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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMany of us here said it from Election Night
He stole it and committed crimes in the process
LOCK HIM UP!
CincyDem
(6,907 posts)...as you well recall, we didnt say it here on election night.
Still pissed about that little contribution to hacking history.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)Maggiemayhem
(835 posts)CincyDem
(6,907 posts)and while I have no data to support it, I'm just not a believer in coincidence. Someone thought it would be a good idea to shut down one of the most heavily travelled democratic discussion boards on the web. At the time, it may have sounded like the stuff of conspiracy theorists but, as time passes and we learn more about the scope and focus of right wing players (both foreign and domestic), it doesn't sound like as much of a leap today vs. 11/9/16.
SunSeeker
(53,456 posts)Link to tweet
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Ohiogal
(34,353 posts)How many of us could see what a hateful, dishonest, and ignorant trainwreck this dude was during the campaign? I'm amazed even five people voted for the idiot. In all seriousness ... when he first came down that escalator, I thought it was all a big joke!
malaise
(277,353 posts)But it was stolen and we knew it..
Stealing the presidency was the worst mistake of his life and there were several other serious criminal mistakes.
apkhgp
(1,068 posts)NEVER expected to have to deal with him in OUR White House.
NEVER to be dealing Kelly Conjob apologizing for him at every turm.
NEVER expected all of the other manure we have been force fed.
BUT I will tell you...We will NEVER forget the injustice that was done to us and the American people by that criminal.
samplegirl
(12,010 posts)Never thought anyone with half a brain couldnt see through the con.
Maggiemayhem
(835 posts)I switched back and forth to all the network polls and at first Clinton was winning by a landslide and suddenly Trump polls started making huge gains. Someone posted a graphic that showed the increase in traffic was coming from St Petersburg Russia. It was then I knew. I warned friends not take election for granted. Everyone was sure Hillary had won and she should have. She was robbed.
guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)And so much space at Guantanamo.
But the US has done so many terrible things in Cuba that putting Trump there would be unacceptable.
dalton99a
(83,912 posts)No tax returns, no documentation, no questions asked.
Mystery Meat with an extensive record of hatred, corruption, criminal activity, and treasonous behavior.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,775 posts)They were all in
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts).... but now we must do the hard work and rebuild our democracy, one democratic institution at a time.
Baltimike
(4,415 posts)and if I were Marco Rubio, I'd be fucking PISSED about it
Hassler
(3,597 posts)malaise
(277,353 posts)Amazing indeed
hughee99
(16,113 posts)For saying that before the election.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)maxsolomon
(34,929 posts)I point my finger at NBC for legitimizing him.
tinrobot
(11,444 posts)It was.
We knew
we knew
kydo
(2,679 posts)What made it worse was DU was hacked and we didn't get to say it together. I have never been so mad, angry, scared and depressed as I was that night.
Today however I finished putting out the rest of the holiday decorations. I haven't done that in two years. Gonna make tamales, also something I havn't done in two years.
HipChick
(25,495 posts)Election result should be voided...and all actions since..should be undone...
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Maybe there is something, maybe not. Who knows?
Yeah, right. Did you see Maxine on Chris Matthews? She's known from the beginning, too!
George II
(67,782 posts)....in a number of states that ultimately went for trump. In the course of about 30-40 minutes several states flipped dramatically. I wish there was a way to track the timeline of the votes.
I went to bed at 11 PM about as depressed as I'd ever been in my 60+ years.
llmart
(16,301 posts)There was no way in hell he won Michigan. I knew the election was stolen. I was very vocal about that.
Botany
(72,252 posts)It was a coup and we had treason.
It was a coup
calimary
(83,904 posts)Ill never forget it. None of us should.
EndGOPPropaganda
(1,117 posts)Toomey, Blunt, Johnson all won with help from Trump's cheating. Since top-of-ticket helps Senate races.
There should be 3 more Dems and 3 fewer GOP in the Senate.
Kavanaugh is illegitimate. All the Trump judges are illegitimate. They must go.
Generic Brad
(14,374 posts)Damn, she was right.
malaise
(277,353 posts)and now for the clean up.
AllyCat
(16,931 posts)Mira
(22,467 posts)Anybody who was paying attention also knew.
triron
(22,240 posts)StarryNite
(10,657 posts)People would tell me there was no way. I told my neighbor I had a feeling it would not end well. My dad kept saying the polls show he cannot win. Well he didn't actually win but there sits his big, fat, orange ass in OUR White House!
malaise
(277,353 posts)And extended family who saw it coming. She knew something was up.
StarryNite
(10,657 posts)because to think tRump would win made no logical sense.
HipChick
(25,495 posts)And I was like, No,No...would never happen in America...they all laughed at me, I was seething...
malaise
(277,353 posts)MontanaMama
(23,952 posts)I kept saying it to my husband the few weeks before and he told me I was crazy. After the Access Hollywood tape, the hubs told me that was it...that hed lost in that moment but I knew hed survive it. As election night results trickled in I can remember my kiddo quietly saying to me mama, its happening...hes winning. I was a wreck fighting tears the whole night....hubs said the one thing he shouldnt have...he said you just need to relax...how bad could it be? Oh baby, it was ON at the point. Worst fight we ever got into in 25 years. Events of the last two years have made him very contrite.
