i am so glad i took today and tomorrow off. i was able to eat something about an hour ago. i feel worse than i did in 2000.
For the first time in my 71-year life, I’m ashamed to be an American.
I live overseas and my friends are already asking “why” and “how”.
I too am ashamed to be an American, and especially one residing in Florida. I always knew this state had a lot of losers in it but this shines an entirely new light. It is beyond my comprehension how so many people can be so stupid. Not because they voted Republican but because they voted for *this *Republican.
The rational side of me believes nothing catastrophic is going to happen but I just have this low grade . . .uneasiness.
I’m not ashamed. Half of us still voted not to be hateful. I’m devastated at the results, and my local elections went badly, too. Corruption wins this round. I’ll be sad and upset for however long it takes, then go back to working for the issues that are important to me.
We’re all going to be gut-punched. Half of us see it coming.
Angry. Sad. Full of disbelief that there are this many stupid people who vote. Ready to sit back and watch President Dum Dum get stymied at every turn because he can’t do what he promised to do. Thanking god for checks and balances. Ready to be amused when the Trumpeters become disillusioned by Herr Cheeto. And wondering what the East Room will look like in faux leopard with a stripper pole in the middle. Maybe they can get some of Leona Helmsley’s old china for the White House.
I don’t blame the racists and sexists and xenophobes. Trump laid out a platform that appeals to them and they voted for what he stands for. They at least know what they wanted.
What angers me are the people who apparently voted for some imaginary Trump that exists is their mind. This imaginary Trump bears no resemblance to the person who Donald Trump himself says he is.
Unfortunately, I think there are plenty of answers, and other examples, around the world right now.
I’m wondering what cause the First Strumpet will undertake: Feed the children? Help for the handicapped? Save the thongs?
This. I haven’t had any appetite all day. I just feel numb, with intermittent episodes of depression and rage. I’m mostly angry at people like Idle Thoughts, who didn’t vote, because they don’t care what happens with the world.
For my husband and me, specifically … I’m concerned that our marriage will be nullified by a future Supreme Court.
It’s worse than that. Half of the people you will meet on the street, in the store, on the job, etc. today will support those things. Or be too oblivious to realize that they effectively do.
Me, I got 4.5 hours of sleep, and my stomach grumbled all night fucking long. Like others I have eaten very little today (eh, back down to 180 pounds in 5 4 3 2…). If it weren’t for my normal optimistic outlook I don’t know where I would be right now.
Unsurprised and angry.
I was already feeling kind of shitty because my favorite sports team in all of the world made it RIGHT up to the 10th inning of the final game and lost the championship.
I was feeling good about Hillary’s chances but I had a niggling feeling about Trump, being from Ohio and seeing all these oblivious racist white guys and ex union members all voting for him. So I was kind of bracing myself.
But also I was working my ass off to pass 2 important income tax levies for my city and I was totally blindsided by BOTH of them failing. I thought one would be tougher to pass than the other but instead they both lost. Not by landslides but they lost.
Pretty much everything I have invested all my time and energy in to this fall has made it to the brink then failed. The only thing I can take away is that second place in baseball is not bad at all. The rest of it is garbage.
I physically hurt. My stomach is messed up, my jaw is all sorts of hurting, I seem to have pulled a muscle in my back.
I need to work on how to get past it, because all the brooding in the world will not help anything.
This has been a year of scant hope leading to epic heartache and despair.
January: something was wrong with my wife, but whatever it was, scans and scoping should should show it to be something benign.
February: scans and scoping were inconclusive, but did show some things that needed further investigation. But whatever it was, it was most likely a cyst or something.
March: it was pancreatic cancer.
July: after months of debilitating and misery-inducing chemotherapy, it had to have had some effect. Scans showed minimal reaction — but it was operable.
August: surgery went better than expected, they thought they got it all.
September: pathology reports come back. They got the main mass, but it was too late; it had already metastasised to Stage IV.
October: new chemo regime without anything to cling to
November: Hillary went into the election ostensibly strong, but the thuggish and ignorant children outnumbered the adults in voting booths. Utter devastation. Tying it together, instead of watching the returns together, that days chemo rendered her bedridden and barely concious last night.
This has not been a good year.
Hello! I’ve been a lurker and I’m saddened this is the post that convinced me to join. I sympathize with the pain many posters are experiencing, I’ve felt it in other elections. I will probably get a lot of hate here, but I will proudly say I voted for Trump. I find the name calling in your post disturbing. My husband and I are hardworking, kind, tolerant and accepting people. I think both sides, Republican and Democrat have done and said things they regret, it’s the nature of the beast. I am confused that you think a Republican voter would be the hateful things you mentioned or be naive enough to be brainwashed by Trump. Perhaps our vision is different, it doesn’t mean it is hateful and mean. We should all be proud Americans.
Sorry my post was in response to Little Nemo, I wasn’t sure how to do that.
I’m an old guy, physically handicapped whose sole income is SS. Among other things I have IBS and that is really manifesting itself today. I watched the returns until 4:00 AM when I went to bed; I woke up at 8:00 AM feeling lost in a fog. Same way I felt when GW Bush was reelected.
As a supporter, what specifically are you proud of with respect to Trump?
Well, Alec Baldwin should have 4 years of Trump acting on SNL.
And Mrs. Trump does a *great *Mrs. Dracula voice.
Echoing the previous comment, I’m shellshocked that over half of my fellow citizens have let their Klan sheets become untucked, and chose to celebrate racism, sexism, ignorance, selfishness, and xenophobia.
At a personal level, Mrs G has medical pre-existing conditions which will quickly mean that I will once again become a wage-slave to my particular employer’s benefits package (which is also sure to change for the worse). I don’t dare to gamble on finding new coverage at a new job.