We've been living in a fantasy world.

[Ligyron]

All the happy talk about how Trump was failing and had poorly attended events and was cratering was nonsense. It didn't matter. Contrary to the fiction of a 47%ceiling for him, we're most likely the minority now.

We were so sure the women of America would bury him him for taking away their reproductive rights but apparently plenty are happy to let Daddy make the important decisions for them so that they didn't need to worry their pretty little heads about such matters.

That their chosen candidate, Donald John Trump, was a lying con man, adjudicated rapist and felon with fascist tendencies only interested in himself didn't matter. At least he wasn't (gasp) a Democrat and that was all that really mattered in the long run apparently.

There is no Blue Wall, there's just the one that separates us from Mexico that will now be added onto. All the Jan 6th insurrectionists will be pardoned and set free to help track down libruls, and brown people for Trump to prosecute and all charges against Trump himself will now be dropped.

It's the end of democracy in America. Glad I'm old.

[jeffreyi]

1. And everything we hate is now empowered.

Well, Mother Earth will have the last laugh, eventually.

[ananda]

4. Yes, imagine a government that will do nothing...

to either mitigate climate change or
to help ever increasing disaster victims
recover.

This country will turn into a hellscape of
unimaginable proportions.

And the prospect of war increases as well,
both against people who live here, and other
countries as well.

[jeffreyi]

14. Yep.

My thoughts exactly.

[MadameButterfly]

2. I grieve for my daughter

who is just out of college, just beginning. When I was her age I was engaged in politics and planning to change the world. How do you even think about that as a new autacracy sets in? How do you choose your destiny?

[kerry-is-my-prez]

3. Yes. For a long time, I thought it was very possible for Trump to win.

Then they started talking about about how Trump was going down and his crowds were bare and all the women and Latinos coming out for Harris. So in the last few days, I started to believe all the happy talk. Damn them. Did they do this on purpose to make people think they were “winners” or were they that naive?

[Beringia]

11. It didn't dawn on me that they won't vote for her until about 6 pm last night

[LeftInTX]

16. I sometimes wonder if Trump's team spread

news of his demise. This would motivate Trump's voters and let Dems think that "we got this"
Trump signs miracleously appeared after early voting here.

[Vogon_Glory]

5. I think that Orange Julius IS failing mentally

and that his worshippers chose to ignore it and vote for someone whose second time in the White House will be remembered in sorrow.

[Lonestarblue]

6. All Trump wants is to punish people he hates. Vance will be the power behind the throne, with Project 2025 leaders.

[Crunchy Frog]

9. Vance and Muskovite, and Putin of course.

[gordianot]

8. That is a distinct possibility.

A President Vance is equally alarming.

[Vogon_Glory]

10. He's certainly physically healthier

And while I haven’t paid that much attention to his speeches, he’s certainly more acute.

The question is how well would he govern? Would he be as skillful as Gerry Ford or Richard Nixon, or would he be another Dan Quayle?

[gordianot]

13. He shares Trump's grievances with a new set of identity issues.

I doubt he does not know who he is Borderline Personality disorder. Pair that with a demented, narcissist a recipient for disaster.

[In It to Win It]

7. When I started hearing the chatter about Black men and Latinos sliding from Kamala is when I started to worry

…and that was pretty late in the game. There wasn’t much time to actually do anything about it.

[XanaDUer2]

12. I didn't want to say anything

But I suspected he'd win. And sadly i was right.

[sarisataka]

15. Harsh

but accurate