"I will keep you in suspense" - US Elections 2016: the Final Thread

Mr. Pre-President

i know this is probably just my own weird hang-up, but i've always taken faint exception to people who continued to be referred to by a position they no longer hold. "mr. senator"/"mme. secretary"/"mr. president"/etc. these aren't hereditary positions. they aren't academic or professional credentials. they're just jobs that you have, and then you don't have.

First Guy

or rather, i don't take exception to the PEOPLE but to the PRACTICE of continuing to refer to them with the title of a position they once held.

feel like we should be able to call him big mouth billy bass to his dumb face

in other news, alex jones (and his rhetorical style) makes a lot more sense when you realize he's like a snake-charming, holy-rolling, speaking-in-tongues evangelist preacher w/o the christianity:

https://twitter.com/immolations/status/794740487613726720

the sun, the best newspaper in the world, reports

“I’ve already told my husband that if I’m so fortunate enough to be president and he will be the first gentleman, I expect him to go to work to make sure we get those jobs growing and incomes rising,” she said at a campaign event.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2132414/bill-hillary-clinton-us-election-2016-name/

the alex jones package also includes the christianity. the pentecostal comparison is pretty apt though. he would have fit right in my church

I'm watching in suspense as Dixville Notch, NH counts all the ballots in town (8)

https://pkremp.github.io/pr_decisive_vote.html

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwtuHkEXcAAIikI.jpg

new hampshire's gotta be higher than 1 in 1 million

4 for Hillary, 2 for Trump, 1 for Johnson, 1 write-in for Romney

i forgot to say this earlier because i was at work and only glancing at this thread surreptitiously but fuck glenn beck

he has some nerve evolving after whipping up so much confusion and paranoia throughout the country. no mercy for him

aw redemption is groovy treesh cmon

4 for Hillary, 2 for Trump, 1 for Johnson, 1 write-in for Romney

that result makes me yearn so badly for Trump to get his twitter account back

"Dixville Notch" is a fitting description of what we've been following for over a year now

Fuck.......here we go

i just unfollowed rick wilson and all political reporters except costa. felt good.

That dummy (and Liz Mair) are *still* playing up some sort of mysterious and always just out of reach oppo dump. The comments on their twitter feeds have been funny.

hung out with a group of 30's-ish progressive seeming ppl here in denver today, mixed races, all male. the tally: 3 'not going to vote' (sample quote: 'i don't like feeling like i have to make a bad choice based on fear'), 1 'probably going to vote hillary', 1 'already voted, wrote in bernie'

tell your friend that not voting is making a bad choice based on fear

Swing state or safe state?

not denver kentucky

xp my friend is perfectly capable of forming his own thoughts and conclusions afaict

i know this is probably just my own weird hang-up, but i've always taken faint exception to people who continued to be referred to by a position they no longer hold. "mr. senator"/"mme. secretary"/"mr. president"/etc

Or, you know, since President or Senator or Secretary are already titles, forget the fucking Mr and Mme stuff.

http://imgur.com/UdXa6e8

volunteered tonight at the local campaign hq to do data-entry. Place was jumpin'.

dammit. Here: http://i.imgur.com/UdXa6e8.jpg

he has some nerve evolving after whipping up so much confusion and paranoia throughout the country. no mercy for him

― Treeship, Tuesday, November 8, 2016 5:14 AM (two hours ago)

i have as much contempt for glenn beck as any sane person but, like...ppl can change for the better, and if they can't, then we're all in a lot of trouble

right i'm wondering if

a) the fact that an undisciplined, overtly hateful authoritarian nut job can get > 40% of the vote means that a more disciplined, smoother-edged authoritarian could win?

Only if they are already coast-to-coast famous and not a politician.

https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p480x480/14980774_10154715945968588_6410478961559691573_n.jpg?oh=e250f8b488c62a32611fe667559ef728&oe=589081B5

Yeah, that's exactly who you think it is in the red coat.

On which note I'm already curious about what the various media positions will be on the fame and newsworthiness of Donald Trump post-failed election. He won't have a show, he won't be running for president - if he holds a press conference a week later, who will turn up and who will go "we don't have to do this any more"?

I guess that xpost answers my question!

glenn beck isn't "changing" he's a media personality testing new winds ffs.

he has some nerve evolving after whipping up so much confusion and paranoia throughout the country. no mercy for him

― Treeship

10/10 best samwise gamgee impression

voted, took about 25 minutes. longer than i expected at 6:15am, but invariably the line for my sub-district was far and away the longest

didn't get a sticker

Yeah they usually have cookies at mine too. Got nothing lol

Trump will change that!

are we gonna have an election day thread?

May I suggest: "I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election if I win"

Wow. Whoa. That is some group of people. Thousands. - US Election Day 2016