Freepers in shock and commisserating...

[El Pinko]

The crazy is strong with these people...

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Official Election Hangover Thread
SoftwareEngineer | 11/05/2008 | SoftwareEngineer

Posted on Wed Nov 5 19:54:40 2008 by SoftwareEngineer

What an awful way to wake up this morning. I have a sense of disbelief about what has happened. I am trying to do my morning chores but I can physically feel my heart hurting and my head pounding. It is unreal. I feel I am not really living this and instead this is some hallucination.

And yet, the day must go on. I have to get ready, go to work and meet clients. So to get over this election hangover (and a fair bit of Glenlivet last night) I am going to do the following:

1. Pray 2. Go for a run 3. Not watch any TV or listen to any Radio 4. Take a giant Excederin for my headache

How is everyone else handling this? Please post what you are all doing to keep functioning
TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections

1 posted on Wed Nov 5 19:54:40 2008 by SoftwareEngineer
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To: SoftwareEngineer

you actually went to sleep :)

2 posted on Wed Nov 5 19:56:07 2008 by ari-freedom (So this is how Liberty dies... with thunderous applause)
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To: SoftwareEngineer

I’m fortunate in that I only do my drinking on weekends. That means I’ll be over the shock by Friday night and probably won’t be tempted to crawl into a bottle to recover.

3 posted on Wed Nov 5 19:58:20 2008 by Ronin
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To: ari-freedom

What scares me most is that more than 1 in 2 Americans wanted this to happen.

Utter disbelief is an understatement. Disgust is a better word

4 posted on Wed Nov 5 19:58:30 2008 by BornToBeAmerican (Sarah: I'm not going to just go along to get along.)
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To: SoftwareEngineer

One thing is for sure...we need Laura, Rush, Glenn, Sean, Mark, and even some Savage now more than ever. I listen to about 4 talk radio shows a day and may listen to more to make it through the next 4 years.

And mark my words, they try silencing them, and I will take to the streets. There will be another Civil War in this country if they try to take away talk radio. Talk radio is ALL we have left to keep us somewhat sane as the country turns to Socialism.

5 posted on Wed Nov 5 19:58:59 2008 by acsuc99 (T)
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To: SoftwareEngineer

Good morning, SoftwareEngineer. I hope you feel better after your run. Have an egg for breakfast! I am feeling just fine this morning, having not imbibed any (ahem) restoratives due to a lingering sinus crud.

I’m about to haul my children (eight of them) out of bed. We’ll pray, read the Bible, and then get started on homeschooling, even though they think they deserve a day off because I was working the polls yesterday. (My state rep was reelected handily, bless his heart.) I need to draw a map of The Bahamas for my Girl Scouts to paint tomorrow. Tonight I’ll have choir practice.

God was King yesterday, and God is King today. What can men do to me?

6 posted on Wed Nov 5 19:59:04 2008 by Tax-chick (Octopuses have two legs and six arms.)
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Jesus Christ is King of Kings and Lord of Lords!!

7 posted on Wed Nov 5 20:00:04 2008 by DarthVader (Liberal Democrats are the party of EVIL whose time of judgment has come.)
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To: BornToBeAmerican

Mac didn’t run the right campaign. And too many missteps.

8 posted on Wed Nov 5 20:01:45 2008 by durasell
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To: SoftwareEngineer

For this weekend, beer, scotch, and maybe a few painkillers. I cannot believe that people are that stupid to vote for this socialist piece of crap.

Maybe it is time America went down in flames due to ignorance, greed, laziness, sloth and utter stupidity.

9 posted on Wed Nov 5 20:01:49 2008 by PAMadMax (Islam is a disease....)
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To: ari-freedom

went to sleep at 10:00 PM EST, it was obvious.
What is next? Isreal is already being attacked! Will they bomb Iran? Is there going to be a mass exodus of industry to pre-empt punishing new taxes on earnings? Does Rush have to move to XM? Do I have to bury my guns in the woods?

To steal a quote from a great American For the first time in my adult life, I am ashamed of and afraid for my country.

