Trump losing sleep over polling numbers days before election

Well, I've been losing sleep and having anxiety attacks over the possibility that he might worm his way back into office again, so no sympathy

I've slept maybe 6 hours since Tuesday.
Just gonna white knuckle it till Tuesday.
- Yeah same tbh. But also I don’t expect this shit to really wrap up one way or another in anything less than a week, and then who knows what Johnson will try to pull at the electoral vote count in December…
- Well what happens if he wins? Surely your stress level won't go down
One thing that I've found with anxiety that can help is volunteering and other things that help dem turnout. It moves the needle a little and if nothing else it makes you feel productive and some more degree of agency besides just voting yourself
Can find some phone banks, canvasing, and text banks near you
Also another small thing that can also help is reminding and encourage any dem leaning friends, family, etc. to go out and vote. Helps more than you'd think
Yep. And I think he will win too. I’ve been playing with the ABC/538 and Harris’ chances just seem so slim to me.
I just want to see something reassuring at this point.
- Reassurance is women are out-voting men by 10pts in early voting.
  Fully 35% of black voters say they plan to vote on election day alone.
  538 gave 59% odda GOP to take the Senate in 2022.
  Not only do these polls have a margin of error, but they are only predictive insofar as their likely voter models are accurate, and registration volatility and GOP crossover support for Harris means they likely aren't.
  There is no evidence that the low propensity incel bro vote is churning out as hoped.
- Nate Silver left 538, but he is still hosting the Monte Carlo model at the Silver Bulletin. That model is putting it right around 50-50 for Trump win vs Harris win. That's not a polling average... That's the result of playing a few million elections where the results are based on the current polling average.
- Love how lemmy just toxically down-votes things that don't agree with their bias.

Him losing sleep could actually kill him, I wish him many a sleepless night.

Honestly though I hope he just strokes out from the high blood pressure

I want his death to be so nonchalant that nobody even realizes he's actually dead.
like, he goes to take a shit and dies on the toilet and nobody notices for like a day.
and when they find him hes all riggered up and covered in shit and piss.
and the person to find him is a secretary he's treated like shit for years. she takes pics of him, sells them for a huge amount of money, and everyone mocks him for the next two generations.
and in every history book, the last line will be about how he died covered in his own urine and feces.
- He was a piece of shit. In his final moments, he was comforted by his kin.
- Agree with everything there, but man. I wouldn't want to get on the bad side of your imagination.
- Now give us a chalant one
- As if he shits on the toilet...
- A truly fitting epitaph
- lmao what kind of loser writes out detailed fantasies like this?
My feeling is that he'll never face any real tangible consequences for all the shit he's put the world through. He'll have his final Big Mac Attack and dodge justice for good. Permanent delay tactic.
- his image will be rehabilitated by capitalist media like george bush's was
As much as I'd love it for him to stop being a threat to all that is good on this planet in the most final of ways; We're still in some deep shit even if he were to drop stone dead right this minute between his mob of dickhead supporters, and his running mate.
...Actually I have to go look up what happens if the president elect dies right before he's elected.
- Vice pres takes over and then selects a new vice pres.
- Depends on when the death occurs. I don't know what would happen if the death occurred after the people vote, but before the electors cast their votes.
- I’m fairly certain this has been the plan all along.
I'd like him to get his mind corrupted to the point he can't spell a word and panicing all the time. And live for another ten years in that screaming baby condition. Just a small puncture in his brains' blood vessels to flood it all - is that too much to ask?
- I'd like his mind to get corrupted by being able to feel what other people feel.
I hope it's much more painful than that.

People need to go out and fucking vote, nothing is in the bag for Harris, especially since republicans want to legally contest every single fucking fair and free election. Traitorous losers

Kamala needs to go fire and brimgstone with her presidency so we don't have to spend the next several decades years with every election being "maintain the status quo or become the fourth reich"
- At bare minimum she needs to halt the genocide in Palestine, have Netanyahu and co sent to The Hague, deport Elon Musk, send Trump to prison, nationalise SpaceX for a start.
- Dial back bush and Obama's expansions of executive power. The office of the president isn't supposed to be powerful enough that someone like trump can do so much damage.
- She needs an attorney general with balls. I nominate Hillary Clinton.
And grab a 2 or 3 hour shift for virtual phone banking today and tomorrow.
And if you live in or next to a swing state. Knock doors for an hour. It’s fun, and you’ll hate yourself if the fascists win and all you did was shit post on the internet.
https://events.democrats.org/
What if they want to vote for Trump? Should they still go out and vote?
- If you believe in democracy, yes.
- Sure.
  The mantra of "Everybody vote" is out there because it's harder to contest, and the fact of the matter is when more people vote, Republicans lose more elections.
- I mean... they have the right to but personally I would rather they didn't
- I hear there's a monster truck show all day where they are, wherever that is. They have punch and pie.

