• Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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    11 hours ago

    Move on? No.

    The next 4 years are going to be awful. Your choices are pretty much to fight like hell to limit the damage to your community, tune it all out to protect yourself from the stress, or find a way out of the country, at least until after the next election (god willing).

  • mojo_raisin@lemmy.bestiver.se
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    17 hours ago

    Are people dumb enough to think our world is going to continue as it has, just keep making memes, move on? We done fucked up, there will be nothing to move on to.

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      16 hours ago

      Right? That was possibly the last election for president our country will hold. No, I can’t just move on from it.

      Like Biden will likely have to leave the country once he’s no longer president, along with his whole family. Taylor Swift might have to leave. Who knows what this raging narcissist will do.

      A man who will rape, which is sexual torture, doesnt care about you or your body except how it pleases him. Including killing you. We are very fucked. He will punish us until his narcissistic ego feels satiated.

      The US has the top military budget and nuclear weapons, which was just given to an open fascist who is clearly in the pocket of a foreign power, which has an interest in destroying our country.

      • Shark_Ra_Thanos@lemmy.ml
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        13 hours ago

        No. You and we all are too. Unless you Simpson the result this is it. The end. Go pic your damn last song for your and everyone’s life you got, maybe, 5 years left but I doubt that much.

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    No. No, we can’t “move on” from the election, because elections have consequences. We will never be able to “move on” because we will be continuously fucked by those consequences, in the ass with no lube, for the rest of our lives.

    Even if Trump and the GOP give up power and the US holds free and fair elections in four years, an absolute fuck-ton of permanent damage will have been done in the meantime.

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      There are so many things at stake, but people really don’t know how bad Trump’s supreme court has fucked the environment already. Getting the average voter to care about it won’t happen until it’s far too late. I try to just not think about it.

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      Like, what exactly? States are still moving forward with their climate change plans. The states who aren’t, have a very small impact and are largely canceled out by those who do. Deportations will likely go up, support for Ukraine will likely evaporate, but the impact to citizens inside of the US are largely unchanged. The economy isn’t going to change course, and we’ve been getting fucked in the ass with no lube by all of our administrations going back to Reagan. The ceiling isn’t falling, it’s been fallen for quite some time.

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    Can we just move on from the US 2024 election?

    Yeah sure. Just find someone who can put me in a medical coma, and I’ll ‘forget’ all about it.

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    “He was only stabbed 23 times on the floor of the senate. We need to move on … and then finish wiping up the floor.”

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        …between the branches of government, which the R’s just swept. Add in the fact that the supreme Court just gave the president criminal immunity if it’s “official” (a term they define), and who exactly is going to check and balance?

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        Yeah and the ONLY check and balance that stopped Trump from taking over on Jan 6th was MIKE PENCE and he is no longer an obstacle

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          He didn’t try to take over on Jan 6. He made some dumb remarks that a group took as attack the capital.

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            https://www.factcheck.org/2023/08/what-trump-asked-of-pence/

            “I think it’s important that the American people know what happened in the days before January 6,” Pence said. “President Trump demanded that I use my authority as vice president presiding over the count of the Electoral College to essentially overturn the election by returning or literally rejecting votes. I had no authority to do that.”

            For those who might doubt him, Pence urged them to “read the indictment.”

            Pence is featured prominently throughout the 45-page indictment, but there are seven and a half pages that specifically deal with “The Defendant’s [Trump’s] Attempts to Enlist the Vice President to Fraudulently Alter the Election Results at the January 6 Certification Proceeding.”

            Dec. 23, 2020: Trump retweeted (and later deleted) a memo titled “Operation ‘PENCE’ CARD,” which, the indictment states, “falsely asserted that the Vice President could, among other things, unilaterally disqualify legitimate electors from six targeted states.”

            “Pence then gavels President Trump as re-elected.”

            Dec. 25, 2020: When Pence called Trump to wish him a Merry Christmas, Trump requested that Pence reject electoral votes on Jan. 6. Pence responded, as he had in previous conversations, “You know I don’t think I have the authority to change the outcome.”

            There’s more, see the link. Go ahead, learn something. It won’t hurt ya

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        Which means it’s time to prepare. Get out of the states, change name/gender, try to minimize (ecological) contact with the USA etc.

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    As a Brazilian nervously watching the unfolding of a potentially global mess, I bring you the best Brazil can offer: memes! Here’s a pretty relatable one (Original cartoon from Maurício de Souza, Turma da Mônica)

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    That’s accurate to how I feel inside. GOP got it all. So nothing can really stop their agenda. Which sucks if you’re not white male.

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      judging by project 2025 they can stop their own agenda by not being able to agree what it is.

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        I thought the image would reflect the GOP right now. Instead here I am with egg on my face.

        Unfortunately, one thing with GOP is they may disagree but tend to fall in line.

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      Except that is not really true…

      Trump may not be in line with your political beliefs but somehow I doubt all of the crazy stuff I’ve heard said. He isn’t creating death camps or deporting democrats to Mexico.

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        Project 2025 is now in play. Abortion ban, porn ban, removal of federal employees who aren’t “loyal” enough. The only saving grace is that Republicans can’t govern for shit, so there’s going to be a lot of wasted time on infighting. Not enough, though, since a lot of it can be pushed through by the president alone.

        Oh! And the oldest, most conservative SCOTUS justices will retire, solidifying the conservative super-majority on the court for the next 20-40 years. The only way to change that is to change the makeup of the court, which requires a trifecta. So yes, it isn’t the end of the world, but it isn’t “no big deal” either.

        In order to undo the damage, we have to fundamentally change the Democrat Party to be just as far left as the Republicans have moved right. And that took them over a decade to accomplish (and they have the easier task, since big business wants both parties to move right).

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          In think the democrats moving far left is what caused them to lose at least in part. The swing voters are what matters. The Trump and Republican really pushed a down to Earth approach which resonated will a lot of people on the fence. Your hard core left and right are going to vote predictably.

          The good news is that the Democrat party will have plenty of time to think about it.

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    Attention everyone there was a major US election that took place 2 days ago resulting in Trump winning

    If you get on social media for the next month (probably more) you are going to see politics unless you filter it out or get off social media

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      Can we just accept reality and move on?

      What’s the worse thing that could happen? People are freaking out like the world is ending but we have had arguably worse presidents historically

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        When have we had someone with a worse agenda than Project 2025? When was the last time someone threatened to become a dictator in this country? When was the last time the president who advocates for the encampment of all “illegals” was given the house, senate, and courts, allowed to do whatever they wanted with their cult of personality following their every whim? What the fuck kind of presidents do you think we’ve had previously?!?

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    We can’t move on without a proper segue. How about politics+beans memes? I can’t imagine anyone would be unhappy with that.

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    Oh don’t worry. Many from Europe/Germany are focusing on our broken government right now.