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Jesus. The margin. This is crushing.

 

more music

 

That's coming from white people that have never witnessed actual racism in a personal manner.

 

Hate to write these words: Michael Moore was right.

5 Reasons Why Trump Will Win

Midwest Math, or Welcome to Our Rust Belt Brexit. I believe Trump is going to focus much of his attention on the four blue states in the rustbelt of the upper Great Lakes – Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Four traditionally Democratic states – but each of them have elected a Republican governor since 2010 (only Pennsylvania has now finally elected a Democrat). In the Michigan primary in March, more Michiganders came out to vote for the Republicans (1.32 million) that the Democrats (1.19 million). Trump is ahead of Hillary in the latest polls in Pennsylvania and tied with her in Ohio. Tied? How can the race be this close after everything Trump has said and done? Well maybe it’s because he’s said (correctly) that the Clintons’ support of NAFTA helped to destroy the industrial states of the Upper Midwest. Trump is going to hammer Clinton on this and her support of TPP and other trade policies that have royally screwed the people of these four states. When Trump stood in the shadow of a Ford Motor factory during the Michigan primary, he threatened the corporation that if they did indeed go ahead with their planned closure of that factory and move it to Mexico, he would slap a 35% tariff on any Mexican-built cars shipped back to the United States. It was sweet, sweet music to the ears of the working class of Michigan, and when he tossed in his threat to Apple that he would force them to stop making their iPhones in China and build them here in America, well, hearts swooned and Trump walked away with a big victory that should have gone to the governor next-door, John Kasich.

From Green Bay to Pittsburgh, this, my friends, is the middle of England – broken, depressed, struggling, the smokestacks strewn across the countryside with the carcass of what we use to call the Middle Class. Angry, embittered working (and nonworking) people who were lied to by the trickle-down of Reagan and abandoned by Democrats who still try to talk a good line but are really just looking forward to rub one out with a lobbyist from Goldman Sachs who’ll write them nice big check before leaving the room. What happened in the UK with Brexit is going to happen here. Elmer Gantry shows up looking like Boris Johnson and just says whatever shit he can make up to convince the masses that this is their chance! To stick to ALL of them, all who wrecked their American Dream! And now The Outsider, Donald Trump, has arrived to clean house! You don’t have to agree with him! You don’t even have to like him! He is your personal Molotov cocktail to throw right into the center of the bastards who did this to you! SEND A MESSAGE! TRUMP IS YOUR MESSENGER!

 

My girlfriend was not, or at least was unaware because nobody informed her. The only reason she's fine now is because she was unemployed for a couple months and needed to apply for Medicaid- from there we learned that she still qualifies at her new job due to her low income, but had she not been unemployed first, we never would have known, and she would still be getting penalized during tax season. I had to loan her money to make up for the penalty last tax season before the unemployment :/.

 

When does that disease outbreak that will only kill white people come, again?

 

glad i registered for our voting rights seminar next semester

 

Clearing out the read later queue that I'll just never even get to from this election.

 

I dunno, but Ron Howard is directing it.

 

There are no moderates. The center has collapsed. This election is demonstrative of that. The people who might be considered moderate, given the outcome, voted for the fascist.

 

Mortifying

We're done. Irreparable damage has been done. Well have climate change deniers in office and majority for the next 4 years. The world can't take those 4 years. Things are fucking critical right now

 

How is everybody coping? I still have no idea what the fuck to do.

 

I'd actually argue more of them voted for Clinton. Not only will she win the popular vote, but look at the coasts. A lot of those are center voters in all demos now.

 

Great read! Don't Panic!

 

Staring at the fridge and debating a beer. Sad. Moments of pure panic wrapped in crippling depression. Anger. Fear.

So, not super good.

 

I'm working on it!

 

second by second, minute by minute hour by hour

It's all we can do

 

To be fair, he had 9/11 and the War of Terror to boost himself up.

 

Still in denial haha

 

Stan Van Gundy, a NBA basketball coach, spoke more candidly and truthfully than any of the democratic elite

Detroit Pistons' Stan Van Gundy goes off on Trump: 'Brazenly racist'

 

Holy shit, I cannot comprehend this right now. I don't know how anyone can feel a sliver of hope right now.