Everything that’s coming: If you didn’t vote, you voted for it. If you voted Shill Stein, you voted for it. If you voted Trump and you “didn’t know it would be this way”, you’re as complicit as the non-voters and the boutique voters.
Deliberate ignorance, a lack of critical thinking, and the propaganda that you allowed to game your emotions were all at play here.
I can at least understand that line of thinking. He spent a lot of his first term golfing. He didn't build the border wall or repeal the ACA or do a lot of what he promised his supporters he would.
Still not an excuse. He did incredible damage in his first term and I expect this one to be worse.
And he's not even saying he's going to do Project 2025 but I expect him to.
He didn’t have presidential immunity, both branches of Congress, and the Supreme Court. And now he has all the Project 2025 people who are far more hungry for human misery than he is. And they’re happy to do his job for him.
Yeah, Trump only wanted to win to stay out of prison. I bet he spends his time until his massive coronary playing golf while he lets his people destroy the country.
Man, a local (Canadian) news chain had a pro Trump panelist on a show and that was always her argument. I hope they fucking apologize for giving her a platform when shit hits the fan.
Never forget the "Canadians" like Theo Fleury who parroted Russian asset, Tucker Carlson, and called for the US to "liberate" Canada during covid/convoy.
If you thought the last convoy was hell, wait until the plan goes how it was supposed to then.
I'd respect a massive third party turnout vote, though. At least it shows there is an untapped and active voter base who will show up.
Not voting is just saying that you don't care. And there were several down ballot elections that were things that leftists say they care about, including ranked choice voting in several states.
That said a non-participant is objectively less culpable for electing Trump than someone that voted for Trump.
It's ridiculous how many are clearly more angry at non-participants than Trump's actual voters.
This system is captured by oligarchs, I vote for least worst out of harm reduction, not hope, and I'm not mad at the people that understand that this ship IS going to sink out of greed/capital market worship regardless of R or D and said fuck it, they're going to get drunk raiding the bar instead of getting in line to vote on whether to start shooting stowage passengers as we all sink.
Bro, the boat is sinking, some people are bailing it out, some people are drilling holes into the bottom and some people are standing around talking about how they just can’t bring themselves to bail the boat out. They don’t get credit for not drilling holes. That’s not a thing.
You know the Nazi in a bar story where the barman kicks the Nazi out because having a single Nazi in the bar means it's a Nazi bar? Well it's the same fucking shit in politics. You don't vote or you vote third party, knowing full well that you're opening the door to a Nazi to take power? It means you don't mind a Nazi taking power therefore you're a Nazi.