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"This isn't what was supposed to happen"

Heh, yep. I keep wondering how accurate South Park has been about all this.

Hey Catt the preacher's wife with whom we are social wrote this on facebook, maybe share it.

Regardless of who you voted for yesterday, it is not difficult to recognize that there are a lot of people in our country who are hurting today. They are not hurting because of things that Donald said or Hillary said, they are hurting because of things that their family & friends said about them or their beliefs on Facebook. Using words like “libtard” or “f**ktard” or any use of that terminology and the like not only shuts down the possibility of what could be an intelligent conversation, but it is hurtful and hate-filled. The only way our country can heal and move forward is if we all start genuinely listening to one another with an open mind, stop dismissing opposing views with unfriendly language and discontinue the use of polarizing memes that oversimplify complex problems.

Troy wrote:It's def. going to be someone you DO NOT want to see naked hoola hooping.

NDelRey

The only way our country can heal and move forward is if we all start genuinely listening to one another with an open mind, stop dismissing opposing views with unfriendly language and discontinue the use of polarizing memes that oversimplify complex problems.

Our fucktarded political system encourages precisely those things: polarization and oversimplification. Participating in it seems like a worse idea than holding a jacuzzi party in a Chernobyl coolant pool.

I posted a few week ago "seek first to understand" to some lib friends bashing Trump supporters... thats as far as I'm going,

TPRJones wrote:

Troy wrote:It's def. going to be someone you DO NOT want to see naked hoola hooping.

NDelRey

Ok - I'll eat this one, happy to be wrong and will tune in

GORDON wrote:Hey Catt the preacher's wife with whom we are social wrote this on facebook, maybe share it.

Regardless of who you voted for yesterday, it is not difficult to recognize that there are a lot of people in our country who are hurting today. They are not hurting because of things that Donald said or Hillary said, they are hurting because of things that their family & friends said about them or their beliefs on Facebook. Using words like “libtard” or “f**ktard” or any use of that terminology and the like not only shuts down the possibility of what could be an intelligent conversation, but it is hurtful and hate-filled. The only way our country can heal and move forward is if we all start genuinely listening to one another with an open mind, stop dismissing opposing views with unfriendly language and discontinue the use of polarizing memes that oversimplify complex problems.

Wouldn't say she's wrong, but completely blind to Democrats and the left doing as bad on that side.

Also, the lack of understanding of the electoral college after going through this less than 20 years ago is mind blowing. This is how Democrats keep folks on the plantation. They control education and make people ignorant by dumbing down the civics classes to the point of being useless. Let's keep teaching about the white man and slavery (forget the hundred and forty thousand Union men that died to end it) and the white man stealing Indian land and forget about explaining why they came up with the electoral college.

Yes, it is rather.... bemusing to see the same articles all over again.

Some articles I've seen regarding Trump's win, and could be ammo for those that need it.

Good article by a progressive Libertarian.

An Arab whose happy, but because he thinks we need this...

Another writer scolds the MSM.

This was anti-political correctness.

Calling the protesters out for their reasoning.

Colleges cancelled classes due students are so traumatized.

Why Dems are now ruing Obama's use of executive powers.

A liberal blames liberals.

This might have replaced the "Hold my beer" meme as my favorite meme right now:

Colleges cancelled classes due students are so traumatized.

If colleges were useful in these times, that'd be a damn shame.

Entertainment Tonight does a piece on Colbert's Election Night Special on Showtime.

"Both sides are terrified of the other side," the 52-year-old late-night host said. "How did our politics get so poisonous?"

If he were honest with himself, he'd realize he has some of that blood on his hands. His whole character is a mockery of the political right. And you could argue it was equally mocking the stupid generalizations by the left, but there was no similar character on any of his shows that represented the other side. Plus, he was on shows that tended to lean heavily left.

And to make his question there even funnier the linked article ends with paragraphs about Clinton's concession speech and praise for it, but they never talk about Trump's acceptance speech.

Gee, I wonder why we're so politically divided?

I always wondered what The Manchurian Candidate would be like if the other side won.

Malcolm wrote:I always wondered what The Manchurian Candidate would be like if the other side won.

Trump straight up said he and Putin were buddies.

Leisher wrote:Huffington Post thinks the sky is falling.

Idiots.

After yesterday's Facebook family.blowup, one of the women invited the other women to a private group so they could talk about their fears without anyone getting mad when they said "bigots and racists."

I am disgusted.

I've been pretty disgusted myself with the reaction from a lot of the people on my FB feed. The right wing nut jobs have been SHOCKINGLY polite in this victory, while the left wing folks are commenting non-stop about all the bigots, racists, sexist, etc. who voted for Trump or simply not for Hillary. I've seen people saying they're scared of nuclear war, and being consoled by their left wing friends. I've seen people screaming at others for commenting negatively on people reacting negatively to the election, but won't offer a word of criticism for the bigotry on display from the left. The country is certainly divided, and ignorance has a lot to do with it.

Watching what people on the left believe to be true about people on the right is mind boggling. They really believe all the bullshit they get sold by the MSM. It's frightening.

One of my favorite themes from left wingers I see repeated over and over is Obama served with dignity, class, and had zero scandals.

Really? Did you vote for him then turn off your TV, radio, internet, and cancel the newspaper?

Bud is now legal in Maine. Also Cali, Massachusetts, and Nevada. Medical weed now available in Arkansas, North Dakota, and Florida. Fucking seriously. Arkansas and North Dakota are more scientifically up to date on this shit than the feds. Arkansas.

That's 9 states which have completely legalized it. There are amazingly still 5 fucking states which rate possession and usage as criminal behaviour and refuse to check into its potential as medicine. Fuck you, West Virginia. Fuck you, Indiana. Fuck you, Kansas. Fuck you, South Dakota. Fuck you, Idaho.