Hypothetical: You find out that Donald Trump won the 2024 election. What is your first thought?

[SolitarySolace]

My first thought is positive

My first thought is negative

[Lliam]

Deep relief, just like when I woke up to find that Hillary had lost in 2016.

I'm not a MAGA or huge Trump fan, but the thought of Harris and Democrats running the country is dreadful. The Democratic party's policies are horrifying.

[tfan1]

Hot diggity damn! Praise the Lord! Hallelujah! 🙏❤️🇺🇸👍🙂

[tfan1]

Thanks for MHO 👍🙂

[WhiteSteve]

Negative. Time would tell if we were in true trouble as a democratic nation, but regardless, it would be an extremely disheartening commentary about the gullibility, terrible priorities, and absolutely subhuman levels of decency in the character of far too many fellow citizens, to a point where I might seriously consider relocating.

I have family obligations that prevent that in the foreseeable future and likely for the duration of 2024-28…. but living alongside so many people who could espouse MAGA’s beliefs —not the shiny, storefront beliefs, but the ugly underlying stuff, direct or collateral in their intent and/or impact, that you either need to believe/engage in yourself or tacitly endorse by it not being a deal-breaker for your support— is a bigger problem than any politician, this has to do with having no respect for my fellow countrymen and their moral compasses, which is a pretty big problem for me, and would last a lifetime at my age.

I don’t know if anywhere is better about that stuff than us, but I should at least look, because all I really want to do is live amongst kind people, and I’m not sure America is about being kind and decent, which is honestly just fucking gross.

[msc545]

America has never been about being kind and decent. There is just a veneer of civility which quickly washes away given even the slightest conflict or disagreement.

[Juxtapose]

America is one of the only countries with actual free speech which is one of the kindest things that can be bestowed upon you. Try saying "it's okay to be white" in the United Kingdom in front of police officers. I'm sure that will go really well for you 😅

[msc545]

Try saying it here in the US and see what happens to you.

[Juxtapose]

@msc545 nothing, the police cannot arrest you for that.

[msc545]

@Juxtapose They can and they will, or you will just get a mob that will beat the shit out of you if not kill you, while the cops watch.

[WhiteSteve]

@Juxtapose I don’t care so much about the government as I do the character of my neighbors and fellow Americans, and my fellow Americans are proving to fail my standards. I have absolutely no need to even assert that “it’s ok to be white” in the first place, because no one is telling me it’s wrong, so I don’t even know what we’re talking about here. Also, white people are doing just fine pretty much everywhere, we’re quite literally the last people I’m concerned about as a threatened demographic, just lmfao.

[Juxtapose]

@msc545 actually no. I hang around all types of people and one of them is a severely racist redneck. No matter what I say he is stuck in his racism and he says the n-word openly. Nobody ever comes up to him and says anything.

You need more real world experience.

[Juxtapose]

@WhiteSteve you really have not been paying attention then.

[msc545]

I see people all the time professionally who are racist and and extremely paranoid and delusional. I take care of them without difficulty. I'm just not willing to live with them.

[Juxtapose]

@msc545 well like I said, nobody steps up to him. Nobody ever gets violent. It's a myth that you will be automatically attacked if you utter that word.

[OlderAndWiser]

My first thought is, "The Republic has been saved!"

[Curmudgeon]

Or more realistically, at least bought itself a little more time to save itself.

[OlderAndWiser]

@Curmudgeon Yes, "The Republic has been saved. . . at least for now!"

[Curmudgeon]

Relief. The nation has at least stemmed the decay a bit, and at least bought itself a "Stay of execution". Commielah "Heels Up" Harris, combined with too many foaming at the mouth Demunist Commiecrats in the Congress, would mean the perhaps irreparable decay and mortal wound to these United States, and indeed the World.

(To be fair, I could see "The Donald" working with Democrats along the line of Bobby Kennedy, and I hope their common ground can be expanded upon).

But this time, Donald, you had better be wiser. Sadly "The Swamp" included all too many people with nominal (R) s after their names, Dick Cheney and his bitch of a daughter come to mind. Pick your Cabinet carefully. "The Apprentice" TV show was fun to watch, but it should not have been a model for how you made Cabinet appointments.

