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[–] Shardikprime 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Wow. And this guy was everyone's hope?

[–] PenguinMage 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It was him or orange Hitler 2. Which funny enough we get again! There was just a pause for the sequel.

[–] Shardikprime -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So the hope you all had was sorely misdirected then.

Don't worry tho, everyone here will find justification to vote them, again.

[–] PenguinMage 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Misdirected? No, the respite was good for the country overall. Could it have been better? Of course, but you've got to work with what you've got. Hopefully it's not immediately burned to the ground.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Was it? It helped things a bit in the short term, but it also gave them 4 years to come up with a new game plan. Project 2025 is very concerning

Conversely, if we were just getting out of 4 more years of Trump things would be worse, but we might've had the oomph to push for important issues for once

[–] PenguinMage 1 points 1 day ago

Honestly don't believe we'd be getting out of a trump term if he'd have won a 2nd back to back. The attempted insurrection proves how little that group cares for law or order. I'm hoping that there will be more resistance to his vitriol this go around. But if not sadly it's my neices & nephews problems really, my time is just spent hoping there's a world left for them.

[–] zib 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This guy was the best option we were given and we were told we should be happy to have even that. It's no wonder so many of us are at our breaking point.

[–] Shardikprime 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah repeating mistakes over and over will do that