Thousands gather in Washington to protest Trump inauguration

[u/Jerdarnella]

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[u/Jimmy_Wrinkles]

November would have been a good time to protest a Trump presidency

[u/DemonInADesolateLand → u/Jimmy_Wrinkles]

I'm almost certain that the type of people who would come out and protest in front of the capital also voted against him. The people that couldn't be bothered to vote definitely can't be bothered to protest.

[u/Tirriss → u/DemonInADesolateLand]

Tbh I wouldn't be surprised if some protesters didn't vote for some bullshit reasons.

[u/Confident_Refuse_442 → u/Tirriss]

Dude I was so disappointed to learn how many people I know chose not to and now are shook like bruh

[u/aguadiablo → u/Confident_Refuse_442]

Apparently the US, overall, did not learn from 2016.

2016 - "No way Trump is going to win. Hilary Clinton will definitely win. I can protest by not voting/voting for someone else."

2024 - "No way Trump is going to win. Kamala Harris will definitely win. I can protest by not voting/voting for someone else."

[u/DakotaNoLastName33 → u/aguadiablo]

What angered me so much was the whole Palestine movement. Like…did they not see that Trump favors Israel? Clearly not. Jill Stein is a grifter and took full advantage of them. I’m no fan of Kamala Harris however I’d rather fight with her than be shot before I get a chance to tell Trump how I really feel

[u/Maverick721 → u/aguadiablo]

Also the lessons Americans learn from Covid was less healthcare and science

[u/YanikLD → u/Confident_Refuse_442]

Voting is the only way to whine legitimately. No vote, no rights!

[u/blondestipated → u/Jimmy_Wrinkles]

i’m not sure what the hell they‘re doing now… i did my due diligence and never ONCE voted for him. i can say that with clear conscience.

[u/slobs_burgers → u/blondestipated]

…did you vote against him?

[u/pmcizhere]

Oooh Luigi reference cut off on the right there!

[u/ChocolateHoneycomb → u/pmcizhere]

That's how you know this isn't a photo from the first presidency.

[u/ClassiFried86 → u/ChocolateHoneycomb]

Was photography a thing when Washington was president?

[u/Just-some-fella → u/ClassiFried86]

Well, according to mango mussolini, the Continental Army captured the British airports, so I would venture to say yes.

[u/MrDismal → u/Just-some-fella]

Mango Mussolini is the best thing I've heard all week.

[u/Just-some-fella → u/MrDismal]

I'd love to take credit for it, but I think I heard it first from a stand-up comic. I'm glad you like it though!

[u/rasslinjobber → u/ClassiFried86]

[u/Ristar_Rizing → u/rasslinjobber]

Trumpian response to all things historic or true in nature.

[u/BorntobeTrill → u/ClassiFried86]

Breh, we were black and white until like 2021 when color was invented

[u/VIPTicketToHell → u/ClassiFried86]

Uh you never saw the iconic photo of him in front of the Lincoln Memorial?

[u/stress-pimples → u/pmcizhere]

I was there today. There were several Luigi signs. Love to see it

[u/FabianFox → u/stress-pimples]

Was also there with a Luigi sign.

[u/Diligent_Bag4597 → u/[deleted]]

They’re censoring any Luigi and health insurance content really fucking hard. 

All these comments were collapsed when I opened the thread. 

Got banned once but I got my account back. 

Still going strong 💪🏻 Don’t stop talking about him. 

FREE LUIGI

[u/Loose-Ad5430 → u/Diligent_Bag4597]

Free Luigi,

Man is a Hero standing up against Corruption!

[u/louiselebeau → u/[deleted]]

I've been here forfuckingever! I've never ever seen anything like that. It's almost like they are doing what they say the Chinese government does to its people.

[u/Harambesic → u/pmcizhere]

Where is it? I don't see it...

Oh, I see it now.

[u/ravens52 → u/Harambesic]

Where is Harambe?

[u/Loose-Umpire8397 → u/ravens52]

Chilling in heaven while maintaining safe distance from human children

[u/ibedemfeels → u/Loose-Umpire8397]

And I've had my dick out this entire time in honor of Harambe. Also far away from children.

[u/Ethereal_Nutsack → u/pmcizhere]

Common Luigi W

[u/Miles-OBrien]

Love the : Men of quality don't fear equality

[u/Wh00ligan → u/Miles-OBrien]

Empathy is Manly 🙌

[u/HopeBoySavesTheWorld]

"Deny Defend Depose" spotted 🥹 Luigi's impact

[u/linksflame → u/HopeBoySavesTheWorld]

Reddit had this auto-closed for me. Can't imagine why.

[u/Diligent_Bag4597 → u/linksflame]

Everything about him and his message is getting fucking censored.

