NuffCatnip: Wow, the results look frightening so far. :(
Trump leading...why... :/

zeogold: Ah, heck...I know I should just be staying out of this thread and minding my own business, but out of all the things I'm able to let glide off my back, hypocrisy is the one thing that always gets my goat...

Allow me to remind all of you who are asking "Whoa! Where did all these pro-Trump states come from?!" that most of these states you're seeing are states that vote Republican anyways. Some places, it's just a given. Same way as you'd expect all the Pacific states to swing Democrat, it's natural that most of the Midwest/South states swing Republican (and go for Trump by default).
Compare the current Democrat vs. Republican map and it's almost exactly the same as the 2012 election (y'know, the one where Obama, the Democratic candidate, won?) save a couple key "swing states", which are so important because of exactly that: They're the places where, unlike the rest of the country, we have no idea how they'll vote. On top of that, a lot of the traditionally Democratic-leaning states, such as California, carry a lot of electoral votes with them.
Don't call it over until it's actually over. We already had the whole "Dewey Defeats Truman" thing to teach us why counting your eggs before they're hatched is a bad idea.

So, to summarize:
The majority of states are voting for Trump because the majority of states vote for whoever the Republican candidate is anyways (welcome to the two-party system, folks!). It's the electoral votes that matter. Wait for everything to be counted before you go do your drinking/crying/throwing trashcans through windows of innocent shopkeepers/etc.

Edit: It's also worth mentioning we've had an actor, a peanut farmer, and a freakin' male cheerleader as president in the past, so at this point, honestly, anything's game. Businessman, woman, man with a boot on his head who promises to pass a law making everybody brush their teeth, whatever.

Tauto: Because the opposition sucks.

Tauto: Fine words,for a suck up.

NuffCatnip: It really does.
Have to say, both are horrible options, but at least Clinton has political experience.

micktiegs_8: Why thank you :)

jamyskis: I think we're heading towards a new wave of anti-Americanism of the kind that we saw in the early 2000s, and this time it won't be unentirely unjustified. When Bush Jr. was elected, few people could really fathomed the chaos that he would bring to the world and the Middle East, something which ultimately has echos leading to this day in the form of ISIS and the refugee crisis.

But the Americans have voted for Trump knowing what he is, so everything anti-American that happens at this point is on their own shoulders. I tried keep separate my disdain of the US political establshment from a disdain of the people, and I was wrong to do so. Personally I was wrong to trust Americans - like the British, you can't trust them as far as you can throw them.

I'm now just worried about Europe being sandwiched between two Putinist dictatorships now. I think it's really only a matter of time until the two collaborate to install puppet dictatorships here with UKIP/BNP, FN, AfD/NPD, Fidesz/Jobbik, Golden Dawn, PiS among others. Russia is already almost certainly involved with the AfD, UKIP and has already been confirmed to be involved with the FN.

Tauto: Germany can't be all fun with all those refugees.

jamyskis: snip

jamyskis: Well, I live right next to a major concentration of first, second and third-generation Turkish residents AND next to a major refugee accommodation centre, and I've not had any problems with them, nor do I know anyone who has. In fact, for the most part, I've found them very courteous (and in many cases, their attempts to speak German are actually quite cute and funny).

In fact, the only thing that "wasn't fun" was when AfD & PEGIDA supporters chucked molotov cocktails at the accommodation a few months ago, causing the fire brigade to pull up, waking us up in the middle of the night with the siren lights.

Telika: The thing is, the usa, and the world, are made of tautos, of maximumbunnys, of awaeltj, of infinity9, of kingsbradleys... They are not a fringe minority of drooling evil cunts. They are mankind. They are what it means, biologically, cognitively, to be a human being. There is no evolutionary jump between the 30s and us today. Humans have the same abilities, the same mental horizons. You can stretch the elastic but this is its resting state, and it'll always come back to it.

It does not make it okay, but, as a species, we aren't.

EBToriginal: Trump means you can say nigger and faggot again.

zeogold: Whoever wins this election, I just want to say, can we stay calm either way? Don't lose friends over petty political opinions. Accept that other people may differ from you and move on.
You want to improve this country? Don't do it by holding some sort of social civil war.

Oh, and one other thing:
DON'T TEAR THIS FREAKIN' FORUM APART OVER IT, EITHER!