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Trump arriving at White House to meet Obama. WH staff :

Somehow I saw every face except for the lady in full blown tears first. What a heart break.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Somehow I saw every face except for the lady in full blown tears first. What a heart break.

It's a picture from Obama's speech yesterday

 

[charpunk]

Anyone remember the days following 9-11?

That strange, anxious & vaguely dissociative, "Is this a dream?" kind of feeling?

Yeah, I just realized this is how I've been feeling post election.

Thank you for this. I couldn't quite sum up the feeling I've been having, but it's exactly that. I felt the same way after 9/11, especially living close by at the time.

 

[MUnited83]

Everyone has the right to protest, but burn the flag? Is it acceptable to you? For me, NO!

It is absolutely acceptable. First amendment.

 

[smokeymicpot]

One funny thing about asshole being president he won't be on any late night comedy show besides Fallon.

 

[fr0st]

BUSH outdated OBAMA overrated HILLARY eliminated TRUMP inaugurated LONG have we waited AMERICA liberated

 

[RDreamer]

Anyone remember the days following 9-11?

That strange, anxious & vaguely dissociative, "Is this a dream?" kind of feeling?

Yeah, I just realized this is how I've been feeling post election.

Yeah that's the same way I've been feeling. It seems weird to have that feeling because the two events are obviously very dissimilar.

 

[MUnited83]

You really haven't seen the reports of violence in all of these protests? These people seem to think that burning flags and inciting violence and impeding traffic will somehow magically change the election results. Maybe I'm just getting old but I am really getting sick of this entitled generation that is growing up.

Oh jeeeeeez, people don't want basic human rights to be taken away? FUCKING ENTITLED MILLENIALS"!!!!!!
Burning flags is both justified and protected by the most important document of the United States? Inciting violence? Have you seen the fucking huge ammount of violent bullshit trump supporters did after winning?

 

[super-heated plasma]

I actually think Trumps narcissism may be a glimmer of hope in all this. Think about it. The man has a huge need to be seen as the best, most greatest guy. He is addicted to positive attention and praise. When he gets negative attention, he lashed out like a child.

Here's where the good comes in: He definitely does not want to go down in history as one of the worst mistakes in not only U.S. history, but world history. If he is a majorly unpopular President, and receives way more scorn than praise, his legacy will be forever tarnished, not only as a President but as a man and businessman. History will judge him forever as a joke. No one would look back at Trump in 20-50 years or more and see anything other than some buffoon who lucked his way into the White House, and it will be used as a lesson as why voting is so important to school kids. Not because the vote got him in, but because NOT enough voting did.

His buildings, casinos, hotels, all with his name would become monuments to failure. Going down in history is one thing, going down in history as one of the worst things to happen to mankind and the world is another. His ego couldn't take it.

So Trumps own need for validation on how great he is, may actually somehow lead to some good. But I'm not holding my breath.

 

[Aaron D.]

Thank you for this. I couldn't quite sum up the feeling I've been having, but it's exactly that. I felt the same way after 9/11, especially living close by at the time.

Yup.

I live in NoVA and work in DC.

In the days following 9/11 there were gun-mounted military humvees strategically parked close-to and around the White House and Pentagon. I work 2 blocks north of the WH and passed by one every day.

The silence of the morning commute crowd getting off of DC Metrorail was deafening. Everybody walking with their heads down and in a fog.

That's exactly how it feels this week.

 

[RPGCrazied]

Yes so shameful that they won't shut up and sit down and don't know their place.

Get fucked.

That is a bit extreme. I probably won't be saluting the flag or saying the pledge of allegiance with Trump as President. I don't believe in his America.

 

[Glix]

Everyone has the right to protest, but burn the flag? Is it acceptable to you? For me, NO!

It is. I may not love it but I will defend their right to do it.

As I said in the other thread, I prefer this to making promises of running an obstructionist government for the next four years.


