ManUnkindH
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You already have an excellent one, unfortunately only until january.
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Donald J. Trump elected 45th President of the United States
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You already have an excellent one, unfortunately only until january.
EchoChamber
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I feel I got grabbed by the dick.
From my Facebook feed:
It's taking all of my willpower not to post this gif as a reply:
Seriously can the world fuck off with this shit? Politics is a life-and-death choice. I can't make you take it seriously, but don't come to me with this facile horseshit as if we can just believe ourselves into a better situation despite the vultures circling overhead.
It's taking all of my willpower not to post this gif as a reply:
Seriously can the world fuck off with this shit? Politics is a life-and-death choice. I can't make you take it seriously, but don't come to me with this facile horseshit as if we can just believe ourselves into a better situation despite the vultures circling overhead.
That is literally *nothing* like Scotland and the UK.
An apt comparison would be "California votes democrat, yet they get a republican president, how is that fair".
A more apt comparison would be "The SNP gets 50% of the vote and yet 92% of the MP seats in Scotland, how is that fair". But even that doesn't fully compare - it's very hard in a westminster system to get a result where the popular vote doesn't win you the house.
RPGCrazied
Member
Hope he gets impeached his first week in office.
John Kowalski
Banned
One fight at a time, and goodness for those who need it the most
The way it works is that we have 50 separate elections. Doesn't matter how much candidates win each individual election, they'll get the same amount of points from the electoral college so long as they win. Winner take all for each of those elections. So if you get 100% of the vote in one place it doesn't help you.
He could personally shit on everyone's family members and people would still approve and vote for him, because "OMG liberals are ruining this country! Let's go back to when this country was great and ni-- black people didn't mind when we said racist shit!"
I don't. Because if he tanks then that makes Mike Pence president. And I'm LGBT. No thanks.
Impeachment and conviction following impeachment is controlled through the House and Senate. Soooo.....
Emperor Bohe
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Audioboxer
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The way in which it feels guys. That feeling of when you vote for something but somewhere else has a bigger share of importance than you, so you have to go along.
Yes this democracy, but my point is after having some time to mourn and feel frustration, you have to look for ways forward not just live in frustration and a "fuck you" attitude.
I'm guessing you're talking about seats per region rather than country-wide, but doesn't Spain use d'Hondt rather than winner take all?
You forgot to enter in the "Rich White Guy" cheat code before birth.
Even if he said insane shit to get elected and then became a great leader.
He riled up the worst kinds of people.
Fox Mulder
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From my Facebook feed:
It's taking all of my willpower not to post this gif as a reply:
Seriously can the world fuck off with this shit? Politics is a life-and-death choice. I can't make you take it seriously, but don't come to me with this facile horseshit as if we can just believe ourselves into a better situation despite the vultures circling overhead.
Yep, fuck them. Obama tried to be civil and reach the other side for 8 years and he has to hand the keys over to a racist fuck candidate supported by the kkk.
We ignored and let the tea party shit happen by sitting out midterms. We need to go to war with the deplorables for our country.
Mikey Jr.
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Maybe this is one of those things that in 4 years, America will come out stronger? Like, we are going to beaten to a pulp for a while, but we'll heal, and come out better?
Im trying to find some silver lining here. Or is it downhill from here?
My only hope is that trump ends his presidency with a whimper. That in the end, nothing was accomplished really.
Im trying to find some silver lining here. Or is it downhill from here?
My only hope is that trump ends his presidency with a whimper. That in the end, nothing was accomplished really.
Megatron
Member
So he gets impeached and Pence becomes president. Republicans won't have a problem with that.
I disagree, to an extent. Trump winning has potentially changed the way every presidential race in the future will be run. While he may turn out to be just as bad as many of us think he will, perhaps this was exactly what the system needed for real change.
The people protest voting for Trump got exactly what they wanted. 4 years is a long time, though, remains to see just how much damage can be done in that time.
This was a fucking wipe out. The DNC should be embarrassed with how colossally they fucked this one up. House, Senate, Oval Office, new Repub governorships. A routing. Can't believe Pollsters had her starting the night with 268 electoral votes. Shame on Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the DNC leadership for pushing such an unlikeable figure down our throats.
Ahuh, umm yeah your system is F'd in the A.
MillionStabs
Banned
I'm registered republican and I don't even feel like gloating. I actually paid very little attention to the election last night aside from reading meltdowns on Gaf.
I do have an American Government class in 2 hours though, so that should be very interesting.
