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It's difficult. You don't work, you may not be able to feed your family. They're already detaining immigrants, and who knows what they'll do with political enemies. The riots are coming, but I suspect they won't come until the screws are tightened more. I heard there are going to be protests at every state capital this week. That's something.

Some polling places were closed, forcing those people to vote elsewhere. Not everyone can wait in long lines for hours. There were disinformation campaigns about vote by mail and many people were worried those votes wouldn't be counted because of it. I don't know if I heard confirmation it occurred on election day, but I read news stories about voter intimidation because of groups of armed men. They employed tons of tactics to suppress voting.

If you suppress everyone who disagrees with you from voting, of course you're going to win the popular vote.

Did he technically win the popular vote and the general election, yes, it appears he did, but 51% or more of people who could have voted did not support this shit. Not to mention he lied. He lied. Yes, he said he'd do some of this, but he also said he'd bring down the price of groceries, make better health care, and make America great again (firing thousands of government employees who did nothing wrong is not making anything great). He has no intention of bringing down grocery prices or fixing health care. He's getting rid of competent people and replacing them with loyalists.

Does that make it all of America's fault? If they make the rules and then win ONLY because of the rules, that doesn't make it everyone's fault. It makes it the fault of the people who made the rules. Don't be obtuse. They want everyone to blame everyone else instead of blaming them. We have to come together or this shit will destroy civilization.

No, if the election was fair, he would have lost. In fact, he would probably be in jail by now. The Republicans have been disenfranchising people for decades including by passing laws and limiting access to voting, there's heavy gerrymandering, disinformation campaigns, etc., etc.

The results of the election are not based on a fair election. Some people actively voted for this, either because they're bad people or willfully ignorant, but many people couldn't vote. For many people who did vote, their vote didn't count the way it should (gerrymandering). Education funds and topics have been cut for decades. People aren't taught how to think critically, and check to see if news they read is factual. Some of this has been going on for decades and we're seeing the compounded results of those tactics.

So, no, America did not vote for this. We were shoehorned into it and now blamed for it. Fuck that noise. We're all at the mercy of these assholes and need to fight back.

That's my understanding. The license allows them to practice. Not having a license doesn't negate your degree.

I hope someone downloaded all that info and it gets hosted in hundreds of other places.

If I promise to start the apple sauce-straw thing now, can we skip all the intervening stuff?

At least he'd rather go out like this than be a piece of shit himself. That means if we ever do get control back, he might be willing to resume his service.

How long did you hold on to it?

Voter suppression, gerrymandering, stacking courts, disinformation campaigns, funding from foreign sources, and so on. Without actively working against the intended process they'd never win anything beyond a pie-eating contest, but that's only because with their mouth full of pie no one could understand what they say when they talk.

Well, climbing down facing down and climbing down facing other directions may be the difference there. I've never seen them face down when climbing down, but I have seen them face a lot of other directions. It may require ripping of the trees or there claws to make it happen. I'm no expert, though.