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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#158576: Nov 26th 2016 at 7:42:27 AM

[up] New Yorkers would respond with a Big "NO!".

Actual pitchforks and torches might be involved.

Disgusted, but not surprised
tricksterson Never Trust from Behind you with an icepick Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Never Trust
#158577: Nov 26th 2016 at 7:45:34 AM

This s the 21st century. Automatic weapons and glowsticks.

Trump delenda est
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#158578: Nov 26th 2016 at 7:52:21 AM

I wonder if he'd last long enough for the Torches & Pitchforks to happen the 14th of July

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#158579: Nov 26th 2016 at 8:03:40 AM

[up] It'd be more appropriate for it to happen on the Fourth of July. That is the day America officially declared its independence from a tyrant...

edited 26th Nov '16 8:05:34 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#158580: Nov 26th 2016 at 8:10:03 AM

Since it was a comparison with Versailles I felt extending the comparison to the storming of the Bastille was more appropriate.

You know, 9th of July is right in the middle of the two dates, and it's also the day my country declared independence, how about we split the difference there? tongue

edited 26th Nov '16 8:10:20 AM by IFwanderer

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
FergardStratoavis A Fluff Ringer from Bellveins (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: A gay little love melody
A Fluff Ringer
#158581: Nov 26th 2016 at 8:31:21 AM

@Trump as Marie Antoinette: For the record, there's no official record of her saying that and I at least wish that this was not meant in ill will.

Trump, as someone who I believe knows to a tee how to exploit the common man, is just another example of being Trump.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#158582: Nov 26th 2016 at 8:34:45 AM

[up] You didn't highlight the spoiler I take it. I was being more or less facetious and going along with the Versailles metaphor.

Disgusted, but not surprised
FergardStratoavis A Fluff Ringer from Bellveins (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: A gay little love melody
A Fluff Ringer
#158583: Nov 26th 2016 at 8:38:10 AM

It's hard for me to read irony on the internet. >.>

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#158584: Nov 26th 2016 at 8:51:57 AM

It's sort of like iron. When you get hit on the head with it, you know it.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
JulianLapostat Since: Feb, 2014
#158585: Nov 26th 2016 at 8:56:10 AM

As far as the French Rev comparison goes...Bastille and Quatorze Juillet is not what you guys want.

The real incident that changed the Revolution, more than Bastille and Napoleon is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_March_on_Versailles the Women's March To Versailles]]. This incident overnight shifted the capital from Versailles to Paris for the first time in 100 years and basically made Paris the heart of France...and it has remained since then.

Incidentally, A woman's march on washington is planned.

But remember guys, the Revolution happened to kindly portly Louis XVI and not the absolute monarch Louis XIV. Only bad kings face revolution...so little Barron Trump when he ascends the throne of the Hereditary Republic will face the Sins of Our Fathers.

edited 26th Nov '16 8:56:46 AM by JulianLapostat

FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#158586: Nov 26th 2016 at 9:45:55 AM

Hil is joining in on the Wisconsin Recount it seems.

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#158587: Nov 26th 2016 at 9:54:26 AM

Unless they think they can actually get the election result overturned, they're playing right into Trump's hands. This is the perfect distraction from the complete and total betrayal of his base that his cabinet appointments represent, not to mention his conflicts of interest.

TheWanted Since: Oct, 2013
#158588: Nov 26th 2016 at 10:01:03 AM

[up] lol wut? His base has been ecstatic over his cabinet appointments so far

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#158589: Nov 26th 2016 at 10:09:27 AM

Here's a source on secretary Clinton's campaign joining in to the recount.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
JulianLapostat Since: Feb, 2014
#158590: Nov 26th 2016 at 10:10:20 AM

It's becoming more and more clear that Trump's base are driven by sentiments that have nothing to do with economics and more to do with Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence. The fact that his appointments are right-wingers with anti-Civil Rights, anti-LGBT credentials is to their liking and approval.

Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#158591: Nov 26th 2016 at 10:27:05 AM

[up] It was a combination of that and the declining fortunes of many people in the Rust Belt.

When your towns are dying and your outlook looks bleak, you are more than willing to throw someone under the bus to get out of that or even blame them for that decline, or you don't realize that you're doing so because the people who will be most harmed by the Trump administration (black people, latinos, LGBT+, etc) don't really live anywhere near them.

pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#158592: Nov 26th 2016 at 10:28:19 AM

Even if there is a recount, and even if the EC goes with Hillary, Trump wouldn't accept that. After all, he said before that he would only accept the results if they were in his favor. And that's one stance that I sincerely doubt he would flip-flop on.

I wonder if somebody might be able to dig up a guillotine somewhere? (Purely as a symbolic display, of course...)

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JulianLapostat Since: Feb, 2014
#158593: Nov 26th 2016 at 10:35:52 AM

[up][up]

The reason why I string up the World's Smallest Violin for that is they are not really interested in getting out of their rut...they want others who they see as lesser beings dragged down below.

This is the Mudsill theory. Sure The American Dream might be a fraud but I can believe it as long as it doesn't become true for other people. Or as Gore Vidal said, "It is not that I must succeed, but others must fail"

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#158594: Nov 26th 2016 at 10:38:24 AM

It doesn't matter, if there weren't a distraction, Trump would create one himself. Like the Hamilton "scandal".

RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#158595: Nov 26th 2016 at 10:43:33 AM

The thing is, poor whites are going to be harmed by a Trump administration too. They repaid Obama's attempts at economic stimulus with the current deadlock Congress, though. The ideology baked into those areas is that poverty is a sign of laziness or entitlement (look at the whole 'welfare queen' myth), and they don't feel lazy or entitled, so they can't really be poor, just troubled by a whole host of troubles. (Mostly paraphrased from here.) Therefore, the government shouldn't help 'poor people' because they're lazy, and they don't need help because they're not 'poor people'. Throw in racist stereotypes and the aforementioned 'no minorities for miles' social situations, and you have a perfect storm of people who are too proud to believe they need help because admitting they need help would make them like the people who are supposed to be inferior.

It's been fun.
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#158596: Nov 26th 2016 at 10:43:55 AM

It's amazing that scandals that would have single-handedly sunk other politicians are things Trump can do with impunity. Contrast with Hamilton, who had one affair, and confessed everything.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#158598: Nov 26th 2016 at 10:46:33 AM

@Handle: Trump did something more or less once a day during his campaign that would get any candidate resigning in a sane political climate.

^Part of me says they deserve it.

edited 26th Nov '16 10:47:16 AM by RedSavant

It's been fun.
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#158599: Nov 26th 2016 at 10:51:25 AM

Good, I hope his tax cuts fuck them over. Maybe then they'll stop being idiots.

Yinyang107 from the True North (Decatroper) Relationship Status: Tongue-tied
#158600: Nov 26th 2016 at 10:52:45 AM

Is there any chance of the Canadian dollar becoming stronger relative to the USD?


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