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[politics/anxiety] so like. is anyone getting worried over what will happen if trump loses or is it just me
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like... him and his ilk
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what they'll do if he actually loses
DryadGurrl
oh no, I'm concerned as well
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his supporters and enablers don't give a fuck so i am just growing
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concerned
DryadGurrl
considering the area of CA i'm in was already up in arms about 'marshall law' due to the covid lockdown (which was never enforced because of people like that) I'm growing ever more concerned
Mica
I'm concerned about both options, him winning or losing
Mica
but if we got to have one
Mica
and we do
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oh i'll definitely take him losing for sure... i'm just worried he'll pull something? and you know... legal or not his enablers will let it happen
fu mr milkshake
win or lose it's going to get ugly
juliette lives
I'm concerned either way
juliette lives
I'm worried that if he loses he won't leave and/or his supporters will get violent
sugah
i have been worried this whole time
juliette lives
and ofc I'm worried for all of us if he wins
sugah
my family wants me to visit them during thanksgiving in AZ
sugah
is it too much that i was like uh... depends on how the election goes
juliette lives
I've promised my family a visit between thanksgiving and christmas and my parents are trump supporters
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not trying to stoke your guys' anxiety but this is a time and a half
juliette lives
it's ok, we're all in this anxiety hole together
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yeah.... just... be safe guys. and hopefully it wont be too bad?? but based on 2020 so far my hopes are in the negatives
juliette lives
my area is reasonably safe but there are vocal trump supporters amongst my immediate neighbors, sob
sugah
so even more scary, is that both barrett and kavanaugh (sp?) were part of the litigation that got the two counties in FL to turn for Bush in the recount
juliette lives
last election I played online cards against humanity to keep my anxiety from eating me alive, and that was with reasonable certainty that Hillary had it in the bag
sugah
:|
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sugah
: whoa i did not know that
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I live in rural Trump country
juliette lives
this year I think I may just go to bed at 8 PM and try to sleep til 2021
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so I'm like incredibly terrified
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haha ha haah.
juliette lives
hugs
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like my literal neighbours, who I share a wall with, have a "veterans for trump" sign
juliette lives
at one point I'd semi-seriously offered to let friends move into my living room and office space if their home states got too scary but now that's like... too many friends...
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oh geez
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definitely hope yall be safe with that nonsense
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the only good thing about southerners constantly thinking I'm a woman is that it means my husband and I probably read as straight
juliette lives
but yeah I kind of don't want to visit my parents in rural trump county
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which I hate! but...could keep us safer longer
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there's ONE black family in my townhouse complex and I am scared to death for them too
juliette lives
everyone do what you need to to stay safe
sugah
dirtypaws: i need to find the post i saw it in
sugah
god why did i ping you in your own plurk
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torrance is slightly liberal leaning but i have noticed a large uptick in trump supporting just working and seeing people with trump masks and "fuck your feelings" shirts
sugah
LB is bleeding towards y'all
juliette lives
yeah my district is pretty mixed but overall our state goes blue so it could be worse
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virginia is a weird place. like my county is a lost cause but northern va and richmond and charlottesville vote blue
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virginia voted hillary in 2016
juliette lives
me, supposed to be sleeping, instead in the political anxiety plurk. flees.
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with california, its blue in the big cities but i'm to understand the smaller cities are more red
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MICHELLE go to sleep
DryadGurrl
see, I'm incorporated city that used to be unincorporated suburb of the capital
DryadGurrl
but my neighborhood is mostly retired military republicans
DryadGurrl
so even though the city as a whole will probably be blue, my particular neighborhood, not so much
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shoves michelle out of this plurk to bed with you
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and ooph that's... rough
DryadGurrl
and like, the cousin I live with? Is registered republican (I'm the one who brings the mail in nine times out of ten, so when the 'you're registered by mail' cards came in I saw his) Which doesn't mean he's voting for the incumbent, but... given what else I know about him? It's not outside the realm of possibility and that worries me
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oh no.... i have seen that a lot of republicans are not voting for him because they're fed up but like.... yeah hopefully that's the case with him
DryadGurrl
yeah, I like to think he has more sense than that, but he's also the one who took a circular saw to a frozen rack of ribs on the counter, spraying half the kitchen with frozen pork grit that I'm still finding the dehydrated remains of years later
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my parents are both republican and my mom likes to do the "you're only a democrat cause you're young i used to be the same" to me like i'm stupid and my dad will talk loudly about liberal snowflakes constantly so
DryadGurrl
(which is to say: he sees an immediate solution and nothing of the effects it will have)
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.... what the actual fucking hell
DryadGurrl
yeah
DryadGurrl
so I have no idea what his voting habits are or if they will change because of the shitshow that's going on right now
DryadGurrl
(also low-key anti-masker even despite being a nursing student)
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how the hell you gonna be anti mask when you're literally going into nursing honestly....
DryadGurrl
but yes, I'm a very anxious person due to many factors already, and none of the current situation is making it any better
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can we go back to 2016 before this mess began
sugah
Yeah places with money too
sugah
Like Anaheim Hills is full of right wing boomers
cricketussy
I think when I came on plurk just now I was looking for the solidarity of this plurk, so it is definitely not just you. I think it's going to be a mess no matter how this election goes.
cricketussy
The neighborhood I'm currently in is likely to be okay, but idk what's going to happen elsewhere. At the minimum, I think whichever side loses is going to be screaming about election fraud just because this year is so screwy.
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I live in a swing county in a swing state (we went Obama in 2008 and 2012, solidly Trump in 2016), and considering the amount of gunfucking Trump supporters around... yeah, I'm genuinely worried
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Did y'all hear that in Florida, a group claiming to be the Proud Boys used the public voter registration database to e-mail a bunch of registered Democrats and threaten them? I have a feeling that kind of thing is going to be more and more frequent leading up to the election (and after, if Trump loses)
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YEP. I live in Cincinnati.
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I saw a dude on a street corner waving a Trump sign yesterday and so many people were slowing down to wave and honk it was slowing traffic down
dirtsmell
Jenny Trout has a post that is this, and it's so upsetting
dirtsmell
Dispatches from behind enemy lines
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"And on November 3rd, their parents will walk into their polling place and cast their votes for the man who did this to their children." This is something I think about a lot
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My dad's a retired letter carrier, so are a bunch of his buddies, and despite what Trump did to the post office, his buddies will still happily vote for and throw their support behind him
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Because they literally care more about being able to keep their guns and building the wall and keeping those fucking foreigners out of THEIR country than anything else
dirtsmell
they won't have a job soon, and it will be everyone's fault but theirs
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Oh yeah
juliette lives
peeks back here on 7 hours sleep
juliette lives
that Jenny Trout post tho
juliette lives
cricketussy
Oh hey there are other Cincinnatians in here, hello (I'm not there right now because I'm staying with family in pandemic times and I'm kinda glad about it)
cricketussy
Also I just read that Jenny Trout post and damn
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Nasty 'nati! 
StupidSexyVโ der
I've been worried