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10. To answer your question, yes. Nothings yet totally baked in, but we're on that road. I'm terribly saddened to say.

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Are we now Germany of 1933*? I just know that the election was dirty** and I have existential dread bad. [View all] Botany Nov 2024 OP

I agree 100%! Island Blue Nov 2024 #1

I think we just lost. Elessar Zappa Nov 2024 #2

The way to correct it is Bettie Nov 2024 #9

I'm so tired enigmania Nov 2024 #18

Me too Bettie Nov 2024 #21

I don't think anyone is suggesting we don't have women candidates or we become republican lite Buckeyeblue Nov 2024 #23

I am. We've been burned twice trying to elect a woman Meadowoak Nov 2024 #27

You are right. Infantile intimidation and jealousy carried more weight on voters' choice than any real policy, jaxexpat Nov 2024 #36

So ironic that Germany Marthe48 Nov 2024 #40

Oh, my, she was magnificent. Joinfortmill Nov 2024 #39

I disagree. EndlessWire Nov 2024 #50

Gotta go Bernie style. Lucky Luciano Nov 2024 #41

People said the same thing after Bush and after Obama and after Trump EdmondDantes_ Nov 2024 #53

Maybe in your universe GoreWon2000 Nov 2024 #56

Right on point. I was delusional thinking our country represented something that it doesn't. Pepsidog Nov 2024 #26

I think that something is wrong with the election as well. EndlessWire Nov 2024 #43

Like 2008 Cosmocat Nov 2024 #64

at the very least, they did a good job of suppressing our votes. mopinko Nov 2024 #3

I think voter suppression, the loss of ballots, and the threats... ananda Nov 2024 #19

Please Read this: Fiendish Thingy Nov 2024 #4

Something's not right Ananda62 Nov 2024 #5

I have worked election protection for years and I don't know where the weak spot is in our current... Botany Nov 2024 #8

The only weak spot I can think of is the Mail In Ballots didn't show up in the proportional increase like they did for uponit7771 Nov 2024 #49

It looks like "they" were into the data somehow either prior to the election (voter suppression?), Botany Nov 2024 #57

Yep, it was the number of new small donors to the DNC that I'm hanging on, that's usually a banked vote. Voter ... uponit7771 Nov 2024 #61

In 2020, everyone mailed in or dropped off their ballots due to Covid. Who is in charge of the mail japple Nov 2024 #65

Right !!! I'm not tryna start CT but Harris had record number of individual votes which are 90% a banked vote. uponit7771 Nov 2024 #69

This and record number of **NEW** small donors to the DNC, those small donors was 80% going to vote. uponit7771 Nov 2024 #48

The US government soon will be led by Putin's Puppet. Kid Berwyn Nov 2024 #6

He freaking told us... MiHale Nov 2024 #7

Right along with the Big Lie Blue Full Moon Nov 2024 #16

Exaxtly cilla4progress Nov 2024 #25

No comparison Beck23 Nov 2024 #33

This. MontanaMama Nov 2024 #29

To answer your question, yes. Nothings yet totally baked in, but we're on that road. I'm terribly saddened to say. ashredux Nov 2024 #10

That's why they destroyed the learning channel Blue Full Moon Nov 2024 #11

Honey BooBoo and The Apprentice. japple Nov 2024 #13

Don't forget "The Apprentice" which marketed Trump as a business genius when in fact he was a failure. Botany Nov 2024 #14

Remember when they banned Saving Private Ryan? live love laugh Nov 2024 #35

Totally agree. It smells as rotten as yesterday's fish. And it seemed to start smelling about japple Nov 2024 #12

fuck fuck fuck... Ysabel Nov 2024 #15

A hard choice needs to be made way up the ladder Blue Full Moon Nov 2024 #17

I think that was the choice and always was. ananda Nov 2024 #20

Fascist always place loyal people on both sides Blue Full Moon Nov 2024 #22

Michigan has a Dem gov, SOS, AG and legislature Kaleva Nov 2024 #47

Well, it wasn't just suppression, was it? ananda Nov 2024 #58

Hispanics went for Trump Kaleva Nov 2024 #60

I've already posted about what I think happened with Latinos. ananda Nov 2024 #62

It's probably more of a nationality thing Kaleva Nov 2024 #66

I appreciate the sound thinking here. cilla4progress Nov 2024 #24

It would be tough to make him a dictator at this point. ColinC Nov 2024 #28

So I live in NJ and took my wife and four adult kids to vote. Voting was always easy and fast. This election the line to Pepsidog Nov 2024 #30

Lots of Harris signs still out in Northern Virginia Beck23 Nov 2024 #34

+1, Did you do mail in ballot in 20? I've been screaming about voter suppression being effective for 4 years. This time uponit7771 Nov 2024 #52

We'll need to practice goose-stepping. bif Nov 2024 #31

Although Nazi Germany had a ban on handguns Aviation Pro Nov 2024 #32

Some here want to disarm us. Kaleva Nov 2024 #45

The majority are concentrated in the hands of 3% of America (link). Also, its not like Jewish people didn't have shotgun uponit7771 Nov 2024 #54

2016 numbers Aviation Pro Nov 2024 #59

I wonder if it's the American version of the fall of the Soviet Union. jeffreyi Nov 2024 #37

I agree with everything you said except the Garland part. I'm reserving judgment on what the Joinfortmill Nov 2024 #38

Some things I can't square Marthe48 Nov 2024 #42

Hitler was defeated in a landslide in the '32 presidential election Kaleva Nov 2024 #44

***HITLER ENTERED INTO OFFICE WITH LESS IMMUNITY THAN TRUMP*** uponit7771 Nov 2024 #46

yes, the us is kaput. nt yaesu Nov 2024 #51

We shall see. OAITW r.2.0 Nov 2024 #55

Yes Cosmocat Nov 2024 #63

I have ZERO DOUBT what side repukes would have been on during WWII Skittles Nov 2024 #67

2016 was 1933. Were in 1934 now. /nt artemisia1 Nov 2024 #68