I have been seeing this very misguided idea floating around this sub, so I’ve decided to put it to rest by calculating the remaining vote and seeing how we can expect it to add up. I’m only calculating the substantial remaining vote, meaning I’m not doing it for states that are 99% reported, as that would take forever. I’ll cluster those together in a lazy calculation at the end.

California — 7,520,900 votes to be counted.

Assuming current splits hold up (though these votes may be more heavily in Harris’s favor):

Harris — 4,332,038 Votes Trump - 2,985,796 Votes

Oregon — 257,107 votes to be counted

Harris — 257,107 votes Trump — 197,631 votes

Washington — 509,070 votes to be counted

Harris — 297,296 votes Trump — 198,028 votes

Maryland — 550,074 votes to be counted

Harris — 333,894 votes Trump — 201,877 votes

Arizona — 825,835 votes to be counted

Harris — 384,839 votes Trump — 433,563 votes

Nevada — 134,357 votes to be counted

Harris — 63,416 votes Trump — 68,522 votes

Now we will assume that every other state is collectively 99.5% reported, meaning ~715,567 votes remain. Since this is between both red and blue states, I’ll just assume a 50/50 split on these votes.

This means 10,512,910 votes have yet to be reported.

This brings the final expected popular vote total to:

Harris — 75,054,105 Trump — 77,813,469

Overall: 152,867,574 votes

Compare to 2020:

Biden: 81,283,501 Trump: 74,223,975

Overall: 155,507,476

This means that 2024 turnout will be approximately 98.3% of 2020 turnout.

So no, it is not true that we lost because “20 million Democrats just couldn’t get off the couch.” Unfortunately, there was just an overall substantial rightward shift, which aligns with the incumbency disadvantage we’ve been seeing globally due to inflation.

Can someone send this memo to Jon Stewart?

I am so fucking sick of Stewart’s incessant bitching. I know Stewart and his fanboys fancy him the intellectual authority on all things but the “YOUR OLD! PEOPLE WANT TO BE INSPIRED!” take isn’t exactly cutting edge.

And didn’t we already try that in 2008? I seem to remember the change that followed the “inspiration” being too incremental and that resulted in a bunch of voters staying home in 2016 and landing us in this mess to begin with.

Maybe an “intellectual” like Stewart should try educating his viewers instead of just riling up anger. Biden’s record is the most effective of a single term since LBJ. Even if you disagree with his agenda (and from what I can tell, his left leaning critics don’t disagree with his agenda, just his age), he has governed effectively. But by all means

Look, if “I am voting to save small ‘d’ democracy so you can have the option to vote again in the future” doesn’t inspire you, I don’t know what will.

Because clearly pulling our country back from the brink of economic collapse and a public health dumpster fire (that the last administration dumped fuel on top of) didn’t do it for you. Nor did ending our longest running war or masterfully handling every foreign policy crisis that has presented. Or his steps toward marijuana reform. Or his historic infrastructure package. Or the billions of forgiven student loans. Or record pace of judicial appointments that will hopefully undo some of the damage McConnell has done to the federal judiciary.

Nor does that concept of giving the Presidency back to a convicted felon right after the Supreme Court has made a roadmap to using the Presidency to carry out self-interested illegality up to, and including, ORDERING THE ASSASSINATION OF POLITICAL OPPONENTS!

It’s funny that Stewart considers himself such a savvy critic on mainstream media, given that he is pushing their same nonsensical talking points. Looks like the dude bought into his own hype so much that he cannot even see he’s become the thing he devoted his career to criticizing.

So, Mr. Stewart, to you I say — will you shut up, man?

Just deleted my McDonald’s account, and the app from my phone.

With two little ones, McDonalds has always been an easy option for family dinner. But also with two little ones, I can’t in good conscience continue to support a corporation that is disinterested in my business and publicly supports anti-democratic political candidates.

Voting Blue is already making us healthier!

I’m actually heartbroken over this. As a black woman, I live in a country where people would rather have a racist, bigoted, fascist, felon as president than another decent hardworking black woman. Upset is an understatement. The fact that he won, is appalling, and hard to wrap my head around. The fact that he won so easily, that there was seemingly no chance is so depressing The fact that he might actually win the popular vote too is isolating and downright scary. I'm a woman of color, I have never felt so betrayed, so scared, so…so empty. I live in a country where 70 million people think I shouldn’t have rights as a woman to thrive. 70 million people see me and my immigrant family as subhuman. 70 million people that don’t care that this man is keen on setting us to the days of McCarthyism and beyond. America let me down today. It’s trust lost, that’ll be hard to earn back.