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

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This election definitely ended up being a wake up call in many ways for a lot of people, me included. The results, especially Trump winning, might inspire a louder turnout or call for change from here on out. Who knows what the future will bring, I don't want to give up on it yet. It's always darkest before dawn.

It'd also be equally fair to say that, the world doesn't change. All it does is turn. Right now I just want to be done with all of this. Its like Stephen Colbert said, we've become so addicted to the poison we're not seeing straight anymore.
 
Clydefrog said:
anyone else compiling a soundtrack?

The Doors - Riders On The Storm
The Beatles - Yesterday
Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
The Cranberries - Linger
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee_uujKuJMI

Y2Kev said:
Washington Post's exits say white men with a college degree voted 72% for Trump? And only 54% for those without a college degree? Is this backwards?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/exit-polls/?tid=sm_tw
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Yeah, looks backwards
 
Any chance Trump is secretly a Democrat? I remember seeing a video saying even though he is registered Republican, he agreed more with Democrats.
 
Mesousa said:
Trump isnt the worst person the Republican party has put out, and it was even proved so during the primary when they were doing their stupid republican conservative bullshit over planned parenthood and he admitted his support of the organization.

You get past all of the character/media spin and he isnt worse than a Cruz or even his own psychotic running mate



The Democratic party giving up on a huge base also made it so. There is no reason why there wasn't a realistic rural ground game for the rust belt by the party from the start. Yelling "America is already great" to people without jobs and living in economic voids getting strung out on Heroin just makes you look tone-deaf, and that is why he is president elect this morning.
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Bullshit.

Trump is the most racist shitbag since Wallace, and the most unhinged since Goldwater, and neither of them got close to winning.

But please, name me another Republican presidential candidate, who:
Called mexicans rapists day one.
Promised to ban muslims from the country.
Insulted a federal judge over his ethnicity.
Insulted a gold star family over their religion.
Sexually assaulted at least a dozen women.
Insinuated about women having problems with him being on their period.
Is a compulsive liar.
Insulted and demeaned women his entire life.
Advocated for war crimes multiple times.
Insisted the election was rigged over and over.
Refused to say he'd concede to his opponent if he lost.


There's more but you get the point.

I'll wait.
 
TheOddOne said:
You're right, seems their twitter account got it wrong.

Their website has it right though. Also, it's even more shocking.

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Also applies to white men.

White men with no college degree were 54% for Trump.

With men with a college degree were 72% for Trump.

What explains this?
 
Either people called out in anticipation of a Clinton victory or they're shocked and sick, because here in NYC in Manhattan normally it is very hustle and bustle at this time, but it looks like Thanksgiving Day.
 
Linkstrikesback said:
You don't think this will embolden them? They got sent another message that hate is ok, and im sure attacks will go up, just as it did for brexit. Maybe even worse because the clown is openly racist and misogynistic whereas ours had to at least pretend a little that they weren't
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If you live in the south or midwest hate NEVER stopped being ok. The idea that Trump has brought it all back is simply another one of those "Yaaass Queen You better vote for Hillary" memes.

Theres no pretending. Trump just says nationally what they say/think locally.
 
TheOfficeMut said:
Either people called out in anticipation of a Clinton victory or they're shocked and sick, because here in NYC in Manhattan normally it is very hustle and bustle at this time, but it looks like Thanksgiving Day.
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A lot of late nights. I wouldn't be surprised if people are just taking the day off.
 
I turned off the coverage at ~9:15 last night because I was getting overly anxious. I was up too late the night before, so I went to bed well before 11 last night, but had trouble falling asleep because I was worried about the election. Ultimately, I was reasonably certain that I would wake up to find out Hillary had eked out a win that was much closer than it should have been.

Instead, I woke up this morning to the news that Donald Fucking Trump was elected president. I am consumed with anger and disgust at my fellow Americans, and numb because I know there's nothing I can do about it.
 
I honestly do think the blue wall probably holds with Bernie. Trump does not get the rural white votes he needed to do the impossible in WI, MI and PA against Bernie.
 
Mesousa said:
Chill with that. You sound like those unhinged tea partiers when Obama was elected.

