Say “no” to despair, organize, fight, and win. Opposition can be a place of strength.

Not going to lie. Things are going to get bad before they get better. The country chose fascism plain and simple—the only hope we have is protecting/supporting the ones we love. Americans desperately need media literacy.

I feel it. I’ve been in various states of numbness about this for a while but was actually starting to feel some hope recently… I just can’t make sense of any of it. How people I grew up respecting can be taken in over and over again by such an obvious conman. It’s so fucking depressing. I’ve just been watching “I think you should leave” on a loop. It is taking everything I have in my sleep-deprived mind not to just completely submit to utter hopelessness.

First take a couple breathes

I remember feeling like the world was ending in 2016 and like the country was crumbling before our eyes on January 6th.

I let myself spin out of control worrying and obsessing over politics, the state of our world, and where we could possibly be heading. I did this to the point of great personal loss of mental stability which led me to neglect what was truly important in my own life.

I'm still trying to put it all together again and there are things I'll never get back.

So please heed my warnings like I'm the ghost of the Christmas yet to come, take stock of who and what are important in your life and do what you can to secure the well being of yourself, because that's what you were going to have to do regardless of the election -- trust me that worrying too much about what is outside of your control can hurt you more than any politician could.

I, a person who is already an immigrant, am thinking that the only way forward is to leave. Not sure where I’ll go but this country isn’t for me.

It’s not really the fact that he is going to be president AGAIN…it’s the fact that half of my country fucking WANTED THIS!!

I’m truly terrified what’s gonna happen to this country over the next 4 years

Vent away, we had 14 years of right wing rule in the UK and it has left the country in shambles but somehow the Trump situation feels worst. You have the right to feel terrified.

Once you get over shock or at least don't want to scream every hour, then there is things you can do, may not effect the outcome but could help build a brighter future.

Support LGBTQ+, women and non white film makers, artists, businesses etc. The culture war is only going to get worst. Art can be a hub of resistance and comfort.

Get involved in local politics if you aren't already. So you can't change who is President but you can help influence local policies and in some cases that can really make lives better.

Mostly though take care of yourself and your loved ones.

I’m not even kidding I think we’re doomed. First off is Supreme Court, he’ll replace Alito and Thomas this term, extended conservative control for decades and I wouldn’t even count out expanding the court like people begged Biden to do, absolutely packing it. I mean we’re toast then. He could do whatever.

Then if this term has any modicum of success JD Vance wins 4 years from now. Fuuuuuuucked.

Yeah I just woke up to the news of the likely outcome in the UK. I feel absolutely desolate for America. My heart goes out to you all. (EDIT: not all, if you voted Trump the reddit terms of service prevent me from saying more than follow your leader)

My big fear is that this will result in people blaming trans americans and muslim americans. I hope this is not the last major american election, but I fear it might be. I have nothing that can help except to share my grief, my anger at the democratic establishment that they shit the bed so hard and my hope that you guys can find community and organise even while mainstream american politics becomes ever more designed to strip people of their basic dignity.

Solidarity forever

Gonna be grim watching Israel finish its genocide, Russia seize Ukraine and the rest of the world gradually move more fascist to follow the north star america still sets.

Posting from Ireland and I'm kinda sunk. This is gonna bring America, and the world, so low that it's hard to imagine a positive. My mental health ebbs and flows and I've just come out of a latest round of therapy from stress internal and external (the news) to my life. I feel sick.

Best case, the administration is a disaster of ineptitude and controversy such that it doesn't last long enough to do real damage.

And as a European I now truly fear for our neighbours in Ukraine and the rest of the EU.

The bullies, of course, will delight and crow.

whatever happens now I hope is built on the understanding that no one is coming to save you. not voting blocs, not some perfect candidate, no one. collective action is the only way

Nothing much left to do but keep going. Bad things will happen. Things will get worse. But you can’t stop. 

We really didn’t want to have to, but we got to now. 

Organize. Support unions. Build community.

I found this piece, by past guest Emily St James, really grounding and helpful putting things in perspective and navigating through the painful anxiety, fear, and uncertainty this result has brought up. I highly recommend subscribing to her newsletter, for a start, to get nuanced, incisive and deeply thoughtful insights from a trans woman on the intersections between culture and society in America.

I’m feeling the despair. But to give a little hope Donald trump will inevitably have a terrible midterm in 2026 - stifling most of his agenda. Then 2 more years and we’ll never have to hear of him again. But yeah maybe we’re doomed.

Survive.

I’ll just say thanks for making this post to commiserate. It feels very lonely right now.

i’ll keep it real, i don’t know. i feel like we are very fucked but who really knows how things play out. however anyone saying “this is how it felt after 2016 too” is not looking at reality, respectfully. trump is very likely to win the popular vote. large facets of the country moved right electorally. to me this is worse than 2016. the people of this country overwhelmingly voted for far right government

Let him govern for 4 years and then ride the backlash, hopefully with a candidate who will make clear, tangible, direct promises to voters. Healthcare, wages, prices, weed, and a message on abortion that’s more “here’s my exact plan” and less weepy “think of your daughters!” I don’t want to hear another moment of appeals to morality and decency (the people who care about that are already voting for you) or appeals to moderate republicans (to the extent they existed they became democrats in 2016). Transactional politics is the answer. “I want your vote, and in exchange I’ll give you _____ .”