PeskyToaster
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Honestly it could be the shock to the system America needed. The problem is these shocks often result in actual lives being actually ended/ruined so nobody wants to be around for the shock or have it happen in their lifetime.
teruterubozu
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So Pence will do all the work like Dick Cheney 2.0 - yeah, fantastic.
RPGCrazied
Member
I guess Comey keeps his job.
This whole thing is a farce.
This whole thing is a farce.
Audioboxer
Member
Wishful thinking, or more bluntly put Americans putting too much belief in shit political candidates spout whilst running for election.
At this point it has literally become a gotcha popularity contest, and Trump proved saying outrageous shit which will probably never see the light of day captured news headlines and peoples attention. This isn't suppose to be how politics are won/fought, but welcome to 2016 memeland and social media nonsense.
DudeWithNoName
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The United States is a Representative Republic, not a Democracy.
I have my policy & politics class this afternoon. In DC.
I imagine it will be a somber class.
The Chosen One
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So is it now the new norm to "Grab women by the Pussy"? I mean we just elected a guy for President who bragged about sexually assaulting women. I'm still stunned how so many people were able to just brush that aside for the sake of Supreme Court picks.
Some of these commentators who are crowing on TV and blaming the media for ignoring disaffected white working class or completely ignoring how the vast majority of minorities in this country feel completely trampled on this morning because we've now made it acceptable in the the modern age to have a President make racist and sexist statements and policy proposals with nothing more than a slap on the wrist.
So many of Trumps statements, ideas, and past behaviors should have been unforgivable sins. But the media is just treating this like a normal horse race with a surprise twist. Not the fact that a President got elected at the expense of overtly demeaning/demonizing minorities that hasn't been seen in the modern era.
Some of these commentators who are crowing on TV and blaming the media for ignoring disaffected white working class or completely ignoring how the vast majority of minorities in this country feel completely trampled on this morning because we've now made it acceptable in the the modern age to have a President make racist and sexist statements and policy proposals with nothing more than a slap on the wrist.
So many of Trumps statements, ideas, and past behaviors should have been unforgivable sins. But the media is just treating this like a normal horse race with a surprise twist. Not the fact that a President got elected at the expense of overtly demeaning/demonizing minorities that hasn't been seen in the modern era.
CoffeeJanitor
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The silver lining, to me, is hoping he is a good president and leader regardless of his party affiliation.
Pence is just as scary as Trump as President.
I'm not being sarcastic or condescending when I say this, but were you old enough for Bush's two terms? Shit looked pretty grim then too, and at the end of the tunnel we got Obama.
There's always a lot of hyperbole after one side loses, no matter who it is. Emotions are high. We're going to be ok at the end of this, and in the process we're going to discover the candidate we need and deserve in 4/8 years, and it's likely the DNC will become something a lot different than it is now, which is also a good thing.
The problem is those people protest voting have seemingly no grasp on the consequences of their own actions. To them anything bad that happens is the fault of some "other", whether that be minorities, the biased liberal media, some vague sense of "the establishment", never themselves.
When EU subsidies leave Cornwall a dried up husk of a county here in England they're not going to be asking themselves whether they're at fault, they're going to be attacking someone else for not magically making things OK. The same goes with Trump, now they've voted for him there is likely to be NOTHING that can happen that will make them blame Trump or themselves.
Denial is a hell of a drug.
legacyzero
Banned
That's really not all.
Positives of Trump:
-Anti establishment
-ending congressional term limits
-limiting unfair lobbying
-Ending money in politics
-an outsider with a radical message
Hmmmm.. I wonder where the Bernie voters went.
teruterubozu
Member
So you're still waiting for the "pivot".
If you think half those things are going to happen I'm gonna have to laugh at you.
I wouldn't even say congressional term limits are a positive. It basically guarantees that no one becomes competant at politics and we get newbies every couple terms.
Waiting or hoping?
yup, because Pence is so much better
entremet
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He has slightly. He already recanted deport all illegals rhetoric.
I can't stand Trump and he's awful but he's softened a few stances since the beginning of his campaign.
Fox Mulder
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Yeah, I can see them impeaching him of he goes rogue, but they won't have to with his entire cabinet staffed with the republican suicide squad.
RPGCrazied
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Newsflash, he is a liar. If you believe anything he says, well that is on you.
Audioboxer
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As I just said above Americans believing just about anything spouted with charismatic reinforcement during an election cycle.
I mean, "ending money in politics" and "anti establishment". Trump? Yeah... okay.
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