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AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#38176: Nov 6th 2012 at 9:22:47 PM

Why don't you actually link us to it? Some of us don't use Twitter.

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#38178: Nov 6th 2012 at 9:23:28 PM

[up][up]https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

Trump's twitter says that the world is laughing at America. No. We're laugh at you Donald. Least I am.

Anyway I'm out. Need sleep.

edited 6th Nov '12 9:23:53 PM by Rationalinsanity

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#38179: Nov 6th 2012 at 9:24:26 PM

[up][up]I'm going to use dirty words: "public funding". wink

[up]Night. smile And, agreed. Trump = dark comedy gold.

edited 6th Nov '12 9:25:19 PM by Euodiachloris

Icarus24 The Risen from Australia Since: Nov, 2012
The Risen
#38180: Nov 6th 2012 at 9:24:59 PM

"This election is a total sham and a travesty. We are not a democracy!"

@realDonaldTrump How did this man become a billionaire?

[up][up]True

edited 6th Nov '12 9:26:26 PM by Icarus24

It obviously isn't fast eough
Trivialis Since: Oct, 2011
#38181: Nov 6th 2012 at 9:25:03 PM

Thorn, let's not talk anymore about Donald Trump doing something dangerous. I don't want it actually happening.

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#38182: Nov 6th 2012 at 9:25:12 PM

[up][up][up][up]Does he not realize every other country wanted Obama to win?

edited 6th Nov '12 9:25:26 PM by Kostya

TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#38183: Nov 6th 2012 at 9:25:33 PM

Are we sure that that is really the real Donald Trump or someone doing a really good pisstake out of the follically challenged wonder?

Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
NOT THE BEES
#38184: Nov 6th 2012 at 9:25:34 PM

Looks like the marijuana measure in Oregon is failing. Surprising, but not unwelcome to me.

Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#38185: Nov 6th 2012 at 9:26:09 PM

[up][up][up]Except Pakistan. And, I'm still not sure what that leadership is smoking... tongue

edited 6th Nov '12 9:26:26 PM by Euodiachloris

IraTheSquire Since: Apr, 2010
#38186: Nov 6th 2012 at 9:26:13 PM

I really like that way Trump says that US is in big trouble... bigger than anything before.

-Facepalms in amusement-

If that's not him than kudos to the troll for amusing me.

edited 6th Nov '12 9:27:09 PM by IraTheSquire

Serocco Serocco from Miami, Florida Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
Serocco
#38187: Nov 6th 2012 at 9:27:08 PM

What Marijuana measure?

In RWBY, every girl is Best Girl.
Ultrayellow Unchanging Avatar. Since: Dec, 2010
Unchanging Avatar.
#38188: Nov 6th 2012 at 9:27:29 PM

Popular vote still doesn't look good for Obama. But everything else does.

Except for 4/1/2011. That day lingers in my memory like...metaphor here...I should go.
Arkasas (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#38189: Nov 6th 2012 at 9:28:23 PM

Popular vote's getting better, Romney's ahead by 335.

GameGuruGG Vampire Hunter from Castlevania (Before Recorded History)
Vampire Hunter
#38190: Nov 6th 2012 at 9:28:26 PM

Almost forgot... Tammy Baldwin has become the first openly homosexual US Senator.

Wizard Needs Food Badly
Trivialis Since: Oct, 2011
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#38192: Nov 6th 2012 at 9:29:38 PM

Obama is behind Romney by 70k in the popular vote!

DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#38193: Nov 6th 2012 at 9:29:47 PM

[up][up][up]

Still not official.

edited 6th Nov '12 9:30:02 PM by DeviantBraeburn

Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016
rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#38194: Nov 6th 2012 at 9:30:06 PM

The taste of Republican tears is more than good, IT'S GREAT!

Suck it, regressionists.

Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.
Thorn14 Gunpla is amazing! Since: Aug, 2010
Gunpla is amazing!
#38195: Nov 6th 2012 at 9:30:26 PM

My mom thinks Trump's twitter was hacked.

Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#38196: Nov 6th 2012 at 9:31:19 PM

[up]Um: no. [lol]

[up][up]Simon Schama made a good comparison on BBC 5Live not so long ago: by voting in Obama, America has avoided C18th Hanoverian-style plutocratic governance. Historical hyperbole with something in it... I love it! evil grin

edited 6th Nov '12 9:34:25 PM by Euodiachloris

Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
NOT THE BEES
#38197: Nov 6th 2012 at 9:32:25 PM

What Marijuana measure?

Oregon tried to legalize marijuana. It didn't get as much support as Washington.

I'd hope our stoners will just migrate there, but it didn't work when California did it.

colinispower Blue Moon CO from Andromeda Galaxy Since: Jun, 2011
Blue Moon CO
#38198: Nov 6th 2012 at 9:32:42 PM

Obama has the popular vote by about 10k.

Don't make me fire Pinky's party cannon.
sirboulevard Since: Sep, 2011
#38199: Nov 6th 2012 at 9:33:05 PM

[up][up][up][up]That's not hacking or part of the test... that's Donald Trump.

edited 6th Nov '12 9:33:16 PM by sirboulevard

Midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#38200: Nov 6th 2012 at 9:33:09 PM

[up][up]

so in other words "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH"

edited 6th Nov '12 9:33:17 PM by Midgetsnowman


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