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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,173 posts) Tue Nov 1, 2016, 04:09 PM Nov 2016

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When it's all over next week and they announce Hillary Clinton as the 45th President...

....part of me will want to cheer and jump for joy and dance and celebrate.

The other part of me will feel like Tom Hanks at the end of Captain Phillips and uncontrollably break into tears after having just endured and survived a traumatic event.

Mind you, I say that mostly in jest, but watching Donald Trump commandeer the US political process and defile it left and right has been rather disturbing to me, and it should be disturbing to all Americans.

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When it's all over next week and they announce Hillary Clinton as the 45th President... (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Nov 2016 OP

I don't drink a lot.... getagrip_already Nov 2016 #1

I'll have a bottle of wine handy. I hope I get to use it for celebratory purposes. Arkansas Granny Nov 2016 #2

Oh I will be drinking that night. Tommy_Carcetti Nov 2016 #4

That was the end of his ordeal.... vi5 Nov 2016 #6

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getagrip_already

(14,708 posts)

1. I don't drink a lot....

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Tue Nov 1, 2016, 04:12 PM

Nov 2016

but my health will take a hit election night. Hopefully it will be an early night. and a blue senate one.

Arkansas Granny

(31,514 posts)

2. I'll have a bottle of wine handy. I hope I get to use it for celebratory purposes.

Reply to getagrip_already (Reply #1)

Tue Nov 1, 2016, 04:14 PM

Nov 2016

Otherwise, it might dull the pain.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,173 posts)

4. Oh I will be drinking that night.

Reply to getagrip_already (Reply #1)

Tue Nov 1, 2016, 04:15 PM

Nov 2016

In celebration or to drink our doomed democracy away, only circumstances will tell.

vi5

(13,305 posts)

6. That was the end of his ordeal....

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Tue Nov 1, 2016, 04:19 PM

Nov 2016

...if we don't win the senate as well, our ordeal will be just beginning.

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