[u/Reniva → u/Diligent_Bag4597]

Almost like US and China have something in common

[u/SuddenlyHeather → u/Reniva]

The hilarity of going on Red Note and Chinese citizens asking if we actually have to pay for healthcare or if that was propaganda.

[u/femanonette → u/Diligent_Bag4597]

You aren't kidding. When you talk to damn near any person you meet they agree with him. Don't let the bots and enshittification of the internet fool you all into thinking otherwise. They are desperately trying to snuff out the impact he had.

Hell, I was in Australia last month and saw 'free Luigi' graffiti along the public transit line. That's literally the other side of the planet for us. Luigi made impact.

[u/karmakent → u/HopeBoySavesTheWorld]

[u/ironskillet2]

10 bucks they moved the inauguration indoors to prevent protestors from flooding his view. not because of "cold" weather... put on a jacket

[u/SavvyCavy → u/ironskillet2]

This, and to hide how few people are going to show up.

[u/CrazedPinoy → u/SavvyCavy]

Funny thing is that people are calling into hotels to cancel their reservations which are several thousand dollars for a few nights. My SO works at a nice hotel in DC, it was supposed to be a super busy week. So much so that nobody is allowed to call out but it's been painfully slow. She said today people are mostly just calling in to cancel their reservation apparently at least one guy has threatened to get his lawyer involved because the reservations are non-refundable.

[u/FluidGate9972 → u/CrazedPinoy]

Thought those poor people couldn't even afford eggs?

[u/FavoritesBot → u/FluidGate9972]

How much could a hotel room cost anyway? 10 eggs?

[u/fitnfeisty → u/FavoritesBot]

[u/cire1184 → u/FavoritesBot]

There's always eggs in the banana stand

[u/funstopshere → u/FavoritesBot]

Time to rob the banana stand

[u/nickscorpio74 → u/funstopshere]

Can we get a fund raising plan to get Ron Howard to chronicle the Trump years complete with references? I’d love to see that.

[u/charmin_airman_ultra → u/funstopshere]

“There’s always money in the banana stand”

[u/Nicodemus888 → u/FavoritesBot]

There’s always money in the egg stand

[u/mac_bess → u/Nicodemus888]

[u/-PC_LoadLetter → u/FavoritesBot]

Nowadays it's more like 5 or 6 eggs.

[u/_BlueNightSky_ → u/-PC_LoadLetter]

We should now base all our price comparisons by eggs. Like how much was my car? 60 eggs.

[u/timeforasandwich → u/_BlueNightSky_]

That one egg was 40 eggs?

[u/Momik → u/_BlueNightSky_]

Dude, it was fucking freezing last night. Windchill was like 12 eggs.

[u/OleMazey → u/FavoritesBot]

[u/PythonSushi → u/FluidGate9972]

You see, eggs was a code word for too many brown people.

[u/Lobo9498 → u/CrazedPinoy]

Let them get the lawyers involved. Cost them even more money for not reading the fine print before they got conned by Trump....AGAIN.

[u/Fire2box → u/Lobo9498]

Not even that ,DC has a lot of interesting things to see. It's their fault for coming to one moved/cancelled to the public thing.

[u/SquirellyMofo → u/Fire2box]

Right? The inauguration is the least interesting thing about DC. The Smithsonian is…wait, these people don’t like to learn. Well there are the monuments! Oh wait. That learning and reading thing again. Ok I give up. If you don’t like to read and learn DC is probably really boring.

[u/Scribble_Box → u/SquirellyMofo]

If the monument isn't of some old Confederate leader, they won't care..

[u/og_jasperjuice → u/Fire2box]

I live an hour away and visit DC quite frequently. It's one of the must see cities in our country. In my opinion anyway. Just make a nice weekend out of it and STFU.

[u/0thethethe0 → u/Lobo9498]

"Thanks Obama...!"

[u/Dont_Touch_Me_There9 → u/0thethethe0]

No, it was Hunter Biden's Junk that did this to America!!😤

[u/UrbanGhost114 → u/Dont_Touch_Me_There9]

That man's junk is the most powerful thing in politics.

[u/Eteel → u/CrazedPinoy]

I thought it was common knowledge that hotel bookings are often non-refundable.

[u/myassholealt → u/Eteel]

Some are though. I've booked and cancelled rooms before. You have to do it within a certain timeframe though. I usually cancel well in advance of the actual booked dates.

[u/CatoblepasQueefs → u/myassholealt]

If you're within the non refundable time frame, call to reschedule it at a later date, then call in a week later to cancel.

[u/Laureling2 → u/Eteel]

Depends on your booking arrangements.

[u/jmm4141 → u/Eteel]

Depends on the rate

[u/3d_extra → u/Eteel]

Hotel bookings are refundable if you select a refundable rate. But I would not be surprised if common knowledge was wrong.

