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Sharysa Since: Jan, 2001
#152451: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:22:13 PM

Well, I officially joined a Tumblr curse against Trump and offered Cap's speech as energy for it.

Social media might be responsible for this mess, but it's also responsible for a lot of great things.

AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#152452: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:22:20 PM

@Angelus Nox

Let's not give Milo any attention. He's a self-proclaimed gay Jewish Nazi who loves to brag about having sex with black men while simultaneously talking about them being inferior. He's so fake I'm sure his skin is plastic, such a colossal troll I'm amazed he doesn't live under the Brooklyn bridge.

edited 9th Nov '16 12:23:49 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar

Mr.Didact Keep Hope Alive from Winterfell Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: Naked on a bearskin rug, playing the saxophone
Keep Hope Alive
#152453: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:22:27 PM

Cracked article? What's their take on this?

Stand Fast, Stand Strong, Stand Together
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
#152454: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:22:51 PM

Now's the power struggle, will the Alt Right manage to hold onto control of Trump or will the establishment Republicans put their dog on a leash.

The victory speech was an establishment Republican one, so it's looking that way right now.

edited 9th Nov '16 12:23:40 PM by Silasw

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
Pseudopartition Screaming Into The Void from The Cretaeceous Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Screaming Into The Void
#152455: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:22:55 PM

Wow, Yiannopoulos is really a fourteen-year old, isn't he?

Lord Bridgegate isn't on trial.
Okay, I laughed at the "Lord Bridgegate" crack. Thanks, I need that.

edited 9th Nov '16 12:23:21 PM by Pseudopartition

MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
Shippudentimes Since: Dec, 2012
#152458: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:25:45 PM

I was so hoping to post this if Trump lost. But, oh well.

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#152459: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:26:27 PM

Man, all I can think about right now is how much needed money Hillary siphoned from down-ballot races only to to lose it anyways when she lost.

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#152460: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:27:11 PM

With hope, assuming Trump really is President Celebrity it is highly likely that we're going to be looking at Dubya 2.0, although potentially with setbacks for LGBT minorities, particularly trans people. However Society Has Marched On somewhat, so despite all the bigotry attitudes towards them are still better among younger redstaters than they used to be.

edited 9th Nov '16 12:29:14 PM by AlleyOop

Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#152461: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:27:53 PM

Here's the thing:

There's a lot of things you could call the people in Trump's cabinet but I don't think suicidal is one of them. They know the dangers he can bring if they just let him loose like a rabid dog, which is they need to keep him on a leash. Make him feel like he's in control while they make all the decisions.

Or in other words, they may hate them gays and them colored folk but they don't wanna give their dumbfuck buddy access to the nuke button. They don't need to use it.

edited 9th Nov '16 12:30:15 PM by Draghinazzo

speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#152462: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:28:17 PM

You know what? I'm still pissed, for another reason:

Not to invoke Think of the Children! here, but the message to kids of this outcome is basically, "Whine and blame and insult others enough, and someday you'll become president." I can only imagine how uglier the playgrounds of America will be due to this.

edited 9th Nov '16 12:33:45 PM by speedyboris

AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#152463: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:34:14 PM

I once again note there's basically nothing that they can do to stop Trump from declaring a war or using a nuke. Let's hope he's not that crazy.

Bense Since: Aug, 2010
#152464: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:34:54 PM

You know, the votes for Trump don't mean that the voters liked everything about Trump, or agreed with everything he said. I continue to hear analysts saying "but how could they vote for him when the polls say they don't share his opinion on x, y, or z?" Obviously they must have voted for him for reasons a, b, and c rather than x, y , or z.

Assuming automatically that a Trump voter must be ignorant, or uneducated, or a bigot is just that, an assumption, and a baseless one at that.

My advice to all of you who can't believe he won is to find someone who voted for him and ask them why. And then - and here's the important bit - listen to them and try to understand their opinion. Maybe you'll admit they have a point or two, even if you don't agree with them on everything. Go outside of your normal circles if you have to, and certainly outside of this forum. You may learn a thing or two. More respect and tolerance for differing political opinions is something this country could use.

I'm not a Trump supporter, and I didn't vote for him. None of my family are Trump supporters either, but most of them did vote for him (or at least they said they would - I assume they carried through). My family aren't racists, and they aren't uneducated, and they aren't ignorant. They hated his anti-Muslim comments, thought his business practices smell fishy, and think his treatment of women is, in a word, deplorable. That didn't outweigh their reasons for voting for him.

Go ask some people. Not me - I concluded in the end that I couldn't vote for him - but go ask and try to understand.

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#152465: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:37:18 PM

[up][up][up]Fair point. The President doesn't just run the country; he's a role-model to the entire nation, and if that roll-model starts bullying and whining and crying and says to grab 'em by the pussy, then somebody's bound to follow his example.

edited 9th Nov '16 12:37:36 PM by kkhohoho

AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#152466: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:37:22 PM

@Bense

If you can vote for Trump despite all that then guess what—you are being bigoted. If whatever you think he's going to give you matters more to you than his treatment of your fellow citizens, there's a problem there.

edited 9th Nov '16 12:39:29 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar

Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#152467: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:39:14 PM

What if Obama destroys the nuclear launch codes so nobody can use them?

edited 9th Nov '16 12:39:23 PM by Bat178

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#152468: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:39:44 PM

It doesn't really work like that. Besides, everyone knows the codes. It's 00000000.

So to minimize the time from when the order comes down to launch them. Those warheads that need a code at least.

edited 9th Nov '16 12:40:43 PM by LeGarcon

Oh really when?
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#152469: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:39:49 PM

Assuming automatically that a Trump voter must be ignorant, or uneducated, or a bigot is just that, an assumption, and a baseless one at that.

Some people have noted what white rural voters were largely motivated by their dreadful conditions and the fact that things didn't appear to be looking up for them.

I'm not going to say that they don't have legitimate issues, but they are ignorant if they think that Trump will do anything to help them.

And here's another thing: at best, a person voting for Trump is ignorant to the dangers his presidency brings to the safety and civil rights of millions of minorities and the power they are giving to white supremacists and bigots everywhere.

If they still know that and voted for him anyway, then they are either bigots or being complicit with bigotry. There's no other way around it. It doesn't really matter how much they may hate Hillary because if she had won we wouldn't have to worry for the safety of millions of people in the way we do with Trump.

edited 9th Nov '16 12:41:24 PM by Draghinazzo

rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#152470: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:39:55 PM

I'm just struck with a really depressing thought. Were the New Deal, the 1950s, and similar expansions of taxation, the welfare state, and the related prosperity and equality only possible because the progressives made sure that black people wouldn't be invited to the table?

At least with the New Deal, the historical consensus does appear to be that it didn't help black people all that much in comparison to white people because FDR needed the southern white vote.

edited 9th Nov '16 12:41:38 PM by rmctagg09

Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.
AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#152471: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:40:08 PM

@Bat 178

Don't I wish. Doesn't work that way though.

edited 9th Nov '16 12:40:40 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar

Zennistrad from The Multiverse Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: I don't mind being locked in this eternal maze!
#152473: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:41:41 PM

I just lost an aquiantence I thought I was on good terms with because someone managed to convince them that leftist critics of Hillary Clinton are somehow responsible for her loss.

Fuck this election and fuck my life.

Jasaiga Since: Jan, 2015
#152474: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:41:50 PM

Just think if the mutliverse theory is correcr...there exists an alternate universe where all of us are practically dancing in the streets and we've just taken all three branches instead of the Republicans.

rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#152475: Nov 9th 2016 at 12:42:52 PM

Which helps us little because this is the universe we've got.

Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.

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