Election 2016 Quotes

“I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day.”
― Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

“The reality of this election is that we can choose between a disappointing Democrat and the end of the world.”
― Wil Wheaton

“I later learn that what I suffered was called blunt force trauma. It's remarkably similar to how I felt after the election, as if I'd been slammed into a wall or hit by a car. Both pains persist-show no signs, in fact, of ever going away. The damage is permanent. I will never be the same as I was before the accident/election.”
― David Sedaris, Calypso

“Democracy's fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!”
― Oliver Gaspirtz

“Every conceivable layer of the election process is completely riddled with vulnerabilities, so yes, hacking elections is easy!”
― James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“The 2016 USA presidential election race clarified how an evil Nazi dictator like Adolf Hitler was able to come to power in global politics.”
― Steven Magee

“We must tell the world that even though we elected a bigot, bigotry will not prevail.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.”
― Bill Clinton

“Consider all tabulation systems infected by bad actors until a third party, not affiliated with the manufacturer or election officials, proves they are secure.”
― James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Unequivocally, this proves not only have cats taken over the internet but now the offshore tax haven market too!”
― Chris Kubecka, Down the Rabbit Hole: An Osint Journey Open Source Intelligence Gathering for Penetration Testing

“Paul Chehade is dedicated to serves the unfortunate, regardless of a person's religion, race, ethnicity, or gender, as a demonstration of God's unconditional love for all people, helping communities worldwide.
Ethical junction making choices easy.”
― Paul Chehade

“One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.”
― Bruce Sterling, Distraction

“If you are stupid enough not to know the difference between the devil and the angel, you quickly find the devil! This is what happens to most people in democracies just after elections!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“In the same way I had managed to overlook the truth of my state’s history in the rosy optimism of my worldview, I never really had cause to notice my whiteness. I didn’t have any impetus to until November 8, 2016, happened. I thought that I understood privilege; I’d studied it in college and pushed against injustice where I saw it. I volunteered for organizations like Planned Parenthood, argued in the face of conservatives who rolled their eyes at Black Lives Matter, and marveled in my gorgeous awakening. But my whiteness, up until that day in November, had allowed me to believe we were ultimately moving forward. Yes, people of color were being shot in the street, conservative lawmakers were trying to push anti-LGBTQ legislation in other states and on the national level, but we were waking up. We had a black president and the recognition of same-sex marriage, and my little activist heart, in all of its whiteness, just believed that things always get better. Because in whiteland, that’s the way it goes. The bad guy will always lose. But then we elected the bad guy, and everything I’ve ever believed to be fundamentally true was incinerated and pissed on.

—Sarah Saterlee”
― Erin Passons, The Nasty Women Project: Voices from the Resistance

“In modern Russia, Putin vote for you”
― Chris Kubecka, Down the Rabbit Hole: An Osint Journey Open Source Intelligence Gathering for Penetration Testing

“Hillary has the brains of someone who was born yesterday and the body of someone who died last week.”
― Donald Trump's Hair, The Autobiography of Donald Trump's Hair

“Who is a clever politician makes politics for the good of humanity.”
― Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

“Emotions were running so high in the country that I feared there was going to be some violence before the election. I even half-jokingly said to Hillary one day in October that it was beginning to feel like we were upsetting some cosmic natural balance by seeking to "upend the patriarchy." I didn't really believe it, of course, but a large part of the country seemed to believe Hillary represented an existential threat to the proper order of things.”
― Jennifer Palmieri, Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World