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Posted this on Facebook, but wanted to share it here too:
Is it possible to overdose on schadenfreude? Mitt Romney bragging that he didn't write a concession speech. "Mainstream media" were convinced the election was a tight race and consistently badmouthed Nate Silver, with conservative websites with laughable names like 'UnskewedPolls' pegging with Obama losing with 48% of the vote. Karl Rove literally melting down on air, challenging the stats guys at Fox over calling Ohio - signalling that the >$1 billion of other people's money he spent got him bupkis. Mitt Romney's victory website going live after losing the election, and then Boston Globe posts his permits for an eight-minute fireworks show in Boston Harbor - which he canceled, even though Boston voted for the winning candidate. Obstructionist turtle-douche Mitch McConnell's lone goal of making Obama a one term president ended with Democrats gaining seats in the House and the Senate, and marriage equality passed in all four states where it was on the ticket. Conservative faces Victoria Jackson and Donald Trump suffered very public breakdowns, Ann Coulter tells Laura Ingraham "It's over, there is no hope"
The last election I voted in where an incumbent won, he declared that his thin margin won him a mandate and gave him political capital to spend (because lord knows GWB loves to spend) and just like he did with our national budget, he not only spent that capital, he dragged the Republican party into political debt. This president, upon winning just over 50% of the vote, reached out to the other candidate during his acceptance speech.
I don't get to watch Rachel Maddow as often as I'd like, but it seems like on the rare occasion that I do, . She probably says it better than I can though. Anyway, this goes out to the stubborn conservative childhood and high school friends I had on Facebook who blocked me when they didn't want to hear reality. I know you can't read this, and I know you'll never watch this clip anywhere, but if I could beam it through the bubble and into your heads, I would hope you'd break off your relationship with conspiracy, and move out of that land where opinion and fantasy are substitutions for quantitative facts. The latter bit of it goes out to my friends with whom I disagree on political topics, but who stick it out through our written fisticuffs, because we're all trying to make the country better.
I'm glad the election's over, and it feels good after so long to finally see some evidence that the majority of the country is moving in the same direction I am.
Originally Posted by Leviathant
