Holy fuck

[Derived Absurdity]

Holy fuck.

Holy actual fucking motherfucking fuck.

[Anakin McFly]

What's the best case scenario with President Trump?

[Derived Absurdity]

Nuclear apocalypse.

[Anakin McFly]

What's the worst case scenario?

[Derived Absurdity]

A Trump presidency where we all have to actually live through it.

[Faustus5]

Reminds me of when my state (MN) elected a wrestler after every pundit laughed at his chances. Except he was just an idiot, not a fascist.

Michael Moore was right: the public has just issued a nihilistic "Fuck you!" to the world.

[Derived Absurdity]

I'm feeling an odd and extremely unpleasant mix of literal suicidal depression and, like, clinical euphoria. Depression for obvious reasons and euphoria because... I guess this is the day where I have, officially, given up on life? Where I have just disconnected entirely? My lizard brain seems to think I already have, but my mind hasn't yet, because it's still in shock.

[Blade Azaezel]

I blame third party voters

[phe_de]

People get the government they deserve.

[Derived Absurdity]

I blame third party voters

Um... are you kidding? Third party got barely any votes.

[Anakin McFly]

@DA - Feeling something similar. Anything can happen now. Anything. It's extremely terrifying and yet also weirdly exciting. Like if someone announced that a huge alien spaceship just appeared and is about to blow up the planet.

[Anakin McFly]

Hillary would have won Wisconsin, Michigan, Florida and Pennsylvania without Johnson, although that's assuming thy wouldn't have otherwise voted for Trump.

[Derived Absurdity]

Yes, exactly. We are in completely uncharted territory. And I do realize that's a hyper-privileged feeling, because I'm fortunate enough to be in a position to be able to feel anything except abject terror and desperation, but... I mean, that's how I feel. If I was a Hispanic immigrant I probably wouldn't feel elation or excitement right now.

Holy fuck. My head is buzzing. I still haven't even processed this yet.

[Anakin McFly]

The racist and misogynist trolls are already out. Saw a comment from someone saying he's glad that there won't be a pussy leaving a slimy trail at the White House. The internet is going to be even more terrifying.

[Derived Absurdity]

Yeah, I'm staying away from the Internet for... ever. I'm only staying in certain safe spaces now.

I'm keeping sane by keeping in mind that in about forty years the Singularity will hit and none of this will even matter.

Edit: tell them that Hillary got the popular vote and that it's only due to the outdated "rigged" electoral college system that Trump won. They probably won't like that.

[Derived Absurdity]

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[Anakin McFly]

Are there any bright sides to this?

(apart from the impending John Oliver episode.)

[Derived Absurdity]

I just said nuclear apocalypse, dude. Doesn't that count?

But no. The only bright side is that the Clinton dynasty is now thankfully dead. Dead, never to return.

An actual response: there's some talk that many states are actually taking concrete, drastic action to finally end the electoral college because of this. Supposedly. So... there's that. Whoop-die do.

[Anakin McFly]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/what-the-hell

I guess it's also going to be a lot harder now to deny the racism and misogyny in the US. Hopefully it spurs people to action.

[Derived Absurdity]

I don't know what people can do about it.

[phe_de]

Time for a classic.
https://youtu.be/TKAwPA14Ni4

[Anakin McFly]

lol at all the people saying that people calling Trump voters racist are being racist for making everything about race.

[Blade Azaezel]

6 million people wasted their votes on 3rd party, as if it was going to make any difference.

[Anakin McFly]

lol at the comments about how while Trump is a successful businessman, the only qualifications Clinton has are "being a woman" and "fucking an ex-president", but that libtards apparently consider that enough to run a country.

[CashRules]

Hillary would have won Wisconsin, Michigan, Florida and Pennsylvania without Johnson, although that's assuming thy wouldn't have otherwise voted for Trump.

Most Johnson voters would have either voted for Trump or not voted at all.

[Cinemachinery]

Save gas and water for the Thunderdome.

[Anakin McFly]

Ok. The only two people I know who voted Johnson were strongly anti-Trump, so it's likely skewed my perception.