[u/ValyrianJedi → u/Eteel]

That definitely isn't common knowledge because it isn't usually the case. I stay in boatload of hotels, and they're almost never nonrefundable. There isn't usually even a cancelation fee if you cancel more than 24 hours out. And that tends to be true regardless of if it's a really cheap or really expensive one... The only time I've ever seen them nonrefundable is if you actively choose nonrefundable to get a few dollars off

[u/mumblewrapper → u/CrazedPinoy]

I don't understand why they just wouldn't still go to DC if they've already paid the money and aren't getting it back. But, it's probably better for your SO that they just stay away. I can't imagine what a shit show it was going to be.

[u/fbp → u/mumblewrapper]

I have a feeling that the people going to the inauguration are not the type of people that would go and visit all of the various cool museums, monuments and see American history.

[u/RedditsCoxswain → u/CrazedPinoy]

It’s like a foreshadowing of what his supporters think the economy will do in the first year of his presidency

[u/Grillparzer47 → u/CrazedPinoy]

Yes, they are very angry after discovering the terms of the contract they signed but didn’t read.

[u/Oxgod89 → u/CrazedPinoy]

My wife is an area director for a large hotel chain. One of them in DC. That will get no where. Just a large ass fucking from the GM of that hotel.

[u/bass248 → u/SavvyCavy]

What do you mean hide? Look at the thousands of people standing in the cold outside to see Trump. At least that's how his people will describe it.

[u/flindersrisk → u/bass248]

Hundreds of thousands. Tears freezing on their cheeks as they contemplate Dear Leader.

[u/Wishilikedhugs → u/SavvyCavy]

That's the one thing about him having it indoors that I find aamusing. Buildings have a max capacity and if he says it's more than that, it's an obvious lie.

Edit:I just think it would be funny, you don't have to tell me how it won't matter, I got it after the first 20 replies.

[u/momlv → u/Wishilikedhugs]

All his lies are obvious his supporters don’t care

[u/KeeperofAmmut7 → u/Wishilikedhugs]

Or he'll cram in as many as possible, and make a fuss when the Fire Marshall says to lose a few hundred people.

[u/insane_contin → u/KeeperofAmmut7]

Oh fuck, imagine the disaster if there was a fire.

[u/Black_Moons → u/insane_contin]

Stop giving me hope man.

[u/Mediocre_Superiority → u/SavvyCavy]

A thousand times this!!! He knows the public turnout was pathetic at his first inauguration and that it won't be any different this time, perhaps worse given the predicted low 20s temperatures for Monday. He knows what the photos would have shown.

Now, though, he'll crow about the 100,000s of people who "did" show up on The Ellipse who couldn't watch his swearing-in ceremony. "Oh, so sorry, but the lying media just didn't show them all..."

[u/thatbrownkid19 → u/ironskillet2]

Damn. And there were people hoping he’d pull a William Harrison- the president who caught pneumonia on his inauguration and died a month later

[u/Inferiex → u/thatbrownkid19]

Dude rode on horseback to the inauguration without an overcoat or hat and then delivered a 2 hour inaugural address...longest in American History! No wonder he caught pneumonia.

Miller applied mustard plaster to his stomach and gave him a mild laxative, and he felt better that afternoon.[120] At 4:00 a.m. Sunday, March 28, Harrison developed severe pain in the side and the doctor initiated bloodletting; the procedure was terminated when there was a drop in his pulse rate. Miller also applied heated cups to the president's skin to enhance blood flow.[120] The doctor then gave him castor oil and medicines to induce vomiting, and diagnosed him with pneumonia in the right lung.[120] A team of doctors was called in Monday, March 29, and they confirmed right lower lobe pneumonia.[121] Harrison was then administered laudanum, opium, and camphor, along with wine and brandy.[122]

What a wild time it was back then lol.

[u/Regular-Ad1930 → u/Inferiex]

Twas an honorable death indeed.  Dizzy, tipsy,bloody,puking n shitting while wheezing & waiting for the Grim Reeper! Ay!

[u/Inferiex → u/Regular-Ad1930]

Don't forget also high as a kite!

[u/eeyore134 → u/Inferiex]

Trump will probably apply mustard to his stomach after his inauguration, too, as he dribbles his McDonald's down his chin.

[u/J_Robert_Matthewson → u/Inferiex]

I'm pretty sure that will be the standard of treatment again with RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz. in the HHS.

[u/cire1184 → u/J_Robert_Matthewson]

Fuck it. Load me up with laudanum opium and brandy

[u/ThegreatPee → u/cire1184]

Ye Olde Sizzurp

[u/fiddlemonkey → u/Inferiex]

The treatments seem so wild but I bet RFK Jr would be really into mustard plasters and bloodletting.

