And now, we watch the GOP go completely over the deep end.

[Avalux]

We're already starting to see it, the reactions to Obama's re-election; the extreme hatred for those of us who voted for him. To them, we are nothing but a bunch of slackers who want stuff. They see us as anti-American, they see us as the enemy. Today, we have anecdotal stories of CEOs firing employees as revenge, businesses posting signs that if a patron voted for Obama they're not welcome, and a Texas congressman screaming for the secession of Texas.

I expect it to get much worse. Instead of learning from the loss and realizing maybe the problem is with them and their suffocating world view, they still see themselves as victims and will not take responsibility for any of their failings. Instead, they will become even more delusional and crazed, the only question is, how far will they go?

[Tutonic]

7. How about toast? You sound like a goober.

N/T

[Systematic Chaos]

15. Well then go have a 90th trimester abortion and play the sperm lottery again.

Yanno, retroactively!! Maybe you'll end up with a $50 million inheritance like most of these wealthy people floating around.

[distantearlywarning]

16. I make 85K a year, so I don't need stuff or money.

What I really want is for old nebby congressmen to stop peering into everyone's bedroom and to also stop making condescending proclamations about rape and birth control.

Luckily, all those assholes were soundly defeated on Tuesday!

[Angry Dragon]

47. Not all of them ... still plenty of them left

[FLyellowdog]

20. I'm a retired teacher

so I have loads and loads of money....I want stuff. And I'm pissed that I haven't gotten any yet. And gay marijuana....how am I supposed to have all those abortions without my gay marijuana? This is all too confusing to me...Oh, and what about the guns? Why hasn 't Obama come after the guns yet? What a failure.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

29. And gay marijuana....

Confuse the trolls.

[freshwest]

41. My doctor suggested I smoke pot for my health today. I did not expect that.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

44. Wish my doc would go that way.

[sarcasmo]

69. Smart Doctor, nice to hear, Thanks.

[FLyellowdog]

81. For real? It's about time....

[Kennah]

48. That passed here in WA, along with Same Sex Recreation

[freshwest]

74. Haha. Guess that's why he said it. But I can't afford it, anyway.

[Kennah]

62. Will gay marijuana give me the munchies for ...

... wait for it ...






























Spotted Dick!?

[awoke_in_2003]

31. Does gay marijuana...

have more stems in it?

[TalkingDog]

33. Gay Marijuana has an agenda. It's....

um.... wait.... do you have any cheetos?

[DiverDave]

35. lol

[distantearlywarning]

36. LOL!

[Wind Dancer]

38. LOL!

[awoke_in_2003]

54. The agenda leads...

To gay Cheetos.

[Avalux]

34. Gay marijuana has rainbow sparkles in it.

[awoke_in_2003]

55. Cool, I like sparkles. nt

[Kennah]

50. Is inhaling preferred?

[Kennah]

51. What are the downsides to Civil Union Marijuana?

[awoke_in_2003]

56. Puff puff pass doesnt apply...

to civil union marijuana.

[Odin2005]

76. "Gay Marijuana" ROFLMAO!!! DUzy!!!

[TheDebbieDee]

2. The sucession of Texas would result in the average IQ of remaining Americans

being raised by several points!

And we'd also get more accurate history textbooks in public schools again, too.......

[Avalux]

4. Problem with that though.....

I live in Texas, I like it here. My county went blue - overwhelmingly for Obama, and in a few more years, the whole state will be Blue. I'm NOT willing to sacrifice Texas to the idiots.

[man4allcats]

14. Thank you.

I live in Texas too. I don't know that I necessarily like it that much, but it is a part of the United States, and I'll be damned if I'm going to give up any part of this country's ground to a bunch of fucking rascist, fascist morons.

[freshwest]

42. +1

[Blue4Texas]

17. Texas

Me neither. I'm Hispanic in Texas and 71% of us voted for President Obama, we got that demographic covered.

