#President-elect

[deadpresidents]

"It's called rain, comes down from comes down from heaven. And they want to do, no water comes out of the shower. It goes drip, drip, drip. So what happens you're in the shower 10 times as long, you know. No water comes out of the faucet."

-- Exact transcript of President-elect Donald Trump complaining about shower heads with restricted water flow during a batshit crazy press conference at Mar-a-Lago, January 7, 2024.

President-elect Trump, who also pointed out during the press conference that "The windmills are driving the whales crazy", touched upon some more serious matters, as well, implying that the United States may take back control of the Panama Canal by force, potentially use force and/or economic coercion to force Denmark to sell Greenland to the United States (he will "tariff Denmark at a very high level" if they don't give us Greenland), and continued to suggest that Canada should become an American state. Oh, he also talked about changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" because he's an asshole.

In case you forgot, over 77 million Americans -- including, undoubtedly, people you love and who say they love and care about you -- voted for this person to lead our country for the next four years, despite...well...despite fucking everything we have experienced since 2015.

I seriously don't know if I can do this again for another four years.

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

Please, spread this for those who might need it right now

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Take care of yourself and each other. Please stay safe ♡

[welcometoqueer]

Just to be clear, Kamala conceded with grace and dignity but it is still well within everyone’s right to demand an investigation and even a recount with due cause despite a winner being declared. U.S.Americans have the right to demand free and fair elections (we don’t have a right to, say, start an insurrection like certain people did after the 2020 election).

Many, including major swing states, (Nevada, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and more) have already admitted to data and ballots not being recognized or lost and are recounting or calling for a recount. It usually takes days to count and record votes, a day after a bunch of election tampering is not enough.

If you used a mail-in ballot and haven’t yet, check if it was actually counted and “recognized.” A lot of mail-in voters from swing states found out that their ballots were uncounted today.

[fly-chicken]

A Pragmatic and surprisingly comforting perspective about the Trump 2nd Presidency from the ACLU

***Apologies if this is how you found out the 2024 election results***

Blacked out part is my name.

I’m not going to let this make me give up. It’s disheartening, and today I will wallow, probably tomorrow too

AND

I will continue to do my part in my community to spread the activism and promote change for the world I want to live in. I want to change the world AND help with the dishes.

And I won’t let an orange pit stain be what stops me from trying to be better.

A link to donate to the ACLU if able and inclined. I know I am

[mugiwara-lucy]

With Kamala/Walz going up DAILY, I've seen more people talking about voting third party/Jill Stein (EW) and I believe the above screencaps from @three--rings can explain WHY Third Party votes NEVER work NOR is this the election to screw around in.

Everyone....like she says above.....PLEASE LEARN FROM HISTORY!!!

(Because if Trump gets in, he's NEVER LEAVING).

[cyarskaren52]

[letterstothefutureme]

Every single one of those registrations was a single person deciding to register. When you think you're just "lil ol me" and your voice doesn't matter that much: Remember this. Your actions have impact, your voice and your vote matter.

Get Registered and VOTE

Find out when/where/how at:

VOTE.ORG

[my-midlife-crisis]

He even tucks the thumb

oh boy

Welcome to the Fourth Reich dickheads. This is what you wanted. This is what you get.

[saxafimedianetwork]

Trump Certified as 47th President on Solemn January 6th Anniversary

#Congress certifies @realDonaldTrump's 2024 presidential election victory, exactly 4 years after the 2021 Capitol riot. @VP @KamalaHarris presided over the vote, upholding her "sacred obligation" amidst a peaceful ceremony. #2024Election #Certification

Continue reading Trump Certified as 47th President on Solemn January 6th Anniversary

[xtruss]

President-elect Donald Trump and War Criminal President Barack Obama shake hands after a meeting in the Oval Office, 10 November 2016. Photograph: Win McNamee/Getty Images

US Presidential Transition Meetings Through The Years – In Pictures

It is Traditional in the US for the Outgoing President to Receive the President-Elect at the White House Before their Inauguration to Prepare for a Smooth Transition. Donald Trump Broke with this Tradition in 2020 in Disputing the Election Result. As Trump meets Joe Biden in 2024, we Take a Look Back at Past Transition Meetings

— Matt Fidler | Wednesday 13 November 2024

Top: The president-elect, Donald Trump, and War Criminal & Genocidal President Joe Biden talking in the Oval Office of the White House, 13 November 2024. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP

Bottom: Two War Criminals: President George W Bush and President-elect Barack Obama meet in the Oval Office, 10 November 2008. Photograph: Eric Draper/Reuters

President-elect Bill Clinton is greeted by War Criminal President George Bush (Now Resting, Rotting and Burning 🔥 in Hell Forever) at the White House, 18 November 1992. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

