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    Personally, it kinda feels like a weight’s been lifted. Now I can let go of the last shred of pretense of this country being anything other than a fat fucking joke.

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      Why put this on all of us when only 1/3 of the country eligible voters in this country voted for him? When taking voter turnout into consideration (a third of the eligible voters didn’t vote).

      Eligible voters’ results:

      34% Trump

      32% Harris

      33% Did not vote

      Don’t put this on the other half of the country that abhors him.

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    I’m trans and I’m terrified, terrified for my queer friends and family, terrified for Ukraine and Palestine, and terrified for the planet.

    If you didn’t vote or voted for this piece of shit, fuck you. If you voted for him, you deserve the massive inflation and shit he’s about to put you through.

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      I’m straight and white, and I am also terrified for my queer friends and family. I figured Israel was always a lost cause but Ukraine is going to be so fucking stupid and painful when they get starved after we offered support.

      If you didn’t vote or voted for this piece of shit, FUCK YOU

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        Ukraine was always friendly with the Trump crowd, I think. So is Putin, but this is not as clear cut. Palestine is fucked, but it already was. Vance even said something along not interfering between Israel and Iran, so it’s about equally fucked, maybe even less fucked.

        We live in a world with skewed media picture of what’s happening, and the distortion by Trump people and the distortion by DNC people do not cancel each other out. In some ways they work in the same direction.

        Only the biggest and rawest facts should really be used in the comparison. What both have actually done in full. Not what they promise, not project 2025, just the real things. Weapons, money, territory, and not a token amount with some promise, but all. Same way you pay for groceries. Politicians are like shoplifters.

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      Exit polls show 12% of lgbtq voters voted for Trump. 12% of lgbtq voters voted to be jailed, castrated, and discriminated against by their country. That is not only terrifying but also embarrassing.

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          I suspected if she lost it was because she was a woman. Others are saying it was all Gaza and they didn’t vote in protest. A commentor replied to me showing the margins are like 10s of thousands in one state.

          She seem way better than Hillary too. Hillary reminded me of my grandma but in all the bad ways.

          Guess Trump may nuke the whales. Tried to nuke a hurricane.

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            Anyone who didn’t vote in protest needs to shut the fuck up now. I don’t wanna hear another damn word out of them regarding Gaza, or moralizing to the world. They will now get to see Gaza be dismantled.

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              They really stuck it to the Democratic party, hope they’re fucking happy that their solution to the Gaza situation is to accelerate wiping Palestinians from existence. Blood is on their hands now more than anyone that did the bare minimum to keep democracy alive.

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                No he really is. What is more status quo than a rich white guy as president with conservative values?

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                  Trump is campaigning on making massive changes to American domestic and foreign policy. I don’t like the changes he’s pursuing, but he is absolutely not running on the status quo. And that is, in fact, exactly what won him the race.

                  If he was just running on the status quo, he wouldn’t be a threat to democracy. Deporting 20 million people isn’t the status quo. Repealing civil rights isn’t status quo. Attacking or ending NATO isn’t status quo. Abandoning Ukraine isn’t status quo. Befriending Russia isn’t status quo.

                  Yes, Trump is a conservative white guy. But type of thinking, focusing on identity groups and demographics, is what has got us here. Kamala herself is a historically novel nominee, she was new in terms of personal identity. But she wasn’t actually offering anything other than the same milquetoast centrism of Biden.

                  This is the problem. People are hurting. Trump actually had something to offer these people. He said, “elect me, I’ll throw out all the immigrants, and by doing so I’ll lower the cost of housing and increase wages!” It’s a horrible, evil, and long-term unproductive solution, but he was actually offering SOMETHING. Democrats offered no meaningful answers to the things people are actually hurting on. The only thing Democrats offered were wonky dismissals of economic concerns by citing official inflation numbers and calculated real wage gains. (Ignoring figures like ratio of median housing cost to median wage.)

                  People are in pain right now. People are on the edge, driven to the brink by late-stage capitalism. Biden was a milquetoast centrist, but he was able to barely eek out a win by running on a lot of progressive promises in 2020. He walked away from a lot of those commitments and governed as the centrist he is. Harris offered just more of the same. Neither offered real meaningful solutions and proved completely incapable of handling the crises at hand.

                  Trump again, he actually offered solutions, or at least something that seems like a solution. Like it or not, he WAS the change candidate of 2020. And that is what won him the election.

