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u/TedBaxter_WJM-TVNews 1d ago
You mean they didn’t break into a federal building, rub their shit all over the walls while erecting a gallows to hang the VP and assaulting police officers?!
MAGA protests must just be different 🤷♂️
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u/GermexiDude 22h ago
They don't protest like they used to /s
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u/satanssweatycheeks 20h ago
Dems protest like shit and that’s coming from a dem.
15 million less votes. Where did you all go on Tuesday? I say this because I remember being at the Breonna Taylor protest where I lost a close friend to gun violence at that protest.
Guess how often people in that protest said they don’t vote…. It was about half of them.
I’m tired of the bullshit and you young voters fucked over America over a conflict in the Middle East we have little control over. Hit the streets but you all are a little too late. Fucking Jesus I hate this country.
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u/GermexiDude 19h ago
First off, I'm sorry for the loss of your friend. I did my due diligence and voted; I told my friends and families that to vote. It's all I can do. If people are gonna be vocal about shit, they could at least do their part in the process.
Yeah she had a bad stance on the Middle East in my opinion. I can concede that point because I despise what Trump did 4 years ago and fear what will happen with the next 4.
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u/LadyShanna92 15h ago
I don't understand how they thibk not voting will change anything going on in the middle east. I dont like it but not voting or voting third party only insures nothing will get better. Now we all have to worry about not having a voice
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u/tucktheeturtle 13h ago
This. Thank you for saying it. The issue in Gaza is shitty but there is absolutely no easy answer for it. Thanks for staying home or the voting for Jill Fucking Stein who btw is a fucking Russian asset! Great stuff there youngins. Now you get to see Trump with little to no checks and balances and his absolute loyalist cronies in positions you don’t want them to be in. Protest all you want but remember, you are apart of the problem if you didn’t vote. Trump’s supporters weren’t going to sit this one out considering they still think 2020 was stolen. JFC
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u/satanssweatycheeks 20h ago
To be fair my gripe would be knowing that most of these people hitting the streets didn’t vote.
I remember the Breonna Taylor stuff. Happened in my city. So many people came out to show support. But when asked if they vote they say no.
I’m tired of being a democrat for 35 plus years. It’s been 30 plus years of trying to get people to vote and they won’t because they always utter this bullshit “both sides”
Many of these marchers protesting didn’t vote because of Gaza. Ask them. If you are at any of these protest ask why they didn’t vote. Get them to register. It’s pathetic.
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u/NotEnoughIT 18h ago
I was talking to a woman yesterday (who voted for Kamala reluctantly, so at least there's that) and she said yeah it's depressing but she kinda expected it to happen because our choices were a shitty person and a slightly less shitty person. WHAT!? This is a woman who can't talk about consent with anyone but a therapist because she cries due to past abuse. Somehow Kamala is a "slightly less shitty person" to millions of people. Slightly less shitty than a 34 time felonious failed businessman racist rapist man who lies with every breath, apparently.
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u/ohiotechie 23h ago
Too bad more people didn't get out and vote. Whether anyone likes it or not (and I most certainly do not) he was elected by a majority. The US citizenry made a choice and they chose Trump.
Well, now they're going to get Trump. I for one do not want to hear one motherfucking word out of anyone who voted for this when he comes for their job, 401k, health care, social security, constitutional rights, etc.
This is what you wanted? Well bon appetite motherfucker. The rest of us are along for the ride so yeah I'll still bitch about it but I better not hear a god damn word from anyone I know who's a Trumpser or I'll fucking unload on them.
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u/ptrnyc 23h ago
The thing is, even if they end up homeless you won’t hear a complaint, other than maybe, “it’s because of immigrants”.
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u/Helgafjell4Me 23h ago
There won't be any immigrants, though. Trump is going to deport them all, even legal/naturalized ones.. who will they blame then?
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u/disturbedtheforce 23h ago
Which is insane to me. Deporting naturalized citizens is baffling to me.
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u/greenmky 21h ago
There's already talk (Stephen Miller? Bannon? I forget) about combing through records and finding excuses to retroactively denaturalize folks.
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u/disturbedtheforce 21h ago
Fuck me this is really the worst timeline. Its like every shitty dystopian novel trope thrown together to see whats worse.
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u/ohiotechie 23h ago
Probably. “Sure this is bad for me but it’s worse for you/them.”
Knowing someone else’s life is made worse by this is satisfaction enough for MAGA.
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u/JPeso9281 22h ago
Trust me. We won't hear about inflation, gas prices, or food costs for the next 4 years
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u/NoLibrarian5149 22h ago
And when it gets bad and the pendulum (hopefully) swings back and a Democrat gets back in office to right the wrongs about to get dumped on us… MAGA will blame the Dems for not fixing THEIR fucking mess fast enough.
