A bad day for the world

What power does the president actually have? I am in a steep learning curve.

granny that takes me back!!!!

Brexit was a bad day for Britain in some peoples opinion, Trump is a bad day for the World. I believe he will push the nuclear button before long. God help humanity.

When I was a little girl, if an election didn't go the way my Dad thought it should, he would wear a black tie. If asked, he'd tell people he was in mourning for his country! I bet a lot of people feel like that today.

First Brexit now this. The world has become an even more dangerous place, what can we do? There must be something.

In shock, what an awful way to start the day. Unbeliavable

Is what is happening in the western world Durkheim's 'Anomie'?
www.faculty.rsu.edu/users/f/felwell/www/Theorists/Essays/Durkheim1.htm

Look how right wing the industrial world become.

Listening to Trump at the moment, he is coming across as much more reasonable than his campaigning comments - of course as someone said this could just prove that he has a good speech writer and that he can read an auto-cue!! I believe (hope) his more extreme policies will be stopped by Congress, even though the Republicans may have a majority many of them didn't back or want Trump. I am reminded of the old Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times"

22% of his followers think he will start a nuclear war, and they still voted for him. 65% of those polled think he is a bigger liar than Clinton, but some of them must have voted for him.

Brexiteers are not the biggest idiots on the planet any more.

Speechless and utterly gutted.

I feel so sorry for the USA's Democrats.
And for Hillary Clinton.

Still, does the UK now slip back into 2nd place as the world's most stupid country? Or are the US & the UK now level pegging?

That andf an inch of snow, too.
I am consoling myself with a picture in my head of Trump watching his voter numbers increase while his shares are decreasing in value, and his minders will not let him phone or tweet his stockbroker, just in case he says something he shouldn't.

If a picture is worth a thousand words.....

I'm so scared.

Stunned!

Happy Birthday Jane.

Happy birthday Jane10 you might never forget this one !

Interesting take by some commentators, claiming that Clinton undermined herself by speaking to Goldman Sachs for money etc.

This is a sad day indeed. I think it'll be a disaster, though.

Happy Birthday to you jane

It does make me appreciate UK politics. Whoever gets in here may have an effect on the economy one way or another but there isn't a hint of the nasty racist, sexist, xenophobic morality that is likely to prevail in America. That's one country scored off our holiday list. There'll be loads more guns for one thing. Back to lamentation. This must be my worst birthday ever.

Daphneboon you are so right I am also seeing Germany 1939 ....OMG my poor little grandkids

Trump is President. Clinton has conceded

grannypiper who is to say what their motivation was, but I fear they will NOT be seeing the rise in the economy, or employment or US " greatness" they were promised.
Look at Germany in 1933.
Trump has fanned the flames of hatred, of racial division, of misogyny and to mix my metaphors, the genie is never going back in that bottle.

No they won't be granny But there is undoubtedly a reaction to both the political classes and the economy by those with the least power namely the working classes. Given a chance to kick the politicians they have gone in hard just as they did here in the U.K. They can't kick the capitalist class so this is the only way they can show their dismay at the way their life is going.

Health care will be gone.
A wall will be built
The military will be grown
The world is less safe

Went to bed last night expecting to hear America would have a President Clinton, switched on BBC news to find that is now very unlikely. A feeling of trepidation for the now quite likely outcome

Those who voted for the third party are regretting it now...echoes of Brexit.