THAT is unacceptable to me.

My girlfriend works in contracts and a lot of her work stories involve parsing the "the letter of the law" and the "spirit of the law"

Burning the flag is very very very much in the spirit of the law.

Grinding the government to a halt is not, even if done legally.

 

[More_Badass]

I actually think Trumps narcissism may be a glimmer of hope in all this. Think about it. The man has a huge need to be seen as the best, most greatest guy. He is addicted to positive attention and praise. When he gets negative attention, he lashed out like a child.

Here's where the good comes in: He definitely does not want to go down in history as one of the worst mistakes in not only U.S. history, but world history. If he is a majorly unpopular President, and receives way more scorn than praise, his legacy will be forever tarnished, not only as a President but as a man and businessman. History will judge him forever as a joke. No one would look back at Trump in 20-50 years or more and see anything other than some buffoon who lucked his way into the White House, and it will be used as a lesson as why voting is so important to school kids. Not because the vote got him in, but because NOT enough voting did.

His buildings, casinos, hotels, all with his name would become monuments to failure. Going down in history is one thing, going down in history as one of the worst things to happen to mankind and the world is another. His ego couldn't take it.

So Trumps own need for validation on how great he is, may actually somehow lead to some good. But I'm not holding my breath.

Have you seen his choices for cabinet? I agree, don't hold your breath

 

[samn]

I actually think Trumps narcissism may be a glimmer of hope in all this. Think about it. The man has a huge need to be seen as the best, most greatest guy. He is addicted to positive attention and praise. When he gets negative attention, he lashed out like a child.

Here's where the good comes in: He definitely does not want to go down in history as one of the worst mistakes in not only U.S. history, but world history. If he is a majorly unpopular President, and receives way more scorn than praise, his legacy will be forever tarnished, not only as a President but as a man and businessman. History will judge him forever as a joke. No one would look back at Trump in 20-50 years or more and see anything other than some buffoon who lucked his way into the White House, and it will be used as a lesson as why voting is so important to school kids. Not because the vote got him in, but because NOT enough voting did.

His buildings, casinos, hotels, all with his name would become monuments to failure. Going down in history is one thing, going down in history as one of the worst things to happen to mankind and the world is another. His ego couldn't take it.

So Trumps own need for validation on how great he is, may actually somehow lead to some good. But I'm not holding my breath.

Considering who he just appointed as head of EPA, his strategy seems to be ensuring there's no-one left alive in the future to think back to his presidency.

 

[RPGCrazied]

Can we revolt now?

 

[Kumquat]

It's a piece of fabric that means nothing, just as every other flag. There are no american values, there is no inherent meaning. It's fabric you project your own thoughts and romantic feelings of what a Utopia should look like on. And for half of the country that Utopia is a racist, homo- and transphobic hellhole lead by christian extremists.

You think this country is bad? You really should get out more. Learn about the world.

 

[maquiladora]

Anyone remember the days following 9-11?

That strange, anxious & vaguely dissociative, "Is this a dream?" kind of feeling?

Yeah, I just realized this is how I've been feeling post election.

Yeah it does feel like that in a way.

 

[More_Badass]

You think this country is bad? You really should get out more. Learn about the world.

Okay, other countries have issues. How does that diminishes the issues here, that people living here right now will be facing?

 

[Deleted member 22576]

Its incredible just how bleak everything feels. I don't even want to leave the house.

 

[Waldo Lydecker]

Why didn't Kasich became VP instead of Pence? Wouldn't we be far better off with Kasich?

 

[Seik]

You think this country is bad? You really should get out more. Learn about the world.

For what is a modern country, your new commander in chief has some of the worst ideologies ever.

The American flag is now dirty and I shall now look at it with disgust.

 

[nubbe]

Anyone remember the days following 9-11?

That strange, anxious & vaguely dissociative, "Is this a dream?" kind of feeling?

Yeah, I just realized this is how I've been feeling post election.

