Yeah, my friend’s husband is similar. Bummed that we will likely lose rights/jerks will feel more eomboldened to yell at my short haired wife in bathrooms, but at least there is not a gleeful man in my house.
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Yes, we voted. Old fashioned paper ballots in our small town.
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We voted, too. Although I was not happy with the outcome, I was at least much more mentally prepared for it this time than 2016.
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Unfortunately the rest of us also got what they asked for. I’m sure Gaza is gonna do so well under Trump and all those protest voters can feel real fucking good about themselves.
As for me, I’m trying to convince my husband a vasectomy is in order because Florida has a 6 week abortion ban and since my birth control means I don’t really have periods, I would likely find out too late to do anything about it.
Wondering if I get swept up in the mass deportations as an immigrant who has been vocal about my positions on Trump and his plans. Wondering if my agency which is fully funded by some of that 2T “discretionary spending” Elon wants to cut, will still exist in 2 years.
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If anyone is at the stage of wondering “What can I do?” here’s some ideas. Read it, sit with them, maybe think of other things that apply to your area/situation. Don’t feel like you have to start today.
And if you’re still in the grieving stage and can’t even look at an article like this, that’s okay too. Be kind to yourself today friend.
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Hating having to remember all of the names in the endless parade of goons that follows Trump around
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Good grief
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I heard that on up first and immediately told DH. However, she was on the state board of education for a whole year, which means I think she actually has more experience for this position than any of his other cabinet picks?! 
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Sheesh it’s a low bar.
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Saw this today. Do we think the voting choices are a symptom or a cause?
Do people vote Dem from an abundance mindset and Rep from a scarcity mindset?
ETA and I don’t mean this in a derogatory way. If your government is not functional, you aren’t getting good benefits from it, why would you vote for more govt benefits?
And as has already been discussed a lot, people who are suffering (unemployment, lack of healthcare, lack of safety net) will look for someone to blame. Plus you have the urban/rural divide where benefits/services are very distributed in rural areas so people have to resort to more self sufficiency eg gun ownership for self defense, and this tends to align with (classically) conservative values.
Like a lot of these preferences actually logically make sense. If the GOP represented some reasonable version of conservatism, and not a trash fire of power hungry authoritarianism, the votes might actually reflect these preferences.
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Based on the conversations I’ve been having, people voted for Trump because of the economy. Which makes it internally consistent for poorer states to have voted GOP.
We can have lots of discussions about how people voting GOP due to the economy are maybe misinformed, but having a fool stupid reason doesn’t make it not-a-reason.
On the gripping hand, we could also have alllll kinds of discussions about the unconscious motivations that drove people towards their vote, and the effect of propaganda, and how some shocking percentage of people (democrats included) actually want an authoritarian-ish leader.
Humans are just, like, wired with quirks. Some of those quirks drive us to use Doritos as a delivery scoop for cottage cheese, some of them cause us to kinda want a mostly benevolent dictator-lite inside our representative government. Who’s to say which one of us is wrong?*
*I’M BEING WRY.
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