I woke up today with the same feeling I had after my dad suddenly passed a long time ago. You wake up and you haven’t forgotten what happened but you’re still kind of struggling to accept the fact you’re not dreaming or something. In my life I’ve only ever had this feeling when something really horrible happened. This is the first time I have experienced it when something good happened.
I am of course skeptical of a joe presidency and what good can actually be done. If it’s not too late to fix some things. But, Trumpism has been firmly repudiated by the majority of our country. It feels like the machines lost. Emperor palpatine blew up. Thanos is defeated. The good guys won for once.
I am sorry for the overwhelming pessimism I had going into this election. I was firmly and completely braced for 4 more years of this insanity. I feel like someone just gave me 4 years of life I didn’t think I was gonna get.
I had the weirdest physical reaction to the news breaking yesterday. My heartrate shot up to 130 and my bp was around 160/100. It held there for like 3 hours and I felt like I was gonna have to go to the hospital. I don’t know why this stuff affects me so much but trump has cost me a lot over these years. The fact it could be over just sent my body into full overdrive.
Why were republicans too brainwashed to mail in vote? If you have a job that might make it hard to vote, not voting early or mailing in makes you stupid, lazy or Republican.
I feel these measures become harder to implement to roll back after massive record turnout for both sides.
Not saying it won’t happen, just that the level of friction is going to be extremely high. Plus with all the screaming of “fraud” and then no evidence, just going to become more difficult for them.
It’s not like anyone is preventing them from presenting fraud evidence right now.
They will absolutely ramp up the voter suppression, but also the cats out of the bag in the sense that democrats can win there so I think it’ll still be competitive going forward.
I don’t know that there’s really a great option to ramp up the suppression for the special. Mail-in ballots can be requested starting in like 10 days from now.
Unless you guys mean for future general elections. Which they will try, of course. Because the R’s will always try that, always and forever.
Yeah I figured but I did want to point out how absurd herd immunity is…I know you and nobody here is going for herd immunity, but worth pointing out from time to time how hard it is and how much further we have to go and how long this pandemic will last if we don’t find a way to control it.
I’ve been trying to get the hardcore evangelical take to all of this and the first dozen post sampling yielded this one posted COMPLETELY unironically:
