It's like this: We're all on the Titanic. It's going down, and

[GPV]

half the passengers are cheering about it. Most of them are locked in steerage, but somehow they truly believe they aren't going to drown with the rest of us.

[Irish_Dem]

1. They are so happy we are going to die, they don't care if they die too.

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. I think they believe they'll be okay

[Irish_Dem]

11. Probably yes. The laws protect them and punish everyone else.

But they are stupid enough to cut off their nose to spite their faces.

[GPV]

13. Because they insist they are equal to the oligarchs escaping the ship.

[Irish_Dem]

16. They will find out otherwise. They are seen as suckers and losers like the rest of us.

[GPV]

20. Their revered antiheros revile them.

[Irish_Dem]

21. Exactly, they scam and insult them every chance they get.

[bdamomma]

17. You know

During the election, I heard this Felon's supporter say "he would die for him". Watch out what you wish for.

[Irish_Dem]

18. Trump killed 1 million Americans last time.

Yes. Many of them his own supporters.

We have no idea how many he will kill this time.

Magas may get their wish to die for their glorious leader.

[livetohike]

2. All this happening as Kid Rock and Ted Nugent

play. .

[GenThePerservering]

39. I'd jump overboard

just to get away from that.

[Dem4life1234]

3. How did we lose the Senate and hell maybe House?

How is there no check and balances on this asshole?

[johnnyfins]

6. FRAUD!

How many million dems sat home?

BULLSHIT!

[littlemissmartypants]

27. Math. ...

Fewer Democrats voted for Harris than for Biden.

There's nothing magical about it. It's strictly math.

VP Harris needed to do better and than Biden and Trump to win but the unaffiliated who we needed didn't vote for her and all the other Democrats we needed who voted for Biden stayed home.

[slightlv]

30. I don't think we've seen all the math yet,

at least, I haven't. I'm being told to just accept what the MSM is saying. And to that, I'm saying bullcrap. They've done nothing but lied and enabled the traitor up to now. Why would they tell the truth on this? Too many loose ends for me. But we're democrats. We don't go taking over the white house and shooting up everyone around us. We're too "civil"... and so, we'll be led to our deaths.

[littlemissmartypants]

31. Have you compared ...

The 2020 to the 2024 number we have?

I'll wait.

[slightlv]

35. No, smartypants....

like I said, I finally fought through the depression far enough to get out of bedroom and into the rest of the house today. Shell shocked is the closest thing I can come to in describing how I felt. I even called a friend and cancelled a gathering we were going to have tomorrow night. I can't do anything until I come out of this funk... except take my SSRI's and hope they keep my head above water.

I still wish I could remember that other wonky election case... and it may have been from 2020!

[littlemissmartypants]

36. ❤️

[Starlight27]

58. So true

[Ysabel]

64. we don't have to be civil...

anybody who we're civil to should consider themselves lucky and be thankful and beholden to us ha!

[littlemissmartypants]

28. Math. ...

Fewer Democrats voted for Harris than for Biden.

There's nothing magical about it. It's strictly math.

VP Harris needed to do better and than Biden and Trump to win but the unaffiliated who we needed didn't vote for her and all the other Democrats we needed who voted for Biden stayed home.

[uponit7771]

15. Dems need their own media and stop acting like it doesn't matter, it does. There's no way MAGA gets this much ...

... disinformation out without an amplification network.

The M$M is **NOT** our friends, when Dana Bash said on CNN "it is what it is" when it came to Harris being held to a higher standard I felt we were screwed then

[littlemissmartypants]

26. Math. Look at the numbers, please. ❤️

[Nigrum Cattus]

53. Russia

Drunk russians & the american taliban

[choie]

4. Perfect analogy.

[misanthrope]

5. Except the ones cheering

are also the ones who breached the hull.

[GPV]

8. True enough.

[milestogo]

7. They're excited about the big boat that's coming to pick us all up in 4 years!!

[Skittles]

10. worst part is

when they start drowning, they'll still blame us

[GPV]

12. And I'll just say, "You voted for this. You got it."

[Skittles]

14. but it's not just THEM

WE ALL SUFFER

[Cosmocat]

62. YEP, and use that as justification for more craziness

nm

[harumph]

19. We must devise a way to inflate their dead bodies and use them as rafts.

Innovation and pluck is what made America great in the first place!

[BlueKota]

22. And just like the Titanic the ship's crew

didn't heed the warnings to steer clear of the iceberg in time.

[DSandra]

23. Trump has showed how frighteningly easy it is to hack the minds of millions of people

and essentially reprogram them without their realization.

[slightlv]

32. I wonder if that's because we took control of this land

as immigrants, and never really made any kind of culture for our own. We don't remember where we came from, we pass the current time in a digital fog, and have no idea where we're going. Real easy under those circumstances to steer someone anyway you want, as has been proven.

I'm just so embarrassed there's so many stupid, ignorant, illiterate people in the U.S. that have no idea how to think critically. We were suppose to be a shining beacon to the world. Instead, we're the shame of the world.

[GPV]

38. Trump is the end, not the beginning of this. Look back to Reagan for the laying of the groundwork.

[Cosmocat]

63. Correct

I work our poll, and we have this twerp R who poll watches during big elections.

