Also Trump has threatened to sue any media outlet that gives him negative coverage and try to run them out of business. He was pretty explicit about this during the campaign.

Seriously I want to slap those rural white voters and yell at them that no, just because Trump is president doesn’t mean an unskilled high school dropout will magically get a $25 per hour factory job in the middle of cow pastures and soybean fields. Yes your benefits and food stamps will get cut some more like what…

Well, hey. Trump may have a blank check to destroy this county for everyone who isn’t wealthy, white and male, but we can all take comfort in the fact that Mitch McConnell will push back against congressional term limits. He’s truly the hero we deserve.

I guess that’s where the MAGA reference comes from.

I’ve felt all day like a loved one passed away. My connection is more personal as I was an active donor and volunteer with the campaign, and a friend of mine (also a gay man) did Bill & Chelsea’s advance work at various points. I can only imagine how he must be feeling today.

That was an obnoxious response Cavalish and Lady Lunch Lady gave to you — offering support is not a bad thing. Fuck that nonsense.

I live in a rural area in a swing state and Hillary gave a speech literally 2 blocks from my house. Much of her speech was about talking to coal miners who wouldn’t vote for her, but she talked to them anyway. She’s done as much if not more outreach in these areas than Obama, but got less credit because the media made…

Got a better one. Get to work. Volunteer. Donate your time and/or money at organizations that support the same causes you do. Run for local office. Protest peacefully. Protest not-so peacefully.

Not, its not a huge leap. Clinton won the popular vote. If it weren’t for the electoral college, you would be nowhere right now. You BARELY won. Just by the skin of your teeth and it took hundreds of meths to get off their asses to do it. You think those same voters are gonna turn out for the mid terms? Nope. They’ll…

Obama inherited the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression. The markets crashed, what, a month before the election? So yes, Obama could pin things on Bush because it occurred under his administration as a result of its policies.

I want to and plan to organize, but where can I start? This is not rhetorical, please if anyone has leads or suggestions, I would love to hear it.

Look, the point is we know what’s coming. It’s exactly what Bush did in 2004. We weren’t in power after ‘02 midterms; and were blamed for everything. Meanwhile the nation was told that you were with Bush or with the terrorists. And that shit worked. And if you don’t think it’ll work again on the people who just voted…

It is a lot easier to determine the point of the switch. Working class rust belt whites have seen their communities getting worse while the rest of the country bounced back.

I normally don’t post on these threads, but this is what’s keeping me going. Yes it’s from 1940 but it still rings true today...

Is it better that Trump won or lost?

It’s like these folks came out of the Rust Belt to vote against their own self-interests in order to burn some other disadvantaged folks that they thought were getting a better shake.

“It can be hard to put your finger on exactly what you fear most about the rise of Donald Trump: the racism? The sexism? The xenophobia? The profoundly dangerous lack of judgment?”

Who needs a safespace now?

She got more primary votes in 2008 than Obie.

Bernie wasn’t clean.