— Mary Trump
How did this con artist do it again? Is half the country as crazy as he is, or just so desperate they believe he can “fix it”?
Nothing to do but move on and hope for the best. Soon enough they’ll remember why they fired him. Because the only problems he’s going to fix are his own.
As I said before this thread arose, “Well fuck. What a ride we’re in for.”
it’s going to be as if you handed over the greatest empire in history to the mafia
they’ll loot the middle class with their deregulated capitalism and it will never have the means to reassert itself politically
just sold the US to a South African
We’re just in the grip of a demagogue and his mob until we figure out what to do.
flee if you can
keep your head down if you can’t
support the vulnerable if you have the means, emotionally or otherwise
Blink
That’s another consideration. How much will the apartheid lover scam from the Treasury now that X (formerly bird beak) paved the yellow brick road for the Florida Faker.
There is one little thing that is still out there, the guy is nuts, he is rapidly crashing following his parents degradation. How long will the body stay above room temperature? If he does make it to inauguration, how dire will his version of a universe be this time around? And, how long until the palace coup and twenty-fifth amendment time?
it makes me not want to be liberal when the people for whom i’m speaking out won’t even stand up for themselves
…and generalizations aren’t perfectly applicable to a society that is 51%-49% but fuck it
hey good news though, left-of-center thought will be outlawed, formally or by peer-pressure, so i won’t have to choose
The folks over on threads are thoroughly miserable as well.
For the record, at this hour he is at 267 electoral votes with Pennsylvania called for him. While AP has not yet called Wisconsin, the New York Times reports that “the remaining absentee ballots are not likely to be sufficient for Harris to overcome Trump’s advantage in the state”.
dumb rust-belters, i didn’t leave it because the people are too charming
broad swaths of miserable pricks
Can i change my birth certificate to another state, i mean can my friend
Speaking of the 25th Amendment, BB, don’t you know JD Vance has it memorized
neither Biden nor Kamala can even build bulwarks if the nazis have total control
…and the electorate gave it to them!
it’s over
Ivanka and Jared suddenly showed up tonight after skipping the campaign
guess i’d better get used to saluting those people
or bowing before them, whatever they mandate
you think these are jokes
Stuart Stevens
demoralized… Shaky hands holding coffee cups in Kiev right now…Un and Putin grinning and rubbing hands together in glee as their puppet has been revived. Lawrence O.D. said no tariffs will happen, no thug appointments to Cabinet slots. But Kennedy will be there stopping vaccinations and fluoride adding. And then there is age. Trump will likely pass from old age soon and then we get the asshole who called our Vice President “ garbage “. We won’t forget.
I am of an age where this may be my last election. And it is horrible. Nothing to do about it either except to watchdog this fascist bastard WhoreHopper kill us slowly.
everybody’s at an age where this might be their last election
i suppose they’ll have rigged Russian-style ones maybe
Project 2025 is happening wtf
Alright, Mr. C, you did good this season. We all did, this country just isn’t what we thought it could be
Anyway, thanks for the forum
Ukrainian soldiers must be freaking out.
Thanks Bink, glad you were on the ride
Biden should spend the next two months sending Ukraine every weapon in the arsenal. He has Presidential “immunity” and there are a lot of actions to do.
The great Jon Ralston, guru of Nevada politics:
I feel terrible about Sherrod Brown. Ohiosucks
A senate full of Tommy Tubervilles
Nevada reverting to type. It had segregated housing until almost 1970.
don’t let it be forgot
that once there was a spot
for one brief shining moment
that was known as Kamala-lot
NBC just declared Wisconsin, and the presidency for Trump
So far the Germans have the most sad comments. The next are most of the countries the Soviets had destroyed. Ukraine included. A lot of “how could Americans vote for a fascist”.
It really is like people consciously decided to junk Democracy
…vacillating between denial and anger
it’s going to be a long day
ACA gone
Federal employment protections, over
Unions? goodbye
Predatory business practices will be rife, consumer protections nonexistent
Federal woodlands? Go see them while you can
i don’t even know what to tell LGBT people
“Donald Trump understands the American people better than we do. Anger and fear worked better than appealing to the better angels of our nature” — Claire McCaskill
Fear yes, anger no. The trumpers i know have nothing to be angry about, they’re just racist
Here’s your lesson, Democrats, if you ever have the chance to legitimately oppose Republicans electorally, again
A majority Americans only give a fuck about themselves, full stop
Appeals to compassion do not work
A majority of Americans are not compassionate, despite whatever Jesus bullshit they’ll say this holiday season
…and i don’t resent Democrats for trying to build the kind of society i want to see, i resent Republicans for undermining every single effort towards it
“Is this death? It feels different than the last time.”
