<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> I’m not mad like I was in 2016. I’m heartbroken and confused.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> I want to agree, but I feel like there’s a huge difference wrt 9/11. I hate it but at the same time, it’s hard to imagine any other way to react to 9/11 than to reelect whichever asshole happened to be in charge at the time. It just seems like a perfectly reasonable, if flawed, response to trauma</p><p>But wtf was Trump’s 9/11? Covid? Trump voters don’t even believe Covid was real! Trump was rejected in 2020, Republicans failed to capitalize on 2022 inflation, and now they get in power????</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> </p><p>Sorry all. This is much worst. Bush, at least respectfed the institution. </p><p>Doesn’t mean we give up. It sucks.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> </p><p>I’ve been subject to repeated shocks ever since 1963. I’m not sure how much longer I will last.</p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> 2004 is an apt comparison. I was prepared for a loss yesterday (vs the shock of 2016), but the magnitude this time is truly heartbreaking, and feels even worse than the rejection in 2004. As with then, we have to start again from scratch. Let&#39;s hope we have an Obama somewhere on the bench again...</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> I JUST said this, almost verbatim to my wife. Could not agree more. 2004 was one of the worst heartbreakers I can remember (2000 was my first presidential vote)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> Totally need to be better and smarter! No question! And I totally get the need to rage. My rage is only thinly veiled and barely held in. We lost, big, stupid-big. I am very much on the same page with you.</p><p>I&#39;ve been asking myself, how does someone like me connect with someone in one of those sparsely populated red states that gave Trump so much of the electoral college? How does someone like me counter the targeted efforts to pit such folks against folks like me?</p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@phaedral" class="u-url mention">@<span>phaedral</span></a></span> <br />Our work was not sufficiently helpful for the voters we knew needed to vote, and wasn&#39;t even relevant to the folks watching corporate media.</p><p>And the Dems didn&#39;t reach the pain that corporate America and it&#39;s subsidies continues to inflict.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> Yeah, same. I&#39;m heartbroken. My only solace is that he&#39;s very bad at fulfilling his campaign promises. I have faith that our constitution and justice system is strong enough to withstand it.</p>