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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumOwning Our Shit ***Warning Profanity***
by Adrian J Anchondo
Im about to piss yall off. I might even lose some friends because of this. If youre too much of a (grab em by the) pussy to handle it or tired of angry rants, maybe you should stop reading now because Im going in on all of us. Its been a week since the election and Ive had some time to weep, rage, drink a bottle of wine, gather my thoughts, eat lots of carbs, weep again and drink two more bottles of wine, but still I have not yet been able to come to peace with the worst thing that has happened to this country since they made a standalone movie for Catwoman. But maybe bitching to you, my friends, my fellow progressives, may help bring some solace and help us understand where we went wrong so we can come together and kumbaya or whatever.
Ive got one major thing to say to you. HILLARY CLINTON DID NOT FAIL US, WE FAILED HILLARY CLINTON. Now I know, I know, she won the popular vote by almost two million votes, and I know that a lot of you were a part of that so yay go ahead and pat yourselves on the back. You done? Okay. You say she was flawed? Yall motherfuckers didnt DESERVE the candidate you got, and every day I watched as progressives posted on Facebook about how much they hated corrupt Clinton, talked about how imperfect she was as a candidate, posted articles that were flat out lies, or wrote things like #ImWithHerIGuess. Your enthusiasm for the former First Lady, Senator of New York, Secretary of State and first ever possible female President was shameful when you compare it to the enthusiasm the other side had for their flawed (racist homophobic tax evading possible rapist who has to make his undocumented Mexican maids wash the orange out of his bedsheets every fucking morning) candidate. If you would have just swallowed your pride and given Hillary half of the love you gave Obama, then we might not have woken up on November 9th worrying about families being torn apart, marriage licenses being taken way, guns getting into the wrong hands and women having to stay pregnant after getting raped. Does that sound too harsh? Too bad! This reality show is now our reality and we need to accept it and own our shit. We stepped in it and now its going to take at least four years to clean it off.
And to you people out there saying Dont blame me, I voted for Bernie- suck a dick. Oh noooo- Im so sorry you didnt like Hillary. Thats so saaaad! I guess thats worth this result. Your I told you so is so worth the millions of people who will suffer because of selfishness and pride. We all act like our nominee has to be the perfect representation of us regardless of how many years theyve spent working tirelessly for the people. I didnt give a shit about John Kerry, but I voted for the rest of my country. Every candidate has an email/Swift boat Veteran/Born in Kenya/Benghazi/Reverend Wright/Gennifer Flowers bullshit scandal that gets played over and over again, and for some reason we thought Hillarys private email server (WTF is even a server?) was more damaging than Trump ADMITTING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT AND CALLING MEXICANS RAPISTS. Whos talking about those damn emails now? NO ONE. Think about how the world must perceive us.
Who the fuck said you had to LIKE your nominee anyway? Guess what? There has always been and will always be at least half the people in the country who hate a Presidential nominee! This kind of thinking started with the whole who would you want to get a beer with bullshit from the Bush/Gore era and now its just gotten out of control. We didnt always have primaries. Our parties used to pick our nominees for us. We had to deal with our choices. Now we get angry and picky if someone doesnt meet every single criterion that we have created or if we dont trust them because their positions evolved in a more progressive way over the years. If I had to talk to one more gay person about how Hillary wasnt always for same sex marriage I was going to start having sex with women. Oh really? She wasnt for gay marriage? WHY WERE YOU SO SUPPORTIVE OF OBAMA IF THAT WAS YOUR MAIN REASON FOR NOT LIKING HER??? AHHHHHH! Is it because shes a woman and it reminded you of your own mother when she didnt fully accept you as gay? We found a way to forgive our mothers who raised us, but we couldnt find it in our hearts to forgive someone of no relation who evolved in their beliefs and ended up speaking on behalf of the LGBT and providing AIDS medication to people all over the world? I swear I saw more gay people posting about Hillary hating LGBT than articles about Mike Pence believing in electro shock gay conversion therapy for children, or the fact that in Indiana you can get put in jail and fined 10,000 just for applying for a marriage license if you werent a man and a woman. So what did we do? Weve given a billionaire who hasnt paid taxes the most power of ANY PRESIDENT SINCE THE 40s. Its like weve given a plumber permission to do open heart surgery on our kids. Its because of us that one of the best Presidents this country has ever seen actually had to shake the hand of a man who was blatantly racist towards him and tried to get him out of office. Shame on us.
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Owning Our Shit ***Warning Profanity*** (Original Post)
sheshe2
Nov 2016
OP
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)1. Recommended.
Not my style of writing, but everyone I know is still angry about this.
The con man accomplished his biggest con.
missingthebigdog
(1,233 posts)3. But he didn't! He didn't con anyone!
That's the problem. He told us exactly who he is, and we elected him anyway. That's on us, not on him.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)4. He told people what they wanted to hear. As did Reagan.
Just as he told his investors and Trump U students what they wanted to hear. He is a liar.
still_one
(92,466 posts)2. Thank you sheshe
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)5. What's your point? - nt
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)6. To post duplicate threads because it blames Bernie
and she likes it?
sheshe2
(83,967 posts)7. Hey Melissa....
Duplicate attacks?
Talk about attacks, why are you attacking me?
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)8. K&R
I really really really dislike the use of "suck a dick" to derive negative connotation.