-Fifth Doctor
Adding insult to the day, a local radio station played a Christmas song. My preference for anything this morning would be a funeral dirge.
where does JD and all his high-tech billionaire friends fit into all this? the cult king’s reign may not be a long one.
donald’s age/health (and actuarial forecasts for same) portend a shortened term for JD as VP and a likely ascendency to power to say nothing of more probable attempts by others to helpfully hasten the change via the 25th amdt or dastardly deeds.
from the Atlantic today Democracy Is Not Over
1776 – 2024
Aggrieved fascists have complete control of the Federal government, yeah it is
bink, not ’til jan 1. uncle joe is still in power.
Biden has Presidential immunity. He should do “whatever the hrll he wants,” and then make Kamala “President for Life” before January 20th.
I’ve never wanted to move to Denmark so badly in my life…except that it’s closer to Russia. Canada, get ready.
Christmas is cancelled. Hoard canned goods while shelves are stocked. This is the beginning of the end and I only wish I were older so there’d be less chance I’d be around to see Project 2025 unfold.
Love ya, patd, there’s no positive spin on this. Worst-case scenario
Latinos, you’re first in the barrel, LGBTQ community not far behind
i think they control enough states to amend the Constitution, it’s so over
Americans: Look at yourself in the mirror. Now, look at your financial statement. If you are not a billionaire, a male, white, and blue-eyed, the next administration will crush you. There is a hierarchy and most of the mouth-breathers who voted for MAGAts are low on the list, they just don’t know it yet.
patD – I think the bright side would be an asteroid wiping out all human life on Earth before noon on January 20, 2025.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/06/politics/what-happens-to-trump-criminal-cases/index.html
“Judge Juan Merchan has given himself a November 12 deadline to decide whether to wipe away the conviction because of the Supreme Court’s decision this summer granting a president some presidential immunity. If Merchan does that, the charges would be dismissed, and Trump would not be sentenced.”
I don’t feel like going silently into a fascist state. I feel like protesting. Yeah, the National Guard will probably turn their guns on us, but then I can haunt them all from the other side, if there is one.
Basically our fellow Americans chose cheap bacon over Democracy. That’s how Democracy dies.
“Do whatever you want.” Ethnic cleansing is what Netanyahu wants. Trump will greenlight this by supplying the IDF with enough weapons to annihilate every human still living in all of Gaza. This was my main issue of this campaign. The last time the media reported, 43,000 civilians had been murdered by Netanyahu in Gaza. It’s surely more by now. Harris had promised to at least work for a ceasefire. Trump has simply lit the fuse for purely unmitigated genocide. Part of the oncoming genocide is on the backs of the Trump sycophants.
More women have been sentenced to death by septic miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies.
More children will become orphans because their mothers couldn’t get reproductive care.
More children will go hungry because their SNAP benefits were cut.
Americans who voted for MAGAts aren’t pro life, they aren’t just weird, they are thoughtless and cruel.
Liz Cheney
gee thanks Liz
i guess she needs to cover her ass because trump’s coming for her
Fuck it, resign President Biden, this afternoon, it’s the only way this country ever gets a female President
Madame VP, i have grown to like you a lot and really wanted you to be my President, you ran a great campaign, but it’s over, use your presidential immunity when you get it
What the hell you can do with it with a republican congress, i dunno. Ask those ivy-leaguers working with you 🤷♂️
Never estimate the American people. (not a typo)
Maybe I can learn astral projection so I can harass MAGAts while I sleep. Like passive income, but with retribution.
Seniors: this economy is already very scammy, and with no consumer protections, it will be even worse. Please be very wary of online scams via email and text, especially anything with a corporate letterhead
When in doubt, find the youngest person you know to help you
Yeah… I guess all that price gouging worked….
Rick and I are older and we’ll be fine… but I grieve for my nephew and nieces and grandnephews and grandnieces.
Biden should have stacked the SC while he had the chance. I do hope he at least pardons Hunter… all that rule of law stuff is out the window.
trump can just call on mobs now with a promise of pardon, no repercussions
which is what Putin does
today’s meme… curtesy of Jamie and Dex…
A friend writes pretty much what I feel:
Maureen Dowd is saying we have to accept that a lot of Americans want Trump in charge. No, I do not have to accept that any more than good Germans had to accept that their fellow citizens elected Hitler who eventually brought their country to ruin. There are some people who will have my sympathy and empathy when the worst he can do happens to them. But others who think they will remain protected and safe, I will not pity. But I will grieve as I have for the last four years.