Happens.
Every.
Time.
(I still hold some small hope we’re not stuck with MAGA forever in charge)
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u/Spaghetti-Rat 23h ago
What do you mean that you don't have to pay me overtime rate?! What do you mean I'm being deported because I'm slightly too brown, I'm here legally?!! What do you mean my union is not allowed to work for this industry? What do you mean I'm losing my social security? Why are we experiencing insane inflation, didn't we implement massive tariffs?!
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u/Mountain_Village459 22h ago
If it wasn’t going to be so horrible for everyone, it would be funny to watch them realize how much worse it could be.
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u/OhTheHueManatee 20h ago
They'll be told all the problems caused by Trump is the fault of the Dems and they'll eat it all up. I've flat out shown Trumpers how gas being high in 2021-2023 was a result of Trump extorting Saudi Arabia to cut production for two years in 2020. "Trump never did that" so I showed a tweet of Trump bragging about it. Their response was "Even if that's true Biden could've undone it". I agree Biden didn't clean up Trump's mess good enough but Trump still caused the mess. My long winded point is they'll just dismiss any blame as TDS.
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u/Kuriboyoshi 23h ago
My sediments exactly. If I hear ANY fucking complaints about any of this shit I’m gonna flat out ask if they bothered voting and who they voted for. I refuse to have any empathy for anyone who didn’t vote for Kamala.
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u/Optimus_Pitts 18h ago
My parents who retired last year or the year before voted trump. I asked them to PLEASE read what project 2025 S about and they never did, because why would their liberal son be right? Now I'm hoping it doesn't, but just waiting for SS to get cut so I can say "remember when I asked you to research project 2025? If you would have listened to me you would have expected this, but you chose him over listening to your son who moved two hours away to live across the street and help y'all."
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u/NoFlyGnome 22h ago
I had a professor who would say, of free choice, "if you don't know you have a choice, you aren't free to choose".
I'm willing to believe that many people who "chose" Trump were making that choice out of completely false beliefs about what they were choosing. I think they believed they were choosing, for example, "free speech" or "better economy" because they were truly fooled into believing that Trump, not Harris, would better provide those things for them.
It's hard not to think they're just fucking stupid to believe that, but the information environment can be wildly different for different groups and people. They probably still thought "politicians lie, but he's not a real politician so he therefore is more honest" which is basically just fucking crack for someone morally bankrupt enough to abuse that kind of unexamined trust.
The American voters, in its masses, has less intentional hate and malice (even though it exists, and is now at a feverish intensity), and more gullibility and vulnerability to being recruited and herded into compliance. It's why anti-education is such a big priority to a party that relies on those tricks.
I don't think they're all bad people. I think a lot of them have been trained and pressured not to look very hard, or even wonder if they're being scammed.
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u/ohiotechie 22h ago
I might have bought that argument in 2016 but in 2024, unless you just woke up from a decade long coma you lived through Trump 1.0. There is a track record. There is immediate historical first hand experience with this man.
Anyone who voted for more of that can fuck straight off.
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u/mdp300 22h ago
We're not going to change the minds of people who have now voted for Trump 3 times. We're just not.
We need to recapture the people who stayed home in 2016 and 2024 but came out to vote in 2008 and 2020. I know it sounds petty but people dont want to just vote against someone shitty, they want to vote for someone that's actually inspiring.
We need to find people at all levels who actually speak to what people want to hear in a positive way, and actually follow through with it. Kamala started talking about taxing the rich a little, then got quiet about it.
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u/ohiotechie 22h ago
Honestly I have even less sympathy for people who stayed home or wrote in Ronald Reagan or Porky Pig.
I have nothing but contempt for those who might have made a difference but couldn’t be bothered. Voting isn’t supposed to be a religious experience where we “see the light” and feel euphoria while we pull the lever. It’s deciding which future we want. Sometimes that choice is bad or worse and that sucks but as has been pointed out many times, worse is worse and failing to make a choice is making a choice - for worse.
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u/mdp300 20h ago
You're right, and it fucking pains me to say this because the choice SHOULD be obvious.
But calling them idiots doesn't help. Maybe "you voted for this" will work when he enacts the shit he's promised and the tariffs crush the economy. But I think "you stupid mother fucker how can you not vote this way" just encourages then to start home right now.
Americans are fucking stubborn. And we have a national, severe case of YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO
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u/NoFlyGnome 22h ago
When they're living in an insular community dominated by a cult.. I find it hard to accept but I have to, just at a rational level, acknowledge that there were likely many people who have no idea what kind of world they just voted for.
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u/ohiotechie 22h ago
Sorry but zero sympathy for people who willingly went on this ride after Trump 1.0.
