Election Thread 2016

[Calliander]

Gonna be a lot of good records coming out of this.

http://www.rockfeed.net/2016/11/09/s...rms-new-album/

[Josh]

Doesn't count.

[bbobb]

Yeah, Josh said good.

[Dunlap]

So... any rituals we can perform to guarantee Ginsburg, Breyer, and Kennedy a healthy next four years?

Let's just try to get them through 2016 at this rate.

[Andrew]

Trump permanently destroyed the Bush dynasty and the Clinton dynasty in one election cycle. #MAGA

[Frogacuda]

And let's not blame poor people for this.Attachment 79696

I think any sensible individual can see the missing data there...

[Drewbacca]

That isn't remotely what I meant and you know it, smartass.

Sure—I was way oversimplifying for effect. But I'm not sure how your wife puking and you telling everyone who didn't vote the way you did to go fuck themselves (lets assume as you're falling to your knee's and shouting to the stars) can be taken as a serious response to an election outcome. I get it—you're upset and worried. I myself am pretty worried about NAFTA ATM. But get a grip.

And let's not blame poor people for this.Attachment 79696

Yeah it wasn't just the poor that feels disenfranchised. Middle-class and well-off Americans supported Trump. I actually believe this is the silent riot that bolstered him to the win. These are the people probably shamed by their beliefs... so they hide them. Nobody wants to deal with being persecuted.

[Drewbacca]

Trump permanently destroyed the Bush dynasty and the Clinton dynasty in one election cycle. #MAGA

Props to him for this.

[Diff-chan]

There was at least one liberal writer who said more or less the same, all the way back in April:

http://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/1145137...can-liberalism

Read this in April and read it again and it's more true now than it was when published. The bottom line is that liberals need to understand that elections are about getting people to vote for you, not about making yourself superior to everyone.

Sam Bee, Daily Show, Current Year, Bill Maher, Slate, Gawker, all that stuff... it just bit them in the ass this year.

[Satsuki]

I am utterly convinced now that that was the case - the clinton campaign ignoring WI was a huge blow. The liberals, proud of their minority status, forgot that a minority (in the minority/majority sense - not poc) cannot win an election. They must at least convert some of the majority.