Craig…. exactly what Rick and I were saying while eating breakfast…
Larry Sabato
Any pardons Joe issues will not be worth anything.
I’ve felt disappointed before, but this is another level of it. My voting experience yesterday was basically a test where I got every answer wrong.
Rick and I feel this way…
You got every answer right, Corey
Trump won Latino men by 10 points, looks like the first time ever a Republican has won a majority.
As people said yesterday, “Good luck America on your IQ test today.”
There’s a consequence to gutting public education to fund private schools
but hey, that’s what the people want!
I still haven’t heard how he plans to deport these large numbers of people he has designs on. Is he going commandeer a fleet of cruise ships and send them out to sea with no point of return like the Nazis did?
Britain was or still is flying immigrants to Rwanda and just leaving them there if that’s any guide
Perhaps the demographic shocker of the night, similar numbers everywhere…
Allentown, PA (54% Hispanic)
2016: D+41
2020: D+35
2024: D+23
Hazleton, PA (62% Hispanic)
2016: D+5
2020: R+11
2024: R+25
Maybe he will decide to keep them since they voted for him?
This exit poll data is wild:
White men, white women, Black men, Black women, Latina women ALL tracking their 2020 numbers very closely.
Except Latino men,
2020: Biden 59%, Trump 36%
2024: Harris 45%, Trump 53%
A HUGE shift from D+23 to R+8
like i told my friend this morning, 80% of men and %50 of women hate women
i don’t know if that’s cultural or a trait of the species
apparently cross-cultural at least eh
Sorry, using my free-speech while i got it
Well, Wallstreet is happy Looks like I’ve earned a years income in a day. My play around in the stock market, roth account is up 7% I have several regional banks in that account and one of them is up 10%. Some irrational stuff going on in the stock market today. First sign I’ve seen that maybe we are coming to a frothy top in the market. To be expected as my conservative account is up 26% for the year.
Jack
Latino men voters have to be citizens by definition. They must not want their fellows coming in after them to take their jobs. I dunno. More will be revealed?
Good thing we got rid of Joe……We could have REALLY lost had he remained the candidate. Guess I’ll just add this one to the list.
Just another case of democrats attacking the guy who acyuallly got them to the dance and then boldly matching to defeat.
Jack, we’re all devastated. No one cares how much money you made today
what you’re doing is called “toxic positivity” and that’s when someone trivializes someone else’s hardship by expressing inane positivity
How does one keep their peace when Orange Adolf’s policies/Project 2025 will infiltrate every corner of life?
Last night, racism won, misogyny won, and greed won. Freedom, democracy, civil rights are gone. Democracies around the world will crumble, as ours did last night.
Latino men must be more misogynistic than they are smart. Citizenship means nothing when you don’t look white, or when your last name isn’t O’McSmithSon. The fascists will go after everyone but rich, white, straight men. Everyone else will lose something. Everyone.
Be rich and own property is how
We live in Russia now, we’ll have actual Russians soon, on expedited visas
Russians fucking suck, y’all, theirs is an amoral culture
Remember way back when musk bought and started the destruction of twitter? A result was the creation or expansion of several social media sites. Mindly, Blue Sky and Threads survive. There is a large migration from twit to BlueSky going on. Mindly is still doing well, I think BlueSky is of the same universe (maybe). Threads I have not used in months (note to self – check it out).
Now that twit is officially a function of the future reign it is time to wrap up the gear and move.
JD said “we’ll never stop fighting for you”
They control government, so who they gonna fight?
Us.
Are the fascists going to go after anyone registered as a Dem?
They’ll just legalize discrimination and let employers do it for them
Red wave is an understatement. Up with every group except 65+ and White college women
Bink
I’m living in the real world. I posted an observation from real life and the fact that you found it offensive says more about the debacle the Democrats suffered than anything I can add.
Oh and your “hardship” whine is almost as over the top as what the stock market is doing. And yeah, I know you don’t get that one either.
Jack
Sturg, poor Joe’s “garbage” and “lock him up” gaffes in closing days hurt a lot and shows he wasn’t up to it. I fault him for running for reelection in the first place, depriving party of a vigorous nomination process that might have yielded a stronger candidate, or a more road-tested Kamala.
oh is that what it says? You called the election two days ago for Harris so don’t pretend i suffer from some unique delusion. Be a fucking bro, we’re in pain
oh and by the way i NEVER made that call because i know exactly what world i live in. i dared to hope
“I fault him for running for reelection in the first place”
ditto
in Biden’s defense, he turned a cognitive corner really quickly after he declared his candidacy for reelection but before the primaries
“latinx”
Says it all.