1. Implement real border control that won't just be undone by the next Demunist Administration, and tell the Wall Street Journal Greedheads (who are also part of this problem) that "when the time comes to hang the capitalists, they will have imported the underclass with which to do it." Cheap labor to short term lower the costs of doing business is much more costly to the nation in the long run, and cheap labor does not undo the currency and bureaucratic policies that have made the cost of doing business too high in the USA, especially when the newly naturalized (or worse, amnestied) citizens turn around and vote for more Commiecrats. Lenin was evil, but he wasn't stupid. Ditto for Leftist academics like Frances Fox Piven and Robert Cloward. They knew what they were doing, and it wasn't stupidity, it was treason:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy

2. Implement real healthcare reform.

(a) Implement easy to obtain "medical savings accounts" for routine costs that might add up to employees over time, and one easy way to do this would be to make the "Flex-Ben accounts" many employees into permanent Medical Savings Accounts, like a traditional IRA for routine health care costs, rather than the annually renewed accounts we have now, where employees must "use or lose" whatever they set aside each year.. (b) Give all employers who set up one "Medical IRA" for their employees a big incentive. (c) Reduce Health Insurance to covering just the major financial SHTF catastrophes. No Ladies, getting your monthly birth control IS NOT a major financial catastrophe that your insurance must pay for, even if over time it could get costly for you, but getting Breast Cancer - or hit by a truck - IS. It would actually be easy to have catastrophic coverage for all policy at a low cost if if just covered actual, you know, catastrophes.

3. Root out the academic "Woke" parasites, who are actually making "higher learning" DUMBER. Academia has become the worst kind of welfare parasite there is, for worse than any stereotypical "Baby Mama" making more babies for the subsidies. At least the stereotypical Baby Mama might be providing future workers for the Social Security Pyramid and trans-generational chain letter scheme.

(a) Cut off their funding from any government source.

(b) They want student loans forgiven? Only if they study real subjects like Engineering and not Womyn's Lesbo Marxist Bogus Studies.

4. Stand firm against Red China aggression against Taiwan or South Korea, and against Iran aggression against Israel or Saudi Arabia, but pick your foreign policy battles wisely. The Demunists will dishonestly use McCarthyite tactics against you, but the average American understands that a USA military budget designed to handle two crises at once (one in the Mideast and one in the Far East) cannot handle three. Even if Vlad Putin is a rat bastard, there is such a thing as being overextended, and while handling two crises at once is feasible, handling three at once is foolish. Are the ethnic Russian separatists in the on-paper boundaries of the Ukraine ever going to be reconquered, let alone pacified? No, they won't be.
(a) Make a peace deal that cedes the ethnic Russian areas of on-paper Ukraine,
(b) offer NATO membership to the rump and now much more homogenous Ukraine, and
(c) call it a day.

5. After that, clap back at the shitstain Left Media. Bring back Sarah Huckabee Sanders as press secretary, who dealt with them like a weary mother dealing with rotten bratty children, which was entirely appropriate. The Leftmedia, like the Hollywood Left, will learn that while in the short run they can rely on their champagne socialist allies in BlackRock and Vanguard and the World Economic Forum to bail them out, they can't keep losing money year after year on propaganda that utterly is ringing hollow. The average citizen has had enough of Proctor and Gamble and Target and others pushing an agenda on them, and they are now shopping around for better places to buy their soap and toilet paper and entertainment streaming services.

[Snakeyes7]

I hate to think this but I think the country is cooked regardless of who wins.

No one will believe the results because 2020 has completely destroyed people's trust in elections. The Biden administration has not done anything to mitigate that. He brought in millions of illegals, spoiled them with the blood sweat and tears of American citizens and push for them to be allowed to vote in all elections which will make the polling inaccurate to what actual citizens want. The media has also confirmed that there will, once again, not be a single election day so it is likely that mail in voting will return to get more votes from people who wouldn't have cared enough to get off their ass to go to the polls.

Kamala will just keep doing what Biden did (because she was the vice president) and do everything to the point where it is completely normalized and everyone is OK with this corruption. Everything will be even more expensive, more money will be funneled to these pointless wars (to be fair, Trump has also been paid off by AIPAC so the war in Gaza is still somewhat likely with him), more of our constitutional rights will be ignored, and our likelihood that we will all be forced to use inferior products for the sake of climate change (like the capitalists the democrats are /s) even though the US barely contributes to it anymore.

Trump, if his first term is anything to go off of, will barely do anything to help if the establishment uniparty will have anything to say about it."TrUmP iS hItLeR" rhetoric will continue to be shat out by the establishment corporate media and more and more people, be it regular citizens or the feds, will continue to stop at nothing to make sure he's dead or in tossed prison over removing the tag on his mattress or something and someone kills him there. Apparently, the establishment are the good guys here everybody.

[paledreams]

Lol 😂 - my first though is feeling a bit appalled and feeling like "i probably should switch my investment mix to cash assets, then I'll switch my investments weeks or months later to local shares mix only that aren't American" in a hypothetical second term of Donald.

