A little late, but how did you gloat?

[JeremyWestenn]

Come on, I know you all did something cheeky and near assholish. ;) I happened to run around the game world in the World of Warcraft /yelling " All your Congressional base R belong to us, "!

So, what did you do to your nasty mean relatives, co-workers, and friends?

[Raine]

1. "We won, you lost...

GET OVER IT!" :evilgrin:

[Cha]

2. YOur question reminds me

of an exchange that happened at my work, yesterday, in the co-op when I asked someone how they were and he said.."A lot better since Nov 7th..and I said I was just going to say, "Better since the election but yours is nicer"..and he said, "yeah, we don't want to gloat". :D

I've been waiting for someone in our area to say they were wrong about Iraq and the bushites but there hasn't been a peep.

[bobbolink]

10. It's not 'murkin to admit to mistakes

so, of course, the little people can't admit they were wrong about the invasion and occupation.

That's OK... their missing peeps might yet become moans and shrieks of pain...

:evilgrin:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. There's a guy at work who's been teasing me

about my liberal tendencies. So a few days after the election I walked up to him, smiled, and said, "Neener, neener, neener. We won. You lost." And laughed. For another Republican, I just walked by him singing "Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goo-ood bye." And laughed.

Revenge is sweet. I am not being a gracious winner.

[AnneD]

4. I wasn't here the first time Bush won...

but the day after the 2004 election -everyone wore black (I swear, none of the elementary teachers received a memo). I couldn't help but notice everyone wore bright colours and dang, everyone had shit eating grins on their faces. So much for conservative Texas values.:rofl:

[Vodid]

5. I hung an American Flag on my front door...

The flag that was given to me from my fathers burial (he was a veteran and is buried in Fort Rosecrans, a military cemetery). I haven't hung a flag for the past six years, but this was a milestone, and worth noting and celebrating.

[scarletwoman]

6. Maybe I'm superstitious, but I consider it sort of unlucky to gloat.

And even if it didn't feel unlucky, I would consider it to be rather impolite and in bad form. But that's just me. I was brought up by the principle, "if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all."

On the other hand, there simply aren't any right wing antagonists in my personal life; either at work or among my all-Democrat relatives. So I really had no one to gloat at anyway, even if I had been so inclined.

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[depakid]

7. That's almost exactly how I felt

other than that I have Republican relatives... who I keep at a considerable distance.

In addition, after the last 6 years of enabling the far right, I don't trust the Democratic leadership. I hope I'm wrong, but I sure don't want to jinx anything- or have to eat more crow than necessary.

[scarletwoman]

9. Thanks, I'm glad to know I'm not alone.

I'm a firm believer in "what goes around comes around", "as ye sow, so shall ye reap", and the like.

And, like you, I don't fully trust the Democratic leadership either. I'm not under any illusions that just because the Democrats won Congress that suddenly everything will be sunshine and goodness. From the end of WWII on, the Democrats have proven themselves to be every bit the warmongering imperialists that Republicans are.

sw

[etherealtruth]

8. I went into work positively giddy ...

I could not contain my joy and excitement ... this occurred at a very conservative engineering firm where many were shocked and horrified.

[NJCher]

11. We went on a 3-day eating and drinking binge

Nothing but the best! Much toasting, champagne, and good cheer.

On top of that, I've been driving around with the NY Times front page from last month's election (front page headline: "Democrats Take Senate") on the seat on my passenger side. Whenever I'm driving and am at a red light, I pick it up and look at it and smile my fool head off.

I'm not expecting too much (after all, we've got our share of corporate sellouts) but at least it looks like bush will be investigated.

As far as gloating, I deliberately avoided calling my republican family. I heard they took it pretty hard. They aren't bush fans and didn't even vote for him in the last election but they've been trained to hate Democrats.

Since I'm in a blue state and don't associate with republicans, it's not easy to gloat. But once I was able to pull up to a stoplight, next to a car with a W04 sticker on it and I opened up my "Democrats Take Senate" newspaper page like I was reading at the stoplight. I know, not much of a gloatfest but I'll take what I can get!




Cher

[calimary]

13. I've been smiling a WHOLE LOT MORE.

Christ, it even got me through my mother's funeral - which was the day after the election. In fact, sometimes I focused on the election results when I felt like I was gonna get emotional, and it helped me cope a LOT.

