There were a few people who publicly suggested Biden step aside long ago.
I think Jones has a point about tactics. I'm not sure tactics were the driving force of this election, though. Never understood that. How many people's opinions change based on people knocking on their door and wanting to talk to them? I'd guess the juice has never been worth the squeeze.
I think you hit upon this yesterday, but I wonder if inflation was just too much for the incumbent party to overcome. The middle class folks, including Hispanics and blacks, felt inflation very directly.
With that, I hope the Ds get their shit together and toss out the woke/progressive/DEI nonsense. That absolutely is costing them votes too.
I agree with Van and said numerous times on here how important Musk buying X was for the GOP. I think it shows up best in the numbers for younger voters who are more likely to be on social media platforms. Trump won the young male vote and improved with young women as well.
People vote on the micro side of economics, not the macro.
Like I said, he absolutely bombed my feed with pro GOP and Trump stuff. He clearly weaponized Twitter for the GOP. Not sure how the Ds counter that.
He HATES woke shit. Dems move to the middle and one fight with trump and he could be doing the same for Dems next election
Twitter was used against Trump in 2020. Heck the FBI was even helping Twitter in 2020. I think I remember Democrats saying to Republicans “start your own Twitter”. I guess they followed that advice although Musk didn’t start out as a Republican.
Dems were likely going down regardless. People have had enough of the BS. Also, people like food and shelter. And like to feel safe. It’s time for some law and order. Trump would have likely won regardless. But it would have been closer if they hadn’t run the dunce and jazz hands out there as the dem ticket.
Musks purchase of twitter was absolutely a key factor. Thanks Elon!
Good. Someone has to balance out democrat controlled lamestream media
It was clearly a huge drag on Biden and Harris both. Some other candidate might have had less vulnerability to it -- since they were incumbents. Inflation has wrecked a number of presidencies -- Nixon, Ford, Carter...even Bush 41.
True. I don't think Musk is a terribly loyal Republican. He says he's mostly voted Dem since he's been able to.
All election shit aside, and understanding that traditionally the social media platforms lean left, how do we feel about this? Elon's purchase of Twitter and his heavy handed use of same to push Trump's agenda and troll Dems clearly shifted the balance.
Agreed. And I feel the same about SOROS influencing local elections here. In some ways it’s even scarier bc it takes so little for a guy like soros to pick a DA. As little as a couple hundred grand. Do that in 100 cities and you’ve fckd the entire crim justice system.
When 70+ % of voters have the economy as #1 or #2 and it is reinforced every time they look at $11 bacon and you smugly tell tem they are wrong and should get pronouns right...you are screwed.
Musk’s version of X is much much better than Jack’s. He should buy Reddit next to fix that. There is more misinformation and echo chambering on that site more than any other.
Are you sure that the algorithms don't just feed stuff they want/like? Aren't dems getting the same treatment on Twitter?
I don’t know that Musk was pushing Trump propaganda on X. I’m sure the liberals were getting just as much Krassenstein and Meidas Touch propaganda as conservatives were getting Kirk and Shapiro.
It’s not complicated. Harris simply doesn’t have the chops to be president. People knew that before she was nominated and the design of her campaign put an exclamation point in her ineptness.
