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It shouldn't have been a hard choice, America.
a year ago
CW: Pointless political rant.
On the right, we have Donald Trump, a “businessman”/actor who is in reality actually a con artist and has declared bankruptcy 4-6 times (according to Google) which suggests an ineptitude at performing admirably as an aforementioned businessman, with zero political experience until he took office in 2016. He’s easily one of the highest candidates for being one of the most, if not the most corrupt US president of all time. He’s the only US president who is a convicted felon, and the only one whose performance in office was so awful that he was impeached not once, but twice. He is a compulsive liar, a narcissist, and the vast majority of things in his incoherent sentences are either straight up lies or comments whose only purpose is to stroke his own ego.
He refused to accept the results of the 2020 American election and was in part responsible for encouraging a violent insurrection to overthrow the US government that he still insists was peaceful to this day in spite of all the evidence against it, and this alone should disqualify him from being president in a world that actually makes fucking sense. He hoarded classified documents after being booted from being president and likely sold some to who knows where, refusing to give them back. He was a friend of Jeffrey Epstein, a sex trafficker. He has multiple credile allegations of sexual assault against him, he’s gone on tape saying that he “grabs women by the pussy” and has possibly raped people on top of making creepily sexual comments towards his own children.
He has a long history of making comments that have been branded as being both racist and misogynistic, and he’s also ableist. His entire campaign is based around abusing the fear surrounding minorities and immigrants whether they be illegal or not, and when he was in office he had a documented tendency of firing people who worked with him and gave some of the closest presidential roles to his own children (nepotism). He is endorsed by dictators such as Vladimir Putin, wants to pull out of NATO, and is a denier of climate change which will allow the issue to get even more irreversibly worse while one of the globe’s largest nations turns a blind eye to it. He discredits the press and waves aside any criticism surrounding him as “fake news” no matter how much evidence is mounted against him, purporting a culture where he tells everyone to ignore their eyes and ears, painting the media as the enemy and telling everyone to put unwavering faith in him, which was a strategy employed by Hitler in his rise to power. He’s funneled funds from fucking charities to support his own selfish ends. He's mocked America's veterans and called them losers. When he was in office, he claimed that Covid-19 was a hoax and literally told people to inject disinfectants into their body to cure it, which some people actually followed and died from, not to mention the millions of people who died thanks to his underwhelming efforts to combat the virus.
He’s 78 years old, is clearly cognitively impaired, still has criminal offenses he hasn’t gone to trial for due to the election (and now he probably never will), has praised Putin’s assault on Ukraine before, said that he “wants the generals that Hitler had”, and much, much more. He makes ridiculous remarks taken straight from his ass every time he speaks and, even when not referring to Trump specifically, is the head of the Republican party, a party of which I’ve tried my absolute fucking hardest to emphasize with… but at this point it seems that most racists, nazis, misogynists, sex offenders, anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers, and conspiracy theorists are Republicans so it’s very hard not to just see them as a universal stain on American politics.
And more shit that I probably can’t remember.
Trump is dangerous. His rhetoric encourages discrimination against minorities and enables neo-nazi’s and white supremacists. The entire first blurb in his Wikipedia page goes into detail of how many controversies and conspiracy theories he’s taken part in. The Republican Party is also the source of Project 2025, an absolutely dystopian initiative that seeks to give the president more autonomy and absolute power in the government while forcing Christianity on the masses and stripping the freedom of women and restricting the awareness of crimes committed against minorities. How the fuck could anyone in their right mind support that, nevermind more than half the US population? It’s literally fucking fascism.
And then you have Harris on the left. A mid, female democratic candidate who probably has done some questionable shit but can’t possibly be as bad as Trump. Like I’ve literally seen at least one person call Harris/Biden the most corrupt presidential duo in American history. Which is just… how? How can you say that when Trump and all of his wrongdoings are right there?
It should be a really fucking easy choice. You shouldn't be reading the above and saying “oh yeah, Trump sounds like my guy!” It shouldn't even be close. You have the twice impeached, misogynistic and racist felon with cognitive decline vs whatever bad shit you think Kamala has done, which I don’t know what that would be, but Trump is very hard to beat on the douchebaggery scale regardless. Pretty much every other freedom abiding country in the world sees Trump as a laughing stock.
