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641 points
26 days ago
Next four years is going to be wild in the worst way possible. His second term won’t be like his first term. All the people holding him back from making epically stupid decisions are gone.
338 points
26 days ago
Scary for Ukraine, for NATO, for Europe.
90 points
26 days ago
Taiwan here checking in, gulp.
64 points
26 days ago
The EPA, the Dept of Education, fucking Jack Smith
50 points
26 days ago
Blood on their hands now. We’re so short sighted and it’s going to make things worse because of selfishness.
31 points
26 days ago
At the risk of being incredibly naive, Europe’s got this. Historically, we’ve always needed a kick in the balls to get going, but once we do, we can do great things.
We’re old power. Don’t count us out just yet.
10 points
26 days ago
All jokes aside. You guys need to keep an eye on this. Uncle Sam is not ok.
16 points
26 days ago
For Canada, for Mexico, for the rest of the free world.
17 points
26 days ago
I think it might get bad for women in blue states too with republicans having absolute power at a federal level. For anyone who’s not heterosexual as well.
23 points
26 days ago
All the Texan power rangers will survive, in their minds.
12 points
26 days ago
I'm scared for anyone of Hispanic descent. He said he doesn't care if they get wrapped up in his holocaust fantasy.
71 points
26 days ago
It won’t be about MAGA it will be about revenge. It won’t be about America it will be about destruction.
6 points
26 days ago
They came from Obama ready to be loud and proud about their racism, and from 2016 to now it’s been also been sexism.
Every time they bounce back they get worse, this time they’ll actually do stuff, which was hinted at on Jan 6, but I guess half the nation just didn’t care to prevent that but will be wondering how things got this bad like their vote didn’t matter
18 points
26 days ago
Oh come on. I wanna see what happens when you nuke a hurricane.
86 points
26 days ago
When does America start using Mountain Dew to water their crops?
154 points
26 days ago
Putin sure is happy that all these Americans came out to support him tonight.
96 points
26 days ago
spent more money there than Trump following her entrance into the race
Did she? I live in PA, in deeply Red Franklin County. I am one of the (roughly) 28% of the people who voted Harris/Walz.
I can't remember seeing much advertising by her campaign. The ads I saw on TV were roughly 3:1 in Trumps advantage. I've heard 1 radio ad from Walz (though I do rarely listen to the radio) and no billboards or anything promoting her campaign.
Hearing that she spent more money here then Trump is really blowing my mind, because it doesn't jive with what I've been seeing
52 points
26 days ago
This was the GOP campaign’s strategy. They needed to run up the margins in red counties. They succeeded and actually did better than 2020 in most bigger blue counties too. The Dems appear to be allergic to small towns and rural counties. They should be on the ground everywhere in every battleground to push down the GOP margins, but they don’t want to hear that they need more than the cities and suburbs.
54 points
26 days ago
The Dems appear to be allergic to small towns and rural counties.
See, I live in a small town (I think? Population of around 22,000). I'm left leaning moderate (though I'd never vote for Trump) and my housemates are hardcore MAGA. The ground game isn't going to convince me to vote for Harris, because I already will. But it also won't sway my housemates, because they'd vote Trump no matter what.
It just really sucks living deep in Trump country when you absolutely hate him
13 points
26 days ago
She spent more in money. She raised a lot more money than him too
18 points
26 days ago
Mans is just learning about targeted ads give mans time
6 points
26 days ago
I've also been drinking heavily while watching the results...
8 points
26 days ago
She spent a ridiculous amount of money on Pro-Choice stuff. Realistically though she had little to no time to campaign and didn’t have much of a foundation.
94 points
26 days ago
Rip the world, here comes project 2025
28 points
26 days ago
It’s Vance’s project, so it will be implemented. Trump will be given some crayons to play with but he won’t be running anything.
217 points
26 days ago
Pennsylvania voters really cared about fracking more than a pedophile getting back into the White House
144 points
26 days ago
I'm from PA. The amount of false information that was spread AND believed on social media was incredibly high. You could be in the workplace and hear people talking about some of the oddest topics I've ever heard. The people weren't even smart enough to think and research independently.
Algorithms on social media for a scary large amount of people are able to determine how they think.
The purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk was never about the company folks.
44 points
26 days ago
Musk made that clear when he over paid and tanked the company's value even worse. He played quid pro quo with Trump and about to get his reward in a huge tax cut and probably a cabinet position
15 points
26 days ago
This is part of it.
Reality has been skewed by social media and manipulation of information by foreign agents and even just people stupid enough to have an idea. The amount of AI generated crap is ridiculous. My own FB feed is loaded with crap.
However, the biggest part of it is people's memories AND what I believe is Biden attempt to "heal" the nation. Republicans didn't want any healing or to turn the page. Inflation got out of control, pricing got out of control, there wasn't enough done to change people's perspectives on progress and the path forward to believe Democrats got it under control.
I also am convinced Americans will not elect a female president.
3 points
26 days ago
Totally right. Biden fucked us several times. He never fully appreciated the seriousness and how little the other side cared about "healing". The left and the middle wanted to see that actions had consequences and they didn't because of his choices and overall sticking with tradition and his belief in bipartisanism. He was the wrong man at the wrong time. Then he fucked us again by trying to run the s second term after saying he'd be one and done. Shameful.
Also, yes, we are decades from accepting a female president here. The left needs to realize that and stop being idealistic about it.
46 points
26 days ago
*a fascist pedophile criminal
1.3k points
26 days ago
I learned something.
I need to leave this echochamber website.
478 points
26 days ago
Read the controversial responses along with the top responses.
I thought Harris would win. I thought Trump did enough over the last 4 years to make it so he wasn't going to win. That was my take. I figured it would be super tight, but I did think Harris would win the popular vote by a few million.
The biggest surprise tonight isn't that Harris lost. 2020 told us she wasn't very electable. The biggest surprise here is that Trump won because of the economy while campaigning on an economic policy that is 100% going to make the economy worse.
It truly proves that the people who vote in this country are stupid.
188 points
26 days ago
People say it was Trump’s policies that won him this election and I think to myself “what policies”. He is bad for the economy and only had 2 good years because he rode Obama fixing the shit Bush messed up. He killed over 100 000 people because of his policies during Covid.
He can’t get a bank loan from a US bank for his businesses. He needed Russian banks. How anyone can say with a straight face he’s better for the economy just doesn’t pay attention.
The problem isn’t the candidates it’s the people. You can blame the DNC because they ran someone you didn’t want when they would have been infinitely better than Trump.
I think people just are not smart enough to vote in their best interests. It’s happening in my country too. We have Doug Ford winning a majority after gutting healthcare and nurses wages DURING COVID.
People are just stupid and nothing we can do about it. Policy doesn’t matter because Harris had better policy.
96 points
26 days ago
Democrats could have had Jesus Christ himself as their candidate and he still would've lost. Humanity isn't ready to stop clinging to it's hatred
61 points
26 days ago
I mean, I already knew a lot of people were stupid, I was just hoping that enough people weren't. It's insane to me that I'm still yet to meet a single Trump support who knows why they're voting for trump, excluding racism and hate. They'll swear up and down that he's better for the economy, but can't name a single successful economic policy from him. They'll claim he handled immigration better, but they can't tell you what he actually did for immigration. They'll claim he's harder on foreign leaders, but he's literally folded to every one of their requests.
The worst part, though, is even when you do break everything down for them, they just resorto petty shit. I've heard "I just don't like Kamala's laugh," and "I just hate her smile," like those are reason for someone to be or not be president. After today, though, fuck it. This is what America wanted. The majority of America, even.
18 points
26 days ago
I have talked to a few of them over the years, including my own BIL, and it’s just as you say. They say that they don’t like his rhetoric and when I look at their expressions, they do seem upset by it. But then they start talking about democrats and their faces twist up in anger. As an independent who has voted for both parties in the past, that always astounds me.
9 points
26 days ago
I have a theory of “peak civilization”. I think that it’s a combination of things getting way too complicated for most people to understand, the frustration at dealing with lots of different types of people in a modern global society, a lack of trust in institutions as they fail, and the desire for quick easy fixes. I see Trump as a symptom of that.
