This is how people are strutting and crowing about their victory. This is a collection of tweets from people of color and their experiences the past day or so: https://twitter.com/i/moments/796417517157830656

Nah....the excuse doesn't work anymore. The "poor poor downtrodden idjuts who populate America just don't know no better so that's why they vote for the Republican party" thing just lost all meaning whatsoever.

Everyone who voted for Trump is an unmitigated piece of shit. Period. This wasn't some hail mary thing to fix some perceived inequality in America or whatever. It was people who are thoroughly awful. People who have no ability to see anything beyond their own tiny little worlds of fear and the occasional ability to *maybe* understand a political issue enough to be a single issue voter (on the wrong side, of course) It is people who have known FOR FUCKING DECADES about what an inept, cowardly, vengeful, babyman turd that Trump is even long before he got even close to the ballpark of politics. And they don't care. They want their voices to merge with that one and be what he is and what he speaks for, even though he speaks for no one really but himself and his own self-interest (which is pretty ironic considering). Trump supporters don't give a single shit about this country or other Americans, they just want to do harm to other people. Hate is their only guiding principle even if it means fucking themselves or their own family's future down the toilet and if you think they will have some revelation down the road about what they did for unfathomably stupid reasons, you are expecting way too much from sociopaths.
So yeah..the excuse of "I'm just doing what I think is best I is scared of da mean ol' economy" bullshit doesn't work at all anymore. Rural America is retarded as shit but at least they KIND OF have a sort-of excuse, willfully ignorant as it is. Everyone else is just a fucking fascist piece of shit who just wants to act out their grudges on society because, like Trump, they are also infantile morons with the general mentality and political capacity of schoolyard bullies who have grown upset with living in a world where schoolyard bullies are now treated like the embarrassments that they truly are.
Trump voters are angry they are perceived as total shitheads and instead of wondering why that is, they are just throwing their creamed veggies off the high-chair and proving that our perception is 100% correct because, uh, that'll show us I guess.
So as far as I'm concerned, it's fair game to just keep calling them out on their bigotry, ignorance, general state of willful stupidity and the fact that they are worthless. Because they are.

"Their jobs have been taken away. Their power has been taken away."

I don't buy that at all, look at the income/education/employment levels of the main white voters who voted for Trump. Sick of this meme that it was disenfranchised, uneducated working class or unemployed voters, nah it really wasn't. Check the exit polls.

50% of white college grad men voted Trump compared with 34% without college degrees.

45% of white college grad women voted Trump compared with 17% without a college degree.

According to estimates from the same exit polls and Census Bureau data, the average Trump supporter earns $72,000 a year which is substantially above the national median $56,000.

This was a vote in favour of white identity politics by just about any sensible analysis and it's typical of the centrist-left to ignore that and handwave away the fucking truth that is staring them right in the face.

It's also beyond absurd to view it in terms of simple economic concerns or the flaccid job market, or for that matter neoliberalism or globalism or any of the other bullshit theories the left are throwing around on their social media echo chambers right now.

It was a vote for the candidate who offered whites a clear chance to punch down any sort of step towards progress because they see society as zero-sum and thus 'SJWs, trannies, fags, women and darkies' can't possibly be given any quarter by them because this will mean 'they' have LESS power, less money or just less [insert whatever thing they value more than american lives].

As for the fucking 'hug a neonazi/white nationalist/far-right moron and don't call them things that are accurate but hurt their feelings' approach, yeah the left creating 'safe spaces' for the far-right always works out so well, and trying to bridge that gap totally worked for Hillary right?

What the left needs is to be the actual fucking opposition again, stop going for half-measures and trying to please everybody and appeal to your fucking base who've stopped voting altogether out of frustration at nothing but lipservice to progressive politics.

You know why (a few of) these people are economically screwed? Because they bought into the Republicans' pitch about how Democrats are looking after minorities at the expense of whites, and only the Republicans can protect the white man from Democrats. They were dumb, bigoted, and mean enough to buy that line, and that's how they got fucked over.

Yeah those of us in Da Big City look down on rural types, but it's not because they're less cultured or less educated. We look down on them for their delight in cruelty to those they deem "outsiders", and don't tell me it doesn't exist.

Trump voters don't deserve our sympathy any more than the wife-beater whose wrists hurt from the policeman's cuffs.

http://wonkette.com/608469/were-still-going-to-call-you-a-raci st-piece-of-shit-if-you-are-a-racist-piece-of-shit-hooray

>>Yeah those of us in Da Big City look down on rural types, but it's not because they're less cultured or less educated.

Liar.

We may make fun of the accent and call them stupid, but that's not what we have against them; mockery almost always involves calling the other person stupid, this shouldn't be news. But we wouldn't have anything against them if it weren't for the cruelty: the small-minded glee in finding someone different to pick on. You don't find people on the Left making fun of, say, Canadians because they don't have a reputation for cruelty.

good lord that twitter list was the most depressing thing I have ever read. I need to go look at pictures of cats now.

My well-off white co-workers are in the "got mine, fuck you" psychopath camp of Trump voter. They think only republicans work to earn money and their money is being stolen by lazy minorities and lazy millennials. Add in dashes of info wars and acute conformation bias that makes them believe any conspiracy theory they find on the internet that makes them "right".

They made up excuses for all the trump scandals, including the sexual assault bragging. (and they have young daughters, so, yeah...).


You just have to realize there are vast numbers of well-off Republican voters that just choose to be stupid because of an invented victim complex, because they have lots of first-world problems and that is the outlet of their frustrations.

and to confirm the cruelty, they day after two of them were sharing and cackling gleefully at pictures of sad democratic voters during election night.

Some random thoughts from the days news.

1) David Duke has announced the Klan will be holding a celebration march for Donald Trump in North Carolina.

2) Every name floated for a cabinet position so far has had multiple wives/ affairs including the president himself. Except the woman suggested for Secretary of the Interior, who of course is Sarah Palin

3) Today Donald Trump met with Barack Obama. Obama is not a large man, and Donald is quite large physically, but the two of them sitting together was quite remarkable. Donald was hunched over, eyes wide, like a little kid who all of a sudden has to account for himself to his parents. Barack guided the whole presser, and did most of the talking, smoothing the way, like a dour parent. Donald looked very small indeed, sitting there. You should watch the clip, just to see him be humbled in this way. Whatever Barack said to him during the meeting, it made an impression.

"and to confirm the cruelty, they day after two of them were sharing and cackling gleefully at pictures of sad democratic voters during election night."

I know I cackled at Republicans in 2008 and 2012, and I expect to be on the receiving end this time. We hate each other over ideology, that's how God intended us to be.

But it's not me and mine who immediately took to harassing minorities after winning in 2008 and 2012.

Well, yeah, of course it wasn't.

Only one side in America harrasses minorities for kicks.

But hey, both sides, totally the same, blah blah blah.

Five for that twitter collage.

#3 is worth watching. Very sobering and surreal. It's like the moment American came to after a drug fueled blackout.

Yes, because insulting & labeling people is the very best way to get them to agree with you.

The racist shitbags will never agree with decent people, let's not pretend that we can sweet-talk them into not being fucked-up mistakes of nature. And let's not pretend that they deserve any respect. If they ever change into actual human beings -- if -- we can reassess.