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BlueStater

(7,596 posts)
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 01:24 AM Nov 2020

Even if Biden wins, I fear we're in for some rough times ahead.

Almost half of this country is despicable, insane, hopelessly ignorant, or all three. And Biden, decent man he may be, is not going to be the president to fix all that.

Think about it. For decades, Biden had a pretty solid reputation overall. The worst thing anyone could say about him was that he was bit of a windbag. After just a year of deranged lies from that orange motherfucker and his equally evil cronies, 45% of the country now thinks he’s some sort of corrupt pedophile. Just like that, the positive reputation of a man who’s been in the public eye for almost 50 years has been severely damaged in the span of about eight months.

I have never been more pessimistic about the state of the American experiment. Tonight has been an absolute disgrace.

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Even if Biden wins, I fear we're in for some rough times ahead. (Original Post) BlueStater Nov 2020 OP
If we don't get the senate MissB Nov 2020 #1
hoping mitch drops dead from his purple hand disease mucifer Nov 2020 #3
didn't know he had a PhD diva77 Nov 2020 #6
! demmiblue Nov 2020 #9
Senate appears to have slipped our fingers Amishman Nov 2020 #7
When the traitor bragged about attacking women and Eliot Rosewater Nov 2020 #2
James Comey won that election. StevieM Nov 2020 #4
2016 really shook my belief in Americans' capacity for self-governance misanthrope Nov 2020 #5
Biden won't fix it. But he will at least get the smell of stupid out of the room. Initech Nov 2020 #8

MissB

(15,803 posts)
1. If we don't get the senate
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 01:26 AM
Nov 2020

And Biden wins, well then yeah we are in for a rough road. Biden would have to negotiate with McConnell in his entire cabinet (the ones that need senate confirmation).

Amishman

(5,554 posts)
7. Senate appears to have slipped our fingers
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 01:39 AM
Nov 2020

Collins appears likely to survive, as well as Tillis.

Purdue in GA is at 53.4% and outperforming Trump. If we catch trump in GA it will be by very narrow margins. I don't see catching purdue

I don't see any other reasonable chances, and MI is worrying me

Eliot Rosewater

(31,106 posts)
2. When the traitor bragged about attacking women and
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 01:27 AM
Nov 2020

Mocked a handicap person and then still got close enough to steal the election I realized our country was completely broken and could not be fixed or certainly not in long time

StevieM

(10,500 posts)
4. James Comey won that election.
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 01:29 AM
Nov 2020

And because he screwed HRC, Trump was in office to get credit for all of Barack Obama's success with the economy.

misanthrope

(7,410 posts)
5. 2016 really shook my belief in Americans' capacity for self-governance
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 01:33 AM
Nov 2020

What I'm seeing tonight has devastated any salvation I clung to regarding our national integrity. I don't have any faith it can ever progress to "a more perfect union" because too many here are fine with the worst character traits imaginable. They don't care.

The number of truly despicable Americans is genuinely repulsive.

Initech

(100,040 posts)
8. Biden won't fix it. But he will at least get the smell of stupid out of the room.
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 01:40 AM
Nov 2020

And that's what Obama did after Bush was president. The republicans come in and break everything like a bull in a china shop, and the Democrats fix it, only for a republican to come along and break it again. The cycle repeats itself.

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