8mo ago

Still waiting...

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Instead of a red mirage, we got a blue stayathomeandnotvote. Harris got 10-13M votes less than Biden in 2020, and even Trump seems to be getting less votes than the last time (counting still ongoing). I was told there would be a record turnout in this election.
- How about this: minorities shifted TOWARDS Trump!
  
  Yep. It's truly been an election that's not missing drama. Two assassination attempts, sitting president dropping out with 4 months left, open fascism, couch fucking, non-white female runner for the first time, all polls absolutely incorrect... Just to get an orange shit heap to fuck over Ukraine, Palestine and our climate. Could Igo back to the boring Obama years, please?
  
  Shifted, or did the minorities who previously voted for Democrats stay home this time?
  
  People are sexist, who knew? The patriarchy is alive and thriving.
- Depressed turnout has always been how Republicans win.
- Actually, 20 million votes are suspiciously unaccounted for
  
  Source? Or are we down to republican level of accepting losing?
  
  Yess a new conspiry!
- That's the thing about records: they aren't always positive/in the trajectory you are hoping for
  
  If it had been a record low, then sure. But I don't think we broke records in that direction either.

I went to bed Tuesday thinking I was going to wake up to much better news lol, I feel mislead
- On Halloween I had a friend I thought was fairly Democratic say he was close to voting for Trump and that's when I felt the dread.
  
  My moms' voted for Trump I suspect and they're avoided voting for Republicans for a long time because of homophobia. One of them would ask things like "do you think a woman can be president" and would talk about how great she thought the stock market would do under trump. They just retired, so their well-being is now a lot more dependent on the value of their 401k than before though, so it might just be that rather than broader trends. Otoh, I've also seen her listening to like 30+ minute snakes salesman things on Facebook and be seriously believing of the obvious scam.
  
  Did they give a reason?
- Reminds me of 2016. All the polls and guesses were Hillary had it in the bag. Woke up that morning feeling like someone sucker punched me.
  I've been wary of predictions since then if for nothing else than to save me from developing a drinking problem to cope. Expect the worst and you'll never be surprised.
  
  I just assume the worst. Unfortunately this time I was right.
  
  We'll have to see what happens when the final numbers come in, but I suspect the polls had it more wrong this time than in 2016. They actually weren't that far off at that time. People forget that Hillary did actually win the popular vote, and the national polls were within margin of error. That might not be the case this time.

Blue shift when?

I tried to warn people. But no one here wanted to listen.
- I distinctly remember saying months ago that too many people on this platform were acting like Kamala had already won.
  God damnit I hate being right.

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