Yeah, I have kinda the same feeling
Not as bad, but in the same arena

 

[balladofwindfishes]

Some rumblings on CNN and Twitter that Trump may take the popular vote once everything is counted. I don't see how he can make up the 300k vote difference though.

Aren't most of the votes left to be counted in California?

 

[smokeymicpot]

Why didn't Kasich became VP instead of Pence? Wouldn't we be far better off with Kasich?

Kasich didn't want to be VP for a racist douche. Kasich probably cares for the job way to much.

 

[C.Mongler]

You think this country is bad? You really should get out more. Learn about the world.

You think this country couldn't be better? You really should get out more. Learn about the world.

 

[Sikamikanico]

Not sure if this has been posted, but think this guy is pretty on the money here.

Jonathan Pie - Trump wins the White House. (Facebook video)

 

[maquiladora]

Devastatingly strong words from the New York Times...

WASHINGTON — No one in Europe truly believed Americans would elect someone who seems so obviously unfit to lead the most powerful nation in the world. And yet, that is precisely what has happened, and now, across the Continent, people are trying to figure out what this will mean. Many fear that Donald J. Trump’s election might mean the end of the West as we know it.

 

[Chaplain]

VICE News Tonight: 2016 Election - What Happened? (November 9, Full Episode)

"What happened? Why did it happen? What happens next? We talk to voters around the country, an an Ohio mother (and former Bernie Sanders supporter) about why she didn't vote in the election. Plus, Donald Trump's campaign promises and positions on climate change, Obamacare, trade, building a border wall with Mexico and more."

 

[matrixman92]

wait, so Trump won the popular vote now too?

 

[SilentRob]

You think this country is bad? You really should get out more. Learn about the world.

"I mean, hey, at least we are not literally executing homosexuals! That's a win? Right? Eh?"

I'm from Germany and I have a pretty good grasp on European politics I'd say. There are few countries in the western world that are as fucked as the United States. This country was pretty fucked before and way worse off in pretty much every area possible except military spending (which makes the repeated and utterly empty "We are better than this! Greatest County In the World! Land of Opportunities! Land of the Free!" proclamations as a sign of defiance from various late night shows in response to this all the more baseless), but this divide will now be multiplied by who ever knows how much. As I said: People who would belong in the most right-wing extremist party possible in Germany, the NPD, are leading the US from now on. That is what your flag represents.

 

[Phased]

VICE News Tonight: 2016 Election - What Happened? (November 9, Full Episode)

I think we're going to find a lot of people who felt disenfranchised from the DNC and/or Clinton and just didn't vote.

 

[Red]

wait, so Trump won the popular vote now too?

No. He has 47% to Hillary's 48%.

 

[Aaron D.]

The American flag is now dirty and I shall now look at it with disgust.

For what it's worth the POTUS is not the American flag.

The American flag is 320 million US citizens.

 

[matrixman92]

No. He has 47% to Hillary's 48%.

I think sites are projecting he is going to win the pop vote now, unless im reading this wrong

 

[SilentRob]

For what it's worth the POTUS is not the American flag.

The American flag is 320 million US citizens.

...who have voted for this president or decided they didn't want to vote against him.

 

[Waldo Lydecker]

Kasich didn't want to be VP for a racist douche. Kasich probably cares for the job way to much.

Okay, thanks. Far from ideal but he seemed the only reasonable guy left in that Carnival of Stupid.

I still feeling terrible about this all. Can we dream about something like.... eh.... someone like Tom Hanks or George Clooney or Olympic Speed Skate champion Joey Cheek becoming a Democratic Ronald Reagan?

 

[Enter the Dragon Punch]

No. He has 47% to Hillary's 48%.

via CNN

 

[Red]

I think sites are projecting he is going to win the pop vote now, unless im reading this wrong

via CNN

I'm done with this world.