[Derived Absurdity]

Polls said that Johnson pulled roughly equal numbers from both Clinton and Trump, but, uh, I think this election has taught us a thing or two about polls.

And in case anyone's wondering, I still feel extremely light-headed.

I'm going to go do drugs now. Lots and lots of drugs.

[Anakin McFly]

Allegedly 11,000 people voted for Harambe.

[Derived Absurdity]

I heard something about that.

And you know what? I still feel nothing. Just sweet blissful nothing.

[Derived Absurdity]

Apparently Trump's victory speech was actually good or something.

Whatever.

[Anakin McFly]

Yes, it was. That's what a prepared speech looks like.

How drunk are you right now?

[Derived Absurdity]

I'm not drunk, I'm trying to get fucking high. Blissed out of my fucking mind. whooo

[Blade Azaezel]

So Hilary got more votes than Trump according to google, yet still lost. 'Murica, sort your electoral system out, ffs.

[Unvoiced_Apollo]

Are there any bright sides to this?

(apart from the impending John Oliver episode.)

The possibility the American people will finally wake up & see what "voting for the lesser of two evils" has wrought?

That's unlikely though.

[Unvoiced_Apollo]

6 million people wasted their votes on 3rd party, as if it was going to make any difference.

I'd argue it was the other several million who wasted their votes considering who won and who his competition was.

[Derived Absurdity]

i'm kinda worried about troy to be honest

[Blade Azaezel]

6 million people wasted their votes on 3rd party, as if it was going to make any difference.

I'd argue it was the other several million who wasted their votes considering who won and who his competition was.

There were only ever 2 options. Supporting a 3rd was just pointless. And yes, people can rant and rave about having to vote the lesser of two evils etc etc but now look what's happened.

[BruceSmith78]

So, is everyone still alive? I hope DA didn't OD and kill himself, and I hope Aels doesn't actually walk into the sea.

[Unvoiced_Apollo]

6 million people wasted their votes on 3rd party, as if it was going to make any difference.

I'd argue it was the other several million who wasted their votes considering who won and who his competition was.

There were only ever 2 options. Supporting a 3rd was just pointless. And yes, people can rant and rave about having to vote the lesser of two evils etc etc but now look what's happened.

There were only 2 options because we as Americans have been complacent in such a system for years. This only happened because we have been led to believe it is impossible for reasonable alternatives to succeed. Stein & Johnson only serve to bolster the two party system, not break it.

[BruceSmith78]

I guess it's also going to be a lot harder now to deny the racism and misogyny in the US. Hopefully it spurs people to action.

I'm not so sure about that. The people that deny racism and sexism voted for Trump, and are still denying racism and sexism same as always.

"Trump isn't sexist, he's just a man, you ass-ramming faggot!"

"Trump isn't racist, Islam is not a race, fucktards! They want to rape children and kill your family! It's not racist to want to stop Mexicans from stealing our jobs and our tax money!"

Etc

[Blade Azaezel]

6 million people wasted their votes on 3rd party, as if it was going to make any difference.

I'd argue it was the other several million who wasted their votes considering who won and who his competition was.

There were only ever 2 options. Supporting a 3rd was just pointless. And yes, people can rant and rave about having to vote the lesser of two evils etc etc but now look what's happened.

There were only 2 options because we as Americans have been complacent in such a system for years. This only happened because we have been led to believe it is impossible for reasonable alternatives to succeed. Stein & Johnson only serve to bolster the two party system, not break it.

The decision this year was too important to fluff up with a 3rd party vote. It's exactly what the UK did in our last election when everyone decided on 3rd party protest votes, and the 'Fucking Tories' got into power.

[Cassius Clay]

https://thecorrespondent.com/5575/our-f ... 5-7591b019

[Anakin McFly]

@Bruce Nah, those people are a lost cause. I was thinking more of white liberals who acknowledge that isms are bad but underestimate how bad they are.

Meanwhile... http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/10/07/tr ... -confirms/

[aels]

So, is everyone still alive? I hope DA didn't OD and kill himself, and I hope Aels doesn't actually walk into the sea.

I only just woke up and I will walk into the sea because I am so heartbroken and angry and what the fuck. What the fuck.

