We Have Now Entered The Darkest Timeline

spadesart 2016-11-09 13:53:43 UTC #7

we also now have a vice president that sent a woman to prison for 30 years because she had a miscarriage, who vehemently supports conversion therapy to the point of trying to put all the money that goes to funding aids research into that instead, and is trying to make it so that lgbt couples trying for a marriage get sent to prison. god im so scared.

Herofeeder 2016-11-09 14:03:00 UTC #8

cheers .but trump talks a lot of smack hillary wanted to actually go to war with russia .as someone from europe im actually gratefull to america that they voted for trump.
1 reason only..Putin likes Trump so ww3 is not going to happen in the next 4 years WHOHOO xd

Silerna 2016-11-09 14:14:33 UTC #9

I guess nobody knows what will happen in the next 4 years. I'm not fond of Trump but wasn't fan of Clinton either, but if I had to choose I wouldn't want a racist woman hater ruling my country. I'm glad I don't live there now.

NickRowler 2016-11-09 14:39:52 UTC #10

I worried about myself, my family, and the people who live in my area. My area voted Democrat, it is very diverse and has a large Muslim population.

I had many problems with Clinton however I preferred her over Trump.

My prediction for the Trump campaign. A second Korean War and Trump dollars.

respheal 2016-11-09 14:47:22 UTC #11

Four years, people. Four years.

Technically only two. The entire House of Representatives and most of the Senate is up for election in 2018.

tayo_rafferty 2016-11-09 14:51:16 UTC #12

But Trump will remain president throughout.

PotooGryphon 2016-11-09 15:15:46 UTC #13

Ya know, we could live in fear... OR as a nation, US citizens can come together, (as a planet really) stop blaming each other, and protest and hold people accountable. Whenever the establishment steps out of line, we gotta push them back. Otherwise, election after election it's going to keep repeating itself and get worse each time.

This year will no undoubtedly go down as a terrible year in world history. However, here are things that happened IN AMERICA without a Trump Presidency (No Trump required):

-Media blackout/arresting media for covering the news

-Whistle blowers punished for bringing to light corporate/government corruption

-Women getting denied lifesaving medical attention because most of the hospitals are run by Catholics interests and the treatment goes against their beliefs

-US bombing schools and hospitals in other countries and going to war over false pretenses, so MANY war crimes committed

-Police brutality of cops killing unarmed citizens and good cops getting punished for not shooting first

-Cops protecting corporate interests over citizens

-Protestors/Protectors arrested for praying, charged with felonies, kept in dog kennels without clothes, food, and medical needs, with numbers written on their arms.

-US government ignoring treaty land rights and again oppressing Native Americans

-Citizens have to filter the water in their homes because it's so contaminated

-Michigan is still without clean water with no one answering for contaminating their water

-Low income housing built over a Lead Smelting plant causing many health problems

Is this really America?

There's been a scary spiral for a while now and it time for people around the world to take a page from Standing Rock and come together for important change.

The establishment, no matter which side, Republican/Democratic, doesn't matter, won't fight for the peoples' interests. People will have to fight for their own self interests and not fall back asleep.

Aspie_Gamer 2016-11-09 15:43:35 UTC #14

Third party voter here. To my non-surprise, We are already being shat on for supposedly "helping Trump win".

Yeah...NO.

You know who helped that clown win? The Republican party for not doing a better job of keeping Trump from playing in the metaphorical baseball game for their team as well as the Democratic party for choosing the worst , bar none, player from their team to go up and bat for them when they already had a home runner with Bernie Sanders, but nooooooo "muh feminism" this and "she's better qualified despite having an alarming amount of skeletons in her closet!" that.

But whatever. American political logic dictates that you must blame others for your problems, not yourself. All I'm saying is that Trump winning is not on us, the ones who voted for the greater good, not the self defeating "lesser of two evils" bullshit that got us into this mess and will continue to until the Green Party or whomever rises up offering a viable alternative to the redundant two party system that plagues America. Hopefully we got the minimum percentage needed to receive proper funding for the next election 4 years from now.

With that said, at least I can personally take comfort in the fact that Trump won't be able to enact even a quarter of his planned itinerary as President because of how our government actually works, not how he thinks it works. Furthermore, should he so much as try to undo gay marriage in America, I suspect the same people complaining about him winning today will rise up and burn both Trump Tower and that cringey hairdo he sports.

sarrowsmith10 2016-11-09 15:56:47 UTC #15

Presidents have zero power to undo supreme court justice rulings. They never have and never will.

This is a good summary:

NickRowler 2016-11-09 16:00:58 UTC #16

Um, you do know Bernie is a feminist. He stated so several times and is probebly more feminist than Clinton.

