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I'm checking out for awhile. It's not worth it for my mental health and the time consuming distractions. Presidential history was a hobby of mine but that was ruined now because it's not what it used to be. I feel guilty because I'm pretty sure I'll be ok. It's the vulnerable people I worry about. I gave up at 11 pm last night, put on an episode of Breaking Bad (My sis in law is watching for the first time so I am watching in parallel so we can discuss via text), went to bed, got up at 5 to get my son off to school, purposely avoided the TV and my phone so as to not know what happened, went for a walk, started up my laptop after being off since Friday at 5:30, and at 5:45 finally peeked to confirm what i knew. Then I had a meeting at 6, followed by more meetings.... so I have been distracted today. America was supposed to be exceptional but it's not. It's just like any other country. I know the rest of the world laughs at the sentiment that we think we're special but for the most part we've been there for others when they needed help. Now we won't be doing that and many people in our country will feel the persecution we see elsewhere and that many here felt 60+ years ago. I tried. We tried.

Like him or hate him, I don’t believe any person above the age of 18 and breathing would wonder what he’s been up to. You’d have to be from another planet to be in the dark about a man that is obsessed over by every media outlet 24/7 for the past 10 years.

One last observation before I go offscreen to give my eyes and my soul a break. Childless cat ladies like me have been told we're bad for the country because we have no stake in its future. And yet.... a lot of people who told us this are the ones who want to dismantle public education, roll back protections for clean air and water, and weaken or outright eliminate child labor laws. For people who insist that they have a stake in society because they have children, they don't seem all that interested in providing a clean, healthy environment for future generations.

I have a really low opinion of white men even though I pretty much look like one because my 1/4 of Pottawatami doesn’t really show. When I go to the mall and I see a group of old white men sitting at a table I automatically assume they’re up to no good. And if they have Bibles, I know they’re up to no good. There’s one group of guys five or six of them who meet once a week I see there and I usually just tune them out but one of them last week was wearing a “veterans for Harris T-shirt” loudly proclaiming his support. So I know I’m not completely surrounded by jerks but more often than not at least where I live white males tend to toxicity. Even in a blue city like Boise. My trans son lives in Oregon and is worried about losing the hormones he’s been on for six years. This hateful bull**** has consequences.

We all have our reasons for being despondent and hurt by this. For me, it's the bullying and cruelty that stings. As a kid I was very badly bullied growing up. Other kids bullied everything about me, from my short stature for a guy (I'm 5'4) to my perceived sexual orientation to the sound of my voice to the fact that I was a marching band fag. I got called faggot, homo, gay (not meant in a nice way), gay boy, band fag, queer, asked if I had ever sucked **** before. Kids would plug their nose and try to mock the sound of my voice. I'd get called dwarf, midget, an ompalompa, asked when I was going to ever start growing. Being short I was by no means a tough guy and would get bumped into, elbowed, pushed, slapped in the back of the head, etc. In 11th grade, during my math class with Mrs. Candela, I had a kid one day threaten to bring a gun to school and talk about how fun it'd be to sit on the roof top of one of our school buildings and pick kids off. He said it'd be fun to pick kids like me off. I sat there paralyzed and frozen with fear. That same kid tried to "invite me" to his "birthday party" out in the woods to play paintball with him and some of his friends. He made up a fake birthday flyer and gave it to me, trying to lure me out there. Luckily my intuition told me better and I didn't go. Same kid used to tell me how fun it would be to smash "someone's" head in with a baseball bat or break "someone's" arm because he could. That "someone" he was referencing was me of course. I got drug down the hallway and nearly thrown into the girls bathroom while the colorguard girls were changing for marching band practice. The same kids that drug me down the hallway held me down at band camp sophomore year while I was sleeping and hit me with one of those electric fly swatters that looks like a tennis racket and zaps flies. I remember of those same kids that bullied me in band asking me if I ****ed my mom and if my dad came over to pile on and make sandwiches with my mom (my parents were divorced and the kid knew that). He also made me go over to his house and record the sound of my voice on his CPU so he could use me for his amusement doing prank calls to others and whatnot. I'm sorry for airing out my soul here, it's not the place to do it. My therapists office is. But what hurts me deep down to my insides, deep in my soul, is that the bullies have won. That pains me in a certain kind of way. We just re-elected the ultimate bully, with no consequences for his bad, bullying, disgusting behavior.

There's nothing innocent about this election. People know exactly who Trump is. More than half the voters chose hate. Hate of "others" which is a remnant from caveman days when another group might actually kill you. In a progressive society, we shouldn't have to worry about it but people still do because of ignorance. Latino voters hate the idea of someone from another country taking their jobs. Religious voters hate the idea of sexual sinners and abortion (charismatic rapists and misogynists seem fine for some reason). It's all about hate, it's selfish and people are too ignorant to rise above it. Now the whole planet descends into fascism because nobody is willing to stand up to these vile men who victimize whoever they want to enrich themselves. Ignorance is bliss except for the rest of us.

And that hes "not a politician"

Nah, I know folks are upset. Only posters who I don't really care how they feel are Romad1 and Motownbombers they have been pretty ignorant towards me. Rom especially, being a public servant and passing bad info like it was the gospel really bugged me.

My view is very bleak. There will be an "election" in 2028 just like Russia has elections. Canada will be following suit and is already starting to lean right. Europe won't be able to resist. Freedom will die worldwide. They will destroy the environment in the name of the almighty dollar and future generations will pay the price. If they do manage to create AI, they won't use it to improve mankind, it will replace us serfs because we won't be necessary anymore. The elite will live in their luxury bunkers in a barren wasteland on Earth and Mars. Idiocracy and the Handmaid's Tale are documentaries from the future and we were too ignorant, misogynistic and hateful to realize it.

