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Elle Since: Jan, 2001
nervmeister Since: Oct, 2010
#151527: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:29:55 AM

When the "armageddon" some of you fear never comes, this thread will look much the same as before with the usual back-and-forth, only with a fresh new compendium of Trump jokes.

Rynnec Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Healthy, deeply-felt respect for this here Shotgun
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
#151529: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:30:57 AM

We've got three months, people! Three months! Anything can happen then!

Oh, god, I suddenly understand how Himmimler felt!

Trans rights are human rights. TV Tropes is not a place for bigotry, cruelty, or dickishness, no matter who or their position.
Imca (Veteran)
#151530: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:31:13 AM

Errrr, question.

I was translating the responce on our social media by request for some Amercians, and there is this presistant thing on there that "The Clinton campaign should have brought up that trumps wife is an illegal immigrant"

Is.... is that true? Or is it just something that a lot of people have in there heads back home?

The whole Trumps wife being an illegal immigrant thing, I am not asking for an opinion on mudslinging.

Julep Since: Jul, 2010
#151531: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:31:45 AM

Apparently she seems to have worked in the US without authorization when she first landed there.

edited 9th Nov '16 12:31:55 AM by Julep

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#151532: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:32:04 AM

@nerv-mesiter Many of us might be over-exaggerating but it's no exaggeration to say that tonight has actually been a horrible day for America.

We voted in an unstable guy who likes to brag about sexual assault and someone who likes to electrocute gay kids into being straight.

edited 9th Nov '16 12:32:49 AM by MadSkillz

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#151533: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:32:10 AM

She did work and spend time in the US for a number of years on what appears to be an expired or false visa.

But nobody really dug into it since it never really came up. So we're not 100% sure.

Oh really when?
Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#151534: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:32:38 AM

Imca: For a period of time, yes, it was true as she was working without a visa for a period of time.

[up]I recall Kurt Eichenwald doing some digging and confirming it, but either my college internet has packed it in or Twitter's servers are.

edited 9th Nov '16 12:35:36 AM by Krieger22

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
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
#151535: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:33:11 AM

Hey, Spoony's doing a stream!

Called R.I.P. U.S.A.

....

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chartoc Since: Apr, 2010
#151536: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:33:57 AM

I don't judge by skin color. I judge by content of character. His character is not good. Speaking as a black gay man myself, we need to stop judging people by their label. That is a big reason why Trump had support. that and poor people who were left behind. Only the GOP made a token efforts to help them. Democrats never made a effort. Yes I know that GOP efforts worked but they tried. I can talk in PM if you want to.

Demonic_Braeburn Yankee Doodle Dandy from Defective California Since: Jan, 2016
Yankee Doodle Dandy
#151537: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:34:32 AM

I'm going to bed. Thanks for experiencing this shitshow with me.

Internet, 4chan, this place, it's all going to be a hotbed for awhile. Spend the time with the people that matter.

In times of crises, Redditers gather around their God and pray.

edited 9th Nov '16 12:37:29 AM by Demonic_Braeburn

Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.
nervmeister Since: Oct, 2010
#151538: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:35:36 AM

@Madskillz

And he'd ultimately be shooting himself in the foot by trying to sell something like that in this day and age,

edited 9th Nov '16 12:36:49 AM by nervmeister

SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Love is Love is Love
#151539: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:35:37 AM

I hate this country. I really do.

My various fanfics.
Sharysa Since: Jan, 2001
#151540: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:36:44 AM

I'll just stop responding to the Mighty Whitey Bro (and others like him). I'll spend energy on responses to smart people. If Chris Evans responds to my tweet, HOLY SHIT IN ADVANCE.

lakingsif Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
#151542: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:38:13 AM

Michigan is currently at 47.0:47.9. Less than 1%, so the swing States can all be challenged, should the Clinton team want.

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!
#151543: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:38:55 AM

I have a running joke that the US is actually just an elaborate reality show for the rest of the world. I suppose Trump is some sort of meta-commentary on that.

Seriously, though, he must be the least qualified and least honest major political candidate in the history of the Western hemisphere. In a reality show or soap opera he'd be panned by critics as an unrealistic caricature.

Now he'll be among the worst world leaders alive, a bit above Mugabe and Kim but below Berlusconi.

Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#151544: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:38:56 AM

There's no more hope of Clinton winning this thing. She's conceded. It's over. Time to brace for the inevitable.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
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
#151545: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:40:11 AM

6:30 AM, can't sleep.

You see, for the last year I've been thinking about a few things, all related over the progress humanity as a whole made and how it wouldn't have setbacks, how the fragile democracy could be, how reason wouldn't always prevail against sensationalism, how facts won't always beat emotions and how even with all the progress in social, racial and gender equality the reactionary groups would fight against it and win some battles.

I guess 2016 was the year it happened.

In other news, it seems there are protests in Oakland over the results.

Also Putin gives his congrats to Trump. The Baltics are fucked.

edited 9th Nov '16 12:41:51 AM by AngelusNox

Inter arma enim silent leges
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#151546: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:41:10 AM

The United States of America: 1776~2016.

Welp, it had a good run.

...I hope that ends up being Black Comedy rather than prophecy.

edited 9th Nov '16 12:42:04 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#151547: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:41:30 AM

I'm just gonna pop in and leave this here. I hope these remain true throughout the next for yers.
The problem with most of those checks on the Trumpenfuhrer's power is that he's got a Republican House and Senate on his side, which will in turn allow him to appoint the craziest mofos he can find to the SCOTUS and Cabinet and just get them rubber stamped.

If Trump had won the presidency, but the GOP lost either house of Congress, this wouldn't be as big of a problem, but what we have is essentially the worst case scenario - two of three branches of government controlled by one party and poised to do the same to the third branch, meaning that for the next two years (next chance at Congressional elections for the entire House and 1/3 of the Senate) or four years (next presidential election), the Republican Party holds pretty much all federal governmental power, with the ONLY check still intact being the fillibuster. EDIT: That, and the difficulty of justifying overturning SCOTUS precedent.

edited 9th Nov '16 12:42:47 AM by Balmung

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#151548: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:41:44 AM

I'm not even going to try to sleep. I'm just going to...sit here, I guess. Everything feels pointless.

"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
#151549: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:42:09 AM

240 years, yeah.

OH MY GOD; MY PARENTS ARE GARDENIIIIINNNNGGGGG!!!!!
Sharysa Since: Jan, 2001
#151550: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:42:47 AM

So there's protests in the Bay Area. BERKELEY of all places.

PLEASE DON'T LET ANY IDIOTS START RIOTS.

I don't know if I can sleep, but I'll probably lie around under my blanket for a while.

edited 9th Nov '16 12:43:37 AM by Sharysa


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