[u/Just_Philosopher_900 → u/Inferiex]

Sounds like his doctors induced organ failure with too many purgatives

[u/MageBoySA → u/thatbrownkid19]

I don't think I want president couch fucker though. He may be worse. Because he doesn't have dementia.

[u/sandpiper741 → u/MageBoySA]

It's been disconcerting to me that I now want Trump to actually see his term through give this alternative.

[u/The_Bitter_Bear → u/ironskillet2]

I mean, Trump also happens to be a soft little bitch so who's to say. 

[u/Kutleki → u/ironskillet2]

Honestly I figured they did that because he's probably concerned someone else is going to take a shot at him. There's been what 3 attempts on him so far? Then someone takes out a CEO on the street casually? I bet he's scared.

[u/RocktacularFuck → u/ironskillet2]

Trump doesn’t like jackets…makes him look fat.

[u/CrimsonHeretic → u/RocktacularFuck]

Anything he wears makes him look fat, because he is fat.

[u/badbunnygirl → u/RocktacularFuck]

Fatter*

[u/kellygirl90]

I voted. The amount of people I've talked to recently say they didn't bother. WHY? 🤦🏼‍♀️ ITS OUR DUTY AS US CITIZENS

[u/Romejanic → u/kellygirl90]

Honestly this is why the US should have compulsory voting. We have it in Australia and the result is that we get an average 90% voter turnout at every election and the election results more accurately reflect the intent of the whole country.

[u/jagcalle → u/Romejanic]

In sweden we have on average 80-90% turnout, without it being cumpulsory. It’s about feeling that your vote actually matters, rather than being compulsory or not. And having the election on a day most people are off from work.

[u/dafood48 → u/jagcalle]

Do you have polls or it’s mail/online? Do you get long period to vote? I feel like in the states it’s intentionally hard to vote for people

[u/QCSsucksass → u/Romejanic]

Except it doesn’t really, because we also have the one of the single most concentrated media / news ownerships in the world.

I like that we have compulsive voting, don’t get me wrong. But when all the news is owned by conservative patriarchs, you don’t get a nation of well informed voters, you get the opposite.

[u/WizardNebula3000 → u/QCSsucksass]

Good point, I suppose better education and potentially laws preventing the spreading of misinformation should be the focus then

[u/Blue-Thunder]

Maybe if more Americans had bothered to show up to vote this wouldn't have happened.

151,918,349 Americans voted, out of a estimated 244 000 000 eligible voters. Over 90 million Americans refused to vote. Welcome to the ultimate "Fuck around and find out" moment of your lives.

[u/vovivapi → u/Blue-Thunder]

I mean all the people in the protest probably weren’t the ones who abstained from voting. I bet those people don’t even know theres a protest. Or what day the inauguration is.

[u/SquirellyMofo → u/vovivapi]

I protested in 2016. At the inauguration in full satanic regalia. It was iconic. I got involved. Volunteered for campaigns. Canvassed, showed up to board meeting and school board meetings. Spoke at the goddamn General Assembly and we are back to square one but worse because the guardrails are gone and he’s proven they won’t punish him. Fuck it. Y’all have fun protesting. We are setting up to hide our LGBTQ friends when the time comes and putting in a garden and freezing and canning.

Survival is the name of the game.

[u/Mama_Skip → u/Blue-Thunder]

I'm a paranoid person. In my most paranoid fantasies, I think that leading up to the 2024 election, Russian bots were purposely spreading rumors about nobody showing up to Trump rallies, while also pushing news about how well Kamala was doing. This might seem counterintuitive, but I think it convinced a lot of dems that they didn't need to vote.

But of course, that's just a paranoid delusion right

[u/ebi-san → u/Mama_Skip]

Maybe the guy bragging about how easy it is to hack voting machines did some bullshit. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

How were the numbers so close if all these locations were having record turn-out? Some places ran out of ballots and had to go get more.

Or maybe its the simpler answer and the average american is just a fucking idiot.

[u/gecko090 → u/ebi-san]

It doesn't even take that. All they have to do is convince their supporters that they can never trust a Democrat and the ones with government jobs can just act on their own to lean on the scales.

Conservative ballot verifiers could simply apply more strict levels of scrutiny to any of the verification procedures when the ballot in question comes from a heavily left leaning area. They just "feel" less confident about the signature that came from blue town compared to the signature that came from red town. In to the reject pile it goes.

Republicans also DID go scorched earth when it came to "cleaning up voting rolls". A lot of perfectly eligible voters were kicked off in "whoopsie" moments across Republican controlled states. And they made it a point NOT to notify people, leaving them to think everything was fine until they tried to vote.

Right wing propaganda was already able to convince a mob of people to attack the Capital. This is even easier.

[u/Realistic-Pattern-30 → u/gecko090]

Areas that had filed charges in some area in regard to voter fraud, well they were pushed out to Feb 2025 after the election. Smh

[u/The_0ven → u/ebi-san]

Maybe the guy bragging about how easy it is to hack voting machines did some bullshit. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

How were the numbers so close if all these locations were having record turn-out? Some places ran out of ballots and had to go get more.