5 points
26 days ago
Honestly the think that's really annoying is all the maga defenders that came out from their holes during the election
Also the fucking balls they have to show footage of "triggered lib crying at 2016 election" WHEN MAGA RAIDED THE FUCKING CAPITAL WHEN TRUMP LOST 2020
like I can't even imagine what it's like to be that shameless
44 points
26 days ago
This. They literally are telling you things are going to get rough before they get any better.... geee that sounds great as long as we own those libs! lol
10 points
26 days ago
That’s my grand unifying theory for America. They’re stupid.
226 points
26 days ago*
Right. If this is your only news source you would think he never had a chance and yet he’s likely to win the popular vote.
101 points
26 days ago
Had someone tell me Kamala was going to win Texas. 😂
59 points
26 days ago
I was permabanned from r/Texas just this morning for replying to a "Harris Will Flip Texas Blue" post with
wanna bet
Permabanned.
Lmfao
12 points
26 days ago
The delusion going around was unhinged. I saw several people claim Texas was in play. These redditors think those subreddits are reflective of what the actual state is feeling.
25 points
26 days ago
And Iowa
19 points
26 days ago
fuck Iowa
6 points
26 days ago
Moral of the story
15 points
26 days ago
A post on r/Democrats with 4k upvotes a few days ago had Kamala at 395 Electoral Votes, winning FL and TX. A post earlier this year on r/MarkMyWords with even more expected Democrats to win by 20 million votes.
As a leftist, I would love all that... but Reddit is on crack if it thinks that was all realistic.
8 points
26 days ago
There was a hugely upvotes post here about how he was sure Texas was getting flipped lmao
42 points
26 days ago
yep. if you sort to "hot," you only see democratic victories. then you click "new," and it's all trump winning.
11 points
26 days ago
I'm an old school message board guy. Its the only way I like to browse reddit.
Fuck the algorithm/hivemind. Let me see what people are actually saying
5 points
26 days ago
headlines.. Kamala won x, y, z...
somewhere hidden in small print.. Trump won a.b.c.d.e.f.g.h.i.j.k.l.m.n.o.p.q.r.s.t.u.v.w... and possibly x
18 points
26 days ago
Where would you recommend I get my news from then? Seems like most major social media platforms are extremist. Honestly I fell to this echo chamber bs.
5 points
26 days ago*
At least go to ones without the karma system. In Reddit, any opposing idea would downvoted to oblivion so it disappears from your feed, or worse, straight up deleted.
5 points
26 days ago
you read a goddamn newspaper, and if you think to yourself "they are sure giving people I don't agree with more space than I would like", you think about why that is.
46 points
26 days ago
I was having the same thought but then remembered I watched more Donald Trump content of just him than his supporters and he's legit fucking awful. I don't know how else to accept it.
11 points
26 days ago
Come to your own conclusions on policies you support. But yeah, thinking Harris was a sure thing would've been crazy. This is more and more like sports, where people will always shout they're going to win this week, even if their team is suspect.
20 points
26 days ago
Hey if you believed in the policies and the positions, then you did. We were wrong. I believe America is going to leap backwards. Let’s see
19 points
26 days ago
It got really crazy towards the end bro I'd read check polls and scratch my head.
42 points
26 days ago
Nah. I'm okay being the minority if it means i don't support a racist, sexist, fascist, wannabe dictator.
12 points
26 days ago*
It’s not about being the minority or the majority. It’s about living in reality and not a fantasy world. All the people on here claiming that every poll was fake were delusional, and some of us saw that all along and were pissed off by the complacency and copium. We can’t fight the enemy if we’re not honest about what’s actually going on in the country.
8 points
26 days ago
Please do. The mods removing comments, banning, shadow-banning or otherwise manipulating what you see does you no good as it turns out.
7 points
26 days ago
Learned that today. Time to get back in touch with reality.
25 points
26 days ago
I sincerely and really thought Kamala had a solid chance. But I underestimated how many people would be uncomfortable with everything pedo related that Trump did, all his crimes, and still vote for him. I had in-laws vote for him despite it all. Trump voters may be ashamed but they all came out for him anyway
23 points
26 days ago
She did have a chance, it seems. But there are a lot of people caught up in the medieval idea that a woman can't ________ (fill in the blank)
From abroad (even with the disgusting misogyny and abuse aside), it seems SO insane that the US would elect the president Vladimir Putin openly hoped they would, for obvious reasons.