I think the reason he didn't get chosen was he came off as a little extreme to some people.

Aspie_Gamer 2016-11-09 16:11:23 UTC #17

No. The real reason had nothing to do with that and everything to do with the DNC rigging the primaries so that their queen could win despite being incredibly unqualified for the job.

As for the feminism remark, I think its safe to say most people particularly women only voted for Clinton because she's a woman the same way lots of people including black people only voted for Obama back in 2008 because of his ethnicity. I know my own mother has made it clear she only likes Hillary because she hates the old white "privileged men" on the Republican side that much more. (Not that white supremacy is a good thing mind you. Look at Hitler)

NickRowler 2016-11-09 16:25:35 UTC #18

I'm pretty sure most people voted for Clinton because they hated Trump. While there are people who picked her because she is female, I think the majority of people picked her because she had experience in politics. She represented the "typical politician" which was something that was also used against, hence the whole "part of the establishment".

I know you may hate me, but I thought Obama was a good president, that is why I voted for him for his second term.

As for the "rigging", I know there is some bias in the DNC however I won't be surprise the the internet hypes these types of issue. There were plenty of people who simply said that Bernie could not win, especially with "socialist" used as an attack word by the right against liberal policies.

Aspie_Gamer 2016-11-09 16:29:44 UTC #19

Rest assured Nick. I still like you as a person. I'm just stating my own political beliefs now that the moment is opportune in wake of what happened last night. One thing we can both agree on however is this. Obama never shot his mouth off everyday, then "apologize" the next day only to say something even dumber/worse the following week in a weird illogical inverse of the "boy who cried wolf" story.

Alamino 2016-11-09 16:52:46 UTC #20

This! This! ^ Seriously no one talks about this... I am feeling the same way.

Plus, he isn't as bad as people say, the media did skew a lot of what he said. I'm not saying he is a saint or even a good man... But in all honesty if Hillary won it'd show the corruptness of the whole system... I mean, she was a liar, she didn't do much when she was in office. She took credit for bills she had nothing to do with. She was using illegal money, from donors who had special interests. Plus the whole Putin thing... Over all, it will just be interesting. But it's only 4 years.

briadawson2014 2016-11-09 16:54:05 UTC #21

I was up all night with friends talking as America voted this man in...it was sad.
America really showed it's colors and old ways.

indagold 2016-11-09 16:57:38 UTC #22

I only have this:

heterodont 2016-11-09 17:48:41 UTC #23

I think besides trump being unlikeable as a person, people in general are more preoccupied with worry about what his supporters will do. He built parts of his platform on racism and crap like that by playing towards xenophobic worries, so a majority of his supporters are people who think illegal immigrants are the cause of all of america's problems (''taking all our jobs'', etc.), so it seems like these people will find justification in their hatred towards minority groups because trump got elected. I acknowledge the way THAT'S worded seems like one hell of a reach, but that's how I've been interpreting peoples worry over his presidency.

NickRowler 2016-11-09 18:05:31 UTC #24

^THIS

I am very worried about my family members who are black and latino.

There are some Trump supporters who voted for him because they are fed up with the system and they want justice. They don't just want an outsider, they also want everyone who "did them wrong" to be punished and rot in jail. But the thing is, I doubt Trump is actually going to go out of his way to actually get "justice" or help the middle class Americans who support him. So what is going to happen when these people with built up anger for the system don't get what they want?

tayo_rafferty 2016-11-09 19:39:18 UTC #25

Just gonna' leave this here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVD7yWe-LrE-

VermillionWorks 2016-11-09 20:07:52 UTC #26

Ahh, there's two topics now. I'll just...quote what I already said elsewhere. XD

VermillionWorks:

I'm both shocked and not shocked this happened. Not enough people liked Hillary because of the email scandal and DNC stuff, so there was a lot more third party votes and people not voting. Even I didn't really like her all that much, but I voted for her anyway because I think Trump is far worse and liked the idea of Bernie Sanders being budget chairman. Nonetheless, those lost votes were important, as the results prove.
(By the way, I'm not pushing blame on anyone here, if anything, I think they should've picked Bernie Sanders as the democratic candidate with his more progressive ideas and cleaner record. XP They kind of shot themselves in the foot by sticking with Hillary.)
I don't know what this is going to bring, but I don't think it'll be as easy for Trump to be an outright dictator as many people seem to think. Half of the country is highly aware how wrong this is and can stand up and make things difficult for him, when necessary. However, I understand why people are scared, too, considering some of his ideas and fear of them going through, and how a chunk of his supporters are, but we have to just move on now. Prepare for the worst but hope for the best.