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2024 US Presidential Election

I have never been so disillusioned, disappointed, and disgusted with my fellow Americans as I am right now.

It's bad enough that he won the election. What baffles and sickens me is that he won the popular vote. I just don't know what to make of that and frankly I am extremely concerned about the future of this country.
 
Quasimoto said:

This Time We Have to Hold the Democratic Party Elite Responsible for This Catastrophe​

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This Time We Have to Hold the Democratic Party Elite Responsible for This Catastrophe

Trump won because the opposition party is committed to ancien régime restoration in a country that desperately wants change.
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I couldn't agree more.
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True, but I'm still going to reserve some blame for dumbfucks like my sister-in-law, who proclaimed on Facebook today: "Hallelujah! Thank you God! Now we are safe again!"
 
jasperkent said:
I have never been so disillusioned, disappointed, and disgusted with my fellow Americans as I am right now.

It's bad enough that he won the election. What baffles and sickens me is that he won the popular vote. I just don't know what to make of that and frankly I am extremely concerned about the future of this country.
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That's how bad of a choice Harris was

They hung onto senile Joe too long and then they put out an even weaker replacement


Talk about dropping the ball
 
jasperkent said:
It's bad enough that he won the election. What baffles and sickens me is that he won the popular vote. I just don't know what to make of that and frankly I am extremely concerned about the future of this country.
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I don’t get why anyone is really shocked. Harris is completely out off touch with the majority of the U.S., just look at the maps for the senate and the house or the electoral college. GOP victory’s everywhere but coastal urban areas. Even half of the west coast went to the GOP in the house. Even Vermont and New Hampshire elected GOP governors.

Simply put, Harris was the wrong candidate, just like Hillary was in ‘16. If the Democratic Party would grow up and stop pandering to the most base extremists in the caucus then they might have held up this election. Instead they prioritized the needs (well, wants really) of the few over the wallets of the many and the fact that most people don’t care about foreign wars or about gender minorities, they care about feeding their children and keeping a roof over their head.
 
ions said:
I used the Biden card at Walmart and paid $0 for everything.
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What you need is this:

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jasperkent said:
I have never been so disillusioned, disappointed, and disgusted with my fellow Americans as I am right now.

It's bad enough that he won the election. What baffles and sickens me is that he won the popular vote. I just don't know what to make of that and frankly I am extremely concerned about the future of this country.
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I mean for what it's worth I've been extremely concerned about the future of this country for a long time. Harris wouldn't have changed any of it though.

We are addicted to drugs, money, and the internet. We are too focused on winning at all costs (regardless of the contest), and not interested in collaboration. We're lonely despite being more socially connected than any other generation that came before us.

And

We can still wake up and contribute to something real, somehow. Volunteer, get involved in charity, get involved in civic engagement, mentor a kid. The election result doesn't bother me that much because at the end of the day I'm more focused on trying to help my community deal with addiction and suffering - being a part of helping to solve something, even incrementally, makes a big difference in how you feel about the state of things.

Recovery is about accepting what we can't change and turning our focus on to what we can change. If you have no power over something, it's not worth worrying about because you can't fix it even if you tried. Instead, find something you can change and focus on that. It helps.

I look at my cacti and often think: they don't care who's president, they just care that I give 'em a nice sunny spot and not too much water, and then eventually they'll share their mescaline with me. Mutualism!
 
nepalnt21 said:
it's not her fault a buncha sexist bigots couldn't look into how she wasn't biden
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dude

she sucks - it's got nothing to do with sex - she sucks

the only reason she was Vice President was because of sex and skin color


and she's no Margaret Thatcher that's for sure 🇬🇧
 
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@Mr. Krinkle

how does she suck?

plz don't ruin the nut by making some 'orralble pun.

name some real policy reasons she laid out, or some other legit and subtantive thing.

don't blow it!

muthersucker

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well said @tryptakid

a guy i used to work with wrote on the subject today:

"November 5th and 6th, 2024, is not democracy’s finest hour.

Whether you are a supporter of Donald Trump or a supporter of Kamala Harris, you cannot be happy at the calibre of the public discussion during the recent US presidential race.

That discussion has been dominated by distortions, by polarisation, by superficialities, and by misleading oversimplifications.

Any nation that is unable to have an honest, open, conciliatory discussion about the key issues of social wellbeing, is likely to be devastated by the strong winds of disruption that are imminent. It is likely to be overwhelmed by literal floods and fires arising from climate change. And likely to become easy pickings for its enemies both at home and overseas.
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For a sustainable future, we need more solid foundations. We need a fuller shared understanding of the basis of human flourishing – an understanding that respects multiple perspectives and multiple lived experiences. We need a deeper societal agreement about the things that matter most. We need bonds of mutual support, that enable each of us to become better versions of ourselves.

To call a future a sustainable future doesn’t mean there will be no change. Change is fundamental to human life, and we must anticipate that a great deal more change lies ahead – changes in technology, demographics, ideas, standards, and narratives.

Similarly, a sustainable future doesn’t mean there will be no disagreements. But it requires people not to be constantly disagreeable, or contemptuous."

kamala harris lost the election. lost it convincingly. but she showed character in the loss, owning it and conceding with grace.

alasdair
 
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