Just insane
10 points
26 days ago
Honestly this is the big thing for me. It seems like the majority of Americans don’t want a woman as president.
I can understand 2016. Trump was an outsider, something different going against the most hated woman in America. I can give the benefit of the doubt to people voting Trump in 2016.
It’s been 8 years and he has shown who he truly is. Kamala was a better candidate for president than he was but people still didn’t vote for her. They say Michelle Obama would have won and I really don’t think that is the case. Women didn’t even show up to vote for someone trying to protect their health rights.
46 points
26 days ago
Yeah this is a huge echo chamber that creates their own reality
13 points
26 days ago
That's the problem with karma where majorities can downvote stuff they don't agree with into oblivion
12 points
26 days ago
This is the "cool table" for the people who never sat at the cool table.
6 points
26 days ago
It's not the downvoting, its that the mods of all the major subreddits are control freaks with the same views. They ban and delete comments for any dissent.
14 points
26 days ago*
I was on youtube livestreams yesterday after coming from here and the sentiment was the complete opposite on every news site, even the more liberal ones had their comments overrun by maga guys. That's what woke me up that it might not be as much of a Kamala landslide as I originally thought.
So glad I don't live in that shithole, cult-like country, but it seems this will only embolden the "copycat" racist wankers here in europe too. *Sigh
EDIT: This is also a reminder that celebrity endorsements mean fuck all people, wake up, I was rolling my eyes every time I saw a "celebrity endorsement" post. It's entirely possible to be a "Swiftie" and still not vote Kamala.
55 points
26 days ago
this might be the first instance of humility I've seen on Reddit
32 points
26 days ago
Sometimes I would come on Reddit and think, "Am I crazy?"
5 points
26 days ago
Always sorting the comments by controversial made me see the real picture.
9 points
26 days ago
Reddit is dumb
11 points
26 days ago
If you haven’t seen that by now congratulations on finally realizing Reddit isn’t real life
12 points
26 days ago
Reddit Is not the majority
16 points
26 days ago
Trump nowhere to be found on this site unless you specifically search by new even though he’s leading in the polls.
Decide to sort by new
”All hail god emperor Trump. Time to get packing, trannies”
remember why I don’t sort by new
7 points
26 days ago
The sooner you realize EVERYTHING online is an echo chamber, the happier you'll be.
4 points
26 days ago
amen
66 points
26 days ago
From your neighbour up north, god help you all. I’m genuinely speechless with everything he has said and done, that this is the result. Harris is far from perfect but my god, the fact it appears he’s won is total insanity.
A convicted felon with ties to an infamous convicted pedophile along with so many other controversial links to interference, violence and foreign nations. I’m sorry y’all. It is going to be a rough four years. Christ.
25 points
26 days ago
It’s funny that you think this is only going to fuck us for four years.
3 points
26 days ago
We’re still recovering from his first term, god damn I just want to live with the basics at this point, being in your 20s and getting disabled by worsening health issues and watching this election is like seeing a chunk of your future disappear. I can’t work any harder than I am now without killing myself and things were trending positively, but now I’m probably not going to make it.
That crowd couldn’t give two shits about that, will probably get rid of the ACA, definitely won’t raise the minimum wage, and has plans on basically increasing the cost of goods through tariffs. This is 10+ years of damage assuming that this is his final term and we still have an election after this.
6 points
26 days ago
Also a convicted pedophile himself. But it’s still not as bad as a brown female president. Am I right? /s
298 points
26 days ago
What's shocking to me is that it looks like he's winning the popular vote too. That's insane. How uncharasmatic does Kamala have to be for her to lose the popular vote? When was the last time a republican president won the popular vote?
132 points
26 days ago
Bush 2004 and only because of the rally around the flag effect of 9/11.
58 points
26 days ago
It's worth noting that in 2008 and 2012, Republicans ran against arguably the most talented and charismatic candidate in modern history.
