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IamFortunesFool

(348 posts)
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 12:49 AM Nov 2018

I'm bummed, I'll admit it. I've waited for two years for tonight.

I'm so disappointed in people. At least we will eventually go extinct or evolve out of this state.

I just can't believe how many of our neighbors support what the GOP has become. We are absolutely in a living distopia. I will make peace and move on by morning, but for tonight I dutifully embrace this moment and dine on my bitter disappointment and drink in the dissolution.

Cheers!

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IamFortunesFool

(348 posts)
12. I understand
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 12:59 AM
Nov 2018

Yes, that will be my solace in the morming. My disappointment is both more macroscopic, and microscopic... I'm both shamed at our country for getting to this point and further inscensed that we didn't resoundingly reject all that is the tonight. Beto and Gillum losing to their respective opponents is absolutely inexcusable in the current state of our union. We are a deeply tribal and near hopelessly uneducated populace. On the local scale, I am literally disappointed in my neighbors. The people I work with. The owners of the businesses I patronize. I live and work in both Tennesse and Florida. The breakdown of the numbers for Hamilton County, Tennessee and Lee County, Florida make me disgusted.

PubliusEnigma

(1,583 posts)
5. You can stuff your sorrys in a sack, Mister!
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 12:53 AM
Nov 2018

We have taken back a branch of our government. It is only the beginning.

johnnyrocket

(1,773 posts)
6. We won the HEAVILY gerrymandered house, and overcame voter suppression...
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 12:55 AM
Nov 2018

...it's a good start, and a herculean task.

I thought we'd never see it.

Squinch

(50,774 posts)
7. We saved the world tonight. Quit yer complainin'.
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 12:55 AM
Nov 2018

We have the House. That means Mueller's investigation is protected, so are Social Security, Medicare and ACA, we can subpoena the tax returns, which will bring trump's downfall, we won a lot of state races so we can stop the damn gerrymandering, got rid of the first wave of the fascists, we now have some oversight.

I don't know what you were expecting, but I am pretty damn psyched.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
8. Positive -- We got what polls predicted. Negative -- We didn't kick trump and his Deplorables
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 12:55 AM
Nov 2018

to the curb.

We did OK tonight, but it’s going to be a slog the next few elections. We can win if we don’t give up.

sinkingfeeling

(51,279 posts)
9. I'm with you. A look at the map shows how far the red has
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 12:57 AM
Nov 2018

spread into areas that once were true blue. If we had won a couple of Senate seats like Texas and kept ND, MO, IN, I'd have seen us on the way back to sanity. I cannot believe the yearning for fascism that has taken over white males and evangelicals.

I don't recognize the country of my birth and am no longer comfortable living here. I thought a great majority would rise up.

misanthrope

(7,405 posts)
10. If it's any consolation, there isn't likely to be a GOP or Democratic Party in 100 years
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 12:58 AM
Nov 2018

Extreme stresses from climate change will cause such global instability before then, there's a good chance western civilization will collapse into authoritarianism, then feudalism and worse.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
14. You'll feel much better tomorrow
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 01:06 AM
Nov 2018

We all still need to keep up the fight to win this war. Tonight we won one battle. But it means our country is no longer racing into A Trump Dictatorship. So we stopped his headlong plunge into an American dystopia. That’s no small feat!

Tomorrow you’ll feel this.

renate

(13,776 posts)
15. Now that we have the House, prepare to see investigations of things previously ignored
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 01:09 AM
Nov 2018

This was the necessary first step towards a reset of the country.

Calista241

(5,584 posts)
16. I kind of agree with you. From my point of view, the only thing that matters
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 01:14 AM
Nov 2018

is the Senate and judicial appointments. He could appoint another 2 SC Justices in the next 2 years.

Even below the Supreme Court, all the appeals and district courts are going to be packed with Trump judges for the next 30 years.

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