He not anxious about the election, it's the fact he goes to jail for all of his evil shitfuckery if he loses. No amount of microphone fellatio will alay his worry about atoning for his disgusting existence.

He'll exile to Russia to be with his boyfriend
- Wouldn't it be beautiful if Putin was willing to extradite him since he's no longer useful
- Until he becomes too much trouble and conveniently falls out a window.

If he loses, he’s going to prison.
- I want to believe.
- There is absolutely zero evidence that any of his actions will result in any jail time. There is evidence on the contrary though, that through 2 impeachments, however many court cases and legal battles, fines and fees that may not have been paid, that he'll get away with it all.
He has been this whole time.

I hope he loses a lot fucking more than sleep. Tired of these god damned traitors.

Good. You orange fuck. You rapist. Racist fucking shit stain asshole. I hope the rest of your sleeps are troubled. May the tightness in your neck grip ever harder in your final days. I hope you’re too much of a coward to commit suicide and you have to live with your actions and see your narcissistic collapse bring the house of cards down.

You’ve forced me to move my family to Germany because of the fascist movement you’ve brought to the US. You’ve had me doomscrolling since at least 2015. You’ve had me changing my travel plans checking flights out of Toronto in order to avoid flying from the US after your inauguration date so that my latino family will have no in-person interaction with any government agent from your regime despite their being citizens. You’ve fucking disrupted an entire world order due to your complicity with Duginism because of your insatiable greed and character flaws leading to Russian kompromat on you, or you’re just a piece of shit because you need the Russian money to keep coming.

You should be in jail at best, and facing a similar fate to Mussolini at worst. So fuck off with your sleepless nights you fucking weak minded piss poor excuse for a person.

I like the parallel to Musselini.
Here's a fun video that I like to share.
Moving to Germany to avoid fascism is an incredible move.
- It is incredible isn’t it? The Germans have seen first hand that some speech should not be free and they understand that the intolerant cannot be tolerated. Which is why they have the Brandmauer and there are talks to ban AfD. Trump should have never been allowed to run this time around, and if AfD is found to be undemocratic, they will be banned as well. 15% of the country may not like it, but that’s tough shit.
  Their system is actually a modern parliamentary government where it’s not winner take all. Proportional representation with ranked choice voting is what the USA needs to move to. We need to get off the two party system, but the parties who benefit are the ones who make the change. Also our third parties are absolute dogshit. Green and Libertarian. So culturally the USA needs to field some better policies and candidates. The problem is the right wing is so powerful that the left cannot meaningfully put together a real competitive coalition. Even the democrats would be center right in most other developed countries. So yeah, fascism is coming to the USA, whether it comes in 2024, 2028, or 2032, it’s coming and hopefully it doesn’t take the rest of the world out with it. The EU needs to be prepared to lose the USA as a primary trading partner and as the head of NATO. This Russia problem we have doesn’t seem to be going away.
  I just don’t want my kids getting drafted into some dumb ass fascist conflict. My hope would be that blue states resist when red state national guard is knocking on people’s doors and performing their dragnet deportation operation on anyone too dark a shade of brown. I just don’t see any of this ending well.
  I would love to be wrong about all of this by the way. But I grew up in the south, and I’ve seen first hand how the majority feels and thinks about cities, immigrants, LGBTQIA+, marginalized groups, POC, etc.
  Got called a nazi kraut my whole school career just for expressing pride in Lebkuchen or Christmas traditions or knowing a little bit of German despite being culturally American and speaking English as my native tongue. The USA has some serious cultural issues to reconcile, and I’m not sure a milquetoast centrist former prosecutor has the right formula to do it.
  That’s assuming she wins. She loses, I guess I’m flying out of Canada in January prior to inauguration day.
You come off as a pretty violent guy ngl
- Ah yes, a family man who wanted a quiet life backed into leaving his country for a place his children might stand a modicum of a chance of having a normal life is the violent one. Not the fascists touting project 2025, turning the military on American citizens, sending red state national guard to blue states to round people up for camps, etc., but I suppose “legal” political violence is okay with you.
- Yes, let's all hug and get along with fascist rapist wannabe despots. Maybe we can make gingerbread houses together and sing kumbah-fucking-ya. Go suck a Re-tard's dick.
- They're not violent. I am, though. Feel free to direct your anger at me.
- Lol ok snowflake.

