Please assuage some of my fears.

Fair enough. And a good point. To that I would only point out THE ENTIRE FUCKING COUNTRY WENT BLUE including, no shit this is not a drill Texas, Kansas, and South Carolina.

Okay, not Florida, or Louisiana, but even there it was really fucking close. With that kind of vote presence I don't think they'll be as interested in swallowing whatever batshit deranged treason the orange rapist has in his Roger Stone file.

I was really really surprised when Trump didn't immediately call the election "stolen". I figured that it might have been because he's so narcissistic that he didn't care because it wasn't an election for him specifically.

But, with all the military mobilisation I'm thinking along the same lines as you: what're they up to? Obviously a coup, but how and when?

I think it was too big to rig, plus Bibi just cried stolen election, it would be ridiculous to do the same, especially given how he's lied about it before. Im a little nervous too though.

One of my guesses is that claims of cheating would result in investigations that might actually find cheating--their cheating. They just underestimated the margins they'd have to cheat by to win, but might have still left some evidence.

Another guess is they saw how baseless claims did more to hurt their position than to help last time (tbh I suspect they only made the claims to try to put their opponents in a corner where they couldn't accuse them back the next time without looking like they are just doing the same thing to all the people only half paying attention). They might be looking for cases where such a claim might be plausible instead of just making noise and sacrificing some lawyers' reputations.

Guess 3 is that winning the elections was just plan A but they are ok going with plan B, and increasing the national guard presence in Washington is a part of that. It might be prudent for his political opponents to not all be in DC at once, or try spending time with the troops there to form bonds and/or guage their sentiments.

Guess 4 is that they were surprised at the sheer amount of opposition that showed up to vote and might have lost confidence they can get away with pushing it too much right now, especially with how things are escalating in France and they can see that the usual big block of "if there's any bad behaviour at all during a protest, that cancels out whatever position they have" is eroding.

Republicans hate Trump rn, I doubt they will do anything that matters.

Do you really think that the party that just spent $500 million on campaigns and lost would have a 4D chess plan to take over the military to install their fascist regime?

Marco Rubio just floated qutting, Jimmy Vance just threw Donald under the bus. DeSantis called this "an extinction level event". They don't have the pull to convince anyone that it would be beneficial to help Trump at this point.

Well, democrats may have won the election, but they haven't been seated yet. If there were to be some fuckery around seating them, there would be a lot of protesting in DC, and a fascist regime would make sure they have their military power in place to quell the uprising.

I've been feeling uncharacteristically optimistic the last few days. I just have a feeling things are turning around for the better and America will go back to normal.

The election results show Trump doesn't have the political influence I thought he did and, now that they see he doesn't have the political influence they thought he did, his own party may start turning on him

But there is still a part of me that fears this is too good to be true and it's gonna come crashing down soon

It was such a bad trouncing that it left no room for anyone to shout "Fraud!". The proof was gigantically mountainous and you can't lie and propaganda your way out of that.

My heart weeps for the Iranians,

Iranian citizens are being shackled just as much by their own government as by the impact of Trump's illegal war. Two wrongs don't make a right, and Iranians deserve liberation from both.

There has been multiple reports of a massive strike coming on/after the midterms. His fortification of Ped-o-Lago, reports to based to prepare for 90-days of independent sustainability, a lot of word trickling down for citizens around the world to have 3-to-10 days of supplies, and don't forget Chris Murphy (who was briefed on the plan) stating it's "insane", "lead to devastating escalation and our commitment to the rule of law".

the orange diddler is probably still reeling from getting his proverbial clock cleaned the other day, but either he sees the writing on the wall or otherwise thinks he's still invincible...but I don't have any doubt he wants to go out in a blaze of glory

Miller: The Senate will no longer be of any concern to you. Trump has dissolved the council permanently. Fear will keep the local systems in line.

Same. I thought women were thanking him that they could "finally walk the streets again" or some horse shit like that