If Trump loses, what will the gays of DL obsess over for 18 hours a day instead of impending doom?

His criminal prosecutions, baby!

Drawstring pants

His sentencing for the 34 felonies in NY is on Nov 26

There won’t be any Data Lounge if Trump becomes 4-ever president.

You are asking the wrong question. Again.

Seriously, if half the country thinks rehiring him is a good idea- do we even have a future? DeSantis will run again in 2028 (and possibly Trump himself).

The only glimmer of hope is that the Angry Old White Men are dying off every day.

"Follies," of course.

Not presidential politics and won't that be a relief

We will obsess over the obnoxious stench emanating from Opie's mama's rancid, putrid cunt, as well as the effluvia pouring out of Opie's gaping maw of a prolapsed asshole.

Earrings and caftans, silly!

Kamala's pantsuits?

Tragically he’s not going to lose. He got Supreme Court up his ass.

I think there's a new season of Heartstopper?

Whatever the result, I’ll have more time for other things. With the stakes so high, this election has consumed my time.

Trump may lose the election but he will never be out of the news. And after he is long dead there will be news specials and documentaries and books written. Afraid it is inescapable.

Definitely inescapable but dead is best-please God use your magic.

Who has the definitive "I'm Still Here" from "Follies."

Like Hitler r15!

They will continue to obsess over Trump, OP. They have no hobbies and no interests other than politics.

I hate Trump too but FFS I have a life. I can't obsess over politics non-stop.

There is no point in wishing him dead. Either he loses the election alive, or, if he's dead before or after the Republicans win the election, JD Vance becomes the president.

Porky McEyeliner is positively terrifying as POTUS material.

Like existential threat terrifying. He's really smart with a gift for next level mendacity that is unparalleled in most humans at any age, but especially so most 40 year olds.

Nutloaf recipes for the lesbians

Is Liza still alive for the homos.

Lens Durham’s latest attempt at fashion for all

There is R13 but it's got that really ugly actor in it.

It would not surprise me at all if we discover a plot where Trump's handlers are in on a plan to use the senile old shit stain to get into the White House and then Vance puts a pillow over his face...figuratively speaking. They all know he is mentally off. The fact that he is losing it rapidly deteriorating is obvious to everyone including the reporters who cover him. Trump and his crazy cult followers, are being used by the extremists and too dumb to realize it and his family is too dumb.

[quote]If Trump loses, what will the gays of DL obsess over for 18 hours a day instead of impending doom?

The celebrations and shared PTSD stories will continue for a good two years. Then there's that felony backlog. Don't forget, a narcissistic stupid old criminal fascist isn't just for Christmas.

OP is obviously new here. The DataLounge will never run out of things to obsess about: tvs over fireplaces, stainless steel appliances, Tina Turner wall clocks… and that’s just a incomplete list of home furnishings we’ve covered in the past.

And eight volumes of why Dorothy's WML co-panelists didn't like her just scratches the surface.

If trump wins, all States will ban porno sites. Redneck rules!

As much as that would suck, R29, the male skin magazines will return to the newsstands, maybe the rebirth of a printed Playgirl, the revamp of Blueboy, Numbers and Torso, new Colt publications. It will be limited compared to what we experienced with the porn sites, but good gosh, it's all we had in the 70s thru 90s That was enough to sustain us at the time..

Gerg and Tfake

r30 the world has changed. Men cannot and will not live without internet porn.

R19, that is not true. I was definitely into politics (I even majored in political science), but I wasn’t this crazy intensely interested until Dump. After Jan. 6, I had such a feeling of relief, I could go back to my normal levels of interest. But I can’t do that while he’s a viable political thing.

I know the question is, what came first, the chicken or the egg? Well in this case, it’s the chicken.

“ even majored in political science “

..you and 84.689% of DL lawyers

R34, I’ve never seen anyone else but me reveal on DL they were Poly Sci majors, so no idea why the snark. I have, though, seen many, many DL’ers claim they were lawyers (which I haven’t because I’m not). Not only was I a Poly Sci major, it was at a (gasp!) Ivy League school. How’s that for a laugh?

We'll all obsessively gloat over his downfall and gleefully observe his many, many, many criminal trials. He's had it coming for so long.

R35 it’s Poli Sci …jeez. Where did your degree come from?

The dumbest of the dumb Ivy schools, I gather.

Poly comes from the Greek, meaning much or many. Poli is shorthand for political, or politics.

Yes, R38, I graduated college way back in 1979, but it was always Poli Sci then.

