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

    • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
      161·
      1 year ago

      Yup rather not show up and let dude with volatile polices come in and do his thing. That’s the crazy part is these people didn’t even vote third party in protest. They just didn’t care. So I guess climate change, trans and abortion right don’t matter to 20 million dem voters.

        • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
          91·
          1 year 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.

            • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
              5·
              1 year 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.

                • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
                  41·
                  1 year 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.

      • SinAdjetivos@beehaw.orgEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        It turns out the talking point of “voting 3rd party is a vote for Trump” that has been repeated for months does have the desired effect of disenfranchisement, the assumption that they would then vote Democrat is something I never understood.

        • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Turns out 15 million people didn’t even vote third party. Just stayed home.

          All that back and forth was just to keep the GOP out of power and not have a so called dictator day 1. Not sure how that specifically disenfranchised potential dem voters. Cause they weren’t going to vote dem anyways. I could list other stuff that certainly could have.

          • averyminya@beehaw.orgEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            And to add, they could have voted and just not picked a president.

            Instead they didn’t vote at all and we got a Republican Senate.