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    We are so fucked. The repercussions of this election are going to effect everything from SCOTUS to county courts. This is so utterly disgusting. People looked at the shit spewing from his mouth and said, “Yes, represent me.”

    Fuck this country.

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    Called it, using Allan Lichtman’s own 13 keys principle (in ways that he himself overlooked), and on a heavily downvoted comment.

    Where I was wrong was with how narrow the result would he. It wasn’t even Gore v Bush levels of close unlike when Lichtman’s 13 keys prediction previously failed. Kamala lost the popular vote to a convicted felon that tried to usurp democracy and is the reason why abortion is no longer a federal right. The Republicans spent the last few weeks crapping on Haitians and Puerto Ricans, yet won some districts with large Latino populations.

    This is what happens when Democrats ignore their voter base and choose a cabal of unpopular and uncharismatic candidates to carry the torch. The bar is now so low that we need James Cameron to venture out into the Mariana Trench and lift it back up again…

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    I don’t wanna hear any more moralizing and complaining from young leftists who can’t even be bothered to perform their civic duty and vote. Shut the fuck up. What happens to Gaza in 2025 is on you, not Harris or the Democrats. And when you bitch about the genocide, remember that you facilitated it. You gave up your duty and gave Netanyahu exactly what he wanted, a clear path.

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      What if he ushers in world peace? Will that be on them or on Trump or will that be because of you and whatever DNC stooge is being anointed next?

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    So, I always thought it was just a mean bully thing to say, but, as a group, Americans really are dumber than a bag of rocks.

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      The real question is “if they are so stupid why did you lose?” Why didn’t your superior intellect lead you to victory?

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    ChatGPT just provided an interesting result. Although I was looking for something a bit more unique to use for the next 4(plus) years.

    Yeah, it’s not too good at this.

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    Not only are we in the worst timeline…

    I actually don’t have anything to add.

    How did we get here? And even more terrifying how many people that actually went to go vote were surprised that Biden wasn’t on the ticket?!?!

    And let me just go ahead and get myself in trouble. Fuck you every single person that didn’t vote for Kamala Harris that was eligible.

    SPECIFICALLY…

    Well I guess I don’t want to get in trouble that bad.

    Yes, this is the fucking bullshit we live with. Due to our winner-take-all insanely backwards system…

    I’m not technically allowed to properly criticize whomever didn’t show up to the polls.

    Whatever groups they may or may not belong to.

    Yeah I’m sounding like a motherfucking Maga bitch right now…

    But guess what Arab Americans and black men??!?!!? ( if and only if those are demographics that didn’t show up to vote )

    Get completely and totally fucked by the Trump administration. Has nothing to do with me and everything do with them

    Edit:

    For what it’s worth I’m terribly sorry for not including the Latino vote that went to Trump

    Ultimately it doesn’t really matter which particular demographic I blame because the truth is I’m not blaming anyone in particular.

    Fuck America, fuck me, and fuck Trump

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      But guess what Arab Americans and black men??!?!!? Get completely and totally fucked by the Trump administration.

      lmao scratched liberal moment.

      Why not blame whites, both men and women, who actually voted for Trump, despite the dems abandoning their base to appeal to them?

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      Oh yeah, blame the black and brown people for seeing genocide as a red line in who to vote for. Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.

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        No of course we cannot blame voters for staying home. They had a gun to their head. On the plus side, Palestine has been SAVED! ❤️❤️❤️

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          You are pushed from the 50th floor or the 100th floor. Doesn’t matter. You die the same.

          Put yourself in a position where you get fucked just the same regardless of who you vote then you don’t have any incentive to vote at all.

          I am not American so I say this as a neutral observing party that you guys tried to bully the Arab Americans into voting for dems and that dishonest plea by John Oliver that was actually insulting. Dems don’t have balls to take a side and then expect votes from all sides.

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            One of the most idiotic takes I’ve read yet. Palestine was not the one and only thing that was at stake, and Harris was still markedly less bad. Anyone who couldn’t see that isn’t intelligent enough to be voting.

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            You are pushed from the 10th floor some time in the next week, or you are pushed from the 10th floor immediately and shot after impact.

            Which is better?

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              Why did you reduce the floors? I wouldn’t mind getting shot after being pushed from the 50th floor though. Will be more pissed about falling then being shot at.

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      I thought we escaped the worst timeline where Trump won in 2020, but it seems we never left it. This is even worse… packed SC from the start, granted complete immunity right from the get-go…

      My only solace is that people endure far worse and manage to find some level of happiness. So just gotta endure and take care of each other and our own and keep searching for daylight