Since MAGAts are now so supremely confident of victory, a loss to Harris is not going to go down well.

At most schools with "Poly" in their name, Poly stands for Polytechnic.

Are we really arguing over Poly? It’s effing slang.

Suzanne Somers

Joyce DeWitt

Bonnie Franklin

Shelley Hack

Madonna’s latest horror show pictures

Whatever Kennedys are still alive, and how Jackie hated them

Perms

Some snack food Keebler or Hostess or Frito Lay stopped making during the Reagan administration

How much the Head Writing Team for (INSERT SOAP NAME HERE) sucked (enter dates prior to 1995 here)

And of course, Markle

I won't have to mention that at one of his recent rallies he made a comment about the airports during The Revolutionary War.

r43 you forgot Lucille Ball

I look forward to finding out. I yearn for the day when the narcissist is gone for good. Prison or death, either works. Come for him soon please.

Blocking basic bitch trolls like OP. Another lonely, drunken weekend?

It’s Poly ya MAGA dodos.

Obsheshion!

If you google "poly sci" you'll be asked "Did you mean: poli sci major"

[quote] Tragically he’s not going to lose. He got Supreme Court up his ass.

You can always tell a troll by the void of articles in a sentence, like their mother tongue.

Go back to hunting moose and squirrel, trash.

OP now has his answer. When all else fails, the DataLounge will obsess over spelling and grammar.

Less than 50 replies in and this thread is not about Trump any longer, but has morphed into a high-stakes debate on how to correctly shorten the phrase “Political Science.”

R42 not for a college major it isn’t

Well if they can’t name their own major properly, then why would we give a rat’s ass about their polytical posts?

I would enjoy a discussion on favorite places to take children that provide relaxation.

R6

I more worried about Vance in 2028.

[quote]I more worried about Vance in 2028.

Kamala will crush Vance in debate. He'll need to defend the indefensible. Naturally he'll lie with smiles, but the brutal ugly facts about Trump will outlive us all.

Wash Rinse Repeat

Damn I’ve gotten more responses over my “Poly Sci” spelling than almost anything I’ve ever posted. Never change, DL, and I mean that seriously. Anyway, when Dump loses, I can’t wait to go back to reading actual books. I used to read constantly, now I just peruse political shit and DL. I hate it.

He'll become as relevant as that Chachi actor. Only maga is sticking with him.

Easy. Foreskin sauce.

R6 You are exactly why people are leaving the left.

How so R62? Not R6.

I am a Poli Sci major -- undergrad, Master's, and ABD (only because I butted heads with a right wing prof at my orals and he refused to pass me; and then, contrary to faculty advice, I refused to kiss his ass afterwards -- oh, well). I quit the program after that

It [italic]is[/italic] Poli Sci. If I saw "poly" in that context, i.e., "Poly Sci," I would assume it meant "polymer."

But Ivies often have strange traditions.

Count down the days until the Trump presidency hopefully ends.

^ My bad. My post is for what happens if Trump wins.

Political Science is an easy major. Not terribly challenging or intellectual, contrary to what one might think.

I am sure the proper way to separate pasta from water.

Actually, OP many people like Joy Behar have been obsessing since 2015 nonstop even though he currently isn't president and hasn't been for the nearly the last four years. Some people just can't let it go.

I studied political [bold]science[/bold], R67, not political [bold]theory[/bold] or [bold]philosophy.[/bold] I have a statistical background (the "science" means I analyzed actual [italic]data[/italic]) that allowed me to accept statistical positions at well-known companies (which is where the $ is).

Too bad those places always want their statisticians to lie, cheat, and steal.

Ask Ron DeSatan what he did to his statistician when she reported the truth about Covid in FL.

BTW, R67, what was your major, and what is your current profession? Inquiring minds want to know.

chop wood, carry water. When a disease is cured, you go back to living life.

R70 didn’t ask, but my major was Finance and I now chew and tan leather for several multinational leather upholstery corporations.

r70 - Columbia Law. Currently an attorney at a top ten in NYC, also travel to LA and SF regularly. Trying to get out of the LA and SF travel because I want to be NYC-based 100% of the time but that's not going to happen in the forseeable future. Even NYC is wearing on me after 25 years. I'd like to live full-time in my native CT but the commute is something I don't want to deal with. Walking to work is one of life's pleasures. Most everything else about NYC, however, is getting to me.

And political science is not that difficult of a major. The poli sci majors I knew in college tended to be lazy spoiled brats. Even at Columbia

Trust, we’ll come up with new obsessions. We had plenty of them throughout the Obama years.