I didn't gloat (much as I WANTED to) because I'm afraid of generating bad karma, and because a former friend gloated at me in a MOST bloodthirsty, snarky, bitchy, snot-nosed, in-yer-face way after the Gore-bush business broke my heart. And I've never forgotten that. It felt like shit. Salt rubbed into wounds. And it definitely changed the way I felt about her as a person - I didn't want to be her friend anymore, or hang around with her, or go to women's group with her, or support her work as an artist (and she had several gallery shows after that - I refused to buy anything). I sure thought about her, quite often, after our victory. I wondered where she was and whether I'd run into her. I did not know what I'd do if I did. Fortunately, it didn't happen. I seriously don't know how I'd react, because her gloating and strutting and being DELIBERATELY obnoxious like that STILL hurts - to this very moment. It's a moot point, though. Seems as though everybody I've run into is a Democrat - or a recovering Republican. I've encountered exactly NOBODY who is unhappy with the results. In fact, it's the opposite - everyone (TRULY, no exaggeration) I've seen, met, hung out with, EVERYONE has been either pleased about it - or downright giddy. So I haven't had to face that dilemma.

I do, however, continue my activism. In fact, just yesterday, I saw some junker in a drug store parking lot with "w" and "bush/cheney" stickers all over it. I leafleted it with my "Line Up, Sign Up, Today!" leaflet - that has all the websites listed for the different branches of the military. It basically says, quite politely, that if you support bush, why don't you enlist, and go fight his war for him?

[CatWoman]

12. "did"???

hell, I'm STILL gloating :D

[tjwash]

14. I don't like to gloat.

I was, however, filled with an overwhelming sense of relief.

[lisa58]

15. after two bottles of red wine...

...we opened a bottle of champaign.

[Clark2008]

16. I didn't get to gloat - I live in Tennessee - the only fool state

still fooled enough by the media to vote for a freaking Republican.

:cry:

[calimary]

17. My condolences.

I'm in California. Unfortunately, we did not send Ahnold to the unemployment line. But we DID manage to surround and contain him. When I found out Debra Bowen won Secretary of State, I immediately breathed a LOT easier. We need ALL our Secretaries of State to be Dems. The better to lock Diebold out of the action.

[Lurking Dem]

30. I live here and I still gloated.

I believe my comment was something along the lines of, "We may have sent Corker to the Hill but the rest of the country castrated him first!"

[Kerrytravelers]

18. I taped a huge PROUD TO BE A DEMOCRAT inside the back window of my car.

It felt good.

But, I live in a blue town, in a blue county, in a blue state. I work in a blue profession and my family (my side) are all blue. Only my Democrat husband has a rethug family, but I don't talk to them anyway, so there was no gloating.

I actually don't talk to them because they sent us hate email during the 04 election when they were politely asked to stop sending political emails to us. It is part of their MO to send hate mail when they don't get their way, but I don't have to smile and take it from them.

[CTyankee]

19. I celebrated in Italy! I did a little victory dance in the Campo in Siena

which is a lovely town in Tuscany, near Florence.

To celebrate, I also ate a pudding flavored gelato. It was delicious. I don't think the other Siennese people knew what the hell I was doing with my little dance, but everyone was very nice!

The Campo is a square where there are horse races in the summer called the Palio. They are run bareback and bets are placed only on the horses! The comptetitors are people from the neighborhoods of Siena (this has been going on since the Middle Ages).

[Labors of Hercules]

20. I lit my coworker's "W" bumpersticker on fire...

and did a Cherokee War dance on his car hood.

[Cleita]

21. I've put my gloating on hold. I'm not feeling very celebratory

until we end these wars and get back some pre-Bush normalcy.

[Hamlette]

22. I say: "I've not had a Christmas tree since Bush was elected"

when out shopping this season. Then I go on: "This year we're having three trees and I've even buying Christmas presents for people! The world looks so much better now that the adults are back in charge, at least of the House and Senate. It might even be possible to have an HONEST discussion on how me might clean up that mess Bush made in Iraq and start fighting the real terrorists instead of W's delusional demons."

Or as much of that as my audience needs. If I get a laugh and "good on ya" after the Christmas tree line I figure they don't need the rest of the lecture.

Never had so much fun Christmas shopping in my life! (It's true about the tree but I did buy Christmas presents over the last 6 years.)

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

23. No gloating, here.

[JeremyWestenn]

24. Awsome stories.

I totally forgot I made this thread after posting it. Then I thought to myself, " Oh! Outta look at that, " cool stories!

^_^

Whenever I think of Nancy Boyda, the Democratic challenger that won in the second congressional district of KANSAS(my district!!), I think to myself, " That's my bitch, "!

<3 her.

[Hekate]

25. Several stories here: my niece, neighbors, and therapist

My niece works in an all-Repub place; she and the other Dem were glad very quietly.

She lives in conservative Bakersfield, and I saw her at family Thanksgiving in Ventura. She said the whole workforce was gloom and doom on November 8 -- except for her and the other Dem, who, as I said, were extremely happy, but kept it to themselves. They have to work there every day, after all.

She said another interesting thing: that her husband is about to change parties and become a Democrat himself. She says he's actually been voting Dem for the past couple of elections, but is so disheartened by what the Repubs have done to the country that he is about to give up on them completely. Nice.