New poll just dropped showing him down by 3 in Iowa(!) I hope he never gets another good night's sleep as long as he lives.

Woah that's that benchmark tracking poll everyone was hoping to see him "only" up 5
This is a BIG deal. Selzer was spot on in 2016, 2020, and 2022. The poll is the gold standard. Even if it's off by 4 with Trump winning Iowa, which would be well outside Selzer's typical margin of error, it would point to a huge herding and overestimation of other polls toward Trump in the Rust Belt. If this is spot on, this election would probably have Harris win with the biggest landslide since 1988.

Polls are meaningless, GO OUT AND VOTE

I hope the Orange neo-Nazi bag of shit is stressing out.

It's about effing time he gets to experience what he's been doing to all of us.
Yeah that's the good news.

Anything that weakens him before his second coup attempt is good in my book.

If this story is true then that actually gives me some hope that it isn't as solid of a plan as I was assuming. If he's stressed about polling then apparently it won't be as simple to steal as some people made it seem.
- I think he's mostly shook by how bad the polls look ATM. Complacency is death, of course, but a remarkablely accurate poll in Iowa (pollsters name escapes me atm) picked Harris to flip Iowa. With the gap clearing the margin of error iirc. With a +8 Harris swing since September. If projections like that play out and if that +8 holds nationally Flordia and Texas might become toss ups.

It’s be really cool if he lost his freedom for all the crimes we know he’s committed…

Shit... I'd settle for the ones he's been convicted of.

At least he gets to catch up on his sleep during court appearances eh?

Florida voter here... I stood in line for about 45 minutes today for early voting. Women outnumbered men by at least 8 to 1 while I was there, which I found a bit encouraging. I enjoyed being able to vote against Matt Gaetz, and I only wish DeStains was on the ballot too so I coulda voted against his dumb-ass as well...

Greetings from NW FL! I'll be there on election day.
- Hiya neighbor!
We got to vote against Scott's dumbass though!
- Yes! Yes we did! I forgot to mention that...

He's stressing about having to face jail if he loses. So anyways...

I had some awesome oreo and dulce Gelato last night.

I just want to know he's not going to be president again. We can't know that for sure until Tuesday evening at the earliest. I'll never forgive Republicans for putting us through this.

Oh, if he loses, he is definitely putting us all through this again. He will start raising money for "Trump 2028" even as he challenges this election.
- Honestly, I'm slightly skeptical of that. The man is old, and his health already appears to be visibly starting to degrade a little. That doesn't necessarily mean he'll be dead in 4 years, but barring some medical breakthrough on reversing aging in the next couple years, I suspect he probably won't be in good enough shape to campaign by then. Plus, it would be much more difficult for him to win the nomination in such a case. He's got a cult following that would help, but the republicans also want to win, and if he loses this, that will be 2 elections in a row, almost a decade, that they'll have lost the white house with him on the ticket.
  The bigger issue is that his "deny losing elections and actively court bigots while saying whatever inflammatory thing he can to stay in the news" strategy will probably get picked up by whoever replaces him.
- I wouldn't call that definite by any stretch. Not because he wouldn't, but because honestly I feel like there's a pretty decent chance he drops dead between now and then.
We're not going to know on Tuesday.
- There's a chance it's a landslide and no legitimate argument for a recount. That won't stop the lawsuits, but it will make every reasonable person sleep better at night.

But not too tired to spend 5 minutes pretending to be a fast food worker or garbage truck driver.

He may be getting close to that point though. Did you see how hard is was for him to get up into that truck?

Lack of sleep and obesity at that age can trigger heart attacks. God willing.