Jack
Harris ran the perfect campaign but even the main focus on abortion could not create a sea-change tall enough to get the needed voters. In the end, the record stock market closing highs did not filter down to paychecks enough to let voters say the economy is just great. Every rural county went for the rapist 34 times convicted felon who now must end the Ukraine war in 24 hours or be forced to answer. He’ll be responsible for massive deadly measles, mumps, Covid19, flu outbreaks as Kennedy shuts down all vaccines. Tomatoes will rot in fields, who will harvest the southern border agricultural fields that feed us? All the workers will be in kamps or deported forever.Are we in the jackpot ? We are in the jackpot.
Do the Democrats even have a national candidate that can win. Certainly we have proved no woman can and all the centrist candidates will be marginalized during the primary process. While I agree Biden should have planned for a one term, I don’t think the Democrats know how to field a winning team. They are getting their butts kicked nationwide.
Jack
Dex – Yep. As Orange Adolf said, “It’s going to be a bloodbath.”
Most of my family is going to be shocked when sh/t starts rolling down on them.
We live in a white-supremacist patriarchy, and always did, some people tried to change it for 60 years, almost exactly that long, and have failed
it’s not 248 years, it’s 60 years
if you want to go back to 1865 and say it’s 159 years i won’t argue with you
Joe shoulda, Joe coulda, Joe woulda, but attacking your incumbent who won is never good form. And usually (checking my list) results in loss.
I don’t intend to bang on this drum for the next 4 years, I assure you…..but facts is facts and a main fact is if you attack your own guy, you lose.
QED
I still blame Mitch. He could’ve averted this train wreck if he had any morals other than greed and had done his job. We might’ve still ended up with a Republican President but maybe not the worst one in history.
i respectfully reject your premise that Biden would have performed better, he was polling in the high %30’s when he dropped out, personally i supported him until he did cuz i really tried being a team-player because i knew the stakes (and so did all of you of course)
i’m blaming no one but voters
We’ll never know how Biden would have fared.
And my premise has history.
But it is not at all like any of all that matters at this point….im sure that everyone did the best they could do.
if a senile old man is more electable than a qualified woman, then progressivism is dead anyway
Sturge,
You don’t distance yourself from a president who is presiding over a stock market that is up 20% yoy. ” We are not going back” should have been her campaign slogan not “a new way forward”. You don’t tell them you are going to do some new experiment shit when things are going gang busters. You run on more of the same only better.
Jack
If the thing would have been thrown into an emergency early convention and a candidate would have emerged via that process, we could have had Josh Shapiro beating Trump to a pulp. Now we must wait a couple years until the campaign heats up once again, and Shapiro becomes POTUS. I got behind the Harris-Walz ticket immediately but oh hell, that didn’t work, and “Monday morning quarterbacking” is all we have to soothe our kicked asses. I am just miserable right now. We really needed Kamala Harris to be elected. Now , the oars are overboard and the rudder is wacked out. Stuck. We are careening to starboard.
It turns out that a senile old man was more electable than a qualified woman.
if yous wanna play “i told you so”, Craig and i vouched for general poll accuracy, and all the swing state polls were remarkably so, so i just don’t believe that Biden was going to turn around a %15+ deficit at which he was when he dropped out, he got COVID in the meantime and gaffed anytime he made an appearance
i’ll agree we can’t know for sure but only in a philosophic sense
it’s all moot, i have to figure out how to navigate this new reality and support my loved ones, some of whom are very vulnerable
if anyone’s campaign post-mortems are of a mind that there will be free and fair elections in the future in which Democrats can succeed, then i suspect i’m not the only one guilty of self-delusion
…and i’ve already seen some shit today from enabled trump zealots
Looking at yesterday’s stats I divide his vote into three groups: MAGAt cult followers, people just not paying attention and want cheap bacon, and people who think he’s just kidding
Nah, I said what I said and now I’m done with it, and I know you guys were just following your best thoughts. Like that meme above somewhere, after 7 decades of watching this horrible roller coaster of politics I’m just done with it all, and wish nothing but good luck to follow us all. And now I must prepare for what I assume will be Act 5, until exeunt Sturgeone.
I bear ill-will to no one. You’re all a bunch of great cats.
Always a pleasure, Mr. S, sincerely 🫡
Thanks for having my back when no one else did and always keeping your humor, it means a lot
Cheap bacon mostly, perhaps.
I have not been so miserable on a November 6 since this date in 1970. Then my immediate future was to be on a plane ride to a war zone for a year , in just 3 days from that date.