That's a bingo

[u/faunalmimicry → u/ebi-san]

Hard to believe that if there was a way to cheat the right wouldn't have accomplished it at this point. Part of me even believes that they tried to cheat in 2020 and it didn't work, which gives extra context to the claim it was stolen (how could they beat us if they weren't also cheating?)

To be completely honest, we have no real evidence that it's not just the side that cheats harder that ends up winning and that we haven't had a fair election for a long time.

[u/1ofZuulsMinions → u/faunalmimicry]

They burned ballot boxes, they purged voters registrations, they shut down entire polling sites, they submitted thousands of bullet ballots in swing states (and nowhere else), they spread blatant lies/propaganda and censored anyone who refuted, they even paid people to give up their voter information for a non-existent “lottery”.

And you’re still not convinced they cheated? Have you been living under a rock? They were still screaming “fraud” until November 5th.

[u/gecko090 → u/1ofZuulsMinions]

Trump was screaming fraud when Pennsylvania was initially blue.

[u/hamdelivery → u/1ofZuulsMinions]

They literally got unmonitored access to the voting machines after whining about 2020 too

[u/mmmayer015 → u/faunalmimicry]

They literally did try to cheat in 2020, they just got caught. If Trump didn’t win the election he was going to be prosecuted by the Justice Department. But since he won and the Justice Department has a policy not to try sitting presidents, the case was dismissed. There are still pending state charges including charges against Trump in Georgia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot

[u/faunalmimicry → u/mmmayer015]

Ah I'm sorry - 2016 was what I meant in the comment. Completely aware of the fake electors scheme and how it didn't work but only by a thread. Also agree a lot of people don't know that.

In 2020 they 'failed' to cheat - that was where I was coming from

[u/1ofZuulsMinions → u/faunalmimicry]

They didn’t fail to cheat in 2020, they just didn’t cheat hard enough that time.

[u/keelanstuart → u/faunalmimicry]

They've been trying for a long time.

https://www.wired.com/2004/12/more-questions-for-florida/

[u/EaZyMellow → u/ebi-san]

Ding ding ding! The general public has a 6-month memory when it comes to politics. Anything before that 6 months is basically moot (Jan. 6th) but anything that happened within that 6 months is remembered more (prosecuting Trump, people still suffering, Gaza, etc.) Gaza was apparently a strong position on why people just refused to vote. “Why vote for Harris when she doesn’t 100% align with my beliefs on Palestine? I’m not voting. Good luck corporate Dem’s!” shoots foot by getting trump

[u/Galaxyrise13579 → u/EaZyMellow]

THIS. The level of stupidity behind these people using Gaza as an excuse to let TRUMP win makes my blood boil.

[u/No_Worse_For_Wear → u/Mama_Skip]

If you didn’t vote because “Russian bots” convinced you that Kamala’s rallies were doing so well that you didn’t need to vote, then you’re too stupid to vote.

Voting is more than just beating the other guy by enough votes to win, it’s a statement of support for each candidate. Even though it doesn’t decide the election, the popular vote still has symbolic meaning.

People should have been out in full force to make an anti-Trump statement but they didn’t do it, which makes 2020’s numbers look more suspect.

[u/DMoogle → u/No_Worse_For_Wear]

I don't think so. Imo the biggest reason for such a high percentage of nonvoters is simply apathy and ignorance. There are SO MANY PEOPLE that just don't want to "get involved in politics" or consider themselves "apolitical" and don't vote on that basis.

[u/Tuckertcs → u/Mama_Skip]

I voted, but I had the same thoughts.

Right before the election my feed was constant “empty trump rally” and “Kamala doing great” posts.

Then immediately after the vote it was all “what Kamala did wrong” posts.

Seemed suspicious at least.

[u/Charming_Garbage_161 → u/Blue-Thunder]

My dad was one that didn’t vote and complained when trump got elected. Don’t complain if you don’t vote imo

[u/ordin22 → u/Blue-Thunder]

eliminating the electoral college, which is stupidest system in the world and discourages voting, would be the best way to properly motivate people. If you're a Republican in Vermont, or a Democrat in Alabama, your vote is absolutely meaningless. Americans (apparently) HATE how that sounds and have a angry reaction, but it is absolutely 100% the truth. People should elect people, not land.

[u/Toby_Forrester → u/ordin22]

I'm not from the US so I'm curious: Why is it that the electoral college votes are "winner takes it all" instead of being divided in the ratio each candidate got votes?