Look, merrily friendly said, you Americans vote for how you want - I for one would be a Democrat or even a Green if I was American ; however that said, I'm hopeful for Harris to win and or the only appealing part of Republicans is the Constitution and Sarah Palin, only two things that to me would matter if I was American. If I was American lol. Anyways 🤔 scary bears. 🐻

[paledreams]

*thought typo.

[Curmudgeon]

@paledreams Really now? Are you loving that stagflation we have not seen since the 1970's? Now you were not around then, but this is worse, believe me.

And did you really like your hysterical nanny state locking you down in your homes, for something that proved to be not so bad, and your government's response to it was even worse than the Red China Flu Bug ever was, in terms of public health as well as the economy? I would expect better from a former penal colony than the cowed obedience to ridiculous dictates that we saw!

[Dongie]

First m: positive

Second: lock and load

The insane groups will be released by the demilocrat politicians.
They don't want all those investigations to start up. With a fine tooth comb:biden, Harris Obama, Pelosi, schiff, swallwell, nailer, Clinton's and a couple hundred more in Congress, senate and fbi.

[Dargil]

Now things are going to get better, but there will be Antifa style rioting. That's why I bought guns and ammo.

[Curmudgeon]

Yes, and we will need to deputize more Kyle Rittenhouse types to deal with it, as the local Left governments will deliberately let the goons riot, as they blatantly did before.

[DrPepper12]

There will be negativity but more disillusionment, confusion and shock. The prophecy will have been fulfilled:

[FunkyMonkee]

GREAT!! NOW I can go look for a fucking job!!!

[nron987]

Don’t care, my entire life doesn’t revolve around our overlords rigged decisions. They control you but not me.

[Curmudgeon]

Are you totally prepped and off the grid? Do tell, you may provide helpful tips to us all.

[nron987]

No, I have to suffer amongst all of you to survive, but not a millisecond of my free time is dedicated to choosing which lying scumbag 70 year old to be president. I’d rather enjoy my short time here rather than focus on things I cannot change and have no influence over.

[strateguy632]

I would scream "no"! J. k.

I will feel relieved.

[_Highway]

He's a guy, you're a girl. His aversion is probably shyness or embarrassment. Sounds like he has a crush and doesn't know how to approach. Just my 0.02

[AviatorTom]

My first thought is positive... another election is over.

[beefcakebradybatson]

America's even dumber and more racist than I thought !!!

[strateguy632]

But those are not the reason we "dumber" vote trump.
Every other country has a border except for us in u. s. due to harris.
In fact the death RATE increased. Killer kamala!

[beefcakebradybatson]

@strateguy632 Killer Trump !!!

[Curmudgeon]

Enjoy your decaying neighborhoods, your money becoming worthless and your dismal future. You asked for it.

[msc545]

Can I still catch my flight to Auckland today?

[Curmudgeon]

@msc545 You now, if this actually DID happen, it would be great. It is time for the Left Elites, who say this all the time, to actually "step up" and DO IT.

[msc545]

It's also time for you people to regain your sanity if that is at all possible. Something tells me it isn't.

[Curmudgeon]

@msc545 you are pretending that hyperinflation and a world on fire is just fine, and you claim we are the insane ones. Keep on "Keeping it real"!!!

[msc545]

The left didn't cause hyperinflation. Left also didn't cause the world to be on fire instead climate change which you conveniently don't believe in because your overlords have told you not to be believe in it actually caused it. Keep not believing in climate change and then be sure to start whining when your living room floods.

[Curmudgeon]

OMG, just stop. They unleashed the money printing - whose team is Janet Yellen of the Fed on again? And some of us understand a world on fire as being one of three wars looming, none of which were happening when Trump was in the White House. But keep on keeping on! Keep up with the climate change boogeyman even if the actual data over 5 decades doesn't show it! But hey, if the climate problem is Americans being too affluent as many of you seem to think, you are solving that so well!

[msc545]

Did you ever attend college at all or is all this just your homegrown kind of education?

[exitseven]

I bet you won;t really leave ,

[msc545]

I've already made arrangements to rent a house there and I already have work there.

[RowdyYates]

My first thought would be that the Democrats are lousy shots.

[In_Trance]

Don't care either way

[exitseven]

I would say THANK GOD!!!

[exitseven]

YIPPEEEEE!

[Juxtapose]

Thank goodness!

[YevgenyMikhail]

Move out of the country.

[DaBiggestBird]

AMERICA WILL BE GREAT AAGAAIIN

[MK1997]

Great

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Don't care.