The Lamentations Of The Women

Meghan Murphy, the feminist publisher who thinks a “curfew for men” and “an end to masculinity” are urgently necessary, has also figured out the real reason for last night’s events.

Curse the Pale Male Hegemon.

Rose McGowan’s Twitter is good for a laugh. Won’t someone think of the poor Hollywood actresses ?

Dewey Defeats Truman!
Heh. I can’t help feeling it’s a tad symbolic.

some kind of episode
The melodrama, it’s delicious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFqZhadwvG0

Midterms “optional” due to students’ emotional trauma.

Oh dear. A brief visit to Facebook alerted me to the fact that my normally rational sister is having a bit of a meltdown herself.
I think I’ll steer clear for a while. {o.O}

And Julia has a point.

When does the raping and pillaging begin?

Donalds President Trumps reaction?

I guess we will see a lot of SJW meltdowns for a while. Tee hee … .. …
You think the hysteria over Brexit was bad? You ain’t seen nothing yet…

We didn’t this internet thing back then, but I distinctly recall very similar horrified reactions when “Ronny Raygun” was elected in 1980.
We were all doomed. Seriously. There was no doubt in their minds.
>_< (I don't believe for a moment that Trump is the "next Reagan" - hell, many of Trump's supporters have loudly denounced Reagan as a "progressive liberal" (?) - but the absurdly over-wrought reactions are strikingly similar.)

I distinctly recall very similar horrified reactions when “Ronny Raygun” was elected in 1980.
He was a “fascist god” according to happening pop combo Heaven 17.

This was Gil Scott-Heron’s view. Much. much funkier than Heaven 17. Equally as wrong.

MSNBC is taking it well.
https://twitter.com/JCinLDN/status/796234581758410756

Of course the Media, having completely botched their election coverage and predictions, will now expect us to pay great reference to their forthcoming “What It All Means” and “Whither America” articles.

So, looks like Trump won white working class, white college-educated, young whites, and old whites. #ElectionDay
Oh, you mean the majority of people who still get up and work for a living rather than trying to ‘vote’ themselves a share of their neighbor’s earnings.

For Matthew Goreman, this is the “…end of the age of enlightenment”.

When does the raping and pillaging begin?
Well, I’ve had a haircut this morning and am looking pretty good. So… whenever suits, really.

…then why can’t you do the same, with your superior intellects and expensive college degrees?
Because:

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@iowahawkblog Urban democrats think if they piece together the right string of epithets to insult rural whites, that they’ll get their vote.

Just in case you were wondering, this is the typical basis on which a lot of these women were voting.
Catastrophic for America that they lost, I’m sure you’ll agree.

For the Guardian’s Deborah Orr, it was all about the genitals.

For Matthew Goreman, this is the “…end of the age of enlightenment”.

Let me be contrarian (Trump has empowered the troll in me today) and suggest that that’s actually a good thing!
The people who coined the term “Enlightenment” were engaged in propaganda. “Dark Ages” has now mostly gone out of use, and “Enlightenment” will hopefully follow it for much the same reason: it’s shitty history to name your time periods thinly veiled versions of Age Of Stupid People followed by Age Of Smart People. Moreover…

“The enlightenment happened in the 18th century for a reason, education, facts!” said “It’s embarrassing that we don’t care about this anymore.”

Another thing that happened around then, which fanboys of the “Enlightenment” don’t like to talk about so much, was a lot of witch-burnings. Yes, those greatly increased in frequency after the end of the Middle Ages. (Various people put the end of the Middle Ages around 1453 for Byzantium, 1492 for Columbus, or 1500 for a round number – pick your poison, you won’t find a high rate of witch-burnings before either one.) The Renaissance and the Enlightenment were the time when witches began to seem a lot more plausible, because alongside “reason, education, facts!” was an increasing amount of discovery of weird powers and mechanisms and forces. Tons of woo like mesmerism sprouted up in the 18th century, right alongside things which actually panned out like (the formal study of) magnetism. Proto-science, woo, witch-craft and witch-hunting largely grew up together.
(I would also like to say that “facts” probably doesn’t mean what Goreman thinks it means. I’m sure he likes the word. But imagine Trump going “I have great facts, I have lots of facts, I have the best facts” a few times until you reach semantic satiation on facts, and you’ll hopefully see that liking the word isn’t really credit to team.)
Other things happening around then were the mass draft, the rise of state-nationalism (cue Napoleon), the use of “education” to foster nationalism, the rise of the Prussian education system designed to make soldiers rather than men of learning, and a bunch of other shit that led to a lot of people dead and a lot of borders forcibly redrawn.
Of course I greatly prefer the material technology of 2016 to that of 1699. But if I’m to consider the social order, 1699 being after the Peace of Westphalia that damped down religious war but before the great rise of ethnic war – well, on that score, what has the 18th century done for me recently? Because as I read it, the complaints against Trump are by and large about how he might upset the social order, not that he’s a Luddite who wants to ban ipads and shut down silicon valley.
America was still Great at the time, too. Great Britain, that is.

the dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.

Lamentations? Sure. http://www.npr.org/2016/11/09/501382650/clinton-backers-gather-at-wellesley-college-to-watch-returns

This is what a mental breakdown in an echo chamber looks like
Blimey. She’s a charming and rational person.