Alright meme man won. I'm deeply disappointed by the final results and I think the US is making a spectacularly retarded choice here but, I would've said the same if it were Clinton. She's not important anymore now, but having Trump around for four years is hard to take in.
I could grit my teeth and look past all his views on Guantanamo or abortion or whatever, but this election is really playing with the biggest set pieces: Nationwide trickle down economics, deregulating the little restriction we have on polluting our climate even further with carbon emissions - more offshore drilling, more fracking, etc. He's going to throw people off their healthcare and continue a system where you've got people picking between healthcare and their rent, it's already a shit system that kills now. Tax breaks for the rich, more NSA spying, no justice for people like Snowden & Manning, "target the women and children of ISIS", the list goes on and on. What a fucking clown.
And even better - the senate and house are going to the conservatives too! So any "he can't do much" argument goes right out the door. We might as well have taken Bush back in for another round. On the brighter side, many states today voted for legal weed, higher wages and some even for progressive policies regarding our climate.
But seriously, this is by no means the fault of the American people and I think unfortunately many people today voted in protest and desperation, and it's Clinton's fault for these results. Emails, scandals, corruption, rigging, leaks - her, the media and the DNC worked so hard to try and play us and now it bit them in the ass. Clinton continuously failed to address the important issues, failed to lay out good policies, and every time ostracised and criticised people from her OWN base because we didn't want to just fall in line. So of course, now it's OUR fault that this happened, not her shortcomings on virtually every issue. I understand and agree Clinton would've been the better choice here, but you can't expect to win a nation wide election and just fucking everything wrong. And it would've been so easy to win from Trump if we'd had just the slightest more competent candidate against him.
Instead of trying to go "look kids, im playing the pokemons! hey it's me and your favourite rapper!! let's shoot some hoops kiddos!" she should've actually given us a reason to vote for her, and not talk down on us like we're too braindead to see through her bullshit. She insults her own base, refuses to be a true liberal, cheats and lies the whole way, and now we have an authoritarian con man in office.
Bernie Sanders polled higher against Trump than Clinton did the whole race. We could've had a real, progressive president who would fight for preserving our climate, get money out of politics, and return our right to privacy. So to my boi Bernie here, one final meme to end the election.
