Wake Up and Curse Here (@ likely)

[babsbunny]

Sometimes we need a thread of ALL CAPS.

LET IT ALL OUT

[babsbunny]

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!!!

[1confused1]

It’s almost 11pm in California. I’ve been crying so I’m up to try to make my eyes not be puffy tomorrow. It is also incredibly windy and dry and some a$$hole is setting off fireworks. 🤬

[pinkyp]

I appreciate you all so much, as well as this thread. It's currently 0240 where I am and I'm pacing inside my garage trying to talk myself out of lighting a cigarette. I had way too much to drink tonight. Everyone I know irl is asleep and I just want to scream into the void. I fucking hate it here.

[loveactually]

I'm a lurker and always appreciate the insight and discussions here. I live in Europe and woke up 2 hour ago.

I weep for all of us. I cried with a fellow American co worker while getting my tea in the office kitchen .It is a somber mood at work currently.

[carriebear822]

Lurker here -I am not okay. I have been crying almost all night.

I knew my 76yr fil would be awake (California here), so I called him to check on him and we both cried on the phone. I cannot believe that he was elected.

[fernweh]

How? With so many republicans endorsing Kamala. With so many people in his admin saying he is dangerous… How did we wake up as a county and decide this is the future we want for ourselves and our children?

[wambam]

I feel…less devastated than 2016. Because at least this time I had accepted it was a possibility, whereas I was in completely denial 8 years ago. This feels more like a slow crushing disappointment.

[imimahoney]

I think I am numb.

[sadlebred]

Women will not no rights in 6 months, and I'm more scared for some of my friends. I fully expect to have to move in with my dad as my male guardian by the middle of 2025.

[cherry1111]

Nov 6, 2024 3:32:49 GMT -5 fernweh said:

How? With so many republicans endorsing Kamala. With so many people in his admin saying he is dangerous… How did we wake up as a county and decide this is the future we want for ourselves and our children?

This is where I am. We know so much more about him than in 2016 and 2020. How does this happen? Is it because she’s a woman? Because she’s not white? How else can you explain how anyone with half a brain cell can look at her and look at him and pick him.

I think I’m actually more in shock than in 2016.

[Jalapeñomel]

I have no idea how to function.

[cherryvalance]

I am devastated.

@@@i don't know how I'm going to tell my kids, or deal with students today.

I don't think I'm being dramatic or extremist when I say that I can't believe people chose evil. I didn't believe we were this far gone.

[Velar Fricative]

Today is going to be rough. I’m going into work, and my job is in Manhattan. So I have no idea what to expect.

[Jalapeñomel]

I’m sobbing. I don’t know how to go to work.

[mcppalmbeach]

Our country has elected an unfit maniac to lead us. He chooses division, hate, revenge. I am gutted.

[ssmjlm]

If he reflects America, I am so scared. Like, I’m afraid for literally everything. Giving into this type of evil is not something I thought possible in this large of a scale.

I work for the govt, but my agency should be one of the last to be shut down, I think?

[cville]

I'm numb. I can't cry. I am just flat and sad. I tried to look at numbers and history and prepare myself, but I didn't realize how strong my hope was.

And confused. I was shocked in 2016. Now? Yes, Biden is underwater and inflation is (was) high, but we know him. And he's getting a higher percentage of the votes? Half the voters looked at him and everything he's done and who he surrounds himself with and chose that? How can I be so different from my fellow citizens? Fundamentally, core values different. Who are these people? Is it a cult of personality? Is it racism and misogyny? Is it that we are just on this precipice as a country and I will find fewer and fewer people with whom I have things in common? The things that matter.

I am numb and the numbness is masking such sadness and terror and devastation.

Will we rise up or withdraw? I know we need to rise up. But right now, this morning, I want to withdraw and just do what I can in my family and ignore the wider world.