[man4allcats]

23. And welcome to DU, Senorita!

It's good to have another Texan on this board.

[Avalux]

25. Then we're in this fight together!

Welcome!

[Indpndnt]

70. Welcome to DU, Blue4Texas.

It's nice to see another Texan here.

[Odin2005]

78. welcome to DU!!!

[southmost]

79. hi! another Texan here!

we'll turn this state blue soon!

[awoke_in_2003]

32. +10000...

yeah, I wouldn't mind going back to Ohio, but the job is here. Why should I run from these assholes?

[Tigress DEM]

40. The actions of these crazies is very disturbing though.

LOOK AT THE PRETTY BLUE PARTS!

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2012/results/texas

[freshwest]

43. Oh, my. Houston nearly went blue. Very close. Good on ya'll.

[txdemsftw]

10. So funny

[Indpndnt]

71. Actually, it really IS funny.

Someone lecturing Texans about education and IQ who can't even spell 'secession' or even recognize the red underlining as a huge hint that the spelling is wrong?

[txdemsftw]

73. Well yeah...

The asshole who wrote it...

But it came across as a jab to everyone here, which isn't funny. But, whatever..people will think what they want.

[Indpndnt]

77. Oh, I know.

I vented about four posts below this. I'm fed up with the slams on Texas. I wouldn't live anywhere else. If the judgmental 'Keyboard Kops' won't move here and help change things, they need to take care of their own issues.

[TheDebbieDee]

80. Don't blame me because Texas elected officials make Texans look and sound like morons!

I met Texans from all over during my time in the military - all of them were proud, smart, sensitive people of all colors and heritage. That's why I'm shocked that your state seems to be loudly represented by racists and political POSs like Gomert, Perry and this secessionist.

I'm in Missouri. We've got lots of backwards people here, too but not nearly as many as Texas. Thanks to his own styoooo-pid words and the use of recording devices, we were able to get rid of Todd Akin. Hopefully, we can get Missourians to pay attention to the garbage that comes out of Sen Blount's mouth (author of the Blount Amendment) and we can deny him re-election.

Stop wasting your time calling me an asshole........work to get some intelligent, palatable Texans elected to office so you can be proud of the people that represent you and your state.

[txdemsftw]

82. Wasn't calling you anything..

I meant the asshole who was talking stupid...

[Sheldon Cooper]

26. Well, once they learn to spell secession, anyway.

[caseymoz]

59. Texas isn't going to succeed.

If it did, it would have to raise taxes quite a lot because the state gets so much federal dollars. That's the irony. The Texas government would then have to become exactly what the secessionists despise.

I don't know if they comprehend that if it's not attached to the US, Texas would look a lot like Ukraine. I'm not certain Texans want to cut their ego down to that size.

[AlinPA]

66. Texas is our hope for the future as Democrats. Texas DU'ers say it is slowly changing to blue.

38 EVs. It would be interesting if the DNC spent extra money registering voters in Texas, let's say for the next two years.

[TheDebbieDee]

67. Registering voters - OMG!

Republicans have to actually PAY a company to register voters for them! How SAD is that? So basically, for the repukes, having republican supporters only gets them their votes.

But for Democrats, their supporters bring in more voters, because we go oit and register more voters for free!

Anyway, don't leave it up to the DNC. Find out what the voter registration requirements are in your community. You may be able to hand out, collect and turn-in voter registration cards on your own. You can make a difference in your community while allowing the DNC to spend $ doing other things.

Sorry for rambling.......

[Indpndnt]

68. You think secession is spelled "sucession?" Please don't move to Texas.

Our education system and average IQ are fine. You'd definitely hurt that. Let's see: Can't spell and doesn't notice the bright red underlining of the misspelled word. Brilliant.

Texas is a beautiful state with a lot of wonderful people in it. It will go blue, again, within ten years. I spent the first 25 years of my life in a blue state. You couldn't pay me enough to go back there. No one could. I came to Texas to attend (and finish) graduate school at one of the top universities in the country. So much for sweeping statements.