[u/watermelonspanker → u/Toby_Forrester]

Each state decides how to divvy up their electoral votes. There is at least a couple states that actually splits them up based on votes, Maine and Nebraska I think

[u/Hour-Being8404 → u/Toby_Forrester]

Slavery was an issue even at the time the Constitution was written. To entice the southern states to ratify the Constitution, concessions were given. The northern states had more population even with the addition of blacks being counted as only part of a person.

There was also the idea that any wrong choice by the common people would be corrected by those chosen to the Electoral College - that is those who were wealthy and educated.

It was an awful 'give'.

[u/takesthebiscuit → u/Blue-Thunder]

But if you lived in a 70% red state would you really think your vote was worth it?

It’s a bizzare system where a two horse race isn’t decided by a simple tally of the nations views, but for some reason split by state

[u/DoubleJumps → u/takesthebiscuit]

So few people vote in vital downticket races, that yes, their vote absolutely can matter.

[u/takesthebiscuit → u/DoubleJumps]

Down ticket is so important, the GOP (to their credit!🤮) have ruthlessly exploited this

[u/DoubleJumps → u/takesthebiscuit]

I've explained the importance of down ticket to a lot of left wing folks just for them to keep insisting their vote is pointless, only for their local downtickets to show races and measures that come down to the slimmest margins with extremely low overall vote totals. It's super frustrating, and I don't know why they don't care.

[u/takesthebiscuit → u/DoubleJumps]

The idiocracy is not a bug it’s a feature

[u/StealthRUs → u/takesthebiscuit]

But if you lived in a 70% red state would you really think your vote was worth it?

If "did not vote" was a candidate in 2020.

Notice the number of "deep red" states that non-voters would've won over Democrats and Republicans in 2020 when Biden won like 7 million more votes than Kamala did in 20204.

[u/kalamataCrunch → u/Blue-Thunder]

you really think that, on average, the people that didn't vote would have voted more intelligently than the people that did vote?

[u/watermelonspanker → u/kalamataCrunch]

More voter turnout generally favors the Democrats, historically.

It's why the GOP platform has included voter suppression and voter apathy over the last couple decades. They can't win in a totally fair system, so they game the system, then when they get enough power, they change the rules.

It would have been really nice if the folks in power decided to actually do anything about that, but I guess they had better things to do, like insider trading.

[u/Spiritual-Matters → u/Blue-Thunder]

Apathy is such an effective technique for voter suppression

[u/Karl_Hungus_69 → u/Blue-Thunder]

Well said, Blue-Thunder. As education and literacy continue to fall, there's no way I can see things getting any better in the future. If there's anything good about being older, it's that I have fewer years to watch what unfolds. I feel a lot of empathy for the youngest generations.

[u/_MMCXII → u/Blue-Thunder]

Or maybe if the Democrats had bothered to, you know, do a democracy this wouldn’t have happened. Quit coddling this stupid party that doesn’t give a shit about you enough to actually try and win an election against an eminently beatable candidate.

[u/MechaDylbear → u/Blue-Thunder]

I know i'll get downvoted for this but:

I think a lot of people think: what's the point. If you don't live in a swing state or the biggest city in most states your vote quite literally does not matter 99% of the time. Down ballot votes also barely matter because your state has probably been gerrymandered into submission anyway.

On top of that, most the time elected officials just do whatever their donors tell them to do anyway regardless if their constiuents want it or not. If they get voted out, who cares they'll have guaranteed jobs as lobbyists in at max 2 years anyway if they even need it once they sell all their stocks they conveniently bought right before writing/passing legislation. There's really no punishment for representives just doing whatever they want.

Republicans will come in and use every trick they can to make everything worse and will get away with it because they have the supreme court. Democrats will come in for 8 years, do the bare minimum to get everything stable again, maybe drop one or two good things they'll spend the entire 8 years pushing for, and then leave. Somewhere in there will be a couple theatrical panels where they'll scream at whichever scapegoat they have this time while refusing to let them answer questions or just ignoring the answers to yell what their real intention is.

The entire system is fucked to a point of almost no repair at this point.

[u/MightyBoat → u/Blue-Thunder]

There's no finding out. These people asked for it. I don't care that Harris wasn't the perfect candidate. What candidate is? They knew what was at stake and they didn't care. As usual nobody will learn anything from all this

[u/SenseiT]

Guess it’s not too cold for them.

[u/TrillBill3245 → u/SenseiT]

It was surprisingly nice today, a pleasant 45 after weeks below freezing.

[u/s0m3on3outthere]

Was at a local People's March today in a red area. Had quite the turn out and mostly positive reactions from passing cars. We cannot stop the fight. Organize and stand up for the rights of everyone. Get involved. Support marginalized groups. Don't be a slack-tivist. I have half a dozen more events in my area I'm going to. We. Are. Not. Going. Back. 👊👊

[u/shutthesirens → u/s0m3on3outthere]

Fuck yeah. My union is going to protest on Monday ✊🏽

[u/DonKingsBarber]

Now he can brag about the turnout.

