Wonko, I've been reading you for 20 years, I think, and I will keep doing it. I think of you as an online friend and a capable foil that holds me accountable to think through the things that I say. I value that. But you spent the last 6 months at least telling me and everyone else that a Trump victory was abjectly impossible and the result of the election doesn't seem to have humbled you. *The rest snipped for brevity*.
Thank you Axaday. You've been a reasonable, fairly intelligent person, and I've enjoyed our shared interactions.
1.) I never said it was impossible, I said the math didn't support it. And yeah, apparently I was wrong.
2.) One does not go from hope to terror to find humility.
I've spent the last year trying to keep everyone's hope up, to convince a sometimes quite fatalistic group that everything is going to be alright. Because I want my friends to believe, and to know that they are going to be okay!
We NEEDED harris. The world needed harris. We needed a US that actually acknowledged the problems the world faces, and sets both tone and pace for DEALING with those problems. Now you've got a climate change denier as president, a vaccine conspiracy theorist as medical oversight. Elon musk will be responsible for gutting government agencies if trump deems them wasteful or unnecessary. Remember puerto rico? Trumps response to hurricane maria? That's going to be the ENTIRE country, with his response based solely on how much the local government kisses his ass. So many americans are going to die; needless, preventable deaths. That's not even touching on womens right, transright, LGBTQ rights, human rights...
And it's going to affect canada very badly as well. We can no longer trust that our closest neighbour and biggest trading partner won't go ******* mafia on us. There was an opinion poll a couple of weeks ago that stated poilievre is largely believed to be better able to handle trump than trudeau. We're going to end up with a poilievre administration in '26, and that rat faced, squinty mother fucker is going to salute trump, give him everything he wants, then lodge himself so far up trumps ass he's see daylight if it weren't for the diaper.
And internationally, everything just became a tinder box: trump hates nato, and nato does NOT have the means to support individual sovereign rights across the planet without the US. Ukraine is probably fucked even if it takes another decade, maybe even taiwan. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised is north koreas makes a run on the south.
Is it the end of the world? No, absolutely not. But it's a darker ******* world today.
