This is beautiful. The only problem with this, and Jack White's recent trump comment, is that they have too many words. Meaning republicans will never read them.
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I'm genuinely sick of seeing his face, hearing his voice or even being told by the news about the new stupid shit he said today. I'm sick of the people who idolize him when it should be so blatantly obvious to anyone with even a shred of human decency that every word in OP's post is accurate.
This man is the embodiment of our inadequacy as a species.
Getting you overwhelmed is a strategy do not give in its tough seeing every single day something cruel and stupid. I am tired of him too. But i won't block or filter him. We should not look away.
Don't bury your head in the sand, but also know your limits. It's okay, and even desirable, to unplug from what's going on in the world for the sake of your mental health from time to time.
It's so fucking exhausting. I feel like the past 6 months has taken several years off my life.
Same here. I intentionally cover his face with my thumb whenever I can. I loathe the way he speaks, the way he looks, and the way he talks over the people he's talking to, including Fox hosts who are doing nothing but licking his asshole. I can't wait for the day he expires.
Just 3 and a half more years to go.
If we're lucky.
More than likely he's here to stay once he gets rid of elections.
Was this supposed to be comforting?
If you're an optimist? I guess?
I am not an optimist.
That was the main reason why I was pissed off at his first and then again second election. Even here in Europe he was going to dominate the news cycle every single fucking day. And we are all dumber for having to listen to his incoherent blabbering.
As a nation you mean, not a species. I've been to so many countries where this man would never have made it to anything let alone fucking president. Trump didnt happen out of a vacuum, there is a very real fascist ROT in the core of the United States that needs to be dealt with once and for all.
That's fucking poetry
Well said. Honestly, I feel very strongly that this is not an overreaction compared to what he has said and done over his lifetime. Truly a vile human being at best.
My grandfather was a state trooper. He always told me, "It's only illegal if you get convicted."
as a non american, I think this is my exact image for trump. From the way he walks, talks and exist, I think he is a disgusting immature buffoon
Gerrymandering will ensure he continues to contaminate the White House.
Hopefully more democratic states like CA start up.
I heard somebody say the other day that it's like Trump's brain rotted away a long time ago and he's just controlled by his lizard brain now. He's starting to look like a lizard.
I mean, most people operate primary on their lizard brain... even if they have a fully functional one. So yeah, part of why he's so popular and charismatic.... people relate to his rambling outbursts because that's how they themselves think/feel.
And that's why he's also a big f you to the liberal elite who pride themselves on not operating on lizard brain.
Just a reminder that less than 25% of Americans “voted” for Trump. And there exists real possibility that he cheated the election. A recent NSA audit shows Harris won.
Also, Trump is a child rapist.
People keep pointing out stuff like this but a country that has even the barest amount of collective sanity wouldn’t have even let him get beyond the party primary. 25% is a staggering number. Ya’ll I know that it still matters to say it and I’m not saying to stop but I keep hearing it in a context that heavily implies the rest of the world is ignorant for “not getting it” when we definitely already know there are good people in the US. Like, yea, you’ve got a handful of decent people but even your large number of “moderates” are capitalist Nazi sympathizers so…
large number of “moderates” are capitalist Nazi sympathizers so…
What an embarrassingly ignorant thing to say.
If you look at literally anything the GOP is doing and are still on the fence you’re either impossibly ignorant or at least evil-adjacent and pretty ok with it. Being “moderate” in US politics is embarrassing as even the US “far left” is just the developed world’s center.
A US moderate is a joke.
most moderate voters don't care about any of that.
they just wanted lower taxes and want to go back to the 2016-2019 economy that he represented. average voters primary vote on their wallets first and foremost. everything else is irrelevant.
So they were all terribly informed, were totally ok with all the bad stuff he promised he would do, and wanted a bad economy? I mean how does that sound like an excuse to you? Moderates ignoring all the bad stuff just to get something weak and crappy is most of the point that I was making.
