What a stupid country. How embarrassing to be led by a buffoon who fellates microphones and talks about Arnold Palmer's dick and spends day and night spewing crude insults. What's even worse is that Vance, an equally vile person, waits in the wings for Trump to die or go into full-blown dementia.
Watch out all you dumb Hispanics who voted for this pig, ICE is coming for you too. They don't care if you're a citizen, you don't look like a "Merican". Hey Florida, good luck when your next hurricane strikes.
I wonder how Trump will react when he finds out the only entertainment for his inaugural balls will be a broken down Ted Nugent , maybe a couple of 60's cover bands, and some guy between gigs who plays the piano on Carnival cruises.
Thanks to everyone at The Bulwark for the leadership, the honesty, the kick in the pants and the inspiration you've provided these past few years. More importantly, thanks in advance for all of this & more today and in the days to follow. My dad fought fascism as a 19 year old in Europe.Now I am fighting here at the age of 69. I hope to live to see American fascism conquered. With your help, I believe I shall. We have a common purpose, a noble one and I'm ready! Lead on, Bulwark!
I’m exhausted. It is great to have people preaching “defiance,” but I am in a profession that will see MASSIVE need created by potential Trump changes - and like all human services organizations, we’re already swamped
It's interesting to note that South Dakota rejected an Abortion ballot issue as a "a ruby-red state with a libertarian streak".
Libertarian's are supposed to be against the government taking away personal freedoms. Just like the GOP, they've been proven to be completely full of it.
Y'all -- Democrats -- might actually try thinking that what you've been peddling is a "no sale" and ideological claptrap.
For starting points, that "fully intact" males can qualify as females and as women; that open borders are any sort of a good idea; that much of your vaunted educational system hasn't been rotted out by DEI and postmodernist dogma.
That is the position of the fringe, not the Democratic party. The Democratic party has never peddled open borders. The real DEI is thinking that Vance is more qualified than Harris. You are confirming that the top issue of the election was not anything the pollsters asked about. It was the fake issue of Dems as the party of sin and deviance even elected Republicans far outnumber Dems when it comes to prosecution for crimes of deviance. Trump voters showed they would rather repudiate the Constitution and vote for Trump's fascistic version of autocracy that requires loyalty to him personally over loyalty to the Constitution. The enemy truly is within and it is not the Harris voters.
Harris gushing over Dylan Mulvaney — a male transvestite, transwoman, or sexless-eunuch as the case may be — “living authentically as a woman” probably didn't help either.
Under-slept and over-stressed, so not thinking clearly right now, but I can't shake the feeling that the future is looking increasingly bleak and not just in the US. I am grateful that The Bulwark is providing this community. It's going to be a long, tough road.
I remember in 2016 not only shock at the outcome but feeling for the first time in my life unwelcome in the country of my birth. Of course I was aware of historical and present-day racism but always believed the trajectory was correct, but that day revealed a much larger groundswell of it than I could have imagined. And it was the first time I felt that almost half of my fellow citizens were not simply dismissive of someone who might look like me or have darker skin than me, but actually wanted all of us gone.
Today in 2024 I feel viscerally the magnitude of misogyny, true hatred of women, still so firmly rooted in the world. Not only re-instating someone so well known and now even legally adjudicated to have abused women; the unwillingness to put in a position of power a woman who also clears the bar of being a strong, intelligent, and moral human being; but also the complete indifference to all the women including moms (that indifference coming from people who always hold up motherhood as the pinnacle of female virtue and value) who have died and the many more who will die because their medical care has been made illegal.
While I personally will probably be fine, due to the sheer good luck of financial stability and living in a blue state, it's seeing how so many people are indifferent to the fortunes of other human beings that is breaking me.
I realize that I have been uniquely blessed to be one of the very few humans in history who got to live in the unprecedentedly long stretch of relative peace and extreme prosperity that was the United States in the post-WWII era. So contending with the consequences of such widespread ignorance and callousness in our body politic might feel more shocking to me than it would or should be if you consider all of human history. I suppose this is how it's mostly always been, and for those who want something better the work is never done.
Obviously we have to keep trying and the fight was always going to continue far beyond today. But it still feels devastating, today, to learn that we're even farther behind the starting line than we thought, and to know that so much energy will have to be devoted to putting out fires and fighting immediate crises instead of being put to use in rebuilding.
But keep fighting we will.
Thank you to The Bulwark for the encouragement and the community that will make that possible.
In the run-up to the election, MAGA was telling me that the Electoral College was great because it prevents majority rule. They are going to change their tune quick when it comes to the onerous legislation in our future.