And you’re telling me that you would vote for him not once, but twice?!
I don’t fucking know anymore. Is it really my place to judge? I’m Canadian so it probably won’t affect me either way. But if there’s one thing I know? If there’s one American political party that strives to strip the rights of women, minorities, and lqbtq individuals, it definitely doesn’t seem to be the democrats. How could you side with a group of people whose aims are so positively vile?
It’s so fucking depressing that, on top of everything and everyone I love seeming that they’re dying around me, that more than half of the populace of the most powerful country in the world can’t even fucking think straight. There’s no way you can read everything I said above, vote for Trump, and think that reflects well on you as a person. It just literally fucking can’t. How can I possibly see you as a good person if you voted for him? And I have to put up with his bullshit for another four years now and suffer through it.
I’m not pretending that I’m an expert on political grounds or that all of the facts that I stated above are completely accurate, but my overall consensus still stands here.
If this ends up getting posted I’ll probably regret it and delete it later. Assuming it even gets read by anyone in the first place. I’m not usually one who likes to share my opinion on politics and buckle easily under criticism so I’ll probably just retreat back into the darkness. People probably don’t watch me to see me complain about the state of politics for a country I don’t even live in. But at the same time it’s extremely fucking difficult not to see Republicans as a universal evil that I don’t want interacting with my profile.
It would be fucking nice if FA actually had a functioning block feature so that I wouldn’t have to look at the atrocious opinions of far right nutcases that I stumble across, but alas, it seems that will never happen.
On the right, we have Donald Trump, a “businessman”/actor who is in reality actually a con artist and has declared bankruptcy 4-6 times (according to Google) which suggests an ineptitude at performing admirably as an aforementioned businessman, with zero political experience until he took office in 2016. He’s easily one of the highest candidates for being one of the most, if not the most corrupt US president of all time. He’s the only US president who is a convicted felon, and the only one whose performance in office was so awful that he was impeached not once, but twice. He is a compulsive liar, a narcissist, and the vast majority of things in his incoherent sentences are either straight up lies or comments whose only purpose is to stroke his own ego.
He refused to accept the results of the 2020 American election and was in part responsible for encouraging a violent insurrection to overthrow the US government that he still insists was peaceful to this day in spite of all the evidence against it, and this alone should disqualify him from being president in a world that actually makes fucking sense. He hoarded classified documents after being booted from being president and likely sold some to who knows where, refusing to give them back. He was a friend of Jeffrey Epstein, a sex trafficker. He has multiple credile allegations of sexual assault against him, he’s gone on tape saying that he “grabs women by the pussy” and has possibly raped people on top of making creepily sexual comments towards his own children.
He has a long history of making comments that have been branded as being both racist and misogynistic, and he’s also ableist. His entire campaign is based around abusing the fear surrounding minorities and immigrants whether they be illegal or not, and when he was in office he had a documented tendency of firing people who worked with him and gave some of the closest presidential roles to his own children (nepotism). He is endorsed by dictators such as Vladimir Putin, wants to pull out of NATO, and is a denier of climate change which will allow the issue to get even more irreversibly worse while one of the globe’s largest nations turns a blind eye to it. He discredits the press and waves aside any criticism surrounding him as “fake news” no matter how much evidence is mounted against him, purporting a culture where he tells everyone to ignore their eyes and ears, painting the media as the enemy and telling everyone to put unwavering faith in him, which was a strategy employed by Hitler in his rise to power. He’s funneled funds from fucking charities to support his own selfish ends. He's mocked America's veterans and called them losers. When he was in office, he claimed that Covid-19 was a hoax and literally told people to inject disinfectants into their body to cure it, which some people actually followed and died from, not to mention the millions of people who died thanks to his underwhelming efforts to combat the virus.