[aels]

I'm feeling an odd and extremely unpleasant mix of literal suicidal depression and, like, clinical euphoria. Depression for obvious reasons and euphoria because... I guess this is the day where I have, officially, given up on life? Where I have just disconnected entirely? My lizard brain seems to think I already have, but my mind hasn't yet, because it's still in shock.

I felt like that post-Brexit. It was like, woooo, nothing really matters any more? Zero Punctuation put it best '"There's a certain liberty in hopelessness, isn't there? 'Cause things can't get 101% fucked". I am really so sorry for you all. I mean, we're all going to suffer because of Trump but I am so fucking sorry for you and everyone else who is going to have to live in Trump's America.

[Anakin McFly]

It was like, woooo, nothing really matters any more?

yep. It's oddly freeing; the kind of freedom where you know you might die at any moment when WW3 comes, and all that matters now is making every last moment count for something. hug your mom. smell the roses. watch the sunset. enjoy every last bit of freedom before the nuclear apocalypse.

Also, my plans for moving to the US are completely shredded now. Maybe I'll try Canada.

[Unvoiced_Apollo]

6 million people wasted their votes on 3rd party, as if it was going to make any difference.

I'd argue it was the other several million who wasted their votes considering who won and who his competition was.

There were only ever 2 options. Supporting a 3rd was just pointless. And yes, people can rant and rave about having to vote the lesser of two evils etc etc but now look what's happened.

There were only 2 options because we as Americans have been complacent in such a system for years. This only happened because we have been led to believe it is impossible for reasonable alternatives to succeed. Stein & Johnson only serve to bolster the two party system, not break it.

The decision this year was too important to fluff up with a 3rd party vote. It's exactly what the UK did in our last election when everyone decided on 3rd party protest votes, and the 'Fucking Tories' got into power.

Which is why I didn't go 3rd party. It doesn't change the fact that even if there were only two candidates, that they' were two of the worst in American history.

[aels]

It was like, woooo, nothing really matters any more?

yep. It's oddly freeing; the kind of freedom where you know you might die at any moment when WW3 comes, and all that matters now is making every last moment count for something. hug your mom. smell the roses. watch the sunset. enjoy every last bit of freedom before the nuclear apocalypse.

Also, my plans for moving to the US are completely shredded now. Maybe I'll try Canada.

Just got my dad to agree that everything is fucked and we should walk into the sea. You can live in the sea with us if you like. There's no bigotry in the sea.

[aels]

I know a left-wing Brexiteer who voted Leave because fuck the system, maaaaan, and she liked this post today and I'm going to have to unfriend her:

"President Trump. It's both brilliant and scary.
Brilliant because it confirms that the mainstream -- the political class, the media, the academy, celebrities, all of whom lined up loudly and slavishly behind Hillary -- can no longer shape the political world to their tastes. Their political and moral remit is severely diminished, and not before time. Brilliant because it will traumatise all the people who deserve to be traumatised: the politicos and observers and campaigners who have conspired in the profound moral disorientation and weakening of the white working class and other sections of society to such an extent that those people found themselves with no political voice -- they were "health problems" and "moral crises" to be fixed, not political citizens to be listened to -- other than the megaphone of Trump. Brilliant because sneering, dehumanising political elites find it so unbrilliant.
And it's scary because it shows that while the rules of all the old politics are over, and the authority of the old establishment waned and probably dead, nothing real or substantial has replaced it. That the answer to the brilliant question "They shouldn't rule us anymore, so who should?" is "Donald Trump" is both sad and tragic. And it's largely the fault of the left. Instead of providing some shape and colour to people's stirring feeling of exhaustion and dislike for the political establishment, they lined up behind the establishment, desperate to prop it up for another four years, even praising it as progressive and good, sounding utterly mad in the process. What turncoats. What uncritical footsoldiers for a dying breed of political authority. President Trump is their fault. When you see them crying today -- and they are literally crying -- do not comfort them. They deserve this pain."

Like, no, fucko, I know you want to tear down the system etc etc but the people who are going to be hurt by Trump are the people already suffering - the vulnerable, who you claim to represent. She believes in chemtrails too.