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Thank you for the stats Toure. As a bilingual black woman from South Central Ohio, who has dated a couple of Latinos in my life, i am stunned at their support for trump. I've never dated the self-hating kind though. Inside it feels like the band has stopped playing and now the ominous music as the titanic begins its plummet has begun. In the words of Gandalf, 'the battle for helms deep is over. The battle for middle earth is about to begin.' Lord help us 🙏🏿 😞

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I couldn’t sleep!! I just never thought he would pull that far ahead. So damn depressed. I wanted to cancel all of my appointments bc I was miserable!

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This is NOT about Kamala...she was flawless! THIS is about AMERICA. America is a racist country through & through. And white-passing Latinas & Latinos want to associate themselves with whiteness. That's the Republican party. Self-hatred is real as a MF!

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Well we are about to find out what they did not understand about Trump and Project 2025

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Yes, but what you all don't seem to get is that P25 is a dumb paper from a think tank that Trump has not embraced. It's fun to say this, though.

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PLEASE let it all be true!

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I'm gutted. So angry & depressed at what could & should've been.

I also think trump must have cheated with the voting machines. There's no way a minority party wins the popular vote & each swing state when he's disliked so much. This smells rotten. I think it has Putin's hands all over it.

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Me too Hazel! I just posted a note asking some questions that need to be asked and answered 🤔

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womp womp

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We didn't watch America get fleeced. We all watched America REMOVE the fleece and reveal the rabid wolf that has been there from the very beginning.

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Come on man, we need you to say what Toni Morrison woukd say! The more and more you jornalists keep talking about Trump like a regular sane candidate who is just "rude" putting up poll statistics and measuring point spreads, scratching your head, the less and less Americans (especially black ones) will realize the gravity of the mistake they just made.

TOURÉ ... call this MF'er what he is! A blue eyed, blond haired, skin painted orange vile Authoritarian Autocratic Kleptocratic Oligarchic Fascist! Are you already scared that he will go after all journalists as was Jeff Bezos who refused to endorse Harris? Is that why you are treating it like he deserves for statistics to be measured in his dumb ass idiocratic campaign?

Bruh! AIN'T no more poll statistics to talk about! Stop scratchin ya' head! Shake out of it! Why did they elect Trump? BECAUSE America is the most racist country on earth! At that MSG Hate Rally on Oct 27 a little over a week ago, they just stood up on that podium called us garbage, watermelon eaters, spit in our faces, called us all kinds of names, called Harris a prostitute, a devil, an antichrist, and they said "look here immigrants, ni***RS, women, latinos... this is OUR white nationalists Christian country backed by the cross and flag New Apostolic Reformation and Opus Dei! Our racist billionaires are bigger than yours!! We run this shit! We want our strong man dictator in office and aint nothing ya'll democrats, independents, conservatives, generals, lawyers, judges gonna do about it!" They put on their red hats like Klansman and marched his malignant narcissist (http://dutytoinform.org), psychopath (http://psychopac.org), and deranged Hitlerlike ass right into the White House...again...after Jan 6, stolen documents, election fraud, sexual assault, hush money, and business fraud.

That's exactly what they did. America's worst lowest character since slavery and Jim Crow has reared its ugly head again, including the billionaires who want to break America and divide it among themselves: Koch Family, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, Robert Mercer, etc. There is nothing left to ask about the campaign. Now the media will go finding faults with Harris. She was as perfect as we'll see for what was needed to move the U.S. forward, a devout public servant, honest, hardworking, willing to compromise. But racism, sexism, misogyny, and xenophobia beat her NOT Trump! She is qualified. HE IS NOT! I tried to educate as many people as I could but the Russian propaganda, Diddy scandal (which Musk used on Joe Rogan show as a way to discredit all Kamala Celebrity Endorsers), his rhetoric, opaque media, all flooded out all the Psychologists warning us (http://worldmhc.org) "Do not put nuclear codes in this man's hands!"

I moved to Brazil 6 years ago under the 1st Trump presidency/regime. Once Project 2025 is rolled out, mass deportation, tariffs, and he guts 590,000 federal employees, judges, and lawyers and replaces them with loyalists, and sycophants as well as supress the media as he consolidates the Department Of Justice under his thumb, other than visit family (if I can which half of them are African and I will have to help them survive), I have no reason to return other than to maybe help people get out or survive. 🙏🏻

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But as Paola Ramos said on The Daily Show, many of these voters are native-born and Americanized and thus do not identify with the people Trump wants to deport. When he’s mean or racist toward Hispanic immigrants, it does not hurt him with Hispanic-American voter.

