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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone) It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone) It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It's time I had some time alone)
We are all singing it! I'm singing it! You're singing it! Admit it, this sums up the whole situation!
edited 9th Nov '16 1:15:54 AM by Vampireandthen
Please allow me to introduce myself, I am a man of wealth and taste. Nice to meet you, hope you can guess my name.Oh good, people are talking about the very real possibility of World War 3 now. And if there is one, I'll probably be drafted into fighting in it. Nice knowing you all.
I'm serious. I am miserable right now. This entire situation. How. Just how.
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."There's a lot going through my mind right now, and maybe I'll come back to it, but hopefully I won't if I get drunk enough. Actually too late, fuck it.
Bernie Sanders would not have lost the Upper Midwest. Yeah I saw that post about how Sanders would've been painted as a womanizing minority-hating ignormaus. Turns out people are actually okay with that shit.
Needless to say, there are some people in this thread that I would never like to see post here again, but whatever, it's a free country, for now.
Looks like it is okay for me to enjoy killing Americans in video games after all with this mess. At least it provides some Catharsis Factor.
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, Maine Second District, Wisconsin, Alaska, Arizona
Vermont, Massachussetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia, Rhode Island, Illinois, New York, Connecticut, New Mexico, Virginia, Colorado, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Maine
Michigan
Minnesota, New Hampshire
Michigan, New Hampshire, Nebraska Second District
- 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
- Clinton calls Trump, concedes
- Senate: +1 -1
- House: +5 -5
Electoral College:
Clinton 218 | 289 Trump
Updates:
- President Trump
- Republicans win Arizona
This seems impossible. Not just that he'd win, but that he'd win by this much. I cannot honestly understand how this happened.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.This happened because the democrats screwed up. I am serious. They should not have chosen Clinton. They should have chosen someone else. Hell, I would have been happy even if it wasn't Sanders.
Please allow me to introduce myself, I am a man of wealth and taste. Nice to meet you, hope you can guess my name.
Reading tropes such as You Know What You Did
It's the end of the world as we know it It's the end of the world as we know it It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It's time I had some time alone)
We all hear you.
edited 9th Nov '16 1:36:14 AM by tsstevens
Currently reading up My Rule Fu Is Stronger than YoursI am speaking from a position of privilage here, but Pence would be much more survivable. It would still suck and we'd have to fight against his more theocratic leanings but he would not be the same level of bombshell dropped on the world stage. Those of you who have reason to be scared of him, I get it, but you won't be without allies.
... This is a nightmare, isn't it? Someone please tell me that there's a chance the exit polling result could turn out to be wrong.
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Literally none of Clinton's so-called scandals have gone anywhere upon investigation. Trump is a guy who openly admits to cheating his own employees (and now that he's the POTUS, we're the employees in this analogy). The fact that anyone even cares about whatever little screw-ups Clintons may have made is simply due to the astonishing power of the smear campaign against her.
I mean, I voted for Sanders in the primary. I would have loved a Sanders president. But Clinton isn't the devil and anyone who treated her as such is an idiot.
edited 9th Nov '16 1:37:42 AM by Clarste

We've had vicious presidents and we've had idiot presidents, but l don't know if we've ever been cursed with a vicious idiot for a president.
edited 9th Nov '16 1:11:00 AM by Antiteilchen