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Jesus fucking christ.
Right now, it looks like trump won both the electoral college and the popular vote. I spent election night calming down suicidal teenagers, same as I did last time he won. I feel so bad that my younger siblings and younger generations in general have to experience this same exact shit. To scale it, when he was elected the first time, I was in sophomore year, and the kids currently in sophomore were in 3rd. The babies are now exactly where I was, and that's wretched.
There's a lot of talk about interference, but even if he cheated it's pretty much over. Democrats just don't make as big a fuss when they're wronged as republicans do. I don't think any organized election interference took place, but i do think a lot of single people attempted to cheat the election in trumps favor. Like the Pennsylvania ballot challenges and the Vancouver ballot box explosion.
I also.. I hesitantly believe the election is accurate. I want to say, 'do so few people care to vote? Are so many so fascist or so checked out to vote for trump?'. I want to be disbelieving and shocked. But I'm not. A lot of people felt, 'oh now that trump has been president once, they will understand how he really is!'. But they understood in 2016, it wasn't secret.
A lot of people are saying it's because Kamala Harris is a black woman. I think that's the closest to the truth. A lot of people are also saying it's her short period of being the runner instead of Biden. The fact 'did biden drop out?' trended on google really shows that, yeah. The short candidacy probably mattered. But that just emphasizes how checked out people are.
I don't know what to feel. Maybe I'll write another entry about feelings alone. If anyone in history cares, california also voted to keep slavery in the constitution (prop 6, it's about slavery for prisoners).
Right now, it looks like trump won both the electoral college and the popular vote. I spent election night calming down suicidal teenagers, same as I did last time he won. I feel so bad that my younger siblings and younger generations in general have to experience this same exact shit. To scale it, when he was elected the first time, I was in sophomore year, and the kids currently in sophomore were in 3rd. The babies are now exactly where I was, and that's wretched.
There's a lot of talk about interference, but even if he cheated it's pretty much over. Democrats just don't make as big a fuss when they're wronged as republicans do. I don't think any organized election interference took place, but i do think a lot of single people attempted to cheat the election in trumps favor. Like the Pennsylvania ballot challenges and the Vancouver ballot box explosion.
I also.. I hesitantly believe the election is accurate. I want to say, 'do so few people care to vote? Are so many so fascist or so checked out to vote for trump?'. I want to be disbelieving and shocked. But I'm not. A lot of people felt, 'oh now that trump has been president once, they will understand how he really is!'. But they understood in 2016, it wasn't secret.
A lot of people are saying it's because Kamala Harris is a black woman. I think that's the closest to the truth. A lot of people are also saying it's her short period of being the runner instead of Biden. The fact 'did biden drop out?' trended on google really shows that, yeah. The short candidacy probably mattered. But that just emphasizes how checked out people are.
I don't know what to feel. Maybe I'll write another entry about feelings alone. If anyone in history cares, california also voted to keep slavery in the constitution (prop 6, it's about slavery for prisoners).
