I'm a Republican who has struggled with my vote but decided to vote for Clinton

I didn't want to write this. I avoided making a decision as long as I could. I schlepped my absentee ballot all over the country for almost four weeks. I would periodically take it out of the envelope, look at it, shake my head in disgust, and put it back in my suitcase.

I had decided to write-in my mother as a symbolic protest vote against the Democratic and Republican nominees. I didn't want to vote for either of them.

I had hoped that a week before the election, Trump would be losing Florida by a large enough margin that my vote wouldn't matter. But darn it, my home state is too close to call. Florida could be the decisive state (again) as to who ultimately becomes the next president of the United States. I thought back to the 2000 election, which was decided by 537 votes in Florida. I thought about how I would feel if the same thing happened in 2016. I thought and I thought and I thought….

Then I cast my vote for Hillary Clinton. Let me rephrase that. I cast my vote against Donald Trump. I did it without joy or enthusiasm. I did it out of civic duty and love for our country.

I voted against Donald Trump because I am an immigrant. Trump has spent this campaign focusing on the very bad things done by a very small group of very bad immigrants. He has portrayed immigrants as criminals, rapists, and murderers. He does not talk about the contributions immigrants have made to America. He does not talk about immigrants who have made this a better and stronger country. He does not talk about the thousands and thousands of immigrant names that fill the Vietnam Wall in Washington or that are carved on so many headstones in every US military cemetery around the world.

I voted against Donald Trump because I am Hispanic. On June 16, 2015, the first day of his campaign,

Trump called Mexicans "rapists." I was not born in Mexico. I am not of Mexican descent. But I knew he was also talking about me.

I voted against Donald Trump for every American who looks and sounds like me. Because we love this country. We are proud of this country. We stand as equals in the United States of America.
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I voted against Donald Trump because of 8-year-old Alessia. She is my best friend's daughter. Alessia was born in Miami. Both her U.S.-citizen parents were born in Venezuela. Alessia can't sleep at night. She is afraid that if Trump becomes president, her parents will be forced to leave our country.

I voted against Donald Trump because of Judge Gonzalo Curiel. He was born in the United States to poor Mexican immigrant parents. Judge Curiel is the federal judge assigned to the Trump University case. Trump dismissively called Judge Curiel "Mexican" and attacked his ability to perform his job impartially because of his descent. Attacking another American's qualifications solely based on his ethnic background is bigotry. Plain and simple.

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no, you are a cunt pretending to be a republican to get more republicans to vote cunton. All these fucking people need to die when Trump wins.
also,
op is a fucking fag

That judge belongs to a "La Raza" organization.

You're not alone. The NY Times had an opinion piece today predicting the split of the Republican Party (after a Trump loss) into:
- small-government conservatives with a global outlook.
- nationalist nativists with a big-government protectionist, low-trade stance.

This honestly seems about right to me. It's going to be very messy for a few years. I'm aligned with the former and hope it can gain real leaders and electoral plausibility.

Wow I'm surprised

Don’t care.

So?

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I expect the dems are facing a big split too between the neoliberals and socialists

That was always a danger when Hillary pivoted right. Somehow she convinced Bernie to support her on the campaign trail. I think Bernie supporters imagine they can pull her left from the inside of the party. Not sure how that's going to work out. I don't know if Berniebros will want to keep at that internal strategy for a few years or break out a new progressive agenda. I suspect a split, if it happens, won't be for quite a while.

And from the classical democrats too. Particularly southern democrats.

Do you have the source?
Thanks in advance.

This bernout thinks Bernie is deluded if he thinks he can change the mind of that warhawk and her corporatist cabal of a party.

The former is cuckservatism, do you mean the latter or what the fuck are you doing here?

Classic Dems are leaving in a mass exodus because Hillary doesn't care about the worker while Trump loves the working class

So you're a cuckservative?

Looking for the source and not succeeding so far. It was written by a male sociologist. May have been Washington Post too. Can't find it yet. Will give it a few more mins…

You'll be one of the first to hang.

Anyone who can call themselves an American, who can call themselves a Republican, who casts a vote for Clinton, and does not look into at the facts of the federal laws she has broken and the wake of corruption that follows her and her family, regardless if our corrupt justice system has acted on it, is in my view, severely brain damaged and beyond hope. My suggestion, KYS.

What's funny is you think I read past the first sentence.

I think you're probably telling the truth about your beaner heritage, but you're not white and that means you will NEVER love the United States of America like you should. Because you can always just fuck off to Mexico - and barring that, you want to bring Mexico here, making it therefore NOT FUCKING AMERICA.

GET OUT OF MY FUCKING COUNTRY AND THEN KILL YOURSELF

Also. women should be thrown in jail if they ever vote. Those sand niggers can't be wrong about everything.

Whatever you say.

The fuck kind of word is this? Don't talk to me or my wife's daughter again.

tl;dr she's signalling that she wants us to find her a nice tree or lamppost when the time comes.

