They were told over and over what he would do.

They may have not voted for the outcome of now but chaos and instability has been his trademark.

My maga in laws have gone very quiet this year. But I am not forgetting.

I am actually awaiting the 'we need to move on' claptrap from those that are fully complicit in the orange gibbon's regime.

You brought this on us. We are not going to forget that.

Or, forgive that.

Back in 2004 there was a discussion about Iraq and I said Bush will go down in history as the worst president for invading.

You could have heard a pin drop everyone just kind of moved away from me and my wife, I looked at her and said guess that did not go over well.

Overheard one brother in law call me a fucking liberal a bit later. The also said I was a traitor to my country, not one of them has served in the military.

My wife's sister called a few days later and complained about what I said. Then said we cannot talk politics.

I still get a little chuckle remembering that day.

I have since stated to my in laws I have revised my worst president in history.

And you were wrong!
😂😂😂😂😂

GW Bush was the worst president in history at the time. Who knew Trump would come along and steal the title from him!

at a family gathering in 2006 after my dad passed. My little cousin, then about 19 years old, was enlisting and everyone was cheering him on. I tried to give him some real talk about Iraq/Afghanistan, telling him about depleted uranium and other horrors. That party was the first crack in what would become a yawning chasm in my family over politics. (Funny thing is, that boy ended up serving two tours with distinction, has since retired from the military and has a beautiful family...but he's one of the only ones that still talks to me. I helped raise him from the time he was a baby and I think he was smart enough to realize I was trying to make sure he was at least making an informed choice.)

First, We the People must secure — make certain it is protected, defended and upheld — the Constitution.

Then, the work gets started.

Second, make them who harmed others and wrecked it he nation must pay for it. That includes Putin, Musk, Thiel, Anderson and the rest of foreign powers, oligarchs and stooges.

...especially since billionaires control so much of our media, have nonstop access to the eyeballs and ears of the American people as well as the levers of power within this administration, and have shown what they would do with it all (and to human beings) once they had that access and control.

I'm not sure how many of us are aware of what Elon Musk and DOGE did, so we're going to need to keep talking about that. People who don't feel they were affected by it all need to know that they were very much affected.

for the monster. They knew fully the makeup of Trump’s character.

They can't fathom how doing A and not doing B will result in C being a shitstorm. Like Trump, they are ignorant, willfully or because they have natural limits to what they can learn and utilize to extrapolate probable outcomes. They operate only on their 'feels' which makes them all too easy to manipulate.

I never thought of myself as particularly bright, tho people who know me have always insisted the opposite. In my old age, I am so disheartened at how damned dumb so many people are. My major failing and blind side is my tendency to try to find good in everyone. But time has shown me the folly of my faith that everyone can think. Evidence of so many being so damned dumb has been difficult for me to accept.

Finally accepting the reality of so much ignorance makes me wonder if we are two different species, one able to connect dots and draw logical conclusions from information and observations available, caring about how likely outcomes of various courses of action will impact the whole of society, and one species that cannot even see the dots and just operates on reactions, like big amoebas, blind to possible bad outcomes of some actions.

In my old age, I am beginning to wonder if the survival of humans will be determined by simple math. Is the percentage of sentient humans greater, or do the amoebas have us greatly outnumbered? Will their blind reactive natures be the end of all of us and our beautiful little world? Or will we manage to save us and everything on this planet that is being eaten alive? Because it's not just about saving US democracy anymore. The amoebas are allowing a monstrous predator species disguised as humans to kill our host.*

* by way of an apology and disclaimer, I must admit I am only half way thru my morning coffee, tho lately, there doesn't seem to be enough coffee in the world to help me make sense of the carnage going on.

and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart”. ———Anne Frank.

I am mostly in agreement with your thoughtful, well written post, AtillatheBlonde, but…………
We can’t give up on the hope that, good will eventually triumph over evil.
“Keep hope alive” —Rev. Jesse Jackson

Have known so many really good people in my many years. But the power is in the wrong hands. History has shown the pendulum always swings, but science is warning we may not have the time to wait for it to change direction this time. I figure it won't happen in what years I have left.

I do hold hope when I see more young people picking up the banners my generation has dropped due to natural attrition. But the other species walking as humans are a seemingly overwhelming number and resources.

When they say that, ask them which one of Obama's or Biden's Democratic situations are you refering to since "you all" were so "Obama or Biden or Democrat" involved corruption then!
You got the idea. Put it to them.