Thank you for posting this nonsense. This and others in threads pushing blue state secession (<---) help me clean up the forums with the Full Ignore option. Life is too short to put up with willful foolishness.

[TwilightGardener]

3. I have never seen a party blame voters for losing--they blame themselves

for not getting their message out, not getting the vote out, not having the campaign money, etc. Until now. Now, we're "maggots" who were supposed to vote for principles (ie $$$ for the wealthy), but gave in to our piddly little wishes and desires (ie "stuff" for the rest of us that we NEED, and pay for with our tax dollars).

[Avalux]

8. It's disgusting, isn't it?

What's ironic, is that they're mimicking what Romney said in his hidden video. The exact same thing. Only we're not the 47%, we're the 52%. The MAJORITY.

[TwilightGardener]

19. I knew something was up when I saw ordinary looking

non-wealthy Repubs defending Romney's 47% comments. They really do believe that half the nation are losers who are stealing their money. This is how they view America, and their fellow citizens. Maybe we really are done, as a nation.

[Angry Dragon]

49. The funny thing is that they are the ones not paying taxes

There was a map posted on DU today listing the percentages of each state of their citizens not paying taxes and lo and behold the red states were the leaders ........... disconnect

[Downwinder]

5. I say to them the same thing they said to me.

"If you don't like it leave."

[man4allcats]

6. Of course none of this comes as a surprise.

I think part of being a Republican is the unwillingness to accept responsibility for anything. I have personally noticed this characteristic among any number of their ilk. They are indeed delusional. I can only hope it will go far enough that the worst among them will do us all a favor and commit mass suicide.

[jberryhill]

9. We need to convince them that breathing makes people liberal

[Cirque du So-What]

18. Damned socialist atmosphere anyway!

Going around oxygenating everyone's blood without regard for class, creed, etc...and for FREE too!

[bluestate10]

11. Don't become over confident, we did that after 2008. We must stay focused and put a stake into

the GOP's fucking heart over the next 8 years. By 2020, let's have killed the modern GOP.

[Avalux]

12. They'll do it to themselves, already are.

If they don't change and accept the diversity of the populace of this country, they will become completely irrelevant.

[Shankapotomus]

13. Oh please, I hope they leave like the puritans left England

freaks

[ananda]

21. Geezus!

Texas is in worse shape than it's been since the Civil War.
It's as though we've timewarped back 150 years to the
Confederacy! And Morrison has been chosen to help screen
textbooks in Texas too.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/09/peter-morrison-texas-divorce_n_2100165.html

http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/11/08/4399621/hardin-county-gop-official-wants.html

[Avalux]

22. We're working on that.

In my neck of the woods, Joaquin Castro, Gallego and Doggett won their races. Doggett was amazing because that district was gerrymandered to ensure a Dem would never win the seat. We have a dynamic progressive mayor in Julian Castro who managed to pass his pre-K for SA program - by increasing the sales tax an eighth of a cent.

Things are slowly changing here, don't give up on us.

[txdemsftw]

24. That's right...

The Castro brothers are doing great things...they are a breath of fresh air.

Believe it or not...TX is changing and my IQ is just fine, thanks.

[Initech]

27. I'm heavily convinced that we will see another civil war in my lifetime.

And it won't be pretty either. Oh sure it starts with a few freepers threatening the president, a few businesses firing employees because of who they voted for, Bullshit Mountain filling their heads with false equivalencies, but how far will this escalate?

[DearHeart]

58. Guess I'm not the only one then!

Really starting to get scared...not only for the country, but most especially for President Obama and his family!! These people have just come unhinged!! They're just going batshit crazy!!!

[Initech]

61. And it's only going to get worse before it gets better.

[murray hill farm]

28. Next wil come inquiries and investigations...

on and about anything and everything that is connected with the gov't at the nat'l level, independent studies and investigations via the house of Reps...it will be ongoing and it has already started. The goal now will be empeachment...as it was with President Clinton.

