Clown World wins again, as predicted.
And there's no bigger clown than Trump so of course he was going to win. I've been saying as much since 2021, or more accurately my prediction was the Biden had a 0% chance of winning reelection... so boy was I right in more than one way, eh?
And not only is Trump for sure going to win at this point, but also it looks like he's going to take every single swing state. Proving once again the thing we were saying all along: that the polls were worthless and wrongly skewed toward democrats... again. No matter what the truth really is we can be damn sure that the betting markets will be taken far more seriously than the polls. Money talks and bullshit walks. Gamblers are now more trustworthy than statisticians. For now. The world is going to trust Polymarket more than they'll trust another source as long as they keep getting it right.
Here we see Harris underperforming Biden in every single county in the entire country... so that's fun. But I thought the media was leading us to believe that this brave new pick of joy was like a super popular candidate! Gee whiz Batman I guess not. That's what you get when you don't have a primary and you pick someone who could of never in a million years won a primary election.
I've also seen firsthand how Harris lost a ton of votes over certain key issues like the "war" in the middle-east. The left simply refused to represent the people that were expected to vote for them. Again, this is why we hold primary elections or more accurately allow the incumbent to run, not that Biden would have done any better this time around. I'm personally convinced he would have been slaughtered in this election, which is exactly why the scramble happened in the first place. The media lied through their teeth the entire time acting like this was a great position to be in. Sometimes fake-it-till-you-make-it doesn't work.
Popular Vote?
The dem response to losing an election is usually, "Yeah well the electoral college is stupid and we should do a popular vote." I used to agree as well especially when I was much younger. Why don't we just do a popular vote instead of all this nonsense where land and states are the ones doing the voting? Now I realize that the electoral college is actually much more decentralized and robust than a popular vote. It's much harder to cheat when you can't just stuff a single ballot box.
Looking at the data is highly suspicious.
Dems get the same amount of votes every election but magically in 2020 there are millions of extra votes? This can easily be explained away by the fact that Trump Derangement Syndrome and utter distain for the president was at an all time high in 2020... and now after 4 terrible years under Biden people realize, "Hm wait a minute WW3 was on the table the entire time anyway and the economy is complete trash now."
The above data is also tainted in that all the votes haven't even been counted yet. California alone is probably going to give Harris like 5M more votes, so take this info with a grain of salt to be sure. I simply don't trust the election process either way so it's easy to talk trash and parrot my own bias.
Oh and did I forget to mention that Trump won the popular vote?
Whoosie! Pretty insane honestly. Clown World strong. Embrace it like I have.
The simulation continues.
Potential wins for crypto:
Obviously people who lean left are pretty upset about this turn of events but this election feels a lot different than it did in 2016. There's a lot of silver linings here especially when we specifically get into the crypto of it all.
- Trump might pardon Ross Ulbricht.
- RFK is talking about removing fluoride from water and other poisons from food that are already banned in more reasonable countries. I've been anti-fluoride since before I got into crypto, which was a very unpopular stance back then, especially in CA.
- Gary Gensler is for sure getting fired. Bye bye dickhead.
- Bitcoin is already trading at all time highs again right before 2025.
As someone who has zero faith in the legacy system and the direction we are headed in it's nice to see that the decentralized system I do believe in is about to get completely unlocked after four years of suppression. And let me remind everyone that most of this suppression was completely illegal. Operation 2.0 was/is an illegal shadow operation. Gary Gensler has been operating in bad faith for his entire term. The SEC has been getting visibly embarrassed and chastised in every single case they bring against us. All that nonsense is now going away as we move into the bull market year of the cycle.
The amount of opportunity we get granted next year is going to be a thing of legend. The only question is what we are actually going to do with those resources. Don't fumble the bag on that one if you actually want to help change the world with this newfound power. Even more true if you hate Trump. There's no rule saying you can't use what he gives you against him and what he stands for.
Kamala is a police-state bootlicker.
Seriously. A prosecuting attorney within the biggest police state the world has ever laid eyes on? Walz was just as bad as far as I could tell. These people were fully ready for another lockdown and martial law just for shits and giggles. People say the same is true about Trump. Maybe that's true. I don't know what's in store over the next four years. I do know it won't be boring.