This sounds like when my moms would ask me and my female relatives when rappers say bitches and ho’s and you sing along, aren’t you offended isn’t he talking to you or about you? Almost 100% of the responses were “no”. It was some other women.

Robert Moses whose name is tied to New York like no other public official cave from upper crust German Jews. They immigrated to the US with some money. They became merchants and property owners.

However after the huge influx of Jews from lesser means fled to the US from persecution they arrived broke. And were immediately labeled “dirty Jews”.

Moses people to no surprise because now at this point some 20 years in the country-Moses was born in New Haven in 1888-they didn’t see themselves as dirty Jews -and yet to their astonishment they were seen as just that from the stiff lipped bougie WASP set.

So these Jews instead of challenging the status quote -went out their way to carry the WASP water. They sought to “train” these new Eastern European Jews from poor countries. Many of whom can’t read or write professionally enough to understand the complexities of their new country.

That’s where these Latinos are. From a block away you look how you look. On paper I can’t tell shit with a last name other that what I have already assumed. In New York it’s a thing to run into a fair skinned Latino or Latina whom you’ve worked around for a while and HAD NO IDEA they were Latino. In talk, food and every other manner of expression they never seemed to show their Latino roots.

Look to Martin Sheen whose surname is Estevez-as in his son Emilio, his brother stuck with the Anglo version of Sheen. Now of course that’s a Hollywood thing but Latinos have probably been about this in the same way Robert Moses German Jewish people went at it. This is an American thing no question. We want to have a snow fight in the desert. We want to make all the money but yet react as if the worlds taste is beneath the money we make.

America is the kid who gets a big bill in his or her card. Then you take ‘em the store and see what they wanna get? But then the kid can’t get his or her gaze of the numeral amount painted on the big bill and then it hits them -“this is mine…all mine”. Yea it is but to get anything out of it-you gotta let it go. If you can’t you’re just being selfish.

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Somehow, for some strange reason, Americans rejected cutting the dicks off nine year old boys, flooding the nation with rapists and murderers, and rampant inflation for food and rent. Strange. Very strange.

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But none of that is happening. This is what confuses us about Trumpers that you support him based on phantom reasons. That's very strange.

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People didn’t believe that he would take the extreme measures he said he would. I don’t get it, either.

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I am more bothered by the decreasing popular vote margin couple with increasing concerns about (at the risk of sounding like "them" before this one) election integrity. I'm feeling let down by Harris, Biden and the Democratic party AGAIN since they let the time to challenge results pass.

I get it. She was put in a nearly impossible position by her party. Regardless, she rallied us stand with her and fight to elect her as our leader. Then she fell silent after losing what could have just been a battle rather than the war. Guess who didn't do that and his people rallied behind him to the point of insurrection.

Imagine what she could have rallied from her more civil, educated, loving supporters. Now I'm ready to give up on American democracy for good. They won more than an election this time. And the Democrats and media are looking complicit at this point for not at least having the conversation with us.

We have about days before the savagery begins and I'm not sure what to do but complaining about what happened and analyzing stats rather than investigating the irregularities feels like a waste of time considering what we're facing next year and in the future to come.

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Me too.

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You wonder why you can't detect wider fascism right in front of your eyes?

People say they hear his music, but is anyone really listening to what Ye says?

Has nothing Ye said over the past 10 or so years sunk in?

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kamala was a bad candidate with no real conviction towards any substantial policy. no one should be shocked by yet another loss from a democratic party that insists on appealing and governing towards the center/right.

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This is not accurate at all. She was a strong candidate who was all about reproductive freedom.

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I come from a middle class family is not the answer America wanted.

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Calling her competent is delusional. Notwithstanding anything said about Trump, Kamala is not a unifying or particularly appealing candidate, definitely not the choice to run against him. Tulsi Gabbard or Michelle Obama would have done numbers better. The party simply did not choose a competitive person to take Trump on. They chose sensationalism and hard leftism over a more moderate candidate who would have soaked up the undecided voters. Bad party planning

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You lost it when you mentioned Tulsi Gabbard.

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