"I never want to hear the words 'America is better than this' again.
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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
#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/15https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/06/opinion/trump-president-black-women/
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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
#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/16https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/6/2283776/-Cancelling-Thanksgiving-this-year
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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…."
#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/17https://www.democracynow.org/2024/11/6/carol_anderson_michele_goodwin_2024_trump
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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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"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
#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
/22https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/07/us-progressive-election-trump-maga
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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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66gardenersreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
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.
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@66gardeners The fact remains and it's impossible to deny, though many of us want to do that: a majority of white Americans who vote elected Trump overwhelmingly.
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"I expected America to stand up and assert itself on Election Day. And it did, loudly and clearly.
It just wasn’t the America I held in my mind’s eye."
~ John Harwood
#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
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"Embarrassingly Naive": I Expected America to Stand Up for Democracy
The choice voters made defies comprehension.
(zeteo.com)
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“America has revealed to us her true self, and we have to decide what we do with her from here.”
~ Waikinya Clanton
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"Donald Trump has won the majority of white women voters for the third straight time. …
52 percent of white American women showed us who they are: Trump supporters."
~ Malcolm Ferguson
#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
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How White Women Doomed Kamala Harris and the Democrats—Again
Early exit polls reveal a stunning race gap in how people voted in the 2024 presidential election.
The New Republic (newrepublic.com)
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"NBC News exit polls report that Kamala Harris won LGBT voters 86 to 12. Joe Biden only won LGBT voters 64 to 27. …
Harris won LGBT voters more than Hillary Clinton (77-14) and Barack Obama in 2012 (76-22)."
~ Evan Hurst
Some of us know who will be first in line for the cruelty as it's dished out to immigrants, people of color, poor people, and, yes, LGBTQ people.
#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
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Looks Like 'Normal Gay Guy Vote' Told Trump And Vance To Go F*ck Themselves
LGBT voters understood the assignment.
(www.wonkette.com)
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"President Biden bet everything on the innate goodness of the American people. We should learn from his mistake. …
Joe Biden was given the choice of betting liberal democracy on structures and the levers of power, or on the innate goodness of the American people. He put his entire chip stack on the American people and lost.
We ought not repeat his mistake."
~ Jonathan V. Last
#fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future
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The Strategic Failure of 2024 Was Written in 2021
President Biden bet everything on the innate goodness of the American people. We should learn from his mistake.
(www.thebulwark.com)
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The Wookiereplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Perhaps we need to stop thinking of America as a "her". It's clearly a "him" that is driven by hate, resentment, and zero investment in democracy for more than 50% of us.
Just an angry white guy who doesn't want to make the world better for anyone. He just wants to make it worse for those that are not him.
