Yeah, no, we’re still going to walk into this, despite nothing about this sounding like it’s going to turn out well. Gee golly, there’s just nothing we can do about any of this. Not like we have a current sitting President with the effective powers of a king who could wield that power for the greater good. Nah, we’re just gonna do this. Hope it works out well.
1/3rd of voters voted for Trump, a 1/3rd voted for Harris, and a 1/3rd just couldn’t be bothered to vote. It’s not that Trump got a groundswell of support (he got +1million more than 2020, not a huge increase), it’s that Harris didn’t get the same number of votes as Biden got, she got around 7 million less votes than Biden got. It’s that Democrat voters didn’t turn out in the numbers they needed to.
This is going to fuck up the healthcare industry (along with many others) and it’s going to hit alot of Americans hard. There’s millions of immigrant home health aides across the country that help care for mentally disabled and elderly Americans. Start taking away those aides and suddenly you’ve got Americans struggling to find anybody to watch their family members, causing them to have to choose between work and caring for a relative. It’s going to be a shitshow if they actually follow through with this.
The only silver lining I can see is that it might actually open Americans’ eyes to how much they actually need immigrants after everything goes to shit, but I’m sure the ignorant will just go on to blame some other group for the resulting fallout.
Par for the course for the next 4+ years.
I doubt they would’ve even taken the sign off the lawn.
Possibly, we should start by investigating the President who was in charge at the time.
I’ll be more stunned if McConnell or other Republicans don’t cave and just go along with it.
I sure as shit hope so, given that Gaetz resigned his position in the House, but somehow I suspect he’ll still be voted in and that he wasn’t going to resign unless he knew beforehand he had the votes for confirmation.
I’m assuming it’s working as intended.
And the ani-vaxxxer guy with brain worms from running Health and Human Services. Or the convicted felon from becoming President.
Have these people not played XCom: Terror from the Deep? Underwater space aliens are an extremely serious threat that cannot be overlooked!
That’s a bit of an exaggerated headline.
This is the one time I wish we could have a military coup organized by some patriotic generals to arrest the incoming administration, and immediately hold a new set of elections. It won’t happen, but it’s nice to think about.
These are apparently called “Desire Paths”
Hopefully the doublecross comes soon and they hang him out to dry before they get into office.
His own father lived til he was 93, so we may be waiting awhile, though Trump doesn’t exercise and eats like shit, so who knows.
Time to start stockpiling.
For over half the voters, the open rise of fascism was fine and not a deal-breaker. Trump has made no secret what kind of a president he was going to be. Trump’s numbers stayed the same and even did better in some places, even after running the most garbage campaign in modern history. A sizable portion of Americans want fascism.
This is somehow less of a gut-punch than 2016 when everyone just assumed Americans would do the right thing and not elect Trump. It still sucks, but it’s less of a surprise. The writing was kind of on the wall for awhile though, just given the fact that the election was as close as it was. Even if Trump hadn’t won, that he was able to run the most garbage campaign in history and was still tying it up was pretty damning of America.
So now we watch as we just peacefully transfer power to the most vile, irresponsible person on Earth and watch the world burn.
It was, but it still is too.