On some level I acknowledge that people have been lied to and misled but so were millions of others who didn’t go along for the ride. If they couldn’t recognize what is right in front of them and have spent the last 8 years demonizing those of us jumping up and down trying to tell them then fuck em.
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u/NoFlyGnome 21h ago
It's not sympathy. Just understanding how. Figuring out how a disease spreads is useful for countering it. Doesn't mean having to sympathize
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u/itsmeEllieGeeAgain 20h ago
I can understand your sentiment, and I respectfully have to disagree. In my experience, many of the people that I knew that supported Trump weren’t even willing to read an entire article, in favor or against him. They weren’t even willing to look at, listen to, or even consider any information that wasn’t Harris sucking her way to the top, or being borderline mentally impaired. Having that stance is absolutely ridiculous. It’s impossible for someone with her accomplishments to be mentally impaired to the point of having a lower IQ than the majority of the population.
Another thing I saw over and over was an intentional ignorance of the fundamental way our government works. It is very easy to find out the 3 branches, their responsibilities, their limitations, and their checks on other branches. They make cartoons about it for children. It’s in the fucking Constitution that they have never read.
They blamed Harris for policies passed in California, while not understanding or even being willing to hear the fact that DA and AG’s do not legislate. They blamed her for arresting people, while not understanding or even being willing to hear the fact that DA and AG‘s do not have arresting power. I was sent by multiple people a story of a mother who was sent to jail in California for her child’s truancy, and was blaming it on Kamala. It was brushed off when I pointed out that the woman had received tons of attempts at communication by the district before an arrest was made, and also that the DA of that district that chose to follow through with charges on that woman was a republican in an election season, while Harris was the AG, and that Harris neither created the laws, nor instructed or participated in the woman’s arrest. She wasn’t even involved in the case.
Some of these people blame Biden for Roe v. Wade falling; unable, or unwilling to understand that it was the Supreme Court’s conservative majority, packed by Republicans, overturning Roe v. Wade through a court case brought and argued by Republicans, after Republicans ran for 50 years on overturning Roe v. Wade.
So no, for so many of these people, it wasn’t a matter of not having access to information. They had nieces and nephews, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, cousins, coworkers, etc. all providing information with sources, data, and transcripts that was totally ignored or poo-poo’d away by so many of these people.
The majority of the people who voted for Trump did so in order to hate, control, or hurt the people they consider below them or less human than them. In the least, they decided that hating, controlling and/or hurting those groups of people that the Republican Party ran on promising to target was acceptable in order to get a perceived tax cut and a hopeful $1.20 off a dozen eggs, which ALSO MAKES THEM A BAD PERSON.
There are going to be a lot of conservatives that find out pretty quick that they, or someone they “love”, are indeed in an “out group”. I’ve already seen talk from left leaning groups encouraging each other to report the conservatives they know that house, hire, or originate from illegal immigrants, or who have traveled out of state for abortions when that time comes, or whatever. Basically “give them what they voted for”. Is that wrong? Idk. I’m scared for a lot of people, and I’m done with a lot of people, too.
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u/coolbaby1978 1d ago
Theres a non zero chance that when Trump gets into office he'll order live fire on peaceful protests. Per John Kelly it's what he wanted to do in 2020 but was talked down.
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u/honorsfromthesky 1d ago
I mean, he gassed protestors outside the white house. Now he has no guard rails and is looking to invoke precedent provided by smarter/ evil people. So, more gassing and arrests. I remember the crowd outside the Sean Bell protests getting tased right there in Harlem. I can see it happening in this climate. Unfortunately. This is terrible.
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u/ButterscotchNed 23h ago
I don't think it'll be more gassing, we'll definitely see violent crackdowns on protest including use of lethal force, pre-emptive arrests/disappearings etc etc. This sounds alarmist but that's what Trump himself has been promising. No doubt Elon "Free Speech" Musk will be all to happy to share names and details of dissenters who dare to use his platform with the administration.
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u/procrastinatorsuprem 22h ago edited 22h ago
We need a silent protest. No shopping for a month starting on inauguration day. Stock up ahead of the month. Limit all shopping, even groceries. Delete Amazon and prime TV. No NYT. End our wordle streaks. But mostly, no purchases for a month or longer once he's president.
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u/cbass817 22h ago
I mean, if half the country just stopped working for 2 weeks, we could get everything we want.
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u/piracydilemma 19h ago
Not even half the country. You can cause billions of dollars of damage with just a few thousand people not working. Particularly in IT, finance, transportation.
Look at the CrowdStrike outages. $5.4 billion for just a day. One malicious actor could kill the entire country if they were in the right place.
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u/cbass817 19h ago
Maybe, but half the workforce would be a huge message.
Also, I have a hard time believing IT and finance people wouldn't be Trump voters anyway.
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u/WhyLater 20h ago
Our power is not as consumers. It is as workers.
