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JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#133901: Aug 2nd 2016 at 2:11:14 PM

Any of you guys just get really depressed around election season?

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#133902: Aug 2nd 2016 at 2:12:14 PM

I hope the Democrats don't actually try to do something. Trump is dangerous but hopefully Wikileaks taught them that this sort of stuff will only hurt them.

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#133904: Aug 2nd 2016 at 2:13:46 PM

I'm not depressed exactly. Disappointed is more accurate.

Discar Since: Jun, 2009
#133905: Aug 2nd 2016 at 2:17:24 PM

Seems Trump is beginning to cash out his chips.

Someone posted that last page, but no one really responded. I saw this coming, though not this early. Remember in 2012, when Obama won the Electoral College vote but it looked like he was going to lose the popular vote, Trump called for an armed takeover of the United States. Thankfully he shut up after Obama won the popular.

Any of you guys just get really depressed around election season?

Yes. Depressed and nervous because I feel like I can't affect the outcome at all. Combined with my general pessimistic nature, and I get very antsy for about half a year. I try to avoid all news outlets and OTC during election season.

Guess how well that's working out.

Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.
Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#133906: Aug 2nd 2016 at 2:25:00 PM

I kind of am. I was really hoping to help put a Republican like Rubio or Jeb in the White House, but then some internet troll was nominated instead, so now I'm de facto forced to support Hillary on the basis that at least she probably won't make the status quo worse.

What's really bad is I used to like politics, too!

Leviticus 19:34
Eschaton Since: Jul, 2010
#133907: Aug 2nd 2016 at 2:27:12 PM

This election has been pretty damn depressing, but I found watching Bassem Youssef's new videos and interviews has been helpful. It's somewhat vindicating because yes, it does look as bad as we think it does, when Trump reminds him of his native Egypt. But it's also encouraging, since he's still optimistic that the US will right itself even if things go south, since he himself has seen much worse.

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#133908: Aug 2nd 2016 at 2:28:11 PM

I often think I should ovoid political shit, but something just keeps pulling me back in. Reading about politics has become like and addiction for me.

Edit: And it's not just this election, but elections in general.

[up] I doubt he's seen much worse in the racism department.

edited 2nd Aug '16 2:29:44 PM by JackOLantern1337

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
Artificius from about a foot and a half away from a monitor. Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Norwegian Wood
#133909: Aug 2nd 2016 at 2:30:23 PM

Think of it this way: we're watching the turn of history. This is the end of the sixth party system, and maybe even the Republican party if the fiscal conservatives abandon the dixiecrats they dogwhistled for, occasionally threw table scraps to, and who are now frothing at the mouth. And we get to watch it happen.

edited 2nd Aug '16 2:33:54 PM by Artificius

"I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once."
pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#133910: Aug 2nd 2016 at 2:35:21 PM

[up]Yeah, like the Chinese curse: "May you live during interesting times." Personally, I really could go for a long stretch of boredom right about now...

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JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#133911: Aug 2nd 2016 at 2:41:25 PM

Yeah. And from all the forecasts it's going to get worse. Trump is the future of the Republicans and Bernie Sanders(not equivalent morally I know), the Democrats. And me, Hillary and a few other miserable bastards are left stuck in the middle.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#133912: Aug 2nd 2016 at 2:42:54 PM

When was the last time the times weren't interesting?

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#133913: Aug 2nd 2016 at 2:43:43 PM

If Trump doesn't win the election, he may have just accelerated the death of the Republican Party.

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#133914: Aug 2nd 2016 at 2:47:17 PM

[up][up] The 90's? You know things were easy when our international nemesis was the Serbs and our biggest cultural conundrum, if movies are to be beloved anyway, was that everything was just boring. The early 2000's strike me personally as an extremely a political time, but then again I was in grade school so it's probably just my nostalgic memory.

edited 2nd Aug '16 2:47:36 PM by JackOLantern1337

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#133915: Aug 2nd 2016 at 2:50:05 PM

The nineties had the Soviet collapse, though. That's pretty interesting.

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#133916: Aug 2nd 2016 at 2:50:06 PM

I'd say the nineties were relatively quiet. I was a little kid for all of it but my general impression is that it was an intermediary period between the relative chaos of the Soviet Union collapsing and 9/11.

edited 2nd Aug '16 2:50:34 PM by Kostya

KazuyaProta Shin Megami Tensei IV from A Industrial Farm Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Shin Megami Tensei IV
#133917: Aug 2nd 2016 at 2:50:28 PM

[up][up] There something actually good about the Republican Party in general?

Watch me destroying my country
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#133918: Aug 2nd 2016 at 2:59:20 PM

A former top aide to Christie has endorsed Clinton.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/02/politics/maria-comella-hillary-clinton-donald-trump/index.html

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#133920: Aug 2nd 2016 at 3:20:21 PM

Clinton's convention bump may have been twice as big as Trump's.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/grenier-us-election-convention-bump-1.3704210

grin

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#133921: Aug 2nd 2016 at 3:21:39 PM

So it seems the conservative media is misunderstanding the point of Khizr Khan's speech. They keep saying not to blame Trump for their son's death, but Clinton for voting for it...even though that wasn't the point of the speech. It was the fact that he wouldn't have been allowed to serve under Trump.

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#133922: Aug 2nd 2016 at 3:25:51 PM

Or the fact that they wouldn't be allowed to live in this country.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#133923: Aug 2nd 2016 at 3:28:45 PM

Trump's refusal to endorse Mc Cain or Ryan is just twisting the knife in them, since despite what they've said they still support him. It's almost a fitting punishment for their moral cowardice in refusing to disavow him despite what he's said.

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#133924: Aug 2nd 2016 at 3:30:07 PM

Maybe it would actually be enough to get them to retract their endorsement.

FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#133925: Aug 2nd 2016 at 3:31:43 PM

Then they just sound petty. They'll say they don't care if they get his support, the only reason they support him is out of party loyalty.


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