I am in a stunned state of incredulity

[malaise]

and yes I know the Presidency and House are still up for grabs.
That is all.

[Ocelot II]

1. Me, too.

It feels an awful lot like 2016.

WTF?

[malaise]

2. Worse

Much worse

[Ocelot II]

7. Yes, because now we *know* how bad Trump is,

and he's much worse than he was in 2016. And yet here we are.

[malaise]

9. THIS

Bangs head

[MoonchildCA]

12. At least he had guard rails the first time around.

[riversedge]

6. yes, I recall Hillary making comments --the morning after.

[BComplex]

3. You're in good company, Sister!

I just keep sitting here shaking my head in disbelief.

[MontanaMama]

4. Not at all what I thought

would be happening in this moment. Hoping against hope that something turns around overnight.

[bdamomma]

5. This

is not what I expected. Votes still need to be counted. I feel horrible malaise.

I need to go to bed, and wake up in the morning saying did this really happen????

[riversedge]

13. I am having my nightmare right now.

[beaglelover]

8. Guess your predictions were not accurate.

[Quiet Em]

16. And your comment is helpful or necessary?

???

[Drum]

10. No doubt you are.

Me too, to a lesser degree. I wish I hadn’t been so dead-swayed by others’ surety.

[jfz9580m]

29. Yeah sorry about my share of that

I was one of those optimistic idiots this time around. I thought I would try a change from my usual gloom and doom outlook because this is such a scary outcome..
I guess I was letting wishful thinking fool me.

[2naSalit]

11. Some of us...

Are horrified.

And like most seniors, I'm too old for this shit.

[PatSeg]

14. Yes, much too old

I'm realizing "hope" isn't something I should rely on.

[young_at_heart]

15. Horrified....yes, at age 85 I feel absolutely numb

I ache for my family's future. Kamala and Tim did everything right and were magnificent!

[B.See]

30. They most certainly were.

Fucking proud of both of them, and of our party. We chose hope, progress, humanity. They chose... well... can't quite find words sufficient enough to encompass the malevolence and cruelty of it.

[mvd]

17. Sounds like me.

And something I noticed about PA - Cambria County blue but Centre County red? Feels like I entered bizarro-world.

[NJCher]

25. I wrote a post about this

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=19667585

Has to do with how we've entered a new world.

[3catwoman3]

18. The only thing I can think of to say is that half the voters in this country...

…are a bunch of hate-filled, racist morons.

[GreenWave]

26. Yep! They get preached lies and hate 24-7,

[róisín_dubh]

19. I thank god every day I had a midlife crisis, left my career, and moved abroad.

Thank fuck.

[johnnyfins]

20. No offense, but "abroad" will be

heavily affected by this catastrophe.

[COL Mustard]

21. It's a bad night for the country

But the sun will come up tomorrow, and we’ll have to cope. Whatever our individual coping mechanism, we have to get through this, and we will.

Fight on, people.

[King_Klonopin]

22. Bob Dylan, "It's Not Dark Yet"

… Shadows are fallin' and I've been here all day
It's too hot to sleep and time is runnin' away
Feel like my soul has turned into steel
I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal
… There's not even room enough to be anywhere
It's not dark yet, but it's gettin' there
… Well, my sense of humanity has gone down the drain
Behind every beautiful thing, there's been some kind of pain
She wrote me a letter, and she wrote it so kind
She put down in writin' what was in her mind
… I just don't see why I should even care
It's not dark yet, but it's gettin' there
… Well, I've been to London and I been to gay Paris
I've followed the river and I got to the sea
I've been down on the bottom of the world full of lies
I ain't lookin' for nothin' in anyone's eyes
… Sometimes my burden is more than I can bear
It's not dark yet, but it's gettin' there
… I was born here, and I'll die here against my will
I know it looks like I'm movin', but I'm standin' still
Every nerve in my body is so naked and numb
I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from
… Don't even hear the murmur of a prayer
It's not dark yet, but it's gettin' there

[Quakerfriend]

23. My heart is broken for this world 😢

[Roy Rolling]

24. I just couldn't....

I was exhausted today by 7pm ET Tuesday and just closed my eyes for a short nap…
But now it’s seven hours later at 3:30 am ET Wednesday.

I’m beyond disappointed at voters, but we also knew it would be close and we wouldn’t know the winner Tuesday night.

So I awakened not it a panic as if I had watched TV all night. Commercial media got what they wanted—an election they can sell advertising around like it’s a football match. Entertainment. Elections are nothing but a game to these shallow and corrosive businesses, but I don’t expect morality from business—they are incorrigible.

So the idiots giving commercial businesses the keys to yours and my government assets need to be stopped. They just sold the U.S. for ten pieces of silver.

So I won’t panic, but worse for them, I’m pissed off. 😡 I knew freedom is hard work, but those in America who deliberately make life difficult for profit selling Trumpian, Nazi trinkets, shoes, flags, and paraphernalia need to be run out of business in a social movement. Fvck them..

[malaise]

31. It's gut wrenching

Seriously

[jfz9580m]

27. Yeah..

This (scary stuff) is what I am reading when I am not trying to drown my sorrows in science:

https://www.statnews.com/2024/10/28/eugenics-in-political-rhetoric-open-science-movement-expert-analysis/

https://www.propublica.org/article/video-donald-trump-russ-vought-center-renewing-america-maga


No one who cares about stuff (personal or impersonal) can tune this out. It is definitely clear that America and the world as a whole lost today.
Well..I’ll try and stay sane with science. It is pretty much the only comfort in my life at the moment. But it is a real one.

[KS Toronado]

28. PRESIDENT BIDEN/V.P. HARRIS DO NOT CONCEDE THE ELECTION

This Country can not afford a dictator in the White House who want's to get rid of the U.S. Constitution,
install himself as king, jail his political opponents or put them in front of firing squads, and yes send our
Army, Navy & Air Force to go help Russia fight Ukrainians.

Time to jail him and everyone involved with Jan 6th before he jails or shots you for being a political
adversary.