It appears Trump is going to be the next president of US. I’m not sure such a thread is needed in the first place, but here goes.

Feeling anxious? Desperate? Got the expected result?

What do you think went wrong? What do you think went right? What do you think the future holds?

EDIT: it’s official - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/us/results

  • jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 days ago

    Harris’ campaign didnt offer them anything worth voting for. And many states already have portections on the books for abortion and those that dont have ballot measures that are likely going to pass. Oops!

    Democrats wouldn’t even hear a simple call to have Harris stop mass murdering and you thought people would show up for her because of issues that dont impact them? A call that would have likely handed them at least Wisconsin.

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      18 days ago

      Sure states have it but this should be protected and it was. Now having a miscarriage may have murder charges.

      What’s he gonna take away next? Well that’s a non issue for 20 million people apparently. I know Harris was not going to take anything away.

      Florida didn’t pass. Missouri did. I don’t know others. So don’t be pregnant in Florida I guess.

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        18 days ago

        Yes, and did Florida have any chance of going blue? No? Oh maybe harris shouldn’t have placed her bets on abortion putting her on top.

        Did Michigan go blue? No? Oh maybe we shouldn’t have been allowing harris to shit on the arab community.

        Did Pennsylvania go blue? No? Oh maybe harris should have had a concrete policy positions like breaking up monopolies and passing laws on corporate greed.

        If you look at Harris platform everything is pro corporate policy and none of it is for working Americans then add in bleeding arab support etc. oi. It adds up to a death from 1000 cuts.

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          18 days ago

          100% agree with top 3 points and even the corpo crap the dems are. And I will always say f the dems but NEVER before the GOP.

          The amount of damage from denying climate change is not even comparable to any bad policy that could be mention about Harris. There is literally no more snow on Mt.Fuji ! Better to have someone that may fix something here and there than someone that will actively destroy it.

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            18 days ago

            No one said you needed to support gop over trump. Or that it was even a good option of you were contemplating it. It was always ‘harris is blowing this’.

            You were never going to convince people to show up for her just because trump bad. Just because you made that decision doesnt mean other people will.

            But her behavior along with many supporting her telling people they’re russian bots, to sit down and shut up, vote for lesser evil, etc. lets them tune out and just focus on things that bring them joy… Funny that. To bad harris failed to do that.

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              18 days ago

              That’s really where we disagree and the crux on why so many people didn’t show up.

              People thought the same in 2016, f the DNC and just let w/e happen. we see the result of that indifference.

              I get others may have washed their hands of it and feel “it’s not my problem that someone else let a drunk person drive” but Doing nothing when you had a choice to stop it is the same as letting it happen. It’s not 2016, people cant pretend everything out his mouth is BS anymore.

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                18 days ago

                You can disagree all you want. Reality has burst that bubble for you. Continue holding onto your disillusions that just means you’re going to continuing experiencing these events. and continuing to be an ass to those to want support from.

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                  18 days ago

                  not stopping bad something is ok when you had a choice because the alternative is meh? I mean 15 million people seem to agree with that.

                  I dk what biden did in 2020 that really moved them. I thought it was never the trumpers that were impacted by his polices but obviously I’m wrong here.

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                    18 days ago

                    you dont get to judge other peoples reasons for not supporting your preferred candidate. your job is to pressure your candidates to do the right thing. which democrats absolute didn’t do.