I’m somewhat horrified to learn that I apparently have a unique insight to the evil animal that is man. I have nothing additional to say but will leave you with this quote from the B movie “Cruise Into Terror.” "That there is a devil, there is no doubt, but is he trying to get into us or is he trying to get out?"

I'm not going to say she was a horrible candidate, but she also had a very short time to run. Biden handed her the nominee, but he did her no favors in holding on too long and when she was the VP, keeping her out of the limelight.

Yes, she ran a good campaign, one that's especially notable since it had to get a late start. If her supporters can keep the energy they had, we have a shot to get through this.

I have zero truck with anyone criticizing Harris' campaign. That was a centrist message delivered to all Americans.

What gets me the most about this is the seeming futility of expecting ordinary human decency to come to the fore and to prevail when its services can mean the most at the most critical of moments. Our most deplorable appetites prevail over and over again, and are so easily seduced out of their fetid lairs.

Had to turn off CNN coverage when their talking head referred to Michigan as The Wolverine State.

Could have used a Wings game to stay distracted till about 10p. I blame Denise.

They probably never were. For a long time, people have been trained to keep their bigotry to themselves. Not anymore.

Ha, Larry DeWulf? He's still practicing, believe it or not. Still uses paper charts with scribbled notes, doesn't have digital xrays or even a computer in his office. Like a blast from the past.

In any event, black lady pick was never going to beat Trump.

One of the top searches on Google last night was "Did Joe Biden drop out?" America. Land of the morons.

AP calling it for Slotkin at least.

Maybe the assumption that higher voter turnout favors Democrats was wrong all along.

Well it just worked for me, so there's that.... I'm on an iMac so I'll experiment with refreshing.

My grandfather fought in World War 2 and it only bought us 80 years. What a waste.

Yeah. Quite a few people had money parked on the side. Now they know who is leading the country the next 4 years they can put that cash to work. FWIW, it also would have popped if Harris was elected. The cash might have gone into different companies, but it still would have returned to the market.

No need to sugarcoat anymore. They are women. Pass out the burkas. Their husbands shouldn't have allowed them to run in the first place. They will need to be re-educated.

North Carolina was overall a bright spot for Ds, although Robinson probably had a lot to do with that

Welp….

They voted for the wrong person if that’s their issue.

I am thankful the election went off without any violence.

I'm done with this now. Time to focus on the underwhelming moves the Tigers make this offseason. Journeymen Starting Pitchers and Utility Guys here we come !!!!!

Welp—Thanksgivings all around the country are gonna be interesting.

I think this is right.... it's just really hard for me to look at what happened last night and see how running, say, Gretchen Whitmer or Josh Shapiro, changes much. Maybe a little on the margins, maybe Bob Casey wins the PA Senate seat if Shapiro is the nominee, but this was a referendum on the last four years of Biden, and I think any other candidates would have faced considerable headwinds in this environment. Also, if Biden had stayed in, this would have been much much worse. I think the switch, even if she isn't the ideal candidate, did provide some energy that helped in downballot races.

Another thing this election has changed for the future will be the acceptance of online betting markets as a reliable predictor. These markets have been calling this for over a year with barely any wavering. Even when the polls were saying Harris, the betting line may have moved but it never flipped from Trump. I’m not sure they will replace polling as the main predictor but they are clearly no longer an afterthought anymore.

Remember, this is the nation that kept it legal at the state level for people to own other people as property long after nearly every other western country had abandoned it. It is also the nation that allowed several of its states to become one-party fascist states with the explicit purpose of maintaining a de facto slavery through the Jim Crow black codes. Embracing fascism runs deep, very deep, in our blood, and we’ve never left it totally behind us.

Being the only Trump voter here these are my thoughts. Harris was a terrible candidate not because she is a woman but she came into the race with historically low VP approval rating. Add the fact the party tried the bait and switch dumping Biden with her not getting a single vote. Trump names the rising young star Vance as his running mate while Harris names far left unknown Walz. Within the first week Walz is torn to pieces on has far left radical views. Harris could not speak on her policies but chose attacking Trump as her strategy. She also refused to talk to the media except for a few scripted occasions. Most of her rallies included free concerts that put butts into seats but not a voting block. She did not gain any new voters over Biden, in fact Trump pulled maore Latinos and Blacks than 2020. Bottom line a bad arrogant campaign that gave Trump total control.

New word for the day. Kakistocracy, that is exactly what we have become. No longer the best and the brightest, that train left the station years ago. We have become the mediocre lead by the worst, and the majority loves it

I have no idea whether this mattered but it felt like the vibe changed when they went with the Kelly/Hitler stuff.

You know the reason I’m here is because I’m a sentimentalist and into the nostalgia of this baseball team. It’s such an innocent part of myself. But sentimentality and nostalgia are so easily debased into something vile when you use them as springboards to make people afraid and to provide them with an opportunity to lash out. We saw that last night. It’s disheartening how something so common and banal in our character can be so easily exploited by genuine evil. Sentimentality + fear or resentment = fascism

Guess I'll just fall back on being old and white. Should be okay.

He's going to win it easily. There is still some good in the world.

Stick a fork in it!! I think we owe an apology to Ronz

This aint the 2024 Tigers! We're done.

https://x.com/tigersMLreport/status/1854003540357681487?t=TlEMKZW9gcrAmey0kPQ_JQ&s=19

I'm breaking out the tequila.

Ive always wanted the Mumps.

I don't know who runs Decision Desk, but I just peeked at CNN and it hasn't called all of the same ones.

Not that it wasn’t known coming in. But it saddens me how many millions of Americans vote for Trump.

Mark Robinson already lost.