I don’t know, And I am tired. Never more disappointed in this country. No way should this have ever been close.
-
-
Black Girls Rock!
Flickr Photos
Potus Takes Oath of Office
Flotus & Daughters at Great Wall of China
My Brothers Keeper
AFRO PUFFS
Most Adorable Shoe Stealer
Six Little Babies
Fatherhood
-
Even though 3Chics Politico is written and curated by three women: Ametia, Rikyrah, and SouthernGirl2, I must nominate this as one of the most engaging blogs I've found. Devoted to politics and culture, these three shine a light on contemporary life with humor and spirit.
Little Myles Kingston Sadler
SWANG
Ferguson Missouri sets it off
3Chics Action Alert
Lets Make It Happen
3 Chics Trio
REALITY Blog Award
Follow Blog via Email
Join 2,141 other subscribers-
Recent Posts
- Open Thread | Update on the Continued Threats on Body Autonomy
- Weekend Open Thread
- Open Thread | Black People Are NOT the Mules for Everyone Else
- Open Thread | More Food for Thought About Ukraine
- Open Thread | Never Forget….January 6th Was An Attempted COUP …As Were Those Fake Elector Schemes
- Weekend Open Thread
Recent Comments
3 Chics Blog Stats
- 3,474,842 hits
Follow me on Twitter Tweets by @3ChicsPolitico
My TweetsTop Posts
Pages
- 3 Chics Call to Action Alert
- 3 Chics Hall of Shame
- 3 Chics Library
- About
- Contact
- Disclaimer
- Election News 2012
- Justice 4 Trayvon Martin
- Obama Love
- Political Humor
- Polls
- President Obama Kids Corner
- President Obama’s Accomplishments
- President Obama’s Notable Quotes
- REPEAL SYG LAW
- State of Missouri vs Darren Wilson: Grand Jury Transcript
- The Green Station
- Tracking Trump Policies
Guard The Change
Blogroll
- A Black Girl's Guide to Weight Loss
- A World of Reggae
- African American Pundit
- AlterNet
- Angry Black Lady
- Angry Black Woman Watch
- AverageBro
- Awesomely Luvvie
- AxiomAmnesia
- Balloon Juice
- BarackObama.com
- BarackObama.com/TruthTeam
- Baratunde.com
- Bcclist.com
- Black Female Equestrians
- Black Folk Don't
- Black Girl Nerds
- Black N Bougie
- Black Nerd Problems
- Blackbutterfly7
- Blacks4Barack
- BlackVoices
- Booman Tribune
- Bougie Black Girl
- Broadway Carl 2.0
- Brown Man Thinking Hard
- Brown Sugar & Cinnamon
- Carry Me Home
- ColorLines
- Crook and Liars
- Daily Kos
- DDSSBlog
- Democracy Now
- Democratic Underground
- Democrats.org
- DothProtestTooMuch
- Eclectablog
- FactCheck.Org
- Field Negro
- FiveThirtyEight
- Frederick Leatherman Law Blog
- Good Black News
- GottaRegister
- GrannyStandingforTruth
- Hope and Change
- Inconsequential Logic
- Instagram of Hollywood_Ric
- Isaiah L. Carter
- Jack & Jill Politics
- JusticeTM.org
- KeepingGOPHonest.com
- KeepingHisWord.com
- Latino Politico
- Lisa Unmasked
- Luvvie's Lane
- MediaMatters
- Melissa Harris-Lacewell
- Michelle O. Style
- Michelle Obama Watch
- Mirror on America
- Momma, Here Come That Girl Again
- My Name is JuJuBe
- Nell's Place
- New Possibilities
- News Hounds
- Obama Foodorama
- Obama2K12 Supporters
- Organizing for America
- Outdoor Afro
- Pensito Review
- Politico 44
- Politico.com
- PoliticsNation with Rev. Al Sharpton
- PoliticusUSA
- Racialicious
- Raving Black Lunatic
- Rhythm Abroad with Brittany Pierce
- Roland S Martin
- Romney The Liar
- ShannonInMiami
- Sheryl Kaye
- Silentlyheardonce
- Sister Escape
- Skeptical Brotha
- Smartypants
- Sojourner's Place
- Soulbrother v 2
- Steve Benen Link
- Synchronicity
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Talking Points Memo
- The Black Man Can
- The Black Snob
- The Boogeyman Chronicles
- The Ed Show on MSNBC
- The Enclave
- The Field
- The Girl From Jane Addams (T.M. Bonner)
- The Grio
- The Hill.com
- The Insufferable Movie Snob
- The Intersection of Madness & Reality
- The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
- The Maddow Blog
- The Mudflats
- The Negro Intellectual
- The Obama Photo & Video Diary
- The only adult in the room
- The Other Two-Fifths
- The People's View
- The Plum Line
- The Political Carnival
- The Raw Story
- The Rude Pundit
- The Savvy Sista
