Maybe we should just elect Trump president

challenged wrote:
still, pretty excited about that japandroids, craig finn show in february though

How is Cher going to play her National Harbor shows if she's living on Jupiter?

Fuck we just elected Mussolini. We are a white nationalist country. This is Americas darkest timeline.

I win?

Donald wrote:
I win?

shit is the AP calling this ….

and on November 8th the American people replied: why yes, maybe we should just elect Trump president….

Does what it says on the tin.

I don't know..its a little underwhelming.. after 150 pages Relaxer's suggestion came true…

it was all a joke and wasn't supposed to actually happen
I am seriously shocked and in disbelief  (and not getting any sleep hasn't help my disorientation)

^Exhibit A: the problem.

A couple of weeks ago, my boss of nearly 15 years surprisingly announced he has leaving to take another position elsewhere. Not only was he the best boss that I could possibly dream of in my lifetime, he was also an outstanding mentor and even a friend. For the last two weeks I've been in a state of sadness and general malaise.

And now this.

It's like one of the  people in the world that I look up to the most has been indirectly replaced by this asshole.

We'll get through this, America, we have to.

Any thoughts on 2020? I want to say we non-Republicans need to nominate another charismatic black guy due to sheer numbers and recent history. But in reality we may need someone who speaks compassionately for and to the white working class (who could be a charismatic black guy, it's not mutually exclusive), rather than dismissing them as "deplorables".

Donald wrote:
I don't know..its a little underwhelming.. after 150 pages Relaxer's suggestion came true…

I'm trying to imagine someone telling me back then what happened last night and I just can't comprehend it. Truth, justice, civility and equality have just been shit upon. This is truly the Idiocracy.

Well at least weed won.

Weed, like gravity, always wins.

Chad wrote:
Well at least weed won.

weed f'n crushed it

Maine Legalizes Recreational Marijuana
Voters Approve Montana Medical Marijuana Initiative
Nevada Legalizes Recreational Marijuana
Arkansas Voters Legalize Medical Marijuana
Massachusetts Voters Approve The Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana Act
California Legalizes Recreational Marijuana
North Dakota Voters Legalize Medical Marijuana
Florida Voters Approve Expansive Medical Marijuana Law

so does that mean all the voters were high and that's why the election when the way it did

I've never been so sad, embarrassed, and disgusted to be an American.

Relaxer, you seem to be the guy with the heavy drugs. Got any?

On and on and on the press went about how the Republican Party was nearing its death. How fucking delusional was that?

Space wrote:
On and on and on the press went about how the Republican Party was nearing its death. How fucking delusional was that?

Me too, I was soo excited that the prospect of Trump destroying the Republican brand as we know it

it is weird how many were against him and how that will play out
He may end up picking 2-3 Justices too


Andrew Sullivan says it well
This is now Trump?s America. He controls everything from here on forward. He has won this campaign in such a decisive fashion that he owes no one anything. He has destroyed the GOP and remade it in his image. He has humiliated the elites and the elite media. He has embarrassed every pollster and naysayer. He has avenged Obama. And in the coming weeks, Trump will not likely be content to bask in vindication. He will seek unforgiving revenge on those who dared to oppose him. The party apparatus will be remade in his image. The House and Senate will fail to resist anything he proposes ? and those who speak up will be primaried into oblivion. The Supreme Court may well be shifted to the far right for more than a generation to come ? with this massive victory, he can pick a new Supreme Court justice who will make Antonin Scalia seem like a milquetoast. He will have a docile, fawning Congress for at least four years. We will not have an administration so much as a court.


wait…is he comparing Scalia to Frank Turner?!

Space wrote:
On and on and on the press went about how the Republican Party was nearing its death. How fucking delusional was that?

This wasn't about the Republican party.  Note that they lost seats in both the House and the Senate.  Note that the Republican party hated Trump.  There was a "Never Trump" platform in the Republican party.  The last two Republican presidential candidates refused to endorse him.  Note that more liberal causes like pot won big, gun control won, and higher minimum wages won.  This election was a referendum on the status quo - a status quo represented by the most well-connected, well-funded candidate in history.  It was a vote against special interests, big money, and cultural elitism. It was a vote against putting the interests of the party and its donors ahead of everything else.  It was a vote against proclaiming one thing but doing the opposite.  It was a big slap to the face of an overwhelmingly liberal media - an institution so blinded by narcissism that they couldn't even conceive that maybe, just maybe, not everyone thinks like them.

[Full disclosure - I didn't vote for Trump.  I think he'll be a really lousy president.  Then again, I didn't think he had even a slim chance of winning]

Save me from tomorrow
I don't want to sail with this ship of fools, no, no
Oh, save me, save me from tomorrow
I don't want to sail with this ship of fools, no, no
I want to run and hide right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2nCugGQZO0

ggw wrote:

Space wrote:
On and on and on the press went about how the Republican Party was nearing its death. How fucking delusional was that?

This wasn't about the Republican party.  Note that they lost seats in both the House and the Senate.  Note that the Republican party hated Trump.  There was a "Never Trump" platform in the Republican party.  The last two Republican presidential candidates refused to endorse him.  Note that more liberal causes like pot won big, gun control won, and higher minimum wages won.  This election was a referendum on the status quo - a status quo represented by the most well-connected, well-funded candidate in history.  It was a vote against special interests, big money, and cultural elitism. It was a vote against putting the interests of the party and its donors ahead of everything else.  It was a vote against proclaiming one thing but doing the opposite.  It was a big slap to the face of an overwhelmingly liberal media - an institution so blinded by narcissism that they couldn't even conceive that maybe, just maybe, not everyone thinks like them.

[Full disclosure - I didn't vote for Trump.  I think he'll be a really lousy president.  Then again, I didn't think he had even a slim chance of winning]

I completely get what you are saying. I even said it myself, that I was open to possibly voting for a Republican candidate like a Kasich for the first time, in part because of what you mention. Just not Trump.