UPDATE: Donald Trump Takes Office as the 47th US President
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Yasss sis?
Why did he leave out B-more?
I loved living in Baltimore, warts and all. The people there tend to be real. I can relate to the Black folk there FAR easily than I can relate to the Black people in Detroit, where I was raised.
The Chinese invented gun powder.
When Europeans learned about it, they IMMEDIATELY perverted its character, harnessing it for
the purpose of killing people.
In my mind, this explains much of the past few centuries of conquest.
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Man put a spoiler tag on that face
Every time the Dem lose, every single group in the coalition says that not follwoing their point of view is the reason why we lost.
Hell every single thing she's talking about was in place in 2020 when Biden beat Trump and definitely was in place in 2022 when Dems overperformed. Bitch should put her mouth to better use.
Ay nah… we full.
He did....lol
Owings Mills and Ellicot City are surrounding areas (suburbs of Bmore I guess)....
Thank you this race was determined by misogyny and racism. Because as I said, before, the Democrats ran a good campaign. And the Latinos is about to find out life is going to get extremely hard right now. I don’t know what the hell they was thinking. Well, they are racist too. As I stated two days ago, this country is going to have to get near bankruptcy territory again for them to put the right person in the White House a Democrat.
Charles Village, yes. I used to have breakfast there every day.
There was a restaurant run by gay couple...a skinny black dude and his chubby white boyfriend. That was a cool place for people to meet, eat and talk.
I lived in Reservoir Hill.
I recall walking down the street in the spring, and trees with white flowers leaving petals on the ground.
Kids playing catch in front of row houses.
It was almost idyllic, as long as you avoided North Avenue.
If you ain’t vaccinated, you better get vaccinated before the end of this year
Smdh
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Yes, Trump Won. Here's What Happens Next
Trump doesn’t represent policy, but that’s not what people voted for. Here are six key takeaways about election night — and our future.wordinblack.com
Question 1: What happened?
Donald Trump won the presidential race. Republicans won control of the U.S. Senate. And we don’t know the outcome in the House yet.
Question 2: How did it happen?
The early exit polls show Trump’s three strongest groups were white men (59%), Hispanic men (54%), and white women (52%). In Georgia, it was even worse. One exit poll said that 69% of white women voted for Trump. Even after he took away their reproductive rights and was found liable for sexual assault, the majority of white women voters still chose patriarchy over their own liberation.
On the other hand, Kamala Harris’s three strongest groups were Black women, Black men, and Latino women. The final numbers will change when more data comes in, but the problem is that Harris’s base (Black women, Black men, and Hispanic/Latino women) are only 18% of the electorate. But Trump’s base (white men, white women, and Hispanic/Latino men) made up 77% of the electorate.
As for the Senate, Democrats held a narrow majority and faced a brutal map trying to win in red states like West Virginia, Texas, Ohio, and Montana. That’s part of the reason Harris tried to stay away from controversies that might hurt the Senate candidates.
Question 3: Why did it happen?
This is a tricky question to answer before all the data is collected, so let me just say this.
Some people are blaming inflation and the economy for Trump’s success. I don’t buy that because Black voters are more negatively affected by inflation and the economy than white voters, and we voted overwhelmingly for Kamala Harris.
In fact, I don’t think it was about issues at all. If you look at policy alone, nearly all of Harris’s proposals got majority support, but only half of Trump’s did in a recent Washington Post survey. Missouri voters approved a measure to increase the minimum wage, which Harris supports, but still voted for Trump to be president. And the majority of Florida voters cast ballots to protect abortion and legalize marijuana, even though they didn’t reach the 60% threshold for a constitutional amendment.
Those are Democratic positions. Let’s be real. Trump doesn’t represent policy. He represents cultural resentment against a changing America. That’s what people voted for.
Question 4: What could Harris have done differently?
There’s going to be a lot of debate about campaign strategy, but it’s too early to draw definitive conclusions. Republican David Urban complained that Harris should have run a more centrist campaign. I disagree. I think she bent over backward to accommodate centrists and Republicans. On the other hand, critics on the left argue that she should have run a more progressive campaign to motivate the base, and that’s complicated, too, because doing so would definitely have cost Democrats the Senate in those tough red states.
But the truth is, I don’t know if any of that matters.
As a Black woman, Harris had little more than 100 days to introduce herself to the public and mount a presidential campaign against a powerful white man who is a former president bankrolled by the richest man in the world, Elon Musk. In spite of those obstacles, she raised a billion dollars, drew huge crowds, and generated excitement in a race that was lifeless before she entered.
