"The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK."

Right? I found pre-election solace in knowing that even though his cult will never turn on him, he couldn't have possibly gotten MORE supporters in the past 4 years.

Turns out they LOVE the hate and they want more of it.

Sorry, Mindless Americans, it's not Trump's fault anymore, it's YOURS.

At least 1930s Germans could say their cizenry didn't vote for Hitler. We Americans can't say the same. I'm so ashamed of snd angry at my fellow Americans.

Did we have low turnout?

No, I want to join an existing massive one and change it at its very core to be something radical that we can wield. Wait a minute....

lets call it the antifascism club. antifa for short.

How about the Kool Kids Klan?

Or maybe what media thinks their job is isn't what you think it should be. Maybe the media is deliberately promoting fascism for profit, has become our enemy, and needs to be destroyed.

No its not when people are in agony. To them, this is their torch. This is how fascism rises.

Some extracts from a great comment from another user on lemmy (readfanon). I'll paste this here since some people seem to think that the Democrats did nothing wrong and it is the "left" voters who failed them :

1-You are chasing the DNC to the right and one day you will wake up and wonder to yourself "How did I end up all the way over here?" I'm not following you into that marsh but you're welcome to go into it yourself, just don't get upset at me when I point out what you're heading into and don't get angry when I refuse to blindly follow you.

2-Historically, fascism has never been stopped at the ballot box. You being convinced that this is possible does not sway my opinion on any matter aside from my estimation of your political awareness and your ability to achieve change.

3-You had four years (eight+ if you count Trump's regime and the lead-up to it in this calculation) to "stop fascism". What did you do in this period of time? Did you push Biden and Kamala to adopt policies which have mass support? Did you do anything except go to back to brunch?

4-You aren't entitled to others' votes. Stop pretending that you are.

5-We aren't splitting the so-called left, Kamala Harris did that all by herself.

6-You have no red lines. There is nothing that could make you not support Kamala Harris and we know it. Telling people to drop their standards and ignore their conscience to vote for Kamala is a fatal strategy and you killed her campaign by deploying it.

7-Almost all of your arguments for voting for Kamala Harris (aside from the "it will stop Trump" argument which, in retrospect, appears to be a dismal failure) also apply to reasons for voting for Trump. "You can push them left", "By voting we will get a seat at the table", "Voting third party or not voting at all is a wasted vote", "We have to vote this way to protect the country", "Politics is about comprise - you cannot expect them to be your perfect political candidate", and whatever hold-your-nose-and-vote arguments you trot out. Did you ever stop to ask yourself why it is that you do not find these arguments for voting Trump to be convincing?

8-Last time Trump got elected you were brutally vindictive. You took glee in the thought of people in red states and marginalised groups suffering due to policy and things like natural disasters, regardless of their politics or how they chose to vote. You were excited to tell these people that they were going to get deported and put into concentration camps. You will do it again this time too because you have learned nothing. November came and these people you targeted with your vicious schadenfreude remembered. They aren't going to forget how effortlessly you abandoned them and how you wished the worst suffering and ill-fate upon them.

The Democrats didn't turn out to vote for Kamala, so yes, you can still blame the Democrats.

Except that they've spent the last 6 months telling everyone that it's a choice between them and fascism. Then when fascism comes they're like "oh well, we tried".

I'm just hoping that this loss will eventually make the Dems look inward, but I'm not holding my breath when he's saying shit like this.

Fascism is something to be alarmed about! It's an existential threat to democracy!

A vote for Stein this year was a vote for Trump. Vote green in your local and state elections to get support growing, don't vote for them for president when they aren't even on enough ballots to win and the alternative is a literal hitler-worshipper.

Edit - Stein was actually on the ballot in 38 states so she technically could've won. I was thinking of Claudia De la Cruz and the PSL party - I have the same sentiment with them this election. These two divided the left and only benefited Trump. Vote green or PSL in your local elections and grow support for the non-democrat left.

Are you fucking kidding me, Jill Stein is your answer? Jill I don't know how many people are in the House of Representatives and I refuse to call Putin a war criminal Stein?

Fuck the Green party. Jill Stein crawls out of its crypt every 4 years to spend russia's money and steal progressive votes away from the Democratic candidate.

Hate to break it to you, we're still near the top of the heap.

Honestly him getting re-elected is the first time in my life where I felt the absolute gravity of "Oh, THIS is white privilege" like theres no fuckin nuance to this. I'm straight, white and middle aged. If I say the right things I'll probably be fine, not much is going to change for me.

I cant say the same for a lot of other people.

The beginning and end of Leadership is accountability. The Dems refuse to accept their part in this loss.

The President and Vice President have zero outward indications that this is personally painful to them, at all. If anything, they seem relieved to be passing the potato. If they are so out of touch, or so insulated from the pernicious outcomes of their doleful stewardship of this country, then WHY should voters place their trust in that party again, considering it's been helmed and staffed by the same obstinate members for decades?