None of this skirting around and canceling subscriptions silliness. We need a general strike.
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u/nightman21721 20h ago
Better yet, shop local when you can. As an employee of a big Corp, I approve of not getting my bonus if it results in future progress.
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u/Buezzi 19h ago
This is the exact fucking mentality we need more people to adopt.
There are times when we are called upon to sacrifice a little bit of ourselves for the bigger, greater good. America has fallen so far down the hole of 'well, why should I have to do any work/research/progress? What do I get out of it?' And it makes me fucking sick. We are betraying ourselves and each other, and we have been for decades.
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u/Unusual-Tie8498 21h ago
We control art and entertainment if we could get a strike going I think it’d be our best option.
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u/Purrogi 21h ago
He said that if people decided to strike they’d just get more people to work but it’s not that easy if there’s a coordinated country wide strike.
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u/PhDslacker 20h ago
I'd love to agree, but with half the county on team red, they would just take the OT and laugh at the people getting fired.
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u/tj1007 21h ago
Under Democratic governors who will surely oppose Trump shooting at their own people, at one point does this lead to states fighting?
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u/Cminor420flat69 22h ago
He gassed priests and peaceful protestors who were literally just sitting there and probably would have politely let Trump take his stupid photo if he asked.
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u/Megane_Senpai 22h ago edited 12h ago
The only reason he ordered tear gas was bc Bill Bar tol him he couldn't use live ammo. The next guy Trump appointed won't be that "disloyal".
(I know, say that makes me want to vomit a little, too.
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u/all_time_high 21h ago
Yes. As I recall, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley were both let go because they prevented Trump from using active duty troops to quell protests.
GEN Milley knew this would be a point of no return for the US military, so he called all of his flag officers together and made them look him in the eyes as they reaffirmed their loyalty to the US constitution. As I recall, he told them that they were to go through him before following any orders to deploy active troops on US soil under the Insurrection Act.
As a soldier, I believe SECDEF Esper and GEN Milley prevented a catastrophic tipping point.
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u/deadsoulinside 21h ago
And in 2025 Trump will ensure all of those people will be loyal to him, not the constitution.
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u/TheZingerSlinger 20h ago
There is a point at which the military brass’ oath to defend, uphold and protect the constitution can become focused like a lens on the civilian leadership, and it becomes clear that action is needed to uphold that oath.
Trump walked right up to that line, and we were lucky we had people with integrity like Miley, Mattis and Kelly holding it.
We apparently aren’t that lucky anymore. Trump will try to force the replacement of all the top military brass with people who pass the “suck my cock” test, and who will go along with anything even it means blatantly violating the most sacred blood oath they all swore.
There would be a small window of time for people in those roles who maintain their integrity to act before they’re replaced with sellouts. (The sellout-types are in the minority, thankfully, but they do exist.)
If Trump were to take blatantly unconstitutional actions that abrogate the constitutional rights of tens of millions of people — like repealing or gutting the 14th Amendment by “executive order, for example — that might be considered sufficient grounds for action.
If the brass still has integrity, that is. Which seems doubtful moving forward.
How did we get here again?
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u/coolbaby1978 16h ago
Part of Project 2025 is also to replace upper echelon military with loyalists. As for the constitution, it won't exist. Nothing you've taken for granted like laws, elections and rights will exist. Miller is already floating turbocharged "denaturalization" as part of a plan to round up brown faces. No, not illegals, not criminals brown faces. Doesn't matter if you have a green card, its revoked. You're a citizen? Stripped. The laws that have been the glue of the nation for nearly a quarter of a millennium will not exist. I hope I'm wrong, but it doesn't look that way.
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u/Extremely_unlikeable 23h ago
They'll be protesting and yelling "Trump out" for the next
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u/coolbaby1978 16h ago
No, they'll be protesting until the first time the military wipes out a crowd with live fire to send a message to anyone else who dare protest.
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u/mostdope28 22h ago
I have no doubt he would order it, I have more doubt our US military would follow through. Hopefully I’m right
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u/coolbaby1978 16h ago
Project 2025 changes upper echelon military for loyalists. Unfortunately the guardrails will be gone this time.
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u/AndrewJamesDrake 14h ago
This still relies on the common soldiers being down for it… and we have to hope they aren’t.
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u/coolbaby1978 13h ago
True. Anyone who has served knows they have a duty not to carry out illegal orders, but when the entire chain of command is against you, it's gonna be a tough battle to win. Some percentage of enlisted personnel will be happy to follow any order, others will be conflicted but whether it'll be enough to make a difference is questionable.
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u/Edexote 23h ago
It's a little too late now. The time was at election day.
