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[aGuyInaBearSuit]

Definitely getting more involved-- the most I ever used to do was share links on Facebook. Now I'm going to protests and calling my senators. I never really saw myself as the type of person who goes to a protest and holds a sign, but here we are.

Also soothing my feelings with candy. :/

 

[//DEVIL//]

I am not from USA but I honestly can't believe you guys elected him over that white bootay.

I mean like seriously WTF . This guy is a lost case

 

[Foffy]

I am slowly realizing the only way we can thrive from this is a collapse happens under his reign.

It may be the only thing his ego cannot take.

 

[blame space]

i can't stop crying

 

[kamakazi5]

This bears repeating. I never really knew this before now, and probably a lot of people don't realize, but calling your representative's office is not just a way to sound off-- it actually has a tangible effect. Take one minute to call and say "I want you to vote against this cabinet appointment" or if the senator has already committed to voting one way, "I support your decision" or "I disagree and urge you to reconsider", it gets recorded and tabulated and the senator will be told that X number of constituents agree with what you're doing and Y number disagree.

Is there a page that lets you know what votes are upcoming?

 

[hydragonwarrior]

They haven't. They're too busy getting cheap shots in and feeling good about themselves while Trump ruins the world.

I hate them as much as Trump supporters.

I have one friend on FB who cheered on Trump because he's one of those accelerationists and wants everything to burn on the ground so it's rebuilt correctly. It's surprising because he cares for the environment too.

He doesn't notice the issues with accelerationism, but if there's one thing he's kind of right on, is that the election result is bringing people together. And let's hope it continues to beyond the women's march into every issue Trump is threatening to silence and/or dump.

Outside of this though, I'm more concerned about Russia's influence in future elections. I'm seriously hoping more will be done to counter this.

 

[Dolobill]

All I can do is hope that Canada survives this storm and isn't influenced too heavily by American politics. Although it's starting to look bad already. My friends are saying they can't wait to vote for Kevin O'Leary (Canada's Trump).

 

[Ottaro]

Cursing every fuck who protest voted..

and everyone who abstained.

The amount of self-justification I've seen in the past couple of months from these folks is driving me up the damn wall.

 

[Always-honest]

keeping a close eye on it.

 

[JustenP88]

I am not from USA but I honestly can't believe you guys elected him over that white bootay.

I mean like seriously WTF . This guy is a lost case

Lol what?

 

[//DEVIL//]

Lol what?

Nothing I am just fucking around jeez

 

[Melkezadek]

I've seen more than one meme on FB saying 'Don't blame me, I wanted Bernie' or something like that. There was a fairly large group of people that were under the 'They're Both bad, How do I choose?' stance.

Yup. And many of those people, like vultures, are doing everything they can to push him as a new messiah, ignoring the fact we've already lost.

Makes me very angry, to put it lightly. All we had to do was fucking vote. It was so easy. Now we're going to be facing irreversible damage to our country. I want nothing to do with them.

 

[Zackat]

By avoiding TV news talking heads. Reading articles on the internet. Trying to rationalize how all this could have happened.

Outwardly I am OK. But man does everything seem to be going backwards right now.


At least my mom avoids talking politics around me now because it always ends up in an argument where she doesn't like how I lay out her hypocrisies. She still listens to Hannity and Limbaugh daily. My dad reads Drudge report crap and Breitbart.

Everything is awful, really.

 

[Rootbeer]

i can't stop crying

Come on man. That's gotta be torturing your roomate.

 

[superdeluxe]

Yup. And many of those people, like vultures, are doing everything they can to push him as a new messiah, ignoring the fact we've already lost.

Makes me very angry, to put it lightly. All we had to do was fucking vote. It was so easy. Now we're going to be facing irreversible damage to our country. I want nothing to do with them.

How many EC votes would Hillary get if we got a do-over?

 

[mreddie]

Sighing and wishing time travel was a thing.

 

[//DEVIL//]

Come on man. That's gotta be torturing your roomate.

Lmao

 

[Nafai1123]

and everyone who abstained.

The amount of self-justification I've seen in the past couple of months from these folks is driving me up the damn wall.

They've learned nothing because doing so would force them to accept partial responsibility. Fuck these people they are narcissistic self-righteous clowns.

 

[PARANO1A]

Considering Trump's supporters still scapegoat Hillary, her emails and that stupid pizza conspiracy theory when Trump gets called out on his bullshit, I'm gonna say nobody's learned a thing. People won't regret not voting Hillary, they'll continue to convince themselves that she's worse no matter how bad Trump gets.

My comment was targeted at those who supported neither, rather than those who actively supported Trump. But I completely agree with you.

 

[cordy]

Not even going to lie.