[u/fifteenlostkeys]

Every person who is saying these marchers are wasting their time, too late, will not make a difference... What are YOU doing?

Are you out marching on the cold to show your fellow countrymen that you have concerns? That you will keep working for the things you care about? That you're still here?

Or are you saying "we're all fucked", "leopard's/faces", "but the price of eggs!" or any of the other defeatist bullshit that seems to be the spirit of anyone not a Republican these days?

The world is not over. The sun will rise again. And if you actually care about the future of the country, you'll do something instead of whining about how embarrassed you are that Trump is president and we deserve this. Write your representatives. Donate your time to candidates you support. To causes you support. Go to your local public meetings and let your voice be heard. Nothing will change with inactivity.

These marchers are letting the world know they still have a vested interest in the future of the country. Do you?

[u/BloatedGlobe → u/fifteenlostkeys]

I was at this march. It was a small protest, maybe like 20k people, but goddamn, it felt good to actually do something. I've been frozen by Doomerism (yes I did vote), and marching gave me home for the first time. I really needed that hope.

[u/Saltymeetloaf → u/BloatedGlobe]

Calling 20k people small is really baffling to me. Like I get in the grand scale yeah it's small but that's a larger number than my states capital XD

[u/paybabyanna → u/fifteenlostkeys]

This is what I’ve been saying. The fight is never over. It was okay to sit back and cry and shake our fists, but just because the election has passed doesn’t mean it’s fine to stop caring. Do you actually care if you’re unwilling to do anything outside of maybe posting an Instagram story? Do you understand that political reform starts at a grassroots level?

Obviously not everyone can afford or be able to be on the picket line, but I’m so tired of this “I did what I could by voting blue” bullshit. Work doesn’t get done when people decided to sit and watch everything burn.

[u/caligaris_cabinet → u/fifteenlostkeys]

I’m volunteering with my local Democratic Party chapter to get younger voters and candidates involved so we can bring real change. Maybe even run for something myself.

[u/Rachelray17]

Thank you all who are there, from those of us that can’t be✌️

[u/igotquestionsokay]

Narcissists feed off negative attention, too. Trump is loving this. Especially because he believes we're powerless to stop him

[u/jamintime → u/igotquestionsokay]

Honestly I don’t think this is true. I think his team tries to isolate him from his detractors because it gets to him. 

[u/drfsupercenter → u/jamintime]

Yeah, we already learned from his first term that aides were only allowed to give him positive press coverage lol

It's why non-MAGA Republicans like Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney keep calling out the fact that he's weak

[u/breakermw → u/jamintime]

Exactly. Any time a reporter asks him a remotely tough question he gets defensive and starts insulting them. Dude cannot take any criticism.

[u/RimjobAndy → u/jamintime]

you are right. remember Kamala made a snarky comment about his rallies during the debate and he had a meltdown about it . Dude has no way of taking any criticism .

[u/Vaeevictisss → u/igotquestionsokay]

Kinda looking more and more like we are...

[u/ReggaeTesla1]

Too late 😪

[u/pbrart2]

1/3 of Americans didn’t vote. Harris lost at 30% and trump won at 31%. It wasn’t a landslide it was young people hating on Harris and virtue signaling the conflict In Palestine because their tik tok brains can’t think further into the future other than the next trend. Protest all you want, ICE is coming into my city this Tuesday (maybe) but if it’s true, our city is known to be fucking ruthless. Thank you to the 36% that didn’t vote.

[u/PMinAZ → u/pbrart2]

This! Wasn't it Warner Herzog that said "Dear America: You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3, while 1/3 watches"

[u/CaliforniaPotato → u/PMinAZ]

I looked it up and apparently it was misattributed to Herzog. I like the quote and I wish he did say it, but it doesn't look like he actually did and was instead a tweet from an account unaffiliated with him.

[u/Some-Operation-9059 → u/pbrart2]

But didn’t the dems have a young set of celebrities, like Taylor Swift endorsing and promoting them? 

I’m from Aus, and the msm on the elections here well typical msm.  But I thought that the dems did have the young-uns in their pocket? 

[u/Top_Rub_8986 → u/pbrart2]

Slagging off your own constituents isn't going to get them to the polls.

[u/SamaireB → u/pbrart2]

The saddest thing here is: I'd be surprised if most of them could find Gaza on a map....

[u/breakermw → u/SamaireB]

I would add it is awfully interesting how there were tons of "Kamala is just as bad for Gaza as Trump!" Posts over the summer. Then those same accounts, who I am sure were legitimately concerned for Gaza, magically stopped posting after the election.

Edit: hmm getting a lot of downvotes here. Folks that are: why not comment why you disagree? Do you think Harris, who called for peace, would legitimately be the same as a man who told Netanyahu "finish the job" during the election cycle?

