I mean, yes, but also we knew this was coming.
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I voted in WA, dropped my ballot off at a ballot box and it was confirmed by text the following day.
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What the fucking fuck?
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All of the swing states swung for him? oh boy.
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Even popular vote.
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I just saw that. I am just flabbergasted at the number of people who don’t care that he is not only a disgusting human being, but also a multiple dozens of times over convicted felon. This includes the family that I work for so I really don’t want to go to work today.
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People only care about their money, they don’t give a fuck about the rights of people who aren’t them. I am so disgusted and disappointed in this country today. I feel your pain as I work in an office full of reps.
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I don’t understand it, but I guess this is what most people want.
I have no idea how I am going to function at work today.
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@TrisPrior this is where I’m at, if this is what we want, it’s what we want.
I am disappointed in the Democratic Party. If the stakes are as high as they’ve said, they couldn’t have had Biden decide not to run sooner and held a primary? Couldn’t have found one thing to do to visibly slow down inflation and not let companies take home record profits? Pick a VP who would pick up extra votes in swing states?
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i dont blame the democrats. theres something very dark going on in this country and people seem unable to vote for a woman.
i blame racism and misogyny first, and poor education second. truly, people get very stupid when they are scared.
and it doesnt matter now anyway.
ETA: they did slow down inflation. harris ran the best campaign i’ve ever seen. nothing can make dumb racist woman-hating people not be those things, especially in a fractured media environment that encourages radicalization.
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I’m also disappointed in the Dems. I don’t feel well represented and I don’t think they’re doing s good job of cultivating leadership that represents our party.
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I’m with you. I mean, I’m also disappointed with the democratic party but what I find most depressing right now is that it feels like truly nothing matters and there is literally nothing the party could have done differently to end up with a different outcome. January 6 didn’t matter, the convictions didn’t matter, a terrible VP pick didn’t matter, debate performance didn’t matter, etc etc.
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right. it’s not stuff that normal strategy can operate against, because it’s not rational or fact-based.
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Our delivery guy just told me he was on the fence and voted for Trump. He said it was either keeping things the same or voting for the criminally insane then he laughed. I turned around and walked away.
My honest question is: are things actually that bad? Have I not been paying attention?
My state went more red than I expected also.
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I feel this too.
I think it is equal parts what Bern said and what Madge said.
There is hate. So much hate. The Dems also could have done better. Why not both.
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I wonder this too. What am I missing?
I felt the same way in 2016. What was I missing, that people think this is needed?
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Honestly, I’m surprised that people are surprised. I had very little doubt that he was going to get back in. I work in a blue collar company in a blue state but live in a red state. Even the mostly rational, semi-moderates that I know were either planning to vote for him or on the fence. I don’t disagree that the roots of it are misogyny and racism/lack of education. But I do think that one party has recognized the state of things and is using it to their advantage, while the other is running as though people are rational and reasonable, and that’s just not what we’re working with here.
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I’m so sorry. This is horrible. Hate won.
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I’m very very glad now that abortion and marriage rights were on the Colorado ballot.
How do you even combat this, though? How do you work against 100 million people who are ELIGIBLE to vote just not giving a shit?
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Yep. I’ve still got a couple friends looking at leave-the-US plans, but at least state-wise we’re not in a bad place.
Also yep to this. And honestly even the ones that are I can’t figure it out…like there was a comment upthread about ‘people only care about their money’ which I’d say I agree with except that I think he’s fiscally worse for people who aren’t uber rich (like .01% level rich). So…what are they voting for?
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