[trytobearunner34]

Nov 6, 2024 4:40:37 GMT -5 wambam said:

I feel…less devastated than 2016. Because at least this time I had accepted it was a possibility, whereas I was in completely denial 8 years ago. This feels more like a slow crushing disappointment.

This is where I am at. I am very much in a “when people show you who they are, believe them” phase of life. Thanks to these elections, over the last ten years I have learned that there are so many more self-centered, greedy, “scared”, racist misogynists in this country than I ever thought possible (the popular vote? Really?!?!).

[dior]

Nov 6, 2024 4:40:37 GMT -5 wambam said:

I feel…less devastated than 2016. Because at least this time I had accepted it was a possibility, whereas I was in completely denial 8 years ago. This feels more like a slow crushing disappointment.

I feel the same way as you do, I am so disappointed but I can not say I am really surprised

[dior]

Nov 6, 2024 5:29:03 GMT -5 trytobearunner34 said:

Nov 6, 2024 4:40:37 GMT -5 wambam said:

I feel…less devastated than 2016. Because at least this time I had accepted it was a possibility, whereas I was in completely denial 8 years ago. This feels more like a slow crushing disappointment.

This is where I am at. I am very much in a “when people show you who they are, believe them” phase of life. Thanks to these elections, over the last ten years I have learned that there are so many more self-centered, greedy, “scared”, racist misogynists in this country than I ever thought possible (the popular vote? Really?!?!).

Where did you hear that Trump won the popular vote? I could not find it anywhere and if that is true, that is even worse!

[cherryvalance]

I also am having a real issue with the language of how Kamala "underperformed" across the board. I know it's just electionspeak, but she and her team ran an absolutely incredible campaign. WE, Americans, underperformed.

[fernweh]

Nov 6, 2024 4:40:37 GMT -5 wambam said:

I feel…less devastated than 2016. Because at least this time I had accepted it was a possibility, whereas I was in completely denial 8 years ago. This feels more like a slow crushing disappointment.

I am less surprised but much more devastated. We saw what he will do and still chose that. He will have at least the senate and may get another couple Supreme Court picks. I couldn’t be more devastated for what this means for women, lqbtqia, immigrants, people of color, etc

[mcppalmbeach]

Nov 6, 2024 5:28:34 GMT -5 cville said:

I'm numb. I can't cry. I am just flat and sad. I tried to look at numbers and history and prepare myself, but I didn't realize how strong my hope was.

And confused. I was shocked in 2016. Now? Yes, Biden is underwater and inflation is (was) high, but we know him. And he's getting a higher percentage of the votes? Half the voters looked at him and everything he's done and who he surrounds himself with and chose that? How can I be so different from my fellow citizens? Fundamentally, core values different. Who are these people? Is it a cult of personality? Is it racism and misogyny? Is it that we are just on this precipice as a country and I will find fewer and fewer people with whom I have things in common? The things that matter.

I am numb and the numbness is masking such sadness and terror and devastation.

Will we rise up or withdraw? I know we need to rise up. But right now, this morning, I want to withdraw and just do what I can in my family and ignore the wider world.

Agree with all this sentiment except I didn’t think I would cry and now I can’t stop. I just don’t understand how this is what people want. I am scared for what is coming for the people of this country and I personally feel less safe than I did yesterday in my own country.

[ssmjlm]

My birthday is Inauguration Day and it’s MLK observed.

Can we move if so I can have a nice birthday and he can’t share with MLK?

[trytobearunner34]

dior The Associated Press. Hoping it changes as states finalize.

[dior]

Nov 6, 2024 5:44:11 GMT -5 trytobearunner34 said:

dior The Associated Press. Hoping it changes as states finalize.

Thank you!

[SwimDeep]

...just woke up...

I don't even have curse words right now.

[icedcoffee]

Hugs to all. I don’t have any fight in me today. Just anger.

[niemand88f]

Americans are just so selfish. Milk’s a little expensive right now so our rights don’t matter…

Hoping we get control of the House 😭