10 posted on Wed Nov 5 20:01:50 2008 by Billg64 (LOL ROFL Senator Mccain for what????)
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To: SoftwareEngineer
Since I've been quoting inspirational lyrics on several threads this mornin'...

And you to whom adversity has dealt a final blow
With smilin' bastards lying to you everywhere you go.
Turn to and put out all you have of heart and hand and brain
And like the Mary Ellen Carter rise again.

Rise again, RISE AGAIN.
Though your heart it be broken
Or life about to end.
No matter what you've lost be it a home, a love, a friend.
Like the Mary Ellen Carter rise again!

prisoner6
11 posted on Wed Nov 5 20:02:05 2008 by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts hold the country together as the loose screws of the Left fall out.)
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To: ari-freedom
I had to go to “sleep”.

Part of it was just the fact that my brain could not process anything anymore.

This whole thing has been made worse by the freaking margins Obama won in some states.

A lot of DU members here on FR are going to mock me for being a sore loser. But I am NOT a sore loser. I am genuinely sad about a Socialist being elected.

(No, You're an idiot, because Obama is no more a socialist than Eisenhower was)

I still remember the day when Clinton was elected first in 1992. I was sad because a lousy draft dodging pot smoking ex hippie was elected but I did not fear for myself or my safety.

That is the BIG difference in this election. I somehow feel that my family is “less safe” this AM. I don't know if I am the only Freeper that thinks like that or there are others but as of today I will be very cautious.
12 posted on Wed Nov 5 20:02:15 2008 by SoftwareEngineer
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To: SoftwareEngineer

Utter disbelief. I haven’t been to bed, yet. I am so afraid for my kids and grandkids and yet unborn greatgrandchild. I am going to find a good church and start some counceling for me and my husband. Right now I am still numb.

13 posted on Wed Nov 5 20:03:36 2008 by beckysueb (Drill here! Drill now!)
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To: acsuc99

my advice is to back off the tv and radio for several days.....if people are like me, we’ve had it....can’t take anymore of this disgusting turn of events.

14 posted on Wed Nov 5 20:04:10 2008 by cherry
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To: SoftwareEngineer
Welcome to the klub.

America has been raped, thanks to a practically illiterate electorate.

We have a lot to thank GWB for.

He needs to abdicate early, take the RINOs with him and let our newly-elected master take the over the reins of a nation that once experimented with democracy.

With Obama in there will be no drilling for new oil, no missile defense system, abortion mills popping up like porno shops in our once polite cities and every day of his rule will seem like a drab, black and white day. The immigration from Somalia, Nigeria, Haiti, etc. will crowd our muslim cities and there will be no safe street to stroll.

We have been sold out.
15 posted on Wed Nov 5 20:04:20 2008 by IbJensen (Obombazombies have given America to the Communists!)
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To: SoftwareEngineer

Call the NYT. Ask for the sales department and ask for a 1/2 page ad to be run each Friday, Saturday and Sunday papers.

After you get pricing details, apologize profusely. Tell them Obama seems to have already spent your advertising budget and has given it to those more needy than the NYT.

16 posted on Wed Nov 5 20:04:25 2008 by listenhillary (4 legs good, 2 legs baaaad!, ~~ Obama Hussein - You make it, we take it.)
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To: SoftwareEngineer

You are not alone! The only consolation I can find is my knowledge that YHVH is in control and he works in strange ways at times.



I can only assume that "YHVH" is one of their nutty cloud beings that makes them speak in tongues...

[jobycom]

1. So do they not realize that's how we felt in 2000 and 2004?

Clueless, self-absorbed whiny babies.

At least the true Americans are back in charge, and these self-centered egoists can cry amongst themselves. I think this is the last Freeper thread I'll click on. It's time to move forward, and I've lost interest in these people trying to hold us, the nation, and history back.

