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[–] [email protected] 60 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (5 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] 19 points 21 hours ago (1 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] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The day after he was convicted on his 30+ felonies, he had the biggest donation day of any politician in US history, probably Human history. Jeff Bezos prevented any news outlet he owned of endorsing Harris, Elon Musk Did a million dollar raffle for Trump voters. They DO NOT WANT to pay taxes, and they DO NOT want to pay people who make their money. That's all this has ever been, and they know Trump would fuck his mothers corpse for a nickle and will absolutely shift the tax burden to the poor and middle class as hard as he can, and he has a majority in the legislature, and full stop OWNS the most extreme and corrupt Supreme Court we've ever seen, and he will stack it even higher this term. It is a GREAT time to be a corrupt politician in America, no one is going to taste a single consequence for this fuckery.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

Jokes aside, he was heavily supported by Russia and Israel who do have quite some influence through social media

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 19 hours 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] 36 points 21 hours ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

Fool me once, shame on... shame on you. A fool me can't get fooled again.

Shakespearean.

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 day 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] 22 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It's more like: wut! I gotta get off my couch and what in line. Fuck that. It can't be that bad.

Oh it's going to be bad now but don't worry about voting again. He said so. You can stay on your couch and never vote again...even if you really want to.

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[–] [email protected] 285 points 1 day ago (23 children)

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

FFS.

[–] [email protected] 179 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Anecdotal evidence that the right is for the uneducated.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

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

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (3 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] 25 points 1 day 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] 205 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 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] 24 points 1 day 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] 13 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Biden must be laughing his ass off right now. Should have let the old guy run. Turns out no one really cared about the presidents age.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 19 hours ago

The old guy should have never run for a second term so we could have had a chance at an actual full dedemocratic campaign out of someone.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago

Or just let any white man run. I’m sad to say it but this country hates women and it hates people of color.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 day ago

Shithole country.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 day ago (41 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] 90 points 1 day ago (7 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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[–] [email protected] 28 points 22 hours 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] 60 points 1 day 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] 41 points 1 day 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] 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 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] 28 points 23 hours 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] 11 points 21 hours ago

Easier said than done there bucko. Most of us are just going to have to live here and take it because legal immigration into another nation is just as bad in most countries as it is here in America.

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

and move where? to another country electing fascists?

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[–] [email protected] 176 points 1 day ago

Fuck this shit

[–] [email protected] 19 points 22 hours ago

God what an ugly bug he is.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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] 70 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Diabetes, please do your job.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (2 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] 4 points 16 hours ago

Those of us who gave it our all don’t deserve this.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 day ago (13 children)

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

This'll be a Vance presidency.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (1 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] 77 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago (10 children)

People need to stop blaming voters, we all need to start understand why this happen more and more in the world and not judge the voters for their decision. I have some theories but its not the time or place, but stop say "people are dumb" or "People need educations"... 100 million people cant be all dumb or uneducated, go deeper!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 20 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago

Yes, yes they can.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago

They've been conditioned for 8 years that any negative thing they read or hear about their leader is "fake news", and likely their own pride of not wanting to consider the possibility they could be mistaken has made them easy targets for the misinformation machine at Fox News to avoid telling them objective facts to instead pander to their emotions and tell them what opinion they should have. Mass manipulation by biased media.

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