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Can we chalk this up as another “We’re gonna win so much that you’re gonna get tired of winning” moment? (I’m not tired yet!) :)
From the content of the live chat here on election night, many of us weren’t prepared either!
Ditto.
It’s the schadenfreude that keeps on giving.
Did you mean, “I don’t feel no ways tired.” :-)
Hubris….Nemesis
Trump talked about policy much more than Hillary did. His message and program was fairly coherent: America first on trade, foreign policy, immigration, and regulation. The rest of his program was traditional conservative. I don’t agree with it all, but he’s my >80% friend, and I support him just like I did every other nominee in my lifetime.
So in the aftermath of the election, at what point was CBS required to answer the question: Was your reporting incompetent or was it propaganda? Because I can’t see a third option.
Those never get old.
Sure surprised the heck out of me.
In 2012 I stayed up way way too late as I watched Romney get clobbered. I was practically chain smoking cigars (Backwoods, which are easily the best cheap cigars out there) and cranking Crystal Method (techno with hard bass line is a great stress release for me), hoping that somewhere, somehow, the returns would flip in our favor. It was probably 3 or 4 in the morning when I finally crawled into bed (my wife was less than pleased with the odor of smoke about me). I wasn’t completely surprised, having been rather pessimistic most of the season, but in the last week or so I’d let some optimistic reports that Romney was making up ground sway my better sense. I was not crushed by his loss, but I was disappointed.
Last year was utterly different. I watched the returns only till about 1:30 in the morning, astounded at just how well Trump was doing, and where. When he clinched PA, well, that was that. The dour and shellshocked mood at Clinton HQ, watching them get told to just go home… Such a night. I can’t say as I slept well, mostly because I couldn’t wait to wake up at dawn and hear it confirmed that Trump had pulled it off.
I didn’t come back to Ricochet until Nov. 9. I’m sure I missed a lot between June 15 and November 8, 2016.
I went to bed at 11, having zero expectation Trump would win.
I was quite surprised the next morning.
I wish I had documentary evidence — I don’t — but — and as an Anti-Trump person — I expected Trump to win all along due to Hillary’s sheer awfulness and my inability to discern any enthusiasm for her in far-left Los Angeles.
I did surprise myself by enjoying the victory for at least a week afterwards — as did most of the other Anti-Trump commentators and Ricochetti, or at least it seemed that way at the time. Even Rob Long was happy about the outcome on the Ricochet flagship podcast. It was only about a month later than the old wounds started reopening.
“I ain’t tired yet!”
This is worth a read: (Election Day 2016 Oral History)
I had watched Romney get squashed, which I knew was going to happen after he gave up to Obama in 2012. So in 2016 I went to bed about 10 pm, wasn’t going to worry, what would be, would be. When waken the following morning and told Trump was president, I spent most of the morning crying off and on for joy. Boy, that was a hard morning, just from sheer relief.
That criminal, who had once stolen a lot of stuff out of the White House, blaming it all on her staff of course, wasn’t getting back in. I had heard rumors that the Obamas had left the White House filthy and rodent infested. I haven’t researched it.
Every single photo of Obama taken with his feet on the desk of the Oval Office made me want to puke. Even lowly born CA white trash knows better than to put their feet on a table or antique desk.
Absolutely.
In response to an email I wrote to my family on October 18 entitled “Don’t Count Trump out!”, my Mom wrote back the following:
I love that last line (we’re all long-suffering Cub fans).
So much winning!!
I was surprised that he won, not because I thought Hillary did better – she didn’t. She was pretty much the worst campaigner I can remember, and Trump was great.
But the Clinton Crime Family aaaalways seemed to cheat, arm-twist, and buy their way to a victory somehow, and I thought the fix was probably in somehow. Turned out it was, but only on Bernie!
I was surprised, and delighted, at The Fall of the House of Clinton.
On election night 2016, I just went to bed as usual. The race was still up in the air, but I felt there was little point in waiting up because all the polls and pundits had been declaring the inevitable Clinton victory for ever.
So, when I happened to be up briefly at around 2AM, I clicked on the TV and saw that Trump was president-elect, that was a moment of such surprise and relief that I will always remember it. Not so much that I was crazy about Trump (I was a reluctant Trump supporter) but because he had single-handedly (with 63 million voters’ help) saved the Republic from the Clinton Crime Family.
Ain’t it the truth, Mr. A!
The Day Before The Clinton Machine Was Destroyed. Gotta wonder: has it been destroyed? That it is alive and well, working behind the scenes to foment hate, fan the flames of racism, and add to the Fake News?
Also:
From The Donald:
The first little bit (Hillary on screen) I was watching and thinking: “How is this going to go on for ~5 minutes?” But after that segment I dare you to stop watching to the end. I couldn’t.