But you’re not gonna give up. You just feel like you are.
If you were gonna give up, you’d have done it the first time, but ya didn’t. There’s something in you that whispers NO FUCKIN WAY AM I GIVING THEM WHAT THEY WANT
I am genuinely disgusted at how this could even happen like this. He got the popular vote? By 5 million?
Yeah, it wasn't even the electoral college fucking us. He straight up won, by a significant amount too.
He's lost at everything in his life, despite trying so much and having every advantage. At a certain point the law of large numbers has to kick in.
And the one time he does it's because of nazis lol. Still not really a victory.
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.
Yeah, I'm giving up after this.
The Democratic party just can't deal with the stupidity and racism that is the American population.
I mean for fucks sake, Black and Latino voters increased their votes for Trump this time around.
Just time to hang up the hat and let America burn.
Also:
Biden got 81,282,916 votes
Harris got 66,153,556 votes
Americans didn't even bother to show up and now we have a Republicans in control of all three branches again. Yeah, there's no saving this democracy.
Don't forget they are going to intentionally force us back to coal and oil, and stifle all transitions to cleaner energy. So really how bad could it be
Americans didn’t even bother to show up and now we have a Republicans in control of all three branches again.>
Absolutely. Trump did not have a significant bump in votes, 10 million voters did not turn out, or so early figures show. Of them, it's largely white suburban males. Apathy leads to populism. Dr. King had something to say about white liberals...
I volunteered at county Dem HQ and was tasked with texting Dem voters who hadn't shown up at the polls by noon. Each page had maybe 50 names on it. And only 3 or 4 voters typically voted. It was a disaster.
Maybe now the party will learn that guilting and harassing people doesn't work. If I get an unsolicited text from a campaign, it makes me significantly less likely to vote for that candidate. I'm not going to reward that sort of tactic.
So… what do you propose to do instead with respect to organizing?
Encouraging the DNC to hold primaries and take their thumb off the scale would be a good start. Don't call me. Call them.
Many terrible things are coming, but my heart is aching for Ukraine this morning...
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!
And Gaza and Lebanon.
Whatever you do, don't blame voters though. The only people who could possibly be at fault here are Democrats. Because voters are perfect little angels. Who can blame them for their strong desire for fascism? That's just human nature after all
Dean Phillips would have won
Hell, I think even Witmer would have won
We're a racist country, to a lesser degree sexist
I'm not sure that we are more racist than sexist. We had a black president, who even got elected to 2 terms. We have yet to have a woman.
Either way, awful.
None of the women who have run had Obama's charisma. Harris was a bit of a wet blanket and clinton was just unpleasant.
And we need to be honest about what a presidential election really is at its core: a popularity contest.
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.
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.
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