Moderates ignoring all the bad stuff just to get something weak and crappy
Perfect description of right wing Democrats
It's not an excuse. It's reality.
People had two choices last election. Someone who offered more of the same, Harris, or someone who offered at least some sort of change.
They went with the person who offered at least some sort of change. Call them Nazi sympathizers all you want, I guess? Shaming and attacking people for their voting as being evil people isn't going to get them to come over to your side. If anything it will just make them dig their heels in.
I could promise to do nothing to you OR promise to stab you in the gut. If you choose the latter because you want “change” and don’t care about what it actually is then you’re just an idiot who shouldn’t be making decisions.
Everything was on the table and extremely obvious. If getting centrists on the right side of history is more dependent on making them feel good and special than on getting them to just make the obviously right choices then everything is already fucked and they’re just going to keep moving the goalposts as they see what they can get away with. Everyone who “just wants change” will never vote far left, only far right, and that’s pretty fucking telling.
If you’re on the fence when Donald Trump is one of the options there’s no fucking help for you and I’m not going to sit here comforting your awful decision so you can feel like a special little baby.
It was to you. Other people aren't you. What is obvious to you, isn't obvious to other people.
This is where you are failing to understand the issue. Other people are not you. They don't think like you do. They don't reason like you do. They are entirely different than you.
Be angry about it all you want. It won't change the facts that other people's votes, or non votes, count as much as yours and there isn't a thing you can do about it. But hey, it probably makes you feel like you're special, right?
Everything was on the table and extremely obvious. If getting centrists on the right side of history is more dependent on making them feel good and special than on getting them to just make the obviously right choices then everything is already fucked and they’re just going to keep moving the goalposts as they see what they can get away with. Everyone who “just wants change” will never vote far left, only far right, and that’s pretty fucking telling.
If other people can look at Donald Trump and the Republicans of the last few years and still be on the fence then it doesn’t matter if they’re me or not, they’re at best very stupid but more likely they’re at least a little ok with all the terrible things they promised to do and that is pathetic behaviour I will never compromise on. That’s all I’ve been saying, and I don’t know why you seem to think that means I don’t understand the issue.
I’m not compromising with people who think that the basic human rights of minorities and working folk are optional. They can get their shit together or take a fucking hike and I’m not giving any validity to their willingness to throw peoples’ lives away just so the price of the groceries will still go up.
You don’t have the moral highground, you’re just terrified of having a strong opinion and so place yourself somewhere you can claim not to be “extreme”.
it doesn’t matter if they’re me or not, they’re at best very stupid but more likely they’re at least a little ok with all the terrible things they promised to do and that is pathetic behaviour I will never compromise on.
This is precisely how I feel about people who still support the democrats after they supported and enabled the modern holocaust.
Agreed entirely. Most people are so fucking stupid, they couldn’t even be considered conscious.
While it may SEEM most other humans have that trait, I’m not so sure any more. Most of us are just cancerous tumors; growing by consuming the host without thought about what that means for them at the end.
At this point, the reaction (and non-reaction) of the general public has been enough to show me that there is tacit support. Each group has their "red line," I imagine, where they'll suddenly give a shit when their gardener gets deported or whatever... But somehow we haven't hit that line yet for most people, and it's fucking depressing.
It's incredibly depressing. But somehow there are still consequences for actual actions. We're so dispersed there hasn't been a point where someone has said they are going to oust him, and if they succeed whoever helps support won't get hung as a traitor.
Even if someone were to assassinate Trump, no one is organized to replace him. Vance isn't any better, nor anyone really in line. We can't just cut off Trump, we need to cut out the entire rotted party and treat every single one of them as traitors.
why would it ever?
most people do not care about politics. never have, never will.
Reference on that audit?
I did the math. I’ll see if I can find it. It wasn’t 25%, so I don’t know where that number comes from. My number was ~32%, and I can’t remember if that was % population or registered voters.
E: Found it, it's 32% of the adult population, conspiracy theory notwithstanding.
