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tigersandcrumpets

Leonardo DiCaprio winning that Oscar was the opening of the seventh seal of the apocalypse, I’m telling you.

I am proud to have voted for Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton. And my bright spot in this is the fact that my little girl has spent the last weeks saying she wanted to be “the first girl president.” And I didn’t know what to say to her. But now I do. #Sophie2052

This white person agrees. It was us. I don’t want it to be us, but there it is.

It is. So much about the story is about the white working class. Looking at the CNN exit polls, it is clear that Clinton won the working class in general, and under 100K vote, while when separated into segments, Trump won (barely) the $50-100K and everything above. But, Clinton won the college-educated white women,

Same in Florida. Fuck everyone of them and their ‘protest vote’.

This is what is SO hard for me to take. This betrayal of everything I stand for, and have fought for since I was in my teens and could understand what’s important: fairness, justice, freedom, equality - people who look like me think they’re the only ones worthy. These people who have every possible right and freedom

I’m an American of Mexican blood. I woke up at 4 am, saw results and seriously wept. Like heaving, sobbing, whimpering. It’s not so much Trump being president, it’s that I always pictured America as the shining city on the hill, the idealist country, filled with intelligence and freedom and decency. It is so

The margin of victory for Trump in Michigan and Wisconsin was less than the total of Jill Stein voters in both sates. If those precious little babies had simply voted strategically the “meaning” we are all about to start deriving from this shit-show would have been radically different.

The thing is, I don’t see that happening. People who support Trump will never blame him. As just one example, we’ve had decades of trickle down economics and it’s been proven so completely that it doesn’t work, yet people still believe in it. People so often refuse to absorb any evidence that disproves their theories.

It doesn’t matter—they can die of ass cancer, but as long as “Obamacare” is repealed, they’ll die in pain...but thanking their God for “bootstraps!”

Turnout has been utterly dismal for Democrats and progressives the past few midterms. Republicans will vote anytime anywhere but you have to cajole, plead, beg and drag Dems and progressives to the polls in non-Presidential years. This is why our Congress has been utter garbage for the past 6 years.

I feel like this has irreparably damaged the office of POTUS, tbh. It used to be prestigious, and you had to work for it for decades, postition yourself, gain knowledge and skill and directly-related experience. Now we’ve elected a reality tv star with no ability to form a coherent paragraph, much less policy, and

I was flipping between CNN and CBC tonight and ended up landing on CBC because I was transfixed by their panel. They did not hold back at all. I will watch anything that features Danielle Moodie-Mills, forever. She was so passionate and articulate, but also heartbreakingly defeated.

Yeah, but then you get Pence.

So A bumbling half skinned orange teletubbie is going to be our president, terrifying I have to say. What I’m more concerned with is how the actual new president (fucking Pence) is the kind of person who believes my sister and I need electro-shock therapy for the way we live our lives. Trump is sickening, but Pence is

I’ve already posted this elsewhere, but here it goes again, with updated numbers, because it will never be too much:

Right? Like some kind of swastika tattoo, right on the forehead. The ignorant fucks . . .

God

I’m here feeling your pain.

I’ll offer this ray of hope. Probably won’t get out of the greys, but it’s worth saying.