I'm done making predictions about "What the American people will do" based on my assumption of anything like their 'national character.'

I've already seen that, during the pandemic, millions of people chose to risk their lives and the lives of their children rather than engage in some simple and non-controversial preventive measures.

I can no longer assume that people have *even their own best interests at heart.*

😬

The USA has been bought lock stock and barrel by our billionaires and corporations too large to fail.

It is high time we recognize it for what it is.

I've had vivid dreams of a day in the life of #MelonHusk.

He surrounds himself with drug-addled sycophants, and discards everyone else as easily as we'd throw away an empty Starbucks cup.

Elon Musk is into Saudi Arabia for an awful lot of money.

It's quite notable that KSA has never once chased Musk for repayments on what seemed, at the time, to be a stupidly over valued investment.

Now do you see it?

Voting Interference has been reported and is currently being investigated.

Possibly a technical coup involving Wall Street.

Could be why they were so confident the night before...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/04/2024-election-integrity-security-interference-issues/76044660007/

I was shocked the number of women who voted for Trump, then I am reminded of the Stockholm syndrome, where victims align themselves with their abuser. And the patriarchy is all women’s abuser.

In a country run by trolls,

be a Billy Goat.

Being married to a white Jewish man hurt her at the ballot box, too.

MISOGYNY
noun
hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women, manifested in various forms such as physical intimidation and abuse, sexual harassment and rape, social shunning and ostracism, etc.

America is racist af. Misinformed af. Stupid af.
But misogyny is their #1 brand.

Oh, gee. Passport processing times DOUBLED overnight.

The US is about to experience a massive brain drain.

Pro-Trump lobbyist & political commentator David Urban ~

“Democracy is a luxury when you can’t pay your bills.”

...

Democracy as a luxury. Democracy in good times only. Democracy when it suits you.

When we talk about democracy as a luxury that means everything that comes with democracy: free and fair elections, majority rule, and the rule of law.

And so America’s experiment in autocracy begins …

~ TPM

@chromogirl nationally, democrats failed to show up. 18+ million of them.

i live in a deeply Blue state.
in an even more deeply Blue city.

and today i read that voter turnout (in my city) was down 25% from the last presidential cycle.

what the holy hell?

i am not about blame games, but HOW could any sentient critter have sat this one out?

we even had 2 extra weeks to vote (early), for the first time in state history.

good grief.

#politics

Trump: "If I don't win this election, the Jews will have a lot to do with it."

Also Trump: "I won't even acknowledge the Jews after I win the election."

I wonder how the Zionist pro-Trump crowd on social media will try to spin this one. #politics #election #CoSoPolitics

#SteveBannon is one of the worst things to happen to America since Covid-19. Appointing #MTG to head Homeland Security would result in massive arrests of those exercising First Amendment rights. I could totally see her arresting AOC on the floor of Congress under false pretenses. These people really do want to destroy America. It's not an overreaction we're seeing. #fascism #Trump

I'm getting texts to sign a petition to support the No Kings Act, Schumer introduced in the senate that would turn back the presidential immunity rulng by SCOTUS.

How do they expect to pass it in the House?? IS there some kind of window there where the new House can take up something passed in the old Senate??

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4973

I truly feel sorry for all the senior citizens on a fixed income who voted for Trump because "he would be better for the economy." His policies, if he does what he says he's going to, are going to cause an even more severe inflationary spike than we had in 2022. And they will be screwed.

If any of my magat family complains about the price of anything I'm gonna tell them to shut the f*k up. You wanted this. I'm like done being quiet. #Politics

#politics

It probably really will discourage immigrants if the government makes the country such a hellhole that nobody wants to live here except those of us who can't leave.

That wall? It's not to keep migrants out; it's to keep us in.