I voted today!Follow

So, how many of you still want to eliminate the filibuster?

This is pretty much the end for humanity. In a hundred years this planet won't be habitable.

I'd like to congratulate Gbaji on having his candidate elected to the Presidency.

At the very least the next four years of conservatives walking back their comments about Trump should be fun to watch.

Also, it's 11/9.

Edited, Nov 9th 2016 9:10am by lolgaxe

The Absolute Madman actually did it!

Do you hear the people sing
Lost in the valley of the night?
It is the music of a people
Who are climbing to the light.

For the wretched of the earth
There is a flame that never dies.
Even the darkest night will end
And the sun will rise.

They will live again in freedom
In the garden of the Lord.
We will walk behind the ploughshare;
We will put away the sword.
The chain will be broken
And all men will have their reward.

Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Somewhere beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Do you hear the people sing?
Say, do you hear the distant drums?
It is the future that they bring
When tomorrow comes!
He had better wait until Amy Schumer moves there. Best not to waste a second nuke.

I tried to tell you. But nooo, "crazy ol' Poldaran doesn't know how elections work" and "there's no way Poldaran's right. Trump will never win". Let's ask Walter. Hey Walt, was I right or was I goddamn right?



I'm enjoying this.

Edited, Nov 9th 2016 8:55am by Poldaran

The one I made last night.

Yeah I think so too. He's had the unfortunate ability to put his foot in his mouth a little too much. I get the whole "spontaneous" thing helps you appear less establishment, and that's a good contrast to have, but it wasn't his strong point, especially when trying to sell himself in the general election.

He almost looks darker than Obama in that picture. I guess it shouldn't be too much of a surprise, he's all fake-tanned and Obama is only half-black.

Yeah that's one of the bigger divides in our country. Rural and Urban people just don't mix much, and there's not a lot of understanding about the realities of living in the different locations. It's not too surprising how one side could be pretty much blind to the problems faced by the other. That's another thing you can't really explain to people until they experience it for themselves.

One more thing you want to roll your eyes at in the whole "I don't understand why do they vote that way!" rhetoric. I mean, of course you don't, you're a well-educated person doing research at a hospital in a major metropolitan area. You've benefited from Obamacare, and increased funding for the sciences. Globalization is helping your collaborations with people around the world. None of those opportunities are available in a town of 500 people. Now that the lumber mill laid off most of its staff your best hope is to slowly work your way up to night manager at the hotel along the freeway. Etc, etc..

The decent jobs you could get without an education, and without moving to a major metropolitan area are largely gone. Ignore that problem long enough and things so sour for you politically.

Edited, Nov 9th 2016 12:48pm by someproteinguy

Welp, that was no fun. I don't feel bad about being wrong because all you have to go on are the signs and the signs looked like a Clinton win and the metrics like crowd size, etc never held up in the last couple previous cycles. Hell, the RNC was convinced that Trump was going to lose going into last night. [Edit: According to reports from inside the campaign today, Trump's own campaign thought was was going to lose going into last night] I hope Nate Silver's gig predicting baseball scores pays well.

Smash was wrong about Clinton not running/being nominated but right about her failing to be electable. I don't think Sanders was remotely electable either and while some people are on a "This is the DNC's fault" tear, the fact is that Sanders ran a half-assed vanity campaign until it looked like he might be actually getting traction and tried to turn it into a real campaign far too late. DWS wasn't the reason that Clinton got an extra couple million votes. Sanders would have been murdered in the general after getting virtually no negative campaigning against him in the primary. I don't know who might have won. O'Malley? Biden? Beats me.

Well, here's hoping that most of the insane shit Trump came up with was election rhetoric and he does a half decent job.

Edited, Nov 9th 2016 5:53pm by Jophiel

I think Daily Show had a very short, well made point, about the perception of Sanders. They played a few clips of him doing the usual politics, anti-immigrant comments, etc. And that the only reason he was looking so "good" was because no one was treating him like a serious candidate and actually looking at past statements that could be harmful or negative.

Not saying that he is a bad person by any means. Just that he knew how to play politics over his career and say what the electorate wanted to hear just like the rest of them. His outsider status wouldn't hold up to any serious scrutiny. He just played on the millennial vote during the primaries with cries for "Free College".

Part of me wonders if Trump was panicking like Garrison in the recent South Park episodes. Full on "OMG I'm actually going to win? WTF am I going to do now?"