every american election year half the internet becomes basically unusable for me under a tide of deafening, extremely toxic, immensely loud American Politics Screaming And Yelling but usually it has the decency to at least wait until the midpoint of the year to get this bad
i live on the other side of the planet and the fucking election cycle over there is a storm of psychic damage i have to fucking plan around to manage my mental health. god
i think it's hilarious when a certain type of american gets real precious about people from outside the US not getting to have opinions on US elections because like
buddy,
BUDDY
for an entire goddamn year, like clockwork, we're going to hear more about this than our own local news and the results of this thing are going to, regrettably, shape international politics including our own, and drive social trends, for at least the next four years
you can probably draw a direct line between american politics and the blundering "plain spoken strong leader everyman" archetype our province's premier ran as