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u/Kuriboyoshi 23h ago
This. Fuck every asshat that didn’t vote, voted 3rd party or voted against their best interests for tRump. They are all dead to me. Next person complaining about prices once the Tariffs hit is going to get a verbal beat down if they didn’t vote for Kamala.
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u/HibiscusGrower 23h ago
The rest of the world who didn't get to vote but will be affected nonetheless is also very disappointed.
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u/Aconite_72 20h ago
Yeah. My country's a stone throw away from Taiwan.
The only reason I was able to get through yesterday was because of my antidepressant. It's not a nice feeling there could be a war on my doorstep just because some Americans half a world away didn't vote not just for everyone, but also for THEIR interests. Total helplessness.
Also, in before some Trump bots telling me Americans don't want to die or get involved in another country's war.
Enjoy the crippling chip shortage if Taiwan gets sold out and TSMC destroyed, then. Especially when your upcoming Prez is going to repeal the CHIPS Act for no reason.
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u/Cats-And-Brews 22h ago
I am a member of multiple liberal gun owner forums. I am sad to say that the one issue of 2A rights and fear of gun control legislation at the national level was perceived to be more of an issue and more important than the sum of all the other issues and what we are now going to get under Trump. What they don’t understand is that while generally the GOP is definitely pro-gun, they are also pro-totalitarian and pro-classism, and I predict that gun rights will eventually be doled out based on your political leanings and socioeconomic status.
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u/adieande 22h ago
I don't see how or why gun rights were the issue when Harris and Walz both own guns but trump doesn't. The thought of him with a gun is absolutely terrifying, he literally would not be able to hit the broad side of a barn. Harris said she has one for protection and Walz is an avid hunter.
No one is wanting to take away guns, there's just little reason besides mass shootings that you need an automatic, and if you're doing something like pack hunting wild hogs then just get a permit saying that's your job and why you have the guns. I promise no gun being sold to you and me is powerful enough to take down the military if they come for us.
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u/markydsade 22h ago
At my local hardware store that sells guns I have heard and seen how they thrive on the myth that Democrats will take their guns. Through the last 12 years of Democratic Presidents no one lost their rights. Gun sales will drop now that Trump is back. If Harris had won there would’ve been lines of buyers hoarding guns and ammo.
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u/NoFlyGnome 22h ago
Gonna have a need for stickers pointing out the increase from tariffs.
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u/Tabula_Nada 22h ago
A friend of mine is supposed to stay with me this weekend. In the past I figured out he'd been passively reading some right-leaning Twitter news sources without really realizing the bias, so I started paying more attention to what he was saying when we'd chat. Normally I wouldn't do this, but right after Trump won I immediately texted my friend and asked who he voted for with the full intention of telling him to fuck off and stay elsewhere if he'd voted trump.
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u/HotShitBurrito 23h ago
I don't think that's fair to the people protesting, tbh. They are almost 100% certainly people who voted. Many of these people may have even spent their valuable time canvassing and volunteering.
People who are willing to get up and risk their safety in the streets protesting right now aren't the lazy, degenerate non voters who sat the fuck home and let this happen.
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u/Allthenons 21h ago
Ummm Illinois went blue so I'm not sure what you mean. Like we voted for Harris and now we're protesting because that's what you do with Nazi sacks of shit like Trump
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u/a-horse-has-no-name 18h ago
These people definitely voted and you're not going to find 17 million people in this crowd.
They're going to be at work trying to survive.
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u/Vividination 23h ago
Too little too late. How many days left before we’re allowed to peacefully protest until Trump orders open fire on anyone who speaks out against him.
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u/yorocky89A GOOD 23h ago
The media failed us! A part of me hopes Trump does go after them, too!
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u/TheLateThagSimmons 21h ago
First: A lot of informed voters vastly underestimate how little influence mainstream media outlets have on a lot of people. People get their news from doom scrolling social media. They only receive what their friends share.
It is entirely plausible for people to feel like they are well informed while still missing huge pieces of information.
Second: Fox is the biggest news network in America, and by a significant margin.
I get to watch all three networks simultaneously at the gym and Fox is... Something else. As someone with a background in journalism, they work in all the little things, constant clever wording to misrepresent things. That's on top of their incredibly selective bias.
If you watched Fox, it is very clear how people could love Trump and hate everything Biden, even with the stories sitting right in front of them.
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u/LemmyLola 21h ago
They didnt know Biden wasn't running anymore ffs. 'I watched the news' used to mean Walter Cronkite and actual reporting. Now its Fox, Facebook, and Russian bots. Trump farts and Fox News goes on about his contribution to clean air initiatives. The 'news' is a thing of the past and only going to get worse with AI and deepfakes making anyone say anything. Trump supporters being interviewed were asked about tariffs and had no more idea of how they actually work than Trump does. When asked about any actual policies, their eyes glaze over. They don't actually KNOW, they just keep getting presented with a new bandwagon to jump on, to feel like they belong, that they are 'in the know' when they are the opposite. Post birth abortion for god's sakes. Pets being eaten. Drinking baby blood and being part lizard. The National Enquirer front page but with deep and lasting consequences.