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Please gringos let me fundamentally change the essence of your country because a turd fell out of my friends vagina :(

Dubs of crushing truth.
If only you had saged…

reformat and repost so you don't look like a traitor OP.

Judge Curiel is not affiliated with "La Raza" unless you have evidence to the contrary. And if that were the case. Donald Trump has participated in pro-German associations as well (archive.is/2wVpi). Does that disqualify him from being president?

You're turning your back on getting affordable healthcare for all because your kid shares boogers with some other kid?

How fucking retarded and clearly leftwing are you?

Fundamentally people that are voting Trump function on logic not misplaced emotions over sentimentally that will drag an economy down with it.

You're not even trying schlomo.

molenjew pointed out a study where only 2% of spics are conserstive/constitutional/American and even the self labeled libertarian or conservative messcan when questioned select the socialist answer. They're trash, not American in the slightest.

Sounds Jewish, user must be some sort of Tumblr Jew.

is this satire

obvious copypasta, why are people even responding to this?

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also:
trump isn't a supposed impartial judge ruling on a case

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Plain and simple: a fine description of this young harlot.

Wew. Sage because OP did not archive.

Ana Navarro is still butthurt that Senior Jeb got rekt

sorry I forgot to sage with my previous post

Your point?
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Yes, illegal immigrants that give people like yourself a bad name since apparently there are people out there too stupid to know the difference…
Well you know what they about assume. :^)
Both are citizens, daughter is citizen, problem?

Put some effort into your posts if you're going to try and get a rise out of people.

> gotnews.com/mexican-judge-gonzalo-curiel/
> gotnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2016-05-31-at-1.26.27-AM.png

There ya go, faggot.

> Donald Trump has participated in pro-German associations as well (archive.is/2wVpi).
And?
The ENTIRE REASON that Trump suggested Curiel was biased as that he is running a campaign on the basis of ending illegal immigration from Mexico, and Curiel is A) the child of what were very-likely illegal immigrants, and B) has close associations with several pro-immigration, illegal-immigrant-aiding organizations.

There is no comparison, and you should be ashamed of yourself for suggesting otherwise.

It's a pipe dream. In order to have a "global outlook", you need the armed forces. In order to protect your borders, you also need armed forces, or else you get flooded by third world immigrants who will vote for welfare. There goes your small government.

He was controlled opposition from the get go, they just hid this fact very well. The plan was to reach out for the millenials with the 15$/hour minimum wage, so every hipster can jerk off in starbucks. I did almost feel sorry for him when they showed his sad face at Clinton's speech.

Most likely. The current agenda failed to get the bulk of the people on their side. It's time to leave behind the #killallmen feminists and those who sexually identify as attack helicopters, and look for greener pastures.

Also
ayy, most likely the "I'm who would be considered a liberal if it was 20 years ago"-kind RINO who makes sure the conservatives never conserve anything.


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*and Curiel is A) the child of what were very-likely illegal Mexican immigrants, and B) has close associations with several pro-immigration, illegal-Hispanic-immigrant-aiding organizations (most illegal Hispanic immigrants being from Mexico).

implying people don't favor people that look like them

pls go "Pablo"

Praise Kek.

Your day will come, kike.

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top fucking kek

sage for shit thread

No, you voted against Donald Trump because you are fucking beaner scum. You were never Republican, nor were you ever going to vote Trump. You are voting your ethnic interest like all the other beaner scum. This is precisely why every sane American wants to keep your kind out of the country.

attentionwhore.
sage.

The only split is over tariffs. Nobody in he the republican base is for open immigration now. None.

Some RINO's will try to get people to support their open immigration platform by trying to conflate free trade with open immigration, but it won't work. Most free-trade supporting Republicans are still voting Trump. Fierce opposition to open immigration is a requirement for Republican voters now. Tariffs are a secondary issue.

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>And if that were the case. Donald Trump has participated in pro-German associations as well (archive.is/2wVpi). Does that disqualify him from being president?

It may make one question Trump's ability to approach German American relations impartially. I don't think that particular issue is as anywhere near as relevant as the topic of illegal immigration though.

vdare.com/articles/the-donald-the-la-raza-judge

youtube.com/watch?v=E9XMioUUa3E

I said:

You're pretty bad at this, retard.

This spic cunt has been shilling against Trump for months. She never had any intention of voting for him.

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You'll hang before the dems, cuck.

Sure you're a republican. How much did CTR pay you to say that?

I've been waiting for after this election to drop the dems

Being rapey is in their DNA. Or maybe this fucker needs to be investigated. Check the name on any attendee lists for spirite dinners.

Yeah that's just embarassing, bad bait. Trump said a thing they didn't like so let's forget everything else including! The things Clinton has DONE. It's insanity.

Literally the oldest concern trolling trick in the book. Kill yourself for such low energy and save your handlers the shame.