Linda Lavin is always a go-to for DLers.

As a lawyer, your undergrad major [italic]wasn't[/italic] poiltical science, R67?

Odd.

Now, OP. YOU know that he's the face that launched a thousand court challenges!

🎶 Michigan! Georgia! And then Pennsylvania!

Whipping his Trumptards into a fair mania!

Claiming the Dems did some fraudulent "things,"

Trump won't be gone 'til the Fat Lady sings!

As his loss mounts,

He'll want recounts!

We'll hear raves and rants!

Still, Biden's successor will be Kamala,

And Donnie will 💩.....

His pants! 🎶

No one gives a shit r67. Blah blah

I did LA SF and NY. 30 years of biglaw and in-house on Wall Street. Walked away. You should to and stop the dumb posts—you’re not special.

*too

Glen Powell

[quote]As a lawyer, your undergrad major wasn't poiltical science, [R67]?

Double major in English and Psychology.

r78 I was merely answering a question.

[quote] You should to and stop the dumb posts.

^^The jokes just write themselves. 😂

Huh huh—you funny.

OK. I confess. But I have al ready mentioned it several times in different contexts. I majored in Political Science/Public Administration as part of a pre law curriculum. I took the LSAT but never attended Law School. I did work in government and for a member od Congress, who died more than a decade ago. He was not memorable, but I had the opportunity to learn how things worked and interacted with Congressional and committee staff. I also worked on the Carter Campaign. Twice. I have never been as obsessed or concerned as I have been since this Neo Fascist POS little snot inserted himself into our political discourse at the behest of Putin who has been wanting to weaken and embarrass us ever since Carter kicked his ass.

Don’t worry, Defacto OP. It’s looking increasingly like Trump is going to win.

So the real question becomes, what happens when Trump takes office and has no magic wand to make inflation go away? Where will all the screams about inflation go then?

R86, Dump is not going to win. Also, the inflation rate is only around 3.3 percent.

The Civil War against the MAGA states

Elon of course

[quote] the inflation rate is only around 3.3 percent.

It's lower than that now.

2.4.

[Quote] [R86], Dump is not going to win. Also, the inflation rate is only around 3.3 percent.

Yes r87 but that doesn’t stop the MAGAs from pretending it’s 24%. So my question stands — when Trump doesn’t lower inflation, what will they say then?

I hope you’re right about him losing. I’ve certainly poured a ton of money into the Harris campaign and knock for democracy.

The polls have me worried. There’s a small percentage of ashamed Trump voters who say they’re undecided or voting for the Democrat, but then they vote for Dump. Has me very worried.

R73, Isn't law just lots of reading of cases? Try studying Henry James or James Joyce, and we'll talk.

R92 I don’t think there are any ashamed Trump voters now. The few out there are matched by suburban women who will vote for Kamala.

The bigger question is when he loses what will you ruskie bots do?

Kamala's wardrobe.

We'll still have the Facts of Life threads to obsess over.

Diddy’s Freak Off parties and if Susan Dey will finally comment on the rumor that she was THE biggest freak to ever attend.

Whatever happened to Kamala Harris.

What happened ever—

FIFY

[quote]Seriously, if half the country thinks rehiring him is a good idea- do we even have a future?

Exactly, R6. Whether he wins or loses, the U.S. has lost its way. It will be a few elections and an extraordinary streak of fortune more than reason that partially reset things to something less than rancor, distrust, fever pitch animosity, and abandonment of any hint of reason.

The losses already suffered won't be erased or rebalanced by an election or three.

Of course if Trump wins it's abandon all hope. A Harris win, the best possible miracle, only buys time for starting a program of critical repairs.

[quote]hat doesn’t stop the MAGAs from pretending it’s 24%. So my question stands — when Trump doesn’t lower inflation, what will they say then?

The day Trump takes office, they'll say this is the best economy America has ever seen, and it's all due to Trump.

We are not dealing with sane, rational people. It's a cult.

When Trump loses again, what will Republicans do? That is the more interesting question. Will they keep doubling down on MAGA, which is a proven loser, or will they course correct?

r103, we need to get to the other side of Civil War 2.0, first.

If Trump were President, or almost any Republican Neo Fascist with a good communications operation...and they do the best messaging out here, If bread costs $4 a loaf, and the MAGAs complain it's Biden's fault, and inflation is too high, and then The GOP gets in and that bread is now $5 a loaf, the MAGAS will say, "Thank god we got inflation under control!"

The fall out that is certain if dump loses.