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United States Election: Nov. 8, 2016 |OT| Hate Trumps Love

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Any Europeans who think this won't affect them... coupled with the Brexit vote, this Trump victory emboldens Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders and all the other demagogues and nationalists in Europe.

That's rather baseless when the Brexit vote alone had opposite effects.
 
Bleh this is what it feels like to lose all hope in the country. To know how un educated the fast majority of people are about politics.

Least I know a good majority of gaf belived there was some good of the United States in the people. I respect all of you that voted for Hillary and I'm just as let down as you. Today hate did beat love and from the looks we took one step forwards because of Obama and at least 2 steps back.

I just hope minorities aren't treated as bad as I fear. Everybody in the end are humans and to judge people based off their skin is deplorable and a unevolved way of looking at people.

Today is a sad day. Goodnight and may we all hope things will somehow not be as dark as most of us fear.

Hillary failed. Not a true prophet. The results of this election fall on her shoulders.
 

Jetman

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How in the fuck am I going to go in to work and avoid punching every dumb ass person who voted Trump in the face tomorrow?

No seriously. How are people going to deal with this in a workplace? Honestly don't know if I can deal with it.
 

Terrell

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I'm hearing Canada's info page on immigration was DDoS'd by actual people accessing the site. When it came back, it took 3 minutes to load the page.

Makes me curious how many people will actually follow through on the tired old threat to move to Canada.

And considering the Dow fell on the suspicion of a Trump presidency... wow, tomorrow's going to be a Wall Street bloodbath.
 

~Kinggi~

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RELEASE THE FUCKING TAPES YOU PIEE OF SHIT MEDIA

you held back all this shit that would sink trump and now he is president

piece of shit racist fuckbags. fuck you you cunt fucks fuck i hate this fucking country
 

jiiikoo

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It makes little sense to worry about the "people" "deciding" the president -- in practice, each state is worth a certain number of points, and the points decide the election. The points are roughly but not quite balanced to the number of people in the state.

But still, if the majority of ordinary voters vote for - let's use this election as an example - Clinton, but the majority of the electoral college votes go to Trump, Trump is seen as the winner in the state? This just seems a bit weird to me.
 

joms5

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Trust the polls, they said.

Who the hell would have thought that Trump would have been right about something for once.

I remember him addressing that and thinking, "oh Trump, you know they're probably right but what else can you say."
 

Stasis

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Good one America. No wonder the world just laughs and laughs at you. Those who vote Trump should be made to visit some other countries for a while to see how a large portion of the rest of the world works.

Thank Christ I'm not in that country.

Same. Although I'm still a citizen. I'm so fucking embarrassed. I'll stay right where I am and just hope his failures don't fuck with us too much. I wan't Canada to to just move the fuck away from all of this. Leaders around the world, other than Putin and co. are absolutely shocked right now for sure. I imagine they have plans for this outcome. Let him burn and fizzle out alone. It's time to show your mettle JT. Don't let us down!
 

Malfunky

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Thought: Is the signature Republican obstructionism during Obama's two terms now one of the Democrats only avenues to protect the country from this monstrosity? Filibusters and the like. What do the numbers say about their ability to do this?
 

BowieZ

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Honestly I kinda think that she is probably not in an emotional place to do it. If I had to speculate.

I mean this is like the culmination of her life's ambition and she has had the knife slowly twisting for hours into a shock loss that has even caught Trump and even the most optimistic Trump supporters off guard.
But that is exactly the problem. Clinton was emotionally attached to being The First Female PresidentTM.

She was arrogant and self-centred... whether or not her heart was in the right place 40 years ago.

People didn't want to reward someone like that.
 

Twentieth

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POLELX-add1-jumbo.jpg

What a powerful pic. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times)
 

slapnuts

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I still cannot believe they just told everyone to go home.

Has this ever happened before?

Imagine if the tables were turned though, Trump would be getting ridiculed to utter death for something like this and the irony about all this is that Hillary and Corp were just smearing Trump about this very same thing....and she goes and does it!! lol
 

kirblar

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Thought: Is the signature Republican obstructionism during Obama's two terms now one of the Democrats only avenues to protect the country from this monstrosity? Filibusters and the like. What do the numbers say about their ability to do this?
The problem is that the GOP can kill it on the spot when they take power due to having all 3.
 
How much does the operation cost?

I have no idea, since it was covered by insurance. She's had 3 brain operations since Obamacare enabled her to get health insurance (by getting rid of preexisting conditions), which undoubtedly saved my family hundreds of thousands of dollars, perhaps even over a million.
 
Any Europeans who think this won't affect them... coupled with the Brexit vote, this Trump victory emboldens Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders and all the other demagogues and nationalists in Europe.

Don't you think I don't know that? You fucked us up big time. But more than Le Pen, Wilders or Strache, I actually am afraid of basic security in Europe.

Fucking hell US. You fucked it up.
 

D23

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I'm in DACA who recently just got married to a u.s citizen and have applied for an adjustment status.

How screwed am I?

I cant sleep at all thinking about this... my future is literally in Trump's hand. Wow
 

Kill3r7

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Blaming this on "the media" is way easier than standing up to the fact that the US is a fundamentally racist country that now elected a fundamentally racist candidate, isn't it?

Man.

I disagree about the US being fundamentally a racist country. Sure there are pockets of the country that are, but the same holds true for any country.

Now, the media got this all wrong, completely off base. Most publications had Hillary winning by a landslide. If the data being presented to the public were more akin to 538 then maybe people would be more galvanized to vote. I, like many other folks, thought this election was in the bag. Boy were we wrong.
 
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