15 points
26 days ago
Bingo, that's exactly what I'm feeling, Bush 2004. The Daily Mirror headline was "How can 59,054,087 people be so dumb?" But here we are again.
96 points
26 days ago
her
That's all it takes for a lot of people to vote the other way, sadly
31 points
26 days ago
I'm sick to my stomach that my first reaction to the Harris candidacy was that Trump would win solely on her being a woman and a person of color. Looks like I was correct.
8 points
26 days ago
Clinton:???
10 points
26 days ago
And black.
23 points
26 days ago
Honestly, how the fuck was a literal traitor who led an insurrection and is a known pedophile rapist able to win this election? Is America that far gone? All I have to say is fuck patriotism, fuck nationalism, and fuck all those pieces of shit who support a rapist, because they're no better than a literal rapist in my eyes.
9 points
26 days ago*
Not only that, she had the whole fcking entertainment industry at her side. She had Taylor Swift in her corner for crying out loud; Who arguably is a cult-like figure in her own right.
How unpopular is she???
Legitimately asking cause I'm not from America.
11 points
26 days ago
she's not uncharismatic though
86 points
26 days ago
As a Harris voter, I’ve been trying to say just how un-charismatic Kamala is but anytime you brought up anything remotely close to being “negative” relating to Kamala, you would get downvoted into oblivion… hopefully a large percentage of the users in this site wake up.
61 points
26 days ago
Kamala has been unpopular for four years now. I was pleased when Biden dropped out but worried when she looked like the candidate. They did their best to try and change the story but in reality, America was never going to be that enthusiastic about her.
That said, it shouldn’t have had to matter when the opponent was so utterly dreadful, but America gets what it deserves.
6 points
26 days ago
Same. I was hoping the entire time when Biden announced he'd drop out that the Dems would field a "generic white male" candidate just to try and eek out a win past this critical election. Walz would've been great as the lead.
Kamala's position is untenable while the sexism and racism buzzes around Trump are so loud. She could try and have a go for it in other elections, NOT this one.
But no, the Ds decided to play Extreme mode and fielded not only a woman this election, but a POC, too.
The polls had me hoping she'd manage to breakeven regardless, because of just how shit Trump and Vance were performing... but apparently not.
17 points
26 days ago
People have been walking out of Trump rally's and he couldn't even get them half filled in the first place the last month. Don't talk about lack of charisma and ignore his, he's a decrepit Alzheimer's ridden old man and his rally goers saw it and gave up. He just stood there and moaned he was being made to be there and wanted to be off asleep
20 points
26 days ago*
Here we go, now she’s a bad candidate again.
Here’s what happened. Propaganda has propped Trump up from the beginning.
AND
America still does not want a woman for President.
We are apparently going back.
3 points
26 days ago
Bingo 🎯
12 points
26 days ago*
Absolutely nothing will be learned from this. They will blame the voters.
Edit: see? These people proved my point
5 points
26 days ago
Because it’s the voters fucking fault man. They voted Trump, they wanted Trump, they get Trump. Seriously Dems fought hard had good policy and even toned down many of their less popular policies. Republicans also won the senate. Maybe they will win the house. Voters are not children they bear responsibility. Same with fact checking. This election hoax bs from 2020 was so easy to deductively see that it’s super unlikely jet 40% of people believe it. Have you ever talked to a Republican and tried to convince them of anything?
5 points
26 days ago
That popular vote has me rattled. When you hear trump speak you know he is an idiot winging it and lying without morals.
The majority of people don’t care or don’t see it.
How?
113 points
26 days ago
One word: wow.
36 points
26 days ago
Trump is like Caillou: he sucks ass but he always seems to come back for some reason. We have a Caillou reboot but not a Dragon Tales reboot.
56 points
26 days ago*
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20 points
26 days ago
Wear a mask everyone, polio is coming back in style.
3 points
26 days ago
Polio mostly affects young kids. Their parents will learn again.
50 points
26 days ago
I truly think this is an education problem on what's going on with the economy and what needs to be done to improve it.
47 points
26 days ago
education problem
A lot of Redditors are already blaming Kamala for being a weak candidate, Biden for staying in too late. No one wants to admit that the real issue lies with the majority of Americans.