President-elect War Criminal President George Bush (Now Resting, Rotting and Burning 🔥 in Hell Forever) and President Ronald Reagan, accompanied by their wives, head for the Oval Office, 9 November 1988. Photograph: Bettmann archive

Top: President Jimmy Carter and President-elect Ronald Reagan shake hands in front of their wives on the White House’s South Portico, 20 November 1980. Photograph: Arnie Sachs/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images

Bottom: Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon talk in the Oval Office about the transition of power prior to Nixon’s resignation after the Watergate scandal, 9 August 1974. Photograph: Consolidated News Pictures/AFP/Getty Images

Top: President-elect Richard Nixon and President Lyndon B Johnson confer on the orderly transition of power, 12 December 1968. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Bottom: President Dwight D Eisenhower greets President-elect John F Kennedy on the North Portico of the White House, 6 December 1960. Photograph: Bettmann archive

Top: Vice-president Harry S Truman and President Franklin D Roosevelt, 1945. When Roosevelt died in office in 1945, Truman took over. Photograph: Universal history archive/Getty Images

Bottom: President-elect Franklin D Roosevelt holds a telegram of congratulations from President Herbert Hoover, 8 November 1932. The transition between Hoover and Roosevelt was not a smooth one, with FDR refusing Hoover’s requests for meetings to calm investors amid a financial crisis. Photograph: Bettmann archive

President Thomas Woodrow Wilson, left, and his successor, President Warren G Harding, in the back of a carriage on inauguration day, 1921. Photograph: Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images

President William Howard Taft (left) and his successor, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, in Washington, 23 March 1913. Photograph: Trampus, from L’Illustrazione Italiana/Bibioteca Ambrosiana/De Agostini/Getty Images

An illustration of the former first lady Julia Dent Grant entertaining President Rutherford B Hayes and his wife at a party in the White House after Hayes’s inauguration, 1877. Photograph: Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images

[deadpresidents]

"The reception given to the President-elect here was most impressive. He rode in an open carriage, standing erect with head uncovered, and bowing his acknowledgments to greetings showered upon him. There was a lack of comfort in the arrangements, but the simplicity, the homely character of all was in keeping with the nobility of this typical American. A six-in-hand with gorgeous trappings, accompanied by outriders and a courtly train, could have added nothing to him; would have detracted from him, would have been wholly out of place. The times are unsuited to show. The people did not wish to be entertained with a display; they did wish to see the man in whose hands is the destiny of our country.

You will read the speeches in the papers, and search in vain for anything to find fault with. Mr. Lincoln was wary at all times, wisely so I think, and yet I hear no complaint...In private conversation he was discreet but frank. He believes in a policy of kindness, of delay to give time for passions to cool, but not in a compromise to extend the power and the deadly influence of the slave system. This gave me great satisfaction. The impression he made was good. He undoubtedly is shrewd, able, and possesses strength in reserve. This will be tested soon..."

-- Future President Rutherford B. Hayes, on his impression of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during Lincoln's visit to Cincinnati en route to Washington, D.C. for his Inauguration, in a letter to Hayes' uncle, Sardis Birchard, February 15, 1861.

[conservativebabymillennial]

What the actual …

[cpapartners]

Big tax changes promised in Trump administration

President-elect Donald Trump has offered up a long list of promises during his campaign, and next year will bring a major test with the upcoming expiration of many of the provisions from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

[welcometoqueer]

I haven’t really seen any of the more recent U.S. election news hitting tumblr yet so here’s some updates (now edited with sources added):

There’s evidence of Trump cheating and interfering with the election.

Possible Russian interference.

Mail-in ballots are not being counted or “recognized” in multiple (notably swing) states.

30+ bomb threats were called in and shut down polling stations on Election Day.

20+ million votes are still unaccounted for, and that’s just to have the same voter turnout as 2020.

There was record voter turnout and new/first-time voter registration this year. We definitely should be well over the turnout in 2020.

U.S. citizens are using this site to demand, not only a recount, but a complete investigation into election fraud and interference for the reasons stated above:

Here is what I submitted as an example:

An investigation for election interference and fraud is required. We desperately need a recount or even a revote. The American people deserve the right to a free and fair election. There has been evidence unveiled of Trump cheating and committing election fraud which is illegal. There is some evidence of possible Russian interference. At least 30+ bomb threats were called in to polling places. Multiple, notably swing states, have ballots unaccounted for and voting machines not registering votes. Ballots and ballot boxes were tampered with and burned. Over 20 million votes that we know of are unaccounted for. With record turnout and new voter registration this year, there should be no possibility that there are less votes than even in the 2020 election.

Sources (working on finding more links but if anyone wants to add info, it’s appreciated):

FBI addressing Russian interference and bomb threats:

Emails released by Rachael Bellis (private account, can’t share original tweet) confirming Trump committing election fraud:

Pennsylvania's Centre County officials say they are working with their ballot scanner vendor to figure out why the county's mail-in ballot data is "not being recognized when uploaded to the elections software:”

Wisconsin recount:

[ID:

Multiple screenshots and images.

