Bernie Sanders on Donald Trump’s inauguration:
“When the 3 wealthiest men in America sit behind Trump at his inauguration, everyone understands that the billionaire class now controls our government.
We must fight back.”
" I'm starting to regret voting for trump "
And now the rest of us have to suffer because you decided to be willfully ignorant cause you thought gas was gonna go down 2 dollars.
if there’s one thing today is making me realize, it’s that i am so confident in my beliefs. i LOVE the empathy i have for others. i love that i care more about basic human rights than the cost of groceries. i love that i voted to move forward instead of voting to stay divided.
Kamala Harris talks to young people during her concession speech:
“To the young people who are watching, it is okay to feel sad and disappointed. But please know it’s going to be okay. On the campaign, I’d often say when we fight we win. Sometimes the fight takes a while. That doesn’t mean we won’t win… don’t ever give up.”
Kamala Harris didn't lose, America did.
As a nation, we collectively failed her—and in doing so we failed girls and women, the LGBTQ community, people of color, Muslims, Jewish people, immigrants, the sick, the poor, the elderly, the people of Ukraine, and Gaza, and the planet.
It's unthinkable, that instead of being able to celebrate a beautiful, hopeful new chapter in the story of this nation with a leader who appealed to the best of our natures—we will instead be holding a postmortem for democracy as we enter our 250th year, stewarded by a malevolent sociopath who despises empathy and shuns the law.
I truly thought we were better than this, that our shared humanity would show up. I thought we would reject this hatred and ugliness once and for all.
I hate being wrong about the majority of the people of this nation.
I don't know what's ahead. All I know is that good-hearted human beings are more necessary now than ever.
We did all that we could to avoid this moment, but now that it's here we'll just have to decide who we will be.
There is no way to comprehend or measure how grievous an error this is, but the only thing the decent people of this nation can do is wake up tomorrow and fight like hell for what we still believe is worth the fight, and we will.
I'll be doing that with whoever has the strength to join me.
I'm mourning the country we could have been and the one we apparently are—but I refuse to give up believing that compassion is the right path, that diversity makes us better, and that love is greater than fear.
even palestinians were telling us to vote for kamala, so if you voted third party or wrote in “free palestine” as some sort of performative activism, go fuck yourself
it genuinely breaks my heart, it would’ve been so refreshing to see a woman who’s extremely qualified and who actually cares about the country as president
Two of the most qualified women in the country ran for president against an unqualified, racist game show host who had a history of committing fraud and sexual abuse. And the country was basically split 50-50. That should tell us some things.
it is not just abortions. the department of education, climate, middle class, lgbtq community, immigrant families. but hey, trump handled OBAMA’S economy (it was NOT his) well so f all that right ? y’all are sick individuals