No. I want him to watch himself become irrelevant while being sentenced for his crimes. He can die or whatever in a prison cell, forgotten and penniless.
- I feel like forgetting people like him is how we got to where we are now.
  I hope a fucking meteor hits him. I hope his death is so cataclysmic that it cannot be denied that causality itself has orchestrated his demise. I hope his death is so violently spectacular that even Joel Osteen goes "Well, maybe we aught to look at the facts.".
  Do your best to make sure no one forgets Trump. Make sure people understand exactly what he represents.
I want him to have a stroke and a heart attack at the same time mid speech.
- Between the vomitous word salad, shitting himself live on air during the debate, and swinging to music for the better part of an hour, it'd take whole minutes to tell he'd had an incident. Precious minutes

Low energy. SAD!

I find I can bear his discomfort with extreme fortitude.

Thauts n' prairs
- I thought you said "pears" at first...and I'll be honest, I laughed at that way harder than I probably should have...

Anything that precipitates his inevitable natural death is welcome. Even if he loses the election this asshole will divide and weaken the West as long as he draws breath.

I think if he loses this election he will be dead before the next.
Imagine the stress of his various legal and financial problems, no longer with any backing from powerful people, then going to jail or under house arrest with no contact with his followers and just being completely irrelevant and forgotten, knowing that by the time you're released you'll just be an empty broken frail old nothing.
It would be Trumps worst nightmare. It would break his spirit.

Someone put him to sleep already.

I'm so torn about this. I also really want him to suffer, and that requires him to be alive.

He'll have plenty of time to catch up on some Z's in a prison cell.

The dumbass doesn't know he's being played by his aides and their republican masters. He's just their tool.

Just like Bush, diminishing his agency excuses a monster who deserves no mercy.

Like a felon who knows his days as a free man are numbered.

Losing sleep over whether he’ll actually be sentenced or not.

Weird old guy looks tired; needs a shady vacation.

There's a nice island in Long Island Sound (or maybe it's still the East River at that point) that he should spend some time in. It would be a nice, calming vacation where he would get three meals a day, and a cot to sleep on, all paid for by the taxpayers of New York State! I hope gets to do some time there.

Weird fucker. Drink alcohol until you pass out like a huge majority of us that cannot comprehend the U.S. with a Trump President.

What a waste of atoms that 'thing' is. May it suffer greatly before they are permanently rearranged into a nonliving format. May the universe learn from it's mistake.

He should lose sleep from getting executed for treason, for handing the western world to Putin on a platter.

How the fuck is he not in prison? It's as if the conviction on more than two dozen felonies (and that's only the shit he is convicted of so far) and not suffer a single dollar for a fine or a minute in prison means the whole trial process meant nothing.
- Well, you see, applying the law equally to everyone might make some rich criminals appear like they are criminals on account of the crimes they evidently committed and thus make them appear less worthy of holding the highest office in the country and nobody wants that, right? Gotta keep the election fair by letting rich people get away with their crimes until they can pardon themselves, right?

good, but go vote (if you haven't yet) and make the winning margin bigger! we don't need that "voter fraud" bullshit anymore. it's the same song and dance as last time.

Literally anything that makes his day more unpleasant brings a smile to my face

He's probably losing sleep over the fact that if he loses the election his best chance for staying out of prison is fleeing to Russia.

I mean he isn’t in prison now, and isn’t heading any closer to prison. Evergreen tweet.
- Hooray for courts stacked with sycophants and partisans, and liberals enabling fascism because meaningfully opposing it would be uncivil.
  There's slim hope that Trump losing the election along with his viability as president or leader of the GOP would see his protections make way for consequences, but even that seems unlikely.

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Yeah, being in a "president or prison" situation will do that.

Wow, we actually have something in common

Good. Feel what you do to others. This is all your fault after all.

L rip bozo

Doddering Donnie needs his naptime.

Ha. Him and everyone else too.

Look at all of us, a couple of twinsies.

Imagine the sleepy time in awwfice

Good.

I have no idea why

Basically tied, Republican voters have better turn out, he’s cheating, his voters are intimidating would be voters and committing voter fraud

But at least the US just promised Canada that Trump isn’t a threat to democracy

Do you think Trump will try to flee the country?

No. That won't happen.
- He'll probably go to Austin to hang with Elon and Joe. Until he will be hanged with Elon and Joe.

too effin bad

What is the deal with The Daily Beast reporting on reports already made by different sources?

This is just an article about a report made by Axios. Am I missing something?

I think Trump will win, but I hope he is justified in his fears.

I don't, but people should still assume he can and vote like they're the one that can tip the scale against him.
- Voting like my liver depends on it!