No one in these protests is questioning the legitimacy of the election the way Trump was beforehand; they understand that he won, and that he won fairly. They are protesting the fact that our country elected a hatemonger. They are protesting everything he plans to do in order to show him that he doesn’t have a…

I think you can differentiate between a mass of people voicing their displeasure over Trump being elected from a public figure with seemingly limitless access to media and an enormous (and deeply misguided, IMO) following alleging that he was cheated in a fair election. These people aren’t challenging the legitimacy…

This is a silly silly take. Also: it was 9pm. Yes, some people work at 9pm, but a lot of people don’t work at 9pm.

Care to expand on this hot take?

I would never do that to him. I love him. I just want to be sad by myself today.

Why not both ?

My mom e-mailed me on her lunch break today, saying that she will not live long enough to see a woman in the White House. It made me cry at my desk.

My progressive, devastated coworkers were one of the only bright spots during this otherwise dark, miserable day. I work for a graduate school offering programs rooted in teaching students how to be beacons of positive social change in their communities. My colleagues, our faculty, our amazing students... they give me…

Any chance for a permanent ungreying? It’d be an uplifting end to a lousy 24 hours.

We failed.

That’s not the point. It doesn’t matter whether the majority of Trump voters really hate people of color or not. What matters is whether Trump follows through on the pledges he’s made to treat people of color like criminals in their own country.

Your argument might mean something if those same people that voted Trump to be anti-”old establishment” had not also preceded to vote the same establishment into Congress. The 92% incumbency rate remained true. #ChangeButDontReallyChange

You’re not wrong... but c’mon, Trump isn’t the solution to whatever problems the DNC has.

It’s the open racism, xenophobia, and sexism. It’s the twitter eggs putting Jewish last names in parentheses and making oven jokes who, for the first time in decades, saw one of the presidential candidates who not only didn’t repudiate them but, in varying degrees of explicitness, welcomed them with open arms. It’s…

Even if Trump somehow miraculously turns out not to be the misogynistic, racist, xenophobic, moron we expect, it won’t change the fact that half the country voted for the misogynistic, racist, xenophobic moron.

Voting for Obama doesn’t absolve you. Racists can make exceptions for “good” Black men. Just like sexist conservatives in GB had no problem voting for Margaret Thatcher.

If I were on the receiving end of that, I’d be enraged, too.

This makes no fucking sense. If you kick out feminists, the anti-racists and the LGBTQ community, you get the Republican party.

My brother in law celebrated tonight that Trump won and he can right the wrongs of the past 8 years. “Obama Care goes first!”, he grinned. Then I reminded him that his 23 year old daughter with arthritis and a heart condition will no longer be covered by his insurance (a cornerstone of Obama Care). “That’s not fair!”,…

As a Muslim American who spent the night consoling friends and family members, please, do not be jaded. As ridiculous as that sounds, it’s literally my only request. Because jadedness lends itself to apathy, and if there were ever a time to actually care about anything, it’s now, facing a clown president and a fascist…