They voted themselves into their own misery.
I feel for the folks who had the good sense to vote anything but a demented fascist convict pedo Republican billionaire into office. But as a society, I have very little sympathy for America.
this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2026
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Better than voting for an active genocidaire.
Don't forget those who thought it a good idea to allow the orange fuck into office.
At least 75% of them are in red states. I hope the majority of this falls on Trump supporters.
I have no sympathy and I live here. But, it hurts all of us. Our voting system is so broken and rigged. We allow legal bribery in the form of campaign finance, we only truly allow two parties to be in power, we quibble over the meaningless shit, and nobody pays attention between elections enough to make informed decisions.
Fuck this country.
We don't really deserve it. Trump's first term could arguably be excused - maybe he wasn't going to be as awful as people said.
The second and third time we knew exactly what we were asking for. There's really no benefit of the doubt to give on time 2 and 3.
Trump did heaps of terrible shit before and during his first presidency. The algorithmic internet and the laziness of mainstream media to report social media trends as news, instead of doing real journalism, are basically why we're here.
The only positive thing to come out of the Trump presidency is that he's fully shown a light on just how broken our system is.
From all of mass media being captured propaganda pieces, to the checks and balances basically meaning nothing if a few of the people at the top are corrupt. To our justice system that's basically just partisan hacks that would rather prosecute you for a parking ticket than a pedophile rapist.
cuts foreign aid yeah get those foreigner >:( arrests immigrants yeah get those immigrants >:( cuts healthcare omg i don't deserve this :'(
your people will defend him and the ones that don't agree will stay silent. yes you deserve it.
I am not and have not been silent, and I refuse to be so.
I meant we don't deserve the sympathy, not that we don't deserve the misery. I could have phrased that better.
I don't know how to help my community on this front, but I will continue to donate to local food and clothing banks.