the checks are all red what he’s talking about lol
he also believes the supreme court is perfectly fine so
and that the immunity ruling wasn’t ACTUALLY an immunity ruling (he is coping)
wowee i am doomscrolling
realistically I tried as much as could be expected from someone in my position
I got a couple people who weren’t going to vote to vote
yea
hard
It’s hard
I stopped trying to understand how and why people approached political subjects in certain ways
i hate this
Nothing I could do would help
My friend group on campus is pretty conservative (engineers at my campus love to be red)
fun fact: i made all of my plans around harris winning because i could do nothing if trump won, and even if i could try it would be… so unpredictable. so its kinda scary to be potentially headed into the “you have zero plan” zone.
this night was always coming, i shouldn’t worry too much about it these are just the first results but. anxiety nonetheless
Turns out that banking on lower turnout and heavily courting Republicans was a stupid strategy. Who knew!
I’ll live but I feel really fucking bad if this goes poorly for, you know, the people this significantly matters for
my pre-planned cope is that
-the economy is definitely going to crash within the next 4 years, screwing the incumbent party
-which therefore will lead to an actual primary-run dem candidate with a stronger chance
yeah…
it also means kamala harris will not be the 2024 dem candidate, which is a win for everybody
Real
Trifecta is still sort of scary. It’s like, I know I’m not going to be affected at ALL by whatever they pass but it affects people I care about
my dad who always advocates for having a plan b and c stopping me from making a plan b and c:
Summary
(he can’t EXACTLY do that but he ~basically just told me that my current plans would just work out fine guys right. and it definitely dissauded me from making any plans. it’s really unpredictable to me what will actually happen and how fast anyways so i don’t know if i could but.)
My guess is that Trump’s gonna do something that inadvertently shuts down the AI boom, causing a crash.
Betting on “emboldening China to invade Taiwan”, but it could go a bunch of different ways.
My biggest worry is for like
ukraine
because a republican trifecta + how things are going there is not a good situation
It’s also personal because I know people there