[Avalux]

30. I see impeachment in the future too.

It's the only thing they have left. Can't work to keep him from getting re-elected anymore.

[Savannahmann]

39. No, they won't go for Impeachment

It would set Joe Biden up as an incumbent, and we KNOW they can't beat an incumbent.

[Cha]

46. they Impeach without getting rid of PBO.. Look at Clinton.

They better not fucking try it.

[Savannahmann]

64. Don't you think they'll consider it?

I mean, do they really want to have Joe Biden who whipped the Tea bagger hero Paul Ryan so easily in the Debate as an incumbant? There is no way they will set that up in 2016 when the Rethugs can't win against an incumbant. Think about it, the last incumbant they beat was Jimmy Carter in 1980. That was due to a convergence of events and the media being totally in the tank for Reagan.

No, they're not going to impeach, they don't have to. As long as they have the House filled with Tea Bagger nuts they'll just keep obstructing the President and our agenda. That way, history will show that our President accomplished nothing, the country was in the toilet, and who will get the blame? Cantor and Ryan and the rest of the Tea Baggers? No, Historians will blame President Obama for the disaster that the Rethugs are already unleashing on us. They're going to jack unemployment up by shutting down factories and laying off workers. That will create the self fulliling prophacy that the Bush Tax cut Fiscal cliff, and the ACA were bad for the economy after all.

Think about it for a minute. All the Rethugs have to do to make the country fail is NOTHING. They pass no legislation that we can accept, but do pass insane variations for the Press to cling to. What happens? Ryan stands up there and says "We passed a comprehensive amnesty plan but the Senate hasn't moved on it. We passed a budget, but the Senate hasn't taken it up. We passed a jobs bill but the Senate hasn't even considered it." They stall for two years, in the hope of getting some more seats in the Senate. We shout and scream, and watch as the Fiscal cliff increases unemployment, while they and the plutocrats who back them just shut down companies because of taxes, which they're already doing, and we are left holding a bag full of dung while millions more are unemployed, and then homeless.

Don't think they won't be targeting those layoff's either. Does anyone think that one of the things the rich bastards will be doing is looking to see who donated/voted for Obama? The voted will be tougher, they'll have to go with registration, but the donation, anyone who donated $250 or more will show up on a list. Those folks will be targeted by the Plutocrats for layoffs.

They Rethugs aren't beaten, the Plutocrats aren't destroyed. If anything, they're more dangerous now than they were before the election.

[sofa king]

37. Cleveland.

[YayArea]

52. So the effect of this election

is that conservatives around the country are going to act like assholes to everyone around them. Great way to sell the ideology.

[Scootaloo]

53. What, just now?

I've been seeing it since 1994... and I was only twelve back then, I'm certain others have been seeing it at least a decade before then.

They sailed over the deep end years ago. What we're seeing now is the point at which their former graceful parabolic arc starts leveling out into a straight downward plunge.

[oldbanjo]

57. Obama should help Texas and get all Military

out of that State. They will be crying in a month.

[BainsBane]

60. They are talking about impeachment now

over Libya. They insist this is the most corrupt administration in history. They are completely insane.

[bluestate10]

63. The states that gave the President the election are the wealthiest, with the best educated

populations. The states that voted for Romney are among the poorest and least educated. The citizens of the states that voted for Obama pay for the government and services in the states that voted for Romney. Tell me who the freeloaders are again?

[DCBob]

65. I think this might gain some traction in certain states that are hard Red.

Not sure they could pull it off but I think they are going to try.

[StarryNite]

72. There will be some that go over the deep end...

Psychos that are just waiting for their cause and now they will feel they have it. Scary.

[Odin2005]

75. I am soo happy the Dems took control of the Minnesota legislature.

We can finally get shit done here in The Land of 10,000 Lakes and the 'baggers will have no power, BWAHAHAHAHA!!!