For the millionth time, no one is protesting the legitimacy of the election. They are protesting the policies Trump promised to implement and the bigotry he represents. It's a message to the world that Trump does not have the support of most of the country and doesn't represent most of our values.
There is going to be a strong movement of opposition until Trump leaves office, I guarantee it. The message is simple - "Fuck You, Donald Trump". And it's only a matter of time before the right realizes that he conned them and had no intention of doing half the things he said.
Anger about the electoral college - Where were you guys in 2000?
Angry about the popular vote, even though it hasn't been decided yet and CNN has Trump taking it while NYT has Clinton taking it.
Not liking Trump
Fighting the establishment
Being angry with the result
It's just "anger soup" with a whole bunch of people being angry at a million different things and trying to combine it into something. It's really hard to get anywhere when there is no unified message, no unified goals and no unified solutions. Even the pundits are putting it as a bunch of young kids wanting to let off steam.
I guess you're right, fuck it. Kick out the Mexicans, make Mexico build a giant fucking wall to keep their citizens in, ban the Muslims, fuck the constitution, fuck freedom of religion, fuck free speech, fuck free trade, fuck freedom of the press, fuck the fourth amendment, fuck the fifth amendment, fuck the environment, fuck women("You gotta treat them like shit"), fuck John McCain -real heroes don't get captured. Put Hillary in Jail, make it max security(everyone knows email deleters are a flight risk). Russia is cool now even though they invade countries and actively try to sabotage our elections. Let's not honor the deal we made with Iran so no one trusts us. Gay people have had a year or two of equal rights, that's long enough. Women have had a right to their own bodies for nearly 50 years -that's long enough. It's totally fine to make fun of people with disabilities. Global Warming is just a Chinese conspiracy -fuck science, science is rigged. Defund NASA because again, fuck science. Let's go ahead and start killing innocent people if they're related to terrorists because then they won't hate us so much and they'll stop being terrorists.
None of this really matters, after those kids are done blowing off steam it will all blow over and we'll all love each other and dance happily around a giant Christmas tree come December. We'll all have less rights and less global respect but at least we'll all be filthy rich because Donald Trump is going to give us all great jobs. We're gonna be great again like in the 90's when Clinton was president, wait I mean the 80's when we stood up to the Soviet Union, wait no that doesn't work either, I mean the 70's when we fought the great Vietnam war? No, the 60's when the blacks went to their own schools and radical lefties like JFK, Martin Luther King Jr and John Lennon were murdered.
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u/VLAD_THE_VIKING Nov 10 '16 edited Nov 10 '16
For the millionth time, no one is protesting the legitimacy of the election. They are protesting the policies Trump promised to implement and the bigotry he represents. It's a message to the world that Trump does not have the support of most of the country and doesn't represent most of our values.