One month ago, former President Donald Trump seemed poised to retake the White House from an ailing President Joe Biden. Now that he’s falling behind Vice President Kamala Harris, people close to Trump’s campaign are complaining to Vanity Fair that the GOP nominee is only making matters worse. “It’s like he’s choosing to lose,” one of them vented.

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    3 months ago

    Why the fuck would people close to Diaper Dump Trump talk to the press about this?

    They want to give you a false sense of security.

    Vote like your world depends on it.

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      3 months ago

      I know it sounds alarmist and overblown… but Democracy itself literally depends on all of us voting.

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        3 months ago

        That truly is alarmist and overblown… don’t buy into that crap. Neither candidate would “end democracy”, or be the end of America. Both sides are pushing that fear mongering bullcrap, but that’s all it is, bullcrap.

        Politics seem recently more into playing on the fears of people. Vote with your head, not your heart.

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    catharsis /kə-thär′sĭs/

    noun

    1. Purgation, especially for the digestive system.

    2. A purifying or figurative cleansing of the emotions, especially pity and fear, described by Aristotle as an effect of tragic drama on its audience.

    3. A release of emotional tension, as after an overwhelming experience, that restores or refreshes the spirit.

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        Catharsis isn’t the right word. Schadenfreude is for some, but the former, eh, not accurate in connotation

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          It’s the sensation of catharsis from the world being made whole again. Up is up. down is down. Fascist clowns who brag about raping women are no longer dominating the presidential race, but are seemingly reduced to a increasingly meager side show. A black woman candidate isn’t just up in the polls, but brought with her one of the most progressive vps of all time with her. Schadenfreude is only half of that sensation, because it doesn’t also recognize the positive.

          It’s a sensation that comes from things making sense, a returning to a world where the bad are punished and the good uplifted.

          Catharsis is the perfect word.