Dean Phillips would have won
Hell, I think even Witmer would have won
We’re a racist country, to a lesser degree sexist
If George Clooney was the democratic nominee, he would have won easily.
s/planet/country/
I am genuinely disgusted at how this could even happen like this. He got the popular vote? By 5 million?
Oh its worse then that.
Just winning would be bad, but with the popular vote that is a mandate.
Having a clear mandate would be very bad but the house/senate would both need to go red to be able to execute the sort of mandate promised. You know that thing that also happened.
It’s going to take awhile to correctly process this
Yeah, it wasn’t even the electoral college fucking us. He straight up won, by a significant amount too.
Stop the planet and let me get off
The crazy thing is…this might be good for my country (Switzerland) since Trump was the first president to begin discussing a free trade agreement between the USA and us…
But other than that, yeah :S
stolen election, fake news, time to throw a hissy fit and storm the capital and then blame the feds like a pussy… I mean is there any other way to handle this?
Just need to convince the VP not to certify the results.
Easier. Write a executive order that bans convicted felons from the office if the conviction involved truthfulness.
It should be illegal anyway but it just isn’t.
I mean felons can’t vote, own a gun, or work in lots of jobs, I foresee a felon filing suit on job discrimination and winning. If a felon can be president is there really any reason they can’t do anything else?
Yep, weird double standard for certain.
Congratulations America! Corruption, greed and hate just won.
On the bright side, if there’s no extreme corruption we won’t be hearing from him starting 2029
There won’t be elections by 26
Many terrible things are coming, but my heart is aching for Ukraine this morning…
And Gaza and Lebanon.
My first thought was for Ukraine. I don’t want to live in this timeline any more.
And Palestine. Shit is going to get uglier than it was already.
Palestine will just be more Israel in a couple years. And the Palestinians that couldn’t get out to somewhere else will be dead.
I was thinkin, the funds an such were sending to Ukraine is gonna jus scribbled out an resent to Israel on 1/22/25
This is my biggest fear as well.
We in Europe need to focus on our own security and military future without being to dependant on our unstable partner overseas.
He won fair and square, which means that this was not just some fluke. It can and probably will happen again in the future.If the GOP asks Ukraine to surrender what they have lost, I hope both Zelensky and we as Europe collectively give him a fat middle finger in return.
Russia must lose!
I’ve never agreed with the professor more than I do now. At least he actually has the option!
How old is that fuck again? Ah 78. So 82 when he’s done fucking us all over.
Like I said before. I gotta get my old engine oil and start feeding it to the bunnies and the eagles that eat the bunnies. Do whales eat eagles? If not, I gotta start drinking beer so I can strangle more turtles and then feed the turtles to the whales so they all choke each other.
Tyranny doesn’t generally die with the tyrant.
It’s president Vance to you. Trump isn’t doing well mentally or physically. I wonder how long they’ll keep him propped up.
Yeah that’s going to definitely play a role.
Bold to assume he’ll stop there if he’s still breathing
The other Trumps in the Trump family will continue his legacy of fucking everyone they know.
Every day I look back at one day I had in 2016 when I felt like killing myself and wonder why I didn’t just fucking do it.
I’m sure in ten years, I’ll look back on this and… wish I had done it now.
That’s just what they want you to do. It’s much better to take this opportunity to fight the fascists.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to kill him instead of just yourself? Strictly hypothetically speaking
Hypothetically speaking this is how I would do it as well.
Don’t do it. We’re going to need to help each other through what’s coming, and I’ll absolutely fight for your rights, whoever you are.
I wish I had been aborted. This place is a shithole and has since before I arrived.
Some of us need to move to the boondocks to infiltrate. Goddammit I don’t want to live in the boondocks though. >:C
That’s not going to work. Biden got 5.2 million votes in NY in 2020. Harris just got 4.1 million. Trump did about the same both times. There was a huge enthusiasm gap on the left. Moving people around won’t work. If people aren’t going to come out to vote in NY, they aren’t going to do it in bumfuck Indiana.
Yeah nah I’m being a bit facetious… The whole situation really saps the soul. It’s a complex, multifaceted issue with no simple solutions in sight. It took years to build up the problems we’re facing, it’ll take years to resolve. There will be set backs, probably several in the next X years…
I’m tired, I’m frustrated, I’m utterly bewildered.
Take a beat, lick your wounds, hug your loved ones. After a brief moment to mourn what could have been, we have a lot of work to do. My bet is still on empathy and reason prevailing in the long run. Here’s hoping we get there, one baby step at a time, baby.
I think I’m going to just have to tune out social media and the internet in general for the next couple years. Focus on offline stuff and hope things don’t go to completely to hell. It’s sad but the best case scenario is that trump passes more tax cuts for billionaires and loses interest in everything else like he did last time. But yeah, on an emotional level this is even worse than 2016. It just makes no sense to me that so many people decided to just sit this one out.
I moved from a blue state to Michigan 2 years ago. Thought it might help…
I lived there, it was ok (I still visit) but there are no jobs.
Why don’t you guys start a revolution against first-past-the-post? Fascism has far less power that way.
Better do it now, cause glorious leader Trump will mobilize the military to shut it down quick.
We have Tiananmen Square Massacre at home.Remind me again what style of democracy the Weimar Republic had?
If we are at the point of solution by revolution, I think our aims should be higher than just first past the post…
Surely all of the revolutionaries online dissuading people from voting Harris will kick into gear and get everyone motivated to change the constitution, fix the electoral system, eliminate capitalism, and obtain gay space communism for all.
Most of us have been, and will continue to be, engaging in direct action in our day-to-day lives.
Yeah keep it up because it’s obviously going great 👍
It is for my community. Liberals being apathetic about the status quo isn’t my responsibility
Sounds great, where exactly is this thriving community? Grand Delusions, MI?
The left endlessly quibbling with each other with definitely not get us there or anywhere. Your beef is with the idiotic trump voters, not people further left than Kamala
My beef is with purported leftists online that did their damnedest to dissuade people from voting at all.
Unfortunately only the calm and sane people are upset, and it’s harder to whip us into a full revolution.
The elites have been studying for decades. They now know exactly how far they can push us before we fight back. That’s why inequality is worse now than before the French revolution, but nothing has changed. They’ve learned how to prevent us from revolting.
My state just banned ranked choice lol
We had ranked-choice-voting at the State level on the ballot here in Oregon and voters rejected it by about 60%.
Came here to say this as well, and OR is a reliably liberal state.
Same in my state. I voted against the amendment that banned it but I actually didn’t fully realize it was about ranked choice voting until I checked results. I hate that shit. It makes me so angry.
Sounds about white.
I don’t know why you are getting down voted. It’s who beat them. White guys came out and voted it out.
I think both parties that have power right now are opposed to RCV because it makes their job harder - they would have to be For something rather than just Against they opponent
