I’m so fucking worried about the election this year. If Harris wins, trump is not going to accept the results and I expect many isolated violent acts.
If trump wins, I believe things are going to get very ugly when his goons start rounding up a bunch of brown and black people for deportation.
I’m worried sick and I’m pissed off. I’m pissed that we are in this situation. The worst part is that I don’t even really know who exactly to be pissed at. Who should have protected us from the threat that I sincerely believe trump is. I believe trump has been a fairly obvious criminal his entire adult life with regards to his financial dealings and his taxes. And then there are the events that took place on January 6th and all of the stolen documents. I feel completely let down by the people who should have done their jobs and protected us.
I think, and hope, that TPTB learned their lesson from 1/6/21 and will surround the Capitol Building with impenetrable securtiy. I would fear self-appointed “election monitors” to show up at polling places to try to intimidate voters, but it’s not going to happen at my polling place: this county is so deeply red that I seriously doubt that haters are concerned about election fraud here. It may happen elsewhere in the country, but it won’t be happening where I vote.
If Kamala wins, I expect Trump to file lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit, as he did in 2020/2021, and I expect the same result: they go nowhere. There will almost certainly be a lot of bluster, a lot of weeping and gnashing of teeth, but other than that, Much Ado About Not A Lot, as my grandfather used to say. HOPEFULLY, this will mark the last we ever hear from Donald John Trump. But I’m not getting my hopes up.
If Trump wins … well, I prefer not to think about that.
We just got home from my MIL’s house. Hers is a huge home with a big yard on a busy street. She ordered Harris/Walz signs, but needed help putting them up so we did.
Got a few beeps and thumbs ups. Felt good.
I’m staying upbeat. My gf participated in a voter registration drive in Pittsburgh to take advantage of college students moving in to Pitt dorms. Hoping everyone pulls together for Harris/Walz.
I feel you. We live in a very red area of a blue state (Oregon).
My wife, who up to this point has been anti-gun and only tolerated my safe full of old pistols, said recently that she thought I should go out and buy a long gun, or two.
I am now in possession of a Mossberg 590S (12 gauge pump) and a Ruger American 2.0 rifle in 300 blackout.
If everything is calm after the election i may well sell the rifle.
I’ll probably keep the shotgun.
My biggest fear is of republican election officials in various states ‘cooking the books’ on election results to get their cult leader back into the white house.
I’m hoping that all the voters who stayed home the last time, assuming Clinton had it in the bag, won’t make that same mistake this time around. I know women voters will turn out, but I don’t have the same faith in students and young people in general, even though their futures are at stake. The right has done all they can to discourage voting and to disenfranchise people they don’t like, but hopefully it won’t swing the vote.
Honestly, I’m really hoping for a major cardiac event before election day. I’ll spring for the champagne.
I am dreading it, too. I remember vividly how in 2016 I watched the returns at my neighbor’s house and finally left to go home to bed when it was looking really, really bad. When I woke up later that morning and looked at my phone, my heart sank. I remember also reading commentaries and talking to people in the days and weeks after. We were avoiding the news, because we couldn’t bear it. Even the esteemed (and my personal hero) Paul Krugman said in his column that he avoided the news in those first few days. It was like reading the post mortem of your loved one.
And then when Biden was elected, we thought we were home free… well, we hoped the worst was behind us anyway. I never want to wake up and hear Donald Trump has been elected president again. I will never forget that feeling. Some may think I’m exaggerating, but the only other time I felt that awful was the day after my husband died. I woke up that next morning and for a split second, it was okay, then the reality of his death landed on my chest like a building collapsing on me. That is exactly the feeling I had waking up after the 2016 election.
And it has turned out to be a million times worse than we ever imagined it would be. Trump has turned out to be the bottom-feeding, predatory, lying piece of pond slime that we couldn’t have imagined in November 2016. And somehow he keeps on getting worse.
“Give him a chance! He won’t be that bad. He’ll start behaving like a president any minute now. Look, he has surrounded himself with really smart people.”
Some of us knew better.
AND WE’RE STILL DEALING WITH HIM ALL DAY EVERY FUCKING DAY.
We won’t be through with him until he is dead. As @HeyHomie said above, even if Kamala wins, Trump is going to keep on suing and ranting until he is on his deathbed. That is the only thing that will shut him up.
This X 1,000!
The Republicans don’t care about law or regulations–they want their boy in the White House and will do anything to get him there.
Remember the disputed election of 2000 when Al Gore graciously conceded to G.W. Bush. HA! No such civility or gentlemanly (excuse the expression) behavior exists any more.
I don’t think there’s any rational reason to expect this. Trump supporters aren’t courageous enough to do this, and I don’t think they’ll be as motivated as they were in 2020, after seeing all the Jan 6 people in prison and now Trump yelling about election fraud is just a boring cliche.
The only significant violence happened at Trump’s personal direction and with the coordination of multiple alt right groups. We didn’t have acts of violence everywhere and we won’t this time.
If Harris wins, celebrate. No need to punish yourself for no reason by being paranoid and not letting yourself enjoy the victory.
If Trump wins, that’s a whole other story. We’re going to have some bad times ahead.
If you ever decide to head to central NC, you’d be welcome here. We’re quite blue, along with the northeastern part of the state, despite it’s ruralness.
My last foray into Florida, I let a black woman in a hurry check out before me. Common courtesy. The cashier then chided me for “treating them like they was white”.
Earlier that year in Hilton Head I saw a parade protesting taking down the confederate flag from the capital. Truck after truck with flags, yelling racial epithets.
I’ll send you some boiled peanuts. Of course canned ain’t as good as the store made ones. But they are edible.
I’m slightly concerned. Not for me. I think I’m safe enough.
I worry about the college the Lil’wrekker and Hamza work at.
I worry about the grandkids schools.
My daughter told me one guy picks his kid up in a big Trumped out truck and tries to pass out stickers at the pick up line. The school doesn’t see fit to stop it.
That’s crazy! I used to live in Conway, South Carolina in the 1980s and it felt like another country sometimes.
I’ve been to Florida, Arkansas, Texas and South Carolina in the late 2010s but witnessed some unnerving things and just didn’t want to spend my vacation money there any longer.
I’m nervous, but at least whatever happens, it’ll be over, and I can deal with actual consequences instead of suspense and speculation, regardless of those here and elsewhere who seem to be trying to convince people that nothing will matter ever if Trump wins.
I tend to be blase by many isolated violent acts when they are dwarfed by unpublicized tragedies, some mundane others not. It it bleeds it leads, but this week in mayhem usually is neither especially representative nor incredibly important in a relative sense.
If Kamala Harris wins, I’ll breathe a sigh of relief. But then again there’s a 10% chance of contested election: that won’t be fun.
ETA: Nate Silver’s probability of "Recount (1+ decisive states within 0.5 ppt) " is 10%.