@Astartiel
I’m in fairly blue Pittsburgh, now red Pennsylvania. It’s iffy. The next 4 yrs could turn us blue again.
New England is too fucking expensive.

@Anouk I am a blue dot in a red state, and I need to escape. I want to move to California.

Like Jesse Dollemore said, this just makes me want to double down on my anger towards them.

Gloves are off, and I’ve got no more fucks to give.

I’m too fucking old for this shit.

My bumper stickers in red South Dakota:

what would be the reverse maga?

i think that's the dems, no?

they've tried to run a clean campaign, not lie, not spout hate & violence towards opponents or marginalized groups.

they've focused on policy & the retaining of democratic institutions. they've tried to unify diverse groups.

the reverse of maga is being honest, maintaining some kind of moral compass, & focusing on policies & good governance.

b/c maga is the opposite of all those things, right?

or have i lost the plot?

#politics

I just saw a soi-disant "leftist" gloating over Trump's victory and explaining how everything was going to be just fine.

Which made me think: 1. You have a lot of privilege not to be affected; and 2. Disinformation hasn't merely been successful on the right. This is a typical Putinesque pincer movement, attacking the center with propaganda from the left and right simultaneously.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Here's the Plan to Fight Back

https://time.com/collection/time100-voices/7173801/elizabeth-warren-democrats-plan-after-2024-election/

biden tells americans to lower the temperature.

i look around....

Automated filters and blocks can only get you so far. At some point, your brain has to be your filter:

Be choosy about which sites you visit. The ones which pump your adrenaline, that reward constant clicking and scrolling are probably not the best ones for you.

Don't think you have to click on everything. Not every opinion is worth viewing. The more it draws attention to itself, saying ATTENTION! and JUST ANNOUNCED! the more crap it will be.

best stock market performance in the last 40 years?

under 2 democrat presidents - clinton & obama.

worst stock market performance in the last 40 years?

republican president - bush.

Real wisdom in this, from people with experience dealing with tyranny. Starts with psychological strengthening, more than cheerleading or navel gazing.
https://wagingnonviolence.org/

Trump is barely functional. This will likely be Vance's presidency, even before it's official.

Get to know what his radical beliefs are.

#Politics

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/18/jd-vance-world-view-sources-00168984

They can not fucking tell us to roll over & accept a fascist dictatorship while watching democracy die

Woke up to this Family song playing, from Dreamgirls, & I thought it was someone singing about the election.

https://youtu.be/9L41u-FtwKs

There is no fucking statistical way that the Magat party won all the swing states, and won the House, Senate and Presidency, while so many state level votes swung left in those states.

The fix was in. Fuckery, shenanigans, and Tomfoolery on a scale the world has never fucking seen