Dangergirl
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I'm crying from all the laughter at the oblivious hypocrisy.
A Muslim student who reported her hijab was pulled from her head and was robbed by President-Elect Donald Trump supporters will now face charges for the false claims.
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/11/11/muslim-student-charged-trump-hate-crime-hoax/
http://imgur.com/a/jv7nO
A great compilation of Nate Silver, from fivethirtyeight.com making a ton of predictions of Trumps demise.
Quoting and using Nate Silver's website was an integral part of Correct The Record's Strategy, to dishearten Trump voters, and make them think Trump had no chance.
They robbed the hijab and not the student?
I switched on ABC's coverage as soon as my math skills told me Florida and several other states were going to wind up red. They were so somber, and the two female reporters they had on were sobbing/red-eyed.
The whole thing is astounding. I shouldn't really be surprised, but I guess I had much more (misplaced) faith in my fellow human being. The news keeps interviewing people who fear for one group or another. I fear for my family! I fear for women and the LGBT community! What? Is Trump going to ban women? Did you think we'd all be in chastity-inspired robes by now? Do you really think there's even time or give-a-$#@! left over to contemplate legislating whose peg goes in whose hole? Hopefully social issues take a spot waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay in the back seat. Maybe under the back seat.
There are also interviews where oodles of people are saying "Maybe this isn't so bad. If Hillary had won, after all, Trump supporters would be out in the street shooting people like me." Ummm Hillary did win (or another version did, actually)... twice. I cringe to think what would have happened to someone burning Obama or Hillary in effigy. Maybe it's selective memory but I don't remember swarms of angry white people taking to the street with nooses and circling around the Obamas' home like some mob out of a black & white monster movie.
And finally there are these "instances of hate" in schools. Recordings of people marching through the halls with Trumps signs chanting about White Power. Yes, because it's not at all suspicious that someone was filming it from the beginning. The "build the wall" chants against a bunch of "latino children" in a school cafeteria were bad, but are we to believe that there wasn't already animosity there? Trump turned those innocent little angels into angry white people! AHHHH!
People really need to get a grip, but I like that Trump seems to be shrugging them off and getting to work.
Whether I'll like the outcome of that "work" is another matter.
Watching people cry.... I've seen people get emotional when Ron Paul lost. That's a really low blow attack.....
Watching people cry.... I've seen people get emotional when Ron Paul lost. That's a really low blow attack.....