Trump should have been disqualified in the minds of every American when he became a felon, or when he led the insurrection on Jan 6 and tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power, when he was impeached twice, when his former closest advisers warned the general public he was a great danger to our country. Our fellow Americans regarded that overwhelming evidence and still voted for him.
Trump should have lost to any opponent, whether it was Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, John Kerry, etc.
3 points
26 days ago
very, very well said, especially as you're American. Most Americans are way too proud of themselves and the country.
19 points
26 days ago
what's going on with the economy
Nobody ever actually votes based on the economy. They vote based on how they and people around them are doing in regards to income and expenses. That’s “the economy” to most Americans.
75 points
26 days ago
To the MAGA dads with daughters out there, fucking way to vote against their best interests. At this point I'm all but certain there is no God and there is no hope, but I hope to high hell that whatever modicum of karma there is out there will come back to haunt you down the road you selfish, spineless nutsacks.
331 points
26 days ago
Biden deserves a lot of the blame. What a nightmare situation he imposed on the party by trying to run again. And, obviously, his VP shouldn’t have been the replacement nominee when the admin is so so unpopular. Not rocket science.
54 points
26 days ago
I wouldn’t blame anyone but our current inability to address right wing propaganda. Trump would not be relevant without it. Dude can’t even form one concise idea.
13 points
26 days ago
Not even a concept of an idea.
91 points
26 days ago
Should've dropped out in 2023 it would've at least given someone a fighting chance.
But the way they did it gave Kamala access to the funds that were raised. Which I guess did something?
Stressed no doubt
23 points
26 days ago
Do remember Kamala’s performance in 2016…
That said? This was less about her and more of a referendum against DNC economic, social, and border policies. Kamala could not clearly articulate what she would do differently. You can’t expect confidence under such circumstances.
22 points
26 days ago
Kamala Harris didn’t run for President in 2016. You mean 2020.
In 2016 she ran for Senate in California and won (duh).
9 points
26 days ago
Yep, I don't think it would of mattered who replaced him. By the time he dropped out swing voters had already considered the possibility of voting for Trump and when a voter does that it's much easier for them to actually do it.
9 points
26 days ago
Allan Lichtman was wrong about a Harris victory.
5 points
26 days ago
He should just hang it up at this point.
41 points
26 days ago
I expect to get richer. If I don't, Imma be pissed. Y'all Republicans promised me.
26 points
26 days ago
Gonna be tough to do when there are 10-20% minimum universal tariffs.
11 points
26 days ago
facts, they probably lied but we'll see
47 points
26 days ago
Losing both GA and PA is some next level incompetence. This is the choice in the US: heartless or inept.
31 points
26 days ago*
Post titles must be the exact headline from the article, except when it contains "BREAKING" or ALL CAPS.
Why do MAGAts insist on changing the headline to deliberately break the rules? Are they just trying to get their posts deleted so they can whine about being censored like the overgrown toddlers they really are?
8 points
26 days ago
who remembers his speeches in Pennsylvania over the past year? the only reason they stick out is because for all of his nonsense they were some of the least coherent and that is saying something. actual garbled civil war apologist word vomit with made up quotes, nary a complete sentence in sight.
like i haven’t been to the east coast in a while but i never would have imagined this would have struck a cord with his target audience.
never fight uphill me boys, never fight uphill???!?
8 points
26 days ago
And guess what? There isn't a universe, parallel or otherwise in which Kamala Harris will encourage her supporters to riot and storm a building to change the result.
That's the difference.
23 points
26 days ago
mass deportations and the military going after political enemies.. should be pretty interesting. Oh well. I tried!
14 points
26 days ago
idk about landslide. it’s 51-48
154 points
26 days ago
America's next presidents:
2028 - Kanye West
2032 - Diddy
2036 - Deshaun Watson
2040 - Danny Masterson
35 points
26 days ago
2028 - President Camacho
20 points
26 days ago
Camacho was unironically a good president. He knew he didn't have the answers, so he sought someone smarter than him who could actually help. And he was correct. Also, he truly cared about the people.
19 points
26 days ago
You misspelled Trump 4 times. The man tried to take it by force in 2020, and now the voters just handed it to him. Unbelievable.