He’s 78 years old, is clearly cognitively impaired, still has criminal offenses he hasn’t gone to trial for due to the election (and now he probably never will), has praised Putin’s assault on Ukraine before, said that he “wants the generals that Hitler had”, and much, much more. He makes ridiculous remarks taken straight from his ass every time he speaks and, even when not referring to Trump specifically, is the head of the Republican party, a party of which I’ve tried my absolute fucking hardest to emphasize with… but at this point it seems that most racists, nazis, misogynists, sex offenders, anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers, and conspiracy theorists are Republicans so it’s very hard not to just see them as a universal stain on American politics.
And more shit that I probably can’t remember.
Trump is dangerous. His rhetoric encourages discrimination against minorities and enables neo-nazi’s and white supremacists. The entire first blurb in his Wikipedia page goes into detail of how many controversies and conspiracy theories he’s taken part in. The Republican Party is also the source of Project 2025, an absolutely dystopian initiative that seeks to give the president more autonomy and absolute power in the government while forcing Christianity on the masses and stripping the freedom of women and restricting the awareness of crimes committed against minorities. How the fuck could anyone in their right mind support that, nevermind more than half the US population? It’s literally fucking fascism.
And then you have Harris on the left. A mid, female democratic candidate who probably has done some questionable shit but can’t possibly be as bad as Trump. Like I’ve literally seen at least one person call Harris/Biden the most corrupt presidential duo in American history. Which is just… how? How can you say that when Trump and all of his wrongdoings are right there?
It should be a really fucking easy choice. You shouldn't be reading the above and saying “oh yeah, Trump sounds like my guy!” It shouldn't even be close. You have the twice impeached, misogynistic and racist felon with cognitive decline vs whatever bad shit you think Kamala has done, which I don’t know what that would be, but Trump is very hard to beat on the douchebaggery scale regardless. Pretty much every other freedom abiding country in the world sees Trump as a laughing stock.
And you’re telling me that you would vote for him not once, but twice?!
I don’t fucking know anymore. Is it really my place to judge? I’m Canadian so it probably won’t affect me either way. But if there’s one thing I know? If there’s one American political party that strives to strip the rights of women, minorities, and lqbtq individuals, it definitely doesn’t seem to be the democrats. How could you side with a group of people whose aims are so positively vile?
It’s so fucking depressing that, on top of everything and everyone I love seeming that they’re dying around me, that more than half of the populace of the most powerful country in the world can’t even fucking think straight. There’s no way you can read everything I said above, vote for Trump, and think that reflects well on you as a person. It just literally fucking can’t. How can I possibly see you as a good person if you voted for him? And I have to put up with his bullshit for another four years now and suffer through it.
I’m not pretending that I’m an expert on political grounds or that all of the facts that I stated above are completely accurate, but my overall consensus still stands here.
If this ends up getting posted I’ll probably regret it and delete it later. Assuming it even gets read by anyone in the first place. I’m not usually one who likes to share my opinion on politics and buckle easily under criticism so I’ll probably just retreat back into the darkness. People probably don’t watch me to see me complain about the state of politics for a country I don’t even live in. But at the same time it’s extremely fucking difficult not to see Republicans as a universal evil that I don’t want interacting with my profile.
It would be fucking nice if FA actually had a functioning block feature so that I wouldn’t have to look at the atrocious opinions of far right nutcases that I stumble across, but alas, it seems that will never happen.
When the election was called and I started hearing fireworks from my neighbors I was disappointed but I was absolutely not surprised by any of it, and it sucks. Like at least I’m privileged enough that I’m not taking the brunt of this term, but like, hoo boy I have some choice words for a lotta people. It’s probably somewhat conceited but I’m most worried about the environment, since getting to a point of no return is unfortunately infinitely worse than what’s already going to happen between now and 2028.
But yeah, I hear you, it’s not gonna be fun having to deal with insane people bragging about how much better their god king is going to make the world for them, before they turn around and blame the same people they already do for everything, when they realize that their QoL is even worse in a couple years. I just have a lotta beef with moderate liberals who are blaming the younger generations for this, so they can dust their hands clean of any responsibility of actually wanting to understand what happened and why.
