"I never want to hear the words 'America is better than this' again.
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"Trump’s predictable return to the presidency—in what is the final American presidential election of our lifetimes (a conservative plan decades in the making, with help from liberal complicity masquerading as incompetence)—was nothing more and nothing less than the majority of white voters confirming that they want to live in a country that adheres to the standards of living as expressed in 1824 rather than 2024."
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"no longer America the beautiful"
it's depends on who is setting the beauty standards
by conventional measures, America has been a global tyrant for a long time, since the 1850s, and domestically it has believed in race and justified its racism for longer.
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Erin Reed reminds us of the practice, life-or-death challenges now facing some of us due to the choice made by the rest of us. She's offering advice to trans people and people who care about them:
"I wanted to share some very practical next steps for my trans readers. Here are the things I recommend:"
#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/12https://substack.com/chat/994764/post/89164a20-5afe-4fc0-a4ff-aa351390f592
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"Get your passport. Today. It takes time to come in and getting an updated gender marker will likely be shut down under Trump. - Update every ID your state allows you to. - Make sure you have a supply of medication in case of disruption - If you have a trans kid that is stealth, consider maintaining stealth to get around enforcement of anti-trans laws."
It's going to get very bad for some of us, quickly. Because others have chosen this for us.
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"With the election of Donald Trump, our fellow citizens are about to get exactly what they want. There is nothing that God, man, or the Constitution can do about it, because we did it to ourselves. …
The American people, which is all of us, got together on Tuesday and chose everything that’s coming for close to the next decade."
~ Charles Pierce
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/14https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a62828684/donald-trump-elected-2024/
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"America was given the opportunity to let a Black and Asian American woman move us beyond a decade of Trump’s racist, sexist, and toxic form of grievance politics with a broad agenda grounded in joy, compassion, and opportunity. And America, specifically the majority of white Americans, said: 'No thanks. We’re good.'”
~ Kimberly Atkins Stohr
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The most disrespected person in America is still the Black woman - The Boston Globe
My job may be to sort out what the election means for the Supreme Court, reproductive health care, and the guardrails of our democracy. And I’ll get to that. But first, I have to get past the sting of, once again, feeling like the nation that I love and believe in just backhanded me.
BostonGlobe.com (www.bostonglobe.com)
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"They knowingly voted to once again tear families apart and put babies in cages and commit what will almost certainly be horrific human rights abuses against immigrants. They voted to make life harder for me and my daughters because based on their conveniently misogynistic and bigoted interpretation of the Bible. ...
I am done being nice to people just because we are related."
~ tonyahky
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Cancelling Thanksgiving this year
This year, I have decided to cancel Thanksgiving dinner at my house. I see little to be thankful for this year after seeing that the majority of Americans willfully chose fascism—including a lot of my family members. Every year, I have been the cook. I...
Daily Kos (www.dailykos.com)
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“'The Confederacy won,' says [Carol] Anderson, a professor of African American studies at Emory University. 'It paints a picture of what Americans are willing to embrace,' says [Michele] Goodwin, a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown and an expert on healthcare law…."
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“The Confederacy Won”: Why Donald Trump’s Reelection Is a Win for White Supremacy, Xenophobia & Hate
Donald Trump has been reelected president of the United States. Ahead of Kamala Harris’s expected concession speech, we speak to professors Carol Anderson and Michele Goodwin to discuss Harris’s historic campaign — and historic loss. “The Confederacy won,” says Anderson, a professor of African American studies at Emory University. “It paints a picture of what Americans are willing to embrace,” says Goodwin, a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown and an expert on healthcare law, who warns of the public health dangers of a second Trump administration and discusses the election’s implications for reproductive rights.
Democracy Now! (www.democracynow.org)
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"81 percent. EIGHTY ONE FUCKING PERCENT. Of white evangelicals STILL voted for this deranged, dumbass, depraved, demented demon.
'Because abortion.'"
~ Holly Berkeley Fletcher
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"Fuck your pathetic, made-up, morally simplistic, manipulative, dishonest litmus tests that allow you to pat yourselves on the back and avoid your own fear and failure and take a nap in your spiritual easy chairs, watching your North Korean style TV, without ever using your damn brains or searching your damn hearts."
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"You have literally empowered the type of man who necessitates so many abortions rather than doing anything meaningful for the unborn babies you claim to love well enough to excuse you from considering fully formed human beings, who annoyingly refuse to stay in utero. And anyway, there are more abortions now than there were before you subjected us to this conduit of catastrophic cowardice that you think will save you."
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"The reason this felt so much worse than 2016 was because it was impossible to say Americans didn’t know what they were voting for."
~ Emma Brockes
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Trump's win is so much worse this time. Americans knew what they were voting for | Emma Brockes
Even after a failed coup and numerous legal wranglings, many men could not bring themselves to vote for a woman, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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"Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do. …
The principal problems that got us to this bleakest moment in American history are intertwined. They are the crisis of masculinity, the failure of the news media and the rise of Silicon Valley, and in a way they are all the same problem."
~ Rebecca Solnit
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Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do | Rebecca Solnit
Americans will be stuck cleaning up after Maga’s destructive streak because men like this never clean up after themselves
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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"Presented with a choice between electing the first black, female president on a promise of a sunnier future, and a racist, misogynist, twice-impeached convicted felon hawking hatred and retribution, they picked Mr Trump."
~ The Guardian
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The Guardian view on the return of President Trump: a bleak day for America and the world | Editorial
Editorial: His voters knew what they were getting when they picked him over Kamala Harris. But his opponents cannot despair
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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"We are perched on the precipice of meme-ing ourselves into authoritarian dystopia, handing unchecked power to a narcissistic criminal demagogue because the price of bacon increased. ...
We are the only species capable of clinging to ideological zealotry. And we are the only ones who can make ourselves extinct."
~ Brian Klaas
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"America did this to itself. And now we all must suffer through it."
~ George Conway
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America Did This to Itself
And now we all must suffer through it.
The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)
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Placing the blame on white people is misdirected if less people showed up. Harris made gains in the white women vote. It appears less people voted than in 2020. THAT is the problem.