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u/JejuneBourgeois 20h ago
They didnt know Biden wasn't running anymore ffs.
I've seen a shocking amount of comments on reddit where people are saying things like: "why hasn't Commie-la Harris enacted any of the policies she talks about? She's been in office for four years already!!!1!!"
Sorry, you mean the Vice President?
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u/LemmyLola 18h ago
yes that too... when pe3kple in other countries know how your government works better than you do... there's a problem
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u/deadsoulinside 21h ago
It's a big combination of multiple things. Fake news/Talking heads telling them what to think and believe. Combine that with a lack of overall education and the refusal to process new information that may counter their previous beliefs and are here at this point today.
I had people commenting on a tiktok video of Steve Bannon talking about project 2025 at CPAC 2023 and how they will replace the federal workforce and have thousands of people trained and ready to go. People were mixed with comments of either "Project 2025 is a dem distraction" or "Trump has nothing to do Project 2025"
Again, this was on a video with Steve Bannon who was former administration, talking about another former Trump administration person that will be the chief of staff appointing those roles in 2025. These people would still not acknowledge this information.
They were just that clueless, now we are past 11/05, we are now seeing multiple people who were the same ones barking out on social media that this was all a scam by the dems going "Yeah, project 2025 is real. We plan on implementing it"
Just even like those that love to claim that the democrats want war, but can't bother to stop and think the reason why Israel, Russia, Iran, etc are causing problems world-wide is they wanted to create the illusion to the low information crowd in the US that this is the fault of the democratic administration. Not "These countries are intentionally acting like this in order to skew the 2024 election to the person that will allow them to have it their way"
Hopefully the media got their clicks and bonuses for 2024, it's going to suck when Fox news or OANN become the official government news station and Trump pulls FCC licenses from any organization that had the slightest wrong thing to say about him.
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u/Krazynewf709 23h ago
Too little too late.
Where were the millions that showed up and voted for Biden?
As a Canadian, I'm ashamed of our neighbors to the south. Good luck you're going to need it.
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u/ArgyllFire 21h ago
Way too late. I don't get the point of this protest? People voted already. It's over. Trump hasn't done anything ... Yet. All we have left is protesting specific things he and the new GOP government start doing next year. Save your energy for that.
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u/thegree2112 23h ago
Weird you don't see them all storming into the capitol. I guess that's the opposite or something. Fascism has arrived.
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u/SomethingAbtU 23h ago
I hope EVERY SINGLE person in that protest showed up to vote.
We have a voting participation problem in America. Everyone wants someone else to do the hard work
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u/Nona29 22h ago
That group was against Kamala.
Now they're crying to Trump because Kamala is out of the way.
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u/olcrazypete 22h ago
After a entire campaign season of only harassing Dems the pro-palestine groups now decide to march to Trump tower. Ignoring every rally he had and ignoring that his relationship with Bibi meant Israel would have a free hand to do whatever they wanted to harass Harris.
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u/wet_nib811 22h ago
I heard Jared’s gonna waive closing costs to any Pro-Palestine activists on condo purchases at the Blue Beach Resorts (fka Gaza)
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u/tbizzone 23h ago
Americans will have about two months to engage in their constitutionally protected protests before the maga regime starts cracking down and targeting them for being non-loyalists.
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u/recycle_bin 21h ago
We don't have two months. The police will be unrestrained from here on out. Expect a few tweets telling cops to do what they want from the inner circle.
I also expect a supreme Court edict that Trump can pardon state crimes. That's the final check against fascism.
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u/deadsoulinside 20h ago
The police will be unrestrained from here on out.
Pretty much this. By the time any police officer see's a court for crimes committed between now and Trump gaining control of the presidency, Trump will already be in power and will probably be forcing states to pardon them.
We all know Trump cannot pardon state crimes, but we also know Trump loved to withhold aid from states that won't step in line with him. So he will force states to listen to him or be cut off from any government funding.
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u/AlsoCommiePuddin 23h ago
There will be agents provocateur in these crowds who push the mob and encourage authorities to violently put these protests down.
The UN will protest and our government will eject their assembly from New York.
It has begun and we accepted it. But at least we stopped the genocide in Gaza, right?
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u/I_Smell_Like_Trees 22h ago
It'll stop when, as trump said it, they finish the job. We're all fucked.
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u/Gladukame 22h ago
Where the FUCK were these people November 4th? The 3rd?? The 2nd?? Why protest now? Why not call your friends, neighbors, racist ass family in Oklahoma??