- The Urban Politico
- The Washington Independent
- The White House Blog
- Think Progress
- This Blksista's Page
- This Week in Blackness
- Tim Wise
- Today With President Barack Obama
- Tom & Lorenzo
- Totsymae.com
- TRAYVON MARTIN WARRIORS
- Uppity Negro Network
- Urban Geekz
- Very Smart Brothas
- We Are Respectable Negroes
- What About Our Daughters
- White House Flickr
- White House Live
- WordCritical
- Wrightandleftreport
- Zandar vs. the Stupid
Archives
Categories
Vote 4 Democrats
Go to the polls
Meta
President Barack Obama
First Lady Michelle Obama
Obama Love
Your Vote Matters
President Obama & Bo
The Obama Family
Presidential hug
It would have been on like popcorn in WalMart . I’d have beat her ass.
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/796525247923191808
So hateful and upsetting!
Reminds me of Nazi Germany.
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/796552160880246785
https://twitter.com/DerrickQLewis/status/796449067723345922
https://twitter.com/telesurenglish/status/796538123186487296
https://twitter.com/FarFarrAway/status/796428255687573504
https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/796529876484452357
As a first step toward democratic primary presidential elections they could get rid of the super delegates. But they won’t. They aren’t any smarter today than they were on Monday. They are just mad because they thought they were going to get away with the dangerous game they played and squeak out a narrow victory. I thought so too.
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/796241148259942400
Sanders Statement on Trump
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
BURLINGTON, Vt., Nov. 9 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Wednesday after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States:
“Donald Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics and the establishment media. People are tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low-wage countries, of billionaires not paying any federal income taxes and of not being able to afford a college education for their kids – all while the very rich become much richer.
“To the degree that Mr. Trump is serious about pursuing policies that improve the lives of working families in this country, I and other progressives are prepared to work with him. To the degree that he pursues racist, sexist, xenophobic and anti-environment policies, we will vigorously oppose him.”
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-statement-on-trump
Bernie must have had a bad day.
Well, he did his best for Hillary as did PBO, FLOTUS, and other prominent Dems.
ALL OF THIS
White Women Sold Out the Sisterhood and the World by Voting for Trump
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/11/09/white_women_sold_out_the_sisterhood_and_the_world_by_voting_for_trump.html
What did U expect from white women? Did U really believe they would side with us? On election night they went home to their white men. At the end of the day they decided it was more important to be white than to be respected as women.
I’m done. I don’t want to hear one damn thing about coming together and supporting Trump or the Dems.
Memo to white folks: OWN OUR RACISM.
Peanut called me at work. She was upset about Ferret Head, and needed reassurance from an Elder. She is only 8, and she was worried . 😞😞😞😞
My heart cries for Peanut and our children. Bless her heart.
How were you able to reassure Peanut, Rikyrah?
I was listening to NPR on the way home this evening, and one school had a mock election. The majority of the kids chose Trump.
These kind of results tell me the kids parents, relative, whomever are schooling them to choose bigotry, misogyny, racism.
SHALL I GO ON?
I told her that the adults in her life will look out for her. Not all Presidents are terrific like Obama
That’s a good answer to reassure a child. And it’s good that Peanut asks about the things that worry her. But it is heartbreaking to think that children have to worry about this at all.