One recent example of how T**** gets away with lies: He said that farmers love him because he gave them $20 billion, and he said he got it from China.
No he didn't. He got if from us, the taxpayers - nearly $30 billion in all. It was to bail out farms facing bankruptcy as a result of his tariff policy. And it mostly went to large agribusinesses, because so many smaller farms had already been bankrupted and closed down.
Maybe T**** is so dumb he really thinks the money came from China. But in any case, he simply doesn't care if it's true or not. True vs. false means nothing at all to him.
I have so many different layers of horror over all of what has happened - much of which affects me directly and personally - but when I woke up during the middle of the night, I briefly forgot about all things that had ever happened for about 5 seconds. I came to and my first thought immediately went to my son's best friend, whose family is Ukrainian. Then I just burst into tears for them. My child's birthday party is this weekend. I don't even know what to do or say, other than to hug them as tightly as possible.
What a horrible confirmation - the patterns I have been watching for years are real after all. In 2015, as soon as he showed up and I saw all of this hateful swell of energy burst out of the cracks that had been forming in this culture since before I can remember, I was called hysterical, overreacting, ridiculous, fear-mongering, you name it. I questioned my own sanity for a long time. I've never been more upset to be right.
So, just go ahead and add this onto the dates I'll never forget. My wedding was happening as Heather Heyer was being run over by a domestic terrorist in Charlottesville, and now I can't even celebrate an anniversary without remembering that. I guess my kid's 5th birthday can be piled right on top of that in my mind, in the growing list of of joyous days that I can never remember without darkness.
I will try to fight later, but today I am tired, and broken. Saving all of my energy to be brave for my beautiful child and his beautiful friends. They didn't ask for any of this. And they're the ones who will be left really holding the bag.
Remember Heather Heyer’s motto:”If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention “. I’ve made that motto my own.
Remember that authoritarians are trying to make you feel exhausted, dispirited, and helpless. Don’t let them. Take care of yourself, stay strong. Rest up from the battle. The right wing took 50 years to overturn Roe v Wade. I hope it won’t take that long to correct course, but the point is that they didn’t become dispirited, and neither should we.
My heart is with Ukraine today, and I fear that Putin will now turn to Estonia and Poland. The Palestinians will be eradicated (Trump told Netanyahu to “ finish the job”). None of these people had a voice in our election, yet they will all pay the price for it. We owe it to everyone to stay in the fight.
This is what happens when the electorate is groomed by GOP lies and brainwashed into voting against their own best interests. This has been going on at least since Reagan. If Jesus Himself came down and ran as a Dem the magats would denigrate him and label him the antichrist. Too many people didn't like trump but they were brainwashed to never vote for anyone other than a GOPer, no matter how sleazy.
It is amazing to me that preachers preach about how the Anti-Christ will be welcomed by the public. In today's language we could say the AntiChrist will win the election. Trump might not be the Anti-Christ, but we can see clearly how the seemingly improbable scriptural reference could come to pass and that so-called Christians would vote for the Anti-Christ.
Ideals do reach a tipping point, and that moment is now. America's liberal democracy has committed suicide by falling on its own muti cultural sword. In our sea of severe individuality composed of so many cultures, religions, identities, vast economic inequality and rabid political division why would anyone expect a different result? Time for a new recipe: illiberalism Welcome to the beginning of a new history folks.
I can't even listen to all the pundits going on about how Harris lost because we somehow mistreated Trump voters. Pundits are accusing US of condescension, lecturing and browbeating. I am sick to death of being expected to give Trump voters the benefit of the doubt. They forfeited that courtesy with all their bad faith and propagandizing.
The headline should be The Trolls Won. We are destined for another groundhog year in 2028, the fourth in a row.
I feel such deep sadness today and keep randomly crying. I am trying to hold it together for my 9 year old and 12 year old daughters. My heart aches for them, this country, the environment. Last night I decided I would no longer pay attention to news and hastily cancelled my subscription but I will likely resubscribe. I have got to keep fighting for this country.
Give yourself a break. Do something fun with your girls. The fight will still be here when you get back, and you'll be in better shape. And you'll probably have a better idea of what to do next.
What a stupid country. How embarrassing to be led by a buffoon who fellates microphones and talks about Arnold Palmer's dick and spends day and night spewing crude insults. What's even worse is that Vance, an equally vile person, waits in the wings for Trump to die or go into full-blown dementia.
