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BigDemVoter

(4,641 posts)
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 12:42 AM Nov 2024

If Cheato loses, what will be the advice for Repukes?

After all, when Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, and Clinton lost, we were inundated with advice from the MSM & pundits that "Democrats need to move to the right." I certainly don't recall any kind of advice like that given to the Repukes that they need to move more to the left when George H. W. Bush, Romney, and McCain lost.

This has been discussed to death, but again, I have NEVER seen the level of media bias given to the Repigs than I have seen in this election. And I have seen a lot of elections.

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If Cheato loses, what will be the advice for Repukes? (Original Post) BigDemVoter Nov 2024 OP
i have advice for them jcgoldie Nov 2024 #1
GET OVER IT! madaboutharry Nov 2024 #2
Fold your tents and go home. Happy Hoosier Nov 2024 #3
I think 2016 was way worse. TwilightZone Nov 2024 #4
"You need to understand it was about economic anxiety" RockRaven Nov 2024 #5
MAGA won't change... they'll look for a better spokesperson. WarGamer Nov 2024 #6
Kool Aid rations have been increased. Drink more Kool Aid. taxi Nov 2024 #7
While I'm feeling good about Harris winning, I'm doubtful it will be the CRUSHING defeat that's needed... RidinWithHarris Nov 2024 #8
They can F-off back to the 1920's IbogaProject Nov 2024 #9
FUCK OFF!! InAbLuEsTaTe Nov 2024 #10
Find better, sane candidates. maveric Nov 2024 #11
My advice? LiberaBlueDem Nov 2024 #12
I would tell them to go jump off a bridge.nt. drray23 Nov 2024 #13

TwilightZone

(28,835 posts)
4. I think 2016 was way worse.
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 12:55 AM
Nov 2024

Between the billions in free airtime for Trump and the incessant criticism of Clinton, from both the right and the left, I think that one takes the prize for media bias.

This one has been bad, but that one was on another level. In 2016, the media didn't know what to do with Trump or how to cover him. In this cycle, there's been much more cohesion in the coverage. He's covered much more negatively than in 2016, the claims to the contrary notwithstanding.

In both cases, the women running for president pretty much had to be perfect. The main difference is that Clinton was also taking hits from the left - I will never take Salon seriously again after how they treated her in 2016 or how they gave a platform to cranks - where Harris hasn't had to deal with much of that at all.

RockRaven

(17,625 posts)
5. "You need to understand it was about economic anxiety"
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 01:01 AM
Nov 2024

Good for the goose, good for the gander.

taxi

(2,403 posts)
7. Kool Aid rations have been increased. Drink more Kool Aid.
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 01:06 AM
Nov 2024

The media has lied to you all along. The media will tell you the Democrats effort to suppress your vote was successful because they paid off the evil liberal left media. They will not tell you the truth, the truth being that TSF won the election with margins Kim Jong-Un would envy. We now must act to ensure this gets to the Supreme Court. The profits from the purchase of our latest NFT collection will allow our media company to become the only source of news available. Please give generously.

RidinWithHarris

(790 posts)
8. While I'm feeling good about Harris winning, I'm doubtful it will be the CRUSHING defeat that's needed...
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 01:13 AM
Nov 2024

...to make Republicans rethink their whole strategy rather than do what they do best: double down and try again.

The sad thing is that strategy can pay off, in time, if the American public stays on this ridiculous razor's edge when choosing between decent normal human beings like Harris, Biden, and Clinton vs. depraved narcissists like Trump.

Choosing anyone but Trump should be a natural, easy choice. Not a struggle.

I think only a crushing Republican defeat will pull the electorate and the Republican party back from the precipice for a generation or two. Otherwise, even with a Harris win tomorrow, we'll be playing autocracy Russian Roulette every four years.

IbogaProject

(4,677 posts)
9. They can F-off back to the 1920's
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 01:14 AM
Nov 2024

Since they want to be there in the past. I'm so tired of their immature b$.

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