# Tweets from people who are really not happy with the election results **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 7, 2012, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-from-people-who-are-really-not-happy-with-the-election-results/640191 "2012-11-07T09:25:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-from-people-who-are-really-not-happy-with-the-election-results/640191/122 "2012-11-11T09:16:49Z")
Hey, Blue State folks, kindly refrain from making things harder on those of us who are trying to house-train this state. It’s a big damn job–the DFW metroplex alone is bigger (or at least, more populous) than about half the countries in Europe, but we’re slowly starting to paint it blue, or at least purple. You presumably have the numbers to vote your lunatics down, so quit trying to dump them on us; it will only slow things down. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-from-people-who-are-really-not-happy-with-the-election-results/640191/123 "2012-11-11T10:31:42Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > Hey, Blue State folks, kindly refrain from making things harder on those of us who are trying to house-train this state. It’s a big damn job–the DFW metroplex alone is bigger (or at least, more populous) than about half the countries in Europe, but we’re slowly starting to paint it blue, or at least purple. You presumably have the numbers to vote your lunatics down, so quit trying to dump them on us; it will only slow things down. > > 😛 At least you have Austin. In Montana, once you get out of Missoula it’s coyotes and Red Staters, and the coyotes aren’t the ones listening to Rush Limbaugh. That said, we did re-elect Tester. It was a close race, though. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-from-people-who-are-really-not-happy-with-the-election-results/640191/124 "2012-11-11T12:40:02Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > I’m listening to her [24-minute Youtube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLoqti0lzAw&feature=youtu.be) as I type. I’m going to click it off soon, but I do feel that my understanding of Romney voters has been enhanced by listening to her insights! I personally found the **[video response](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj1-dmHcHiQ)** by TheAtheistTroll to be most entertaining! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-from-people-who-are-really-not-happy-with-the-election-results/640191/125 "2012-11-11T13:34:59Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > Hey, Blue State folks, kindly refrain from making things harder on those of us who are trying to house-train this state. It’s a big damn job–the DFW metroplex alone is bigger (or at least, more populous) than about half the countries in Europe, but we’re slowly starting to paint it blue, or at least purple. You presumably have the numbers to vote your lunatics down, so quit trying to dump them on us; it will only slow things down. > > 😛 Here’s a less simplistic map–it’s a [Purple America](http://http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/election2012/)! Most Texas cities preferred Obama; how can the far 'burbanites & country folk secede without us? And we’ve got some large spots of intense blue; unfortunately, those bits down along the Border are not heavily populated. Even California isn’t exactly pure blue… Also, some of those wishing to leave their Obama-voting states seem to be looking for A Whiter America. Which is definitely not Texas… ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-from-people-who-are-really-not-happy-with-the-election-results/640191/126 "2012-11-11T15:40:21Z")
Clicking on some of these YouTubes leads to the risk of clicking others, e.g. [a spiteful clip about Michelle Obama from the Sean Hannity show (or rather a TYT review of the segment)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep_1_PCPwZA&feature=fvwrel). The hate from the right-wing is so saddening. The primary charges against the First Lady (besides her skin color) seem to be her anti-obesity remarks and the fact she appeared with the vile misogynist David Letterman. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-from-people-who-are-really-not-happy-with-the-election-results/640191/127 "2012-11-11T16:51:32Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > I’m listening to her [24-minute Youtube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLoqti0lzAw&feature=youtu.be) as I type. I’m going to click it off soon, but I do feel that my understanding of Romney voters has been enhanced by listening to her insights! Her beef seems to be more with people who didn’t share her videos than with people who voted for Obama. Yes Shelly, you yourself could’ve save truth, justice, and the American way if only some of your friends would’ve shared your videos. Hell, you went to all the trouble of actually buying a computer (you’re cutting edge, lady!) then spent a _whole year_ learning to use it. The least they could’ve done was share you videos! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-from-people-who-are-really-not-happy-with-the-election-results/640191/128 "2012-11-11T18:04:48Z")
Um… is that Joan Cusack? ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-from-people-who-are-really-not-happy-with-the-election-results/640191/129 "2012-11-11T18:31:07Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > Yesterday’s email says let 'em secede: > > Dear Red States: > > We’re ticked off at your Neanderthal attitudes and politics and we’ve > decided we’re leaving. > > We in the Blue States intend to form our own country . > > In case you aren’t aware that includes California, Hawaii, Oregon, > Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and the rest of the Northeast. > > We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation and especially > to the people of the new country of The Enlightened States of America > (E.S.A). > > To sum up briefly: > > You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. > > We get stem cell research and the best beaches. > > We get Andrew Cuomo and Elizabeth Warren. You get Bobby Jindal and Todd Akin. > > We get the Statue of Liberty. You get OpryLand. > > We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom. > We get Harvard. You get Ole’ Miss. > > We get 85 percent of America’s venture capital and entrepreneurs. You > get