Watch out all you dumb Hispanics who voted for this pig, ICE is coming for you too. They don't care if you're a citizen, you don't look like a "Merican". Hey Florida, good luck when your next hurricane strikes.
I wonder how Trump will react when he finds out the only entertainment for his inaugural balls will be a broken down Ted Nugent , maybe a couple of 60's cover bands, and some guy between gigs who plays the piano on Carnival cruises.
Don't forget Kid Rock....the saddest and most pathetic "rock" act of all...
Thanks to everyone at The Bulwark for the leadership, the honesty, the kick in the pants and the inspiration you've provided these past few years. More importantly, thanks in advance for all of this & more today and in the days to follow. My dad fought fascism as a 19 year old in Europe.Now I am fighting here at the age of 69. I hope to live to see American fascism conquered. With your help, I believe I shall. We have a common purpose, a noble one and I'm ready! Lead on, Bulwark!
I’m exhausted. It is great to have people preaching “defiance,” but I am in a profession that will see MASSIVE need created by potential Trump changes - and like all human services organizations, we’re already swamped
It's interesting to note that South Dakota rejected an Abortion ballot issue as a "a ruby-red state with a libertarian streak".
Libertarian's are supposed to be against the government taking away personal freedoms. Just like the GOP, they've been proven to be completely full of it.
Libertarians are just embarrassed magats.
Y'all -- Democrats -- might actually try thinking that what you've been peddling is a "no sale" and ideological claptrap.
For starting points, that "fully intact" males can qualify as females and as women; that open borders are any sort of a good idea; that much of your vaunted educational system hasn't been rotted out by DEI and postmodernist dogma.
Seems like you enjoyed a heaping helping of magat propaganda!
That is the position of the fringe, not the Democratic party. The Democratic party has never peddled open borders. The real DEI is thinking that Vance is more qualified than Harris. You are confirming that the top issue of the election was not anything the pollsters asked about. It was the fake issue of Dems as the party of sin and deviance even elected Republicans far outnumber Dems when it comes to prosecution for crimes of deviance. Trump voters showed they would rather repudiate the Constitution and vote for Trump's fascistic version of autocracy that requires loyalty to him personally over loyalty to the Constitution. The enemy truly is within and it is not the Harris voters.
I think the main problem was that Biden & Harris didn't invite enough topless transwomen to the White House … 🙄
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Harris gushing over Dylan Mulvaney — a male transvestite, transwoman, or sexless-eunuch as the case may be — “living authentically as a woman” probably didn't help either.
Barack Obama has my vote for most consequential of this century.
You are sort of equivocating on the word "consequential" there. But your point is well taken.
Under-slept and over-stressed, so not thinking clearly right now, but I can't shake the feeling that the future is looking increasingly bleak and not just in the US. I am grateful that The Bulwark is providing this community. It's going to be a long, tough road.
I remember in 2016 not only shock at the outcome but feeling for the first time in my life unwelcome in the country of my birth. Of course I was aware of historical and present-day racism but always believed the trajectory was correct, but that day revealed a much larger groundswell of it than I could have imagined. And it was the first time I felt that almost half of my fellow citizens were not simply dismissive of someone who might look like me or have darker skin than me, but actually wanted all of us gone.
Today in 2024 I feel viscerally the magnitude of misogyny, true hatred of women, still so firmly rooted in the world. Not only re-instating someone so well known and now even legally adjudicated to have abused women; the unwillingness to put in a position of power a woman who also clears the bar of being a strong, intelligent, and moral human being; but also the complete indifference to all the women including moms (that indifference coming from people who always hold up motherhood as the pinnacle of female virtue and value) who have died and the many more who will die because their medical care has been made illegal.
While I personally will probably be fine, due to the sheer good luck of financial stability and living in a blue state, it's seeing how so many people are indifferent to the fortunes of other human beings that is breaking me.
I realize that I have been uniquely blessed to be one of the very few humans in history who got to live in the unprecedentedly long stretch of relative peace and extreme prosperity that was the United States in the post-WWII era. So contending with the consequences of such widespread ignorance and callousness in our body politic might feel more shocking to me than it would or should be if you consider all of human history. I suppose this is how it's mostly always been, and for those who want something better the work is never done.
Obviously we have to keep trying and the fight was always going to continue far beyond today. But it still feels devastating, today, to learn that we're even farther behind the starting line than we thought, and to know that so much energy will have to be devoted to putting out fires and fighting immediate crises instead of being put to use in rebuilding.
But keep fighting we will.
Thank you to The Bulwark for the encouragement and the community that will make that possible.
