The 2016 Election Schadenfreude thread

Yup, but it’s delightful to watch the view counter go up

A Christian hymn? OK gotta admit, not going to get an insight like that anywhere else. Now, that there, that’s thinking outside the box!

I might not have left the church if all the hymns had been dark, kinda smutty Leonard Cohen songs. (So basically any Leonard Cohen song. RIP you horny old genius.)

Everybody Knows” would be a good one too – it even has actual Christian imagery!

I didn’t vote for Trump, but there is a certain justice in how this abusive mother who expelled her young son from the house for voting for Trump in a mock election at schoolis probably dismayed right now at the electoral result.

Fuck any parent who abandons their child for such a bullshit reason.

It’'s just the logical conclusion of the line of “thinking” (being generous with the term here) that all Trump voters are evil.

I honestly can’t tell if the first minute is satire or not: WATCH!!! What Hillary Supporters Did after Trump Won! (Best Reactions) - YouTube

Say what you like about Trump, but he made more people eat crow than perhaps any candidate in history.

More than Truman?

Yes, much more crow. It’s not even close. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT0Rjc6jKCg

Shocking.

Rural Republicans: We Ignored What Our Own Candidates Were Saying in Plain English, Will Now Suffer the Consequences

What did they think was going to happen, they were going to get a special exception for being such blindly loyal sheeple?

Laci Green before the election:

Laci Green less than four hours later:

[Donald Trump is not his president!

See? Nobody cares](Reddit - Dive into anything)

Here’s a shout-out for Wole Soyinka, who seems to be following through on his word to leave the USA when Trump won.

And here is an excellent article about how the Democrats have bent the rules to accomplish their goals over the last few years and are now regretting it: Democrats Send Their Regrets - WSJ

Much more than Truman. Larger world population today than then. More media coverage of US election worldwide now than then. Lots more people invested or following a US election.

Krugman’s latest article deserves to be memorialized here.

Democrats claiming that the democratic process was “undermined” by Russia revealing how they planned to lie to the voters is particularly funny. It just shows how out of touch the political elite is that they think that knowing the truth undermines democracy, while professionals figuring out how best to fool the public is democracy at its finest.

Alright, this is interesting if not coherent. It was undermined by Russian sponsorship of fake news, of the FBI director interfering in the election, by selective release of hacked emails by the Russian puppets at Wikileaks.

My personal schadenfreude is seeing the racist piece of shit Arpaio get tossed out of office.

The only part that Russia was the dominant force behind was the email hacking. Comey had nothing to do with Russia and fake news comes from hundreds of sources.

New York City residents are now paying for the therapy and counceling for those municipal employees who were traumatized by Donald’s victory.
I only hope that Mayor de Blasio will soon launch a program, where, for example, DMV employees can retreat into a designated area (perhaps, we could provisionally call it a “safe space”), and continue this difficult process of healing.