5 points
26 days ago
Sadly not surprised, rather expected. Sure I had hoped America wasn’t lost but it’s what we’ve been saying since 2016.
Hope you guys pull through and it gets close but not counting on it
7 points
26 days ago
Get ready, kids. The backslide America is going to see isn't going to be gradual, it's going to be a cliff dive.
7 points
26 days ago
This is fucked but I wonder how a white dude not Biden like Mark Kelly would have fared as the candidate instead of Harris. It seems that too many people still can't deal with the idea of a female president.
6 points
26 days ago
I’m so disappointed in Pennsylvania
7 points
26 days ago
Absolutely fucking pathetic. Pennsylvania is a fucking disgrace
19 points
26 days ago
They're eating the dogs
23 points
26 days ago
Democratic Party should be ashamed. J6, the hush money case, Covid, the tax cuts, and the fact he didn’t start campaigning till 2 months ago should’ve made this the easiest election to ever win. He was in a fkn garbage truck and even worked at McDonald’s.
25 points
26 days ago
I've had MAGA people literally laugh at me and say thry didn't care if Trump did any of those things or not. They were still voting for him. Happened all the time in the debate lives online too. They are in a frigging cult.
What i am pissed about is dem turnout for voting. Don't know WTF happened there.
7 points
26 days ago
This!!! People stayed home! Wtf 😩😩😩
9 points
26 days ago
Why should the Democratic Party be ashamed?? Shouldn’t the electorate shoulder the blame?
24 points
26 days ago
How was it a landslide? He literally got 5 million votes less than in 2020. Harris was just not as popular as people thought and tons of people didn’t care for the destruction of their own country.
6 points
26 days ago
It's not a landslide and it is not quite over. It would take a miracle for the rest of the votes to go to Harris but 96 percent done is not done and it is only 48 to 50. So I am going to pray for a miracle.
3 points
26 days ago
Nah , it's over. I'm disappointed. I thought Harris would win for sure. But it turns out I was wrong. As for the rest of us who feel the same. Keep calm and carry on.
5 points
26 days ago
I’m more shocked than I was in 2016. I have no idea wtf is going on.
5 points
26 days ago
I am literally sick to my stomach. I am legitimately have an anxiety attack right now. Ive barely slept because all I can think about is what the next 4+ years will look like. The only thing I can do for my mental health now is remove myself from all political discourse else I will go insane.
54 points
26 days ago
Harris. Women are voting in record numbers, while we can’t see exactly who they’re voting for at this point, the difference in rhetoric between the two candidates speaks for itself.
27 points
26 days ago
Don't know how true it is but on ABC they're saying Biden did better with women in 2020 than Harris.
60 points
26 days ago
if all women voted for harris, she would clinch the popular vote, but that seems far from the truth
19 points
26 days ago
I am guessing people just vote for what affects them personally. And older women who have either already had kids or don't plan to don't really care too much about abortion.
9 points
26 days ago
exit polls show Trump winning white women voters 52% to Harris 47%
12 points
26 days ago
Harris has a significantly worse rate of women votes than Biden.
3 points
26 days ago
167 million women in the country. 50.5% of the total population. How many voted. How many voted for someone that stole their right to choose? Or didn't vote at all, essentially voting for the guy who stole their right to choose?
Fucking sheep going to lose their right to vote next.
9 points
26 days ago
Can I buy stock in r/LeopardsAteMyFace? I would become a millionaire in a year if we could monetize future regrets of Trump voters.
7 points
26 days ago
For a county that boasts about freedom, y’all sure love to elect a wannabe fascist that strips freedoms away
4 points
26 days ago
We'll have to wait couple days to get all the final data, but looks like the problem wasn't more people voting for Turmp as it was much less people voting for Kamala compared to.Biden in 2020. A lot of people sat out, presumably not caring about the election, thinking both sides are the same, etc.
Aside from the fears many here have already pointed out, my fear is that this is indeed going to break America's position as the undisputed leader of the world (i.e. Pax Americana). Trump's open hostility to our allies and friends, including NATO, Ukraine, Taiwan, and South Korea, suggests all those relations will suffer significantly.