In the run-up to the election, MAGA was telling me that the Electoral College was great because it prevents majority rule. They are going to change their tune quick when it comes to the onerous legislation in our future.
One recent example of how T**** gets away with lies: He said that farmers love him because he gave them $20 billion, and he said he got it from China.
No he didn't. He got if from us, the taxpayers - nearly $30 billion in all. It was to bail out farms facing bankruptcy as a result of his tariff policy. And it mostly went to large agribusinesses, because so many smaller farms had already been bankrupted and closed down.
Maybe T**** is so dumb he really thinks the money came from China. But in any case, he simply doesn't care if it's true or not. True vs. false means nothing at all to him.
True versus false doesn't matter to his followers, either. All that matters to them is their feelings, and they vote accordingly.
I have so many different layers of horror over all of what has happened - much of which affects me directly and personally - but when I woke up during the middle of the night, I briefly forgot about all things that had ever happened for about 5 seconds. I came to and my first thought immediately went to my son's best friend, whose family is Ukrainian. Then I just burst into tears for them. My child's birthday party is this weekend. I don't even know what to do or say, other than to hug them as tightly as possible.
What a horrible confirmation - the patterns I have been watching for years are real after all. In 2015, as soon as he showed up and I saw all of this hateful swell of energy burst out of the cracks that had been forming in this culture since before I can remember, I was called hysterical, overreacting, ridiculous, fear-mongering, you name it. I questioned my own sanity for a long time. I've never been more upset to be right.
So, just go ahead and add this onto the dates I'll never forget. My wedding was happening as Heather Heyer was being run over by a domestic terrorist in Charlottesville, and now I can't even celebrate an anniversary without remembering that. I guess my kid's 5th birthday can be piled right on top of that in my mind, in the growing list of of joyous days that I can never remember without darkness.
I will try to fight later, but today I am tired, and broken. Saving all of my energy to be brave for my beautiful child and his beautiful friends. They didn't ask for any of this. And they're the ones who will be left really holding the bag.
Remember Heather Heyer’s motto:”If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention “. I’ve made that motto my own.
Remember that authoritarians are trying to make you feel exhausted, dispirited, and helpless. Don’t let them. Take care of yourself, stay strong. Rest up from the battle. The right wing took 50 years to overturn Roe v Wade. I hope it won’t take that long to correct course, but the point is that they didn’t become dispirited, and neither should we.
My heart is with Ukraine today, and I fear that Putin will now turn to Estonia and Poland. The Palestinians will be eradicated (Trump told Netanyahu to “ finish the job”). None of these people had a voice in our election, yet they will all pay the price for it. We owe it to everyone to stay in the fight.
This is what happens when the electorate is groomed by GOP lies and brainwashed into voting against their own best interests. This has been going on at least since Reagan. If Jesus Himself came down and ran as a Dem the magats would denigrate him and label him the antichrist. Too many people didn't like trump but they were brainwashed to never vote for anyone other than a GOPer, no matter how sleazy.
That’s the thesis of “What’s the Matter with Kansas?”, that Republicans con people into voting against their own self-interest.
It is amazing to me that preachers preach about how the Anti-Christ will be welcomed by the public. In today's language we could say the AntiChrist will win the election. Trump might not be the Anti-Christ, but we can see clearly how the seemingly improbable scriptural reference could come to pass and that so-called Christians would vote for the Anti-Christ.
Ideals do reach a tipping point, and that moment is now. America's liberal democracy has committed suicide by falling on its own muti cultural sword. In our sea of severe individuality composed of so many cultures, religions, identities, vast economic inequality and rabid political division why would anyone expect a different result? Time for a new recipe: illiberalism Welcome to the beginning of a new history folks.
I can't even listen to all the pundits going on about how Harris lost because we somehow mistreated Trump voters. Pundits are accusing US of condescension, lecturing and browbeating. I am sick to death of being expected to give Trump voters the benefit of the doubt. They forfeited that courtesy with all their bad faith and propagandizing.
The headline should be The Trolls Won. We are destined for another groundhog year in 2028, the fourth in a row.
That's even if there's an election in 2028.
I feel such deep sadness today and keep randomly crying. I am trying to hold it together for my 9 year old and 12 year old daughters. My heart aches for them, this country, the environment. Last night I decided I would no longer pay attention to news and hastily cancelled my subscription but I will likely resubscribe. I have got to keep fighting for this country.
Give yourself a break. Do something fun with your girls. The fight will still be here when you get back, and you'll be in better shape. And you'll probably have a better idea of what to do next.