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Trump Wins; Cornellians Aghast at Shocking Upset
© Copyright 2016, The Cornell Daily Sun ^ | 11/09/16 | By News Department

Posted on 11/09/2016 9:07:26 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines

As midnight approached and a series of swing states turned red...Cornellians expressed horror that Donald Trump could actually become president.

“How the **** is he winning? What the ****?” said a student early on in the night... as Trump took the state of Ohio.

“We should’ve died in 2012 while we still had the chance,” added Mitch Laski, echoing several students who said they fear a Trump presidency will be the end of equal rights for minorities and free speech in the United States.

Shayra Kamal said she is genuinely concerned about her future in the United States.

“I’m looking into flights back to Bangladesh right now, so I can deport myself ...” she said. “Liberty and freedom are dead.”

Prof. Elizabeth Sanders...called the results of the election “stunning.”

“How could this happen?” she asked. “Clinton outspent him two to one, had a united party and abundant help from the president, first lady, vice president...Bernie Sanders and scores of political and cultural celebrities, in addition to the best ground game money could buy.”

Carolyn Spencer, who said she voted for Clinton, was taken aback by the outpouring of support for Trump, especially because she said “around campus there’s been a lot of support” for Clinton.

As the night wound down, in Facebook posts and other social media, Cornellians began to share their condolences for female and minority friends, saying that Trump’s election to the presidency gives implicit permission for others to adopt “horrible” stances he has endorsed.

“I feel as if many of my peers are in shock — at a time that is so critical to our identity development, this invalidates who we are,” said Dustin Liu. “Many feel this as a personal attack... how we can support one another in the days moving forward.”

(Excerpt) Read more at cornellsun.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: cityofevil; cornell; fearfuldems; highereducation; ithaca; leftismoncampus; yummytearsofsadness
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To: rktman

Trump winning is a Stone Groove Baby


41 posted on 11/09/2016 9:54:20 AM PST by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (Trump, effective govt. that will be great for crony "art of the deal" capitalists)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Aren't upsets always shocking?

(See also from UVa's CavDaily Trump wins presidency in unexpected upset.)

ML/NJ

42 posted on 11/09/2016 9:55:11 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig

LOL!


43 posted on 11/09/2016 10:03:22 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

The academic “ivory tower” has no defense against real life. Real life is what the rest of your life is after academia. Real life has no safe place except for what you pay to construct.

Amazing projections from these touchy-feely snowflakes where perception comes from the most easily offended. Their ideal, B.H.Obama, took 8 month from inauguration to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize so you would ‘think’ that they would allow similar time for D.J.Trump - Ha! Does Cornell offer any course on logic or skeptical thinking, especially where popular media is concerned?


44 posted on 11/09/2016 10:04:42 AM PST by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

She wants to go back to Bangaladesh? They’re KILLING Hindus there just for being non-Islamic. Yeah, sounds like free speech is alive and well over there.


45 posted on 11/09/2016 10:07:16 AM PST by Vic S ( David Rockefeller killed Larry McDonald (KAL 007))
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Shayra Kamal said she is genuinely concerned about her future in the United States.
“I’m looking into flights back to Bangladesh right now, so I can deport myself ...”

I would be happy to purchase this little snowflake a one-way ticket as long as she signs a legally binding document stating that she will never return to the US again.

46 posted on 11/09/2016 10:09:54 AM PST by American Infidel (Instead of vilifying success, try to emulate it)
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To: ntnychik; Behind Liberal Lines
> Ah, Cornell/Ithaca, the oblivious island in flyover country. I live an hour away in the midst of family farms and Amish. They don’t know we exist.

That's the truth. I live outside Ithaca but work in the city, and trust me, it's not just Cornell that's insulated against the outside world.

You've seen the bumper sticker: "ITHACA: 10 square miles surrounded by reality".

My liberal co-workers are shuffling around looking like zombies, like tires that somebody just let all the air out of. I tell them to cheer up, things are going to get better now. But it doesn't seem to make much difference in their mood. Strange. I'm in a GREAT mood.

A MAGA mood!

47 posted on 11/09/2016 10:26:36 AM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

““I’m looking into flights back to Bangladesh right now, so I can deport myself ...” she said. “Liberty and freedom are dead.””

Well, Honey, you have the liberty and freedom to do just that. Ain’t America great?


48 posted on 11/09/2016 11:24:41 AM PST by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smart-ass disorder.)
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To: metmom

Bangladesh? The words “famine” & “pestilence” come to mind
when I hear that name.


49 posted on 11/09/2016 12:04:18 PM PST by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: bgill

Just tell them, “Don’t let the screen door hit ya’, where
the Good Lord split ya’.


50 posted on 11/09/2016 12:07:59 PM PST by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: Twinkie

Yeah. Go figure.


51 posted on 11/09/2016 12:20:04 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Frapster
‘Upset’ is language of the ongoing narrative perpetuated by the media. The only ‘upset’ is that they were unable to shape the election. We must resist believing that it was anything other than the will of the people that a duplicitous media failed to acknowledge and report on.

That's correct because Hillary winning was not a given. It was not the given that they thought it was going to be.

What is really showed is how out of touch with mainstream America the self-proclaimed elite really are.

52 posted on 11/10/2016 3:17:33 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: underbyte

I’m glad you raised a daughter with a head on her shoulders.

You should be proud of her and yourself that she’s not been sucked into that mindset. It shows you did a good job.


53 posted on 11/10/2016 3:20:07 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Oh the humanity! You’d think The Big Red would be glad to see the USA go red.


54 posted on 11/10/2016 4:53:25 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine's brother ("Hillary Clinton is a congenital liar." - William Safire)
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