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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
So it's all but official now. Fucking hell. Darkest timeline.
You know what the sad thing is? All those letters, protests, it was all for nothing. One elector even admitted she was moved by the desperate pleas not to vote Trump in the letters... and she still voted for Trump, because she had a "duty". Ugh.
edited 19th Dec '16 2:02:26 PM by speedyboris
Speaking of puppet kings, Guess Who's Back!
(tl;dr: It's fucking Cheney!!!)
edited 19th Dec '16 2:15:57 PM by CaptainCapsase
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Can't say I was expecting anything different. And even if that woman wouldn't vote for Trump, the result would be the same.
edited 19th Dec '16 2:17:13 PM by Grafite
Life is unfair...Cheney wasn't a puppet master.
He was certainly more influential than most, if not all, modern V Ps, but a puppet master? Nah.
New Survey coming this weekend!Look, nobody could realistically expect the EC wouldn't vote Trump. Nobody should've been pinning their hopes here.
Want to stop Trump? Time to get to work on the grassroots and downticket, people. And damn well support every Democrat on the ballot, even if they don't tickle your fancy how you'd want. In every election.
edited 19th Dec '16 2:23:10 PM by Lightysnake
I don't know, that sounds...limiting. I mean, what if their policies are genuinely harmful?
Well, I guess there's probably exceptions, but presumably (from the perspective of someone on the Center or Left) they'd be preferable to the Republican.
And if I may speak for Lightysnake/express my own view, I do not want to see/am dreading Sanders and supporters trying to primary the relatively few Democratic incumbents.
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Generally I agree, at the local/state level Republicans are sometimes better than their Democratic alternatives, but when it comes to national races the official Republican platform is so toxic, and the Republicans themselves so hostile towards moderates and dissenters who would try to not follow it, that Democrats are really the only viable options. Better the lizard than the wizard they say.
edited 19th Dec '16 3:09:11 PM by AlleyOop
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I have never heard anyone say "Better the lizard than the wizard." Is it a thing people say?
Anyway, this year seems to adore kicking me in the teeth. I expect to spend much of the next four years drinking.
"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's Dictionary
Ah. Makes sense.
Well, in any event, it looks like we now have a lizard wizard for a President now. Fantastic.
"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's DictionaryFocus on media bias not helping: Even for downticket races, at least acknowledging it's existence and trying to mitigate it should serve as a part of Democrat strategy for the sake of getting their voterbase to actually go out and vote for them instead of trying to live out the political version of Threw It On The Ground.
The idea of a "Breitbart for Democrats" is something I utterly despise, though, and not just because meme pages already have that covered. "Literally don't have the intellectual capacity to digest policy? Here's something badly captioned to share!"
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiotI "think" it's a reference to this Muslim American college student (?) in New York who evidently lied about Trump supporters ripping off her hijab.
But the post in question seems to be phrased rather broadly/makes me want to grab a bag of popcorn.
Anyone who isn't a WASP don't real because a meme told me we could extrapolate badly.
edited 19th Dec '16 4:46:29 PM by Krieger22
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiotEven before Yasmin came around Trump supporters have been trying to dispute SPLC records, among others
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And that's before all the projection going on. "Second Amendment people" ring a bell?
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot

Maybe the ballots turn into something sane at the stroke of midnight on the 31st.
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