It’s been over a week since Trump was projected to be re-elected. I’ve had conversations with friends about this and I thought I’d put my thoughts on paper.

First, I was raised to be respectful, to be honest, to speak the truth, to live a life of integrity and most importantly to strive to be a morally good person. I would never support Trump because Trump INVALIDATES everything on how I was taught and raised.

Supporting Trump and the “Trumpublican” party, you are invalidating these ideals of being respectful, being honest, being truthful, living with integrity and being a morally good person. By supporting Trump and the “Trumpublican” party, you are signaling that you accept the discord and strife that Trump and his echo chamber of Fox News/Tucker Carlson/Steven Miller/Steve Bannon/etc has brought to society. By supporting Trump and the “Trumpublican” party, you are signaling that you admire someone who lies constantly, someone who is seeking to benefit himself and his brand, and someone who is a rich narcissistic convicted pussy grabber.

I cannot support Trump because of his behavior and everything he represents goes against my own moral compass. I want to know the rationale of why someone raised to be honest, to be truthful… would want to vote for Trump. Is this what these 76M AMERICAN voters really want to idolize?! A narcissistic lying self-serving convicted pussy grabbing president?

Second, it’s frustrating to know 76M Americans support a lying toxic bastard… who openly calls to have his opponents shot for opposing him… who openly degrades, disrespects and bullies people… Who only seek to benefit his business/brand… Who isn’t a president I support.

Up until the 2016 election, I had always believed that the President of the United States needed to represent someone who can show the rest of the world how great America is… Someone who after the election isn’t mired in pettiness… Someone who wants to see and lead a freer, safer, richer US. Trump did none of that in his 1st term. And Trump’s 2nd term will be at best more of the same… At worst will be regarded in history as a dark 4 years.
If Trump gets his way with Project 2025, Americans will lose… Not immediately but Americans will lose their future. Americans will bear the brunt of his tariffs, leading to increased prices because companies pass on the cost to consumers (us). Americans could very likely lose even more rights over their own bodies. Americans will face an even larger police state all to “keep immigrants out”. The idea of a “blind justice” may be gone with the Trump administration actively pursuing people who oppose Trump. And protecting the environment will probably be an after thought.

Third, here’s a post election observation…
1) where are the claims that there’s “massive voter fraud” ?
2) where are the claims of a “rigged election”?

Here’s a secret…. There never was massive fraud and election rigging to begin. In 2020, Tump and Trumpublicans being the sore petulant losers that they are spread rumors about rigged elections and voting fraud. Yet when they win in 2024, the Trumpublicans magically trust the election system. That just means that the 2020 results never was about “massive voter fraud” or “rigged election” but a sore loser whining. Now that I think about it… Being able to whine and not receive any repercussion….. That’s called privledge.

Here’s a question… after spending YEARS denouncing the government, are Trumpublicans now going to ask the public to “trust the government”? If so, it just means that Trumpublicans cared only about winning at all costs... even going so far as denouncing their own government report as well as breaking govermental norms. I would propose that breaking of norms escalated when McConnell wouldn’t even allow the Senate to entertain any hearings for SCOTUS nominee (Merrick Garland) during the 2016 election year while expediting another SCOTUS nominee (Amy Barrett) was quickly ushered in 2020 election. This winner take all attitude leading to strife and discord only energizes Trump even more.

Fourth, I’m curious how many people voted. As of 13NOV2024, according to CNN…
2024: 76M Trump vs 73M Harris
2020: 81M Biden vs 74M Trump
2016: 62M Trump vs 65M Clinton
2012: 65M Obama vs 61M Romney
2008: 69M Obama vs 59M McCain

Here’s a conspiracy theory of voter repression… where’s the missing 8M Biden Voters?

Fifth, this whole concept of “rigged election” really got me thinking. Listening to various politics podcast, there’s been a lot of discussion around legislative and congressional/electoral maps. I’ve learned that different states implement different methods to draw these maps and the the majority of the maps that are drawn are generally gerrymandered to favor Republicans or Democrats depending on the state. Else the maps are drawn by an independent commission which might also be subject to influence by Democrat or Republican leaning members. I’ve also learned that Republicans have been making pushes to control the state legislature over the past two decades. Looking at the overall US 2020 electoral map by county (below), it’s not hard to see Democrats are populated around major cities and along the coasts. But every where OUTSIDE the cities is predominantly Republican. Thus a majority of the states are Republican strongholds. So by saying it’s a rigged election, Trump is actually right. The Republicans have rigged the electoral maps to win. So if they don’t win, then something broke the rigged system. How’s that for conspiracy theory!?

From Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2020_Election_Results_Map_by_County.png)

And finally, the last thing I can really think of is this…

AMERICA,
(WE CAN) DO BETTER!!