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How can I annoy Thanas and reflect this day?
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This will not be over in the morning. The returns I'm looking at show Trump ahead in PA by ~2k votes with 96% returning, and that's not the only razor thin race.

edit: or not. Apparently it hadn't updated.
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Note: this isn't any site officially calling it just me predicting it....but I'm willing to bet that PA might flip this year.
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Patroklos wrote:I am looking forward Monday morning quarterbacking the stats. Even if Hillary inches out a win in the end the polls were obviously horribly wrong. Between this and Brexit there is something very wrong with the methodology being used.
That's why I've always been of the opinion that the only poll that actually matters is the one taken on election day
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What would it take to repeal the "state of emergency" that so greatly expanded the powers of the executive branch? Can it be done before Jan 20?
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Word on CNN is that Clinton has called Trump to concede. :(
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She did, Trump is speaking now.
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Not going to watch the Orange Shit's speech. If I wanted bullshit, I'd visit a farm.
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Trump, and a Republican Senate and House...

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Highlord Laan wrote:Election 2016: Angry Old White Dudes, Electric Boogaloo

Jesus fucking christ. I'd better go get some materials to learn Russian and Chinese. Before said materials are banned.
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Disgusted. Embarassed. Shame.

This feels like the Twilight Zone. However, I agree with Dominus. People over estimated Hillary, me included. I also can't help but feel that when it was exposed that the members of the DNC were sabotaging Bernie they showed that they are corrupt and those that turned out to vote Obama into office twice were MIA or simply just voted independent because they don't want to back a corrupted system where their votes don't matter.
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I wonder how people will feel about Obama's increases in executive power now somebody else is in the big chair and gets access to the big shiny buttons?
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Gandalf wrote:I wonder how people will feel about Obama's increases in executive power now somebody else is in the big chair and gets access to the big shiny buttons?
I figure his first double-tap drone strike will be on the Central Park Five.
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Highlord Laan wrote:Election 2016: Angry Old White Dudes, Electric Boogaloo

Jesus fucking christ. I'd better go get some materials to learn Russian and Chinese. Before said materials are banned.
You think Trump is going to ban you learning the language of his Russian overlords?
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Yeah, we basically outsourced our foreign policy to Lord Vladimort tonight.
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The Romulan Republic wrote:Yeah, we basically outsourced our foreign policy to Lord Vladimort tonight.
I think it is stupid to think of Trump as a puppet.

He is more of a true soulmate to Vladimir.
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Democracy is truly a wonderful thing, isn't it?

Looking at the bright side, this might force a few people elsewhere to actually change a few things.
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FTeik wrote:Democracy is truly a wonderful thing, isn't it?
Actually yes.
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K. A. Pital wrote:
The Romulan Republic wrote:Yeah, we basically outsourced our foreign policy to Lord Vladimort tonight.
I think it is stupid to think of Trump as a puppet.

He is more of a true soulmate to Vladimir.
Yeah I wonder if wine bottle are being opened up at the Kremlin right now.

On another note, the other great power China (or least the local people) seem to think Trump is better for them than Hillary. Its due to a) Trump is a businessman, we can do a deal with him and b) he is "transparent", so we can see through him in dealings unlike Clinton. I wonder what the Chinese government would think, although they are most probably too reserved to say what they really think publicly.
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mr friendly guy wrote: I wonder what the Chinese government would think, although they are most probably too reserved to say what they really think publicly.
I can answer that because the state run Xinhua News Agency was kind enough to tell us that Trump is what happens when you let the common people vote. As opposed to the party's benevolent authoritarian leadership of course.

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I'm starting to think the Chinese have a point.
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It would have been ironic if Clinton refused to accept the election results because "it's all rigged anyway".

On the bright side, as president Trump will finally pay his taxes?
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Mr Bean wrote:
mr friendly guy wrote: I wonder what the Chinese government would think, although they are most probably too reserved to say what they really think publicly.
I can answer that because the state run Xinhua News Agency was kind enough to tell us that Trump is what happens when you let the common people vote. As opposed to the party's benevolent authoritarian leadership of course.
I was thinking more in terms of whether they perceive Trump would be better for China compared to Clinton.
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The Democrats have pretty much ruined everything for themselves by being so pompous and sure of themselves.

Due to their inaction arrogance, we now have trump president, and have ensured a conservative supreme court.

I've long stopped caring for politics a while ago because of the constant hypocrisy involved on each sides.
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