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vestan

#REFANTAZIO SWEEP
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Dec 28, 2017
26,292
My reaction to this information:
RFK Jr. being the next Secretary of Health. I'm actually laughing. The man with literal parasitic brain worms is getting a cabinet position in charge of America's health. This sounds so completely ludicrous but it's what's going to happen. This is reality. My god dude.
 

MasterYoshi

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Oct 27, 2017
11,597
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Tagyhag

Member
Oct 27, 2017
13,858
I really REALLY want to see a post-mortem on this election, what exactly happened and how could the polls be super wrong AGAIN
 

hordak

Member
Oct 31, 2017
2,696
Anaheim, CA
This country is sexist and racist and bigoted and stupid as hell. To fall for a convicted sex offender who lies 24/7 and can't form a coherent paragraph. TWICE.
 

Clefargle

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
14,231
Limburg
GGs we had a good run 😂

But legit this is awful and signals a rightward shift in the country I could definitely feel without seeing it explicitly until now
 
Oct 25, 2017
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I've been thinking about what to say for what feels like the past hour and I keep coming back to

Americans are fucking stupid and I can't even pretend to be surprised
 

ShotyMcFat

Member
Oct 29, 2017
498
Australia
Hey democrats how about actually fixing the economy instead of sucking up to your donors.

Kamala's poll numbers went up when she had decent policies and then they went down when we backpedaled on them because they upset the donors

You can call trump a threat to democracy, democracy has been under constant attack by corporations for decades. Let's not forget that the democrats refuse to allow a primary to elect a better candidate so they could force Biden and then Kamala down our throats.
 

Philippo

Developer
Verified
Oct 28, 2017
8,348
At loss of words.
Not American, but very sorry for any progressive, foreign, trans, gay person in the US.
Extremely afraid of the ripple effects this will have on the whole world (Palestine, Ukraine, Asia, Elon Musk unmitigated influence, other populist movements across the world...). I feel this is a very scary and dark defining moment in our timeline.
 

Thordinson

Banned
Aug 1, 2018
19,616
I really REALLY want to see a post-mortem on this election, what exactly happened and how could the polls be super wrong AGAIN

Polls weren't that wrong. It was close where they said it would be.

Folks talked about not diving into crosstabs because they were all messed up showing young men voting for Trump and minorities voting for him at unheard of rates. Turns out, the crosstabs were right.
 

Besiktas

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Sep 2, 2024
255
Congrulations I guess. I think it's time for democrats to wake the fuck up from their echo chamber media and try to understand what people that don't vote for them want. Instead of calling them names and insults. In the end politics is a game of manipulation.

It's like they are so out of touch and try to alienate half of population.