KING: The Democratic Party deserves blame for electing Trump
Shaun King
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, November 9, 2016, 1:33 PM
… The Democratic Party has mastered lying to itself and its core constituencies. It claims a progressive identity, but is as moderate and lukewarm as it has ever been on so many issues that matter to everyday people. It claims to be tough on Wall Street, financial corruption and white collar crime, but is awash in donations from lobbyists and executives in the industry. Democrats claim to be the party of working people, but so often seem to be deeply out of touch with their problems and needs.
The Party is nowhere near anti-war, but wants the undying support of peace activists. It claims to love the environment, but has spoken against the Dakota Access Pipeline with the strength of a gnat with one missing wing. Its strongest voting blocs are people of color. The overwhelming majority of white people, including women, voted for Trump, but the party insisted on having an all white presidential ticket.
Until many of them were fired or replaced after the primary against Bernie Sanders, the senior leaders and puppet masters of the party were almost exclusively white as well. Of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent by the Democratic Party, an embarrassing 1.7% of that went to contractors of color. Do the math, that means 98.3% of Democratic funds go to white businesses.
I could go on and on, but I’ll highlight one more terrible inconsistency within the party. Young people are the lifeblood of the Democratic Party. They are the idealists and dreamers. They overwhelmingly supported Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination, but for the first time in recent memory, the clear and obvious candidate of young people was not the choice of the Democratic Party establishment.
The Democratic Party is having an identity crisis. While the groundswell of grassroots support in its base is anti-police brutality, pro-environment, pro-immigrant, anti-war, pro-$15 minimum wage, for the legalization of marijuana, and strongly against the Dakota Access Pipeline — the party in general, and Hillary Clinton in particular, lack core convictions on all of these issues and it shows. I’d be that nearly every single activist and leader in each of those niche communities will tell you that they feel like strangers in the Democratic Party.
…
Before the Democratic primaries even began or any of the candidates had their first debate, Hillary Clinton and her team had already sowed up commitments from hundreds of career politicians to serve as her superdelegates — building her what often looked like an insurmountable lead. Even in states where Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton by a landslide, party operatives routinely pledged their support to her anyway — all but ignoring the reality that Bernie was building the very type of populist movement that could have actually defeated Donald Trump.
As we now see, this election was not about high-skilled political operatives, polls or even national campaign experience. Trump had none of that. This campaign was about large crowds, big events, momentum, tone and social media. Bernie did those things well. Bernie was the anti-Trump. Trump lacks integrity. Bernie is known for his. Trump is a shady billionaire who has stiffed tons of everyday people. Bernie has spent his whole life fighting for working class folk. Trump is a liar and Bernie is known for his straight-to-the-point honesty.
Hillary Clinton was an absolutely terrible matchup for Donald Trump. I said as much in May when every poll that was released showed Bernie crushing Trump, but Hillary consistently struggling against him. Time and time and time again, polls showed Hillary struggling against Trump. Instead of taking the time to truly understand them, expert pundits and pollsters opted to repeatedly dismiss the validity or methodology of those polls. Clearly, polls like the LA Times/USC poll, which consistently showed Trump ahead, but was widely dismissed as junk science as a result, were on to something.
But that was the M.O. of the Democratic Party from the time the primaries began until we were all gobsmacked by a Trump victory — dismiss all evidence that says anything other than Hillary Clinton was inevitable. But here we are.
The Democratic Party can no longer ride the coattails of President Obama. The Democratic Party truly needs to start over from scratch and put people at its core. It clearly has no idea what it’s doing and has, as a result, put us all in danger.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/king-democratic-party-deserves-blame-electing-trump-article-1.2866238?cid=bitly
MAJOR FAIL. WE CALLED THIS FROM JUMP
Yep. It’s all about the candidate and also how she became the candidate. She was the choice of the party leaders, not the people. So she had her run, I wonder if they are satisfied now that they know she couldn’t even win against the worst GOP candidate in history.
From Margaret and Helen:
This too shall pass …. like a kidney stone
Dear Hillary,
We are so proud of you. Take some time off, dear. We’ll take it from here.
