I has a sad that the DUmp is down

[notaDUmmie]

I went there on Tuesday as things started to go south for the Dems...my persona there has been saying for weeks that this could go for Trump...and I was called a concern troll.

 

So let me share my election night...

Every national election means Chick-Fil-A for dinner - I'm not going to cook, because I'm going to be watching returns and "doing the math" on close states.  Yes, I'm a numbers geek.

As I sat in line at the drive-thru, I listened as Mark Levin issued an impassioned plea to voters in states with polls still open to get out and vote.  Please don't turn the Supreme Court over to the libs, etc.

Came home, handed out the sandwiches and started my night.

Virginia first..my state of residence.  Hill had a 7 - 10 point lead on 7 November, so I was shocked to see how close it was as the numbers started rolling in.  Of course, Northern Virginia (NOVA) will always screw the rest of Virginia (ROVA), and this year was no exception.  But the numbers were close, and the fact that VA hadn't been called by 8 PM told me that something was up in the country.

Florida, my actual home state.  I looked first to my home county, Pinellas, a reliable Dem county.  Except this year it wasn't.  Trump didn't win it by much, but win it he did.  He had an early lead, and never lost it.  In the three big Dem counties in south, Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach, Clinton held to the normal margins of victory, but by 9 PM, based on the number of voters, number of votes remaining in those three counties and the Trump lead, I called FL for Trump.  The hubs and I laughed that it took more than two hours for the networks to call FL.

Wisconsin - when Ron Johnson retained his Senate seat, I whooped and hollered, because I knew it was over.  The hubs was confused - why the joy?  Because dear sir, Ron Johnson had been behind between 8-11 points on Monday...winning as early as he did was an indicator that Trump would take Wisconsin. 

Ohio & Pennsylvania - I did the same math as I did in Florida...although it appears that Philly spent a good part of the night digging up every grave in the metro area in attempt to get more votes for Hill, once Lebanon county came in for Trump, it was over in my mind.  I called PA at 10:30 PM.

Anyway, I can't wait for the DUmp to come back up..."gloom, despair, and agony on me...deep dark depression, excessive misery...if it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all...gloom, despair, and agony on me..."

[Mr Mannn]

DU Jr is my hangout. They allow conservatives and liberals. Just expressing a conservative opinion is enough to set the DU libs off...some of them simply cannot stand any voice of opposition.

I too has a sad. I was never able to gloat in the warm rays of victory.

[fatboy]

My Dummy mole wants to question the effectiveness of protesting the election using 2008 and 2012 as an example where the "pukes" protests didn't get them any relief.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Poor widdle DUmmies, $kinner took their donations and closed the site.  I kinda admire that, from a capitalist perspective.

[Ralph Wiggum]

And speaking of such a matter, perhaps "private attorney general" Laserhaas can file a class action lawsuit to recover that money that was donated to a fraudulent message board?

[fatboy]

Allow me to add a few comments on Tuesday night. For the weeks heading into the election I personally felt that Trump would win but unsure how it would go and the implications of a Clinton victory too awful to contemplate. So I basically tried to occupy myself with other things.

Early in the evening after voting I checked the webs and at that point the beast was up in the polls. I thought about just going to bed but couldn't. Over the course of the evening I peeked at the webs, like a kid snooping in their parents room a week before Christmas. At around 9:30ish I caught a thread on FR where someone posted that CNN was reporting that people at the Clinton party in NYC were leaving in droves and not in a good mood. So that gave me the energy to hang out and watch the returns to it's glorious ending.

[hippocritical]

Poor widdle DUmmies, $kinner took their donations and closed the site.  I kinda admire that, from a capitalist perspective.

Maybe he'll donate it to the clinton foundation.

[Mary Ann]

I expected Tuesday to be a fairly early evening, so as the results started rolling in, I was in total disbelief. I'm in Michigan, and was watching and seeing that Trump was never behind in this state, and that the early results had the bluest counties already counted. His lead narrowed, then expanded, then narrowed again, and still they didn't call it, either way. I checked the Detroit Free Press, and saw that in their infinite journalistic wisdom, they had called the election by about 9:00--for Hillary. To date, the Michigan electors still haven't been awarded, which I guess means they are still digging through the couch cushions in Detroit, desperately trying to find the last 13,000 votes they need to pull out a Clinton victory. The Free Press has been trying very hard to save face ever since Tuesday night.

When the New York Times predicted a 91% chance of Trump winning at about 11 p.m., I woke my husband and told him. He either didn't wake up, didn't believe me, or figured that she would still be able to pull it out. So, when he got up and turned on the TV at 5 a.m. and saw that Trump had won he thought they were joking.

I also miss DU. They were so sure that Broomhilda was going to win and they were going to "rub salt into the wounds." I really, really want to ask them how they feel about salt in the wounds now.

[fatboy]

Maybe he'll donate it to the clinton foundation.

Actually it's the Skinner Foundation

Ladies and Gentlemen and all of those caught in-between. It is with sadness I must announce that Skinners Island is underwater, a victim of global warming.

