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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Every now and then people do things so stupid, so unconscionable, you start to think that democracy and self-determination are really horrible ideas. In unrelated news, Donald Trump is about to become president.
Fuck it. I'm 36 years old and already worn out trying to push this boulder up the hill. I'm tired of seeing Republican presidents and congresses fuck everything up, Democrats start to fix stuff up just enough so you can believe in progress, and then people decide that the only logical response is to vote in a bigger Republican fuck-up than the last one. As soon as I finish my degree and externship, hopefully by May, I'm going somewhere else in the Anglosphere, probably Canada. (My language skills in Spanish and Italian just aren't up to par to consider moving to those regions.)
It's pretty rare that I feel truly misanthropic, but when I do, I always feel like this E. E. Cummings poem speaks for me. I'm going to leave it here in case anyone else who's feeling similarly finds it helpful.
parties and because you unflinchingly applaud all songs containing the words country home and mother when sung at the old howard
Humanity i love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink and when you’re flush pride keeps
you from the pawn shop and because you are continually committing nuisances but more especially in your own house
Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it’s there and sitting down
on it and because you are forever making poems in the lap of death Humanity
i hate you
edited 8th Nov '16 10:34:55 PM by TheWanderer
| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |A political cartoon summary of the last week.
Worst thing is, Comey will probably get away with it completely.
The Wanderer if you wanna move to Canada you need to learn french
MAD doctorine is counterproductiveFuck dying, fuck giving up. The great work continues. Doesn't mean we can't have a pity party right now.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?George Takei has something to say.
1) I am addressing this to all who voted to defeat Donald Trump and what he represents. We may not have prevailed, but we must not despair.
2) Many of you are, like me, in a state of shock. This does not feel like the America you love and honor. We are in unchartered waters.
3) In times like these we must reaffirm the values we cherish and have fought for: equality, justice, the care of our planet.
4) We must stand up defiantly to any dark or divisive acts, and look out for the most vulnerable among us. It is more important than ever.
5) Within our hearts we know the society we wish to live in. No one can take that vision from us. We are each of us keepers of that promise.
6) This country has seen wars and grave injustices, slavery and even civil war in its past. Yet we found our way through. We will now, too.
7) Hold your loved ones close. Tell them that it is in times of sadness and in the toughest of days where we often find our true mettle.
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, Pennsylvania
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, Wisconsin, Arizona, Maine 2, Alaska
Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska 2, New Hampshire
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
- 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
- Alaska, the final State to close polls, begins reporting with a Republican lead
- DOW Jones suspended
- US Dollar falls
- Senate: +1 -1
- House: +5 -5
Electoral College:
Clinton 215 | 264 Trump
Updates:
- Come on, Pennsylvania
- Damnit
edited 8th Nov '16 10:42:20 PM by lakingsif
OH MY GOD; MY PARENTS ARE GARDENIIIIINNNNGGGGG!!!!!

Well there's always the Mel Brooks approach. Not that I could tell you if it actually works or not.