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Can't think of a header. I'm too scared. (Original Post) Mira Nov 2022 OP
brilliant GenXer47 Nov 2022 #1
I hear you, my dear Mira, and there are times when I'm scared too. CaliforniaPeggy Nov 2022 #2
Thanks, CaliforniaPeggy, appreciate your post MotorCityBeard Nov 2022 #5
I chose to not despair in fear Mira Nov 2022 #6
K&R redstatebluegirl Nov 2022 #3
Very good. And scary. BlackSkimmer Nov 2022 #4
Indeed Bayard Nov 2022 #7
Good one Warpy Nov 2022 #8
Thing about ForgedCrank Nov 2022 #9
Stay strong, Mira PlanetBev Nov 2022 #10
Accurate depiction of a Trump eally Martin Eden Nov 2022 #11
Its been said that he could be snuffed out by a righteous strong wind, Ford_Prefect Nov 2022 #12
I haven't seen many MAGA signs on cars wnylib Nov 2022 #13
A few will act out. But the majority won't. haele Nov 2022 #14

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,525 posts)
2. I hear you, my dear Mira, and there are times when I'm scared too.
Mon Nov 7, 2022, 06:49 PM
Nov 2022

But I try not to be.

Tomorrow will be a mix of wonderful and horrible results, no doubt.

We must stay calm and carry on, as the Brits say. This is no time to be distracted or so upset we can't think.

We are not without resources!

MotorCityBeard

(201 posts)
5. Thanks, CaliforniaPeggy, appreciate your post
Mon Nov 7, 2022, 07:02 PM
Nov 2022

I have been nervous and out of sorts all day. Already voted and worried about tomorrow.

I tell myself, however it goes is not the end of the world, even though it may feel like it.

Mira

(22,380 posts)
6. I chose to not despair in fear
Mon Nov 7, 2022, 07:08 PM
Nov 2022

I love Michael Moore, call him my second Ex-husband, and he has "held my hand" in his podcasts expecting a really good outcome.

 

BlackSkimmer

(51,308 posts)
4. Very good. And scary.
Mon Nov 7, 2022, 06:54 PM
Nov 2022

Yet people keep posting his rally crap here and chortling about it.

There’s nothing funny about these idiots.

Warpy

(111,156 posts)
8. Good one
Mon Nov 7, 2022, 08:53 PM
Nov 2022

but there are too many bombs. People are slowly waking up to the fact that while they've been willing to do his bidding, it's a one way street and he's not prepared to do a damned thing for them.

The proof is the lack of pardons for Oaf Keepers, 3% ers, and other gansgs of violent idiots. He had time to pardon them. He just couldn't have been less interested in doing so. Peasants aren't important.

ForgedCrank

(1,765 posts)
9. Thing about
Mon Nov 7, 2022, 08:56 PM
Nov 2022

that meme is, it's not even insulting to many of them.
A lot of them actually see themselves this way and are proud of it.

PlanetBev

(4,104 posts)
10. Stay strong, Mira
Mon Nov 7, 2022, 09:04 PM
Nov 2022

Even if we do well tomorrow, we are in a long term fight for our country. This is as crucial a time as the Civil War. Zealots and fanatics don’t easily give up and neither do we.

Martin Eden

(12,847 posts)
11. Accurate depiction of a Trump eally
Mon Nov 7, 2022, 09:12 PM
Nov 2022

Too bad their heads didn’t explode on the spot, taking torch head with them.

Ford_Prefect

(7,872 posts)
12. Its been said that he could be snuffed out by a righteous strong wind,
Mon Nov 7, 2022, 09:15 PM
Nov 2022

Or even a small breeze blowing true.

IMO he's always been a bit lite headed...


"His people" frighten me far more that he does.

wnylib

(21,341 posts)
13. I haven't seen many MAGA signs on cars
Mon Nov 7, 2022, 09:36 PM
Nov 2022

or houses where I am. Don't know why because I know that there are some around town.

But all this past week there has been a middle aged guy riding a bicycle around the parking lot of a shopping center near me with a large flag attached to his bike. Half is the US flag and the other half is the Gadsden flag.

I voted last Thursday. My regular polling site is just 3 blocks away from home. I think I will walk past it tomorrow to see how it looks, whether there is a line and how long.

haele

(12,640 posts)
14. A few will act out. But the majority won't.
Mon Nov 7, 2022, 10:04 PM
Nov 2022

The majority of MAGAT/White Nationalist types will not travel to cause trouble unless it's to an organized event where they feel they have strength in numbers. See the amount that would show up "to fight Antifa" or "Support the Right", but as soon as they start facing opposition, they break down and run.
Most Q or MAGA are frankly lazy middle class. They're basically comfortable and at a certain level, know that if they can't just bully an opponent to leave or quit, they risk getting hurt or arrested and that's just too much. They depend on 'lone wolf heros' to fight for their idiotology and to root for. Asking them to stand and fight if they're not already part of a mob is not gonna happen.

The ones post election that I am most concerned are police or sheriffs twisting the law and their 'jobs' to target those they consider liberal or Democratic enemies. The swaggering Big Fish in Small Ponds type. And, of course, the few 'troubled' young men with no future to begin with who are willing to listen to poison just to make some sort of name for themselves.

Haele

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