The election is over and MAGA is still angry. I guess owning the libs was their only goal in life. For the life of me I can't understand where all this hate and angst is coming from. It's not like the democrats are crying foul and whining about the results. (Although, I must say, there was something mighty fishy about Elon and his behavior.) Dems won't be storming the halls of power, and crying stolen election for the next four years. They are totally fine with sitting back and watching Mr. trump make a fool of himself while he destroys the country for a second time. Just look at his cabinet picks so far. The man is clearly not a serious actor.
Honestly, have you ever seen a bunch of less qualified people being selected to hold positions of power? How can these people cry DEI when they have all these "failing up" characters being picked by trump to be a part of his team? Pete Hegseth?! Seriously? Forget the fact that he is a scumbag and just a horrible human being, he is also clearly not qualified to do the job. The guy wrote a book about crushing the enemy, via an "American Crusade" for crying out loud! He writes about mocking, humiliating, and intimidating the American left (the enemy) and using the military to do it. The very military that Mr. trump picked him to lead. Yikes! And don't even get me started on Tulsi Gabbard. She has praised the Russians at every turn and is a huge fan of Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian dictator. Trump picked her to lead *checks notes* the intelligence department. I could go on, but you get the point. I'm not even going to get into Matt Gaetz, because, thankfully, his appointment was scuttled. Imagine a man being investigated for sex trafficking and having sex with a seventeen year old girl, being picked to lead the very agency that investigates such things. The guy should be sharing prison soap with Diddy, but he is a white male republican, so the same rules do not apply.
Trump feels embolden to pick these clowns based on fealty and not qualifications. He believes that he had this resounding mandate from the American people. On further review, he did not. As more election results come in, we can see that his margins are getting smaller and smaller, and he did not win a majority of the popular vote. 49.87% is not going to cut it. He won by a a couple of hundred thousand votes across key swing states, and had those totals been different we would be looking at quite a different outcome. I was guilty of overstating the level of Mr. trump's victory myself (see my previous post), and I was wrong. Sadly, like everything else with trump, perception became a false reality.
But take heart Harris supporters, If you voted for her you should be pretty relieved and chill right now. Just sit back and enjoy the trump train roll off the tracks. The next four years will be one wreck after another. You will get to say I told you so when it's all said and done.
Let's just hope , for all our sakes, that there will be someone left to say it to.
*Pic courtesy of Reuters via Yahoo.
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I have zero sympathy for any magat that voted for this clusterfuck. drumpf promised again to make deficits disappear just as he did the first time around. He nearly doubled national debt in just 4 short years.
I hope he takes away Obamacare from these useless idiots. Takes aweay their foodstamps and SS, too. Serves them right for failing to learn to read and comprehend.
The goddamn Republicans have pulled a massive switch-up on us Democrats, probably not even on purpose. The Democrats used to be the party that had liberals in it, and they used to be the ones who questioned the status quo (and got called commies for our trouble).
Some time ago, let's just say in the nineties when Newt the fuck Gingrich abandoned the idea of governing in favor of turning the government into a 24/7/365 campaign, that left the whole of the task of governing to us Democrats, both the liberal and conservative aspects of it, because of all of the people who are harmed when the government stops doing its job.
That's how the goddamn Republicans got us to take on the role of defenders of the status quo, and it's just hard to win elections that way, especially with the billions of dollars in right wing propaganda all singing the same "the government is the problem" hymn from the same "lower taxes for the filthy rich" hymnal.
All of Fergus' picks are sadly predictable: they are those who will defer to Fergus on all matters, who he thinks look good on TV, who piss off everyone who didn't vote for him, and who are capable of one thing above all else: damaging or outright destroying the agencies that they are tapped to lead.
A full on nuclear attack from Russia would likely be less damaging to the United States of America, given the hollowing out of the Russian military, and you know that Putin is quite pleased with the return on the hundred million dollar investment he made in trying to swing the election.
We will likely endure. We have seen adversity, some worse than what we seem to be facing. That said, not everyone will endure. Women will die of treatable pregnancy complications. Poor people will die from lack of access to healthcare. Immigrant families will be shipped off to countries they don't know anything about. All because a huge block of the American electorate operates under the luxury of not needing to know a damn thing about their government. You would think that a government that works well enough to facilitate that would be popular, but apparently the ignorance doesn't stop with the subject of the government.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“But take heart Harris supporters, If you voted for her you should be pretty relieved and chill right now. Just sit back and enjoy the trump train roll off the tracks. The next four years will be one wreck after another. You will get to say I told you so when it's all said and done.”
Sorry, but I’m not feeling super chill.
Right now we can live in denial, because it’s still the Biden administration for another two months.
But then the sh*tshow begins, and it’s going to be an endless series of infuriating, destructive moves from Trump and the Republicans after that, for the next two years at least (in the best case that these malevolent vandals don’t manage to dismantle our democracy so we CAN’T throw the bums out).
I can’t really enjoy laughing and pointing at Team Trump’s failures, since the country they are trashing is my own.
Was watching a movie from the 1950s recently, and while I know movies aren’t real life, the sense of optimism of that era was partly real. It’s hard to wrap my brain around how we got from then to now.
How did we get from that place — a country that tackled its problems and solved them — to being a country that now just throws massive, pointless collective temper tantrums, which is all that the movement around Trump boils down to? Brains switched off, rage cranked up to eleven, smashing things up while accomplishing nothing useful. How bad do things have to get before the tantrum comes to an end?
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