Rachel Maddow on Obama's Re-election

Ohio really did go to President Obama last night. And he really did win. And he really was born in Hawaii. And he really is legitimately President of the United States. Again. And the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not make up a fake unemployment rate last month. And the Congressional Research Service really can find no evidence that cutting taxes on rich people grows the economy. And the polls were not skewed to oversample Democrats. And Nate Silver was not making up fake projections about the election to make conservatives feel bad. Nate Silver was doing math. And climate change is real. And rape really does cause pregnancy sometimes. And evolution is a thing! And Benghazi was an attack ON us, it was not a scandal BY us. And nobody is taking away anyone's guns. And taxes have not gone up. And the deficit is dropping, actually. And Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction. And the moon landing was real. And FEMA is not building concentration camps. And UN election observers are not taking over Texas. And moderate reforms of the regulations on the insurance industry and the financial services industry in this country are not the same thing as Communism.

Listen. Last night was a good night for liberals and for Democrats for very obvious reasons. But it was also, possibly, a good night for this country as a whole. Because in this country we have a two party system, in government. And the idea is supposed to be that the two sides both come up with ways to confront and fix the real problems facing our country. They both propose possible solutions to our real problems. And we debate between those possible solutions. And by the process of debate, we pick the best idea. That competition between good ideas, from both sides, about real problems in the real country should result in our country having better choices, better options, than if only one side is really working on the hard stuff. And if the Republican party, and the conservative movement, and the conservative media is stuck in a vacuum sealed, door locked, spin cycle of telling each other what makes them feel good, and denying the factual, lived truth of the world, then we are all deprived, as a nation, of the constructive debate between competing, feasible ideas about real problems.

Last night the Republicans got shellacked. And they had no idea it was coming. And we saw them, in real time, in real humiliating time, not believe it even as it was happening to them. And unless they're going to secede, they're going to have to pop the factual bubble they have been so happy living inside, if they do not want to get shellacked again. And that will be a painful process for them, I'm sure, but it will be good for the whole country - left, right, and center. You guys, we're counting on you. Wake up.

There's real problems in the world. There are real knowable facts in the world. Let's accept those and talk about how we might approach our problems differently. Let's move on from there. If the Republican party, and the conservative movement, and conservative media are forced to do that by the humiliation they were dealt last night, we will all be better off as a nation. And in that spirit, congratulations everybody. Big night.

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[Jeremy Foster]

I dont care if she's gay...THIS. IS. MY. WIFE!!!! lol

[Abraham Lincoln]

Look there are American's that actually care abut this country. I am one of these people. I know you like our president just because he is black. I'm a 17 year old country boy that knows more about politics than you will ever know. I'm not racist in any way, but I do know that President Obama won because of the black voters. If you would have looked at how he messed this country up in just four years you wouldn't have voted for him the second time. We need a true American. Rand Paul 2016

[LaserShark123]

And as we all know, Communism is genetic.

[spoyledbratt]

She is fuckin'' awesome.

[Knightoftheright]

Yeah aka you have absoultly nothing else, you know your a complete tool for a wall street backed 1%er. Nice. Also screw you and your racism, no one should support someone based on it, even partly.

[Abraham Lincoln]

President Obama's father was communist.

[LUCKYNY718]

Just please stop because your just embarrassing yourself with information that isn't true at all. I have facts and you have ideas that you conjured up in your mind.

[Knightoftheright]

You have absoultly nothing. Nothing but repeated and over-used sheep talking points. Research yourself read his "dreams of my father" he's a spoiled brat and long has been a egotistical bully too. On his vacations, are you kidding me? Bush spent most of the time at his freaking ranch. Obama travels the world and blows millions constantly. He's a 1%er if their ever was one. He does all too while our communities suffer horribly under him, in unemployment, debt and oppression. Screw that tyrant.

[LUCKYNY718]

HAhaha those same parties and vacations you say are extravagant and cost millions haha every single president does and also remember if you were to elect Romney he would tax you more so he and his main sponsors the Koch brothers the two Billionaires that knew if the president was re elected they would lose a lot of money from his tax cuts on the middle class and tax increase on the people who make $250,000 dollars a year so get your facts straight.

[LUCKYNY718]

Wait you completely talking bullshit and need to wake up from your fantasy land. Worked for his money firing american workers and then selling the companies plus his father was a politician who also was wealthy where did he earn his money legit?? how was president Obama privileged? his father was gone and was raised by his single mother. Using race to get expenses are you really that stupid? Intelligence and hard work and a great GPA is what got him into that ivy league.

[Knightoftheright]

Agreed. Or Ted Cruz 2016. Either way, we'd have an awesome leader