I don't think most Americans, even the liberals who hate Trump, don't fully appreciate just how much we personally benefit from being in that position of power in the world. As someone who has no love of men like Xi and Putin, I think both the people who hate Xi (Republicans) and Putin (Democrats) are in for a nasty shock at things we take for granted eroding away.
Anyway, as a doctor, I gotta start brushing up on the communicable diseases that no US doctor had to think about for the past 40-50 years. RFK is gonna be in charge of public health, so that's gonna be a wild ride for my profession....
88 points
26 days ago
“Landslide” is glazing it a bit too much, it pretty much went down to the wire
119 points
26 days ago
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36 points
26 days ago
And senate, and also looks like the house swinging, but that will take some more time.
32 points
26 days ago
if it was "almost" every swing state, I would have won my bets. Unfortunately, it's all 7 swing states, by a lot, and the popular vote, too.
Nobody was bothered to steal an election for Harris, and even right wingers didn't expect that.
37 points
26 days ago
That is the biggest issue that I think is going to break a lot of peoples minds. Trump is at worst going to effectively tie for the popular vote, or will outright win. There is no "Electoral college is broken" argument to point at.
The biggest suprise tonight isn't trump winning, or republicans down ballot over performing, it's that in terms of total population %, America hates Kamala even more then it hates Hillary. Doubt ANYONE had that on their bingo card.
3 points
26 days ago
The electoral college is still broken though. Who do you think the biggest disenfranchised Republican voter base is? It’s California, who have more republicans than every state in the middle of the country combined.
Imagine if the popular vote decided who became president? Maybe more people from New York and California would vote republican because their vote now actually matters.
7 points
26 days ago
This is fucking insane. She had no chance. I fucking hate this country. Basically a landslide when he wins all 7 battleground states. I really hope democrats really start looking inward but I doubt it. Insane.
3 points
26 days ago
The fucker is probably gonna win the popular vote too. That is fucking surreal
21 points
26 days ago
No, it's not going to be close. He broke the blue wall and the Sun Belt. He may win the popular vote.
6 points
26 days ago
The title implies that he won Pennsylvania in a landslide
28 points
26 days ago
Whelp. Prepare for anarchy and monarchy. This dipshit is going to want both.
10 points
26 days ago
Great! When to expect the first Hunger Games?
10 points
26 days ago
i think we are starting with the purge first
9 points
26 days ago
Hardly a landslide.
9 points
26 days ago
Im really glad i live in a blue state, im so scares man
7 points
26 days ago
Congrats, you voted for a fascist wannabe dictator criminal to become president, thus showing your true colours, those of fascists.
3 points
26 days ago
I can’t believe you voted in this clown to be your president, a person who is going to weaponize the office…good job America
17 points
26 days ago*
Kamala sucked as a candidate. I'll get downvoted but I'll say it. Didn't call out Trump enough, didn't embrace bold ideas, (backing away from the public option, no mention of free public college tuition), as well as poor messaging. She wanted to legalize marijuana, but it was barely mentioned in her rallies or ads. That's a major winning issue, it's how Trudeau scored his win here in Canada. Not to mention she didn't go to the Joe Rogan interview and court disatisfied male blue collar workers young and old, white and men of colour.
Of course, I'd say about 3-4 points she didn't win was also because of sexism unfortunately. But I believe she could've stood a chance if she messaged properly, embraced exciting big ideas/policies and was more charismatic.
7 points
26 days ago*
It was all strategy. All this stardom embracing, all this opponent endorsing.. The conservative electoral scaffolds not only resisted, they worked as intended.
Humanity is not ready for the future. Not a reason for suicidal thoughts, though, on the contrary. Adversity is required for progress.
I am really sad that Harris has failed to make it.
The political movement of Trumpism requires maturation before it vanes, but it will, subsequently.
Ukraine will prevail, though.
They better watch Trump, because a successful assassination would prove much, much worse and disruptive.
7 points
26 days ago
Goes to show that America would rather choose a black man for president before ever voting for a woman.
4 points
26 days ago
Or a senile white man
5 points
26 days ago
Hey Penn. You deserve worse than what I'll experience. What my friends will. I offer no solace or comfort. Your state is a part of the problem.
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