Interestingly enough, it really doesn't feel like this. This defeat feels very silent and somber for the most part. Not much cope, no screaming, just wide eyed terror.
I voted for her. I think he’s a bad guy.
But if you lose the senate, house, electoral college AND popular vote, and you think the lesson is half the country is racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and stupid… wrong lesson. And the same thing will likely happen in 2028.
Americans, I know us, I know us well, and that’s why I left. Yet somehow, I let myself get fooled again into believing that we might be ok, that the majority of us would rather lift one another up than push each other down. I believed it. AGAIN. I am so fucking stupid.
Btw, we're going to have a 7-2 SCOTUS for the next 40 years. Any hope of any progress in civil rights or in progressive policy is completely and utterly dead.
Is it really going to be such a big surprise that we've yanked Ukraine's and Taiwan's chain all this time? After all, we spent twenty years yanking Afghanistan's.
Israel, take note.