[SVPete]

Actually it's the Skinner Foundation

Ladies and Gentlemen and all of those caught in-between. It is with sadness I must announce that Skinners Island is underwater, a victim of global warming.

If it's actually gone it might be a "victim" of Global Worming.

[Doc Savage]

My Dummy mole wants to question the effectiveness of protesting the election using 2008 and 2012 as an example where the "pukes" protests didn't get them any relief.

I too hang out there.  I wonder if Graham is still sitting on the floor holding his knees and rocking back and forth.

[USA4ME]

I told others here I thought Clinton would win it. I am so happy I was wrong.

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[I_B_Perky]

I told others here I thought Clinton would win it. I am so happy I was wrong.

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I thought so as well.  I did not find out he won until on the way to work the next morning.  That was a happy morning.

[Ralph Wiggum]

I thought so as well.  I did not find out he won until on the way to work the next morning.  That was a happy morning.

I dozed off about midnight CT, when Trump was leading Pennsylvania.  Woke up about 90 minutes later and he was declared the winner.  Had to stay awake to watch.  Sleep was not necessary, as I was so pleasantly surprised.

[67 Rover]

Maybe he'll donate it to the clinton foundation.

It may be better put to use in the Clinton legal defense fund.

[Karin]

Early evening we felt snappish  at each other.  Didn't really believe he could overcome both machines.  We watched like a horse race and lost our snapping.  At 12:30 I want to bed, got up at 5:30.  Hubs is munching popcorn and said "guess what?" 

He had the day off the miserable bast'd.

[Karin]

I meant happy bast'd.   

[BattleHymn]

Hubs is munching popcorn and said "guess what?" 

I had actually dozed off around 9:30 CST.  Spousal unit had went to bed  at 9:00 and said she peeked and saw Hildabeast was up. 

I snapped awake around  2:45, held my breath and refreshed Drudge. I thought it was a joke. 

I shook spousal unit awake and said "Guess what?". Must be a guy thing.   

[franksolich]

conservativecave was getting hammered by substantially-increased traffic election eve, much of it from an influx of primitives trying to find another place to park, given that their own home was down.  This meant that the site moved at the speed of a glacier.  I'd hoped to be here all night, but finally getting impatient at the slowness of things, went and parked myself at the New York Times site to watch the returns.

I don't have television here, and radio is useless to me; whatever I know about the vast world outside comes from the internet.

I was cautiously optimistic at first, but when the returns from New England started coming in, showing the (R) candidate had made not a dent there, my mood grew gloomy.  And despite Ohio flipping, it didn't seem to me there was much hope.

The (R) candidate won the states he was supposed to, and the (D) candidate got the states she was supposed to.  As things moved west on the map, it seemed to me that while the (R) candidate had put up the good fight, it wasn't going to be enough; that the wrong side inevitably was going to win.  Perhaps not impressively, but win nonetheless.

I didn't think of it at the time, but I was looking at things exactly the way the New York Times and other media wished me to think; that it was hopeless for the forces of decency and civility.  (I need to note that for the most part, I didn't go to other sites, sticking instead with just this one nearly all evening long.)

California was declared for the (D) candidate the minute the polls closed there, with zero percent of the returns.  Obviously the projection was based upon exit polls only.....something the New York Times most assuredly wasn't doing with states that went for the (R) candidate; in those cases they demanded hard, solid numbers, not polling extrapolations.

It wasn't until later I discerned that the number of (R) votes in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota were being maliciously withheld by the news media. released only grudgingly and after long delays. 

Anyway, about 10:30 p.m. central time, I decided to call it a night.  The (R) candidate had fought the good fight, but it was over.  The Man, the Establishment, the Old Order, had won again.

Just before I shut down the computer for the night, I went over to freerepublic, where the first headline I saw was TRUMP WINS, and the second one, from the story preceding, TRUMP TAKES MICHIGAN.  I abruptly stopped in my tracks.

(That was one of those fleeting moments where Michigan looked as if it had indeed gone that way [which of course in the end it did], while Pennsylvania still looked solid for the (D) candidate; all that changed in a few hours.)

I could've gone to bed and endured a night of troubled sleep, supposing Messalina Agrippina had won, and finding out the contrary only the next morning.  I was very happy I checked freerepublic before calling it a night.

[Delmar]

The primitives usually have a big laugh every week over the hilarious skewering that the jokesters on Saturday Night Live give the Republicans. 

I would love to hear their observations on this skit.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHG0ezLiVGc[/youtube]

[FunkyZero]

I told others here I thought Clinton would win it. I am so happy I was wrong.

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My and wife were arguing about this for the past 2 months. I knew full well the polls were complete and utter BS... they weren't aligning with the reality I saw in the outside world.
I still thought Trump would lose, but not by the 10 and 15 point the media (and Fox news) were telling us. I was sure it was going to be a nail-biter at the very least, but still going to clintoon.
This crow hasn't been nearly as hard to chew as I thought it would. I've quite enjoyed it