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unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#150376: Nov 8th 2016 at 7:53:43 PM

Yeah, I start to thing this more of the "Clinto is the devil/iluminati/new world order" mix with the "Trump is just a guy against the MEN!"

Is is surprising me how much this year the world have succumb into populist-nationalist rethoric, as someone from venezuela, a country ruin for that type of thinking, is worrying a lot that US is falling into the same trap

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#150377: Nov 8th 2016 at 7:53:49 PM

I can honestly say we would've done better if we had voted in Bernie over Hillary.

Hillary didn't have a movement behind her like Bernie did. The usual Hillary supporters would've gone for Bernie over Trump. And Bernie would've taken Michigan.

And all the moderate Republicans who have abandoned Trump would then have fallen in behind Trump to fight the Communist. Don't give me this garbage.

I'm more surprised that women and minorities didn't turn out and stop this madness.

Why would they? They were told constantly he couldn't win. And that by the way, Clinton's the devil because of her email. So why vote to stop him when he can't win and they'd have to sully their conscience by voting for her?

edited 8th Nov '16 7:55:18 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#150378: Nov 8th 2016 at 7:54:05 PM

Let's not start with the whole Bernie could have won thing: he couldn't win the goddamn primaries because the people who wanted him didn't actually go and vote, and he tended to win in areas with difficult, time consuming caucus procedures. If they can't win the primary, chances are pretty damn high they can't win the general.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#150379: Nov 8th 2016 at 7:54:53 PM

Oh please, Sanders has a metric fuckton of things to use against him. He would have lost, his share of the youth vote wouldn't overcome his other weaknesses (driving Republicans to vote, and not getting minorities out).

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#150380: Nov 8th 2016 at 7:55:13 PM

I can't believe this is happening.

Oh really when?
Julep Since: Jul, 2010
#150381: Nov 8th 2016 at 7:55:27 PM

@Ambar: except it's highly likely the "moderate republicans" got scared off by Comey and didn't vote for Clinton either.

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#150382: Nov 8th 2016 at 7:55:43 PM

@Rational Insanity

Voter ID laws, intimidation, and other illicit barriers probably.

NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#150383: Nov 8th 2016 at 7:55:56 PM

Well guys, more wonderful news. The stock market is starting to tank. Down around 600-700 points.

Yinyang107 from the True North (Decatroper) Relationship Status: Tongue-tied
AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#150385: Nov 8th 2016 at 7:56:02 PM

@Le Garcon

I can. I've been suppressing my fear of it the whole time, but I can believe it.

@Julep

And you think the FBI wouldn't have done something to Sanders? This is the organization created by J. Edgar Hoover we're talking about.

edited 8th Nov '16 7:56:46 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#150386: Nov 8th 2016 at 7:56:02 PM

I live in a progressive city in New York. I am going to be sincerely afraid to walk outside of my own door after this happens. I can't imagine what it's going to be like in places where it's worse.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
LogoP Party Crasher from the Land of Deep Blue Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
Party Crasher
#150387: Nov 8th 2016 at 7:56:09 PM

The New York Times is giving Trump a 94% chance of victory.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
lakingsif Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
#150388: Nov 8th 2016 at 7:56:16 PM

West Coast closing up.

OH MY GOD; MY PARENTS ARE GARDENIIIIINNNNGGGGG!!!!!
kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#150389: Nov 8th 2016 at 7:56:42 PM

Okay everybody, look. I was going to save this for the event of Trump winning the election, but I think I need to say this now. America WILL survive. The world WILL survive. Will a Trump presidency do more harm than good? Perhaps. But even with Trump and the GOP in power, there are still enough checks and balances to keep the country and the world from going completely down the shitter. And I've got a feeling that some of the more extreme proposals that Trump has proclaimed will not be able to be enacted for one reason or another, even if he wants them to be. The point is, if Trump wins, then we may have rough some times ahead, but there IS a light at the end of the tunnel.

I still hope Clinton wins though.tongue

edited 8th Nov '16 8:00:17 PM by kkhohoho

Yinyang107 from the True North (Decatroper) Relationship Status: Tongue-tied
#150390: Nov 8th 2016 at 7:56:59 PM

What needs to happen for Clinton to win at this point?

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#150391: Nov 8th 2016 at 7:57:16 PM

And here I thought that learning I had 8 fucking cavities would be the low point of my day.

Alcoholism is looking like an appealing passtime.

[up]A rally in Wisconsin and Michigan.

edited 8th Nov '16 7:57:33 PM by Rationalinsanity

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#150392: Nov 8th 2016 at 7:57:24 PM

My faith in this nation, my home, my birthplace, one of the two countries that I am a part of, is gone. Gone. Completely gone.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#150393: Nov 8th 2016 at 7:57:37 PM

And what will a Trump presidency represent? Not just for the States, but for everyone? What kind of harm will he do, even just to the environment, which is already probably past the point of no return?

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#150394: Nov 8th 2016 at 7:57:48 PM

I wonder what it will take for those who look up to Trump to have their preconceived notions of him as some kind of hero shattered.

Do not obey in advance.
yoneld Thus speaks yoneld: from Haifa, Israel Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Thus speaks yoneld:
#150395: Nov 8th 2016 at 7:57:52 PM

She needs to turn around MI, NH, NV, and WI, if I'm not mistaken.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
LogoP Party Crasher from the Land of Deep Blue Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
Party Crasher
#150396: Nov 8th 2016 at 7:57:52 PM

Trump takes the lead in Pennsylvania by 13k votes.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
Shippudentimes Since: Dec, 2012
#150397: Nov 8th 2016 at 7:58:06 PM

Get ready for four years of Overlord Tannen Trump.

hardcorefakes coolest_guy from probably America Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
lakingsif Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
#150399: Nov 8th 2016 at 7:58:16 PM

For Clinton: Iowa, Wisconsin OR Michigan, Pennsylvania, and then the expected ones.

OH MY GOD; MY PARENTS ARE GARDENIIIIINNNNGGGGG!!!!!
SatoshiBakura (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#150400: Nov 8th 2016 at 7:58:38 PM

Like I said, we will end up in war with Mexico because Trump wants to force the Mexicans to pay for that fucking wall.


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