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[–] [email protected] 325 points 2 weeks ago (23 children)

Literally in a car with an immigrant right now who voted Trump because things were cheaper before covid.

FFS.

[–] [email protected] 201 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Anecdotal evidence that the right is for the uneducated.

[–] [email protected] 108 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Anecdotally... About 75% of the right that I know/met.

The other 25% is a mix of racism, greed, and conspiracy theory.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Every time they'll be complaining about the price hikes under Trump, just remind them of why they voted for Trump. This is the best course of action against "collective amnesia" as we call it in Hungary.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Solid distinction.

Religion primed the rubes, and a new godhead told them he is their salvation.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

So sad that dumbasses who think the President controls grocery store prices and gas prices have done this to us all.

I voted for Harris and my state went red for Trump as usual. Just sad and disgusted at it all today.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't expect everybody to be politically aware, but there's "not politically aware" and then there's whatever that is.

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[–] [email protected] 215 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

So guilliani is gonna be bailed out, Vince McMahon is gonna get a pardon too, same with Elon for whatever he wants to do, and pretty much every evil billionaire out there. I also think Trump has no interest in governing, and this administration will be Vance and his project 25 people running the show

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Free Sam Bankman Fried. Maybe he can steal more money from morons

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Regarding Elon, it's even better than that: he's probably getting a cabinet post. Say goodbye to the free and open internet where people are mean to him and daddy Trump. Goodbye encryption, and the "unauthorized" websites/web services. Hello tracking, dynamic pricing, and compulsive service use designed to drain your wallet.

Americans chose fuck around, and now we get to find out.

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[–] [email protected] 183 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck this shit

[–] [email protected] 146 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

It's 80 degrees in November. America has reelected a climate change denier. SUV sales continue to rise.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

4 more years? Nah. 6 months before they turf him.

This'll be a Vance presidency.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

To what end? He'll do what billionaires and the project 2025 ghouls want him to anyways. He doesn't need to be turfed. They want to keep him there soaking up all the media attention and hate while they do their evil shit in the dark.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Why bother, fat fuck is one fateful hamberder away from fucking off.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I really wished what little labor protections we had could have lasted my lifetime.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

America was an "At-Will" Democracy

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (16 children)

What devil has this guy made a deal with? No matter how stupid, obnoxious or abrasive he is, people worship him. He constantly screws himself over and then before he has to face serious consequences he trips on a rock and somehow everything's alright again for him. At this point he literally can shoot someone on 6th Avenue and get away of it. I think Trump is solid evidence that we're living in a simulation and somebody is fucking with us, because life just doesn't work the way it works for him. Somebody's thumb is on the scale.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

What devil has this guy made a deal with?

He cut a Faustian Bargain with the soul of America. And like Faust, he gets to spend his days capering and clowning about his social superiors, making unholy mischief in a kingdom that is itself revealed to be terminally corrupt and wholely damned.

Trump took the Objectivist philosophy that's guided this country for a generation and embodied it. He is Reaganism in its manifest state. Just a guy entirely out for himself who has convinced 71M other people to do the same.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

Diabetes, please do your job.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

trump may very well die within the next 4 years, even 4 weeks after all that campaigning strain, but I am just no sure if JD wouldn't make everything worse if he got hold of the reins?

One thing is sure President Vance would be a total shit show.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

I have to remind myself that the only silver lining of being Californian and unable to really effect this outcome of this race is that we're also least likely to pay any personal consequences. Still bad, but I feel for people in states with less protections for LGBTQ and immigrants, and especially for people in countries that are completely fucked right now unless something crazy happens.

I know already that my state and several other blue states have been working on a contingency plan ever since Biden looked like a certain loss, months back. Then again, might make little difference if he goes full fascist, but a silver lining is a silver lining none the less.

[–] TriflingToad 66 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Over here in Florida where they're banning books and censoring LGBT from schools. All my family (besides my parents and siblings) are Republicans and are actively voting to the person who is trying to legalize murdering me (trans, closeted) 🙃
My teacher is also an anti masker.
Send help pls.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 weeks ago

Shithole country.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 weeks ago (42 children)

The entire rest of the world needs to be on watch, trump is a potential threat to other countries

FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN AMERICA GET THE FUCK OUT NOW

[–] [email protected] 101 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Lol and go where? From what I can tell, Canada has a housing crisis and is tilting right. Western Europe is already getting sick of immigrants and dealing with the far right.

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[–] Kecessa 69 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

You realize that unless you have a second citizenship it's not easy to just up and leave for another country?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago

Even that isn't enough unless you have a lot of money laying around and some kind of support network in whatever country you plan to escape to.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Most people don't. I really didn't get the whole scope/big picture until my wife (who immigrated as a child and now works with immigrant families) explained the whole process and gave examples of things she's seen at work and with people in the community. Last night we got dinner with my mom and she asked "OK where are we moving to?" to only get a lengthy conversation of how it's works and how hard it is. It's not as easy as buying a plane ticket, selling all your stuff or shipping things to where you are going and then picking up life as normal. I hope most people here realize that, but I felt like it needed to be said.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

and move where? to another country electing fascists?

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I can't even afford to live HERE, in the country I was born and raised in. How do you expect me to move somewhere else and gain citizenship there?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

What is so fucked that the US isn't an anomaly. Authoritarianism has been on the rise since the 90s and we don't really have any more true democracies. The crazy right-wing jackasses that people back in 2000 and 2005 thought were just kooks and nutjobs are now 100% mainstream and they're taking over their respective countries... We are not in a good place.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago

I'd love to leave, but it isn't feasible for me. I'm absolutely terrified and have no way out.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

There is a saying...

Make a mistake once and you can call it learning, make a mistake twice and you are eh... not so smart

Americans need education.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago

Time and time again I remember this meme

Basically democracy is government after the people, by the people, for the people . . . but people are retarded . . .

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

Is it too early to start talking about the abysmal failure of the "Vote Blue No Matter Who" strategy?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

wonder how long itll be before he vacates all his convictions and suit penalties

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

While he can't legally vacate his state felony convictions it will either go:

  • The judge gives him a slap on the wrist to appear neutral, because liberals love taking the high road and shooting themselves in the dick.
  • Trump tries and SCOTUS gives him a free pass because it is 'part of his duties as president' to not go to jail or whatever fucking excuse.
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

And he'll hand this country to the rich in a silver platter.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago

Our embassy would be calling for our citizens to leave USA now if not the pesky international relations.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm from the other side of the world, and when I was a kid, we were taught the story of Abraham Lincoln in school... how he never gave up. Lincoln grew up poor, his business failed, his wife died, and he lost elections again and again. But finally, he became the president. So, what lesson do we learn from this, kids? - like that.

Now it feels like we’ll be teaching kids about Trump—34 felony counts, 6 bankruptcies, 2 impeachments, 1 violent insurrection, and a couple dozen rape accusations... but hey, he didn’t give up either! xD

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