The Next 4 Years.

[royfromaus]

What are you expecting?
A tranquil all-encompassing, fairer society?


Personally, I don't think anything will change. Antifa and BLM will continue to smash America up at any given opportunity and there will be no Donald Trump to blame.
I doubt either group has any love for Biden.

[tiggerblue10]

One thing I won't be expecting is bizarre tweeting from a POTUS which we've had plenty of over the last 4 years.

[maggiebee]

I'm afraid I am more concerned about what happens in the UK in the next four years.

[ichkeria]

There is more to America than BLM, AntiFa, Boogaloo, Breitbart etc etc

I’d like to think we’d hear less from all of them,
There’ll be a man at the top setting a better example there for sure

[anneasquith]

What will change. ? Honest people in the White House. America will also see women who may have working facial muscles.

[Canary42]

Over the last few days we've seen Donald Trump lying through his teeth to falsely declare victory before the votes had even been counted.
We've seen sinister mobs of Trump cultists descending on election counts across the United States to intimidate ballot counters, and undermine the fundamental basis of democracy.
We've seen Trump's son Donald Jr. publicly calling for "total war" over the election results (the concept of "total war" coming from German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels who announced it at the Berlin Sportpalast on 18 February 1943, as the tide of World War II was turning against Nazi Germany and its Axis allies).
And we've seen Trump's 2016 campaign manager and national security adviser Steve Bannon demanding the beheading of infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci, and the FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Now that Biden has won it's already provoking an awful lot of complacency from intolerably smug liberal capitalists, with their toddler-like declarations that "the adults are back in charge" (as if infantilising something as dangerous as Trumpism isn't utterly deranged).
But what's going on is deeply concerning whatever the outcome, because extremism, hate, profoundly anti-democratic sentiments, and political cultism like this don't just disappear overnight.
It's a fact that 70 million Americans voted for Trump, meaning that they saw four years of his corruption, incompetence, lies, and pandering to the extreme-right, topped off with 230,000+ needless coronavirus deaths and the worst economic collapse in living memory, and thought 'yes please! I want four more years of this!'
70 million people aren't just going to disappear overnight, or have instant and profound revelations about how wrong they've been; the Republican Party isn't going to simply forget that they won the 2016 election with extreme-right Trumpist populism; and Trump isn't just going to demurely fade into the background if Biden takes the Presidency.
The liberal capitalist fantasy that a Biden win would erase Trumpism from the political map is an absurdly dangerous comfort blanket, because forces as powerful as this don't just disappear overnight.
In fact Trumpism is likely to be refined and sanitised so that the next breed of Republicans spouts the same kind of hateful and divisive Trumpian rhetoric and lies, but in a much more slick and professional manner.
And biggest advantage they'll have is the smug complacency of those who imagine an ultra-marginal Biden win represents some kind of final and decisive nail in the coffin for Trumpist extremism, rather than the kind of setback to make it regenerate into something even more extreme, hateful, and sinister.

[Prudie]

I'll admit I know little about Biden and haven't bothered to find out either but what little I have he's not quite all there is he? I'm certainly not expecting a breath of fresh air.

[anneasquith]

* he’s not quite all there * ?

[anneasquith]

‘ I know little about Biden. ‘

[Prudie]

^ there's plenty of info online questioning Biden's mental capacity anne before you just have your usual pick. I don't know if it's true or not - I did however see earlier in the week he was introducing one of his daughters and then realised he'd got the wrong one.

[anneasquith]

Not picking prudie, I’m not sure what * not quite there means*. But if you think my post post is picking, report them .

[Prudie]

Don't be ridiculous, by pick you know I don't mean worthy of reporting. Pulling me up if you prefer. It's CB and I thought most people would understand that 'not all there' is a somewhat dismissive term for not being fully compos mentis.

[anneasquith]

‘ pulling you up ‘ W e have hardly had a conversation. :-) .

[ummmm]

In fairness to Biden. I hardly ever get my kids names right. Sometimes I even call them by the cats name. I'm of sound mind.

[jackthehat]

///I'm of sound mind. ///

Don't forget that I actually know you...... LoL

[ummmm]

Who are you?

[jackthehat]

///Who are you? ///

Well, I'm not your *** cat.... :D

[jno]

I have been known to get my son's name wrong, even though he's the only one I've got. I think I could still be trusted with the nuclear war button on my desk, though.

[royfromaus]

Not much confidence abound is there.

[Mozz71]

Who knows? Hopefully he can repair the damage done by Donny.

[gness]

My mother frequently called me Margaret and she didn't even have a child named Margaret... :-)

Not sure about the UK but it's a great result for Ireland. As for America? It'll take a lot to repair the damage of the last four years but I have hopes of things improving.
If they don't it'd be a great shame but at least I don't have to see and hear so much from Trump and that's a bonus.