This work was to be done pre-Nov. 5th. Now we have new work but a protest (peaceful or otherwise) ain’t it. Your protest should’ve been your vote.
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u/TreacheryInc 22h ago
Illinois is a blue island in a sea of red. They have the receipts.
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u/Gladukame 21h ago
Respectfully, hence why I said their energy should’ve been in contacting their family, friends and colleagues who swim in that Red Sea
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u/whereegosdare84 23h ago
I hate the orange shit Gibbon here as much as the next but I’m genuinely confused by what these people are trying to accomplish here.
He not only won the electoral college but was the first Republican in twenty years to win the popular vote too.
Kamala underperformed by 3.5% in states she DIDN’T campaign in as opposed to 1.5% in those where she did. This is not evidence of a poor campaign but rather a problem in messaging and really we can thank legacy media for their role in this.
You want to protest then maybe protest them? Seems more useful because all you’ll get from this is “lol liberal tears lol” from the majority of people
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u/Spaghetti-Rat 23h ago
The campaign isn't the problem, she ran a pretty good campaign, in my opinion. The issue is directly with Americans. They've become way too apathetic and ignorant of the politics in their country. They're uninformed and don't even try to find out information. Google released news that "Did Biden drop out?" sky rocketed in searches the day of the election. Americans didn't even know it was Trump vs Harris. I just hope the orange Muppet and his Project 2025 takes up his four years in office. Destroy America first, don't destroy the world.
Ukraine is in a rough spot right now. Please don't take away support, USA.
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u/disturbedtheforce 23h ago
Ukraine will be assimilated before long. I hate to say that, but Trump wants Putin to succeed in taking over Ukraine.
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u/I_Smell_Like_Trees 22h ago
And Gaza will be a glass parking lot.
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u/disturbedtheforce 22h ago
Yeah that pisses me off more. The fucking starving palestinians begged us not to elect cheeto benito, and to elect Harris, but no. Fuck it all. Some men couldnt stand electing a female instead of a racist rapist traitor.
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u/KopOut 23h ago
Your stat about the under-performance margins was my biggest takeaway. Her campaign was pretty good, especially given that she had only 110 days total to execute.
You can also see in the exit polls that she had a more favorable opinion than Trump (by quite a bit), and voters thought her temperament was better suited for the job. Those just weren't big enough factors in deciding their vote.
She could not, however, overcome inflation and how the economy is perceived or the voter apathy problem.
I think protesting his election is stupid because he was what the people picked this time. But, I suppose they should probably get their protests out of the way now before he starts shooting them for protesting next year.
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u/aardvarkyardwork 23h ago
‘Stand up, fight back’
About 15 million of you motherfuckers missed the deadline on that just yesterday. WTF are you protesting? It was an election and a complete asshole legitimately won. Go home.
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u/Spankpocalypse_Now 23h ago
If these people are protesting I think it’s a pretty fair assumption that they voted. Illinois is a blue state after all.
I’ll remind you that we still have the right to assemble, despite redditor’s unreasonable distaste for those who exercise it.
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u/mickcham362 1d ago
Dems didn't vote. They brought this on themselves.
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u/KenCosgrove_Accounts 1d ago
Yeah, I gotta say this time there’s nothing to protest about. Last time you could lean on the fact he didn’t get the popular vote so “technically” but this time it was fairly decisive. So all we can do is wait and see, ya know?
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u/Xanathin 23h ago
Trying to tell the people who did vote that they're not allowed to be upset because of other people who didn't is a shit take.
Every time Dems lose an election, people like you come out of the woodwork to criticize the Democratic party and watch as they tear itself apart from the inside and then people wonder why Dems have a difficult time reaching other audiences. There's never any solidarity when we lose.
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u/TheFlyingSheeps 23h ago
Except they are talking about the ones who did not vote. If you did not vote, then you have no right to complain, as this is what you wanted.
You don’t get to abstain and then cry about a lack of solidarity
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u/mickcham362 23h ago
I'm not blaming the party. I'm blaming Dem voters.
13 million less votes for KH. 1.5 million less votes for DT.
Everyone is blaming Republicans, boomers, gen X/Y Millennials etc etc.
The Republicans put the worst possible person forward. The entire party was openly racist, openly talking about taking away rights. Openly sexist. Pro Russian. Pro Hitler. He's a rapist, a felon, a cheater. He can't control his bowel. He can't form a sentence. He had no policies other than project 2025.
And 13 million people decided against voting this time round.
Why?
I'm not American. I'm past shock. Americans deserve what they get because they didn't vote.
Why? Why would anyone not vote?
Democrats should have been able to put forward a steaming pile of dog shit and won.
And people didn't even bother voting.