[El Pinko]

2. True, but they were MERCILESS to us (and they always are, cruelty is in their nature)

Can't help but engage in just a wee bit of schadenfreude right now. :)

[jobycom]

3. Hehe. I'm not complaining.

And I'm not saying I don't enjoy it, too. I'm just saying I'm done thinking about them. They no longer amuse me. I can completely understand why they amuse others, though. :)

[Beer Snob-50]

19. "Clueless, self-absorbed whiny babies."

i think in order to be clueless self aborbed whiny babies one must have a brain and be able to think. most of these freepers really do not think. they take the simple way out by allowing others with simple messages (pigboy, slant head) to think for them.

i was listening to rush a little yesterday while on an errand, and he told some of his more distraught listeners to not read papers or listen to the news but to listen to him and his ilk who will tell them all they need to know.

have mercy on these simple people

[Graybeard]

4. The blatant racism turns my stomach.

And the ignorance. Last night on the c-span call in show after Obama's acceptance speech, McC people were still calling Obama "a Muslim president".

[El Pinko]

6. Sigh...

:eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes:

If Obama is a Muslim, does that mean we have hope of there being an ATHEIST president someday?

Now that would be awesome, IMO.

[SoCalDem]

5. Boo hoooooo.. Payback's a ....well you know..

at last they do not have to ride a 37 day roller coaster, and have to face smarmy congressman after smarmy congressman stepping up to microphones to harrass them every minute of every day..and we will NOT be standing outside Cheney's house , screaming at him day and night to get out..

but I will tell them this:

GET OVER IT..MOVE ON...MOVE PAST IT.. GROW UP!

[Kipepeo]

7. A socialist was elected?? Where?

Hahahahaha!

But yes, the blatant racism and STUPIDITY still turns my stomach.

Does no right-winger know what a socialist is? Not one?

Still:

HAHAHAHAHA!!

[Lorien]

16. I wish! Obama is a true centrist

but they are so far gone to the extreme, lunatic fringe Right that they'll never be able to see that.

[DCKit]

8. Geez!!! You'd almost think they might be willing to take away some of the power...

the executive grabbed from the judicial and, especially, the legislative over the past eight years.

They're terrified of the (this) President being all powerful. Their ignorance of the way government is supposed to work makes my head thump.

[pinniped]

9. Shit, it almost sounds like that software dude has a real job (probably designed a porn site).

Thanks for highlighting the funny parts. Well, all of it was funny.

This was my favorite:


One thing is for sure...we need Laura, Rush, Glenn, Sean, Mark, and even some Savage now more than ever. I listen to about 4 talk radio shows a day and may listen to more to make it through the next 4 years.

....and the dude waking his eight kids up to home skool them after the trip to church.

[bulloney]

10. I thought the RW talk shows would be irrelevant after 8 yrs of Bush's corruption and mismanagement.

People would see them for what they were--spin and little fact. Eight years of covering the Bush administration's incompetence and corruption. Instead, they galvanized a large sector of the population. Now that a Democrat is back in the White House, we'll be back to what it was during the Clinton years--only they'll blame everything on Obama. And the knuckledraggers that listen to these shows will swallow up every word that spews out of their mouths.

Obama and the Democrats in Congress need to put their best effort in solving the problems quickly, or it will be 1994 all over again, thanks to these talk shows.

[siligut]

17. The cognitive dissociation is astounding!

Church and talk radio are their sources of information, they don’t look and see for themselves anymore.

[KG]

11. oh! woe!

and they're sposed to be the manly rugged indivualists? :rofl:

[deutsey]

12. Get the fuck over it. Crybabies.

:evilgrin:

[NNN0LHI]

13. I'd say all in all they are taking it pretty well

[KayLaw]

14. Beer, scotch, and pain killers.

They sure like that hillbilly heroin, don't they?

[Lorien]

15. Wow, can they ever project!

" Maybe it is time America went down in flames due to ignorance, greed, laziness, sloth and utter stupidity."

Uh, Freeps, take a good look in the mirror. And take a cold hard look at what YOU did to America over the past eight years!!!


Fools.

[Joanne98]

18. They just don't get it.

[Marrah_G]

20. I remember feeling like that after 2004.

I just can't kick them this morning.

The fact that we won and this nightmare is almost over has filled me with an odd sense of calm.