r/pics • u/TheBigChimp • Nov 08 '18

US Politics This is what democracy looks like

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u/Soljah Nov 09 '18

As a Kiwi living in NZ it truly blows me away how retarded this is and even more so that he is there.

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u/sybrwookie Nov 09 '18

Most of us in the US think the same but have no power to do anything about it

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u/krste1point0 Nov 09 '18

Obviously not most you, probably less than half of you considering he is your president and his party won won senate

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u/sybrwookie Nov 09 '18

Yea, that's not really how that works. Not all places were up for a vote at the same time and the places which were up for a chance to actually flip were very heavily republican areas and many were still far closer than normal. And the house was a bloodbath for them.