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RAlexa21th Zettai Ryouiki Enjoyer from California (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I <3 love!
Zettai Ryouiki Enjoyer
#151101: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:17:58 PM

[up]what? When was Cap Cap banned?

edited 8th Nov '16 10:18:47 PM by RAlexa21th

Continue writing our story of peace.
NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#151102: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:18:19 PM

@ The Wanted: Are you being a good little Nazi and sieg heiling your fuhrer? That's what we have to look towards now.

edited 8th Nov '16 10:18:52 PM by NickTheSwing

SgtRicko Since: Jul, 2009
#151104: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:18:48 PM

All I've gotta say guys, is that just because Trump wins, doesn't mean you can give up on political participation or write off the government as hopelessly lost. If anything, you might need to become politically active more than ever to offset the potentially horrible damage on the horizon.

Just don't give up.

brohaha Chump Supreme from Chump-dom Since: Sep, 2014 Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
Chump Supreme
#151105: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:18:54 PM

My skin is literally crawling right now. Please let this turn out well.

Chump Reigning Supreme, Brohaha
lakingsif Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
#151106: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:19:15 PM

    Announced 

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

    Leading 

Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Maine 2

Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska 2, New Hampshire

    Other 

Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Hampshire

  • Removing Democratic strongholds, Trump would need 28 States.
  • North Carolina extending voting time in 8 precincts
  • New Jersey announced Democrat as soon as voting closed, as votes are being counted it currently stands Republican lead [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
  • The BBC predict draw.
  • Javits Center, Democrat HQ, emptying
  • European markets open, down 4%.
  • Best Republican numbers since Bush Sr.
  • British morning papers announce Trump win.
  • Senate: +1 -1
  • House: +4 -4

Electoral College:

Clinton 215 | 244 Trump

Updates:

  • Trump needs 26
  • Clinton needs 55
  • Senate remains Republican with Pennsylvania win

edited 8th Nov '16 10:19:50 PM by lakingsif

OH MY GOD; MY PARENTS ARE GARDENIIIIINNNNGGGGG!!!!!
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#151107: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:19:20 PM

Okay, if we want to change things. From now on...lets volunteer for poor people and homeless people. Stand up for or Muslim, Latino and LGBTQ friends. Just do everything, and vote in the midterm elections.

That's the reality I've been confronted with. I think I've been silent for way too long, out of cowardice, but if this is the alternative I don't think I'm afraid of speaking up anymore.

BestOf FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC! from Finland Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Falling within your bell curve
FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC!
#151108: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:19:35 PM

Incidentally, if Trump does win - you have my sympathies. The world in general will suffer greatly, but of course the most direct, and most severe, effects will be felt in the US.

It will be even harder than it has been for LGBT people, religious minorities (and the nonreligious), and basically all minorities.

You will have legislation designed to hinder democracy and journalism. You'll have huge economic disasters and wildly misappropriated spending, with no recuperative effect on any area or group except for the top 1%. He will ruin the Supreme Court for a long time to come.

I know that only a bit over 50% of American voters will have turned up, and of those a bit under 50% will have voted for him. I won't judge the entire country based on that. I know that most of you are better than that, and better than him.

I feel deeply sorry for you.

THAT SAID, that only applies if he does win. It's not over yet.

Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
tsstevens Reading tropes such as You Know What You Did from Reading tropes such as Righting Great Wrongs Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: She's holding a very large knife
Reading tropes such as You Know What You Did
#151109: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:19:37 PM

Would this be in bad taste?

edited 8th Nov '16 10:25:27 PM by tsstevens

Currently reading up My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours
TotemicHero No longer a forum herald from the next level Since: Dec, 2009
No longer a forum herald
#151110: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:19:40 PM

He is banned from OTC right now. For further discussion, take it up with a mod, not me.

[up] A broken embed seems in pretty bad taste to me. tongue

edited 8th Nov '16 10:20:08 PM by TotemicHero

Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
RAlexa21th Zettai Ryouiki Enjoyer from California (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I <3 love!
Zettai Ryouiki Enjoyer
#151111: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:20:15 PM

Yeah, Trump wins because of voter's apathy. Withdrawing from politics is making the same mistakes again.

Continue writing our story of peace.
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#151112: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:20:37 PM

Sing along

Inter arma enim silent leges
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#151113: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:20:41 PM

Best Of, do you honestly think Clinton has a prayer?

Evil won tonight. I'm trying to go to sleep and not hate America.

