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#151126: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:25:03 PM

Specifically, the lesson I'd walk away from this is that if both candidates are gunning for their first term, the status quo candidate loses. Like it or not, Clinton was the status quo candidate, trying to uphold what Obama had been trying to do (in theory). In 2008, Obama was running on a platform of change against McCain, who was the same party as Dubya Bush. And in 2000, it was Dubya Bush against Al Gore, VP of the previous president.

Pretty clear trend over the past few decades, isn't it? Every eight years, without fail.

Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#151127: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:25:08 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.

If I'm honest it's hard for me to blame anybody for wanting to leave if they can. It's braver to stay and try to fix things yes but it's asking a LOT for someone to stay in a country where their lives and well-being might be in danger.

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
#151128: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:25:51 PM

I'm staying. Period. I'm many things- arrogant, childish, snarky, a bit of a jerk. But I'm not a coward.

edited 8th Nov '16 10:26:28 PM by fredhot16

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#151129: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:26:09 PM

Well, I saw a Tumblr curse aimed at the Donald on one of my witchy blogs. While I have no energy right now, I didn't NOT approve of it.

lakingsif Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
#151130: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:26:10 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, Alaska

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 remains Republican with Pennsylvania win
  • Senate: +1 -1
  • House: +5 -5

Electoral College:

Clinton 215 | 244 Trump

Updates:

  • Alaska, the final State to close polls, begins reporting with a Republican lead
  • DOW Jones suspended
  • US Dollar falls

edited 8th Nov '16 10:30:42 PM by lakingsif

OH MY GOD; MY PARENTS ARE GARDENIIIIINNNNGGGGG!!!!!
BestOf FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC! from Finland Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Falling within your bell curve
FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC!
#151131: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:26:48 PM

Some interesting details:

  • Trump has still not released his tax records, nor will he.

  • He's said he'll have his family run his businesses, rather than detaching them from himself.

I think this means that he'll be very likely to make actual policy decisions - including Executive Orders - to benefit his own businesses in the short term.

This would not be a surprise, and at this point I don't think it would be considered a scandal.

Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
Ghostninja109 from there, not here. Since: Aug, 2011
#151132: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:26:52 PM

Is it too late to get in on this?

Not sure how to embed, so I'll just link what I had in mind.

Alternately, Odium reigns!

brohaha Chump Supreme from Chump-dom Since: Sep, 2014 Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
Chump Supreme
#151133: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:27:36 PM

I'm so tired.

Chump Reigning Supreme, Brohaha
theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#151134: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:27:52 PM

Alright, I'm going to bed. Hopefully God will be merciful and I'll wake up tomorrow and that orange-haired stink-mop won't be President.

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
#151135: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:28:46 PM

[up][up]Sleep. You need it to confront the day ahead. Look, if you go to sleep now, I'll send you a PM of fluffy kittens and cute animals. Deal?

[up]You too, 'K?

edited 8th Nov '16 10:29:08 PM by fredhot16

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#151136: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:29:02 PM

Well, I admit I'm pretty insulated- a young college-educated cisgender WASP situated in a blue corner of the landmass. Short of an actual environmental or nuclear cataclysm, I don't have more reason than normal to be worried for my personal safety.

It just sucks that this is the message we're giving. I can still empathize.

There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only... Hooty.
TheWanted Since: Oct, 2013
#151137: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:29:29 PM

I wish some of those annoying celebrities would either actually leave or just shut up about vowing to leave. I remember the same crap back with Bush.

Demonic_Braeburn Yankee Doodle Dandy from Defective California Since: Jan, 2016
Yankee Doodle Dandy
#151138: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:29:32 PM

Nasdaq, S&P halt trading as Trump closes in on White House.

Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.
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
#151139: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:29:53 PM

Still no official word if it's all over but...

edited 8th Nov '16 10:31:55 PM by tsstevens

Currently reading up My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours
LogoP Party Crasher from the Land of Deep Blue Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
Party Crasher
#151140: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:30:30 PM

Decision Desk HQ is calling the Presidential Election for Trump.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
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
#151141: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:30:39 PM

Is there any chance of Trump actually jailing HRC?

Inter arma enim silent leges
Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#151142: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:30:54 PM

Of all things, right now I'm taking solace in a story from World of Warcraft.

Several years ago, Garrosh Hellscream became Warchief of the Horde, in no small part due to his popularity with the Horde's dominant racial group, the orcs, for his promise of a return to the past days of their race's glory. Vol'jin, chieftain of the Darkspear, foresaw the destruction and terror his reign would bring not only upon the world, but upon the Horde itself. He thought of leading his people away, but instead, he resolved to remain in order to fight for the ideal of the Horde that he believed in. He fought back against the tyrant Hellscream, challenging his increasingly questionable choices over and over, until Hellscream tried to have him assassinated. Vol'jin survived, and united the rest of the Horde; the trolls, the tauren, blood elves, undead, goblins, and even some of Hellscream's fellow orcs in his vision of the Horde as a family made of many clans and creeds, united in shared strength. Hellscream was overthrown, and Vol'jin elected Warchief by unanimous vote of the other leaders.

Horde players can be bitterly divided in their opinions of which of the four Warchiefs we've had over the years was best, but for me, there is no contest. When things were their darkest, my Warchief stayed and fought for his belief in what his nation could be at its best, and I will follow his example.

...in spirit. Not in armed revolution.

Gaon Smoking Snake from Grim Up North Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
lakingsif Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
#151144: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:31:34 PM

Trump's campaign manager: "Hillary's floor & ceiling [sic:are the] same"

OH MY GOD; MY PARENTS ARE GARDENIIIIINNNNGGGGG!!!!!
jedimaster1701 from Canada Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#151145: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:31:43 PM

i hope in 4 years clinton doesn't run again

MAD doctorine is counterproductive
AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#151146: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:32:06 PM

Considering the FBI haven't found her guilty of any proper wrongdoing, I doubt it. Though he's fascististic enough to pull the "make political prisoners out of your enemy on trumped up charges" card.

TropesForever God forbid women do anything from wait where is she Since: Sep, 2016 Relationship Status: I wanna be your dog
God forbid women do anything
#151147: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:32:08 PM

I'll never be able to laugh at political loonies ever again.

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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
#151148: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:32:47 PM

[up] NO, DAMN IT! LAUGH! THAT IS A POWERFUL WEAPON AND WE MUST USE IT!

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itty bitty best green lantern
#151149: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:33:22 PM

This sucks. This sucks so much and I want to scream. Why did this have to happen?

TropesForever God forbid women do anything from wait where is she Since: Sep, 2016 Relationship Status: I wanna be your dog
God forbid women do anything
#151150: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:33:36 PM

[up][up]Okay, I'll try the next time I have the opportunity.

edited 8th Nov '16 10:34:02 PM by TropesForever

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