Although it's super-villain shit, I'm used to the negativities of presidents. Besides Obama, I personally haven't felt any president was "great" so any bad news I'm not really having a hard time dealing. Shit happens, you just gotta roll with it no matter what it is. Maybe it's how I was raised being a Southern black man in the deep South and seeing some things but I'm not really having an issue "dealing" with it. After experiencing racism my whole life and not having much seeing this isn't hard for me.

 

[Morgoth]

Reading star wars books and comics is the only thing keeping me sane

 

[DukeSilverHaze]

Wearing out my medical card.

 

[Puck Beaverton]

Come on man. That's gotta be torturing your roomate.

...hehe

And I'm handling it fine. I was already cynical about everything.

 

[Dreez]

At first my plan was to ignore politics for the next 4 years, but the barrage of astonishing news on this new administration makes it really difficult.

I used to avoid discussions with the other side but now I'm willing to break down their views/fallacies in logical fashion.

 

[JustenP88]

Just happy I'm in Cali surrounded by people that see how bad he is.

Coming from Oklahoma, that sounds like a weird alternate reality. People here either don't talk about it or praise the man loudly. I've heard tons of talk that, based off of his campaign, he's likely to be the best president in American history. We see Hitler, they see Jesus. Everything's broken, I'm afraid.

 

[jmdajr]

I feel like we are missing out on so much other news. But everyday is a disaster so we can't ignore it.

I don't think I have ever thought so much about our country.

 

[NinjaCoachZ]

All I can do is hope that Canada survives this storm and isn't influenced too heavily by American politics. Although it's starting to look bad already. My friends are saying they can't wait to vote for Kevin O'Leary (Canada's Trump).

Yeah, we as people gotta start getting some protests going to prevent the rise of people like him and Leitch. We need to be above this bullshit before it's too late.

 

[fantomena]

Norwegian here, never been as much into US politics as I am now. How I deal with it? By moaning on gaf and a bit on FB.

 

[Zach]

Coming from Oklahoma, that sounds like a weird alternate reality. People here either don't talk about it or praise the man loudly. I've heard tons of talk that, based off of his campaign, he's likely to be the best president in American history. We see Hitler, they see Jesus. Everything's broken, I'm afraid.

Fellow Oklahoman here. It's terrible.

 

[MrSaturn99]

Just called my senator for the first time today. Also sharing every piece of awful news I can on social media to spread awareness; I got at least one Trump supporter to admit Spicer is crazy.

Not too well. I was already suicidally depressed, and now I can't help but obsessively following all the Trump news and it just adds to my already life-ruining feelings of hopelessness that have alienated me from friends and family and almost cost me my job. I've considered several suicide methods but most of them seem either impractical, painful or messy. I also feel like that even though I know most of my self-destructive feelings come from a deep-seated mental illness if I killed myself even partially because of Trump that'd be like letting him kill me. At least I got referred to counseling, a requirement to keep my job after an altercation with a co-worker, so maybe that'll help.

Please call a suicide-prevention hotline.

 

[The Lamonster]

I'm choosing to ignore it until it affects me personally.

 

[Dedede]

Donating to environmental charities, focusing on my work, and being thankful my entire family and coworkers are relatively liberal.

 

[Mr. Blonde]

unfortunately the US isn't a democracy and never will be if trump & the republican party have anything to say about it

um no. the us is a democracy. just not a "direct" democracy. the us is a republic, which is a type of democracy where we elect people to represent us.

 

[jstripes]

All I can do is hope that Canada survives this storm and isn't influenced too heavily by American politics. Although it's starting to look bad already. My friends are saying they can't wait to vote for Kevin O'Leary (Canada's Trump).

The next federal election is still a few years off. Hopefully between now and then Trump will morph from an inspiration for conservatives into a warning.

 

[Betty]

By expecting the worst and not believing anyone who says "oh just you wait, in a few months/years/decades they'll see the error of their ways and it'll all come crashing down, just you wait!"

Nah, if the wind changes for the better I'll obviously be glad but for now I'm expecting the nightmares to continue unabated without any sign of karma on the horizon.

I really can't underscore how little faith I have in anyone's opinion or thoughts on political or social matters anymore, everyone has been proven wrong so many times being so confident they were right, I'm not buying it any more.

 

[archreaper93]

By taking up alcoholism as a hobby.

 

[Air]

I'm in a particularly difficult position, but when I get out of this rut, I'll try to be a more proactive member of my community. I live in NYC so it's not hard to find like minded people

 

[Surfinn]

Summary of the Trump Administration for the next four years:

"Trump said he'd release his tax returns once his audit is over. The White House online petition is at 200k; people clearly want this information, even though it's been said that they don't care. What is your official response?"

"Fuck you"

It's worse and even more blatant than I ever thought it would be.

But talking through it with moral/compassionate people helps to deal with some of this shit.

 

[Futureman]

I'm like eternally positive. I keep telling myself that this could possibly only be 4 years and then we'll get a Democrat back in there.

