The Winner of Our Discontent — 2016 U.S. Election Results Discussion

[jazzflower92]

Welp guess I pegged this one wrong. Looks like Trump is going to win...


One good thing about Trump winning, at least Hillary didn't

I think one thing to put Trump is his place is to still bring up his sexual assault cases, and make him pay for them. He might be president, but he's not above the law. And also make him the butt of jokes. That's one thing about the presidency is the fact that your power is restricted by the constitution and you have to answer to someone.

 

[Octo]

A victory for fucking awfulness, stupidity, ignorance, intolerance and hatred. Well fucking done. I genuinely feel physically sick.

Biff fucking Tannen.

 

[Flintlock]

It's not over yet. It could still be a tie. Not even in the way I suggested in my first post in this thread, amazingly. But Clinton HAS to win Michigan and Pennsylvania to even stand a chance.

 

[Carlie]

If only the Democrats had a candidate that was more popular than Clinton and projected to do better than her against Trump in the general elections, oh wait.

 

[JechtShotMK9]

If only the Democrats had a candidate that was more popular than Clinton and projected to do better than her against Trump in the general elections, oh wait.

The Democratic National Convention pushed the absolute least popular politician in the country, rigged their primary so that she wouldn't have any competition from the other Democrats, and don't seem to fucking realize that the Republicans have spent the last 20 years MAKING SURE that Hillary Clinton is the most hated politician in the country. Like, I could blame the stupid voters who are putting Trump in power, but that's like getting mad at chimps for throwing shit, there's no point. This is the Democratic party's fault; they are hanging themselves, and flailing around knocking kerosene all over the rest of the country.

 

[Ghost X]

If anything happens to Trump, you still have Mike Pence, establishment far-right Republican with control of both house and senate. I'm always one to say "Don't worry about things until they happen", but going on what has been said about policies, with little-to-no foreseen obstruction to stop it... yeah.

 

[Dashell]

We are witnessing history tonight folks. I'm stunned right now

 

[Ghost X]

I'm literally fighting waves of nausea.

 

[JechtShotMK9]

I'm literally fighting waves of nausea.

Waaaay past that. I'll toss you one of my buckets.

 

[Carlie]

Some really fucking horrible history. My island is already fucked and now you're telling us that in your presidential election that we're not even allowed to vote in for completely racist reasons, it's more than likely going to be won by the guy who's racist and discriminatory against us. Well thanks a bunch America, apparently ignoring us for over a hundred years wasn't enough, you had to take a huge dump on us too.

 

[Dashell]

wait who's not allowed to vote?

 

[Carlie]

No one in the US territories are allowed to vote even though you know we're US citizens.

 

[null]

It's not over yet. It could still be a tie. Not even in the way I suggested in my first post in this thread, amazingly. But Clinton HAS to win Michigan and Pennsylvania to even stand a chance.

Tie == Trump win. House of Representatives would vote by state, each state gets one vote, 26+ votes wins. Senate picks the VP.

 

[Octo]

I think it was Mog who said the UK punched itself in the dick over brexit. Well now the US has gone one better and jammed a stick of dynamite down it's pisshole.

I'm trying to think of worse outcomes but all I can come up with was 'what if Negan from Walking Dead was president?'

 

[Flintlock]

null: Yeah, in theory. Who knows what would actually happen. There's already a Washington elector saying he won't vote for Clinton (not that it's likely to matter at this stage). Have I mentioned that the electoral college is fucking stupid?

(Yes, repeatedly, but now's not really the time for Democrats to do it en masse. It's not right to only complain about something when it works against you.)

 

[JechtShotMK9]

I think it was Mog who said the UK punched itself in the dick over brexit. Well now the US has gone one better and jammed a stick of dynamite down it's possible.

I'm trying to think of worse outcomes but all I can come up with was 'what if Negan from Walking Dead was president?'

There isn't anything worse. This is the nightmare scenario. Total Republican control of the government. We're looking at the worst days of the Bush Administration, at best.

 

[Dashell]

Alright listen everyone....

Regardless of who wins tonight... tomorrow you'll wake up, eat breakfast if you chose to, shower if you chose to and go to work/school and come home and do the same things you do everyday.

It won't change

The president doesn't have that much power anyway. I know a lot of you are worried, but I assure you, it will be okay. I went through this when Bush won in 04 and it sucked, but it came out okay.


So just try to remember that. I know that probably doesn't mean much, but I have a feeling things will be alright

 

[Flintlock]

It will be anything but okay for a lot of people. If Congressional Republicans fall in line behind Trump, they'll be able to do so much damage over the next two to four years. I'd like to say that you're right about tomorrow not really being very different, but the day after Brexit already saw a spike in xenophobic abuse, so I don't know how true that is either.

 

[Kionae]

The president doesn't have that much power anyway. I know a lot of you are worried, but I assure you, it will be okay. I went through this when Bush won in 04 and it sucked, but it came out okay.

We're still recovering from the mess Bush made of things.

 

[JechtShotMK9]

Look at the stock market. Like, right now.

 

[Kionae]

Yeah.... World markets are freaking right the hell out right now. The dollar is tanking and so is the peso.

 

[Flintlock]

Hey, this could be a good thing for British people! All the price hikes they got because of pound's decline against the dollar might now be reversed because the dollar is going to decline against everything as well.

 

[Channy]

...plus side, my Vegas wedding is going to be super cheap next year.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

There is nothing good about any of this. It's not even about the leaders or their policies, it's about the people who voted for them. So many people are so angry and looking for someone to blame and hurt, and that will only get worse as the shock waves of Brexit and the Republican's awful policies spread round the world. And you know how that always ends. We haven't had a massive war in a long time, but there's a hell of a lot of people who would welcome one.

 

[Channy]

What's ironic about the cnn livestream I'm watching, is they've been gloating and gloating about Trump's streak so far, and then did like a little commercial/interlude (as per normal every 15 mins) but this one was packed of all the bad press things Trump had said.

It was strange, like sending some sort of message that "Just in case you forgot who you're voting in, here's a gentle reminder" and then laughed in their faces.