I don't see Leadership, I see a kind of craven capitulation, at a time when America most needs its leaders to have fire in their bellies, and compassion in their eyes.

He could resign right now and let Kamala finish the term, ruining the millions of dollars of "47" merch on the market.

It's hardly going to help any to come out and announce that everything is fucked

Yes it fucking would! That kind of honest assessment of reality is exactly what millions of working-class people have been clamoring for from Democrats for years now and not fucking getting!

And by "millions," I mean more than the margin of victory.

And he's weong.

How's the rest of your body doing?

where are my jellybeans?

So... pre-election Democrats were not being the better people??? I really don't get this.

I am convinced that Project 2025 is coming to your country and that trumpism is the most dangerous modern day neo-fascist strain. I actually believe the pre-election Democrats. You don't appease fascism, you don't give it good faith, you resist it, you fight it, you crush it.

This about-face of the post-election Democrats is insane and it feeds directly into the "boy who cried wolf" narrative that the Right is pushing. Not to mention they are normalizing trumpism.

What is your actual point without sarcasm?

Biden chosing not to prosecute him for his crimes because he didn't want it to look politically motivated allowed this to happen.

More a statement of how little he did to prevent this scenario/how shit of a president he was

Either the charges of treason/insurection are true, and the corruption of delays until after election needs to be corrected, or Trump should have been in military jail waiting trial back in 2021 are true, or DNC just wants the most loyal zionist to finish the job of genocide.

I'm suggesting he actually prosecuted Trump for his crimes instead of trying to look politically neutral.

It's a repeat of a historical experiment, and he's fiddling while it burns.

Are you sure that "incense" should not be "incels"?

Gen Z is a generation of infantile incels who refuse to vote for a woman.

42% of them voted for a woman

I'm really not sure about that. I would say a lot of us didn't show up, which is damning. I wouldn't say a lot of us voted for Trump. The data doesn't back that.

Garland (an actual Republican) waited two and a half years to even START investigating, and he only did that after congress publicly humiliated him by placing a mountain of evidence at his doorstep.

If we had a real AG and not a conservative, Trump would have been properly prosecuted and countless lives would have been saved.

Merrick Garland sat on his hands for 2.5 years, intentionally letting Trump off the hook. I hope he is Trump's first victim in the prison camps.

Wait is that an option? Gam Gam had a shop in Leicester before she moved to Minnesota.

Please take us back?

Wait is that an option? Gam Gam had a shop in Leicester before she moved to Minnesota.

I mean, what part of that is a communist idea? And of course they are all inventions that we are trying. Every country around the world is hoping their government system works best for their population. That said they are all for the most part , different.

What language is this? (Thanks for including a translation)

I understand everything, but not the older German "s" instead of usual English one. And that use of "u" is awful. Especially since it's inconsistent. Why are you doing this?

Are you sure?

Honestly I thought about it, I'm terrified by the results, but even if things have to get worse over the next 4 years before they get better, the young generation has the time to turn it around. The will to improve? That's still unknown to me.

I feel bad for Jimmy Carter seeing what his country has become...

At least following MAGA logic, starting next year we can say that Trump is causing the hurricanes, droughts, tornadoes and floods. Mother nature asking nicely hasn't seemed to get it in people's heads.

Ayy, how apt.

Oh so it's not just Biden who is delusional

Were you in a coma for Jan 6? They were going to execute Nancy Pelosi. Speaking of, they hit Nancy Pelosi's rich white husband on the head with a hammer. She didn't embrass Cheetoh even 10% of what Biden did. Biden beat him. Trump is a literal narcissist. Idk how to be more clear.

Men, most people really, just cannot fathom the depths of male abuse ig. Always gotta run interference for male abusers, even with obvious serious abuse histories, as your default rhetoric. Maybe stop doing that and start empathizing with victims. I'm telling you that man's psychology will not allow him to let Biden live peacefully. Not to mention Trump is literally Putin's puppet, another raging narcissist, and Biden cost Putin billions. It was found in court he colluded with Russia. America Kompromat by Unger shows a long history of blackmail by Russia to Americans including Trump. Active Measures documentary with John McCain and Hilary Clinton does as well.

What is happening next is 2 fold:

1. Proxy war. Trump will destroy America as much as possible from the inside for Russia
2. Theft. Wars only result in an economic boom if we are essentially grave robbing the loser. What's about to happen is a massive wealth transfer from the US to Russia and other countries. They will absolutely be killing off wealthy white men. They'll kill everyone. They literally don't care. This is a war and has been since the 2016 election. And you refuse to see it.

Jack Smith, James or Merchan

Now that you mention it, we have genocide nicknames for the Biden and Harris administration but not yet for Trump.

Any suggestions? Needs to be catchy that starts with a T or D