There's still amazing, positive, beautiful people out there doing good things everyday. I refuse to focus on the negative while also not ignoring it.

My GF isn't taking it well though. I'm trying my best to comfort her.

 

[shawnbuddy]

Yup. And many of those people, like vultures, are doing everything they can to push him as a new messiah, ignoring the fact we've already lost.

Makes me very angry, to put it lightly. All we had to do was fucking vote. It was so easy. Now we're going to be facing irreversible damage to our country. I want nothing to do with them.

Yeah, I agree, I see all of these people protesting and complaining and think that all we had to do to avoid all of this was be more unified as Democrats. I can understand not getting so fired up about HIllary but, c'mon, if you're a Democrat who didn't vote or protest voted because you couldn't choose between Hillary and Trump two you've gotten some bad information somewhere. Probably from TYT or RT.

Honestly, I think in his own way Bernie became just as ego-driven as Trump. He has his own cult of personality, too. I mean, that bird thing? Just go ahead and call him magic.

 

[Neoweee]

The next federal election is still a few years off. Hopefully between now and then Trump will morph from an inspiration for conservatives into a warning.

Even if his popularity dips, he will still be hard to unseat, for a bunch of reasons.

1) Democrats appealing to minorities and the college educated is generally worthless for the electoral college. Trump being beloved by whites without college degrees is a huge plus for him, and will remain a large advantage.

2) Multiple states that voted for Hillary but are controlled by GOP at the state level are trying to make their electoral votes by congressional district, which allows the presidential vote to be gerrymandered.

3) It will be harder for the young and minorities to vote in 2020 due to more restrictive voting laws.

4) Trump wants to loosen campaign finance reform, including those that restrict churches from acting as political organizations, which helps the GOP.

Yeah, I agree, I see all of these people protesting and complaining and think that all we had to do to avoid all of this was be more unified as Democrats. I can understand not getting so fired up about HIllary but, c'mon, if you're a Democrat who didn't vote or protest voted because you couldn't choose between Hillary and Trump two you've gotten some bad information somewhere. Probably from TYT or RT.

Most of my self-immolating Bernie friends were huge redditors. So many crackpot theories about vote rigging. Really makes me lose faith in the Left.

 

[BruceCLea]

CALL YOUR GOD DAMN REPRESENTATIVES EVERY FUCKING DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[CazTGG]

All I can do is hope that Canada survives this storm and isn't influenced too heavily by American politics. Although it's starting to look bad already. My friends are saying they can't wait to vote for Kevin O'Leary (Canada's Trump).

O'Leary does have his share of obstacles given the combination of a ranked ballot and his abysmal French but he's leaped ahead as the frontrunner of the current CPC leadership race. Even people I know have summarized him as "oh, that business guy from Dragon's Den? Yeah, he should run this country like one of his businesses, he's rich" so don't be surprised if Trump & O'Leary get to run their respective countries.

 

[Ottaro]

They've learned nothing because doing so would force them to accept partial responsibility. Fuck these people they are narcissistic self-righteous clowns.

Yup, it's infuriating.
Ya know, when Trump won, I naively thought it might be a wake up call for vast swathes of people that voting matters. Instead, it feels like a lot of these people are simply doing everything they can to reduce their cognitive dissonance. It's never "I regret choosing not to vote" and always "My vote wouldn't have mattered anyways, this isn't my fault." / "They were both bad." / "I didn't think he would actually do the things he promised." / etc.

 

[sasliquid]

I'm also trying to be more active on social media about my political views and calling out people saying stupid shit when I know they're not a lost cause...

But then someone said this to me and I can't process the stupid

"Hows trump authoritarian? A bit more nationalist but America always has been. Like the US has like 40% of fascist ideals but only media manipulation is new to trump. What's he done while president that's unacceptable that other world leaders haven't?

Why are you pleased by people being violent towards people even if they have Nazi ideals? (I actually just said spencer getting punched was funny after they said this whole mess is funny) How is more hatred a win? Your attitude is as abhorrent as the nazis you hate."

I think that's enough Facebook for one day

 

[Jawbreaker]

Protesting, listening to punk music, and seeing my therapist.

 

[lem0n]

How do some of you function?

Life goes on. He's a shithead, and sure, I worry. But I'd never let it rule my damn life. I got bills to pay, a girlfriend to make happy, games to play, things to do. I keep myself occupied and hope things turn around. That's it.

 

[Mammoth Jones]

Same way I've always handled America. Day by day.

 

[Kingpin Rogers]

I just don't really care. I don't get involved enough in politics to even know what's going on.

 

[MastaKilla]

Honestly, i'm feeling overwhelmed. I'm a Muslim civil rights attorney and i feel incredibly fucking overwhelmed right now.


Edit: To see the post directly above mine being, "i don't care, i don't pay attention to politics" is just fucking disheartening.