OPEN THREAD on the big day in the UK.
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We Hunted The MammothWe Hunted The MammothOPEN THREAD on the big day in the UK.
Comment away. No trolls or Boris supporters please.
I mean, it’s not great is it. I think I’m going to stab my eyeballs out.
Can I begin?
Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…
Just seen the exit polls. I could cry.
Are there any people in the latter category who wouldn’t be in the former?
To everyone in the U.K. we are thinking of you! Please stay strong!
I’m hearing that some Dem Congresspeople are weakening in their resolve to impeach Donald. They’re no doubt thinking of losing their jobs come election time in redder districts.
If Donald skates THIS F*CKING TIME too, I just won’t know what to do anymore. His toadies will be emboldened even more, like a virus that a sick person keeps under-medicating.
Yeah, exit polls looking really bad. I hope the actual results won’t be quite as bad as this suggests, but we may need a lot of resilience now and for some time to come … 🙁
I’m glad we tried hard. But propaganda big guns have been working overtime for a long time now, to demonise the opposition and the EU and minorities and the disabled. And maybe enough people have been convinced to vote to make things worse for most of us – including themselves, of course.
Hang in there as best we can, UKnians :-/
I’m still steamed that the media have helped the Tories get away with accusing Labour of anti-semitism for over a year.
It’s not that I think Labour don’t deserve most of the criticism but the idea that the Tories — who have been playing footsie with racists, fascists and right-wing Christians (to the extent that they are different groups) for decades — aren’t worse on this front is ridiculous.
I can’t believe that anyone would believe that Boris of all people is the cure for austerity.
Honestly, it’s like going back to your boyfriend after he hit you on six different ocassions, because he loves you really and it’ll all be different this time.
And I wonder how much of the Tory’s campaign funding came from outside the UK and from where. They had plenty to spend.
@Specialffrog
Absolutely! And Johnson wrote some very disgusting racist, anti-Semitic crap in his “novels”.
@CarrieV
For my wellbeing trump needs to be impeached, I can’t cope with two blond human toads (insult to toads, but I’ve had wine) leading US and UK.
@opposablethumbs
Thank you for your superhuman effort! We’ll hang on 🙂
Maybe Boris will lose his own seat, at least. That would be fun to watch.
Best wishes for survival to all UKians. May you have easy access to anything that boosts your morale, and may your livers be strong over the next five years.
(Personal stuff and potential TMI warning)
Right as I was leaving work I got the most beautiful gift from my mentor in my fetish social group…it came wrapped in a really nice clamshell board box with pink lining and wrapped in silver foil paper with white ribbon. It’s a gladiator style bodyharness made for a man’s body and she gave it to me as a way telling me that two of the really hot guys that she was wanting to fix me up with as partners for our fetish social events want to do that and I can carry it and my bullwhip with me next time I go to a social gathering to signify that I want to claim one as my partner. He’s been coached on how to accept it but I have to practice actually helping him into it and getting it all buckled and stuff around his body and I blush thinking about it but like the thought. It’s really beautiful and the heavy weight of it in my hand when I carry reminds of what it means.
My friend who is one of the stylists at the salon where I work is with me now getting coffee and she is admiring it with me. It’s really beautiful and I really want to get a handsome fit guy that’s mine into it and train him.
I’m so sorry everyone if this is TMI but talking about this with joy is my way of fighting back against all the slut-shaming that is out there and fighting back against friendzone-whiny-creeper guys and making it clear to them I don’t owe them anything. So fuck off incels.
I know there’s scary politics stuff out there in the world now so love and support and loving wishes to all and sorry if I shouldn’t talk about this here but you all are so nice and thanks for the chance to express myself.
Sheila: it’s more like going back to your abusive ex after he told you how much he hates your guts, he burned all your things, and he’s had kids with several other women while cheating on you, but he’s not sure and doesn’t care how many, and overall he just has absolutely nothing to recommend him.
This was Corbyn’s election to lose and he went at that task with gusto. He wanted a hard Brexit on Tory grounds even more than Johnson did. He’s likely succeeded.
@ numerbois
In his defence, Corbyn has been a leaver all his political career. I think the big problem was Seamus Milne and his idea that if we hard Brexit and all goes to pot there’ll be some proletarian revolutionary uprising. I think that may be misplaced Tankie optimism.
I’m fucking devastated. I’m hoping that the exit polls are wrong but not very optimistic. I don’t even care about Brexit anymore, it’s another five years of Tory austerity I’m upset about.
@numerobis:
No idea how you reached that conclusion.
@ CarrieV
Pelosi is usually pretty on-top of the vote count. I assume she’ll know how many are defecting and make sure to keep it low enough he is still impeached.
Sorry UK Mammotheers that your fellow countrypeople are determined to make the UK as stupid a country as the US. I’m concerned about your NHS.
I have a whole personal thing to vent about, but I’m on the bus, so it’s going to wait until a little later.
Oh gods oh gods oh gods.
I don’t know if I should just get very drunk, or start compiling cyphers, stockpiles and building networks with clever passcodes.
@ CarrieV, moregeekthan
Regarding the impeachment vote: I read that they wouldn’t whip the vote, they would let people vote in line with their consciences. But I reckon there’s not a single congressperson stupid enough to think that they will get any reelection funding whatsoever from the party if they conscientiously vote to keep Trump around. That vote is already whipped.
@wwth
Please be safe. When you are ready to vent or express yourself however you wish we are here for you.
well fuck that didn’t go very well did it
@Weatherwax
Can you do all of those at once?
@Big Titty Demon
I imagine so. We really do need every vote, though to get this impeachment through.
My biggest fear with the impeachment is that, since the Senate inevitably will not vote to remove, he will simply be emboldened in his quest to dictator and he and his supporters will think he’s invincible.
Amy E: Corbyn has spent the past couple years studiously refusing to openly take any position whatsoever on Brexit, other than preventing any soft Brexit deal, when the government is in favour of brexit, and after his long being a leaver.
As Alan says it’s pretty clear he wants the Tories to get blamed for Brexit, after which somehow the British people (who’ve voted for ever-further-right candidates lately) will vote en masse for socialism. That would be great. I want unicorns too.
It’s very similar to the left in Quebec which is all for separation because somehow it’s Canada that keeps electing right-wing provincial governments, and once we’re independent of course we’ll switch to social democracy.
Since people are talking politics, I must say I also see a grim future for my country, full of fundamentalist reactionary politicians in power. I’m Brazilian and I’m a total pessimist when it comes to politics. I not only expect more tory austerity on the UK, I also expect that Trump won’t be impeached in the US. At the very least, the Brazilian elections of 2018 had more international attention than any other election in living memory, IMO. Jesus Christ, I’d have a drinking problem if it wasn’t for the progressive internet and videogames. Sorry for the rant, I hope it’s not inappropriate for this site.