Its hard.sad

edited 8th Nov '16 10:22:16 PM by Rationalinsanity

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Memers Since: Aug, 2013
vandro Shop Owner from The little shop that wasn't Since: Jul, 2009
Shop Owner
#151115: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:21:26 PM

He also won because the democratic party didn't distinguish White Working Class from Deplorable.

Wildcard Since: Jun, 2012
#151116: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:21:31 PM

@fredhot16: Thanks, I needed a laugh. Genuinely. That said, don't degrade Resident Evil by associating it with Trump's presidency.

fredhot16 Don't want to leave but cannot pretend from Baton Rogue, Louisiana. Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Too sexy for my shirt
Don't want to leave but cannot pretend
#151117: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:22:00 PM

Allow me to quote a little Jin Kisaragi:

"Give up? You have got to be joking. I've already given up on life... on the world. But I've decided to cast aside apathy and fight... not only against this so-called 'order,' but against the world!

Let that be our motto today.

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DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#151118: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:22:09 PM

So this is how it must have felt to be a wizard when the Death Eaters took over the Ministry.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#151119: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:22:26 PM

Quote of the night, I think. I keep thinking back to this commencement speech Neil Gaiman gave once; "And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art." I'm going to keep drawing, and writing, and learning, and researching, and I'm going to do my best to be there for people and try to set an example through my actions. The next few years (and longer)... they're going to be rough. I have no illusions about that. But the way I see it, giving up is not an option. I'm probably not going to be here for awhile. There's a lot I have to work through after tonight. But I'm rooting for you folks. Best of luck.

Basically my feelings 100%.

These events have just made me more committed to standing up for injustice to the extent I can and trying to create a future with less of Trump in it.

So this is how it must have felt to be a wizard when the Death Eaters took over the Ministry.

So you were thinking of that too, were you?

Our one consolation is that Trump doesn't have evil magic powers. He only has nukes instead ;_;

edited 8th Nov '16 10:23:29 PM by Draghinazzo

FluffyMcChicken My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare from where the floating lights gleam Since: Jun, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare
#151120: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:22:54 PM

"stick with me! And you'll never go hungry again!"

edited 8th Nov '16 10:23:24 PM by FluffyMcChicken

vandro Shop Owner from The little shop that wasn't Since: Jul, 2009
Shop Owner
#151121: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:23:00 PM

This is brexit writ large.

YamiVizziniX Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
#151122: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:23:29 PM

Which is what makes me feel better about not really wanting to give up my job and emigrate. Stay and try to fix things from the inside.

I mean, I have sometimes thought over the last few years, sure, let the GOP take over, and let them be the ones getting criticized for every breath they take. I just didn't expect it to happen like this.

There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only... Hooty.
lakingsif Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
#151123: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:23:37 PM

Electoral College votes for the reporting States:

  • Alaska = 3
  • Arizona = 11
  • Maine = 4
  • Michigan = 16
  • Minnesota = 10
  • New Hampshire = 4
  • Pennsylvania = 20
  • Wisconsin = 10

Alaska reporting: Republican lead

edited 8th Nov '16 10:24:48 PM by lakingsif

OH MY GOD; MY PARENTS ARE GARDENIIIIINNNNGGGGG!!!!!
Montegoraon Since: Jan, 2011
#151124: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:23:50 PM

...But you did vote for Clinton, right?

Yes, I did. Even though it almost made me physically ill to do so. She is so deeply and utterly corrupt that it would never even occur to her that she should be any different, even after tonight. She would have been a terrible president. But that's nothing compared to what's coming. Let's see, right off the top of my head.

Hate groups will be emboldened by Trump's victory. Quite a few people will die.

Not only will Scalia be replaced with someone just like him, but RBG likely will too.

The Baltic states are likely to be swallowed whole by Russia, unopposed.

Environmental regulations will cease to exist. The Paris Accord will fall apart without the US. Worst case, any chance of curtailing climate change will evaporate into thin air.

And let's not forget, Trump once said he wants to declare bankruptcy so he can renegotiate the nation's debt. Which if he even suggests doing again while in office will obliterate the world economy.

e: Oh yeah, almost forgot. The Affordable Care Act is dead on day one. Millions can say good bye to their health insurance subsidies.

Does that about cover the big ticket items?

edited 8th Nov '16 10:26:27 PM by Montegoraon

thatguythere47 Since: Jul, 2010
#151125: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:24:08 PM

With trump pulling away in penn this is all but done folks. If any yank can afford to go halfsies on 700 living costs I will seriously consider marrying you. Canada just elected a feminist liberal who's moving towards national pot legislation.

Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?

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