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Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#38501: Nov 7th 2012 at 8:20:41 AM

I just think that a melodramatic idiot is being a melodramatic idiot.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Paireon I wear no mask. from Wherever you go there you are Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
I wear no mask.
#38503: Nov 7th 2012 at 8:22:24 AM

@De Marquis: Not necessarily, in Canada we count the vote East-to-West like you, and vote is tallied by riding. Electoral college always looked weird to me, and not that much representative, since even if 49% of a state votes for one candidate they don't count at all towards the electoral college votes if the other guy has 51%.

I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me.
Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#38504: Nov 7th 2012 at 8:22:30 AM

Glenn Beck thinks that God is going to destroy America.

And this is different from normal how?

"Yup. That tasted purple."
TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#38505: Nov 7th 2012 at 8:23:46 AM

Does Beck actually have an employer? I thought the Murdoch branch of Skull Mountain sacked the fucker ages ago?

HilarityEnsues Since: Sep, 2009
#38506: Nov 7th 2012 at 8:24:50 AM

It's times like these when I have morbid curiosity about how people like Beck would react if we had an actual hardcore leftist in office and not just a centrist like Obama.

GlennMagusHarvey Since: Jan, 2001
#38507: Nov 7th 2012 at 8:25:14 AM

The Electoral Kindergarten College of the United States is a uniquely U.S. thing. It's like a weird Japanese thing or a weird British thing, but for the U.S..

ohsointocats from The Sand Wastes Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#38508: Nov 7th 2012 at 8:26:06 AM

@Hilarity: I have a feeling he would react the same...

Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#38509: Nov 7th 2012 at 8:26:44 AM

@Tam: Beck still has a radio show.

Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#38510: Nov 7th 2012 at 8:27:03 AM

You have to remember that he thinks anyone with different political leanings to him is a hardcore leftist.

"Yup. That tasted purple."
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#38511: Nov 7th 2012 at 8:28:55 AM

They'd be jumping from their windows.

Heard of the election results right after waking up. No leg pain, that means. Are you really getting a homosexual senator?

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#38512: Nov 7th 2012 at 8:36:48 AM

@Paireon: But you're a parliamentary system. Your elections aren't over until you find out exactly how much support each party got. Once we know the winner, there isn't any reason to continue.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#38513: Nov 7th 2012 at 8:40:15 AM

@Septimus: Yes, we do have our first ever gay U.S. senator. Pretty impressive for this country.

edited 7th Nov '12 8:40:28 AM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Jhimmibhob Since: Dec, 2010
#38514: Nov 7th 2012 at 8:46:01 AM

[up]The measure of a senator's impressiveness is his platform and his votes. We shall see.

TheBatPencil from Glasgow, Scotland Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#38515: Nov 7th 2012 at 8:57:12 AM

Obama reelected. Puerto Rico on the verge of becoming the 51st State.

Interesting times ahead, folks.

And let us pray that come it may (As come it will for a' that)
Kayeka (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#38516: Nov 7th 2012 at 8:57:25 AM

[up][up]The senator himself may or may not be impressive, but the fact that a homosexual person got the job means that the USA might finally start growing gout of their 'God hates fags' phase.

Which is quite impressive.

edited 7th Nov '12 10:03:02 AM by Kayeka

Telcontar In uffish thought from England Since: Feb, 2012
In uffish thought
#38517: Nov 7th 2012 at 9:01:39 AM

Eh? Isn't the senator the lesbian Tammy Baldwin, of Wisconsin, rather than a man?

Edit: Reuters on her election.

edited 7th Nov '12 9:04:13 AM by Telcontar

That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
lordGacek Since: Jan, 2001
#38518: Nov 7th 2012 at 9:09:18 AM

So I just read Obama won. Pity. I wanted to spend the afternoon watching the nerdrage.

Jhimmibhob Since: Dec, 2010
#38519: Nov 7th 2012 at 9:10:18 AM

There's a reasonable chance that socially, the GOP will veer rightward from here. The party's libertarians and social moderates had their trial run with an near-ideal avatar of those concepts. The Romney campaign couldn’t have been a more perfect test case for whether an anodyne fiscal conservatism, stripped of (or at least palpably embarrassed by) any social or religious concerns, can suffice to win over the ballyhooed "middle." Turns out it can’t. It wasn’t enough. And the Republican base might decide that the party can lose as easily with social & moral principles as without them.

In other words: if the Romney campaign, of all things, inspires fears of theocracy, then there’s no real point in assuaging such fears. No reason not to spray the building for libertarians, take out the socially latitudinarian trash, sow the ground with salt, and mix any metaphors left unmixed. If the 2012 GOP campaign looked like an actual pursuit of the "culture wars" to anyone, those observers have gone too long without seeing an actual culture war. Might as well really brown some Dockers. Deus lo vult! All right, I (semi-)kid: "damn the torpedoes," perhaps.

Midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#38520: Nov 7th 2012 at 9:10:39 AM

[up][up]

You can spend it watching, as Andrew Sullivan put it "the tears of unfathomable sadness"

[up]

were you watching the same campaign as the rest of us? Mitt didnt veer to the middle until it was far too late and too much campaigning for the hard right.

edited 7th Nov '12 9:11:48 AM by Midgetsnowman

Talby Since: Jun, 2009
#38521: Nov 7th 2012 at 9:11:01 AM

[up][up][up]Don't worry, plenty of Republirage to go around.smile

edited 7th Nov '12 9:11:11 AM by Talby

DrTentacles Cephalopod Lothario from Land of the Deep Ones Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Cephalopod Lothario
#38522: Nov 7th 2012 at 9:12:16 AM

[up][up][up]

I look forward to that. Sincerely. That might just spell the self-destruction of the relevance of the republican party.

edited 7th Nov '12 9:12:29 AM by DrTentacles

Jhimmibhob Since: Dec, 2010
#38523: Nov 7th 2012 at 9:12:45 AM

[up]x6: The senator is question is a lady, yes. I was using "he" in the non-specific sense, referring to senators in general.

edited 7th Nov '12 9:13:15 AM by Jhimmibhob

Ekuran Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
#38524: Nov 7th 2012 at 9:14:05 AM

@Kayeka: That is not the US, that's the manipulated socially conservative idiots that are annoyingly a part of the US but not all of it, and in fact are a minority.

Do no not fucking stereotype this country.

edited 7th Nov '12 9:14:33 AM by Ekuran

Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#38525: Nov 7th 2012 at 9:16:14 AM

Re: GOP going further right: I really want this to happen so that they marginalize themsalves and collapse. Then maybe we can get an actual left-wing party into the system, seeing as the Democratic Party is already a centre-right party for the most part.


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