"I think this will go very bad, and the near future will likely be darker than anything most living Americans have ever experienced. I hope I’m wrong, more than I’ve ever hoped to be wrong in my life. I really don’t think I am."
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It took a couple of months for me. The instructions were straightforward (online), and I'm sure each situation is different. It just seemed like a good idea.
I find myself considering that my mercy and kindness will be transactional in the future. "Who did you vote for?" To Trump voters- gfys, that's your free market. and keep walking/driving.
MAGA and Orban have been working in concert for years. It’s quite open, with Republicans traveling to Hungary and giving Orban speaking spots in the U.S., and Trumpists citing Orban’s Hungary as a model.
Not saying you're wrong, but my hopeful counterpoint, his need to have his ego stroked will not allow him to alienate too much support from the average person. He lives in thrall to adulation, if the average person begins to feel too much pain...
With what appeared to be record turnout across the country, how is it the number of votes cast this year appears to be so many millions fewer than at the height of COVID?
It is record turnout for an election conducted largely in person at polls. What 2020 showed us is that when you make voting more convenient, more people will vote.
He's not targeting most living Americans he's targeting those on the margins. Most won't notice unless we find ways to reach them and make them watch the horrors.
I think it will be bad. Worse than anything I remember, but then I don't remember Jim Crow or the Great Depression or before the 14th and 19th Amendments. So, I am trying to keep in my mind that we were worse. We survived worse. The mills will grind & the arc of justice will revert to course
Now I read this skeet and I wonder if it sounds dismissive of how bad it will be. I think people will die because of this election. I think Trump will kill people. I think nato may fall. I think Russia may invade Poland in Israel May due to the West Bank what it has done to Gaza
I can imagine a Cascade of war resulting from the election of Donald Trump and not just horror in the United States but w**** around the world. I don't know what will happen to Taiwan. There's a lot of shit he can do in 4 years
And I have no confidence that we will be able to eject the fascists in 2028. I have hope, a thread of Hope. But yeah as bad as all of that we still won't have an institutionalized an evil as slavery
They know that their brain-addled freak voters tried to murder their own presidential candidate twice in the past few months, right? Anyway, I wish them all well in their new big tent!
They won an election based on anti-incumbent sentiment. They can't turn the US into Russia due to the sheer incompetence of the sycophants who work for fascists if nothing else.
We're disappointed today, but if this fucker thinks the war is over, he will be disappointed for the rest of his life.
The American Experiment has failed. The remainder of my days will see 60 years of progress I lived through rolled back, with an unconstrained MAGA Congress destroying the social safety net and federal judiciary of supercharged Alitos and Kacsmaryks negating civil rights. I'm glad I am childless.
Not wrong.
Too many people can’t fathom the next four (only, I hope) years because we, America, haven’t experienced anything close to an autocratic government.
i don't think so. glass half full person talking. the business community does not want chaos either. i think he will be reined in by civil society, the military, business. It will hurt, but it will be a necessary lesson. If you stick your finger back in the fan. IT HURTS. We will come out stronger.
One advantage that Trump has always had is that he, in contrast to his opponent, never calls on any voter to be better or to rise up. He simply gives them permission to indulge in their most base desires and to exert no effort on behalf of anyone else. People given that choice often take it.
Understood. But it doesn’t excuse the obvious. Republican turnout was consistent. We know who they are. Re-explaining who they are will not win Dems future elections. Why did better people not show up at the polls.
If you have access to any family members or acquaintances who lived through the Great Depression or WWII, try to learn from their stories & the incredible challenges they faced. I’m so glad I was able to record an oral history of my dad before he passed. It remains a real source of strength for me.
The funny thing is, since they kept yelling that the left was cheating and the left kept saying to trust the election process, the left can't really accuse the rightt of cheating without looking like an hypocrite. Russia helped the republicans, knowingly. How is that not election interference?
I had to leave work early today because I was having those same thoughts and I just could not take another minute. And since I’m in Texas, it’s pretty good odds that they were.
Don't envy any of ye being surrounded by cunts like that but if I was I'd be amusing myself in throwing out smart comments about things
Keep in mind most men are weak as piss and can't handle things they like being made fun of and cry twice as much when they get told to stop whinging over a joke
Every trumpist I’ve discovered in my orbit is a soft-spoken, mild-mannered men. Very weak. Passive aggressives who never confront and are always silent when they disagree. Trump makes them feel vicariously strong. They are weaklings and know it. Hence, trump.
I'd do the same. Unless I know the person so well I'm certain they wouldn't vote for him or they tell me they didn't, I'll be assuming any American I meet is supporting the fascist party/cult
“Countries that slide into populist authoritarianism typically see it happen amidst big dislocations like a depression …”
Covid. We act like it never happened, and I think that might be increasing its impact. It changed many people’s view of how they relate to vulnerable people, in some dark ways.
replace "most living Americans" with "most of the world" and I'd agree. This will embolden fascists everywhere. The climate change fight is also basically lost now.
Enjoy the final few decades of planet Earth—all under the heel of fascists.
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Hiding that fact from the public prior to the election is a gut punch to every Harris voter in the country.
I thought we were better than that. I was wrong.
I foolishly thought good people were the majority. I now know they aren't. I don't want to be here anymore. Racism and misogyny is too deep.
People can’t believe it will happen here and it didn’t seem to matter how many times it was pointed out how easily it could and now will happen.
This is likely just some copium on my part.
TrumpMerica
That's going to affect most Americans
So.
Yeah.
I think 2016-2020 was a fart compared to what’s coming.
Nor do I think living in a Blue state or even in another country will make anyone safe.
Come for my body, I fucking dare you.
We're disappointed today, but if this fucker thinks the war is over, he will be disappointed for the rest of his life.
I know Trump is going a global disaster, but how is it going to end specifically in the US?
And when she asked why, I told her it was because I was fairly certain humanity was doomed and that I couldn't morally sentence a life to the future.
That broke her.
Too many people can’t fathom the next four (only, I hope) years because we, America, haven’t experienced anything close to an autocratic government.
https://youtu.be/_AJQlRmJvLA?si=witd419yGdMjOFjk
Vs 80M in 2020.
Who. Did. Not. Show. Up.
And it's possible that 2020 was unique, with the pandemic, George Floyd, and dropbox voting.
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20241106-project-2025-those-close-to-trump-have-plans-for-the-united-states
A coin toss of liberal freedom vs. Gas pricing =
Less World peace and more fascist world #project2025
Many are still alive.
We had bomb threats in all Dem stronghold across three states.
We have massive voter purges. Ballot rejections. Ballot boxes on fire.
This is definitely NOT unambiguous.
Trumps idiotic tariff plan will be blamed on "illegal aliens"
Corruption will be blamed on "Communists"
Protests will be blamed on women and LGBT community
I wonder how you can even look at fellow Americans you encounter now
Keep in mind most men are weak as piss and can't handle things they like being made fun of and cry twice as much when they get told to stop whinging over a joke
I guess my go to move of laughing at them and calling them a stupid cunt doesn't keep me breathing for long if I am there 👀
Covid. We act like it never happened, and I think that might be increasing its impact. It changed many people’s view of how they relate to vulnerable people, in some dark ways.
Enjoy the final few decades of planet Earth—all under the heel of fascists.