FOMC meeting today and tomorrow.
On top of all of this madness the FED might lower rates again tomorrow. I haven't been paying attention to it this time around (no one is) so I guess we'll get updates after people calm down about the election and BTC all time highs. The banking network is still crippled and the elite craves easy money. Something tells me they'll get what they want.
Conclusion
Truly not sure what to think about this outcome. I really did hate both sides pretty equally but this result does seem to be pretty bullish for crypto, which is my true focus. I have still never voted and never will vote (except within DPOS). The only vote they'll get from me is one of no-confidence. Let's try to make the best of this, shall we? Go Team.
Like you said, the electoral college ensures election counting remains decentralized. If anyone thinks elections are corrupt and unfair now, imagine how corrupt they could be with centralized voting where the winner of the popular vote takes all. That would be corrupt!
This election means the common, flawed, average everyday person (read--men, women, blacks, hispanics, asians, amish, whites, etc.) got sick and tired of the Democrats telling them how and what to think, like they knew better. And then when people had the audacity to actually think for themselves, called them garbage, racists, homophobes, xenophobes, fascists, Nazis, and any other name they could come up with.
Trump doesn't talk down to people. He talks about Making America Great Again and what he's going to do to make it happen. Harris and the MSM only talked about how evil Trump is and how stupid you would have to be to vote for him. They tried to say crime was actually down, as if helping it triple in the first couple years and then comparing the last year to that triple is actually an improvement. What?!? Let's see....random numbers here....100 goes to 300 in two years and then down to 270 in year three and they say "crime is down 10%".
The jobs numbers are lies, revised down the road, and also compared to Covid numbers.
What they found out is people can tell the difference between eggs at $3/dz and eggs at $10/dz. They can also tell the difference between not being safe in your own city. They can also tell the difference between a few hundred immigrants sneaking into the country every month and literally hundreds being bused and flown to hundreds of cities all over the country.
This isn't rocket science. Nobody is saying Trump is some pristine hero on a hill. But compared to the shit the other side was force-feeding people, the garbage still smells a whole lot better.
I don't fully agree with a lot of this sentiment but it does add some zip to the post.
Thanks.
P.S.
Biden was indeed trash.
I quickly ran here to read when I saw the title, hehe. It has been an exciting day so far about the election and also BTC.
Just like you, I’m not sure what to expect but like you said, it won’t be boring, hehe.
Trump is in, we just have to hope for the best now 😇
Slightly confused, and I was wondering if you could help? In the 2020 US presidential election the Democrats, under Biden, received just over 81m votes and Trump received just over 74m votes. The turnout was 66%.
In the US election that has just been held the Democrats, under Harris, have received 69m votes and Trump has 73.5m votes, he's approaching the number of votes he won in 2020. The turnout for this election is virtually the same at 66%, although it looks like it will probably be a bit less.
I know there is still some counting going on but we are nearing the end with only Arizona to declare, they have now counted 78% of the votes.
So if the same volume of people have turned out to vote in this election as in 2020 and given the votes for Trump and Harris as above, we are missing 12m votes. I have checked the other candidates who were listed on the ballot paper in each state and they have received nowhere near 12m votes between them. So where have these votes gone?
Sounds like you're operating under some kind of premise that Harris should get as many votes as Biden even though Harris is wildly unpopular and the Biden administration fucked up the entire economy. In 2020 everyone came out to vote against Trump, that same level of enthusiasm is nowhere to be found.
Also California alone is about to give Harris 4M more votes.
I really don't understand what is so hard to get about this.
Simply wait for all the votes to be counted first before making these accusations.
I am not making any accusation at all, as you can clearly see from my comment. I am simply asking a question. I am fully prepared to admit I might be missing something here.
I know there is still some counting going on but at the moment we're looking for 12m votes. Let's see if they materialise.
You are very clearly making an accusation simply by assuming there should be the same number of votes.
Why are you operating under this assumption?
The answer is obvious; there's only one reason to make this assumption.
And it's the same reason that's flying all over the Internet right now.
You really think you can act like this is an innocent question, eh?
Interesting.