Dear Readers of Margaret & Helen,
Our greatest work starts now. If you have a neighbor who has been targeted this election, hug them and remind them that this is still their America too. If you have a neighbor who voted for Trump, congratulate them on their win and then move on.
In their wisdom, the Founding Fathers prepared us for this. Call your local Democratic office today and ask them how you can get involved. Washington moves mercifully slow. We have two years to take Congress away from this man and four years to restore our dignity.
Our Democracy is stronger than one man and one election. This grand experiment we call the United States has not failed. It has just begun.
Today we heal.
Tomorrow we act.
2018 we correct.
2020 we redeem.
We broke it and now we must fix it. The world is counting on us. I mean it. Really.
https://twitter.com/WCBD/status/796461592959401984
I tweeted this last night and a Hillary supporter felt froggy. I tried to slap her into oblivion. Don’t fugg with me. Tired ass heffa unfollowed me during the primaries and then tried to lie about it. She still unfollows me but saw my tweet and here she comes. I was waiting on the bish.
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/796258837800030208
She got froggy & JUMPED, huh? LOL
53% over half of white women voted for that orange -piece o shit. GTFOH
Don’t roll up on Black women. We know better.
https://twitter.com/vickto_willy/status/796396979358208000
https://twitter.com/irin/status/796432169279356928
We can only imagine how he feels.
SG2, I saw that you retweeted the following. I thought it was important to bring it to this page:
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/796420098722512900
I saw him last night. We’re going to need some strong leaders, that’s for sure.
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/796412319311994880
https://twitter.com/Jacket__Pride/status/796410688348430336
https://twitter.com/TheToast2016/status/796199398724300800
https://twitter.com/marclamonthill/status/796364777157115904
BINGO! Republican, Democrats, and Independent white women VOTED FOR TRUMP
We knew the white men would be out in droves, even white college educated men
WHITE SKIN is the real deal here folks!
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/796404876565585923
“WATCH: Hillary Clinton Concedes Presidential Race To Donald Trump”
http://www.npr.org/2016/11/09/501425243/watch-live-hillary-clinton-concedes-presidential-race-to-donald-trump
The covers are pulled back and now we all see white men and women don’t give a ISH abt a bully grabbing women private parts & sexual assault.
What is really scary is that he has grabbed Pandora’s box and let out and encouraged hate and racism.
https://twitter.com/pzf/status/796398964451016704
The struggle for social justice and equality continues. We have a lot of work ahead of us.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/1c/0e/0f/1c0e0ff88eacfe72be117637596f3643.jpg
https://twitter.com/profblmkelley/status/796209866914361347
https://twitter.com/Blackamazon/status/796341172193075200
https://twitter.com/ReignOfApril/status/796358953340989440
https://twitter.com/dabeard/status/796328024937549824
YES; BIRDS OF A FEATHER AND WHATNOT!
Don’t blame Trump and his supporters. THEY VOTED
https://twitter.com/JasmineLWatkins/status/796349571328868352
Here’s my rant I posted on a local blog this AM:
I’m in shock.
I have always believed that the Democratic party elites played a very dangerous game, but I thought they were going to get away with it, just barely. The blame game should be interesting. Who will it be?Wikileaks? Bernie supporters? Gary Johnson? Jill Stein? Vladimir Putin? Social media? Millenials?
This was the worst election of my lifetime.
I’m still kind of amazed how the Democratic party rulers and faithful followers could be so deaf, dumb, and blind to what their own electorate was telling them. Remember those huge crowds that Bernie Sanders was speaking to?
Naw, they thought they had this under control. “Hillary Clinton is uniquely qualified to be the president” they chanted endlessly. They hadn’t prepared for Bernie Sanders, but, as full believers in their own hype, their final solution to the Bernie problem was to squash him like a bug along with his supporters.
Oh, but then there was the great coming together, the push for unity, the progressive platform that no one really believed in because, well, Hillary is not a progressive. She was pushed to the left but that didn’t actually count for much because the Democrats stopped talking about the progressive platform. They believed the most effective way to defeat Trump was to allow him to defeat himself. So, for months it has been, “Trump is a monster, racist, liar, misogynist, rapist, etc…”, all of which might be true but obviously does not win elections when employed as the core strategy.
