To be so disappointed in people - Trump voters especially

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I feel absolutely stunned that despite all that has been said and done Trump is likely to get the chance to make the world burn a little faster.

I am afraid for a future so full of anger and hate.

I need to stop worrying about my looks so much. If a man that orange and fluorescent can be the most powerful man and ‘lead the free world’ then ive more options than I realised.

‘Too big to rig’ this time I think.

Good morning everyone! It’s a great day to be alive.

This is the second time Trump has run against a woman, and the second time he has won. In my opinion, part of the problem might lie in a public hesitation to elect a female president, which could be influencing the outcome more than Trump’s political abilities.

You think I'm a communist! You have got no idea of what I earn. I am now retired but I was a higher rate tax payer.

What is your education level? You certainly don't know what communism means.

So if you lost your job or became disabled and couldn't work, you would literally starve to death rather than apply for any benefits? I don't believe you. Anyway, right wing well off people do like benefits. If they didn't, they wouldn't be moaning about the means testing of child benefit and the winter fuel allowance.

That may be true on the US side, but if you look at it from the Chinese side, the impact of the trade war is obvious. Foreign capital is leaving, unemployment is so high that the government no longer publishes it, the real estate market is collapsing, the regime's legitimacy is weakened, and it is in great trouble, which greatly reduces the possibility of its invasion of Taiwan. If the China policy remains unchanged and China continues to grow, it will be very dangerous when it cannot be contained. In addition, the Biden administration has not changed Trump's China policy, which means it is effective and the two parties have reached a consensus.

Only if you are a white male.

Under the circumstances Harris did well to get as close as she did.

The ONE glimmer of light in this is that thanks to the American system the world can't have more than four more years of Trump. (Unless he changes the system. He's threatened to but I don't think even he could swing that one).

If we can get through the next four years without too much damage we can breathe again.

I think this post, probably inadvertently, illuminates the issue of fostering division and ill-will very clearly

Kamala, what would you do different to Biden?

Errm, nothing comes to mind

Kamala, you are in charge of securing the boarder, but you have never visited it, have you?

Well, I’ve never been to Europe either, so

THIS is your preferred candidate?????
I suggest it’s you that can’t tie shoelaces

@Navyblue214 I don't like this result either, but I wouldn't say Trump is Hitler. It's not that he doesn't want to be a dictator. He may want to, but there are many obstacles in the American system that he can't overcome to get there. I think today, the only person who can be compared to Hitler is Xi Jinping, the real dictator.

Hitler didn't arrive on day one in full on dictator mode, but once you've made it to the top job, it doesn't matter how many obstacles there are in your own particular country's system, you have the power to overturn all of it. Unless we learn the lesson of history, we are doomed to repeat it.

What?

Weird how we didn't see anything about race in the run up to the election, apart from the democrats about how great it was to be female and black and how lucky the electorate was to get the chance to vote for her.

Sounds like a DEI hire to me.

thats not true in America. The president does not have the power to change very much unilaterally.

it's bullshit polarisation like this that means the democrats lost.

I am more disappointed that even one person voted for the empty vessel that is Kamala Harris. She stood for nothing, said nothing and has achieved nothing in her 4 years.

I am pleased for the US that they have Trump and all his team. They are lucky.

All this Hitler stuff is genuinely hilarious. People will believe anything.

Oh dear god, stop digging, you are just embarrasing yourself.
Shes highly educated and experienced.
Can you not read?

Nope, its the racist mysogonists that caused this.

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Ugh. That’s a reason right there. People don’t want to vote for anyone who can’t use the word woman when it matters most.

I'm very much an adult.
And that is why I'm totally aware of the implications of the new Trump presidency.
And yes, it's frightening.

@Doteycat What has Kamala achieved? I missed it

Read the room. Listen to some voters.