What do you know?

This is true, though I would say that I would be a bit less confident of House Republicans resisting Trump’s requests. If this were the Senate, that would be different, but House Republicans are protected by gerrymandering much more effectively than Republican senators in swing states.

On a scale from one to eleventy billion how much better about his decision to resign does John Boehner feel this morning?

I’d agree with that.

I’ve seen less hopefulness about him becoming less terrible and more the more sober analysis of what he might actually be able to accomplish without a clear political mandate and because of the complexities of making sweeping legislative changes, especially seeing as there is a distinct possibility that there will be…

MAGA = Make America Great Again

Nothing is certain. Trump himself may have no interest in enacting all of his terrible policies. Today is a terrible day, but I could imagine the 2nd worst day being the day when you realized that if you hadn’t lost all hope and had evaluated the situation around you that you might have found a way to make a…

Dude, watch it with that shit. It wouldn’t be the least shocking thing to learn in the last few days to that Donald Trump has people sifting through internet comments looking for ideas on who to pick for Cabinet positions.

I think you could also take comfort in Barack Obama’s words. I think it’s cool to disagree with him about the “presumption of good faith” on behalf of most of the people who voted for Trump, but he’s right about the rest of what he says here:

You have to stay encouraged. Don’t get cynical. You have to know you can make a difference...Sometimes you lose an argument. Sometimes you lose an election. The path this country has taken has never been a straight line. We zig and zag. Sometimes we move in ways that some people think is forward and other people think…

Donald J. Trump now has the chance to become one of the greatest Americans to have ever lived - we have the moral high ground, 100%!#MAGA

Really? AWESOME!

I think you can look to the popular vote and feel some comfort.

Again, this assertion, that a Stein vote was a lost HRC vote, sort of ignores the fact that to even consider voting for Stein in the first place you have to have fundamental problems in how you evaluate your political options.

A vote for Jill Stein is demonstrable evidence that you are a low information voter who makes choices based on ridiculous assertions. One of those ridiculous assertions for a decent number of those people was likely “I can’t bring myself to vote for HRC”.

Yep. The notion that voter suppression was the primary factor in why even the 10% -20% of those people who did not vote that would have likely been necessary to flip the election is insane.

I’m guessing MLK would not be thrilled with you right now, Jill! He’d probably wonder why you didn’t rally your supporters to vote for Hillary Clinton so, I don’t know, maybe we could avoid Donald Trump unraveling eight years of Obama gains and appointing two Supreme Court justices. I DON’T THINK HE’D FIND YOUR…

Many people here will say that they got called nasty names because they deserved it.

I’m not sure you can say they “pushed him over the top”. The vote share captured by Republicans among white women declined from 56% in 2012 to 53% this year.

Intermittent chants of “Lock her up!” and “Build the wall!” sprang up.