In an interview with NBC News’ Hallie Jackson, the vice president said her campaign has the "resources and the expertise" to handle a challenge from Trump.
  • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I hope they put in extra security measures. A lot of foreign nations have stakes here, a lot of mentally ill people are too agitated for their own good and Trump’s gonna die before accepting he’s lost to a woman.

  • Thunderdonk4444@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    It’s reassuring to hear they know Trump is going to go all in on fuckery at the end, and actually have a plan to stop another insurrection

    • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
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      13 days ago

      That’s not what I heard.
      “We’ve got two weeks to go, and I’m very much grounded in the present. We will deal with election night and the days after as they come, and we have the resources and the expertise and the focus on that as well”

      She’s saying they have a bunch of capable people who’ll figure it out on the fly.
      That’s called improvising. Improvising is exactly the opposite of a plan. It’s what you do when you have no plan.

      • Worstdriver@lemmy.world
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        13 days ago

        It’s also called being ready for anything. It’s what you do when you aren’t entirely sure what the idiot on the other side is going to do.

        The world’s best swordsman isn’t afraid of the second best swordsman. He’s afraid of the world’s worst swordsman, cause he can never be sure what the idiot will do.

        Same principle.

        • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
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          13 days ago

          No it’s not.
          Being ready for anything is having a plan for anything.

          When you can’t know what your opponent might do, you can’t plan. That’s exactly why the best swordsman is afraid of the worst. He’s forced to go without a plan.

          • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            13 days ago

            Being ready for anything doesn’t mean planing for everything, that’s impossible. They’ve likely planned for the obvious. They also have the resources ready to go to adapt to an unexpected situation.

            A swordsman is t ready to block every conceivable blow. They, instead, prepare to react. If it’s a known attack, they can fall back on a planned move. If it’s abnormal they can react by improvising, using the skills they already have.

            Oh, and the swordsman’s issue isn’t the lack of plan, improvisation is a key skill. The issue of the inability to read the opponent. It throws their instincts out. E.g. an attack looks like a faint, since it would leave the attack open to a lethal counter, even if it connected. An expert would never use that. A beginner might.

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      Historically speaking, the former always seems to be followed by the latter for some reason.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      12 days ago

      As much as I’m against violence, it would be hilarious if Trump’s “the president can do anything, even kill his opponents” would be used to get rid of him and his criminal cronies

        • Yeller_king@reddthat.com
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          12 days ago

          I think probably MAGA falls apart as no one can galvanize these people like he does. What do you think will happen?

          • Kayday@lemmy.world
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            12 days ago

            They will rally behind anyone angry enough at the right people. Marjorie Taylor Green, Lauren Boebert, Ron DeSantis, just to name a few.

            We will need to fight against fascism after we elect Harris for a long time.

            • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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              12 days ago

              MTG is to much of a nut job, and also a woman so half of MAGA wouldn’t follow her. Boebert failed her GED 3 times if I remember correctly and has the woman issue again with MAGA. Desantis is the only viable option there, but after trying to subvert the populous of Florida being able to vote for whether abortion should be legal in the state, I doubt he’d make it anywhere ever again. (Hopefully)

              • Kayday@lemmy.world
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                12 days ago

                I guess the point is that if a charismatic person steps into the void, the machine already has momentum. Doesn’t need to be one of those 3, necessarily. Hell, most people didn’t know who JD Vance was before he was picked for VP, and he’s slowly gaining support even though he had a rocky start with the charisma of a wet napkin.

  • mctoasterson@reddthat.com
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    12 days ago

    I 100% expect both camps will have extremely optimistic sounding rhetoric all the way through election day.

    Both will claim victory.

    Due to some bizarre procedures in at least one swing state we are unlikely to know an actual winner until Saturday (which is kinda crazy since the election is on Tuesday) and if things are even somewhat close there will be lawsuits and recounts.

    This could actually end up being a long wait to know the outcome.