As for me, I was all alone on election night, but as I watched the returns I began to do my happy dance all over the house, occasionally whooping with joy. I finally poured myself a glass of wine and decided to take it out to the moonlit patio.

Alas, before I could actually drink it I tripped over a tree root, slammed down on my knees, and took a header onto a planter. I got pretty banged up but nothing broke but my glass, for which I am grateful. Nonetheless that was the end of my happy dance for the night.

But you know, the headlines the next morning and the canning of Rummy had me grinning like a loon. I saw two of my neighbor ladies and we all grinned and gave each other a quiet high-five out by the mailboxes.

Saw my therapist and we congratulated each other on the country maybe not going fascist after all -- she will only talk politics with two of her clients, and I'm one. Then I told her Rumsfeld was out and she was overjoyed. She actually had a $500 bet with someone that he'd be out by March -- as opposed to his staying until Bush left office.

So there you have it. Thanks for asking -- it's been a pleasure to read all these DUers' stories.

Hekate

[orleans]

26. i didn't talk to any republicans for a couple days. otherwise i might have

said something rude and didn't want to get into another pissing contest with any of them

[Blix Krieg]

27. a little late? Some of us are just getting started.

I have stayed on a roll since election day.

The few Rethuglicans I bother to even speak
to, just knew, right up till election day, that
the Democrats were about to suffer their most
resounding defeat yet. I heard all the usual
Fauxspeak about how strong the Rethuglican party
was, even tho it was clear to me, they were
coming apart at the seems. (Especially after
the election.)They were still blaming Clinton,
when the first hint of total defeat started
coming in that evening. By late night, a
few of them were almost suicidal, and near
cursing God. The poor Darlings. 12 hours earlier
they were mouthing their pity for my coming
shame at yet another ass wiping. By midnight,
I could have told them to jump out a
window, and they would have done it. :freak:

On other Forums I belong to, the ones that
lectured me day in and day out, about the
utter failure of the democrats, have all
but vanished. The ones that are a better
class of people, have eaten their crow, and
stopped the insults, and are now furious
at the depth of lies and deception they
allowed themselves to swallow. Some have
vowed to never vote for a Rethuglican
again. The ripple effect from election day
hasn't even started to subside. In fact, its
just getting started. The Dems haven't
even been sworn in yet. Just wait until a
coming Over Site hearing finds some particular
loathsome incident of theft from the Treasury,
or other blatant abuse of power.

We are in the calm before the storm. If the
Bastards think losing the election was hard,
just wait until they are held accountable,
for their opportunism. Its gonna get ugly. :evilgrin:

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

28. The only gloating I did was the day after the election.

My sister's SO walked into her house at approximately 1:00 pm CST as she and I were talking on the phone about how thrilled we were that the Democrats had taken the House and the fact that Rummy was history.

My sister's SO, while he is a totally nice guy, is however a clueless type when it comes to American politics. He's an Irish immigrant from Co. Tipperary and has bought into all the Republican talking points since he arrived here in 1972.

Anyway sis said to me that her Mr. Wonderful had just walked in the door and I said to her "make sure you tell him from me, we won, get over it". This mantra had been spewing from her Mr. Wonderful's mouth since 2000. Joan Marie said to me, laughing out loud, "tell him yourself" and she handed the phone to him. Needless to say, I repeated his words for the past six years back to him and fair play to him, he just laughed.

He did say something about how the Pukes were going to hold onto the Senate, and I told him "no way, Jim Webb is gonna beat George Allen in VA and Jon Tester will beat the other asshat Conrad Burns in MT. Count on it." He said "We'll see".

Joe, to his credit, did call me himself after both the Senate races in VA and MT were decided and said, "I'm ready to eat crow".

I asked him did he want it "roasted, broiled, or stewed?". Again, he just laughed.

I haven't seen him in person since the election on November 7th and I probably won't until after New Year, but believe me, I'm not gonna let this go away.

I love gloating even though I know it's right the right thing to do. But hell, it can be fun....

[JeremyWestenn]

33. That's a good one.

I'm happy he was so cheerful and easy going about it. Some people will just get nasty. :\

[tenshi816]

29. Because I live in a small town

in the north of England, I didn't have to gloat. Most people I know here aren't interested in American politics (although nobody appears to think much of the Republicans in general and W and the war in particular), but the day after the election I had several phone calls from people - including some who I barely know - telling me how pleased they were that Democrats had retaken Congress. I was touched. I had the feeling that in some cases, the callers just wanted to share their relief at the election outcome with an American, and I just happened to be the only one they knew. It's been a fine last few weeks where I am.

[JeremyWestenn]

31. Totally bumping this.

These stories are awsome, there has to be more! Share, share, share!!

[mdmc]

32. "I just hope that the dems have the courage to change course"

admits that the course is wrong, and sets the dems up to do something.

[JeremyWestenn]

34. Shamelessly bumping.

[JeremyWestenn]

35. One last bump.

Before it dies.