If Clinton had won and we take Trump supporters at their word, they’d be gunning down people in the streets, not peacefully protesting. If they restricted themselves to chants and marching I wouldn’t be mocking them — I’d be thanking god that they aren’t quite as monstrous as they have repeatedly bragged about being.

Most pro forced birthers believe that hormonal birth control is an “abortifacient”, so you are correct. If they get rid of the constitutional right to privacy which protects abortion rights, it also allows them to pass restrictions on women having access to birth control, period. They can pass laws saying that only…

Nobody’s rights would have been infringed upon per Clinton’s policies. A Trump presidency will cost people their lives. They’re protesting the racist, bigoted, hateful, sexist, xenophobic, and life threatening administration that is taking office in a few months. They’re trying to get their voices heard before…

They did. NOT MY PRESIDENT was what they chanted about Obama in 2008.

It’s not the same thing. “Not My President” doesn’t mean “this election is invalid.” It means “this man may hold the office, but he absolutely does not represent me or my beliefs, and nothing he does has my support.” At least that’s what it means when I say it, and that’s how I’m interpreting it in context when my…

Legally, he will be my president and I will follow American laws. This is a sign of protest. He does not represent me in any way, shape or form. He is openly bigoted and sexist. He lied like his pants were on fire. He encouraged Russian espionage. He benefitted from egregious FBI actions. His fellow Republicans…

What kills me is that he got his highest support from women age 44 and up. Like, the demographic that Trump would consider the most completely disposable, the age where he replaced all his wives, that’s who was like “sure, I’ll vote for that guy.”

Seems quite a lot of them are teenagers who were too young to vote. I don’t blame them, this is their future that Americans just screwed up and they had no say in it.

It felt like 9/11 to me. The same despair, the same knowledge that the world will never be the same. That things only get worse from here. I’m in such a deep slide. I left half my work to do tomorrow at work and I honestly don’t know how I’ll function. I withdrew from all my college classes the fall of 9/11 I just…

Same here neighbor. I had to assure my kid everything will be ok which was VERY difficult. He goes to a very integrated public school and I told him to be extra kind to your classmates because there are some who’d probably be more sad/scared than him.

Thank you for the open thread and the amazing coverage.

The Republican idea of a jobs bill has been to get rid of the minimum wage so owners can hire dozens of employees for a dollar an hour each. Or to lower taxes on owners, or to throw out safety regulations.

As a white woman, abortion was a huge issue for me, and one of the reasons I voted for Hillary. I’m so afraid of getting pregnant under Trump. In four years I might actually want to have a kid, but not having the ability to terminate if something goes horribly wrong scares the living hell out of me.

You have odd definitions of “compromising ethics.” She didn’t compromise any ethics by defending a client she had an obligation to defend on order of a judge. She didn’t compromise her ethics by spending whatever political capital a First Lady has to fight for decent national healthcare. And I have no fucking idea…

This is actually the opposite of what really happened. Clinton had one of the most expansive and detailed policy platforms for a presidential campaign in a long time. She and her team did years worth of homework to hone down policies and be able to explain how it could be passed bipartisanly and point to where money…

OMG SHE MUST BE RELATED TO MY FRIEND. She posts nonstop shit about “moochers” and how hard-working citizens have to pay for lazy people who game the system when I know damn well that not only did she use WIC for the kid she had in high school, but she also used food stamps to pay for the food at her wedding reception.

They shut down the government and won the midterm elections a handful of months later. They dont make long term decisions if they can get short term benefits right now, and the American public is apparently willing to go along with “well, they blew up the healthcare market and kicked 40 million people to the curb, but…

I had this dream last night. Trump steps up to the podium to give his inauguration speech, he smiles, pauses, then speaks:

Trump is Professor Quirrel and Pence is the Voldemort tumor growing out of the back of his head. The guy is a full-blown nutjob that makes Ted Cruz look reasonable. 

Even if he does tone it down, so much damage is done. He has galvanized white supremacists, he has shown that misogyny from an elected official is fine, has cause untold anxiety and stress, and created a hostile environment for so many people. You cannot undo that. Plus the long term effects of a conservative…