11/8/16 Election Day Reckoning Political thread

Re: 11/8/16 Election Day Reckoning Political thread

Postby azrider » Wed Nov 09, 2016 01:57:14

Hopefully this shit show wakes America up! We really need to do fundamental changes to the infrastructure of our political system. I hope all of you passionate Hillary voters show the same passion in changing our corrupt two party system.

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Re: 11/8/16 Election Day Reckoning Political thread

Postby Wolfgang622 » Wed Nov 09, 2016 01:59:28

Posted this, to Facebook:

All this election I kept thinking of the following line from the film Network: "He is tired of all the bullshit! He is articulating the popular rage!"

I want to die.



^Not on Facebook: I am pretty serious. The country has depressed me, but it has broken my poor wife's heart. This is a nightmare.
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Re: 11/8/16 Election Day Reckoning Political thread

Postby jerseyhoya » Wed Nov 09, 2016 01:59:46

CalvinBall wrote:Jh where are you emotionally

I was never going to be happy with how tonight went. I guess I have to be somewhat hopeful that maybe he isn't a complete shitshow as president. Not optimistic, but he's going to be our president, so I hope he doesn't suck at it. I am very happy for a lot of good Republican senators for getting reelected. I am shocked at the House results. I am pleased that our polling for our clients was (mostly) right. I spent from about 8-10 PM trying not to vomit and since then working on not crying. Stopped drinking about three hours ago because I was not happy, but just got home and poured the largest bourbon drink ever in order to maybe get to sleep at some point tonight rather than stare at the ceiling till it's light out. I dunno. Really wish we saved a shock polling upset GOP presidential win for someone who wasn't human scum. It's going to take a while for this to sink in. Thought it was about a 10-15% chance, and those things do happen, but I wasn't mentally prepared for it at all. And the early Florida stuff looked great for her. We've got a country that's weirdly more and less divided than I thought, and I'm not sure how the next four weeks let alone four months will unfold.

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Re: 11/8/16 Election Day Reckoning Political thread

Postby BigEd76 » Wed Nov 09, 2016 02:06:34

FOX News can't tell the difference between New Hampshire and Maine. People are losing their shit this late at night

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Re: 11/8/16 Election Day Reckoning Political thread

Postby BigEd76 » Wed Nov 09, 2016 02:07:50

Maine to Clinton, trails 254-218*

(* with 1 more remaining)

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Re: 11/8/16 Election Day Reckoning Political thread

Postby heyeaglefn » Wed Nov 09, 2016 02:17:36

Toomey wins and Republicans control Senate

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Re: 11/8/16 Election Day Reckoning Political thread

Postby azrider » Wed Nov 09, 2016 02:17:37

Electoral college... Needs to go! Popular vote! If Clinton wins the overall popular, she deserves to be president! If you're not in a battleground state your vote is about 1/2 a vote. We need change!

I hate the players but we need to change the infrastructure regardless.

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Re: 11/8/16 Election Day Reckoning Political thread

Postby jerseyhoya » Wed Nov 09, 2016 02:23:19

heyeaglefn wrote:Toomey wins and Republicans control Senate

Pretty incredible. The party seems at once mortally wounded and stronger than ever. Got no idea how this shakes out at all.

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Re: 11/8/16 Election Day Reckoning Political thread

Postby Napalm » Wed Nov 09, 2016 02:24:47

game over

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Re: 11/8/16 Election Day Reckoning Political thread

Postby BigEd76 » Wed Nov 09, 2016 02:31:20

Feeling hopeless, defeated, how did this happen it wasn't supposed to be like this, so many questions, things about to go downhill fast, time for a rebuild. Feels like the end of the 2011 NLDS

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Re: 11/8/16 Election Day Reckoning Political thread

Postby heyeaglefn » Wed Nov 09, 2016 02:32:23

Is Trump Amaro

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Re: 11/8/16 Election Day Reckoning Political thread

Postby blueclaw » Wed Nov 09, 2016 02:33:32

I was going to make the same comparison.
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Re: 11/8/16 Election Day Reckoning Political thread

Postby jerseyhoya » Wed Nov 09, 2016 02:40:22

AP calls PA...

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Re: 11/8/16 Election Day Reckoning Political thread

Postby azrider » Wed Nov 09, 2016 02:45:23

heyeaglefn wrote:Is Trump arpaio

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Re: 11/8/16 Election Day Reckoning Political thread

Postby gr » Wed Nov 09, 2016 02:49:01

if history tells us anything, when one party controls everything, it screws it up
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Re: 11/8/16 Election Day Reckoning Political thread

Postby Polar Bear Phan » Wed Nov 09, 2016 02:49:28

Is Arpaio getting pardoned on 1/20?

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Re: 11/8/16 Election Day Reckoning Political thread

Postby Gimpy » Wed Nov 09, 2016 02:51:23

Trump pardoning Hillary when he takes office would be the ultimate troll job.

Welp, good effort dems. You'll get em next year

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Re: 11/8/16 Election Day Reckoning Political thread

Postby Polar Bear Phan » Wed Nov 09, 2016 02:52:55

Kinda feel like the biggest question at this point (outside of New Hampshire) is whether Trump narrowly flips Minnesota. JFC

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Re: 11/8/16 Election Day Reckoning Political thread

Postby heyeaglefn » Wed Nov 09, 2016 02:56:21

Biggest question is whether Clinton is going to address the crowd, Podesta is supposed to soon.

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Re: 11/8/16 Election Day Reckoning Political thread

Postby gr » Wed Nov 09, 2016 03:00:21

heyeaglefn wrote:Biggest question is whether Clinton is going to address the crowd, Podesta is supposed to soon.


they're not going to concede. there's enough absentee ballots that they can refer to that as reason why to keep things open.
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