#vote literally anyone who is not a rapist felon who wants to take all of those rights away

[chaosartisan]

Did anyone mention that not only he's a criminal but his platform is dogshit? You can scream deep state until you're blue in the face but under trump there will be a dictatorship.

[deadweight-at7am]

I really love some of these videos and responses I keep seeing from people online (mainly Tiktok) who are trying to explain away "what happened" in this election result. They keep saying "Trump spoke to the working class better than Democrats". And I keep saying "literally, HOW?" You keep saying that, and what I think you're trying to say is that the working class is full of stupid fucking morons. I am working class. I don't agree.

He didn't speak to me at all. He said nothing of substance. He espoused violent and hateful rhetoric. He gave us no concrete economic plans except for ones that clearly aren't going to be good. He incited a insurrection and refused to accept defeat in 2020. He stole secret documents from the White House. He wants to do things that will add to the debt. He "explained their concerns better" is so useless. If he LIES, what point is there in saying he spoke to them "better". We all know he won't do any of the shit he promised. And define "better", for the love of GOD.

What they're all failing to admit here is that the voter is to blame. The people who voted for him are squarely to blame. No amount of trying, explaining, writing articles, making pie charts, yelling, screeching, etc would have worked. How do I know that? Because, DUMMY, if you need someone to hold your hand and say in a baby voice "PLEASE DON'T VOTE FOR THE RAPIST AND FELON" you are a lost fucking cause. I didn't need anyone to hold MY hand and say that. So, why are you excusing the millions of people who apparently do? It's OUR collective fault they have IQs of 70? You need someone to explain to you in the simplest terms possible that the big orange man who paid off a porn star and lied about it is NOT going to follow through on his promises?

No. You're. At. Fault. And. I'm. Not. Taking. Responsibility.

"They voted for him because of the economy". So what you're saying is that the economy, which sucks because of corporate greed (amongst other things) is going to be changed for the better by the guy who has concepts of a plan. RIGHT. We all watched the same fucking debate. We watched him have zero answers.

Yeah, yeah, totally. That makes sense.

Edited to add: I'm currently in a FB argument with some random chud who is trying to tell me that Trump is not a fascist and that progressives more closely aligns with fascism... he's citing Mussolini (the literal fascist superhero) as examples. Like, no you literal fucking moron, Mussolini wasn't a socialist when he rose to power. OBVIOUSLY. He was a fascists and he formed the fascist party. Fascism and socialism is not the same thing. He keeps arguing with me that I don't know what fascism is and he's just actually wrong. So, I had to screenshot Wikipedia for him. This is his voter base. No ability to go and read for themselves. NONE.

[hyperazraphael]

I just don't know how to cope with the fact that yesterday evil won. It won SO soundly...

How am I supposed to just go out there and face the knowledge that over half my country chose a known liar, bully, rapist, criminal, bigot, idiot, convicted felon, someone who cost hundreds of thousands of lives during the pandemic, who tried to stage a coup the last time he lost an election, who shouldn't even have been allowed to run, over a competent educated woman? That's the worst part of this. That horror was so bad the first time he was elected but there was a tiny leeway I could grant for ignorance, that people may not have known what a horrid bastard he was but now that we've seen the kind of leader he was and the kind of damage he could do that feeling is ten fold.

I have believed so hard and so deeply that Americans like all people are inherently good and I have also labored under the belief that most Americans want to do good things and be good people. But how can I continue to believe that? I still believe all people are inherently good but all people have the freedom to choose what they want to be and I watched over half of my country stand up, put their hand over their hearts, and proudly declare "I choose evil."

I can't continue to believe in the goodness and kindness of strangers when I have seen it so thoroughly disproven. I feel like a child who just discovered Santa Claus isn't real.

I wasn't honestly that stressed about the election because I thought that surely anyone but the most diehard cringe Republicans could see the disgusting excuse for a playground bully calling itself a politician. I still did my part and voted, I still encouraged others to vote, but I wasn't particularly concerned because the possibility of the FUCKING FELON getting elected just seemed so laughable that it didn't needle me that hard and I had hope that over the next four years things may take a turn for the better. That we might actually see this country start to become a better place.

But I was a fucking idiot.

I don't have hope for the next four years anymore or ten years, or twenty years. I don't have hope for this country anymore. I don't think there will be change or social reform at least not in the good direction. I don't think there will be health care that will finally let me get a fucking job that pays more than $1500 a month. I don't think there will be affordable food, or trans rights, or that gay marriage will stay legal, or abortion will be a right, or that any real criminal will see justice for their crimes. I doubt I'll even have what health care I have now by the end of these 4 years. Literally ALL I hope, all I DARE to hope is that the people I love and the less than half of my country that choose to be good come out of this alive and that we don't go to war with anybody. That's it. That's all I dare to hope for from these next four years.

I feel so betrayed and angry and so very sick. It feels like a part of my heart that is good is dying in response.