"Somebody shit in my pants."

Post election searches are the best:

"What is the EU?"

"What is Brexit?"

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/06/24/480949383/britains-google-searches-for-what-is-the-eu-spike-after-brexit-vote

The article claims "in droves" then doesn't give a number, or even an estimate.

"How to unsink the Titanic"

Bloody hell, this is the US version of Brexit... this world would be such a better place if people just did the bare minimum of reading into what they were actually voting for before they fucking voted!

Also, seeing the other top searches being about the tariffs would have me creasing if it weren't so disappointingly stupid that these peoole seemingly knew nothing about Trumps most advertised economic policy before (assumably) voting for him

i fucking called it.

https://lemmy.world/comment/13331955

turns out the answer to my question is “less than a week”

How are people this stupid?something in the water?

The relative numbers are worth little without knowing the underlying numbers. If it went from 100 to 700 people, that is still negligble. Also crazy how people immediately take that as a base to remove voters rights unless they pass some sort of test. Nothing could go wrong with stripping voters rights amirite?

I wonder how many of these people are just now realizing that they have immediate family and friends who won’t be here next Christmas.

God I fucking hate humans

Considering all of the shocking things Trump promised to do once he was elected, people are re-evaluating what they have gotten themselves into.

Sigh...

The republican anti-education campaign bears fruit I see.

You broke it, you bought it.

I do not put it past Russia to troll us like this

Once again, these are the a validation headlines that create and support echo chambers. Honestly, what does it matter now?

We already know the regret is strong on this nation and will only get worse.

To own the libs, they sold their soul.

Is this the "Find out" stage then?

Actions have consequences. Sad people had to figure it out this way.

When you realize memes shouldn't have influence on your voting decision...

Something is seriously wrong with civics education in this country. People in power have no incentive to fix it. At least naturalized citizens have to take a fairly stringent test.

What ya'll upset for now? The economy was so good under Trump! Didn't you want him to deport all those "poisonous" immigrants. He's your retribution. And, besides, it's not like Harris would have been any better, because they're the same anyway.

/s

I love it. America’s last hope and people failed. Fuck this place. Let the civil war begin.

Are we all just assuming these searches are from people who regret their votes and hoped to be able to change it?

I double checked my ballot before submitting it, with full knowledge that irrevocability is the price of anonymity. Nevertheless, I might use similar search terms if I was curious how many other voters, possibly in other states or with different political alignments, had written about regretting their votes. Or, perhaps, ... if I was doing research for a post-election article about the topic.

I don’t know how trustworthy these search trends are. For example if you type in “where did I put my” it will complete all kinds of stuff like “keys” and “wallet” and “passport” which seems to imply that people are regularly asking Google where they placed items in their own house.

This is all bullshit, designed to start another wave of outrage. Even after the election, we've gotta have more stuff to rage about. News these days is just rage all day every day, no matter what.