Some of them are still gloating about Trump winning.

[no_hypocrisy]

More like gloating that HRC lost.

This is a copy of an entry from a Facebook friend. He is a Christian minister, albeit not of a mainline denomination.

He said: Hilarious and not so far from the truth.

He was referencing this article: America, liberals have come down with a bad case of TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome)
(Subcaption: An epidemic of biblical proportion is spreading across the fruited plain at this very hour.)

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/01/18/america-liberals-are-infected-with-trump-derangement-syndrome.html


I don't know where to start with this. OK, I can understand that my friend was taken in by Trump, voted for him, and he's happy with the election results. OK. But to have a vacuum of compassion for those who have acted in the spirit of the Greek mythological figure of Cassandra* and who feel a veritable sense of doom is beyond the pale. He called our mourning, our apprehension, our depression, our anger, our frustration "hilarious". No doubt he's following his master, Donald Trump.

It isn't funny how we are grieving and it isn't funny that we are likely to be right in our predictions of the future. It's like watching "The Day After" (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+day+after+full+movie+1983+) and sniggering.

When you have a minister laughing at the gathering doom, you can be sure lesser minds are laughing too.


* Cassandra was a woman who pissed off the Greek gods who punished her. Her punishment was to accurately predict the future but nobody would believe her.

[Blue Owl]

1. By -3,000,000?

[Lurks Often]

2. DU would be gloating if Clinton had won

I wonder how much sympathy would be shown toward Trump voters that people here know.

[ismnotwasm]

4. So?

I have no sympathy for Trump voters.

[Rage4Bacon]

10. I think your making "Lurks Often"s point...

Neither side is going to have much understanding for the other side.

[Stellar]

9. Why would a Trump voter need sympathy?

They got what they voted for, GOPee Trump.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. I would extend to Trump voters the same courtesy I would have extended to Hitler voters.

[Bettie]

12. I understood and accepted that people who voted for McCain

and Romney were disappointed. I even understood why.

People who voted for the creature voted for entirely different reasons than either of the above mentioned men.

They voted because of hate. Pure and simple, hate. They may not hate all the groups he vilified, but if you talk to them, they hate someone...usually someone whose skin is not the same color as their own.

White working class people were a reliable liberal/progressive voting block until we decided to start treating non-white people like, well, people.

It is racism. For a lot of them, it is all about not-white people having rights.

Now, they get to display their ignorance proudly. It isn't pretty, but it is good to know who the people we live among really are.

In summary: while i felt for the other side in other elections, I would never have felt anything but disgust for those who chose hate.

[ismnotwasm]

3. Honestly?

A part of me thinks it is fuckin Hilarious the best those republican idiots could come up with is a reality show con man. It really is funny--they have to defend that shit. They own it.

What I grieve for is the human damage that will be caused as those dinosaurs in suits try to come up with any policy that isn't regressive and damaging.

[KingCharlemagne]

5. We must turn our grief into resolution and obtruct and disobey

at every turn. The weakest point of all dictators is a citizenry that will not obey the dictator's diktats.

Grieve we should, but dispute and disobey we must!

[Jacob Boehme]

6. This is the kind of rabid crazy we're dealing with!

[ProudLib72]

7. So this "minister"

is in Westboro Baptist church?

[no_hypocrisy]

8. He doesn't even have his own church/congregation.

He's like a circuit rider.