It looks like people think Trump will fix the economy since that is the leading issue in exit polls. Massive trade wars are going to make the inflation of the last 2 years look mild. Americans are deeply stupid.

this many Americans think Trump was and will be a good president.

I think fewer people think this than think trump and his ignoring rules and laws is their ticket to power and influence for their cause and thing that trump is a means that is justified by the end.

I think we need to stop wondering why Republicans are doing so well and with that, lamenting that just over half of the minority voting population in this country will proudly vote for open fascists; stop imagining voters in the middle who are going to magically defect from the right if Democrats outflank them on the right’s own invented issues; and start asking ourselves whose votes the Democrats are actually campaigning for if not ours.

Not just that, part of his campaign message was “are you better off now than you were 4 years ago”. 4 years ago was lockdowns and bodies being stored in refrigerated trucks.

It is real though.

You can’t expect a society dominated by oligarchs (not just on an economic and political level, but more importantly the broader social conscious) to put up any effective challenge to an oligarch candidate.

The lack of “on the ground” protest activities when that US abortion protection law was repealed is a perfect example.

Doesn’t help that the US opposition is largely corrupt as well.

Hopefully he gets some more

That’s crazy late to mail it OUT. Too late even to mail it back. You’ll have to either find a drop box or hand deliver it to county elections HQ.

If you don’t get it in time, you can always vote in person.

Everything is rigger in Texas

And don’t forget that Herschel Walker will be a DoD lead.

Yeah. But we need to squarely focus the blame on Harris, the campaign, the apologists who excused some of here deeply unpopular positions, and disallowed the dissent that tried to bring her to more popular positions.

In the previous 6 elections, the candidate that ran as an anti-elite populist won.

This will make 7 (if Trump wins).

I call it a general intelligence test for the nation … and even before its over, everyone already failed.

This is as much a referendum on the character of America. What a searing indictment that it’s even close at all.

Exactly. No matter who wins.

Yeah, fuck. I just feel wrecked by this.

Not really. It’s not good news for climate change, but global climate policy is not solely determined by the US presidency, and there are economic and technological forces set into motion already (like much cheaper solar) that mitigate the effect somewhat compared to what a global business as usual scenario would have been without them.

That isn’t to say that everything is okay, even an amount of climate change that doesn’t pose much danger to the existence of future civilization still presents a personal risk to, well, everyone, due to increased natural disaster risk and such, but suggesting the door is closed on climate change is misleading; climate change is not a binary “it happens or it doesn’t”, it’s a matter of degrees, and there are things that can influence it even without the US president on board. For threatening civilization itself, I’d say the bigger risk from Trump is the possibility that he get us into a nuclear war or something.

Yes. Yes, it is.

It’s not what we want, but reality doesn’t give a fuck about what we want.

We have to get ourselves ready for the shit storm that’s coming.

When the going gets tough (and we all agree things are tough right now) you just need to appeal to fear and tribalism.

2 tickets with women for president 8 years apart, and we vote for the worst possible man for the job. This country is infested to its core with misogyny.

Fuck