weather knows.
I think I am going to have to limit my daily intake of the internet to this site and stock prices.
Maybe The Producers have some content brewing related to surfing.
Point Break 2: Breakpoint
Ive already nuked 3 friends of mine from my instagram feed.
There’ll be some money to be made before the trade wars and inflation really kick in. It’s just a matter of how long to ride the bubble and how much to hedge. I give it a year, but I’ll probably look into TIPS and I-bonds now, as well as maybe some forex bonds. Mid next year I might go for options hedges, though hopefully there’s a way to do that without rebalancing daily
I’ve been trying to figure out what the bubble is going to be. Conventional wisdom says AI, but is that enough to drag the rest of the market down with it?
Nah, it’s more macro than that, although AI is not a bad place to start. I think it’ll be energy and maybe chip manufacture. Those are two areas where demand is skyrocketing (largely because of AI) and where China has a big head start in manufacturing. Biden was working on building up US capabilities in those areas through subsidies and targeted tariffs, but Trump has promised to shut all that down. We’ll fall behind and we’ll end up with a dependence on China to maintain our energy infrastructure after we started a trade war with them.
I think it was a good decision to delay my malt liquor post until after the election…
It will come in handy for y’all.
(yawn)
I had this horrible dream. And you were there, and you were there, and you…
Ashlii Babbitt wakes up in Dumb Bitch Heaven: “Did we win? Did we do it? Did we stop Joe Biden?”
Man: “Well, no. But next cycle we beat Kamala Harris.”
Babbitt: “What? Kamala Harris was the only person I’d ever vote for not named Donald!”
I’m making up/hearing reports Russia hacked the voting machines…..
Fuck what a terrible day between this and Gumby Girl’s husband. I’ve been trying to sleep for hours but can’t. I went downstairs so I wouldn’t wake up my wife. I’m literally shaking right now.
“You can just get a new wife now!”
-47
Right there with you, I slept maybe four hours last night. Just waiting for it to get light so I can take down my Harris flag and hang my American flag upside down.
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Wait, I just read the actual post…
Thoughts and prayers to GumbyGirl 🙁
You enjoy what you birthed. This gets carried to term.
I do think they could have messaged differently. Trump basically makes the argument that he’ll make things better for you by hurting some people you don’t even know. Most people are willing to hurt random, far away people for personal gain, they just don’t want to be reminded that it’s a shitty thing to do. If you point out that it’s shitty they aren’t going to change their mind, they’re just going to get defensive. If you can provide a convincing alternative that provides just as much gain, or even more gain, and by the way you can get it without being shitty, then obviously people will go for that. But we just told people not to be shitty.
Unfortunately, this theory breaks down when you encounter an opponent who – without the least bit of substantiation – will unabashedly promise 50X whatever gain you are trying to persuade them you can provide.
Harris lost and Trump won because this is where America is right now.
It’s not great, and my plan right now is to keep my head down and try to find ways to profit off all the idiots that can’t see what’s coming with Trump.
On that note, how does one go about shorting the entire economy?
“Pump and dump.
I like your head down, work-forward approach to this though.”
-JJ Watt on his elliptical trainer
America: You think we’d Do the Right Thing?
World: Why didn’t you?
Eh, the rest of the world isn’t doing the right thing either for the most part
Yeah, I was trying to make a list of countries I’d be willing to move to that aren’t currently hard-right or trending hard right, and I came up with Ireland and maybe Norway.
And don’t see UK, because they’re currently untangling from 14 years of similar dipshit government and already mad at the Labour crew for not fixing everything in 3 months.
So, uh, guys, you good in there? Not doing something or someone you’ll regret in the morning?
I started drafting Fridays post. I sent it to someone to proofread it/evaluate it since If the post goes live as is, it’s gonna piss off some family members. I need the restraint right now
I was going to say – “Well, you can at least drink yourself into a pleasant stupor”, but … election day and the day after aren’t public holidays over in the US, right? Then again – showing up “exacerbated” may actually be socially acceptable today
That’s putting it mildly. It’s more of a venting/rage post at family that voted Trump. Even though it’s in the Northeast so it shouldn’t matter in the grand scheme of things, it’s calling them out on the principles they directly voted for and saying some not nice things about them.
Eh, as someone whose got an unpopular outsiders’ POV (I’m not pro either candidate) … uh, “just don’t go too overboard”, ’cause it’s a pity to ruin relations with family over a (to my knowledge) irrelevant votes (at least, again, based on my understanding on how your electoral system is structured).
… Unless you hate them by default, in that case “lock and load”
I don’t give a shit either way.
I open with the disclaimer that I have never voted for a winning candidate.
Crunching the preliminary calculus, Harris flopped in most states even the ones she won. Her performance in NYC was the worst by a Democrat since Dukakis, and while I can’t find the exact tweets Trump won Starr County, Texas (the most Hispanic county in the country and the first time a Republican won there since the 1890s). Even in states like New Jersey the race was far closer in a state Biden dominated 4 years ago.
So the Democrats are right back where they were in 2016 except this defeat is going to be even worse as Trump is projected to take the popular vote. Polls are useless and you can’t take any demographic for granted anymore.
Alright, there’s no point in me staying up to see if they call it for Trump in an hour or five hours.
the good news: nobody will EVER listen to nancy pelosi about anything again after this
False. Her stock picks will still magically all be winners.
This is what we get for putting our faith in the Democratic Party.
the official party of the Prevent Defense
I don’t think it’s worth pinning blame for the results of this election on Kamala Harris, or the Democratic Party. I don’t think there’s anything they could have done differently, or better, that would have changed things. The simple fact is that America *chose* Donald Trump, for reasons that are completely unfathomable to me but apparently make sense to enough voters that he was able to win the election. Harris ran an excellent campaign, and he ran a terrible one, and in the end none of it mattered, because we are a deeply disturbed nation that has plunged straight back down the path it chose in 2016.
The hardest thing about this for me is that all the factors that should predict electoral success – favorability, fundraising, volunteer activity, enthusiasm – ended up meaning nothing. Josh Marshall over at TPM talks about how there’s a danger that people will simply withdraw from the struggle to demand and build a better government for themselves, but after tonight, it’s very hard to see what the point of engaging is. None of that stuff moves the needle with my countrymen. It was all just a waste of time and effort.
you wanna move the needle? you want racist hoosiers to vote for a black man? take away their wallets 2008-style
hey, whaddya know, guess what is likely gonna happen in about 4 years or so…
Sounds like you need to focus on your family —
Raider Nation.
Harris is the only person you can blame because it all rested on her to win the election. Voters didn’t owe her anything, and she and her surrogates spent the entire campaign telling critically important parts of her base to eat shit.
A take so simple it has to be true /s
hopefully, they learn their lesson to NEVER nominate someone that has DIRECT ties to a problematic, controversial old grab ass ex/current president (bill clinton, joe biden)
obama did not have that (biden was not president yet)
kerry did not have this problem either, but the gop were smart enough to start a war pre-election.
two, even!
“DIRECT ties to a problematic, controversial old grab ass ex/current president”
Like Trump?
I had faith in the American electorate. I’m actually not sure why
You were just bored.
Cool. I can’t even be on a steady LSD diet for the next 4(ish) years
can move to Oregon
Oddly enough, one of Mrs. Sharkbait’s best friends moved from Honolulu to Oregon for her husband’s job. There’s a not zero chance I’ll be there at some point soon
Condolences Gumby Girl.
Say not in grief he is no more
But live in thankfulness that he was