There was never a “Hillary coalition”. Hillary is not Barack Obama, she was not an inspirational candidate. She was the party’s pick, period. They were going to deliver the coronation that she was denied in 2008 and believed she was entitled to. To hell with the fact that the country has changed. Well, she’s had her run, and they have nowhere to go now except to either assign blame and/or plead for “unity”.
The next time you hear the national anthem, do what Colin Kaepernick does, take a knee and weep for this country. Weep for what has been lost and outright squandered. Weep for those who will suffer, who will continue to suffer because political parties are so far removed from the realities of the lives of Americans that they cannot feel our pain or hear our cries.
Well, now it’s a train wreck. No one even knows how bad this is going to be. The last gasp of white supremacy turns out to be more than a gasp.
THIS from Liza:
This is what I have been feeling inside this morning.
TY, Yahtzee.
My heart.
I am all torn up inside.
https://twitter.com/marclamonthill/status/796259951366828032
White MEDIOCRITY at it’s most BLATANT
I’m so shook about Trump winning I can’t even stay focused on the trials of #RayTensing and #MichaelSlager.
Can’t say http://3chicspolitico.com didn’t try to warn folks….
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/732744989453651968
AMERICA?
White people loved Trump saying he’s the law & order candidate. They flocked to him….a buffoon…a clown.. to keep those black people in line.
The hatred for that BLACK BARACK OBAMA RUNS DEEP IN AMERIKKKA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeXW1FA4frY
And CLINTON LOST, BECAUSE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TRIED TO SHOVE HER TIRED ASS ON US.
Don’t BLAME BLACK PEOPLE TO ASSAUGE YOUR INCOMPETENCE!
https://twitter.com/DrJasonJohnson/status/796345675785142272
https://twitter.com/Fedup_Mom/status/796320666211520512
https://twitter.com/Young__Cluckkk/status/796360842694524929
Call this what it TRULY is: WHITE INFERIORITY.
https://twitter.com/jarastaroots/status/796347241812344832
Hillary supporters to me…Bernie can’t win against Trump. Trump beat the pants off Hillary. An ignoramus buffoon smoked her. We tried to warn people.
My daughter called me early this morning in disbelief about Trump winning. Josh was texting back and forth last night. He asked me…”why did white people do that”?
White people did THAT. TRUTH. And that Trump calling for unity and being POTUS for all Americans? GET THE LIVING FUCK OUTTA HERE.
https://twitter.com/abubakarima/status/796278999093825536
White-lash. Exactly.
Young folks…
//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
What I feel right now is mostly fear. I am way past disappointment. I am just very, very afraid. The last time I felt half this afraid was when the stock market crashed in 2008 just before the election.
I didn’t see this coming. I always believed the Democratic party elites played a very dangerous game, but I thought they were going to get away with it. The blame game will be interesting.
They say the darkest hour is just before dawn. We’ll see.
I’m afraid too Liza. He said things that cannot be forgotten. Our future looks bleak.
Well, you know that on day one of his presidency he will be in so far over his head that he’ll probably question why he allowed his Obama Derangement Syndrome to take him so far. But it only makes him more dangerous. Right now I cannot be convinced that he is anything but dangerous.
The Democrats need to be searching out the more moderate Republicans in Congress an win some allies so that Trump doesn’t completely take us off a cliff.
I can hear him making executive orders because Obama made them. But let’s hope he has good advisors. I’m going to try and let it go and find a calm place. I took this much too emotionally.
I am glad that I work in a place where everyone else will feel as bad as I do. 😞😞😞
https://twitter.com/worldbulletin/status/796265494672211968
Exit Polls is telling off on folks.
https://twitter.com/BreeNewsome/status/796229757243445253
Didn’t I say that the only way this PIG would win is that the MAJORITY of WHITE PEOPLE IN AMERIKKKA voted for him.
THE END.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/796253849497571328
White people!
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/796237253651660800
That is all you can say. Non-Whites do not own anything of what will befall this country.