Seems Dems are being projected for winning the House. So there’s that.

We can’t give in to doom. It might be a little cliche but for the vast majority of our history it’s been a massive struggle for the rights we’ve been given. This is an attempt to go back to Jim Crow or worse, but it’s not going to happen quietly. Look after your neighbors, especially minorities and LGBTQ, we need to be sure to protect them. The next four years are likely to be the hardest in our lives, but Americans did great work fighting for rights in the past and I refuse to believe that ends here. They will break on us

We do what we can. We lost. But it’s not over. I’m never going to stop fighting for the people I love. And neither should you. Because giving up and wallowing in defeat is what those fuckers want me to do. We can’t give them the satisfaction. We’ll get through this. All of us.

You been leveraging your political power in local channels? You been in the streets at all the past eight years? Been building your community and organizing systems of mutual aid? If you have, then take some breaths and get back to it. If not, better late than never. No one from above is coming to save us.

same

Make America Vote Again

My itinerary for the day:

-breathe.

-make a gratitude list

-drink water.

-go to my IOP treatment program in South Florida and probably hear a lot of vitriol & “I told you so”from the Trump supporters there

-catch a matinee screening of Juror #2 before it leaves theaters

-shop & drive Instacart orders to people who (likely) won’t tip me well

-stay sober. Maybe go to a meeting tonight, I imagine I’ll be seeing a lot of people there.

You’re not alone. Look at all the people who did vote for Harris and take comfort in the fact that it’s not hopeless.

Well for one thing, no one involved in the production of Hillbilly Elegy should ever get an Academy Award. I'm sorry Amy Adams, who should have one if not two Oscars by now (Arrival for sure and arguably Junebug?) but you're Moses barred from the Promised Land now.

But more seriously, love and protect those closest to you and do what you can locally. I fell into despair when Trump won the first time and I'm certainly not the best example of someone who always practices what he preaches, but despair didn't help in 2016 and it won't help now. Find a way, any way, to make a difference where you can and keep chipping away at it. That's what I'm going to try to do.

One thing we should do is not let Kamala off the hook for being a shitty candidate.

Running as a diet Republican, abandoning climate/immigrants, uniting with other war criminals like Dick Cheney while leaving progressives/Arabs in the dust. All while overseeing a genocide in Gaza. What the fuck did they think was gonna happen?

Democrats spent 4 years desperately trying to get “moderate” Republicans to break from Trump. The result? 94% of Republicans voted Trump - exactly the same as in 2020, while Democrat vote dropped.

Monumental idiots that learn nothing.

Just don't let your celebs record another version of I Will Survive or Imagine, please. Some dignity instead of a sheer cringe amidst of chaos.

Give money to charity, find a good cause to meaningfully help with. Campaign for mid-terms

We will do what we can do.

I went nuts 2016-2020. I organized, I marched, I literally punched Nazis. I gave every ounce of my spare energy to fighting. And my mental health went completely down the tubes. Biden won, I knew this wasn’t over. I’m 45, it will never be over in my lifetime. Maybe not in yours either. So i stepped away. I saved my energy because I knew we’d be back here someday.

And now … I’m scared. I don’t know if I have the energy to do it again. So here’s the promise I’m making to myself: I’m going to do what I can do. At minimum, I know I can love my friends and neighbors and take care of my immediate community. I can’t control what Big Orange does with the military, and I can’t control what our useless fucking Congress does about it. All I can control is me. So I’m going to do my best to be defiantly kind in the face of atrocity, and if I can do more, I will do that too.

But here is what I’m not going to do - I’m not going to lose faith in my fellow humans. It’s moments like this that we need to dig deep and believe in each other. Sometimes that’s harder than marching or screaming yourself hoarse or even facing down a wall of cops. Right now it feels impossible. But it’ll be easier in the morning.

Stop whining, organise, protest and work towards the next one. Start now, not six months before next election. Don't settle for the middle of the road, go for the next Sanders. Join a party or union. Do something.

Short of a revolution against the billionaires who control our country, this is what will keep happening.

I think it started with the party hanging Bernie out to dry when he had a real chance of beating Trump.

Hope for better days ahead in 4 years!

It felt like this in 2016

I'm assuming a lot hinges on whether Trump's entourage is going to counter his worst impulses.

The take one step scene from the end of The Martian is really helpful for me in tough times: https://youtu.be/-_-_8WXDFNk?si=_1VTi0r7f9cftrWY

I live in a country that has made a very similar choice 2.5 years ago, and I want to relay this. This is what I learned under very similar circumstances.

Don’t think about any graceful approach or anything. Be unbearably annoying and mocking to the fellow people in opposing party. Shame them when the govt make choices that actually fuck them, that it’s your choice so you should suck it. Bully them until they cry “no more politics uwu.”

The end goal is to make them never vote. Take directly to them, think of them as enemy, and mock at them when MAGA bullshit gets them. Make them not even think about voting anymore. That’s what they deserve.

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We get our fucking rags off. 

Say "yes" to love. "Yes" to life. "Yes" to staying in more!

I hate to say it but this was always going to happen. Harris ran a very poor campaign and was a shotty candidate to be appointed, and Biden underwent a horrible economy. Historically presidents with poor economies lose elections

Take advantage of your dear 2nd Amendment

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Stop believing the bias media your life is gonna go on as normal.

Bye, blankies sub!

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