She was getting too much of a stomach ache watching the news.
This has gone from “Hillary needs to win by a landslide” to “Holy šhìŧ, this country may be screwed.” And figuring we’d move elsewhere isn’t enough; with Trump as president, nowhere is safe.
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Well, the ol’ US of A was nice while it lasted.
I’m sympathetic to Kathleen — I’m tense to the point of terror here.
The financial markets are going batshit crazy the more Trump’s chances increase. The world thought Trump even having a shot was insane, they’re reacting badly everywhere.
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Clinton fared better in most polls with a 3 and 4 way race. Candidates like Johnson seemed to have been peeling more voters off of Trump. In many places where Trump is running better now, you see Johnson getting less percentage of the vote he polled at and Trump getting most of that difference. In the early polling averages in places like Florida, Johnson was holding a 4% vote total while Clinton won by around 1%. He’s pulling less actual votes, and they’re going to Trump.
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If you want to see the likely vote percentages in a two-way race for the rest of the night, tilt most of Johnson’s votes to Trump.
you’ll be fine. it won’t be fun. for a lot of folks. but you’ll be fine.
As someone who voted for neither, I believe the country is just as crewed by a Trump Presidency as it would have been by a Hillary administration. That said, watching the pants-wetting on CNN is pretty fun.
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I’m going to give advice to you Democrats. Don’t misread Trump’s victory. In the rust belt, his protectionist stances understandably policies played better than accounted for, but this is a rejection of Clinton. It’s that simple. Elizabeth Warren (whose ethical lapses are mild compared to Trump), Bernie Sanders, or almost any other Democrat would have won easily.
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I don’t see him being anything more than a one-termer. In four years, run someone who doesn’t have Clinton baggage, the White House is yours.
I have been disappointed in this country from time to time, but always felt fortunate to have been born here. Until today. For the first time in my life, I am disgusted to be an American.
The last time we has just six years of Republicans controlling all three branches of government (Jan. 2001 to Jan. 2007) they did enough damage that we’re still crawling out of the hole they made ten years later.
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And the President back then was practically the picture of intelligence and stability compared to Trump.
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If you had told me months ago that a serial lying, emotionally and mentally stunted, egomaniacal, man-child could win the Presidency by preaching hate, anger, xenophobia, and fear as the majority of his campaign I would have said that America was better than that.
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Guess I was wrong.
The Sixth Reich is apparently alive and well in America 🙁
Relax, Trump is republican in name only. He’s a lifelong democrat until he ran for president.
He’s a sore loser, but he’s magnanimous in victory.
I honestly have no idea how to feel. All I know is that its going to be incredibly difficult to feel at ease with a president who has inspired and emboldened some of the worst of the U.S. Citizens and doesn’t seem at all phased by it. This is just an ominous day in our history, with a narcissistic man-child being given a massive ego boost.
Let the history books note- Today the Idiocracy prophecy was fulfilled.
Alright, since the alt-right has been brought up, I think it’s worth talking about why it became a factor. First, it didn’t matter who the Republican was, the left always screamed “Racist!” When someone who really panders to racists appeared, the accusation lost its sting becuase everyone had heard it so many times before.
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Second, Democrats used to run strictly on race lines. They lost people when the phrase “white privilege” entered political discourse because you ended up dividing your base. In rural Oregon I saw many kids whose parents were in and out of jail, usually for meth use/dealing. They grow up without a hëll of a lot in advantages. They can’t afford a four year college, so they might go to a community college while slogging through a job. If they turn on the TV, and hear about “white privilege” all the white privilege they’re benefitting from, they aren’t going to react well. They hear blacks are targeted by cops, but it’s their parents and friends who keep going to jail. Suddenly they really do feel abandoned by the country.
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Trump cynically exploited that, but it’s partly the fault of Democrats who essentially took the white poor for granted, and (many times just cynically as Trump) fanned racial resentment.
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I blame the Republicans for many things in the rise of Trump, but I hope the Democrats really honestly look at how they lost this election. Usually elected Democrats and their spokespeople act as if they won anyways, and that the vote was an aberration.
At this point, I’m hoping that our country’s checks and balances can keep Trump from destroying the country.
I also wonder what happens when all of Trump’s promises don’t happen: no wall between here and Mexico (and no forcing Mexico to pay for it), no deportation force, no special prosecutor for Hilary, no total defeat of ISIS, no reduction in the deficit (in fact, with all his planned spending and tax cuts it’ll be higher). Do his supporters just keep saying “We love Trump!” like they did on the campaign, or does 2016 find someone even more populist who blasts Trump and Fox news as liberals?
Lots of people were sure he couldn’t win the nomination.
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They were wrong about that.
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Lots of folks felt he couldn’t win the presidency.
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They were wrong about that.
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Maybe they are also wrong about his being a horrid disaster for the country? After all, lots of people thought Shrub … er, Bush Jr was just what the country needed back in ’04. They were wrong about that, too.
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Or, as HAL 9000 put it, “Look, I can see you’re really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.” No sense dreaming up disaster scenarios when there’s nothing you can do about it anyway. Short of moving up here anyway.
Final Electoral Vote tally (barring any abstentions or defections:
Clinton: 232
Trump: 306
So I guess that any chance of the Electoral College getting us out of this mess is kaput. Let’s just hope that The Donald is able to rise to the occasion and be a better man than he has shown himself to be.
Well, in a surprise to no one paying attention, he appointed as his White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon.
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Bannon has openly embraced the white supremacist alt-right via Breitbart.com, and has overseen it while it’s become a haven for the alt-right and the conspiracy loonies. Given this and Trump’s own praising of Alex Jones, I think it’s safe to say Trump will be attempting to perform as POTUS in a bubble that’s as fact and reality free as he can make it.