Today my…our…future is to live under a dictator sprung upon us by our own people, our neighbors, who prefer a rapist 34-count felon over a woman, and oh my! … a woman of COLOR! Oh NO!
So they gave us a tyrant liar who has not already ended the Ukraine war like he promised….OK…I know, wait until January 20 for that. HA ! Not gonna happen. Trump has told Netanyahu that full-on genocide is fine with Trump, “anything you want”, in regards to sending USA rockets to kill innocent Palestinians. Only a handful of Americans seem to even give a shit about genocide in Gaza.
So Trump, Netanyahu, all sycophants, go to hell.
Midterms? 2028? Folks, there will never be another fair election. Democracy is dead. Any election in the future will just be drag.
I wonder if this will kill American tourism? Maybe rich Saudis and Russians will want to visit/gloat at our demise.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2024/11/06/will-apophis-hit-earth-in-2029-well-know-in-2027-scientist-says/
“Will ‘Apophis’ Hit Earth In 2029? We’ll Know In 2027, Scientist Says”
“Apophis is in the daytime sky and unobservable from mid-2021 to 2027,” Paul Wiegert, meaning any change in its trajectory will go unseen unitl just two years before April 12, 2029. However, he adds that a single observation during 2027 would be necessary to determine whether the asteroid threatened “an impending Earth impact.”
Yes, my silver lining is direct impact from an asteroid.
Thank you Craig Crawford for navigating your public blog for us along the long trip of a strange campaign. You put in good work, hard work, and hard work is good work. That’s what she said. Now I am off to a spot along the mighty Maumee River to watch the water a while and contemplate my next move. Right now I feel empty . Coffee doesn’t even sound good and my Wild Turkey 101 days are long gone, since 41 was President. I shall have a slice of cheesecake with strawberry topping. Then march on, pushing my rollator. Fun stuff.
Dex, thanks. Always enjoy seeing you in the hood
And so it begins…
NBC News: DoJ officials are evaluating how to wind down the two federal criminal cases against Donald Trump before he takes office to comply with longstanding department policy that a sitting president can’t be prosecuted, per sources.
I guess all those documents stored next to the potty are his again.
Jack Smith to leave special counsel post before Trump takes office: report https://www.rawstory.com/jack-smith-trump-victory-gone/
So with little rfk, we’re going back to the 15 teeth or less lines at Walmart.
As the dust begins to settle I’m thinking RESISTANCE can be a theme for Trail Mix. For every Dictator there is a resistance movement. Developing. Ideas welcome
support group
resistance is futile
you know how TX has bounties for private citizens to report women seeking reproductive care? They’ll do that for criticizing the regime
We know how autocratic regimes operate
AI is already capable of doxxing people, that technology is only improving, just so y’all are aware
and i’m not trying to chill speech i’m trying to protect you
“Harris concedes: The vice president called the president-elect to offer her congratulations on Wednesday. Harris will deliver remarks at 4 p.m. ET at Howard University, a source familiar with the plans tells CNN.”
Harris was amazing. She did a lot in 108 days. She could not grow a penis, though. The nasty, little incels and tech bros, helped by white supremacists in Christian drag, financed by billionaires with no conscience, they have killed democracy.
They only had to vote for him this time. There will be no point in ever voting, again. We will have fake elections like in Russia.
BID
That should be on a very big billboard.
You did good, too, this season, BiD. i don’t think i disagreed with anything you said all year.
“… I’m thinking RESISTANCE can be a theme for Trail Mix. “
craig, as long as you don’t add a “The” to it.
Keith O beat you to it a few years back.
https://apnews.com/article/central-park-five-exonerated-donald-trump-lawsuit-harris-6d7cfa4e5d117fb653d83555423b35f9
“Central Park Five sue Donald Trump for jogger case remarks made at presidential debate”
Another case that won’t matter.
President Biden needs to do whatever he wants and tag it with a ‘no backsides’ so tRUMPsky can’t undo it. Better yet, just don’t leave, Joe. Or, tap out and make Harris the President. That might actually be a good thing, because then there will have been a female POTUS, once upon a time.
Hey, Nancy Pelosi! We need chess moves!
how will our future Trail sally forth?
per dylan t’s
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
or ts e’s
not with a bang but a whimper
Craig,
I think this could become a place to point out every Trump et al action that injures the citizens.
Just keep pounding on him daily as the event occur.
Nancy’s done, BiD, replacing Biden was her chess move
if you think we’re demoralized, imagine an 80 year old woman who just had her life’s work go up in smoke after her husband was almost murdered by a trump zealot who was looking for her
New Thread
i’ll stay out of it. Best wishes, all
I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.