Yes, this is as bad as it seems.

[notroot]

Do what you gotta do.

[TwilightZone]

1. Can't change the result now.

Need to learn from it and regroup.

[notroot]

2. Assuming we ever get the chance, yes. But history is not on our side.

[TwilightZone]

8. Politics is cyclical.

There will be an inevitable ebb to the flow, and we need to be prepared to take advantage.

1992, 2008.

[notroot]

9. Assuming we get the chance. That's an assumption I'm not ready to make, today

[SoCalDavidS]

6. Define Regroup

They control the entire government for the next 2 years AT LEAST.

They will now control the Supreme Court for the next 40 years AT LEAST.

I tend to believe everything I heard leading up to this election. How Democracy was on the line. IT WAS.

Game Over.

[TwilightZone]

7. The same way we did in 2016.

Remember how everyone said Trump wasn't going to leave office in 2020? It was all just bullshit.

Learn and adjust.

The claim that this is the last election is hyperbole.

We can either believe our own bullshit or figure out what to do about it.

First, we should stop pretending that we understand voter motivations, and figure out why we suck at it. And understand that they are often irrational. Adjust.

Figure out why the Harris campaign wasn't able to exploit issues that should have been positives for us, like the economy. Adjust.

This was a systematic loss. There are myriad causes. We need to deconstruct the election and learn from it so that we can target 2026, to start.

[SoCalDavidS]

10. Doesn't Matter. This Country Is Over

I'm 58, and I'm 100% certain we won't recover during my lifetime.

THIS IS NOT 2016!!!

And how many Americans needlessly died in 2020 & 2021 thanks to the fact he was elected in 2016? It's too late for them then, and it's too late for many of us now.

I'm sick of Monday Morning Quarterbacking. Fuck Regrouping. This is the reality we are in for years and probably decades to come. He will have appointed 5 of the 9 SC Justices, and they'll be serving well after I'm dead.

[notroot]

5. Yeah, anyone planning on staying in America is looking at "French Resistance" situation...

We're past the "Allied Forces" phase.

[Gaugamela]

4. It sounds like you're encouraging self-harm.