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Donald J. Trump elected 45th President of the United States

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Leaders represent their people's state.

The state of this country is a mess. Rampant ignorance. Educational institutions completely broken. Highest levels of confidence with lowest scores in math.

Makes sense.
 
i'm not even confident he'd lose re-election. the turnout for him in the rust belt was insane and a total blindside.

really upset. bad time to be of middle-eastern descent. my beard gets shaved tonight.
 
American GAF, I have a genuine question:

How did this happen exactly?
I've been trying, but no one is really interested in the actual answer. You don't smash the "blue wall" of rustbelt states by just appealing to white racists. No one around here appreciates how furious and helpless a lot of America felt toward both parties, myself included.
 
Since the republican party now controls both Presidency, House and Senate they also have the legal power to overturn state laws and everything Obama accomplished. You will probably lose gay marriage and abortion rights. (Trump has said Planned Parenthood which has been there for women for exactly 100 years is gone) Climate change will go unchecked (because that doesn't exist in his head) Subsidies for renewables and electric cars will disappear. Lgbt rights as human beings, and voting rights for any non-white will be more constrained (because this time some republican states they tried to push through that you had to have a drivers liscense to vote - this was shut down by dems) NATO alliance might be gone, which leads to Russia and China expanding. Public employee unions will shrink, public schooling will be worse, oil drilling everywhere, employee discrimination on sex, race etc not enforced, police brutality and racial discrimination will increase. Many in the republican party says this is the best thing since Andrew Jackson, who Obama removed from the 20$ bill for being a racist peice of shit.

Have I missed anything? Your country fuckings sucks..
 
Still waiting for that sweet sound of glass shattering...

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He's on Trumps side. DTA stands for Don't....Trust....Austin..
 
Stay safe out in these streets negroes. The cops are already bad with a "both sides" guy as the president who they paint as a cop hater. I can only imagine how bad they are going to be with a presidency who actively champions them. With of course their KKK and white supremacist patriot friends.
 
I bet we will see and hear less of Trump in the next four years than in the past year.

Dude will live inside a bubble while the usual suspects run the show 2000-2008 style.
 
The liberals have to face reality now. They thought that facts, competency, truth and humanity are important to the people in politics. But at the end fear, populism and publicity won. We wish for a better world, but we sadly don't life in one.
 
Even most of Fox News was non-stop beating on Trump during the last few months for all the terrible shit he said. The Trump surrogates got destroyed in every single interview they were in.

No. This was the choice of the american people and it's their fault, not "the media's".

Fuck that. They attacked him only after they'd helped build an unkillable monster.

Is this all on the media? Of course not. But they definitely aren't innocent in this.
 
Trump supporters on gaf right now are really starting to get to me. We get it you smug fuckers, the dude you voted for won when in a logical human society he has no business in winning.

People are scared for their lives from Obama care being taken away or racism controling people to target people of color. While you just try to be all smug and laugh at everybody because hate won.

This won't change for months. We're still dealing with smug leave EU voters in the UK, so good luck.
 
I thought the blunders of Dubya were enough to teach us but apparently we're gluttons for punishment.

He actually had experience at least running the state of texas for 5 years and the Country was still attacked, got into two war and had the the biggest recession since the great depression. Trump literally has no experience we are truly in for for some frightening things.
 
American GAF, I have a genuine question:

How did this happen exactly?
>>Black president gets elected
>>Eight years of obstructionism by a party who finds the idea of a black president appalling
>>Polarisation of media and appearance of internet echo chambers
>>Racist president gets elected

It happened because half of the country is that racist. We didn't see it coming because there's a lack of communication between both sides of the issue. Everyone thought their guy was gonna win. They never bothered contemplating that maybe Trump's ideas were more popular than expected.
 
He didn't make any mention of the wall Mexico is going to pay for, nor did he repeat his campaign slogan "Make America Great Again".
Didn't Obama say "Yes We Can" in his acceptance speech quite a few times? Weird for Trump not to say his slogan at his acceptance speech
 
America has gone off the deep end.
This is madness. He is totally unqualified. It's like opting for a business man to operate on your brain. Kinda. Probably not. But still.
 
The unaccountable silent majority. They rose from the literal ashes to seize this election.

That, and the fact that Democrats became complacent.

It's almost as if no one learnt from the UK. But bringing up Brexit got us laughed out of the other thread.

Maybe you guys should've paid attention months ago.
 
From Scroobius Pip :-

America.
Take a deep breath.
Shit has gone very bad...but don't make the same mistake Britain made.
When the Brexit result came in, we lashed out.
We declared our country full of racists and idiots.
And it wasn't.
It was full of scared or misinformed people, sick of politicians...and then SOME racist idiots.
The trouble with lashing out was it gave the minority of racist idiots a sense of power.
A false sense of majority.
A sense of their views suddenly being acceptable and no longer having to hide them.
This led to a huge rise in racist attacks and incidents directly after the Brexit result.
We made a bad situation worse by throwing our toys out of our prams and tarring everyone with the same brush.
This.
Helps.
Nothing.
What you have now is a fucked up and shitty situation.
But you had that yesterday too.
Yesterday you had no good outcome on the ballot.
You had a terrible one and a slightly less terrible one
The worst happened, and that simply means you have to rally harder, be all the more vigilant, take action, take stands and do all you can to stop as many negative changes as you can.
When you got the first ever black president, full of hope... his hands were tied time and time again.
The great change promised was hindered and halted at every turn.
Turn abouts fair play.
Get your shoulder pads on and start blocking this trumped up piece of shit.
This election has shown how bullshit our political system is.
Prepare yourselves for the fight ahead.
Be ready to rally, to protest, to petition and to take any action needed, whenever it is needed.
Hold your head.
Hold your head.
 
I just can't fathom it.

The GOP was a mess. In complete disarray. Broken. At odds with itself.

And yet still the Republicans win IT ALL.

So long. Progress.
 
As an outsider, I can only say, good luck to the climate, the non-whites, the LGBT community, the non-christians and the poor.

America; you've disappointed the rest of the world.
Hope it's all gonna be hyperbole but how the fuck did so many of you support a sexist, racist, misogynistic asshole?

Shaking my head....
 
I better go to bed now before I punch a hole in my wall.

a hole...

I am trying to figure out what to do instead of filling my wall with holes.

if my wrist wasn't already hurt from work I might not have had the control.......

not sure how I will sleep :/

suppose I have my sleeping pills..

still trying to find an exit from this country...
though none of them so far seem better then hating my country for 4 years and sucking it up hoping that we don't go to a major war... at least I am past the drafting age
 
American GAF, I have a genuine question:

How did this happen exactly?

There are no easy answers. It'll be a while before people digest the data. But the short answer is that she underperformed in a way that nobody really predicted with any convincing certainty. Why exactly will remain to be seen soon.
 
Being a tolerant person includes intellectual tolerance. Yes, there is stuff beyond the pale- and a whole bunch of you pretend that anything even slightly out of line with your own worldview constitutes "beyond the pale". You jump so quickly to use shaming and moral condemnation of others that you cut yourself off from understanding how a lot of other human beings operate.

That's not how tolerance works. Sorry. Wallowing in your own incredible righteousness is not the same as being tolerant.
 
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