He is your president. Your country elected him. Accept him until his term ends/we vote him out.
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Nah, fuck him and his supporters.

"Not my president" was a badge of pride for racists for 8 years. I'll wear it now.

The DNC needs to be rebuilt to go to war with these people. 8 years of Obama trying to pander across the aisle got us this.
 
It's kind of fascinating watching the U.S from the outside. During 8 years of Clinton the right despised the president and tried to delegitimise him as a president. During the 8 years under Bush the left did the same thing. And the right have done the same thing during Obama. Now it's the lefts turn again for 4-8 years.
 
Isaac Otherworld said:
I don't feel too bad for her. She has a net worth in the hundreds of millions of dollars to cushion the fall. I feel bad for all the people who are going to suffer as civil rights, reproductive rights, lgbt rights, the social safety net are slashed. The people like me that her and the democrats let down.
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No man, she's going to get gunned down by the GOP now. LOCK HER UP was the rallying cry of choice, they have to follow through. The Clinton Foundation is done, the Clintons are done.
 
Henkka said:
Also applies to white men.

White men with no college degree were 54% for Trump.

With men with a college degree were 72% for Trump.

What explains this?
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White middle class people not feeling like they have been heard for the past years probably, whether that is actually true or not, they might feel that way.

Or might be a mistake.
 
Henkka said:
Also applies to white men.

White men with no college degree were 54% for Drumpf.

With men with a college degree were 72% for Drumpf.

What explains this?
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I think it's a mistake. CNN's exit polls show the exact opposite:

white college graduates: Trump 49/45
whites no degree: Trump 67/28

white college-grad men: Trump 54/39
white non-college men: Trump 72/23

Clinton is the second number
 
NotLiquid said:
This election definitely ended up being a wake up call in many ways for a lot of people, me included. The results, especially Trump winning, might inspire a louder turnout or call for change from here on out. Who knows what the future will bring, I don't want to give up on it yet. It's always darkest before dawn.

It'd also be equally fair to say that, the world doesn't change. All it does is turn. Right now I just want to be done with all of this. Its like Stephen Colbert said, we've become so addicted to the poison we're not seeing straight anymore.
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That's how it works. This shit is a pendulum. Always has been. Just like Bush being so fucking horrible for 8 years inspired a massive turnout and allowed Barack Obama to come out of fucking nowhere.

People were sick of the Clinton/DNC stuff this year, and a lot of people really are getting kinda fucked by Obamacare rates going up. It adds up.

The world is likely not going to end, and I think people will be surprised at how little the country actually changes. I'm not saying Trump winning is good, it's absolutely not, but the pendulum will swing back eventually and we'll be ready when it does.
 
Ducarmel said:
Any chance Trump is secretly a Democrat? I remember seeing a video saying even though he is registered Republican, he agreed more with Democrats.
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He's all over the place politically, but he's definitely not a hardline conservative outside of fiscal issues, he just plays one on tv and said whatever he thought would get him elected that week.

Its why he chose Pence, who is a lot more worrisome imo
 
Henkka said:
Also applies to white men.

White men with no college degree were 54% for Trump.

With men with a college degree were 72% for Trump.

What explains this?
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Perhaps all the biased sources putting American universities at the top are wrong?
 
Staf said:
It's kind of fascinating watching the U.S from the outside. During 8 years of Clinton the right despised the president and tried to delegitimise him as a president. During the 8 years under Bush the left did the same thing. And the right have done the same thing during Obama. Now it's the lefts turn again for 4-8 years.
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Things were actually able to get done under Bill. Things actually got done under Bush(tax cuts, for example). The right brought a new level of obstructionism to the fore with Obama.
 
Phased said:
The world is likely not going to end, and I think people will be surprised at how little the country actually changes. I'm not saying Trump winning is good, it's absolutely not, but the pendulum will swing back eventually and we'll be ready when it does.
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Supreme Court.

I'll possibly be looking my adult child in the eyes when the pendulum has a chance at swinging back.

Note: I don't currently have a child.
 
Oh, America... Lol at DNC, serves them right, they let people choose between the lesser of two evils. Bernie would have a much better chance at winning it.
 
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