Most Americans did not vote for Trump.
Here’s how it works:
*US Population, adult over 18: ~250 million.
*Of that population, ~244 million are eligible to vote.
*Of eligible voters, only 63.9% voted.
*Of the 63.9%, less than half, 49.8%, went to Trump. To re-emphasize that point, Trump did not get more than 50%.
*Harris got 48.3%
*The ~1% difference voted third party.
The math is pretty basic. 63.9% of 250 million is 159.7 million voting, 49.8% of that voting for trump is 79.5 million.
So out of 250 million, ~32% actually voted for trump. The rest is the issue with the electoral college, but we’re talking people, not the EC.
Your math is probably better than mine. I did a simple votes / total population.
Thanks for the info!
It was a story going around on reddit a couple of months ago about a guy claiming to be a whistleblower. Some guy claiming he was an ex intelligence agent or something, said he was part of an NSA audit on the election that showed definitively that Harris won, but his claims didn't have a lot of meat to them so I kind of discarded it as a hoax or whatever.
But there was some evidence presented by another account I can't remember. He showed some compelling irregularities in the results that seemed plausible. There is also the court case in NY with people signing affidavits claiming their votes were switched.
I'm on the shitter so I can't link anything right now, but hopefully that information from my poor recollection will help you find what you're looking for.
Hitler got 36% of the vote and he was a ww1 corporal and failed artist who lived in a flop house in Vienna.
86 million people did not vote, so they were ok with him too. you can't just watch a fascist get elected and claim innocence.
given that it’s america, some portion of those couldn’t vote because they couldn’t get time off work, were purged from voter rolls, etc
i wouldn’t say most, but some
Or they don't live in a swing state...
How much did you donate to the Harris campaign? How much time did you spend volunteering for it. You can't just watch a fascist get elected and claim innocence, after all.
I can actually, since I'm not eligible to vote in the US. even if i were and didn't, that's not even in the same universe as not voting.
So you didn't donate? You didn't knock on doors? You can’t just watch a fascist get elected and claim innocence!
I don't live in the US, nor am I from there, you slowpoke.
Ok? So? Why didn't you donate anyway. Why didn't you fly to the US and help with the campaign? You can’t just watch a fascist get elected and claim innocence!
Why should people donate to a campaign? Honest question, in my country we don't do that.
dude shut the fuck up you're so bad at this
Damn, you really have no counter argument, do you.
Voting is more than not voting whatever whataboutism you spew.
Look man it's not the suits fault it doesn't fit well. I'm not sure anything would look flattering on that.
A coffin would.
Worst part is we will not learn. Democrats are getting behind newsom only because he is less of a wet blanket then current leaders. But he still supports the policies that resulted in trump. I want to say " but yeah maybe we can push having newsome really change shit for the better", then I remember that never worked with Obama. The cycle continues...
We really need to find and rally behind a leftist/progressive candidate now and begin building momentum and support so we can primary them, otherwise the nomination will definitely go to Newsom. I stumbled into a Democrat message board today and they are already acting like he is the second coming.
Fuck, I know this is an unpopular take- but Bernie still seems coherent and we could definitely do worse. Of the few centrists and 'non political' types I know they all seem to have respect for him. He may not be perfect- but we can't let perfect be the enemy of the good. He has the advantage of being Old, White, and Male- and you know that will score points with a lot of people who voted for Biden and not Harris, as gross as that is.
If someone else has a better suggestion I am more than willing to hear it, but let's pick someone soon and really try to get people to go to the primaries this time.
Before anyone says it- No, that isn't all we should do. Yes, the Dems will try to stop it. Doesn't mean it isn't worth trying.
Dems will try to stop what? People voting in primaries?
They will try to stop a progressive or leftist from winning the primary.
But he still supports the policies that resulted in trump. I
What policies were those? If you helped Trump come to power you're not a liberal or leftist. You're a Trump supporter.
The party isn't to blame this time. It's the voters and we need to stop making these excuses.
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