Trump did everything wrong in his campaign, and it didn’t matter to the majority of white voters. He got indicted four times, got convicted of 34 felonies, lost the debate to Kamala Harris decisively according to all the polls, couldn’t articulate any more than “concepts of a plan” for health care after 10 years of running for president, flip-flopped repeatedly on abortion, refused to answer a basic question about the minimum wage, simulated a lewd sex act on stage, refused to apologize for a speaker at his rally attacking Puerto Ricans and Latinos, joked about shooting the press, picked a running mate who called him “America’s Hitler,” and was outed by his own former chief of staff for saying “Hitler did some good things.”
Nothing mattered because it was never about issues. White America has been lecturing Black people about crime, morality, and patriotism for years, and then they vote for a convicted criminal, sex offender, and insurrectionist to be president.
No Black person or woman with Trump’s track record and two impeachments could ever be nominated, much less elected president. That’s why it’s not about policy. It’s about race and gender and the changing America. Donald Trump is the avatar of white supremacy. And the fact that a small but significant percentage of Black and Brown people were willing to excuse or embrace his racism, sexism, and xenophobia doesn’t disprove that. It just reflects how some of us have assimilated into the same white supremacist beliefs.
Question 5: What does this mean for the future?
First, he will be able to appoint a new attorney general who will fire Special Counsel Jack Smith and dismiss the criminal charges against Trump for the January 6 insurrection and stealing government documents.
Second, with a Republican Senate, Trump will be able to appoint several new Supreme Court justices, who will be young enough to give Republicans control of the Supreme Court for the next 20-25 years. That means if you wanted reparations, reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, DEI, environmental protections, or any progressive policy, that won’t happen in your lifetime, no matter who succeeds Trump in office because the courts will strike it down.
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Third, Trump will be able to appoint vaccine denier RFK Jr. to head up women’s health and vaccines. He’ll cut taxes for billionaires, which is why rich people like Musk support him. And he may be able to begin his promised mass deportation of immigrants through executive authority, and impose tariffs on foreign goods that will cause inflation to spike.
He also promised to abolish the Department of Education, bring back stop-and-frisk policing, and give law enforcement immunity from prosecution, so be ready for that too.
Question 6: What do we do next?
Hakeem Jeffries will now become the leader of the opposition in Congress. And there is some good news in the results. Josh Stein defeated “Black Nazi” Mark Robinson in North Carolina. Lisa Blunt Rochester and Angela Alsobrooks won Senate seats in Delaware and Maryland. Those two Black women in the U.S. Senate will give us new soldiers in the fight.
But what happens next is up to us. A lot of people are hurting right now, and many more will be hurt more in the years to come if Trump implements his policies. I recommend self-care. Do what you need to take care of yourself, and remember you are part of a broader community. We have to be there for each other in these trying times.
As I said in my final video before the election, this is not a sprint. It’s a marathon. And no matter what happens in the days to come, I am clear and certain that we are on the right side of history. Don’t give up. Live to fight another day.
Thank you for posting this. It really added insights and helped to confirm some thoughts i had.
A few points and i’ll start with this.
1) It’s more and more obvious now that Biden should have never ran for a 2nd term and should have given his potential successor years to come up with the best possible strategy against Trump and what moves the key voting demographics want to win the WH.
2) Harris in a short time i believe did a fantastic job. She had to come up with a campiagn fast and had to make sure it didn’t look like Obama or Biden but something different.
3) However, the actually strategy was the wrong one. Harris core plan by numbers would have never worked or needed to be almost perfect to work. Her campaign needed too much white women/men(the majority) to go against their communities to support her and add to a small percentage wise of her base (Blackmen/women).
White women were never in large enough numbers going to go against their white husbands/boyfriends, dads, cousins etc to support someone outside of their family. Another women and black women at that….
For what?
At it’s core…The right to have an ABORTION?
But what would move them is supporting their communities in defending against the bad “illegals” and even more “legals” that they believe are taking money off their tables and making their communities unsafe!
This is something Trump and his team understood well and beat it to death!
dumbass maga will try to travel and then get sent home if they don't have the vaccines
That sex strike won’t last a week as promiscuous as these liberal women are today.
Thats why they are pro-abortion to use it as a form of birth control after getting ran through.
A picture speaks a thousand words no need for me to say anything
but dayum I could imagine humping on that fine ass
That looks fake.