The first is a screenshot with a link and information for contacting the White House directly regarding election fraud. The instructions include choosing to leave a comment to President Joe Biden directly and to select election security as the reason.

The screenshot then instructs people to include any or all of the following information in a paragraph as a comment to the president:

32 fake bomb threats were called into Democratic leaning poll places, rendering polling places closed for at least an hour.

A lot of people reporting their ballots were not counted for various reasons.

This all occurred in swing states.

This is too coincidental that these things happen and swing in his favor after months of hinting at foul play.

Directly state that an investigation for tampering, interference, fraud is required, not just a recount.

The second image is from the FBI Twitter account that reads:

The FBI is aware of bomb threats to polling locations in several states, many of which appear to originate from Russian email domains. None of the threats have been determined to be credible thus far. https://t.co/j3YfajVK1m — FBI (@FBI) November 5, 2024

The next four Gmail screenshots of an email sent to Rachael Bellis from Chris T. Spackman that read together as follows:

Dear BELLIS, RACHAEL E., The Dauphin County Board of Elections received a challenge to your absentee ballot you applied for in the November 5, 2024 General Election. The challenge argues that a provision of the Pennsylvania Election Code takes precedence over the federal Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA), which requires states and counties to permit U.S. citizens who move overseas to vote by absentee ballot for federal offices based on their last U.S. residential address.

The full text of the challenge that was filed appears below this email.

You may respond to the challenge in any of the following ways:

1. Call the Bureau of Registration and Election at (717) 780-6360;

2. Email a statement to the Bureau at Election election@dauphincounty.gov. Any statement you submit regarding the period during which you lived in Dauphin County, any family or connections that you still have here, and why you are now residing abroad would be read into the record.

3. Appear in person at a Board of Elections hearing scheduled for Friday, November 8 at a time to be determined in the Commissioners Public Hearing Room, 4th floor of Dauphin County Administration Building, 2 S 20d St, Harrisburg, PA 17111. The meeting is also likely to be livestreamed on Facebook on the Dauphin County channel.

Sincerely,

Christopher T Spackman

TEXT OF CHALLENGE BEGINS

Dear Dauphin County Board of Elections,

I am submitting this challenge to an absentee ballot application pursuant to 25 Pa. Stat.

3146.8(f).

25 Pa. Stat. 3146.8(f) Any person challenging an application for an absentee ballot, an absentee ballot, an application for a mail-in ballot or a mail-in ballot for any of the reasons provided in this act shall deposit the sum of ten dollars ($10.00) in cash with the county board, which sum shall only be refunded if the challenge is sustained or if the challenge is withdrawn within five (5) days after the primary or election. If the challenge is dismissed by any lawful order then the deposit shall be forfeited. The county board shall deposit all deposit money in the general fund of the…

The rest of the forwarded email is cut off.

The last image is a screenshot of the official statement from the Centre County, Pennsylvania Board of Commissioners released on November 6, 2024 that states:

Centre County Working with Ballot Scanner Vendor to Export Election Results.

(Bellefonte, PA) -Centre County Elections Office is working continuously to provide mail-in ballot data in order to post unofficial results.

To this point, all ballots have been scanned, including all mail-in ballots.

Centre County's Election team and IT team have identified that the data are successfully being exported from the mail-in ballot scanners, but that the data is not being recognized when uploaded to the elections software.

Centre County's Administrator, John Franek, Jr. stated, "We have not stopped working, and we will continue to work until unofficial results are posted and reported to the Pennsylvania Department of State."

As a next step, Centre County has begun working with the equipment vendor to adjust configurations to make the two systems-the mail-in ballot scanner and the elections software where data are uploaded -compatible with one another.

We will provide updates as we make progress.

/end ID]

[redgearguru]

The AP has called the presidential race for Donald Trump. See more on Google.

Did you know over 139 million ballots were counted in the U.S. elections? Donald Trump won by 4.8 million votes in the popular vote. This big election night ended on November 6 when the Associated Press said Trump won, with 312 electoral votes to Kamala Harris’s 226. Looking at the election results, it’s key to understand what this means for our country’s future. This moment is very important and…

[dhart4214]

YOU-KNOW-WHO ELECTED PRESIDENT (again): MY LAMENTATIONS

THE POLLS PREDICTED A DEAD HEAT, NECK-TO-NECK RACE FOR THE PRESIDENCY. AS IT TURNED OUT, IT WASN’T EVEN CLOSE! FAIR WARNING: If you’re a conservative who voted for our now President-Elect, you won’t like what I’m going to say here. Read this at your own risk. I was watching both CNN and (shocking, because I have never watched that channel – and never will again!) Fox News Channel on Election…