 

[dan2026]

VICE News Tonight: 2016 Election - What Happened? (November 9, Full Episode)

Holy shit when you see some of the people in that video, you can understand why Trump won.

 

[Machina]

Holy shit when you see some of the people in that video, you can understand why Trump won.

Exactly. Hate the term deplorables? Suck it up, and wear the hat that fits, you guys are good at that

 

[Aaron D.]

...who have voted for this president or decided they didn't want to vote against him.

Indeed.

I'm just as disappointed with the voting results.

I even felt ashamed to be an American the day after the election.

But you know what? I'm glad that to live in a country where everyone has a voice.

It won't always go my way, but that's the nature of democracy.

I'm still shell-shocked, but I'm a tad more optimistic today. I think we're in for a rough ride, but I also think we'll make it out alive.

In addition, think it will be a positive wake-up call for equality and basic human rights for all. In the wake of seeing them challenged, I believe more will act instead of sitting idly by and watching from the sidelines.

I think more people are going to look out for each other in the wake of hostility Trump has normalized. Call it a push-back to his hate-rhetoric.

 

[Seik]

For what it's worth the POTUS is not the American flag.

The American flag is 320 million US citizens.

Almost half these people voted and supported an orange racist piece of shit.

Yes, the American flag is stained, it's shit-stained.

 

[BocoDragon]

Exactly. Hate the term deplorables? Suck it up, and wear the hat that fits, you guys are good at that

To be honest I'm retiring that word. Trump's supporters very quickly appropriated it and owned it. It was their version of "nasty woman".

 

[Glix]

Indeed.

I'm just as disappointed with the voting results.

I even felt ashamed to be an American the day after the election.

But you know what? I'm glad that to live in a country where everyone has a voice.

It won't always go my way, but that's the nature of democracy.

I'm still shell-shocked, but I'm a tad more optimistic today. I think we're in for a rough ride, but I think we'll make it out alive. I also think it will be a positive wake-up call for equality and basic human rights for all. In the wake of seeing them challenged, I believe more will act instead of sitting idly by and watching from the sidelines.

Is that you in the avatar pic? If yes, then yes, you will be just fine.

 

[Audioboxer]

via CNN

Damn that's going to totally fuck up what little people were clinging to after this result (Hillary won the pop vote).

edit: Trump also looks genuinely evil in that photo

 

[More_Badass]

Indeed.

I'm just as disappointed with the voting results.

I even felt ashamed to be an American the day after the election.

But you know what? I'm glad that to live in a country where everyone has a voice.

It won't always go my way, but that's the nature of democracy.

I'm still shell-shocked, but I'm a tad more optimistic today. I think we're in for a rough ride, but I think we'll make it out alive. I also think it will be a positive wake-up call for equality and basic human rights for all. In the wake of seeing them challenged, I believe more will act instead of sitting idly by and watching from the sidelines.

The said thing is that everyone may have a voice, but that's not what happened here. A quarter of voters decided the country's political future for everyone. And half didn't speak at all.

 

[smokeymicpot]

Okay, thanks. Far from ideal but he seemed the only reasonable guy left in that Carnival of Stupid.

I still feeling terrible about this all. Can we dream about something like.... eh.... someone like Tom Hanks or George Clooney or Olympic Speed Skate champion Joey Cheek becoming a Democratic Ronald Reagan?

Honestly if Kasich was the nominee this would have really been a landslide in his favor.

 

[daffy]

so Donald Trump said his favorite movie is Citizen Kane...

he's got to be having a laugh with us at this point

 

[Scrooged]

Reminder of what the population did on election day.

 

[BocoDragon]

Is that you in the avatar pic? If yes, then yes, you will be just fine.

Much has been said about race and gender in how you will fare under Trump, but in the end I think class is far more of a factor.

How the narrative became that Trump is the candidate for the working class... stunning. The rich businessman going to cut taxes and empower corporate interests is going to be good for poor people.... riiight.