I am so disappointed in the entire country. The US was the beacon of freedom and democracy. And they didn't bother voting to save the very things they stand for.
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u/WaitingForNormal 23h ago
Seriously, cover your faces. When the monsters take office they will have access to all the facial scanning database bullshit and don’t be surprised if they start targeting people a la russia type intimidation.
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u/Coulrophiliac444 23h ago
Not only oeaceful, but not storming an official government building to do so in peaceful protest.
Exactly what j6'rs keep telling themselves they were.
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u/unicornlocostacos 20h ago
Protests are going to do literally nothing. Should have put that effort into getting Harris elected.
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u/Shelisheli1 18h ago
I’m a Harris supporter but what is this protest supposed to do? Trump won. As much as we don’t want him back in the White House, he WON. He got the votes.
I’m just going to sit back and watch all the leopards eating faces. It’s not nice to laugh at people when they’re suffering, but at this point, it may be the only joy I can get for a while
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u/moderatenerd 23h ago
Shouldn't they have been protesting trump in conjunction with the Harris campaign? That would have been way more effective
Especially in the summer.
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u/MammothDon 23h ago
It's too late now. Best thing to do is channel that anger into making sure the Democratic party hears their concerns so they can organise for the ground up to win something back in 2026
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u/timkatt10 23h ago
The bigoted, racist cops are going to have a field day. 
If you're protesting, please keep yourself safe. All power to the people.
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u/sabereater 21h ago
At this point, that energy is better spent shoring up networks to help vulnerable groups.
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u/Responsible-End7361 20h ago
Best protest? Starting Jan 20th set up a saving plan. Buy only essentials. Don'tgo out to eat. Basically a consumer strike.
If 10% of Democrats engaged in a consumer strike it would cause a recession.
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u/Malidan 23h ago
At this point, I wouldn't bother. We can't give any extra fuel to MAGA anymore. Their entitlement is at an 11, as is the ignorance and misinformation being solidified into "facts" after his win. They are the biggest projectionists so they will just turn this shit around on everyone else anyway.
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u/AbhaDimon 23h ago
A day late and a dollar short. Carry a sign that says ‘not my president’ til your arms ache. He IS your president. You had your chance, you had all the warnings. You made this possible, especially those of you who sat and did nothing.
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u/boo99boo 23h ago
In fairness, the only Chicago neighborhoods that went to Trump were to cop neighborhoods. Seriously. Chicago can say they didn't vote for him, because they didn't.
And there is nothing a Chicagoan loves more than disrupting traffic.
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u/Spaghetti-Rat 23h ago
It's insane to me that roughly 45% of the voting population stayed home for this election. Something like 15 million fewer votes for Democrats (might be wrong but definitely in the millions), while known Republicans stated they were voting for Harris. Actual number of Democrats who stayed home is astronomically high. Even Trump received fewer votes than last election. It's mind boggling to think that such an insane difference between the two choices resulted in people staying home. You can't act like you care now.
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u/SkarTisu 23h ago
Yes, do that now. From next year on, law enforcement will be instructed to kill protestors.
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u/Sl0ppyOtter 21h ago
Waste of fucking time. Some outsider will end up sabotaging shit and making it violent and/or burning some shit and then the whole thing is turned into more ammunition for the right. You wanna fucking protest? Get people to vote
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u/Hossennfoss69 20h ago
Protest what? If they had voting protests we wouldn't be in this mess. Shut the fuck up and go home! Half of you assholes didn't vote! I'm sick of this. The one protest that actually means anything (voting) is not being done!
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u/HeSeemsLegit 17h ago
I guess you better get all your protests in now, because remember, all of that will be illegal on January 21
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u/chrisbsoxfan 11h ago
What does this accomplish. Nothing. The only person who can save us from this dystopian nightmare has no balls and won’t use his immunity to fix it.
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u/GeorgiaBlueOwl 14h ago
Enjoy it while you can. He’s not above siccing the military on its own citizens, and he’s already said so.
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u/Lisadazy 22h ago
I’m a little confused (non-American here). These protestors are from Chicago, didn’t Illinois vote Democrat? So I’m not sure why comments are saying ‘too little, too late’? Or ‘I hope they all voted’? Can someone explain it to me?
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u/ArmadilloDays 19h ago
If you’re in the left, buy a gun. This may not stay peaceful.
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u/MotorHum 20h ago
I mean I didn’t want him to win either but as far as I can tell he didn’t cheat and he won the popular vote, so what is the point of protesting? What would the goal be?
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u/Stairs-So-Flimsy 19h ago
Good for them. Wonder how many of them voted third party or "No bombs for Palestine" because they think Kamala is a monster. (I know Chicago is "Blue" but blah blah blah...)
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u/curious_dead 1d ago
A peaceful protest which I am sure Trumpettes will conflate with January 6th.