Condiv posted:

i can't believe clinton lost to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPRfP_TEQ-g

too bad she bit off more than she could chew

eviltastic posted:

If I or someone in my family were a Muslim, I think today's news would be what would have clinched a decision to scramble to figure out somewhere else in the world to go, at least for a few years.

Evil Fluffy posted:

Everyone please keep arguing about voter turnout while largely ignoring that this is the first post-VRA election and there have been incredibly deliberate voter suppression across the county, especially in states like Wisconsin, Ohio, Florida, and North Carolina.


It doesn't matter how awesome you think your message is going to be in 2020 (or 2018) if millions of your voters don't show up because they literally can't overcome the hurdles the GOP throw in front of them over the next several years. Strict nationwide voter ID requirements will gently caress over millions of people, especially when combined with targeted DMV closures and other poo poo we've been seeing.

citybeatnik posted:

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

https://twitter.com/jonfranks/status/797975490526998528

Night10194 posted:

They should be PUBLICALLY apoplectic.

I mean he's a loving neo-nazi.

Prester Jane posted:

Oh you sweet summer child. Donald Trump will inevitably turn on every single minority community, the only question is when he will get around to targeting the LGBT community. Whenever world events are not playing out according to Trump's desires he will look for a group to scapegoat and will publicly lash out at them while Pence et all quietly construct legislation in the background to take advantage of the moment and push their agenda. And each time they attack a given community they will do so in a more extreme manner than the last time and they will take away more rights every time they get riled up.

Take Gay Marriage for example. They will start out by promising to protect religious liberties and free speech, and will pass odious laws that will legalize public harassment of LGBT individuals, but not outright ban gay marriage. Once they do that they will turn their attention on some other community and take some rights from them. When they next attack gay marriage it will be with a bill to return the question of gay marriage back to the states, at which point states will pass a hodge-podge of laws resulting in gay marriage being protected in some places, quietly ignored in a few, and outright illegal in quite a few.

Then the next time they will pass a federal bill banning gay marriage, and several of the worst states will up the ante by experimenting with anti-sodomy laws, which the Conservative Supreme Court and DOJ will be perfectly okay with. Then there will be discussion of federal level anti-sodomy laws, you know to protect the children from the very worst predators, not every single gay person because we all know the difference between a good njew gay person and a dangerous one.

The next time after that it will be legislation that recognizes the reality of the new research that has proven that all LGBT people are dangerous and need to be sequestered from society for the good of us all.




They will do this with every minority group and every cause (e.g. reproductive rights) whenever the opportunity presents itself. There is no logical endpoint, no built in stops where their irrationality becomes to great, no point at which either a conscience or cognitive dissonance will interrupt them. They have only one solution to every single problem, find someone and publicly hurt them. Doesn't matter whether their current target is even remotely guilty of what they are upset about or not, all they want is a target to be forced to bleed and whimper for mercy in public. This will be the entire game plan for the entire Trump/Pence presidency. Who they come after first is really a matter of pure chance, whatever minority group is being talked about on Breitbart the most is probably the next to feel the ax.

Any analysis of what is coming must take into account this basic fact of the worldview that dominates the GOP now. The solution to every problem is to find a minority group and publicly hurt them, the more vicious and the higher the body count the better. Whenever reality intrudes on the fantasy bubble that the Trump administration exists in they will always always always always respond by lashing out at someone weaker than them, and there will be steady and unstoppable escalation.

zegermans posted:

This is good, the more Obama can dominate him with charisma the better his decisions might get

Glazier posted:

Depressingly I must agree, I've resigned myself to the fact that I won't survive the next four years. I just hope they make it quick so we don't suffer.


Nah, it's over for minorities in America. If I had the courage I would just kill myself now, but I'm a wuss.

Glazier posted:

Can the autists take the train chat somewhere else, some of us are trying to plan out what to do in our last few years, thanks.

Hollismason posted:

Investment in Infrastructure leads to Economic Growth.

spotlessd posted:

The forces of tolerance and freedom and acceptance delivered full-throated pronunciations of loyalty to a lying neoliberal warmonger and lorded their enlightened liberal values over every coal miner and Walmart employee in the country. I am incredibly suspicious of their ability to intervene positively in anything like a resistance or opposition movement. In fact, what I predict is one long parade of Bad Guys Who Have to Go at the level of foreign policy and enthusiastic nods from the sea of dipshits who need only hear "spotty gay rights record" before they'll climb on board with whatever vicious imperialist intervention is on the menu next year.

Lote posted:

It's gonna be Obama. Both Michelle and Barack.

HorseRenoir posted:

https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/798585141148815360

ugh

Trabisnikof posted:

Yes, if we get another once in a lifetime president and also Trump doesn't cheat, we might have a chance!

Covok posted:

6 days in and they're already turning on him. Or so I hope to keep my sanity.

If we're lucky, he'll only be in office 8 years and not indefinitely when he removes term limits and Peter Thiel jacks his mind off into the matrix and he controls us forever as God Computer Trump.

HorseRenoir posted:

The Dems are so poison that they ran one of the most unpopular candidates ever and only lost by razor thin margins in three states and won the popular vote.

Trump isn't Reagan, and it's really not that insurmountable to defeat him. Most the Dems' troubles are self inflicted and they can turn things around if they get their poo poo together.

KomradeX posted:

Are people really dumb enough that they don't realize the danger isn't a whole new constitution, but Republicans passing an amendment solidifying the shittiest of their social/ economic views for pretty much all time?

treu posted:

I went Obama-Obama-Trump, Michigan.

HorseRenoir posted:

https://twitter.com/NickTimiraos/status/798721568058839040

Luigi Thirty posted:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-muslim-registry-immigrants-policy-kris-bobach-reinstate-wall-a7420296.html

Well we're getting the Muslim Database according to Konach.

Potato Salad posted:

Registration actually is a step toward the final solution. Like, how, based on history, is registration of a religious group not a step toward the final solution?

GreyjoyBastard posted:

Specifically, a registry for immigrants from Muslim countries.

Which is still garbage. The Department of Homeland Security also rejected it once already as, more or less, redundant.

mcmagic posted:

Is there anyone on that list that isn't completely reprehensible?