LeftInTX
(29,689 posts)It was weird. The odds were against him winning all those swing states. I figured Hillary would squeak by with a slim win.
peggysue2
(11,435 posts)the Squatter-in-Chief. I've considered him illegitimate since election night and the Republicans are equally guilty.
Never forget. Never Forgive. Because they were willing to bring down the Republic for money and power, selling us all out in the process.
Lock 'em all up!
calimary
(83,904 posts)No way it could be if you cheat to win, and adding insult to injury, cheating with help from a HOSTILE FOREIGN POWER. what else will it ever be but an illegitimate win? What else can it possibly be but an illegitimate win?
He sure as hell is Not My President. I dont happen to have one. Unless its Hillary in exile.
peggysue2
(11,435 posts)a sham and they're all a bunch of criminals. In addition to Trumpski stealing an election, consorting with an foreign adversary to win, he and his criminal family have been enriching themselves at the country's expense and putting us and the entire world in mortal danger. The Republicans and their spin machine foisted this maniac on the world and I hope they pay dearly for their criminal acts. As in time in prison, asset forfeiture and national humiliation.
Even that's too good for them.
Hillary in exile. That pretty much says it all. The whole debacle is disgusting.
Blue Owl
(54,423 posts)now he needs to pay the price...
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)of the republican crime family. They are slowly becoming like a pack of roaches running around in circles trying to avoid the light.
malaise
(277,353 posts)Yes there underbelly has been exposed big time- they are all crooks and liars. They don't believe in the rule of law; they should never use the word patriotism and the Constitution and truth be damned.
Baltimike
(4,415 posts)Neema
(1,151 posts)Hillary, by all accounts, had a 90-something percent chance of winning, so it never made sense to me that McConnell would have done everything in his power to keep it open. That is unless he KNEW that Trump was going to "win." And of course he knew. Because they're all fucking complicit.
malaise
(277,353 posts)I want the all in prison
SunSeeker
(53,456 posts)LittleGirl
(8,376 posts)He looked as shell shocked as the rest of us (after we could get on DU of course).
I knew something wasn't right.
I watched from Europe and couldn't believe my eyes.
I just stared at the tv with my jaw on the floor.
I felt it was stolen that night and I've never changed my thoughts on that. at. all. it was illegitimate and stolen and I still think it was hacked.
Why would the russians hack the emails and not the election?
What we know now so far proves that he is a russian agent. It was a coup.
I want a new election and I want him and pastor pence locked up for the rest of their lives.
And take his kids too.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Winning all of the states HRC lost where she was ahead in the polls.
malaise
(277,353 posts)That's what I want
LeftInTX
(29,689 posts)Her odds kept going down...
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)The polls in PA WI MI right? Sure, within margin of error but the odds of her losing all three together?
LeftInTX
(29,689 posts)The odds of her winning kept going down. It was this downward trend that was worrying me. People were already early voting.
He did increase the odds on Nov 8th to 71% (I don't think I checked 538 on Nov 8th) I just remember the downward trend.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/pa/pennsylvania_trump_vs_clinton_vs_johnson_vs_stein-5964.html
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/mi/michigan_trump_vs_clinton_vs_johnson_vs_stein-6008.html
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/wi/wisconsin_trump_vs_clinton_vs_johnson_vs_stein-5976.html
The polls in those three states Trump was closing in. I wasn't worried about those states myself. I was worried about FL, NV, NM and Colorado.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)The odds of losing those three (all but just those three) has got to be astronomical.
LeftInTX
(29,689 posts)The Liberal Lion
(1,414 posts)PA, WI, MI, and probably did not win NC, and FL.
He is not the president, and I could care a less what happened in the electoral college.
His occupancy in the White House is illegal, and everything enacted under his hand is void.
trump is an outlaw who sold out his country for personal gain. He do so both knowingly and maliciously.
malaise
(277,353 posts)It was stolen. History has absolved me.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)and was contrary to the data we had. And despite what KellyAnne Conway says, it was clearly not the data that the Trump campaign had, since he thought he was going to lose. So I wondered...did Russia have something to do with it? Because it made no sense. I've seen a number of presidential elections, and the results always made SOME sense, compared to the data. But not this one.
BSdetect
(9,047 posts)ananda
(30,403 posts)And that was two fucking years ago.
I know .. the wheels of justice grind exceeding slow
but they grind exceeding fine ..
but still!
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)ailsagirl
(23,695 posts)Baltimike
(4,415 posts)Grasswire2
(13,684 posts)Or was that the primary?
Can't remember.
musicblind
(4,558 posts)Baltimike
(4,415 posts)malaise
(277,353 posts)Won't ever forget that
INdemo
(7,014 posts)I say 2014 because the Repukes gained control of Senate then..I believe that even in 2014 Russians were involved and they helped McConnell win They also were involved in the Wisconsin Senate race and others in 2016
Question though....Are there those media hosts that actually believe that Trump could be re-elected? and believe that all these federal charges against Trump just don't make any differences?
do all these Fascists like Oran Hatch believe their own bullshit?
I am hoping some morning I turn on the TV and see US Marshals escorting Trump out of the White in handcuffs.
Some of us were told that we were conspiracy theorists.