**BLAM!**
Trump Voters: "WAAAAAAAHHH!!! THAT REALLY HURT!!! IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT KAMALA -- YOU DIDN'T DO ENOUGH TO CONVINCE US THAT IT WOULD REALLY HURT!!!"
Same thing they did to Hillary in 2016. "Oh, dur, it's all your fault for not campaigning in Michigan!" Yeah, shame on her for thinking the people of Michigan had more than two brain cells each and could be trusted to do the right thing without her acting out what the right thing is with finger puppets for them.
It’s stupid and it sucks but I guess my point is that it’s not really voters’ faults, cause the country has ratcheted so far right on the whole that it had to give at some point unless the dems were actually going to run a progressive campaign. All this election did is reiterate that a campaign like that is completely impossible with the current governance. It is exactly the same as 2016 in that sense, to an even further extreme.
Misogyny played a really big part, but the campaign’s messaging was directly targeting white suburban voters. So like, you have a woman of color trying to convince racist sexist clueless people to vote for her instead of the racist sexist clueless guy, at the cost of a chunk of young voters and a metric ton of marginalized communities.
I get where you’re coming from and I agree with the premise, but when the country is built in a way that gives regression and fascism a go-ahead from all sides of authority, there’s more to a loss so damning than just people being stupid. Granted, even if they’ve been socially conditioned, trump’s base is full of very stupid people and being mad at them is beyond justified.
Her trust was betrayed.
The real focus in 2026 and 2028, I believe, should be on the people who didn't vote at all. The majority of which, I believe, encountered obstacles and barriers that made it too difficult for them to do so.
I was almost one of them. I relocated from one state to another this year, and because of the various rules and regulations I had to navigate, I ended up getting registered to vote one day before the deadline. Which was too late to request a mail-in ballot, so I had to go in person. And when I went in person, I was told the documentation I had (which I'd previously been told was sufficient) was insufficient, so I had to run back to my place, make copies of what I really needed, and fly back there to try again.
Thankfully, I live in a relatively big city, so it didn't take very long. Anybody who lived in a more rural area who encountered what I did might've been unable to drive or get transportation to the polls, and if they were turned away the first time like I was, they may have been demoralized and quit, or just plain not had enough time left in the day to go all the way back home, get what they needed, then go all the way back before the polls closed.
And don't get me started on "voter I.D.," which is essentially a fee on your voting rights. A lot of people didn't vote because they quite literally could not afford to.
And, of course, there were the eleventh-hour voter purges. Which were done deliberately to force people to have to go through the whole process of registering yet again, many of whom were incapable of doing it in the short time frame between the purge and election day, or who didn't even know they needed to re-register until they showed up to vote and were turned away.
There are roughly 330M people in the U.S. Trump won with 71M -- barely over a fifth of the population, with over a quarter-billion Americans who did not vote for Trump.
The people who voted for Trump are unreachable. Nobody is so stupid that they will vote for the cause of the problem because they don't see a damn good solution -- they knowingly voted for the problem because the problem is what they want. So the true solution is to encourage and enable the people who didn't vote at all.
Sorry if any of that came across as abrasive, I just place the responsibility entirely on the campaign’s messaging rather than the people it alienated. If there’s any takeaway it’s that nobody deserves to be yelled at for being dissatisfied with the system, as long as that dissatisfaction wasn’t redirected toward people who conservatives want to stamp out.
In 2016, they argued that he was an outsider. In 2020, they argued that they thought he had his limits.
Now they know exactly what he is. He tried to defraud the election with fake electors, tried to overthrow the government via a violent coup, and stole classified documents so he could show them off to foreign nationals at his golf course.
Trump is a monster. It's undeniable. And the best possible interpretation is that these people are so deeply misogynistic that they would rather have a monster be President than a woman.
The far more likely explanation is that they, too, are monsters, and it's precisely the kind of chaos and destruction of America that Trump is promising that they want.
I don't care which. Neither is excusable. And in 2029, when we have to clean up the whole country yet again, I vote we start by excluding them.
If you voted for Trump, I no longer consider you to be a person with a name. I will refer to you as nothing other than "Trump Voter" until you finally amount to something by dying and becoming mulch.