US Election 2024

We are going to need more guns!!!!

Chicago: Doomsday prepping.

I've stopped caring. People voted for Trump. It's like they previously shit themselves, took a look in their nappy and then decided to roll around in it. They voted for Farage and I suspect will increasingly do so. Fuck them. Their choice, their consequence. Fuck people

Except it effects all of us.

FTFY

Sure it does. But, as I’ve said before, democracy never fails to disappoint. I accept I’m in the minority but I vote for the society I’d like to live in, not for what’s financially better for me (especially if it means demonising others). But I’m in a fortunate position and can be a bleeding heart liberal. And it turns out, my view of society is not shared by many.

We elected for the utter chaos of Brexit. The Americans have voted (again) for the dystopian chaos of Trump. His early cabinet picks demonstrate that he’s not messing around this time. I’m definitely not going to spend the next 4 years clutching my pearls. I’ve been doing that since 2016 and it just gets tiring and I’m getting too old.

Who knows, Trumps madness might just work. In India, they’ve given up on thousands of years of tolerance to buy into the economic “progress” under Modi. Great if you’re a straight, male Hindu. Not so much for anyone else, against whom violence and oppression is perfectly acceptable.

But it seems, like America, that the price of progress is freedom. And worse still, it’s being fuelled by young (often toxic and angry) men. So it looks like it’s here to stay for a while.

In less enlightened times, it might raise some comment that the guy who’s been put in charge of “cutting government waste” has remained a major shareholder and CEO of a number of businesses that rely on government subsidies. But fuck your conflicts of interests, I guess.

Both guys.. (Musk and Ramaswamy) and all their tech and biotech bro’s. Lots of people in my business are delighted because they know there will be less regulation and a repeal of the inflation reduction act meaning they will make more money. That’s all that matters, evidently.

Exactly where I'm at. Since the election I've completely stopped listening to my politics podcasts and reading the political forums. They shat their own bed and now the rest of us just have to avoid lying in it as much as possible.

I care because I live here. I have to put up with the fucknuts and luckily I live in a very blue area. It’s going to be rough and I expect my retirement money to take a fucking battering. It will not be pleasant. But, y’know guns…..

Chicago: Ready to hold my ground.

Edit: But at least the Onion bought Infowars.com so crazy shit will continue.

Yes. Of course. But young, toxic, angry men are a perfect and fertile audience.

Sadly that little slogan seems to be spreading.
There have been a few cases of lads in schools in the UK saying that to girls in their classes (and in other countries too I am being told, but I can't say that for sure) The growing number of Andrew Tate influenced male teens seem to find it really catchy and quite hilarious.
Just when we thought that having respect for women and treating them with a little more respect than the 'old days' where it was okay to pinch their arse, make lurid comments, and generally treat them no better than property, we seem to be fast taking turns back for the worst. Both with this and many other things this Election result will bring about (that I fear the UK will also eventually copy)
The teachers are trying to brush it off as just a joke, and maybe it is .. for now, but making these things okay to "joke" about can have a big impact on the overall attitude of teenage lads (along with the other influences like Tate and the likes)

So Trump has appointed Musk and Ramaswarmy to slash regulations. And he's appointed RFK Jr to Health, where he'll want to ban lots of stuff, which sounds an awful lot like he's going to be creating regulations. Now, obviously, Musk and Ramaswarmy will say they are cutting needless regulations and RFK is creating necessary ones but, obviously, someone in the past thought those "needless" ones were necessary.

Mrs Charlie has said for some time that attitudes towards women seem to be going backwards. In my view, some of the things expressed today would have been abhorrent to people of the same age in the 70s. It's similar to racism. Sometimes I can't believe the thoughts that are prevalent today, so many decades after I thought the Anti Nazi League and anti apartheid movements (I was active in both) had consigned them to history.

Yeah I know I'm old and ranting. But still.

The phrase "you couldn't make it up" may seem appropriate but would not be. I would not be surprised to see Judge Fish appointed any time

Yeah it’s a major problem. Time to get reaping… The problem in this country is that so called ‘Free speech’, trumps accountability. I would not be the least surprised if that fucker Fuentes gets what’s coming to him. Unfortunately the collateral damage has already been done. The woman who discovered his house has already been swatted and harrassed (she’s Jewish) and women (especially the younger ones), are now in high alert even in a reasonably civilised city like Chicago.

This country can be very vile due to the freedom to say what you want. Accountability used to be to cancel someone or that person to lose their job. Now people seem to be profiting from it.

As I said… some of these people have what’s coming to them.. pity it’s a little late.

Chicago: Going vigilante?

I just... I don't know. I can't even.

www.reuters.com/world/us/muslims-who-voted-trump-upset-by-his-pro-israel-cabinet-picks-2024-11-15/

To be fair, they thought Trump was lying which is a reasonable stance.

I can see the argument that "I can't vote for a genocide" but I cannot be doing with "Trump is better for Gaza"