He'll at the very least do significant damage. It sucks.

Time for us to be strong, stand up, fight back, and take care of each other.

One of the angles I've seen in the place I live, California, is "I don't need to vote; we'll be safe here."

It's SO shortsighted. Like, you live next to one of the most gentrified areas in the world, and think that their policies won't make an impact in your daily lives. Sorry to rant a bit, but it's just disappointing.

Yeah. I'm expediting my plans to move to someplace with a sane local government with some friends. It's going to be much rougher than my original plan - but I can't do this alone. Not again. Not in Texas.

dont kill yourself like ive seen many fo,ks plan to do

its not THAT bad

plus sonic said not to kill yourself too

The thing that I keep hearing is that the vast majority of US citizens don't wan't a female president. Period. Doesn't matter what the the other guy stands for as long as it's not a woman... sigh

tbf the 16 years Merkel didn't really benefit Germany either, so there might be something to it, but still...

Merkel is mostly neoliberal hell, a thing that the democratic party is reaping as they offer nothing because the current status quo is what they want.

Maybe if we had a primary here there would have been time but the USA doesn't want to admit that it is white male supremacist and until we get over that hill and admit it we can't fix it.

the weirdest part is my coworkers acting like this week is normal. coworker genuinely asked me "whats wrong."

What did you tell them, out of curiosity?

told them i was upset about the election but having done this back in 2016, I just let it die there. I don't think there is a point to discussing it now and i'd rather not think about their future troubles on top of my own.

Everyone is going to find the fuck out in their own way looking at project 2025

Well said. It's gonna be a rough one...

As a point of view someone who isn't from USA (me, i'm Brazilian). That election just sucked hard to me.

I'll openly say, Trump could do anything but be a president and talk shit about socialism and communism. Really, are people really into what he says really?! I'm a bit worried of how it will turn out for countries that have a really huge influence from US. Specially countries like the ones in NATO, EU, etc.

The thing to keep in mind about the USA, our voters are like, impossibly low information. Because of the poor management of the democratic party trying to keep biden in until the most last minute you could,(and then he was proved unfit in the first presidential debate.) we didn't have time to let everyone know that we swapped out the nominee. We had people going "Wait, did biden drop out?" They didn't know ANYTHING was happening.

So while a terrifying number of people voted for trump, it's probably like 1/3rd cult of personality (still too many) and 2/3rds idiots who have no idea what they are voting for.

I have no idea what the actual global impact is going to be, I know the USA has too much of an impact on that. the only brightside is that I see over all American hegemony definitely being damaged by this (Which is a good thing!) downside it'll be with societal collapse in our country. I do expect more belligerence from our government until the cost of this...fascist slide resolves.

Best case scenario is effectively he fucks up hard enough that the right wing government infights so hard effectively nothing happens for 4 years. I hate it.

The worst part is, it's not just him. The Republicans now have the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, and the Presidency. The Republicans now officially control everything.

Brace yourself... This one is gonna SUCK. Just know that I'll continue to have your back and support you, okay?

Appreciated.

*hugs* :(
you said it exactly, about the average american hating politics, and the maintained ignorance. i got lucky i think and had teachers that involved me positively in it, which is why i care about how it goes. we just... maybe can only make goodness happen where we can. maybe.

Since the republicans have the 3 branches, When they fuck up everything, people can't blame the democrats if things get worse. then again, given the GOP's standards...

plus, I feel like with the recent CEO shooting, people are getting to the tipping point that something needs to change.

They'll manage to blame democrats anyway, republicans are quite good at that even though they'll have "Total control". If the democrats had any sort of spine they'd actually ring that bell constantly but they are bad at running message campaigns because to run any message they have to have anything to run on which they do not.

As far as dems go, the most change that might come up is that the democratic party's leadership directly is up for a change up so maybe we won't get a useless guy who gets into social media fights. That'd help.

Society is certainly at a breaking point, that shooting is really just the opening bit. I have long maintained that the rich with their unreachable distance have no respect for when the desperate come for them. They are kept honest by being within arms reach and have spent far too long too far away. The ability to punch a guy is literally a release valve on people being scumbags.

The democrats have to follow standards, while the republicans don't, which is so fucked up...

It isn't just that. The standards that democrats hold themselves too are not good ones. It's a false image of civility, of negative peace. Time to throw in the ever useful quote for Dr. Martin luther king Jr, "I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice." Democrats are wholly and completely in service of negative peace, to perform positive peace would make a lot of their...donors...owners, whatever you want to call it, angry with them.

So much of democrats make much more sense when you see it as careerist hacks who simply have no driving ideological project than maintaining their maligned career at all costs. A party that wanted to govern would not promote bipartisianship at all costs, would not promote the need for a "strong republican party" as if they'll do anything exciting without this totally rational oppositional force. (They also don't goddamn setup the next generation, they literally RUN PEOPLE UNTIL THEY DIE. Goddamn Dianne feinstein should have been a wakeup call!)

There is no democratic project that isn't already satisfied this days, they have nothing to run on except crumbs to give to the people who are getting uppity that things are a neoliberal hellscape. And then fascism fucking wins because they offer nothing and have no driving force. Republicans likewise have no project that isn't already satisfied because they are both neoliberal parties, it's just republicans give red meat to their base. Republicans maintain their power by stoking bigotry and making things continuously worse for the populace.

I hate it.

Brightside republicans are already primed to infight, their image of unity is not true so maybe they'll do jackshit for 2 years and in midterms will lose 90% of the control they have and we'll just have another miserable trump term where he can't do actually that much.
Gotta say, I hate being around for history, these interesting times are anxiety inducing.