He isn't obnoxious, but he's old enough to go back to Reagen, and as they do with little self awareness and their obliviousness, during a slow period Tuesday he just matter of factly dropped that Reagen line about 9 most terrifying words.

Reagen set the foundation for all this not trust government bullshit, then you had decades of these people marinating their brains in AM radio and Faux bullshit, and now the internet.

Trump just took the whip because they mealy mouthed shit like politicians,' the "base" was starved for the crack he gave them.

[FakeNoose]

54. That was done by Rush Limbaugh and Faux Noise

I think you're giving Chump too much credit. He really isn't that smart, and he hasn't read a book in his life.

[Puppyjive]

24. The only thing that is going down.....

Is Trump on his microphone. I'm a fighter. I'm not going to let this election take me down.

[Martin68]

25. OK, stop the melodramatic sob story. We're not on the Titanic, we're not going down, we didn't hit an iceberg. We

have to deal with the fact fact that a con artist won the election because a lot of Americans feel they've been given a raw deal whether or not Trump will help them with that, and in spite of the fact that the Democrats are their best bet. We're not going to drown because we're stronger than that. We will not just tread water, but will swim toward the best chance to survive and turn things around. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and get working.

[slightlv]

33. And if you're in your 70's and "working" is no longer

an option? I've already had one taste of an empty bank account when hubs got taken in by scammers and they raided all our money. With no SS checks, or SS checks cut back to worse than they are now, you're dooming a bunch of us to death.

[Martin68]

40. I am in my 70s. I don't believe Trump will succeed in reducing SS because it is an extremely popular program with

a large majority of the country.

[intheflow]

41. So is abortion

but you know they’re going to try a federal ban.

[GPV]

42. True

[Martin68]

60. Abortion is nowhere near as popular as SS.

[slightlv]

43. I honestly don't believe trump cares about that,

and I know the Heritage people don't. They're all in on the "let the church do it." Never mind, tho, if you're not the right faith (I'm not).

We women have been in similar situations before. It's just a pity so many men want to control and keep women down. Its like... what did we ever do to you (except cook, clean, have your babies AND maintain a job outside the home). Yet women, because of those aspects in parentheses will have less $$$ in their social security check than men of the same age... because all of that indentured servitude to society isn't recognized as worthy of any monetary recommendations. So, when the men die and their SS check goes away you have lots of elderly women barely (if that) scraping by. We've been here before. Just go back and study the 1940s and 1950's... even a good portion of the 60's. And even then, SS and Medicare weren't offered to all in a fair and just manner.

[lapfog_1]

55. I'm 68 and still working

Try to understand... The people behind Trump do not CARE about what is popular. They now control the media and we will be TOLD what is popular and lied to until enough believe it. Besides, elections are so "last century" now.

[GPV]

37. Sure, we can fight for slightly better living conditions as the world burns. But the oligarchs

played the long game. Yes, in past cycles people have fought back and reversed the pendulum, but this isn't like the previous times. We have to factor in that we've passed the tipping point on climate change. We should have already made sweeping strides against pollution decades ago in order to stop the worst possible scenarios. We did not, and this election was truly our last chance to do so.

If you want to go down fighting, that's not a bad thing. Make life better for anyone any way you can. But the hardships that are coming will be driven by forces we can no longer stop. Nature will throw more and more extreme conditions at us, and governments will become increasingly autocratic until such time as they can no longer hold the line. Our species may actually wind up living in small bands in the polar regions, on a planet where other species have been decimated or wiped out altogether. It's not hyperbolic. This outcome just became that much more likely due to this election.

[Jack Valentino]

50. If we didn't hit an iceberg, why do we have to swim?

[PJMcK]

29. They're in steerage

But they think they're in First Class. They are too stupid to know the difference.

When they are drowning, they'll blame the the Democrat naval architects who designed the boat.

Assholes.

[polichick]

34. Imagine we're going down because the ship's security team...

…welcomed a pirate crew aboard and looked the other way while they shot holes in the hull.

[GPV]

44. True enough

[chouchou]

45. If we're in a lifeboat and see any MAGAs in the water, I'll say two things

1. Come over this way!!!!
2. (quietly) Hand me an oar.

[AntiFascist]

46. Some of this has to do with the rapturous, suicidal Evangelicals drinking their own kool-aid! n/t

[Initech]

47. If Germany can recover from Nazism and totalitarianism, so can we.

It's going to take some time, but it can done. Our Nazi billionaire oligarch overlords can be defeated, and they must be defeated. They do not own us!

[GPV]

48. Except we are also racing the climate change clock, so we have multiple fronts.

[wnylib]

56. It took outside forces to defeat Germany first

before they could make a comeback in future generations. Before that happened, millions of people died. Then millions more died in the fighting to defeat Germany.

Who is going to fight the US from outside and defeat the fascists here?

[Yavin4]

49. What's the price of eggs on The Titanic? n/t

[AntiFascist]

59. It's probably more about the cost of rent...

and the price of tickets made all the difference on the Titanic.

[Meowmee]

51. At least the titanic kills you faster

[GPV]

65. Yes

[Jack Valentino]

52. Clever analogy. Mentally, the MAGAts are very clearly

"locked in steerage".... especially regarding their knowledge of economics, and what they just voted for...

[Babajida]

57. Except this time it's not going to be women and children who are saved

[GPV]

61. True enough.