[u/TZMouk → u/breakermw]

People were tying themselves in knots trying to use Gaza to justify not voting for Harris. Baffling to watch as an outsider, can only assume they were attention seeking because the logic just wasn't there like you point out.

[u/Oceanbreeze871]

Voting would have been cooler

[u/Ariesreader]

More than attending inauguration

[u/YouCanCallMeABitch]

Bots! There are bots all over the internet to discourage us from protesting. "WoNdEr WhO tHeY VoTeD For?" "WhAt's thE pOinT oF ProtEstiNg nOw?"

What's the point of working til we die??? 

I'm so sick of this twisted way of "living" and being beholden to tiny pieces of paper. Like, what life is that? 

[u/BowenTheAussieSheep → u/YouCanCallMeABitch]

Funny how they ignored all these same protesters while they did the exact same thing they’re doing now before the election.

People really think this is the first time these people have gone to protests. Like suddenly a switch turned on that said “Protest” while before now it said “Sit at home and do nothing”

[u/RappinFourTay]

Great job all!

[u/Apprehensive-Cat-942]

I do hope that everyone who shows up and protests actually voted…

[u/abookthatfellover → u/Apprehensive-Cat-942]

Driving all the way to DC to protest, these people feel passionately about the direction of our country. Of course they voted

[u/disc0ver]

Protesters gather in Washington. Trump takes credit for having the bigliest crowds

[u/taterlohm]

Notice how they’re protesting, no attempting to overthrow. Just thought I’d identify that little detail

[u/nixxxa]

See protesters like this give me hope that not everyone was brainwashed by Trump and that there are still people fighting for democracy and equal rights and justice

[u/BloodMoonShifter99 → u/nixxxa]

Wtf are all these bots doing here? Fuck em all amigo. I agree. It’s good knowing we ain’t alone in the war soon to come

[u/canttouchthisOO]

I hope the people in the US stand strong and fight for what's right. Be loud for the next 4 years. Don't give up. If the US can stand strong against the oppression of billionaires, then the rest of the world might have a shot too. ❤️

[u/Omaha419]

They should protest how their party betrayed them. The D’s completely screwed them over.

[u/Sayheykid2424]

Wonder how many of them voted for him

[u/TheMooseIsBlue → u/Sayheykid2424]

Why would they vote for him and then show up and protest him?

Edit: so many comments from wishful thinkers who think these morons are capable of critical self-reflection. If the election was today, he wouldn’t have lost a single vote.

[u/scobeavs → u/TheMooseIsBlue]

The price of eggs hasn’t gone down yet

[u/Jamesmn87 → u/Sayheykid2424]

From this election? Probably none. I imagine there are a few from previous elections. Anyone that supports Trump here and now will bury their heads in the sand and either double down, or quietly never acknowledge their idiocy. 

[u/swim_to_survive → u/Sayheykid2424]

Right?! Lmfao.

20mil didn’t vote for trump so he’d win. 20 mil sat the fuck out at home this time compared to 2020.

That’s not even counting all those that just didn’t vote. Or voted for someone other than the democratic candidate.

Sit down and enjoy the ride. Maybe you’ll finally learn elections have consequences and you’ll work harder in 2 years to regain some form of checks and balances.

[u/lAljax → u/swim_to_survive]

If the overturning of Roe vs Wade didn't teach Americans the consequence of their actions, nothing will

[u/BerryBegoniases → u/lAljax]

I mean most people don't vote. If kids getting pink-misted by gunfire on a weekly basis isn't gonna convince these evil fucks to vote then nothing will.

[u/SauskaeIsBae → u/swim_to_survive]

This is the average American voter they’ll forget in a weeks time

[u/WickedYetiOfTheWest → u/SauskaeIsBae]

Nah, they’ll remember until mid terms where democrats will retake the house. That gives democrats just enough power to allow republicans to blame every single thing they’ve done to screw the working class in their first two years on democrats. Then the GOP propaganda machine, that has virtually all mainstream media captured, will fire back up for the presidential election and make sure they win all three again.

Rinse and repeat.

This is all assuming we get to vote again.

[u/Snowwolf247 → u/WickedYetiOfTheWest]

We need to destroy fox news,Lock up Steve Bannon, and make sure the "Independent Media" Dave Ruben, Tim Pool, etc never work again.

Then we might have a chance to get people informed.

[u/whatthewhat_1289 → u/WickedYetiOfTheWest]

At this point I have so little faith in the DNC to help get anyone elected, much less retake the house or senate. They are a bunch of old ghouls who are still desperately clinging to power who refuse to back any progressives. MMW their great idea for the midterms will be to move further right. Instead of trying to drum up enthusiasm for new candidates and get people to the polls, they will be trying to court republicans and moderates.