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Yeh, this pretty much sums it up for me:

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/an-american-tragedy-donald-trump

Friends, I am so, so sorry. I woke up to the news.... I am in complete shock. The world has gone mad.

My local American group is planning a drink-up session "for drinking our feelings and shame" If I only lived closer to the main city.

It's 4am. I just woke up. I can't stop crying. How did this happen? I feel sick.

@littlebug: Same here

@YogiRunner: yes with the togetherness!

I think this result can only mean it is time for the US citizens to stand up & demand better. I know that's what the election was supposed to be for, but clearly the message was we don't want Washington as usual. I can get behind that, just not the allowance of such a vile man to help lead us out of business as usual. Perhaps just taking the opportunity to volunteer or speak up for others when they need us can be a ripple of good that will hopefully buffer his hate.

What the hell is wrong with your country???? The whole world is in shock, and completely stupefied. There are no words for what I am feeling this morning. This affects all of us. I really can not see any positives that come out of this. Did you not learn from Brexit? Roe v. Wade will be overturned within the decade. We will go back to the botched illegal abortion era. War will break out with Iran and who knows where else, and the U.S. will drag the rest of us in, and an infantile hothead will have his hand on the nuclear launch codes. I am really afraid for minorities in the U.S. now. I just can't believe....

It's been hours since I've woken up to the news (I'm an overseas voter) and I'm still speechless. I can not wrap my head around how we - a nation that is build on immigrants - can elect such a despicable human being. The message to our children is "if you have enough money, you can literally do whatever the fck you want and people will rally for you"? That you don't have to be a decent human being? I feel as if something is deeply broken in the system for this to have become our reality.

Im clinging to the hope that maybe the last year of campaigning has been an intentional act because he knew he could rile up a base of people who feel disenfranchised, and that now that he has won he will actually act more like a rational human being. His insanity is too risiculous to be real. His victory speech gives me a sliver of hope.

But this is devestating.

@Mrs. Lion: whether or not he did it for show or to rile people up, and is actually a reasonable man deep down (doubtful...) that's not who more than half this country voted for. That what scares and saddens me more than any policies he could enact. The majority of people heard everything has has said and still thought it was ok to elect him president. That is the worst part to me.

@Mrs. Lion: unfortunately given the number of women who have come forward to say he assaulted them, going back many years, I don't think that's possible.

Also, 100 percent this. All those people still insisting, "oh but if Johnson got enough votes this could be the beginning of the end of the two party system." No. This was not the time. This was not the year. Your vote was selfish.

@Ms. RV: @Mrs. Lion: This is what scares me the most too. Yes, there are checks and balances, but with the house and senate behind him I'm not sure how effective those checks and balances will really be. I'm terrified that he WILL be able to do some of the things he's said he'll do because no one will stop him. I was in tears this morning thinking about having to potentially tell my daughter someday about all the things women USED to be allowed to do. To say nothing of any progress made in equality for minorities/LGBTQ that could be entirely erased.

@IRunForFun: I keep reading things about "what to tell our kids" and to tell them we will keep them safe. How can I keep my little girls safe if someone can joke about sexual assault, on camera, then be accused by many women of following through on exactly what he joked about, and be elected president. How can I keep them safe in a world where that is ok?

@Adira: I think it's time to accept that large swaths of the American public are not teaching their children those values. I think they are happily teaching their children--and practicing themselves--that it's perfectly fine to discriminate based on sexuality or race or religion. That "the other" is scary.

I literally had a student come in to school today, exulting Trump. His exact words were, "Hillary was going to kill all of us". He's a WASP kid. Where would he get an idea like that? THis kid isn't spending his free time reading Breitbart news. But the thing is, they DO hear and see what their parents are doing, and they make their own equivocations based on that.

This is America. We have to stop pretending it's only some crazy offshoots of the public. It's the majority now.

We've been studying about the Holocaust in my 8th grade class. Yesterday, we watched a short film about all the countries where Otto Frank applied for asylum, including the US, and how he was denied.

I had another student yesterday say, about Anne Frank and Otto Frank, who we have been studying, "I talked with my mom about this yesterday. And she said we couldn't take them all, so it wasn't fair if we took only a few and not all, so the US made the best choice."

THAT'S America now--mothers are teaching their children that it was better for 6 million jews to die than for the US to have accepted any of them as refugees.

It's sickening.

@Adira: I'm right there with you. =(

I'm so sorry everyone. We'll survive this, I think. But it's going to be a very unpleasant ride.

@Ms. RV: this!

I'm starting to think that a lot of the support for Trump was the same desperation vote that Obama got. It doesn't quite make sense to me given what else Trump stands for, but that could be it. People who were hoping for dramatic change from the Democrats, didn't get it, and turned to the Republicans. Of course, they may be just as disappointed by the results as they were by Obama's presidency. We'll see.

@Mrs. Lion: @lilteacherbee: so many people who I've really looked up to in the past regarding their relationship with God have left me shocked and disappointed. I can't fathom what the line of thinking was there

Let me start with that I'm a minority here. I'm more conservative than most. I crave fiscal conservativism. I want smaller government. I want to revamp most of our social welfare systems. I want to fix government inefficiency. I want for our monetary policy to get an overhaul. I want us to be strong in military and stand up to other fellow nations and be a leader that is respected. I don't want to try Roe v Wade again. I want marriage equality. I want gun control (for heavens sake guns in the hands of most Americans scares me!). I don't side with Mr Trump and I don't side with Mrs. Clinton. I voted blue. I live in a red state. I knew my vote wouldn't change my state. I truly believe (delusional maybe) that Trump will be more moderate than he professed. I hope he spends his time on trying to make change to some of our big government inefficiencies and leaves the wall behind us. I hope he's just like politicians before him spouting rhetoric that appeals to masses. I cry for those masses that wanted some of his changes. I hope they are disappointed in four years that he didn't deliver. I hope that we somehow get to a middle ground. I hope that America can move to the middle because the far right is just as scary as the far left.

And for these Christian principles? Well I proudly stand today on the ground of non practice. I can't get behind today's strong religious right.

I'm very anxious to see cabinet appointments. I am clinging to hope that he picks some amazing people to surround himself with. I have to hope.