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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Don't want to leave but cannot pretend
IT'S NOT OVER YET, SNAKE!
Trans rights are human rights. TV Tropes is not a place for bigotry, cruelty, or dickishness, no matter who or their position.
Trump presidency. It's obviously going to happen.
Rounding up and deporting millions of undocumented immigrants. Can he do it?
From what I have been told it isn't actually feasible to do.
edited 8th Nov '16 9:29:04 PM by Draghinazzo
@R Bluefish: No. Remember, the GOP actually like undocumented immigrants so long as they stay undocumented.
I despise hypocrisy, unless of course it is my own.
A real bad hombre
I'm scared absolutely out of my mind at the prospect of the actual, literal apocalypse happening.
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
NH swings democrat. Thank all that is good!
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I was too. In 2008 I was 17 and 3 months removed from the ability to vote. It has changed since then, but keep up hope. Maybe the country can get better.
edited 8th Nov '16 9:30:31 PM by Wildcard
METAL GEAR!?
I highly doubt it. But it might energize vigilantes like the Minutemen to do it for him in places.
What's the chance that Hillary might try again in 2020?
Banning Muslims from entering the country, and forcing American Muslims to register with the government. Can he do it?
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
Brenner's Wolves Fight Again
Not sure.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Don't want to leave but cannot pretend
Can useless endevors put him down? I mean, not EVERYBODY will copperate.
Trans rights are human rights. TV Tropes is not a place for bigotry, cruelty, or dickishness, no matter who or their position.
Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, TEXAS, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Missouri, Ohio, Florida, Idaho, North Carolina, Utah, Iowa, Georgia
Vermont, Massachussetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia, Rhode Island, Illinois, New York, Connecticut, New Mexico, Virginia, Colorado, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Nevada
Michigan, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Arizona, Pennsylvania
Maine, Minnesota
Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Hampshire
- Removing Democratic strongholds, Trump would need 28 States.
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North Carolina extending voting time in 8 precincts -
New Jersey announced Democratas soon as voting closed, as votes are being counted it currently stands Republicanlead [1]- Voting concludes. Democrat win in NJ.
- One person dies after being shot on their way to a polling place in Los Angeles.
- DOW Jones Futures down 300
- Florida: (47.7:49.2) >99% reporting (10:50 pm ET)
- Broward County 13 precincts not reporting
- Palm Beach 27 precincts not reporting
- Monroe County 1 precinct not reporting
- Bay County: All precincts now reporting
- Miami-Dade: All precincts now reporting
- All States reporting except Alaska
- Canada's Immigration website has crashed.
- Clinton tweets "thank you for everything"; Democratic HQ in silence
- Mexican peso crashes
- Michigan, New Hampshire, too close to call
- Nebraska District 2, too close to call
- Trump's biggest demo. in Mid West "white women"
- DOW Jones Futures down 800
- Sterling rises
- House of Representatives remains Republican
- Senate: +1 -1
- House: +4 -4
Electoral College:
Clinton 215 | 244 Trump
Updates:
- House of Representatives remains Republican
The Zangoose nobody likes
I am seriously hoping for an extreme Deus ex Machina to bless us right now...
"That is hard to argue or agree with." ~Penny
I didn't think Driven to Suicide was possible for a nation, Thank God i live in Canada
MAD doctorine is counterproductive
Visiting from the Hoag Galaxy
The system is way overtaxed as it is, and it isn't a problem that just adding people to ICE will solve. The other problem is that if the system really does start to work to deport that many people, what's to stop the Trump government from adding people they don't like to the list and dumping them in Honduras or something?
Not Three Laws compliant.
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
It would be a logistical drain on the US government, and potentially attract a lot of conscientious objectors, if the National Guard and law enforcement is dragged into it. However, see BLM for the latter.
What would be worrying is "yeah, the government can't do this, it's on you 3 percenters".
Florida: Have those polling precincts still not reported, or are those the ones that allegedly still have lines outside?
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
If she's alive, she will. Though all of the possible Democratic candidates are old now - her, Biden, Sanders.
I despise hypocrisy, unless of course it is my own.
Most of his policies are obviously unconstitutional so they'll be shot down when they make the...supreme...fuck.
Not too late to move towards a parliamentary system and have the queen as the hard check.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
Really the only hope we have without the Supreme Court is just that the logistics can't pan out.
Oh really when?
Starting a war with...any number of nations. Can he do it?
I'm sorry if I'm being annoying, I'm just...I feel sick to my stomach.
edited 8th Nov '16 9:32:42 PM by RBluefish
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
The UK won't have that for much longer either. Do you trust Charles III to defend your constitution?
I despise hypocrisy, unless of course it is my own.
No longer a forum herald
@Ramidel: No. There is another. 
Brenner's Wolves Fight Again
It's kinda hard for a country with no royal house.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Don't want to leave but cannot pretend
What about the United Nations?
War? Nah. "police action?" hell yeah.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?
You mean the institution that the US can veto whenever it pleases?
I despise hypocrisy, unless of course it is my own.
Voter apathy played a major role apparently.
Hillary, Trump boring? Turnout down in Los Angeles