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AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#151151: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:33:40 PM

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

TheWanderer Student of Story from Somewhere in New England (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Student of Story
#151152: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:34:04 PM

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.

Humanity i love you because you would rather black the boots of success than enquire whose soul dangles from his watch-chain which would be embarrassing for both

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...◊ |
lakingsif Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
#151153: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:34:19 PM

Election basically rests on Pennsylvania.

OH MY GOD; MY PARENTS ARE GARDENIIIIINNNNGGGGG!!!!!
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#151154: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:34:27 PM

Is there anybody in the democratic party right now besides HRC who could run in 2020 and would be reasonably popular?

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
#151155: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:34:59 PM

If Hillary won, I was going to say that I would be jerking off.

I just might do that right now, if only for solace.

edited 8th Nov '16 10:35:52 PM by fredhot16

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MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#151156: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:35:24 PM

Accurate

Save us, Future Trunks!

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#151157: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:35:30 PM

President...Trump. President. Trump.

Ugh, just typing that hurt.

Disgusted, but not surprised
AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#151158: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:35:42 PM

A political cartoon summary of the last week. Worst thing is, Comey will probably get away with it completely.

jedimaster1701 from Canada Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#151159: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:36:08 PM

The Wanderer if you wanna move to Canada you need to learn french

MAD doctorine is counterproductive
Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#151160: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:36:09 PM

I'm back home and the elections till hasn't been called, so I'm gonna be a stubborn little shit and say it ain't over.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#151161: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:36:37 PM

I pray to any God that might be listening that you're right. I do. I don't want to live in this world.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
lakingsif Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
#151162: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:36:49 PM

And the provinces in PA not reporting are the Democratic strongholds, with >10% Democrat lead. There's hope yet.

OH MY GOD; MY PARENTS ARE GARDENIIIIINNNNGGGGG!!!!!
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
#151163: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:37:12 PM

[up][up]This world is still worth living for despite everything. Never forget that.

edited 8th Nov '16 10:37:22 PM by fredhot16

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AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#151164: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:37:27 PM

One big name I can think of right now is Elizabeth Warren. I guess there's also Corey Booker maybe, if he can demonstrate a solid platform of his own. And Kamala Harris is another up-and-coming name it seems.

Montegoraon Since: Jan, 2011
#151165: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:38:33 PM

Sanders will unquestionably be too old in 2020. My money's on Warren.

thatguythere47 Since: Jul, 2010
#151166: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:38:44 PM

Fuck 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?
RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#151167: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:38:58 PM

George Takei has something to say.

The unthinkable happened before, to my family in WWII. We got thru it. We held each other close. We kept our dignity and held to our ideals.

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.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
Wildcard Since: Jun, 2012
#151168: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:39:20 PM

You know what we need. Just something to cheer up too. Maybe play American Idiot by Green Day now.

jedimaster1701 from Canada Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#151169: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:39:29 PM

According to google C:215, T:264; yea he's gonna POTUS

MAD doctorine is counterproductive
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
lakingsif Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
#151171: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:39:56 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, 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

    Leading 

Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Maine 2, Alaska

Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska 2, New Hampshire

    Other 

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
  • 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!!!!!
Demonic_Braeburn Yankee Doodle Dandy from Defective California Since: Jan, 2016
Yankee Doodle Dandy
#151172: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:40:04 PM

TRUMP JUST TOOK PENNSYLVANIA!

Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.
LogoP Party Crasher from the Land of Deep Blue Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
Party Crasher
#151173: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:40:15 PM

PBS just called Pennsylvania for Trump. It is done.

edited 8th Nov '16 10:40:51 PM by LogoP

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#151174: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:40:40 PM

I knew it.

It's too late.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
lakingsif Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
#151175: Nov 8th 2016 at 10:41:08 PM

Trump: "Nobody builds walls better than me"

Right now

OH MY GOD; MY PARENTS ARE GARDENIIIIINNNNGGGGG!!!!!

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