Once again you misunderstand. And you are right I am indeed operating under the assumption that there should be the same amount of votes in total in circulation because the voter turnout is virtually the same as in 2020, so there should indeed the same amount of votes.
If your question is:
Then the answer is the turnout wasn't 66%.
Right?
Just wait for the situation to unfold.
That's the real answer.
No, that is not my question. What figure do you have for the voter turnout in this election?
Polymarket showed the information better, because behind it was a cost of having biased information. Why doesn't Hive still have this type of market? And in the future it could have it, or the liquidity bandwagon has already left or if there would be an opportunity in some specific niche e.g. video game events?
Tens of millions. It's easily explainable - by fraud.
Thanks!
Ten of million as long as we don't count the remaining votes coming in :D
2020 is an outlier even without looking at 2024.
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The point being made is that the goalpost is constantly moving which makes everyone look like a childish idiot and completely undermines the entire argument.
It's fucking amateur hour.
Terrible optics.
Have you noticed that 2020 is an outlier for Republicans as well?
These arguments lack any and all consistency.
Your point is well taken. Any narrative can be supported by whatever facts anyone wants to believe.
chat is this real?
What I think is interesting are the small trickle of democrats who are like, "lol wait did we actually cheat in 2020?" It takes an overwhelming amount of power to flip someone like that.
I really don't think either candidate was ideal, but I think the fact that the country elected someone with such poor character says more about their character than it does his. Of course I am probably just being misguided by the MSM. That seems to be their tag line these days. It's not like we actually have a record of him saying the horrible things he said (oh wait, we do). We survived the last time. I figure we will be okay this time. Then we rinse and repeat with another two horrible candidates.
Right but do you really mean that the way you think you mean it?
A polished turd and a raw turd are both turds at the core. Did Obama have great character because he gave everyone false hope while speaking eloquently and had the appearance of someone with great character while casually joking about murdering civilians with drone strikes?
Does Trump actually have worse CHARACTER than other politicians?
Or does he just have a worse REPUTATION?
Serious question: I could probably be swayed in either direction.
Honestly, at the core they are pretty much all bad. I have zero doubt that all of them have done some shady stuff that people would (should) be appalled about. They just probably hide it more than Trump does. That or he just doesn't care to hide it. So you might be right, character is bad across the board, his reputation on the other hand is worse. Though he does hold some pretty offensive views on certain things by his own admission. Either way though, as a people, that should be a deal breaker for us whether it is reputation or character. He's one guy and I think we can agree he will probably never change. We should be better though.
He's 78 years old you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
It's a super awkward situation for a lot of reasons.
I'd like to focus on the opportunity being granted to crypto and how we can leverage that into a better future regardless of the archaic leader we pick.
I can definitely agree with that last part. Sadly though I think many people used that as their only reason to vote for him with little regard to anythings. Time will tell how this all is going to play out.
He also said to scrap taxes..maybe federal income tax? Can't complain with these green candles for once.
(sheepishly) yeah... didn't see it in your post because images load slow, seemed weird that you referenced it, makes sense you had it there. !BBH
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It was a Twitter link I perhaps should have used a screenshot.
More consistent across frontends.
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Hard to guess what you mean by this unless you... didn't read it.
@edicted bro I don't live in the US. Take a guess where I might be living to prompt such a GIF.
The meme doesn't make sense in any context.
I'm an anarchist who's never voted.
No, this is not my first time.
I am not experiencing something traumatic for the first time that you've experienced multiple times. That is the what the meme implies.
That is not what the meme implies at all.
lol or in other words something happening for the first time (inexperience) that another party has experience with.
Here watch I'll pull up some receipts as well:
https://en.meming.world/wiki/James_Franco_First_Time
But yeah totally "That's is not what the meme implies at all."
What?
Meme doesn't imply a traumatic experience.
Gee whiz, I wonder if the meme can apply here to someone for whom this has become a common occurrence. Surely, it isn't making fun of Democrats who believed the polls and were assured of themselves. Just like the Democrats in my country experienced a year ago.
You are not the subject of the meme bro. I am drawing a parallel between the ridiculous way the Democrats lost in both countries.
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