Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by miningape on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @04:38AM (#42058692)

Yep exactly, this is what won him the 2016 election and the meltdowns were amazing. This time around the dems have also had the economy making them look bad, not to mention the illegal immigration issue finally making it to "big blue" cities like New York.

So it's not really surprising he won, and the margin isn't surprising either.

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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by josephg on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @04:51AM (#42058873)

The us economy has grown at an unprecedented rate over the last few years. I wish my home of Australia had such a dynamic economy.

(I suspect the problem, of course, is that the newfound prosperity is not shared evenly amongst the population.)

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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by DiscourseFan on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @05:00AM (#42059012)

You suspect correctly. Its been a great economy for yuppies with college degrees, not so much for everyone else. And everyone else is the majority.

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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by LunaSea on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @07:29AM (#42061180)

Can't wait for America to become the coal mining capital of the world. Such a forward thinking strategy.

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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by Spivak on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @07:07AM (#42060865)

I suppose but I'm not really sure if the GOP has anything on offer that will actually help. I hope they do because we're gonna be living in it but nothing thus far proposed has been said to be good for the economy.

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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by __alias on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @08:49AM (#42062245)

See this is what surprises me. I would have thought voting for a more regular market with higher taxes to the elite would be favourable to the majority non-tech workers, rather than the billionaires which play the puppeteers to trump

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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by galfarragem on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @09:47AM (#42063094)

Not a single penny of that "extra tax money from tech workers" would go to the average Joe. That's the problem. It would go straight for the lowest classes or overseas.

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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by DiscourseFan on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @12:14PM (#42065528)

I would hope you realize that the average joe is a member of the lowest classes; but yes, neaeshoring certainly would’ve continued under Harris.

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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by spbaar on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @12:44PM (#42066096)

Actually i think it's the bottom fifth that have benefited the most from wage growth, with the low-six figure crowd getting the short end of the stick and having to pay more for burgers with the tight service labor market.

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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by rrrrrrrrrrrryan on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @01:34PM (#42067019)

Yes, and it appears the non-college folks in the suburbs (who've been having to pay more for their burgers) were the biggest shift this election, not the burger flippers themselves.

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