Alabama. > > We get two-thirds of the tax revenue. You get to make the red states > pay their fair share. > > Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the > Christian Coalition’s, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a > bunch of single moms. > > With the Blue States in hand we will have firm control of 80% of the > country’s fresh water, more than 90% of the pineapple and lettuce, 92% > of the nation’s fresh fruit, 95% of America’s quality wines (you can > serve French wines at state dinners) 90% of all cheese, 90 percent of > the high tech industry, most of the US low sulphur coal, all living > redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools > plus Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Boston College, Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT. > > With the Red States you will have to cope with 88% of all obese > Americans and their projected health care costs, 92% of all US > mosquitoes, nearly 100% of the tornadoes, 90% of the hurricanes, 99% > of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100% of all televangelists, Rush > Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia. > > We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you. > > 38% of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by > a whale, 62% believe life is sacred unless we’re discussing the death > penalty or gun laws, 44% say that evolution is only a theory, 53% that > Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61% of you righties believe you > are people with higher morals then we lefties. > > We’re taking the good weed too. You can have that crap they grow in Mexico. > > Sincerely, > > Citizen of the Enlightened States of America Thanks for reminding me that Tea Partiers aren’t the only ones who forward around stupid email. I’d told all my loony friends to stop forwarding me their garbage, so I had forgotten. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-from-people-who-are-really-not-happy-with-the-election-results/640191/130 "2012-11-11T18:56:24Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > Um… is that Joan Cusack? I have the weirdest boner now. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-from-people-who-are-really-not-happy-with-the-election-results/640191/131 "2012-11-11T19:23:51Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > Yesterday’s email says let 'em secede: > > Dear Red States: > > We’re ticked off at your Neanderthal attitudes and politics and we’ve > decided we’re leaving… Do you have any idea where that ancient piece of glurge originated? (You know it’s neither original nor new.) Do you have cites to back up the statistics? Sorry–no Secession. Quite a few Americans died to settle that question back in the 19th century… ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-from-people-who-are-really-not-happy-with-the-election-results/640191/132 "2012-11-11T19:55:42Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > Do you have cites to back up the statistics? The email takes a narrow view of red states (Texas, Oklahoma and former slave states - I don’t know whether the author counted Missouri. I trust New York was not included). If you consider the red/blue divide from the 2000 election though, Paul Krugman gave a breakdown in a 2002 column about farm subsidies: I’ve done some statistical comparisons using one popular definition of the heartland: the “red states” that — in an election that pitted both coasts against the middle — voted for Mr. Bush. How do they compare with the “blue states” that voted for Al Gore? Certainly the heartland has no claim to superiority when it comes to family values. If anything, the red states do a bit worse than the blue states when you look at indicators of individual responsibility and commitment to family. Children in red states are more likely to be born to teenagers or unmarried mothers — in 1999, 33.7 percent of babies in red states were born out of wedlock, versus 32.5 percent in blue states. National divorce statistics are spotty, but per capita there were 60 percent more divorces in Montana than in New Jersey. And the red states have special trouble with the Sixth Commandment: the murder rate was 7.4 per 100,000 inhabitants in the red states, compared with 6.1 in the blue states, and 4.1 in New Jersey. But what’s really outrageous is the claim that the heartland is self-reliant. That grotesque farm bill, by itself, should put an end to all such assertions; but it only adds to the immense subsidies the heartland already receives from the rest of the country. As a group, red states pay considerably less in taxes than the federal government spends within their borders; blue states pay considerably more. Over all, blue America subsidizes red America to the tune of $90 billion or so each year. [The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page](http://www.pkarchive.org/column/050702.html) It’s an oddity of American politics that the regions most firmly attached to the government’s teat are those who posture as self-reliant, anti-government, Ann Rand wannabees. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-from-people-who-are-really-not-happy-with-the-election-results/640191/133 "2012-11-11T20:31:49Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > I have the weirdest boner now. Just think of Victoria Jackson… ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-from-people-who-are-really-not-happy-with-the-election-results/640191/134 "2012-11-11T21:58:05Z")
[_Shiver_] That’ll do it alright ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-from-people-who-are-really-not-happy-with-the-election-results/640191/135 "2012-11-13T20:55:48Z")
I think I’ll stick with Joan. Always liked that Irish salt to her. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-from-people-who-are-really-not-happy-with-the-election-results/640191/136 "2012-11-15T13:01:41Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > Well, so far I have heard from despondent Republicans threatening to move to the following rightist paradise: South America, Canada, Norway, Australia. > > I am not sure they know much about those places. And I am sure people there would rather they stay home. Speaking on behalf of Norway, yes. Yes, we would. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-from-people-who-are-really-not-happy-with-the-election-results/640191.md?page=6)