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I'm a poc and I can't even talk to my family. I work from home but don't want to get out of my bed. I know other poc with family members who voted for him. apparently he had 30% non white voters compared to 15% for romney. That's what @cshadows2887 told me ABC said.


I feel sick honestly. Dunno how to recover

 

Would Booker or a VP of his caliber have made a difference? Is Booker the early favorite for 2020?

 

But.... emails.

 

Multiple aunts and uncles of mine (brown like me) voted for him. I don't even know what to say or how to respond.

 

Trump won. Now we organize to block him, every step of the way | Kate Aronoff


"Together we can propose plans for a democracy and economy that work for the vast majority of people living in them, calling out the system as rigged, showing the ways men like Trump rigged it and charting a tangible way forward. That socialist Bernie Sanders remains one of the country’s most popular politicians should inspire some hope, as should the fact that large majorities of Americans favor raising the minimum wage, reforming the criminal justice system and taking on climate change. Pointing out the gap between that fact and Trump’s rule could embattle his first term, and make a second unthinkable. (Fortunately, Trump will probably be as inept at governing as he was at running his business empire, creating both anger against him and a hunger for reasonable alternatives.)...In January, we’ll see which of Trump’s plans – to round up and deport 11 million undocumented immigrants, tear up the Paris Agreement, throw Clinton in jail – he’ll follow through on. The upshot is already clear: in short order, the United States could slide from hawkish neoliberalism into authoritarianism. Preventing this will mean mustering more unity and vision than progressives in the United States ever have."

 

Work is so uncomfortable today...I have a team member sitting next to the only break room who is an avid LGBT supporter, and has to hear others gloat about Trump's victory. I politely walked over and asked them to keep the door shut and discuss politics elsewhere but was completely ignored. The divisions that were invisible before have never been clearer now, and it will affect every personal relationship I have.

 

Very true after seeing how wrong the polls were

 

Pew post election survey will be a must-read next week.

 

I don't think I work with any trump supporters. My colleagues are very, very somber.

 

Feel very gutted seeing her for the first time now

 

If warren were to run is there a chance Bernie would be Vp or would she go more right?

 

clinton on stage

 

i hate hillary clinton but i am tearing up right now. she should not have lost. we should be celebrating our first woman president right now.

 

Watching Hilary almost in tears - I'm gonna lose it man. this is too sad

 

So people keep saying 1928 was the last time Republicans controlled everything, but didn't they in 2002 as well?

 

If she loses her emotions, I'm going to lose it

 

This shit is getting me emotional right now. FUCK

 

This is hard to watch

 

Every vote mattered.

 

"This is painful and it will be for a long time." Yep.

 

So true. I can't bear to listen to this.

 

"We owe him an open mind and chance to lead." BOOOOOOOOOO!

 

She deserves credit for being able to hold back from completely breaking down right now